Incognito returns for Thursday's practice
Former Nebraska offensive lineman Richie Incognito attended Thursday's practice at the Hawks Championship Center.
Incognito said it’s the first time he’s been in Lincoln since the day he left in the fall of 2004. That's when former coach Bill Callahan dismissed him from the team.
"Good to be back," said Incognito, who was greeted with hugs from coaches Ron Brown and Marvin Sanders and former teammate John Garrison.
Incognito said he'll attend Saturday's Red-White Spring Game.
Yankees pitcher and former Husker Joba Chamberlain was also in the building, although not at football practice. Chamberlain was with the baseball team, which was meeting and also working out indoors.
* BERRINGER TEAM: Eleven Huskers from the 2007 team are part of the 11th annual Brook Berringer Citizenship Team. They will be recognized on the field before kickoff Saturday.
Five members are repeat honorees: Jake Wesch, Dan Titchener, Matt Senske, Todd Peterson and Victory Haines. Wesch is a four-time honoree, and Titchener and Senske have been on the team three times.
First-time honorees are Joe Ganz, Aaron Gillaspie, Cody Glenn, Blake Lawrence, T.J. O’Leary and Tyler Wortman.
Also, Zach Potter will be honored with the second annual Cletus Fischer Endowed Scholarship.
BY THE NUMBERS
65
Length of a field goal made at the start of Thursday’s practice by Alex Henery. The kick came indoors, but was down the middle with room to spare.
Scouting report
Saturday’s game plan
Defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said to expect “a little bit” of blitzing in Saturday’s Spring Game.
However, most of what Nebraska will do in terms of pressure won’t be part of the game plan.
“We’re going to challenge our guys a little bit,” Pelini said. “Obviously, we’re not going to show everything. But we’ll challenge them. We’re going to try to put them in some difficult situations, and try to ask them to play their techniques. We’re not going to vanilla it and dummy it down so much that we’re not getting any work done.”
The idea, Pelini said, is to do just enough so players can work on different concepts and coverages.
“Some of them are man coverages, some of them are blitz coverages, some of them are zone coverages,” he said. “So we’re going to have at least enough in there so that those kids will have to work each one of those coverage concepts with one or two calls.”
As for the offense, there were smiles and grins Thursday when talk turned to Saturday’s first play of the game.
“It’ll be fun,” offensive coordinator Shawn Watson said. “It’ll be a fun play.”
Opponent watch: Kansas
Quarterback Todd Reesing threw for 227 yards and had two interceptions in Monday night’s spring game — a 17-3 victory for the Blue over the White.
The defense dominated in what was generally a sloppy game. One of the touchdowns came when Blue team cornerback Kendrick Harper returned a Carmon Boyd-Anderson fumble 23 yards for a touchdown.
For the game, the defense combined for 20 tackles for loss, including six sacks. The only offensive touchdown was an 8-yard pass from Reesing to Dexton Fields in the fourth quarter.
A crowd of less than 10,000 attended.
Incognito said it’s the first time he’s been in Lincoln since the day he left in the fall of 2004. That's when former coach Bill Callahan dismissed him from the team.
"Good to be back," said Incognito, who was greeted with hugs from coaches Ron Brown and Marvin Sanders and former teammate John Garrison.
Incognito said he'll attend Saturday's Red-White Spring Game.
Yankees pitcher and former Husker Joba Chamberlain was also in the building, although not at football practice. Chamberlain was with the baseball team, which was meeting and also working out indoors.
* BERRINGER TEAM: Eleven Huskers from the 2007 team are part of the 11th annual Brook Berringer Citizenship Team. They will be recognized on the field before kickoff Saturday.
Five members are repeat honorees: Jake Wesch, Dan Titchener, Matt Senske, Todd Peterson and Victory Haines. Wesch is a four-time honoree, and Titchener and Senske have been on the team three times.
First-time honorees are Joe Ganz, Aaron Gillaspie, Cody Glenn, Blake Lawrence, T.J. O’Leary and Tyler Wortman.
Also, Zach Potter will be honored with the second annual Cletus Fischer Endowed Scholarship.
BY THE NUMBERS
65
Length of a field goal made at the start of Thursday’s practice by Alex Henery. The kick came indoors, but was down the middle with room to spare.
Scouting report
Saturday’s game plan
Defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said to expect “a little bit” of blitzing in Saturday’s Spring Game.
However, most of what Nebraska will do in terms of pressure won’t be part of the game plan.
“We’re going to challenge our guys a little bit,” Pelini said. “Obviously, we’re not going to show everything. But we’ll challenge them. We’re going to try to put them in some difficult situations, and try to ask them to play their techniques. We’re not going to vanilla it and dummy it down so much that we’re not getting any work done.”
The idea, Pelini said, is to do just enough so players can work on different concepts and coverages.
“Some of them are man coverages, some of them are blitz coverages, some of them are zone coverages,” he said. “So we’re going to have at least enough in there so that those kids will have to work each one of those coverage concepts with one or two calls.”
As for the offense, there were smiles and grins Thursday when talk turned to Saturday’s first play of the game.
“It’ll be fun,” offensive coordinator Shawn Watson said. “It’ll be a fun play.”
Opponent watch: Kansas
Quarterback Todd Reesing threw for 227 yards and had two interceptions in Monday night’s spring game — a 17-3 victory for the Blue over the White.
The defense dominated in what was generally a sloppy game. One of the touchdowns came when Blue team cornerback Kendrick Harper returned a Carmon Boyd-Anderson fumble 23 yards for a touchdown.
For the game, the defense combined for 20 tackles for loss, including six sacks. The only offensive touchdown was an 8-yard pass from Reesing to Dexton Fields in the fourth quarter.
A crowd of less than 10,000 attended.
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