Sometimes when a football team changes coaching staffs, you see a barrage of transfers.

Not in Nebraska’s case.

At this point, apparently only two players are set to transfer — Xavier Rucker, a 5-foot-6, 160-pound wideout from Minneapolis; and Dennis Bergland, a 6-1, 285-pound offensive lineman from Plattsmouth. Both are sophomore walk-ons.

Bergland is probably headed to Nebraska-Omaha, said Jeff Jamrog, NU assistant AD for football operations. Jamrog was unsure where Rucker was headed.

No Webcams here

The NCAA recently came up with the “Saban Rule,” a regulation that keeps coaches from making visits to high school campuses during the spring evaluation period in May.

It’s been coined the Saban Rule by some since the Alabama coach was accused of breaking the rule last year, even calling the restrictions “ridiculous.”

But Saban has found a way around not being able to visit recruits face to face: the magic of the Webcam.

He’s hardly the only head coach using Webcams to communicate with recruits.

“I just think it’s a better way to communicate,” Saban told the Associated Press. “It’s great to communicate over the phone, but I’d feel a lot more comfortable with this conversation right now if I could see the person I was talking to.”

Saban said he talks to about four or five recruits a day via the Webcam from his office.

Not all coaches see a need for Webcam communication with recruits — Auburn’s Tommy Tuberville in that camp.

“I wouldn’t be interested in doing it,” Tuberville told the AP. “I’ve talked to (recruits), their parents, they’ve been on our campus. I think that’s what’s important.”

A spokesperson in the Husker athletic department said Bo Pelini and coaches had not been using Webcams in the recruiting game.

Keller says he’s a stronger person

Sam Keller’s chase of a spot in the NFL hasn’t gone exactly as he envisioned.

But after getting shots at minicamps with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders, Keller told the Contra Costa Times in California that he’s learned plenty about himself through his football setbacks.

“I’ve become stronger. I can adapt to situations better,” Keller told the newspaper. “It’s been about three years of adversity, but it’s only as hard as you make it. Not everything is rosy for everybody. I guess I’m doing whatever I have to do to stay positive.”

The San Francisco 49ers, meanwhile, released former Husker linebacker Lance Brandenburgh after the team’s minicamp.

Though undrafted, Brandenburgh had been signed by the club in the days after the NFL Draft.

That’s not to say Brandenburgh didn’t stir some things up while trying to earn a spot on the team.

According to the Sacramento Bee: “Perhaps his most memorable moment of minicamp — blanketing fullback Moran Norris so closely in a pass-coverage drill that Norris tried to start a fight with him.”

Former Husker living the LA life

A long-snapper for Nebraska who earned one letter in 2005, Jake Peetz is seeing what he can do in the coaching profession.

The O’Neill native is currently serving as an intern on the UCLA coaching staff.

That means he’s working under Bruins’ head coach Rick Neuheisel, who needs little introduction to Husker fans who remember the coach’s guitar-strumming days in Colorado.

Peetz is also learning what he can from Norm Chow, the former ballyhooed offensive coordinator at USC who is now trying to bring the same magic to the Trojans’ crosstown rival Bruins.

Peetz recently got a little pub in an ESPN story profiling Chow.

“You see Norm Chow and you get starstruck by him” Peetz said. “It’s hard to learn from a guy that you feel is that far above you. The first thing he does is he cuts himself all the way down to your level.

“I remember one of the first things he said was, ‘Look, guys, I’m not that smart. We’re going to make this simple, because I can’t do all that West Coast stuff. I’m not smart enough.’ He’s very humble.”

Summer camps near

Husker football summer camps will offer coaches a chance to get a close look at some prep prospects.

The camps are coming up soon, the first session scheduled for June 8-10, the second for June 11-13.

On June 15-17, Husker offensive coordinator Shawn Watson will lead the Elite Quarterback Academy camp, which will focus on such things as footwork, throwing motion and reading coverage.

And from June 15 to 16, there will also be the Big Red Kicking Academy clinic, the focus being on place-kicking, punting and even long-snapping.

All this comes after Bo Pelini’s Football 101 clinic for Husker fans.

The clinic is set for June 3 with a cost of $80 to those interested. Proceeds will go toward breast cancer research. It will begin with registration at 7:30 a.m. and a Tunnel Walk at 5:30 p.m.

Fans can register at Huskers.com or BoPeliniFoundation.com.