2013 Nebraska Cornhuskers

[Jack Lambert]

Nebraska has consistently been one of the most white friendly large programs throughout Caste Football’s tracking of the teams. This year however, unless things change, expect their half white days to be over. Bo Pelini has been recruiting a lot of athletes with room-brightening smiles and endless upside to play defense these days. The result? Last year, Nebraska gave up over 40 points multiple times, including a 70 point shellacking at the hands of Wisconsin in the Big 10 Championship Game. Fans have been complaining about little to no depth on the defensive side of the ball. Gee, are some of those highly recruited “athletic, game-changing, can’t miss prospects” not working out for Coach Pelini?

This year, Callahan’s last crew of white defenders is no longer at Nebraska, with Compton, Steinkuhler, Meredith, and Fisher all moving on. In addition, Chase Rome has transferred. Despite having a defense that got ripped his last year in 2007, Callahan actually recruited a ton of defensive talent, Including Compton, Fisher, (walk-ons) Matt O’Hanlon and Austin Cassidy at safety, Jared Crick, Steinkuhler, Zach Potter, Bo Ruud, Cam Meredith, and admittedly black players like Eric Hagg, Phillip Dillard, Suh, and Amukamara. Unless major strides are made this year, Bo’s first year of all his players will be a disaster on defense. Despite the “star recruiting” they've done, Nebraska is once again facing depth questions on the DL. No white players will be starting there this year, but DEs AJ Natter (freshman) and Walker Ashburn, and DT Broderick Nickens will all have a great chance to get playing time there this year. Ashburn and Natter will especially get a chance, with one DE recruit getting kicked off the team, and another having academic issues.

Linebacker looks to have a brighter outlook. The starting MLB spot is up for grabs with Will Compton having graduated, and Trevor Roach (right now) has the edge on David Santos, he of tremendous upside. Also, at the BLB position, Max Pirman is in a position battle now to start there because Thomas Brown, who was going to be the “playmaker” and “star” of the defense, managed to get himself kicked off the team. Incoming freshman OLB Josh Banderas will have a great chance to contribute to the defense straight away. The defensive backfield will be getting whiter in the next year or two, with two highly recruited and athletic white safeties, Nathan Gerry and Drake Martinez, will have the chance to contribute straight away as freshmen in the fall. Nathan Gerry is well built, and is the fastest man in South Dakota, while Drake played RB in high school, and will have his brother’s speed. Expect these two to be all Big-10 by their junior years.

The offense definitely has more white players than the defense does, including an all-white line, and one of the most dynamic QBs in the country in Taylor Martinez. “T-Magic” will be entering his 4[SUP]th[/SUP] year as a starter, and has improved each year. Husker fans will be hoping this year Taylor will take it to another level. Rex Burkhead will be a huge loss for Nebraska, but Martinez will have no shortage of great targets to throw to. There are several white WRs this year who will be vying for playing time, including the highly-touted Jordan Westerkamp, and Tyler Wullenwaber and Sam Burtch. Jake Long should be the TE, with Sam Cotton as his backup. Nebraska’s offensive line returns a bunch of experience, including Spencer Long, a true mauler who will be in the NFL next year. Qvale and Sirles will be the two tackles, while Long and Pensick will fill out the interior of the line. With the exception of RT Rodriguez, the rest of Nebraska’s line depth will be all white, including Zach Sterup, Mark Pelini, and Ryne Reeves. Since 2005, Nebraska has started 11, 13, 11, 12, 11, 13, 14, and 13 whites. So Nebraska will have the potential to start 10 whites this year, a decrease of three from last year. I hope this will be as bad as it gets for Nebraska.

Offense
QB- Taylor Martinez
FB- Andy Janovich or CJ Zimmerer
TE- Jake Long
LT- Jeremiah Sirles
LG- Jake Cotton
C- Cole Pensick
RG- Spencer Long
RT- Brent Qvale

Defense
MLB- Josh Banderas
DIME- Nathan Gerry

 

[referendum]

Jack, great work on all the schools you are doing this year. Too bad about the Cornhuskers. How much playing time do you think the white WR's will actually see this year?

 

[Jack Lambert]

Jack, great work on all the schools you are doing this year. Too bad about the Cornhuskers. How much playing time do you think the white WR's will actually see this year?

Thanks referendum! I really appreciate it. As for the WRs, I know Jordan Westerkamp will get some playing time; he's a stud, and even the DWFs think he's going to be a future star. As for the walk-ons I mentioned, it's always possible for them to play. Another name to watch is WR Tyler Evans, he hasn't played much at all, but he is on scholarship there.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Great post Lambert. Very informative.
I have been following Westerkamp for the last 3 years and as you know he is the real deal. I am not knocking Martinez as a passer but Westerkamp's abilities would be showcased with a team with a better passing qb. If Martinez makes it in the NFl it will have to be at wr though with Eric Crouch getting screwed over I am not holding my breath.

 

[Jack Lambert]

Great post Lambert. Very informative.
I have been following Westerkamp for the last 3 years and as you know he is the real deal. I am not knocking Martinez as a passer but Westerkamp's abilities would be showcased with a team with a better passing qb. If Martinez makes it in the NFl it will have to be at wr though with Eric Crouch getting screwed over I am not holding my breath.

Thank you, Twinkle Toes! :icon_smile: I very much appreciate it. I think Martinez will take another step forward in his fourth year of starting, so I think he will be a better passer this year. One guy at Nebraska to look out for in the coming seasons is True Frosh QB Johnny Stanton. This kid is a dual threat who is electric, and very fun to watch. He's a much better passer than Martinez is, and he's fully recovered from an ACL tear his senior year. A lot of Nebraska fans think he'll be starting next year after T-Magic is graduated, even over a hyped up black QB from Texas.

Nebraska's fan base is one of the better fan bases in college football. For the most part, they're very knowledgeable and respectful, although they do have the retarded DWFs yet. I felt the need to post about this, to show the double standard that is shown about some recruits. Usually, as is with any fanbase, the people who post online about "their" team generally are the biggest DWFs. Harrison Phillips, a local kid from the state of Nebraska, chose Stanford over Nebraska recently. A lot of the DWFs on a particular message board seemed happy with the decision. "Go to Stanford, get a great education," a few of them said. "Our coaches suck, good choice." Some posters of course saw the truth, and were not too happy with Phillips slipping away. Earlier, a lot of posters on this particular board deemed that Phillips "was not worthy of a Nebraska offer," and some of the very offensive things posted about him even hurt his family. Phillips of course, is white, and was "only three stars" on Rivals. Pelini must've felt "pressure" to offer Phillips AFTER Stanford saw the kid's talent and offered him first.

Now let's travel back to last year, when it was down to Nebraska and Stanford for a "five-star" black Tackle, Andrus Peat. When he chose Stanford, needless to say, those same DWFs weren't saying "Great choice, our coaches suck," or "Glad to see the kid get a Stanford education." They were all "angry" that he didn't choose "their team" and I imagine some of those losers were probably crying over the fact that he wasn't going to Nebraska. Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted to illustrate some of the double standards that these DWFs have when it comes to "5-star talent" and the local kids that a team is built on.

What's even better is, that Tom Osborne built his championship teams of the 90's on kids from Nebraska, a lot of whom contributed, and even played huge roles on the team. He also used a lot of white walk-ons who played key roles in his teams. My memory wasn't too great back than, but I do remember that Osborne's teams seemed to be around half-white during the championship years, and they beat the crap out of the coal black teams like "The U" Florida's Fun-n-Gun, and Peyton Manning's Tennessee team. With Nebraska's championships and winning ways built on recruiting and playing the best players, a lot of whom were white, it's a real shame that they are starting to be excluded from the defense this year under Pelini.

 

[Jack Lambert]

Just a little update from the Cornhuskers. They will probably not start the year with ANY white players on defense. The leading candidate at MLB, Trevor Roach, seems to be out for the year after an injury, and Max Pirman has been moved from LB to TE from what I've heard. That leaves just Gerry, Nickens, Banderas, and Martinez as the white defenders who look to see ANY playing time this year. In just three short years, Nebraska has gone from starting 4-6 white players on defense and having a bunch of white depth to not having any at all. Pelini may have given a shot to Rex, but this is terrible. No wonder his defenses have started to suck now. They'll give up another 70 points this year if they aren't careful.

 

[Truthteller]

This year, Callahan’s last crew of white defenders is no longer at Nebraska, with Compton, Steinkuhler, Meredith, and Fisher all moving on. In addition, Chase Rome has transferred. Despite having a defense that got ripped his last year in 2007, Callahan actually recruited a ton of defensive talent, Including Compton, Fisher, (walk-ons) Matt O’Hanlon and Austin Cassidy at safety, Jared Crick, Steinkuhler, Zach Potter, Bo Ruud, Cam Meredith, and admittedly black players like Eric Hagg, Phillip Dillard, Suh, and Amukamara. Unless major strides are made this year, Bo’s first year of all his players will be a disaster on defense. Despite the “star recruiting” they've done, Nebraska is once again facing depth questions on the DL. No white players will be starting there this year, but DEs AJ Natter (freshman) and Walker Ashburn, and DT Broderick Nickens will all have a great chance to get playing time there this year. Ashburn and Natter will especially get a chance, with one DE recruit getting kicked off the team, and another having academic issues.

Nice write up; much appreciated. I don't follow college much, so these are good for me -- trying to see which whites to look out for this fall, when I do watch some college ball.

I had to do a google search when I saw the first name "Brodrick"...Looks to me like he's clearly a mulatto.

As I've noted many times, I'd much rather root for a guy like Micheal Vick (black man; married to a black woman, ect.) than for some race-mixing Tom (i.e. R.Griffin III) or a mulatto.

So I will absolutely strike Nickens off the list of guys I will root for! Not sure how others feel?

 

[Jack Lambert]

Nice write up; much appreciated. I don't follow college much, so these are good for me -- trying to see which whites to look out for this fall, when I do watch some college ball.

I had to do a google search when I saw the first name "Brodrick"...Looks to me like he's clearly a mulatto.

As I've noted many times, I'd much rather root for a guy like Micheal Vick (black man; married to a black woman, ect.) than for some race-mixing Tom (i.e. R.Griffin III) or a mulatto.

So I will absolutely strike Nickens off the list of guys I will root for! Not sure how others feel?

Thanks for the compliment, Truthteller. Much appreciated. As for Nickens, the only photo I saw of him was his profile pic on Nebraska's athletic site, where he looks fairly white to a quick glance, which is what I did when looking his picture up.

But looking at other images, (like you did) it's very, very easy to see his black heritage. I'll take him off the list, and I agree with your other point, I'd cheer for Michael Vick 100 times over a Russell Wilson or Nickens.

 

[Jack Lambert]

Well, another one of coach Pelini's 4-star affletes with tremendous upside is out for the year with injury. There are no white DTs that will benefit from this. I guess guys like Jared Crick or Baker Steinkuhler aren't welcome at Nebraska any more.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...69504a-079f-11e3-bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html

 

[Jack Lambert]

I've been hearing some good things coming out of Nebraska's camp. Nate Gerry has been working exclusively with the LB's now in practice, and will definitely see the field this year a lot on defense. Same goes for true frosh LB Josh Banderas; he'll be playing a ton this year as well! So Nebraska should have two athletic white playmakers out there on defense this year at times.

This is very weird, because a lot of Nebraska DWFs on message boards were saying stuff like: "It's amazing the depth we finally have at LB." Or "We finally have athleticism at the position with Alfalava, Santos, and Anderson (all black of course)." I guess not, as these white true freshman are already pushing these "athletic playmakers" for playing time within the first two and a half week of fall camp.

 

[Jack Lambert]

Only 7 white starters for Nebraska to open the year.. that's got to be an all-time low for them.

Offense
QB- Taylor Martinez
FB- CJ Zimmerer or Andy Janovich
TE- Jake Long
LT- Jeremiah Sirles
LG- Jake Cotton
C- Cole Pensick
RG- Spencer Long


Of the 30 players listed on the defensive depth chart.. 3 are white: Freshman LBs Nathan Gerry and Josh Banderas, and S Will Richards(4th). Also, a little good news is that all 3 WRs have white backups.. Jordan Westerkamp, Tyler Wullenwaber, Sam Burtch, and Brandon Reilly should all get some time today.

 

[Jack Lambert]

I would just like to update Nebraska a little bit after the first couple of their games.

First, the new starters: It looks like Brent Qvale is pretty much a starter at RT again on the OL. Also, Moudy looks to have seen a ton of time at RG.

Next, at WR, Nebraska's white players really got rotated into the game last week against Southern Miss. Sam Burtch, Jordan Westerkamp both played a lot, with Burtch hauling in a 26 yard TD strike from Martinez.

On defense, it appears there will be at least 2 white starters for the next four years. Best friends, and true frosh LBs Nathan Gerry and Josh Banderas have both claimed starting spots in only their 2nd game as Cornhuskers. Banderas has outshone David Santos (that "leader" of the defense who apparently can't make a proper read) at MLB, and Gerry has settled in nicely at the Dime position, despite being an LB, he's often covered Wyomings best WR in week 1, and can easily run in space with WRs. This kid has incredible closing speed, and is going to be in the NFL one day. Banderas looks very comfortable, and has some speed himself. These two should be dominating for a long time in the Big 10. So now, the Cornhuskers have 10 white starters again, and a couple of white WRs that play too! Factoring in Drake Martinez at S and AJ Natter on D next year, Nebraska should remain a team to root for.