CB Marc Anthony

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By Bryan Munson

BigRedReport.com

Posted Aug 22, 2007

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Anthony set to see Nebraska

Nebraska landed five prep players from the state of Arizona last year. This year Nebraska is hoping to repeat some of that success with Marc Anthony. Anthony, a three-star rated cornerback and the #32 rated cornerback nationally, is very interested in the Huskers and will actually be in Lincoln for an official visit early in the season.

The fall camps have opened up and Marc Anthony and his team from Chandler (Az.) are braving 105-degree heat and 110+ heat indexes. Spirits are still high as football season is finally back.

"Oh yeah, I'm excited to get started again," Anthony said. "We have been practicing for a while now. We just got done tonight and I am heading out with some of the guys."

Anthony is a physically imposing cornerback. At 6-foot-0 and 185-pounds, Anthony can bump and run with the best. But, there was an area of his game he was interested in brushing up on.

"I have been staying in shape and getting prepared mentally and physically for this year. I needed to prepare more mentally than physically."

"I was just working out and learned from the mistakes that I made last year, try to learn from them, and get mentally tough for the upcoming season."

Without being able to get responses to his text messages, Anthony keeps up the communication with the coaches through email. It's a little ironic how he continues to communicate considering the text ban.

"Right now I get a lot of email. I talk to most of the coaches through email. I can do all of my email stuff over my phone, so it's no big deal."

The Huskers will receive an official visit from Anthony and the Wolverines will get one the following week. There are some plans in the work to get one set up for September 7, but it hasn't been finalized.

"I have two official visits set up. I am going to Nebraska on September 14th for the USC game and September 21st for the Penn State game at Michigan."

"I think I will take an official before that. We are working to try and get that one set up for an official to Cal in September. It's not confirmed yet, though."

Anthony has made some unofficial trips this summer and knows what he is looking for on his official visits. He wants to know how things are when he might not getting as much individual attention.

"How the coaching staff runs their program. I also wanted to get an idea of how they treated me when they weren't going to be pampering me on my official visits."

"I also want to see what the school was like and to see if it fit me. That the school and the team was really a fit between me and the coaching staff."

Anthony says that he is interested to see Lincoln. There is also a need to see what the depth chart is like at his position and how they might use him if he went to Nebraska.

"I want to see how I would fit in there in Lincoln with the coaches and the team. I also want to find out what their needs are for a defensive back."

"I also want to see if I can feel comfortable there. I don't want to go somewhere for four years and not play. I just want to see if it fits me."

One of the things that might help Nebraska with the comfort level that Anthony might feel could come from a few of the current players on the team. Nebraska grabbed five prep players from the Grand Canyon State last year.

"I don't know them personally. I do know of them. They are all very talented athletes coming out of Arizona last year."

Another reason why Anthony might be comfortable on his visit is because one of the current Nebraska commitments and he have spoken before in the past. It just so happens that commit will be in town the same weekend as Anthony on an unofficial visit.

"Just one of them. It was me and Will Compton that have spoken before. He was telling me that it's so great up there at Lincoln."

"He was telling me that things are so good in Lincoln, and that I will it so much, that I will probably want to commit on my visit."

"I am just looking forward to taking that trip to Nebraska and getting a chance to meet Will Compton personally when I go."

Anthony was named second team all-region after his junior season. He finished his junior season with 58 tackles and five interceptions (one returned for a touchdown).
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He seems pretty interested. Looks good. Can never have too many good corners.

 
If you really care about your education Cal would be a tough place to turn down. I know there has been alot of discussion about TR and Notre Dame and their education vs Nebraska and what not, but Cal is a whole other story altogether. Probably one of the best colleges in the country, right up there with the Ivy Leagues, plus you get to live in California. Sucks we didn't get him, but if I was from Arizona and could get into Cal, that would pretty hard to turn down.

 
I think Dion Jordan is likely going to California. He is originally from Northern California, Dion Jordan and Marc Anthony probably have talked about going to the same school seeing as their list of schools looks the same, and he also has another teammate who plays for Cal in Cameron Jordan and Cameron's dad is the TE coach for Chandler high school.

 
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chuckd said:
If you really care about your education Cal would be a tough place to turn down. I know there has been alot of discussion about TR and Notre Dame and their education vs Nebraska and what not, but Cal is a whole other story altogether. Probably one of the best colleges in the country, right up there with the Ivy Leagues, plus you get to live in California. Sucks we didn't get him, but if I was from Arizona and could get into Cal, that would pretty hard to turn down.
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Agreed...Cal-Berkeley is among the creme of the crop in American universities. All the same, for football players...what difference does it make? Still, it is hard to turn down and I'm disappointed we didn't get him.

 
zoogies said:
chuckd said:
If you really care about your education Cal would be a tough place to turn down. I know there has been alot of discussion about TR and Notre Dame and their education vs Nebraska and what not, but Cal is a whole other story altogether. Probably one of the best colleges in the country, right up there with the Ivy Leagues, plus you get to live in California. Sucks we didn't get him, but if I was from Arizona and could get into Cal, that would pretty hard to turn down.
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Agreed...Cal-Berkeley is among the creme of the crop in American universities. All the same, for football players...what difference does it make? Still, it is hard to turn down and I'm disappointed we didn't get him.
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Like I said "if" you care about your education, at least as much or more as you do about football. If all he cares about it playing in the NFL, there are probably better or equal places for him to go. If he is thinking about the bigger picture, Cal is an almost unmatchable opportunity.

 
That's true, but then again, it's not like there's no quality education to be found at NU. I think the difference in education personally for him is minimized just by the amount of time he has to put on the football field. But it can be argued both ways, because the overall academic atmosphere is just not the same.

Anyway, age old debate and probably not worth too much time :-P I hope he does well at Cal, now that they're not playing us anymore. Heh, I had no idea about Berkeley's academic reputation back in the day, I didn't even know "Cal" was Berkeley...I just knew them as another one of our punching bags for a couple of years in the Crouch era.

 
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zoogies said:
That's true, but then again, it's not like there's no quality education to be found at NU. I think the difference in education personally for him is minimized just by the amount of time he has to put on the football field. But it can be argued both ways, because the overall academic atmosphere is just not the same.

Anyway, age old debate and probably not worth too much time :-P I hope he does well at Cal, now that they're not playing us anymore. Heh, I had no idea about Berkeley's academic reputation back in the day, I didn't even know "Cal" was Berkeley...I just knew them as another one of our punching bags for a couple of years in the Crouch era.
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Who knows... He might just like trees ;)

 
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