Eric the Red
Team HuskerBoard
For Many A Hardcore Husker, The 2006-07 Football Season Has Begun
April 10, 2006
Nebraska will soon complete the 15 workouts the NCAA allows football programs in the Spring.
In some other places, Spring drills are not bill things.
For die-hard Husker fans, they mark the beginning of the 2006-2007 football season.
Who does what, and what Coach Bill Callahan says about it, are the small sparks that presage the conflagration that roars across the state in August.
First come the daily reports on the workouts. Who’s hurt. Who’s bigger? Faster? Stronger? Smarter?
After those 15 workouts, a lot of fans take it easy. Most of them, probably.
Then, there are “the others.” Those whose blood runs Husker red. Those whose heart and soul, if not their buttocks, is tattooed with an NU logo. Maybe Harry Husker. Or Li’l Red.
For them, the end of Spring drills means analysis. Conversation. Argument. Blogs. Chat rooms. Even hitting the Internet to research the Spring doings of coming Husker opponents.
As usual, the Spring drill and post-Spring drill season is a boon to sportswriters and broadcasters. Whenever a story is needed, Spring football is there. Not only is it fodder for endless stories, it is fodder for stories that will unquestionably have a bid audience.
As for Callahan, he goes about the business of putting a cohesive team together.
“Today was a good practice,” Callahan said last week. “The last two days that we have practiced have been really physical practices. We’ve had a lot of fun the last two days, and our guys are getting better. I’m really proud of this football team and I have seen marked improvement across the board. I like the fact that we continue to run the ball, and overall we are looking good and we just need to be strong heading into next week.”
Such offerings, by themselves, might quench the thirst of the everyday NU supporter. It is hardly a drop in a thimble for those insatiable denizens of the Husker Nation in Nebraska and around the country. They want more.
Who could hope to number the host of Huskerites who think the Internet was solely designed for the purposes of keeping up with every sprained ankle in the Nebraska locker room, and scouting the opposition, and keeping tabs on those Husker-hating, big-time sports analysts at the big-shot newspapers and networks?
Many are the men and women whose keyboard skills were developed and honed for the sake of good old Nebraska U … as it applies to the gridiron.
End of Spring depth charts will be the next big thing for the faithful. And then, any reports of academic or social problems among top players prior to the first kickoff.
And then, fall practice. And for now ... hit the web road to HuskerPedia.com and read until your eyes wear out!
April 10, 2006
Nebraska will soon complete the 15 workouts the NCAA allows football programs in the Spring.
In some other places, Spring drills are not bill things.
For die-hard Husker fans, they mark the beginning of the 2006-2007 football season.
Who does what, and what Coach Bill Callahan says about it, are the small sparks that presage the conflagration that roars across the state in August.
First come the daily reports on the workouts. Who’s hurt. Who’s bigger? Faster? Stronger? Smarter?
After those 15 workouts, a lot of fans take it easy. Most of them, probably.
Then, there are “the others.” Those whose blood runs Husker red. Those whose heart and soul, if not their buttocks, is tattooed with an NU logo. Maybe Harry Husker. Or Li’l Red.
For them, the end of Spring drills means analysis. Conversation. Argument. Blogs. Chat rooms. Even hitting the Internet to research the Spring doings of coming Husker opponents.
As usual, the Spring drill and post-Spring drill season is a boon to sportswriters and broadcasters. Whenever a story is needed, Spring football is there. Not only is it fodder for endless stories, it is fodder for stories that will unquestionably have a bid audience.
As for Callahan, he goes about the business of putting a cohesive team together.
“Today was a good practice,” Callahan said last week. “The last two days that we have practiced have been really physical practices. We’ve had a lot of fun the last two days, and our guys are getting better. I’m really proud of this football team and I have seen marked improvement across the board. I like the fact that we continue to run the ball, and overall we are looking good and we just need to be strong heading into next week.”
Such offerings, by themselves, might quench the thirst of the everyday NU supporter. It is hardly a drop in a thimble for those insatiable denizens of the Husker Nation in Nebraska and around the country. They want more.
Who could hope to number the host of Huskerites who think the Internet was solely designed for the purposes of keeping up with every sprained ankle in the Nebraska locker room, and scouting the opposition, and keeping tabs on those Husker-hating, big-time sports analysts at the big-shot newspapers and networks?
Many are the men and women whose keyboard skills were developed and honed for the sake of good old Nebraska U … as it applies to the gridiron.
End of Spring depth charts will be the next big thing for the faithful. And then, any reports of academic or social problems among top players prior to the first kickoff.
And then, fall practice. And for now ... hit the web road to HuskerPedia.com and read until your eyes wear out!
