Nebraska...not feeling Frosty anymore

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http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=9525512

svp interviewing bo

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http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=9525736

another interview at 12:05

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Fake Bo Pelini @FauxPelini 30 Jul
To be fair it IS kinda representative RT @CFTalk: Urban Meyer: Hyde suspended for "conduct not representative of this football program"

Fake Bo Pelini @FauxPelini 29 Jul
The window washers always act like they've never seen a guy doing somersaults in his underpants before

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If you have trouble getting boners maybe you should try not sitting alone in your own little bathtub #Cialis

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This will help our Nebraska visitors

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http://www.omaha.com/article/20130801/HUSKERS/130809830/1002#mckewon-development-may-be-key-to-tackling-d-line-issues

mckewon on recruiting

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Nebraska's nonconference men's basketball schedule is out, and you'll see lots of dogs on it.

Literally.

South Carolina State (Bulldogs), The Citadel (Bulldogs), Northern Illinois (Huskies) and Western Illinois (Leathernecks, but uses a bulldog as its logo) are among the five teams on the schedule not previously known outside of the NU athletic department.

The fifth is Arkansas State (Red Wolves? You make the call).

Seriously, though, Nebraska's nonconference schedule is the most challenging its seen in at least a decade, if not longer.

"It’s a phenomenal schedule, both home and away,” Nebraska coach Miles said. “I can’t imagine it won’t be one of the top 25 schedules in the country.”

That's in part because the Huskers play two road games against power-conference teams (at Creighton, Sunday, Dec. 8; at Cincinnati, Saturday, Dec. 28) and will play in the Charleston Classic, Nov. 21-24. Nebraska's first game is against UMass, with a potential second game against New Mexico.

Here's the complete schedule; TV info and tipoff times are TBA:

Monday, Nov. 4, UNK (exhibition)

Friday, Nov. 8, Florida Gulf Coast

Tuesday, Nov. 12, Western Illinois

Sunday, Nov. 17, South Carolina State

Thurs-Sun, Nov. 21-24, at Charleston Classic

Saturday, Nov. 30, Northern Illinois

Wednesday, Dec. 4, Miami

Sunday, Dec. 8, at Creighton

Saturday, Dec. 14, Arkansas State

Saturday, Dec. 21, The Citadel

Saturday, Dec. 28, at Cincinnati


Reach Brian Rosentha

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http://www.omaha.com/article/20130802/NEWS/130809818/1685#hansen-cheated-of-victory-on-field-hickman-norris-champs-still-won-the-day

Cheated of victory on field, Hickman-Norris champs still won the day

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http://sports.omaha.com/2013/08/02/training-camp-on-fan-day-more-on-offseason-fight-postseason-hopes/#.UfvvdpKceSp

Training camp: On Fan Day, more on offseason fight, postseason hopes

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1 hour ago ? By BRIAN ROSENTHAL / Lincoln Journal Star


Score a recruiting victory for Tim Miles.

The Nebraska men's basketball coach was able to retain assistant coach Chris Harriman after Purdue made a serious, heavy push to hire Miles' assistant.

ESPN blogger Jeff Goodman tweeted Friday afternoon that Harriman had decided to stay in Lincoln. Harriman then confirmed that report, via text message:

"Yes, Coach (Matt) Painter offered me an assistant position on his staff. My family and I have decided to stay in Lincoln and we are looking forward to a successful year with the Huskers!"

This wasn't just passing interest, either. I'm told Painter made two serious runs at Harriman, who voiced his commitment to NU both times.

Harriman, the lead recruiter on four-star recruit Tai Webster, is making more than $200,000.

Purdue assistant Micah Shrewsberry, whom Painter is replacing, was reportedly making $160,000.







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Post from Neb's fan day...

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I witnessed a number of special moments at fan day today. The best moment was from Jared Afalava and Austin Williams. An older gentleman was struggling to push a mentally and physically handicapped man in his wheelchair on the field turf. The older gentleman asked Austin Williams if he would mind having his picture taken with the handicapped man. Both Austin and Jared gladly got up from their seats and maneuvered themselves into position to have the picture taken. It was evident that the handicapped man was very excited by the picture opportunity. These two young men turned a neat moment in time into a special moment in time when they reached back to their seats, grabbed their phones and asked the elderly gentleman to take the same picture on their phones so that they too could have a picture of the,selves with the handicapped man. Wow! This may not translate well into an online bulletin board but it was priceless to be there and witness the character that those two showed toward that needy man.

I am so proud to be a fan of this football team!

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Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH 2 Aug
5. RB Ameer Abdullah has his usual, midseason edge in preseason. Wants to return kicks. Coaches have to be smart, not wear him out. #huskers
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4. LBs all look good. Top-to-bottom, it'll be one of #B1G best this year, most certainly next. #huskers
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Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH 2 Aug
3. Greg Hart's tall, still pretty slim. He'll be an interesting adjuster down the road. #huskers
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Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH 2 Aug
2. Maliek Collins and Kevin Maurice wouldn't have to gain a bunch of weight to play right away. Good frames. Could be recruiting steals.
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Samuel McKewon @swmckewonOWH 2 Aug
Five roster takes after walking around Fan Day. 1. NU's top OL looks slimmer/better shape. Pass pro was a summer emphasis. #huskers
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some great pictures from fan day..

http://odc.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=5002&p=4676

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Star-Ledger

Irving Fryar, after winding road as former NFL star, spreads his message to new congregation

Matthew Stanmyre/The Star-Ledger
August 04, 2013

Irving Fryar marches toward the football field at Robbinsville High School. Now 50 and more than a decade removed from his last game in the NFL, he looks like he can still outrun all 30 or so teenagers waiting for him. In his hand, he carries a practice plan typed on yellow paper and folded neatly. It is a minute-by-minute road map for the next four hours on this hot summer night.

Five days after that practice, Fryar clutches another carefully detailed game plan as he begins his other job. This time, it?s a sermon that took nearly eight hours to write. All week, he had scribbled notes on scraps of paper and napkins. Then he worked through Friday night, crafting, drafting and rewriting. It would take four more hours to memorize the final, 27-page version he will deliver on Sunday morning, an entirely different type of game day for one of the best football players New Jersey has ever produced.

Dressed in a long, black jacket with red and gold patterns across the arms and thick, black-rimmed glasses, Fryar grabs a microphone and launches into his sermon.

"We ask you right now that you will heal, God," he says, his voice rising.

"That you will set us free, God!"

"That you will bring light into dark situations, God!"

"That you will strengthen those who are weak, God!"

The 100 or so parishioners at New Jerusalem House of God in Fryar?s hometown of Mount Holly nod and hang on their pastor?s every word.

When high school football season kicks off later this summer, there will be plenty of other eyes on Fryar, the former college All-American, overall No. 1 NFL Draft pick and five-time Pro Bowl player. But as a first-year coach, Fryar is untested and unproven, and still tethered to a past filled with mistakes that played out all too publicly.

For the first 27 years of his life, Fryar says, he was lost and filled with rage, numbing his anguish with drugs. Desperate to stop the pain, he says he tried killing himself "several" times. The turning point, he says, came after a brawl outside a nightclub in 1990. That?s when Fryar says he turned his life over to God. But there are still three or four days each year, Fryar says, when he seethes with anger for no apparent reason.

In fact, Fryar says, there are two dogs inside of him ? one good, one evil ? and they constantly fight for control.

And although most of the pain seems to be behind him, Fryar can still be mercurial, guarded and especially suspicious of outsiders.

But he comes across as deeply committed to his community and the people in his life, saying God called him back to New Jersey to start his church. And this summer, his work takes on new meaning as he spreads his message of hope and persistence to a new congregation ? the players at Robbinsville.

"It?s always been in my spirit," Fryar says. "It?s always been a part of my calling and a part of my purpose to help young men become grown men. I learned the hard way. Made enough mistakes for 12 people. That?s what I had to do in order to become the person I am today."


CONDITIONS CHANGE

The whistle sounds and a group of players stomps up the stadium bleachers; another crew darts around the track.

Conditioning is important to Fryar. His 6-foot, 200-pound frame remains carved with muscle, cutting an imposing figure.

"This is a run, not a jog!" Fryar shouts. "C?mon, c?mon, c?mon!"

A small Group 2 school, Robbinsville has never won a playoff game, and the Ravens went 5-5 last season. None of that seems to matter now.

"We?ve been working a lot harder this year than in the past years," Robbinsville senior lineman Tyler Gildner says during a break from a voluntary workout. "Because last year it would be everybody in for a lift and then everybody go out for a little bit of a run. Not an hour each, switch, come in and learn, go out and then run again."

Gildner says many parents were shocked to hear Fryar had taken over the program, excitedly telling their sons about his playing career.

"The whole community?s excited," Robbinsville athletic director Curtis Wyers says. "You can?t question his football knowledge and credibility."

Fryar?s personal contrast shows during practices. One moment, he grabs a thin piece of tubing used to build short hurdles and crouches, slicing the air in a mock sword fight with Ben Hawkins, one of the two former NFL players on his staff. Fryar does his best ninja impression and lets out a long, "Waaaaaaaaahhh!"

His laugh is high-pitched and infectious. His smile is sparkling and wide.

At other times, his face grows narrow and dark, and he can be prone to sullen mood swings.

When he hears a boy curse at practice, Fryar rushes across the field.

"We don?t use that kind of language around here!" Fryar screams.

"RUN! RUN THAT LANGUAGE OUT OF YOU!"

"That?s not how a man communicates! If you can?t express yourself without using vulgarity, you need a dictionary!"

Fryar has one on a shelf inside the school. There?s not much more to his office other than two trash cans to catch leaking water from the ceiling, a picture of Malcolm X, a photo of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods and a mirror embossed with his favorite scripture: Romans 8:38-39:

"For I am convinced, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor demons, neither the present, nor the future, nor any powers, neither heights, nor depths, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus Our Lord."

At his home in the Jobstown section of Springfield Township, Fryar has been married to his wife, Jacqui, for 28 years. She works closely with her husband in the church. The couple have four children: Londen, 27; Irving Jr., 25; Adrianne, 23; and Taylor, 20.

Fryar also is president of the Burlington County College of Theology and works occasionally as a life coach for the NFL.

He says none of his jobs pays much, and he mostly lives off his NFL earnings, which exceeded $15 million. He says he made no money his first 10 years working in the church, but the past two years he has made a small amount. He won?t say how much.

He also says he would prefer to live elsewhere.

"The taxes are too high (in New Jersey)," Fryar says. "If God would let me live somewhere else, I would. But I?m here because this is where God said I have to be."


HIS DESTINY

Young Irving Fryar stared at his grandmother, absorbing her words. He was 17 when Alice Oakman, the family matriarch, told him he would become a preacher. It was his destiny, she said.

He waved her off. No way, he thought. Impossible.

For as long as he could remember, a relentless anger burned inside. He said his dad was an alcoholic who beat his mother. And even though his dad lived at home, Fryar would go days without seeing him. The family was constantly fighting.

He carried his fury into the streets of Mount Holly, a throwback town lined with old, split-level homes and mom-and-pop stores. A week rarely went by when Fryar didn?t have a fistfight, and he said he was smoking weed by the time he was 13.

But could preaching be his destiny?

His pale green house on Washington Street was right next door to Second Baptist Church, but he remembers being forced to sit through Sunday services, next to his sisters Faith and Hope.

"I didn?t want anything to do with the church," Fryar says. "I ran from the church."

So he played sports. He was a hard-hitting defensive back at Rancocas Valley Regional High, and he also says he was chosen in the Major League Baseball draft.

Fryar says he wanted to join the military and fly fighter jets, but the scholarship offers to play football were too much for his mom to look past. Fryar says he chose Nebraska because that?s where his close friend, Mike Rozier of Woodrow Wilson High in Camden, wanted to play.

His final three seasons the Cornhuskers went 33-5, won three straight Big 8 titles and played in the Orange Bowl each year. He was selected No. 1 overall in the 1984 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots ? the first wide receiver ever chosen first ? and he says he signed a rookie contract for $3.4 million.

That?s around the time when his destiny took an abrupt detour.


DOWNWARD SPIRAL

At the end of his second season, a newspaper reported Fryar was one of several Patriots players involved with drugs. The same season during the playoffs, he reportedly cut his hand during a domestic dispute at home. Then, in 1988, he was stopped for speeding in Pemberton and arrested after a state trooper found hollow-point bullets, a loaded 12-gauge shotgun and a loaded handgun in his car.

"It was one thing after another," Fryar says. "And every time it got a little bigger or a little bit worse."

By the late 1980s, Fryar says, he found himself outside his condo in Easton, Mass., a loaded revolver pressed to his head. He squeezed the trigger, but it didn?t fire. Fryar says he was mad the gun didn?t go off, but he didn?t try again and doesn?t know why.

Another time, Fryar says he swallowed a bottle of pills, drove to a park and fell asleep, thinking he would die. His wife found him later, his heart still beating.

One of his best friends from Mount Holly, Mark Hutton, noticed Fryar?s descent.

"I stopped talking to him because of all the stuff that was going on," Hutton says. "It was just too much. His whole life turned upside down."

Fryar says he bottomed out in 1990 after a fight in Providence, R.I. He says he was walking to his car outside a nightclub when he saw teammate Hart Lee Dykes fighting a group of people. Fryar grabbed a handgun from his car, stuffed it in his boot and rushed to help Dykes. As he approached his teammate, he says he was hit in the head with a baseball bat.

Police arrived and Fryar was arrested for the gun, even though he had a license. In jail, he called his wife and attorney. Neither answered, so he sat in the cell, alone, his head throbbing and bleeding. That?s when God spoke to him for the first time, he says.

The next week, Fryar went to church at Greater Love Tabernacle in Boston. Afterward, he walked to the front and said he was knocked to the ground, feeling the force of a punch to the chest. He was receiving the Holy Spirit, he says, and his body quivered and he started speaking in tongues.


A NEW FOCUS

Fryar says he stopped using drugs and hanging out in nightclubs. Whenever the anger inside him would stir, he called his pastor.

Even in his darkest moments, Fryar says he has not sought professional treatment, relying instead on God and his strength.

Meanwhile, the new focus revived his career. He moved on to Miami, Philadelphia and Washington, earning a reputation as one of the most reliable, durable wideouts in the NFL. He made four of his five Pro Bowls after turning 31, and he has stayed out of trouble since the nightclub arrest. For his career, he caught 851 passes for 12,785 yards and 84 touchdowns.

After retiring, Fryar says God told him, "It?s time to move back home." He bought his home in Burlington County and began serving Robert F. Hargrove, the pastor at Christ Care Unit Missionary Baptist Church in Sicklerville.

He took Hargrove?s clothes to the dry cleaners, shined his shoes and carried his bags.

He wiped sweat from Hargrove?s forehead after he preached.

He showed he could be a servant of God, and his resolve impressed Hargrove.

"He can share with others who are down how to find their way," Hargrove says. "Sometimes, God takes bad things and turns them into good. It was bad when he was going through it, but now he can look back and see what God has brought him from, and along with that he can help others.

"It made him a better person, a better man."

Two years into serving Hargrove and working as a youth minister at his church, Fryar said God spoke again, telling him to open his own church in Mount Holly. He received Hargrove?s blessing.

To become ordained, Fryar stood before a council of 12 pastors who asked him more than 300 questions for four hours. Each of Fryar?s responses had to be backed by scripture, complete with chapter and verse.

He passed.

And he didn?t stop there, earning a doctorate last year from the North Carolina College of Theology.

"Pastoring people, it?s not something you sit down with your guidance counselor and pick out," Fryar says. "God pushes you. You don?t jump. You get pushed into this. Would I have chosen this? No way in the world. But God has called me to do this."


AGENT OF CHANGE

Shortly after 10:30 on a recent Sunday morning, pastor Fryar stands before the New Jerusalem House of God and sways. The building rocks with the rhythmic sounds of bass guitar, bongo drums, chimes and a keyboard.

Fryar throws back his head, closes his eyes and sings. At one point, he removes his glasses and wipes tears.

His sermon will be about the value of commitment and boundaries in relationships. The words rush from him with gusto, his voice rising and falling. He punches the air to make his points. He crouches and leaps. He waggles his head.

"You age, you have children, you gain wisdom," says Gene Huey, a close friend and Fryar?s position coach at Nebraska. "Certainly there?s change I saw with him. There?s a nice energy about him."

When he founded the church in 2003, Fryar rented space in a school for about 100 members. They moved to Washington Street seven years ago, a block from the house where he was raised.

His congregation has grown to about 350. As part of his duties, he?s always on call to visit sick or dying members. He counsels pregnant teens, people contemplating suicide and those down on their luck.

He says he wants his church to stay small.

"A lot of times pastors get caught up in the influence they have in numbers because it creates money," Fryar says. "I played professional football. I don?t need all that stuff. I prefer to fly under the radar. If the church stays the way it is, I?m fine with that. It?s hard enough with the few people I have."

Fryar preaches on that Sunday morning, eyes closed, lost in the moment.

"Continue to speak into our spirits, God," Fryar says, the sweat soaking through his jacket. "Change us. Make us into who you want us to be, God. Better than we were yesterday.

"No, we?re not who we?re going to be, God. But we?re also not who we used to be. And God, we thank you for that."



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Nebraska's top single-season receiving marks

1. Johnny Rodgers, 942 yards (1972)

2. Nate Swift, 941 (2008)

3. Johnny Rodgers, 872 (1971)

4. Kenny Bell, 863 (2012)

5. Maurice Purify, 814 (2007)


Nebraska?s high-powered offense is expected to produce some big numbers in 2013, maybe even its first 1,000-yard receiver.

If someone were to break Johnny Rodgers? 41-year old mark of 942 yards and blow past the 1,000-yard mark, he?d likely be the Huskers leading returning receiver, Kenny Bell, right?

Not if junior Jamal Turner has anything to say about it.

It?s not that Turner wouldn?t be proud and supportive if Bell broke the record. It?s just that he believes in himself, and that belief fuels the competition on what could be the Big Ten?s top receiving corps.

?Coach (Rich) Fisher, he always says he?s trying to bring in better receivers than what we have to bring the competition level up,? Turner said. ?We?re only as good as our weakest link. If our weakest link is an All-American, we?re all great. That?s what we want.

?If the person behind me isn?t good, I don?t have to work as hard to secure my spot. If I?m behind Kenny Bell, I can push him to his extreme because he knows if he slips up one day, I?m coming for his spot.?

Turner had a breakthrough season in 2012, finishing behind Bell (50 catches, 863 yards) and Quincy Enunwa (42-470) with 32 catches for 417 yards and three touchdowns. Turner?s biggest catch came in the closing seconds for the touchdown that beat Michigan State.

The former high school quarterback struggled with the transition to college wide receiver but appreciates what that hard work taught him.

?I?m wiser now and I know how to practice,? Turner said. ?I know how to play in a game and I know how to catch a pass. I think I?m an all-around better football player, and it started off the field. It started in the classroom. I had to become a better person in order to become a great football player.

?It was different because I?d never done it before. I?d been a quarterback all my life. Then I go to college and I?m playing receiver against the best of the best. It was so hard because I wasn?t used to blocking, catching the ball and getting hit. Brandon Kinnie, Tim Marlowe (two former Huskers) and Kenny helped me out a lot. They showed me how to practice and how to be a wide receiver.?

Turner watches the incoming freshman receivers and tells them to get ready for the grind of fall camp.

?Coming in as freshmen, they think they?re gonna play this year, and we?re like, ?Well, you have a good chance, but you have to work on it,?? he said. ?'You have to work hard and know the playbook. You have to be a great person on and off the field, because it matters.'?

Turner pointed to redshirt freshman Alonzo Moore ? also a former high school quarterback ? as a young receiver who is moving in the right direction.

?When he first got here, I could see the raw talent, kind of like I was,? Turner said. ?Alonzo couldn?t really get it, but now he?s got it down. I think he could be the next guy in the rotation after me, Kenny and Quincy.?

That three-man group ? plus contributors such as Tyler Evans, Taariq Allen and Tyler Wullenwaber, as well as Moore and redshirt freshman Jordan Westerkamp ? could collectively have a huge year in Nebraska?s experienced offense.

?We know that the offense has become the strength of the team and we know we have to score,? Turner said. ?A lot of guys embrace that. Everybody is hyping us up and so we?re working harder because we feel we?re a great offense. That?s gonna make me block harder, Ameer (Abdullah) is gonna run harder, Kenny is gonna catch better, Taylor (Martinez) is gonna throw better.?

Add in the competition at practice and how good can this group be?

?We feel like we?re the best wide receiver corps in the Big Ten, but probably all the other teams feel that way, too,? Turner said. ?They?d be crazy if they didn?t.?





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