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The Nebraska Football team has got their second commitment in the 2009 class.  Shawn Bodtmann, a 6-foot, 208-pounder, attended the NU spring game last weekend and left impressed with the Huskers’ facilities and fan support.

Bodtmann will be playing at one of the linebacker positions, depending on how much weight he puts on.  Definately look for Bodtmann to redshirt his first year in the program.

The Huskers have also offered Bodtmann’s teammate Eric Shrive, a 6-foot-7, 298-pound offensive tackle so they are hoping to get two players out of Pennsylvania for the 09 class.

The 2008 Nebraska Football class has been announced by the University of Nebraska.  There are currently 27 scholarship players and 18 walk on players in the 2008 class.  There could be a few more added in the next day or so as well I am hearing.

Antonio Bell WR 6-2 180 Daytona Beach, Fla
Will Compton LB 6-2 230 Bonne Terre, Mo
Khiry Cooper WR 6-2 180 Shreveport, La
Ben Cotton TE 6-6 230 Ames, Iowa
Alfonzo Dennard DB 5-10 190 Rochelle, Ga       
Sean Fisher LB 6-6 225 Omaha, Neb
David Grant OL 6-6 295 Killeen, Texas, Texas
Ricky Henry OL 6-4 305 Omaha, Neb / North Dakota State College of Science
Tyson Hetzer* TE 6-6 245 Redding, Calif / Citrus College
Micah Kreikemeier LB 6-3 210 West Point, Neb
John Levorson DB 6-3 190 Crete, Neb
Tim Marlowe WR 5-10 160 Youngstown, Ohio
Cameron Meredith DL 6-4 225 Santa Ana, Calif
Collins Okafor RB 6-1 195 Omaha, Neb
Courtney Osborne ATH 6-3 175 Garland, Texas
Steven Osborne WR 6-4 185 Garland, Texas
Kyler Reed HB 6-3 220 Shawnee, Kan
Justin Rogers DB 5-11 180 Birmingham, Ala         
P.J. Smith DB 6-2 205 River Ridge, La
Kody Spano** QB 6-2 205 Stephenville, Texas               
Baker Steinkuhler OL 6-6 290 Lincoln, Neb
Brandon Thompson OL 6-6 295 The Woodlands, Texas
Quentin Toailoa DL 6-4 300 Highland, Calif
Mason Wald DB 5-11 205 Birmingham, Alabama
Lester Ward RB 6-3 215 Brenham, Texas
Alonzo Whaley LB/FB 6-1 225 Madisonville, Texas
David Whitmore DB 6-2 185 Port Arthur, Texas
Josh Williams DL 6-4 225 Denton, Texas
*-Indicates mid-year signee; **-enrolled at Nebraska in January

Walk On Players:

Kenny Anderson DE 6-2 235 Omaha, Neb
Damon Bechtold TE 6-4 215 Omaha, Neb
Jase Dean FS 6-0 180 Bridgeport, Neb
Taylor Dixon DB 5-11 170 Wauneta, Neb
Justin Jackson DL 6-3 255 Roca, Neb
Jordan Makovicka RB 5-10 170 Ulysses, Neb
Matt Manninger LB 6-1 225 Omaha, Neb
Mychael McClure LB 6-5 210 Wisner, Neb
Colin McDermott LB 6-2 225 Omaha, Neb
Conor McDermott DE 6-2 230 Omaha, Neb
Sam Meginnis LB 6-2 210 Lincoln, Neb
Josh Molek DE 6-3 235 Omaha, Neb
Brent Moravec FB/LB 6-0 180 Grand Island, Neb
David Pillen FB/LB 5-11 230 Sugar Land, Texas
Zach Ruiz QB/ATH 6-3 210 Beatrice, Neb
Steve Spratte WR 5-11 180 Waukesha, Wis
Graham Stoddard LB 6-2 215 Lincoln, Neb
Jeremy Wallace RB 6-1 220 Omaha, Neb

Congrats to every one that has wanted to join the Nebraska Football team and received a full scholarship, grey-shirt offer, and walk on offer!  Once some of the grey shirt offers are announced, we will have them posted.

Thanks to Huskers.Com for some of this info.

The day a lot of Husker Football fans love!  It is National Signing Day where high school seniors and faxing in papers to the Universities they plan on playing football and getting an education at.  Instead of having 25 different posts about each player, we will post the list of players, and a little bit of info about each one later today.  Can the Huskers pull off any recruiting surpises today?  Who knows!

Nebraska Recruiting

The Nebraska Football team picked up a much needed safety prospect Monday afternoon when P.J. Smith commited to the program.  Smith said he felt at home when he took his visit to Lincoln a few weekends ago, and got along with the coaching staff very well.  He turned down scholarship offers from Arkansas, Tulane, TCU, Purdue, Mississippi and Baylor.

Smith played at a nationally ranked high school at John Curtis High School in River Ridge, La.  He has played some good competition, and should be a great addition for the Huskers secondary.  He says he is aware of the blackshirt tradition, and can’t wait to get started.

Welcome to the Big Red Family Mr. Smith!

The Nebraska Football team and possibly the Nebraska Baseball team have will have a new player on the roster in 2009 after wide receiver Khiry Cooper accepted a scholarship offer to join the Husker football team.  Cooper has also talked with Mike Anderson about playing on the baseball team.

It came down to Arkansas or Nebraska, and after talking with the coaches at both schools, Copper decided the University of Nebraka was the best option for him.  Cooper is expected to be be drafted in the next baseball draft in the first 10 rounds, but says he would rather play both sports in college before trying professional baseball.

Welcome to the Big Red Family Mr. Cooper!

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have received another verbal commitment from a player in the state of Texas.  Lester Ward says he will be a Husker once he signs his letter of intent on Wednesday.

Ward is a 6′3 220 lb running back that missed the first six games of his senior season with a hamstring injury.  He still rushed for over 100 yards in the final four games of his highschool career however.  Ward was once a Baylor commit, and had scholarship offers from schools like UCLA, Vanderbilt, TCU, and Tulane.

Alfonzo Dennard has never stepped foot on the University of Nebraska campus, but he knows that is where he wants to goto college and play college football.  Secondary coach Marvin Sanders met with Dennard and his family a few nights ago, and Dennard knows that is exactly who he wants to play for.

Dennard is a 5′10 199 lb cornerback from Rochelle, GA.  At one point he was a North Carolina commit but North Carolina was unsure if he would qualify.  Dennards high school coach says he does have a little bit of work left in the classroom, but he expects him to make the grades to qualify.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers picked up three verbal commitments over the weekend has the had a pretty big recuiting weekend in Lincoln.  Brothers Steven Osborne and Courtney Osborne from Garland, Texas both commited to the Huskers after their official visit.  Shortly after they commited, Antonio Bell suprised the Huskers coaching staff by verbally commiting.

Steven Osborne is projected to be a wide receiver while his brother Courtney is projected to play a safety position for the Huskers.  Bell will be a bigtime wide receiver target down the road and could be a big play maker in the future.

Welcome to the Big Red Family!

As expected  the past day or so, Eddie Brown has decommited from the Nebraska Cornhuskers and will accept a scholarship offer from Texas A&M.  Don’t be too shocked at all of this, A&M was always his his number one choice, he just had to see if they would end up offering a full ride scholarship.  After a player wasn’t able to get into A&M, that opened up an offer for Brown and he quickly grabbed it.

The Huskers will move on, and get another quality recruit to take Browns spot.  Don’t worry about that!

Will Compton announced that he will stay commited to the Nebraska Cornhuskers and is happy have have the recruiting come to a close.  Compton had his home state Missouri Tigers and the Illinois Fighting Illini along with the Huskers in his final three choices.  Even with the coaching changes, he will stay with the Huskers.

Compton turned down Illinois, Missouri, LSU, and late offer from Notre Dame to join the Huskers.  He is very excited to play for Bo Pelini and you can probably expect to see him playing pretty early in his career at Nebraska.  I can’t wait to see Compton and Blake Lawrence on the field at the same time in the next few years, it could even be this next year!

Thanks for staying with the Big Red Mr. Compton!