HUSKER FOOTBALL: Blackshirts Handed Out to Nebraska Defense

LINCOLN–(NU Athletics Aug. 27)–Practice continued Tuesday for the Nebraska football team in preparing for Saturday’s season opener with UTEP.

Afterward, Husker defensive coordinator Tony White discussed how preparation has been for the defense ahead of the game with the Miners.

“Yeah you start to get restless, you start getting antsy and all that stuff. Your mind starts going all over the place, but then you hone in and you look at the guys and it goes back to the work you put in all offseason,” White said.  “You’ve studied the opponent, you can feel it out at practice, it kind of builds up. Your mind just races but it’s a good feeling. It’s football season.”

Blackshirts were also handed out on Tuesday to 12 players on the Nebraska defense.  Defensive linemen Ty Robinson, Nash Hutmacher, Cameron Lenhardt and Jimari Butler; linebackers John Bullock, Mikai Gbayor and MJ Sherman; defensive backs Tommi Hill, Isaac Gifford, Malcolm Hartzog, DeShon Singleton and Marques Buford all received the coveted practice jersey.  White talked about Lenhardt receiving the Blackshirt.

“He is OOU (one of us), he is what this program is all about. Academics-wise, he’s an engineering major, elite grades, elite process in the classes he is in, in knowing where he’s supposed to be and doing the things he’s supposed to be doing,” White added.  “You watch him in the offseason, he’s 100 miles an hour, no excuses. Always in front of the lines, he’s a low maintenance, blue collar guy, and when he goes out there he knows what to do, knows how to do it, and then he does it at an elite level. He’s a great teammate, OOU, if you talk about one of the first guys you mention with the DNA of the program, it would be him.”

The Huskers are back at practice Wednesday morning.