Nebraska Cornhuskers News: Andre Smith passes away, baseball’s blowout, more

The Nebraska baseball team officially opened its home schedule on Tuesday afternoon and welcome a former head coach to town to do it. The Nebraska Cornhuskers took on Northern Colorado and its head coach, Mike Anderson, and welcomed the former Husker with a 12-1 win.

In the win, the Nebraska Cornhuskers were able to rinse the bad taste of Sunday’s loss to Ole Miss out of their mouths and improve to 6-4-1 on the season. Considering they were 0-3-1 after the first weekend, that record is actually pretty darn impressive.

In fact, after a start to the season that was actually pretty tough, the Nebraska baseball team will now go through a stretch where they’ll have an opportunity to pad its record and boost its RPI. They have a Wednesday afternoon game against Northern Colorado before a weekend series in Lincoln against Illinois State. A 15-5- or 14-6-1 record isn’t out of the realm of possibility before they open Big Ten play against Illinois at this point. Granted everything woudl have to go just right to hit that kind of record.

Other Nebraska Cornhuskers news

• A sad note in Husker world as former Nebraska Cornhuskers star Andre Smith passed away on Tuesday. the 64-year-old was a member of the Huskers program when Nebraska was still in the Big 8. As a senior, he was named the 1981 Big Eight Player of the Year, and averaged 18.3 points and 6.6 rebounds per game that season. He led the conference that year with an eye-popping 58.9 percent field goal percentage. He’s also still fourth in program history in scoring. It appears that after the news broke, a push to get his number retired started. I’m fully behind that.

• From one Nebraska basketball legend to a player that is starting to show off what he can do. Jamarques Lawrence won Big Ten freshman of the week after averaging 15 points a game against Iowa and Michigan State.

• Nebraska baseball catcher Josh Caron is off to a very strong start to the season after a pretty bad 2022 campaign. As 247Sports reports it, quite a bit of that has to do with Caron taking a “summer reset” and getting himself straight.
• While much has been made of Trey Palmer’s push to land in the NFL, linebacker Caleb Tannor seems largely forgotten. Tannor seems to know that and is putting a chip on his shoulder in order to try and get to the next level.

Other news

• While the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Matt Rhule seem to be doing everything right in order to fix their culture, the Baltimore Ravens continue to look like they’re trying to desperately tear themselves down. The latest bit in this saga came when the Ravens put a restrictive tag on Lamar Jackson that will see the team have a chance to match any offer he receives as a free agent. That’s already said to be leading to potential suitors backing off.
• In other quarterback news, Aaron Rodgers is said to have met with the New York Jets on Tuesday. It appears that he’s on his way out of Green Bay.
• In non sports news, it appears that there were people in the world who didn’t understand that a movie where a bear eats cocaine and goes on a killing rampage – a movie named Cocaine Bear – was for kids.

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Tune in tomorrow for more Nebraska Cornhuskers news and notes.