Nebraska Cornhuskers news: Willis McGahee feels the love, baseball gets a commit, more

Head Coach Will Bolt of the Nebraska Cornhuskers walks to the mound d(Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
Head Coach Will Bolt of the Nebraska Cornhuskers walks to the mound d(Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images) /
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Nebraska football commit Willis McGahee IV felt the love. Nebraska baseball got a commit. That and more in today’s Nebraska Cornhuskers news.

Willis McGahee IV kicked off the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ big spring game with a commit a couple of hours before the last big practice of the spring. Over the weekend, he’s talked a bit about his commit and why he pulled the trigger for the Huskers.

The Miami, Florida, prospect said that he felt quite a bit of love form Husker fans and coaches on his visits. “It made sense just to do it while I was up there again,” he told 247Sports. He also talked about the position he thinks he’ll be playing for Nebraska football, and he’s pretty darn excited about that as well.

Nebraska baseball gets another 2023 commit

The Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team managed to actually add another player from, the 2023 recruiting class. Dylan Hufft announced on Twitter that he’d pulled the trigger for Will Bolt’s boys.

Hufft took a redshirt at Kansas State in his freshman year but at Johnson County CC the next year he has hit .389 this year with 39 RBIs. The addition of the JUCO transfer means that the Huskers are going to have even a little more offense on a team that so far, has been the strength of the team, not counting the sweep to Iowa.

Other Nebraska Cornhuskers news

  • The Nebraska football team had another game move off of Saturday and will instead be played on Friday. The Illinois game, originally scheduled for October 7 has now been moved to October 6. That means three of the Huskers’ 12 regular season games won’t be on Saturday. They start the year on Thursday night against Minnesota, then Illinois’ game and then the Black Friday game against Iowa.
  • Matt Rhule has made it clear that he wants to provide opportunities for women in the Nebraska Cornhuskers program. Mitch Sherman of the Athletic recently wrote a piece about one woman that’s been given a heck of an opportunity with the university.