Heinrich Haarberg

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So good to have you with us. We get on
the sports brief now this will be the Husker Buzz edition.
Sean Callahan, Liaman Lincoln Rose from spring practice, and there's
big buzz about Heinrich Harberg at tight end, uh, which
is great for Heinrich Harberg. I mean, he seems like
a really capable athlete. It's certainly a physical guy. I
don't know that he's much of a passer that that way,
but putting this guy on the field, and where do

(00:21):
you see his role as more than just somebody who
catches short passes. What do you see out of Heinrich Harberg?
What's your crystal ball tell you about him?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Shano, Well, he's one of the best overall athletes on
the team, and he turns a miles per hour. He's
one of the fastest guys, and he can explode, he
can run, he's big, he's physical, and and he's found
a found a spot that that that fits him. I
think now where obviously quarterback was not an option and
and they're able to utilize his athletic ability and Dana

(00:50):
Holgerson really sold it to him. He's like, look, I
think you can be a tight end at the next
level if you commit to this. So he's you know,
kind of redeveloped his body a little bit to make
the fit it. And he told me yesterday and I
asked he hadn't thrown a football since the Iowa Week,
and you know, he said, he finds himself doing doing
the QP footwork just on the on his own at

(01:10):
home because he had done it for so many years.
I mean he went to quarterback training camps all the
way back to when he was a young kid in Denver,
Colorado and Oklahoma and all over the country to work
with different QB coaches and and now he's made this
move and I think it's going to give his best
shot to be a contributor and have a shot to

(01:30):
play the next level.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
And that's probably how they sold it to him. Look, son,
you have a chance to play at the next level,
it just ain't going to be at this position. And uh,
he embraced it, which is nice to see. And as
a Nebraska kid, I would hope that this would rub
off on some of the imports.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, that's that's what you hope, because it is when
you have a guy that started games at quarterback and
just to have him sit that's an athlete like him.
It's a hard thing and and you want to sell.
But there aren't a lot of guys Jim either, that
can just make a position move and be successful at it.
It's just not easy yet to be an elite athlete.
Usually when you move a guy a position, it's kind

(02:11):
of like the first step on the way out the
door for a lot of guys because they're not making
that position A. You try position B, and it's pretty tough.
Harberg is a rare exception that he's able to be
in the spot. And it also worked out that Thomas
Fadoni declared early for the NFL, Nate Borgacier transferred to
Texas A, and m Carter Nelson had an off season surgery.

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So he's got a real clear path to reps with
the number one offense along with Luke Linnenmeyer as kind
of the two main tight ends going through spring ball
right now, what is.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Your impression so far from visiting with the guys, What
is your impression of how they have wrapped their arms
around Holgerson's philosophies and some of his schemes.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, he's kept the terminology and a lot of the
system the same. He just kind of put his spin
on it. So it's not a complete change of the
world here for these kids and the coaches for that matter,
but he's put his touch on it and his style
into it with the verbage they've already had in this system.

(03:14):
So it's been seamless from that. And Dana has said
many times, this is not the air rate. I mean
a year ago, Nebraska is a fifty one percent run
forty nine past team, and you know, I would imagine
it's going to be similar again. They know they have
to run the football. You know, they're there are sixty
five snap a game type offense and in that number,

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you're going to have abound thirty thirty five runs a game,
and you've got to be effective as an offense. But
also the blocking on the perimeter and the rhythm and
Dylan Ryola getting the ball out quick, not holding it
too long. I mean, there were a lot of things
that cause issues for this offense a year ago before
Dana got here. Got it.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Sean thanks for check back frequently through spring practice.