Once again, the Wolf Pack put on a very entertaning Silver and Blue spring game this year. While the offense put together a great second half to win, there were plenty of great plays on both of the ball made by a number of new faces. Silver and Blue Sports photographer Mark Rauh caught the action, including this shot of Nevada offensive line coach and run game coordinator Cameron Norcross getting his team fired up.
Silver and Blue Sports briefly caught up with Nevada defensive backs Ty Thompson, Khalid Wooten and Thad Brown following this year’s annual Silver and Blue spring game. Thompson, Wooten and Brown are all juniors that pushed hard this spring for starting jobs, with the latter two aiming for one of the starting corner jobs and the other hoping to line up at nickel. Thompson, who arrived from Bakersfield College prior to the spring semester, is hoping to wrestle the starting free safety position away. Read more »
The weather, which just three days ago cancelled a Nevada practice due to high winds, couldn’t have been better in Reno on Saturday afternoon. The annual Silver and Blue game was the perfect blend of weather, activities and football. Silver and Blue Sports photographer Mark Rauh was at Mackay Stadium to catch all the action, including this shot of new sophomore linebacker Jon McNeal wrapping up redshirt-freshman Cody Fajardo.
Silver and Blue Sports briefly caught up with Nevada head coach Chris Ault and Wolf Pack sophomore running back Stephon Jefferson after this year’s annual Silver and Blue spring game. Ault spoke about Jefferson’s ability at the tailback position, plus the fall return of upperclassmen Lampford Mark, a senior, and Mike Ball, a junior.
With the Nevada football team taking the field at Mackay Stadium in front of the Wolf Pack faithful for the first time since the dramatic overtime victory against Boise State, it was clear that this team has a new look in the annual Silver and Blue spring game. The Silver squad (offense) overcame a slow start against the boys in Blue (defense) to win the spring game, 73-57, in a game featuring a modified scoring format that led to the high scoring affair.
When you talk about rushing the football over the past three seasons in college football, things start and stop with the University of Nevada. Featuring the Pistol offense, no program has rushed for more yards, carried for a higher average or set as many notable records as the Wolf Pack. Chris Ault’s downhill rushing attack is the only program in college football to pile up more than 12,000 yards over the past 3 seasons.
For the past four seasons, every Wolf Pack fan knew that the college career of Colin Kaepernick, one of the greatest players in college football history, was going to end. That’s just the nature of the game. Freshmen turn to seniors at some point. Thankfully, his career ended in spectacular fashion, with Kaepernick also paving the way for future Nevada quarterbacks on his way to the NFL. Though the bar has been set very high, Nevada has a strong and unique offensive system in place that has also shown an amazing amount of flexibility in utilizing a player’s individual strengths.
With Nevada’s annual Silver and Blue game on tap this weekend, plus the late signing period for Nevada basketball on the doorstep Spring is most definitely in the air. The competition at Wolf Pack Park has been intense, with players at numerous positions all trying to make an impression on Chris Ault and his staff, and perhaps claim a starting job in 2011. Additionally, Wolf Pack hoops, out on the recruiting trail, continues to eyeball a number of prospects and transfers with the hope of bringing just a pair of them to Reno.
As I write this, Bryan Stow, a 42-year-old paramedic from Santa Cruz is blissfully unaware that his allotted fifteen minutes have begun to run. They waste away while he lies comatose, six hours from home, in a hospital near Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. He deserved this, of course, strictly because his New Era cap is woven with thread that is Orange & Black.
Entering the 2008 season, there were no players on the entire Nevada roster who had played a down of cornerback in major college football. It was a brutal fact for a team, which also featured a first-year secondary coach in James Ward that year, who faced a daunting schedule against pass-happy programs like Texas Tech and Missouri, just to name a few. Fast-forward three years, coming off a year where they put together a Top 40 ranked defensive backfield in pass efficiency defense to help Nevada go 13-1, you’ll see talent on top of talent.
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