#7 Kody Spano
So • QB • 6-2 • 210 lbs
| Hometown: | STEPHENVILLE, TX |
| Previous School: | Stephenville |
Buckeyes Face Familiar Decision
<font size="2">A year ago Bo Pelini faced a decision. Should he start the season with the veteran Zac Lee or bet on the athleticism of the younger Taylor Martinez? Early on, it seemed that Nebraska had pretty clearly made the right decision. Then, injuries to Lee made the choice irrelevant. …
Who Will Be QB in 2012?
This year's class has been touted by the major recruiting services as a strong one for Nebraska due to offensive line and secondary positions. But an important fact in the rankings is that the Huskers have offered scholarships to two of the top quarterbacks in the country. When Jamal Turner …
Not to Jinx it but...
When Bo Pelini came to Nebraska as head coach after the 2007 season, one of the things he sought to do was to change the culture. "Culture" is an encompassing term that covers a lot of territory, but you'd certainly imagine that it included putting an end to any sense of …
Underclassmen Make Strides to Impact Team
So it's apparently never too early for 2011 draft talk, as SI's Andrew Perloff and ESPN's Todd McShay have decided. With McShay believing that Jared Crick will be leaving early as a Junior next year. Looking at Nebraska's roster, there are 25 seniors and 24 juniors on the roster this year, …
Nebraska's Quarterback Continuum
Spring football taught Nebraska fans two things. First, Nebraska confirmed that it is committed to having some sort of quarterback running game in its offense. Next, the battle for those snaps at quarterback involves three players – Zac Lee, Cody Green, and Taylor Martinez. Those are the only real facts anyone …
Players You Won't See Saturday
A team usually likes to make it through spring practice without having to worry about injury, but that's usually just a pipe dream. The roster for this weekend will probably be published today or tomorrow with a full list of who's wearing red and who's wearing white, but it probably won't …
Spring Roundtable
At Big Red Network, we just love to talk Husker football. We're football nerds, really. And our editorial staff is seperated by a pretty good distance. So, a lot of our discussion happens over the phone and e-mail. With spring football starting today, we took a moment to discuss some of …
Spring Themes: Battle to Be the Backup
Nebraska's second season, Spring Football, is set to arrive this week. Few other places could follow 14 practices and a scrimmage as intently as in Nebraska. There will be a lot worth watching for Husker fans. You could consider the larger issues to be the themes for the spring period. So, …
Watson Interview Gives Clues to 2010
Nebraska offensive coordinator Shawn Watson was interviewed recently by the Omaha World Herald's Tom Shatel and some interesting nuggets came out. The big one being that Watson and head coach Bo Pelini spent two days with athletic director Tom Osborne and former offensive line coach Milt Tenopir to understand what they …
The Real Class of 2010
While much of the focus these past few weeks has been on the players who were new to the team this year. It makes sense. Once the season's over fans naturally focus on what's next. But the newest signees aren't the only thing new for the 2010 Huskers. What's also new …
Jamal Turner Looks the Part
Nebraska fans have spent months fretting over the quarterback position. Zac Lee was too shaky. Cody Green was too inaccurate. And there wasn't a clear successor in the 2010 recruiting class. But the commitment of Jamal Turner should ease some of the longer term concerns about the position. The stat that …
Will Recent Recruits Silence the Naysayers?
In recent weeks and months there's been a lot of chatter that Nebraska was "behind" in recruiting due to the relatively small number of commitments to NU and the many commitments to programs like Texas. The clamor rose to almost outright panic by some factions of Husker fans with the decommitments …
Finding Fresh Faces
Not too long ago, my esteemed BRN colleague Brandon took a shot a figuring out who the freshman contributors that Bo Pelini mentioned my just be. Today, after the knowledge that comes following a dozen practices, we can see more clearly which of the young players are starting to emerge. …
With Spano out, Nebraska suddenly looks pretty Green at QB
Are you ready for the Cody Green era to begin? With the news yesterday of Kody Spano's season ending knee injury--the same knee he had injured in the spring--Nebraska fans were left asking themselves that question: Who do you want backing up Zac Lee? A converted linebacker or a true freshman? …
Implications of Injury Updates
Among the most meaningful components of Big 12 Media Days are the injury updates. Three in particular stand out for Nebraska. Redshirt freshman quarterback Kody Spano is apparently 100% healthy after some knee issues that caused him to miss time in the spring. Offensive tackle Jaivorio Burkes will miss the 2009 …
"Hype Season" Begins for 2009
At Big Red Network, we are fond of saying that there is no offseason. In fact, our site is rather based around the fact that football never stops. But, we all know that teams are not always playing games, right? So, we have the regular season, the post season, Spring football, …
Paulus to Syracuse - That's Just Fine, Thanks
It's official, Greg Paulus is going to try and play football at Syracuse. He picked the Orange over Nebraska. While I wish the young man well, his choice is just fine by me. For a lot of reasons the Huskers hosting a one-year quarterback prospect just didn't seem right.
Quarterbacks Produce in Spring Game
Saturday’s scrimmage had the potential to be an ugly game. You had a quarterback with no starting experience and two more without even Spring game experience. Add to that two partial offense lines and some missing offensive talent (Niles Paul, Roy Helu, Kody Spano, Jaivorio Burkes) and things could have been …
Absent Key Players, Opportunity Knocks for Backups
It's a good thing that most Nebraska football fans appreciate watching the running game or quality play along the line of scrimmage. The absence of some important skill position players will likely change the complexion of Saturday's Red-White Spring Game. Fans are even more likely to see a defensive contest, I …
Spano’s Time to Shine
They say no football player is more popular than the backup quarterback. And Beau Davis aside, that’s often been the case. In Nebraska’s 1997 national championship season, fans famously chanted for backup QB Frankie London. Starter Scott Frost went on to become one of the first dozen players in college football …
Loss of Witt Not Trivial
The Lincoln Journal-Star's Steve Sipple wrote a nice piece about why NU quarterback Patrick Witt left. In short, Witt was threatening to transfer to another school if Bo Pelini would not name a starting quarterback at the end of Spring practice. Rather than allow Witt to dictate the terms of a …
Assumptions About Nebraska to Color Every Off-Season Conversation: Quarterback Play
Every 2009 prediction you see from now until July for Nebraska is going to be based largely on the measureables. How many starters are returning? Who do they have to replace and are there legitimate candidates in place to do that? When they lost, did they lose close or lose big …
Inconclusive Evidence: Number Nine, Nashville, New QBs & Night Football
It's February and it's horrible. No need to contribute much more to the mass of already existing literature out there on this pariah month for the sports fan. Signing day is over, spring practice hasn't started and you're more than likely getting, recovering or suffering from some sort of sickness. That's …
A War Is Coming
Granted our country is already at war, you might even say two wars, but in Husker football terms, I'm talking about the battle for the starting quarterback job next spring. It's hard to think of the last time Nebraska went into spring football with four viable starting quarterback candidates.
The Importance of Quarterback Depth
The recent verbal commitment of quarterback recruit Cody Green got me considering the Husker roster at that position. While it is nice to see this sort of talented and high-profile recruit come in to the picture, he's still a long ways from taking the field dressed in scarlet and cream. More …
Position Breakdowns: Quarterbacks
Outlook: The Huskers find themselves in familiar territory. For the third straight year they'll have a senior quarterback with starting experience with some young guns to develop behind him for the future.
Early Recruiting Gets Interesting
Most of the recruiting of Nebraska's class of 2009 is still to be done. However, the early offers that the Huskers have reportedly made (per Scout.com) give an indication of what may lay ahead. In particular there have been a few patterns among the early offers that are worth noting. …
Chaos Theory
Chaos theory tells us the flutter of a butterfly's wings in one part of the world could cause a Hurricane a thousand miles away. That is, the cumulative effect of many small tipping points can ultimately be the difference between a mild storm off the coast and a massive event. Similarly, …
Sour Grapes for 2008
You don't need a PhD in to psychology to realize that if Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert had remained committed to Nebraska, Husker fans (and bloggers) would be praising him to high heaven. And yet, despite the five stars bestowed on him by Rivals.com (and their rating of him as the top …
The Class of 2008 Comes Together
The Huskers recruiting class of 2008 might be remembered as much for whom it didn't include as for who it did. Among the decommits were five-star quarterback Blaine Gabbert, four-star running back Jonas Gray, four-star offensive linemen Trevor Robinson, Bryce Givens, and Dan Hoch, four-star linebacker Shaun Mohler, and five-star defensive …
Spano Commits
As many Husker fans had expected, Texas quarterback Kody Spano gave his commitment to Nebraska this weekend and will enroll almost immediately for the spring semester.
Spano to Visit
Kody Spano, a high school quarterback prospect out of Texas is set to visit Nebraska this weekend. Rivals.com rates him as the seventh best dual-threat quarterback nationally and gives him three stars out of a possible five.
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- Big 12 Commissioner's Fall Academic Honor Roll (2009)
- Big 12 Commissioner's Spring Academic Honor Roll (2008, 2010)