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This week, ESPNU wired Nebraska's Carl Pelini for sound at a Husker football practice, so it can give fans an inside look at a defensive coordinator whose team led the nation in 2009 in scoring defense.
For fans that prefer an expanded view of the Blackshirts, you're in luck. Carl Pelini is the featured speaker at Nebraska's first Walk-On Club Luncheon of the season at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 26, at Lincoln Station in downtown's Haymarket District.
The deadline to to make your reservations to attend that luncheon is 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20.
The quickest way to secure a reservation is to make it online at Huskers.Donornetpac.com or by contacting Kiley Abdouch in the Nebraska Athletic Department by phone (402-472-0795)
Pelini will give his view on the 2010 Huskers and focus his comments on the Huskers' current and newest walk-ons as well as the Blackshirts. Tickets cost $20 each. Fans can also reserve a table of eight for $160.
Future luncheons will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 29 and Thursday, Dec. 9, both at 11:30 a.m. at the Lincoln Station, and fans can reserve a table for all three luncheons for $450, a $30 discount.
Register online: Click here to register at Huskers.Donornetpac.com (click on Special Events)
Register by mail: Click here for the reservation form.
Fans can also join the Walk-On Club at the Season Kickoff Event on Wednesday, Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at The Club at Indian Creek in Elkhorn, Neb.
Jeff Jamrog, Nebraska's assistant athletic director in charge of football operations, and Brandon Rigoni, an assistant strength coach, will give fans special insight into the walk-on program and this year's team. Jamrog and Rigoni both walked on and played at Nebraska.
Hors d'oeuvres and dessert will be served at the Elkhorn Season Kickoff Event. Tickets cost $10 each, and reservations must be made by Wednesday, Aug. 25.
Register by mail: Click here for the reservation form.
These events are presented by the Walk-On Club, a football booster club that helps support the Nebraska Football Walk-On Program by providing funds to go toward the program's recruiting and operating costs, and funds a postgraduate scholarship for a former Nebraska Football walk-on.
For an annual $100 donation, fans will receive invitations to a Spring Football Practice Event and other club events that include monthly in-season e-newsletters, early invitations to the Walk-On Club Luncheons and more!