Bobby Newcombe’s players, the ones he coaches at Casteel High School in Arizona, sometimes ask him about his remarkable plays they watch on YouTube.
You know, the plays in which Newcombe deftly sidesteps one defender after another and outruns others to the end zone, as he did during his 94-yard punt return against Missouri in 2000.
However, Newcombe, now 38, typically redirects those Casteel players who ask him about his football prowess at Nebraska.
“I think what’s more important is them and where they’re at in their development and defining their own path and adding their own personality and style to the fundamentals I teach them,” said the former Husker quarterback and wingback, who last month became the interim head coach at the school in Queen Creek, 38 miles southeast of Phoenix.