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Steven M. Sipple: Verduzco strives to exude calm as his young guns prepare for Big House

Not all has been calm lately on the Nebraska football front, especially in the quarterback realm.

“You don’t want to get caught up in the emotion of anything, whether it’s too high or too low," says Verduzco, the Husker quarterbacks coach who has a professorial manner and four decades in the coaching business. "You come to work and you prepare to get your guys ready to go for the opponent at hand.

He has a saying: You plan your work and work your plan. But Nebraska’s grand plan entering the 2018 season didn’t involve backup quarterback Tristan Gebbia blindsiding the coaching staff by transferring to Oregon State before a single game was played.