Great Weekend: Wehrle Dismissed, Purify Arrested

by Jon Johnston on May 7, 2007 9:22 AM CDT in CN News

Husker baseball player Ryan Wehrle becomes the second Husker baseball player dismissed this year after Mike Harmelink was dismissed for alcohol-related issues last week.

Wehrle started the season as a pre-season All-American, but never played close to that level this season.

After having several problems, head coach Mike Anderson made the decision to dismiss him.

Wehrle was taken out Friday night after flying out and did not play in Saturday's loss to Coastal Carolina. Husker Extra had these comments from Wehrle:

Reached Sunday evening, Wehrle said Anderson had criticized him for not playing hard on Friday. The two talked briefly again on Saturday, but Wehrle said he came away confused about why he was being dismissed.

If you're confused about why you're dismissed, isn't it clear that you weren't paying close enough attention in the first place?

Wehrle was an 18th-round draft pick of the Cincinnati Reds last year, but opted to come back to the Huskers. After this season, it's doubtful he'll be drafted at all.

In other wonderful news, Maurice Purify was arrested over the weekend on assault charges. He was charged with suspicion of assault, trespassing, failure to comply and resisting arrest.

Arggh!!!!!!

In summary:

Nebraska went 0-2 against Coastal Carolina
Ryan Wehlre, pre-season All-American was dismissed from the baseball team
Maurice Purify, star wide receiver, gets arrested on assault charges

Who would have thought that the first weekend in May would be so crappy for the Huskers?

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Not only that...

but the 2009 schedule was released this week and NU has joined the Sun Belt conference. Wow are going places now. Maybe now Pederson and Callahan can win a conference championship. Whats that, we aren't joining the SBC? Oh we are just playing all the crappy teams in that conference. Well shoot, so much for a conference championship. At least Callahan should have us above .500 when we start conference play.

by taflorom on May 7, 2007 12:27 PM CDT reply actions

wow!

man, did you man to be this cynical today?

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on May 8, 2007 9:10 AM CDT up reply actions

Yes

this schedule is crap. I am tired of hearing how TO did the same thing. Go back and look at the record books and show me where we played this crappy of an out of conference schedule. This is a bunch of BS. I hope we dont start scheduling like this every year. If we do lets change our colors to purple and silver. (sorry it took so long to respond but this is the busiest time of year for me at work what with graduation and Memorial Day going on everything has to look perfect.)

by taflorom on May 13, 2007 2:09 AM CDT up reply actions