Micah Mazzccua, a lineman from Florida, has announced his move to Nebraska.
On Wednesday, Nebraska bolstered its offensive line depth by obtaining a commitment from Florida offensive lineman Micah Mazzccua through the transfer portal.
The guard made his decision to join Nebraska for his last collegiate season known on social media.
Mazzccua transferred from Baylor this past season, and he played for the Gators for a season. In 11 of the 12 games played by the Gators last season, he started at right guard. In 2023, he played 743 snaps for the Gators in all.
The Huskers had been involved with Mazzccua’s recruitment last offseason, with the lineman ultimately opting to transfer to Florida.
Before his lone season with the Gators, Mazzccua was a two-year starter at Baylor. He was viewed as a high-level run-blocker from the left guard position, ranking ninth among Power 5 guards with a 78.5 run-blocking score in the 2022 season. He also recorded 14 big-time blocks that season, according to Pro Football Focus, which was tied for second among all guards nationally.
While there was some though Mazzccua was likely to head to the NFL Draft, he will instead enter the portal looking for a new home. He had teased intentions of entering the portal during the spring earlier this year, but later deleted his tweet saying he would do so. He instead stayed and played through the year with the Gators.
He was ranked as the No. 108 ranked interior offensive lineman in the 2020 recruiting class out of Baltimore (MD) St. Frances Academy.
From game-time decision to a near triple-double for Brice Williams
The veteran came up big for the Huskers on a day that began with him doubtful if he’d even play.
No practice reps, no problem.
Brice Williams just made it look like that. It sure seemed a problem when he woke up Tuesday morning, having not participated in a practice since rolling his ankle late in Saturday’s game against Wisconsin.
“I’ve been in the training room more than I’ve been in my apartment the last couple days,” Williams said after Nebraska’s 88-72 win over No. 1 Purdue.
“This is true,” chimed in Rienk Mast.
Williams said he felt like he “couldn’t let the guys down” and he wanted to play in a game like this.
“Because I haven’t ever experienced it. It was so electric in there. The energy was out of this world,” Williams said. “I’m glad I didn’t miss it. I just wanted to be there with my teammates and we all work hard. I can fight through a little bit of pain for them. It takes everybody to win, it’s not just one person. We leaned on each other tonight.”
Everyone who stepped on the floor made a big contribution at some point in Nebraska’s upset win that caught the attention of the college basketball world and vaulted NU to 13-3 overall and 3-2 in the Big Ten, with a monster win on its resume that could mean a whole lot a couple months from now.
Williams knows there’s still a lot of work to do, but no question this is a game he’ll still be remembering as an old man.
A game in which he almost had a triple double – with nine points, 11 rebounds, nine assists, two steals and two blocks. That includes swatting Purdue’s 7-4 Zach Edey at the rim in the finishing minutes. He played almost 30 minutes.
Here’s the thing: Williams was considered a game-time decision and that wasn’t just gamesmanship by Fred Hoiberg.
“This morning, actually I was a little stiff. It was hurting. I was limping to the bathroom in the morning. I actually thought I wasn’t going to play,” Williams said. “But after my first treatment and after I got out on the court, I was like, ‘OK, it’s not hurting too bad.’ Really the tape is what was bothering me more than my foot. And then once the adrenaline started going, it was wrapped – I was good.”
Quite good.
The 6-7 junior who arrived as a transfer from Charlotte came up huge defensively and on the boards, but also hit a critical 3-pointer when the shot clock was winding down late in the second half on a possession that didn’t appear to have a lot of steam.
It was his turn to hit a big shot on a night when the Huskers shared in those moments.
“That’s what’s going to make us hard to stop as the season goes on,” Williams said. “We have a lot of experience. We have old and young guys, which is good. But we’re so deep, we’re so talented. Shooting off the charts. It’s just like, ‘you can’t stop it.’ It can be anybody’s night. That’s what you saw out there tonight and that’s what you’re going to see as the season goes on.
Alabama lost Nick Saban to retirement, leaving North Carolina’s Mack Brown as the only active college football coach among the top 10 in career wins. Below is a look at the careers of the two hall of famers and the rest of the 10 winningest coaches of all time, a list that features some of the game’s greatest innovators, biggest personalities and strongest leaders.
“It all goes back to helping the players, but individual players being successful makes the team more successful,” Saban said of what it takes to be a great coach. “Everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.”
In the 155-year history of college football, just 18 coaches have won 200+ career games, while only four have won more than 300. Only one has crossed the 400-win threshold.