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I think most of these guys Nebraska has been linked to are just us doing our due diligence. You can never have enough talented players.

It's one thing for us to put these portal entries into context, but when a head coach does it......he just told the majority of his player they may as well transfer because they aren't important.

They've made reference in the past that the spring league has allowed more assistants to get accustomed to calling plays since White can't be everywhere at once. I don't know how much I'd read into this, but Rhule is not denying at all that White's time here is likely to be limited if this defense continues to have success. I have no doubt he has a backup plan whether that's promoting from within or getting someone else familiar with this scheme.

The professional leagues can impose the rules they do because the athletes are employees who have collective bargained those conditions. Neither of those are true in the case of collegiate athletics.

Even by that logic, naw man. If Deion was smart, he'd leverage a year or two of quality play at Colorado for a real school, in a real conference, where you get paid real money, but he aint doing that because he'd rather sit at home acting like he's playing fantasy football instead of being a real football coach. He just sitting there buying and selling guys like he don't even know them.

Remember when Dad went to get cigs and never came back? That's now your starting QB.

Unlike most of the ones on Day 1, I think these last two were less expected.

Many have long speculated the same, though some thought it would be for greener pastures. He does have more talent overall than a year ago, but it's an absolute circus over there at the moment.

I want Colorado to fail, not because it is Colorado and not because of Deion, but because I don't want to see this become the dominant method for team building. Colorado is the case study on how extreme you can take this method. That said, this wasn't that bad of a day for Colorado. A couple of these guys may have been contributors but it's mostly the group they expected to leave and Colorado will be very active in the portal this spring.

I like the videos in general, and I'm fine with spicing them up a bit from a narration angle, but I'm done with this controversy sub plot.

Iowa is so good they can win 10 games and still be the laughing stock of the sports world.

It's even worse than that sounds. Our long on the year was 8, and no one other than Billy and Ethan had one longer than 1. The punt return game was similar to the offense. Billy was the returner, but he was hurt a lot. We weren't even trying to return punts with him much of the time, instead just being content that he was going to catch the ball. At some point we just didn't even bother with a return game and opted to try blocking punts. Sounds like they're trying to develop some more options this year. The biggest thing you need in a punt returner, besides catching it, is the ability to make the first guy miss. Once that happens the blocking can develop and then you might have a chance at doing something.

If I can explain why Donovan is calling it 'lazy blocking' maybe that can illustrate why that's a bad idea. Imagine you're an offensive lineman and you've got your hands on the inside of the defenders pads so you can disguise your holding. Now try to slide your feet left or right. Your feet are connected to your legs which connects to your upper body which connects to your hands which are currently attached to a 300 lb man who doesn't necessarily want to slide left or right. If you slide your feet, your upper body and head aren't going to move with them and you'll get unbalanced. So, the remedy is to keep a wider base, minimize lower body movement, keep your head above your feet and try to do everything with just your upper body. That's 'lazy blocking'. Not only is it hard to make something as large as a 300 lb man do what you want with just your upper body strength, there are a lot of times an offensive lineman needs to be able to move. Plus, if you're keeping your hands inside to prevent the holding from being called, the defender can still move his shoulders and arms. Holding has its place and don't believe anybody that tells you any offensive lineman is never going to hold. There is a lot of value to what Donovan is saying about teaching 'knuckles up' vs 'thumbs up', and that's easy to illustrate. Hold your hands out in front of you knuckles up and see how easily you can manipulate objects. Now, try that with your thumbs up. With thumbs up, its easier to grab things but it's harder to do just about anything else. Would you rather them convert the punters?

I agree with that sentiment. Personally, I want to see Haarberg the most for the simple reason that his performance last year sets the baseline. I'm more interested in seeing how this passing game has improved than I am watching one guy throw everyone open. I guess I'm assuming if Haarberg can do it then the other two can, too, which isn't fair for me to say at all, but after seeing last year I don't think anyone would blame me.

Even for the time his numbering system was very simple. Back/Hole/Action where every back had a number, every gap had a number, and the action was play type, i.e. dive, iso, trap, option, etc. So the whole play would be that preceded by the formation and then could tag it with a motion call or an alternate blocking call or whatever they needed. Believe it or not, early Air Raid was the same sorta thing. The idea is that it makes it seem simple for your guys, more complex for the other team, and then you just rep the snot out of everything until you got it perfected.