Dana Holgorsen Hired as Offensive Coordinator

Savage Husker said:
To me, the exception for transfers like Trey Palmer is when the player follows a coach or the coach left the program where the kid exited, 
 

But I too hedge optimism for another transfer from a p5 school.
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As much as I agree on the percentage of portal guys that pan out compared to those who flame out.... this year, I thought we did pretty well.  Banks, Neyor were both solid, Wright contributed and made plays and wasn't Ben Scott a portal guy, anchor on OL and Dowdel was our power back.  Without any of these guys, we don't see a bowl game.

Furthermore, the day of recruiting HS kids and expecting them to "grow and develop" is over as we know it.  If they are don't contribute early, they leave.... if they play early and are good, you must retain them or they get poached.  As much as I absolutely hate it, we better get used to probably taking as many, if not more portal guys than HS recruits.... 

 
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HANC said:
As much as I agree on the percentage of portal guys that pan out compared to those who flame out.... this year, I thought we did pretty well.  Banks, Neyor were both solid, Wright contributed and made plays and wasn't Ben Scott a portal guy, anchor on OL and Dowdel was our power back.  Without any of these guys, we don't see a bowl game.
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Other than Dowdell they all had some level of prior production though, and I think that's more the point. The Corey Collier/Chief Borders/Jacob Hood type of guys who were highly ranked recruits but weren't seeing the field seem to have a lower success rate. 

 
Husker in WI said:
Other than Dowdell they all had some level of prior production though, and I think that's more the point. The Corey Collier/Chief Borders/Jacob Hood type of guys who were highly ranked recruits but weren't seeing the field seem to have a lower success rate. 
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Gotcha...makes sense

 
HANC said:
As much as I agree on the percentage of portal guys that pan out compared to those who flame out.... this year, I thought we did pretty well.  Banks, Neyor were both solid, Wright contributed and made plays and wasn't Ben Scott a portal guy, anchor on OL and Dowdel was our power back.  Without any of these guys, we don't see a bowl game.

Furthermore, the day of recruiting HS kids and expecting them to "grow and develop" is over as we know it.  If they are don't contribute early, they leave.... if they play early and are good, you must retain them or they get poached.  As much as I absolutely hate it, we better get used to probably taking as many, if not more portal guys than HS recruits.... 
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What sucks most about this is that all this will result in is a lower quality of football for us fans to watch. Offenses will be simplified to get younger players productive faster and it will literally turn into basketball on grass wherein the team with the most talent wins 99% of the time because there in no ability to run a complex offense or build complex strategies with available players because they aren't in systems long enough to mature.

 
HANC said:
As much as I agree on the percentage of portal guys that pan out compared to those who flame out.... this year, I thought we did pretty well.  Banks, Neyor were both solid, Wright contributed and made plays and wasn't Ben Scott a portal guy, anchor on OL and Dowdel was our power back.  Without any of these guys, we don't see a bowl game.

Furthermore, the day of recruiting HS kids and expecting them to "grow and develop" is over as we know it.  If they are don't contribute early, they leave.... if they play early and are good, you must retain them or they get poached.  As much as I absolutely hate it, we better get used to probably taking as many, if not more portal guys than HS recruits.... 
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I feel like the bold is how a program ends up where Florida State is. Gotta have a culture established with those that you pluck from HS and retain. The portal should be used to upgrade specific talent deficiencies. 

 
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NU will pay Holgorsen $1.2M in 2025.  Houston will still be paying him $3.3M.

NU will pay Holgorsen $1.2M in 2026 but his pay from Houston will drop to $1.56M.

 
Regardless of how strong you think our NIL is, one thing that’s been made very clear is that we fulfill our NIL promises. Casey Thompson said as much on the record. That’s a tremendous recruiting strength but it also requires a really thorough vetting process because it means former blue-chip recruits who never lived up to their potential could see us as one final paycheck.

That said, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to scoop a few players like that up. Where I think we should really live in the transfer portal though is in FCS all-American players as well as G5 all-conference players who are looking to improve their draft stock playing at a higher level. NDSU and South Dakota St have at least 2-4 players each year who could seriously raise our floor and one year rentals don’t scare off prep recruits. I think we missed Omar Brown defensively.

 
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