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One starter each of the last two years. Plenty of other teams have starters transferring including the west division champions this year. Our situation is not different but the negative element to our fan base wants it to be.

You can consider Luke whatever you want, doesn't make it true. Kid was poised to be the backup to the backup QB and was not interested in moving into Wandale's spot nor anywhere else on offense. Farniok wasn't a starter and was never going to be.

IDK, off the top of my head, Northwestern lost some starters to the portal recently. They won the West...are they in some great disarray? To clarify, I don’t consider Luke a starter. He was a gimmick situational plug-in and backup QB. Could we have found a more productive use for him? We’ll never know because it wasn’t our choice. He wants to play QB and that wasn’t going to happen here. I don’t believe the Farniok that entered the portal was a starter. (I could be mistaken). Wandale was a loss but I’m convinced maybe a good one that will force the coaches to develope the whole offense better instead of catering to an undersized running back or a DuckR/Slot type receiver that the offense struggled to complete productive passes to. I actually believe our offense will be better off with the USC RB and Montana WR. Of course it would be nice to also still have Wandale but I believe our O will be healthier this way. Just one guy’s opinion....

Without starting up another dialogue on snapping, they made some adjustments after the Iowa game and snapping didn't appear to be an issue the rest of the season. Given that the top two backups at center left this offseason, Jurgens will be the starter. Any groaning over that will fall on deaf ears until the season starts.

Not that I have heard but, as Mavric mentions, we have a couple guys capable of the position with a little work. Cam will play on Sundays at the center position. He has improved his snapping considerably and blocks as well as anyone at that position, regardless of class. Martinez was in the top few in the nation in completion percentage last year. He consistently hit the targets that he was presented with and played within the system that he was being coached to. Not sure if you noticed, but we moved the ball pretty dang good most games this year when we didn't make silly mistakes. Penalties, and other mistakes hurt us. Lack of downfield passing threats hurt us. Lack of a healthy running back hurt us. As I stated in another thread, Martinez would look pretty damn good if the pieces around him were solid.

Forgot Austin Allen who was pretty solid for us when healthy this season. Vokolek showed some promise too. Could be a formidable group next year... Manning (6'4) Betts (6'2) Toure (6'3) Allen (6'8) Vokolek (6'6) Mix in: Fidone (6'5) Hickman (6'6) Martin (6'1) Grimes (6'3) Hardy (6'3) Neville (6'4) Speedy slot guys: Nixon (5'11) Houston (6'0) Brown (5'11) Nance (6'0) Obviously a lot to prove but they should at least be bigger targets for Adrian and they should have more success blocking on the perimeter again based on size alone. Hopefully the effort to block will match.

I agree. I do think though we have many key pieces on the roster. It is the staff's job to get them ready and on the field. Just a few names that have elite talent we just need to keep them healthy, get them mentally ready and on the field. 1. Omar Manning 2. Zavier Betts 3. Ronald Thompkins 4. New FCS All American transfer from Montana 5. Thomas Fidone 6. USC transfer RB 7. Many of our young OL players develop in the off season. I really think the pieces are here. Can the staff mold this talent to give us a team to be proud of this year.

I think maybe he is self aware enough to understand his faults and realize he's not head coach material. That's a total assumption nut definitely a possibility. That or he knows if he gets a job its probably a rebuild and he'd rather win as a DC instead of going through that

Republicans have no moral high ground at all.

It's really not that important... democracy and such.

The coaches and players didnt know Luke was looking to transfer. When he didnt come back from break, they thought maybe he got covid or something. Both coaches and players tried calling him and he wouldnt answer. He came back, grabbed his stuff and let the coaches know his decision.

I don't think our situation is really any different than others. For the most part, the starters we've lost are the equivalent of 2-3-4 stringers elsewhere. Obviously Spielman and Wan'dale stick out but what did Spielman accomplish elsewhere? And the jury is still out on WR. Reality is, our best have not been impressive elsewhere. I think that situation is slowly being rectified through recruiting but there is a reason our record has been what it has. So far we have had mid level talent and haven't made any strides towards developing it to a higher level. 90%+ of what we've lost to the portal can't, on an individual basis, really be considered a loss. I'd say, so far, our roster churn has been mostly a good thing. It's just a little painful when there is so much of it in a relatively short period of time.

Kyler Murray also turned out pretty well, but a lot of credit goes to Lincoln Riley in developing an offense which can utilize those transfer QBs so well.

List all the starters we've had go to the portal. It won't take you long.

Hows that stimulus deal that they promised would be passed within the first week coming along?

Dabo gives me Hugh Freeze vibes.

It's really not relevant to the discussion. What's relevant is what Russia was attempting to do with Trump. That said, the quote above isn't talking about NATO funding. It's talking about countries in NATO spending more on defense. Dozens of aides and people part of NATO have said that Trump wanted to exit, and he referred to it as obsolete in an interview. It's something he didn't accomplish. We also reduced our funding of NATO under Trump. He also said he wouldn't help aide the Baltic states if Russia attacked them unless they made their fair contributions. As far as defense spending goes:

He actually did start a game.

I wonder how many republicans put out a statement like this about Trump.

Thanks guys for the info. I must have missed that info while I was reading the truthful info they were putting out on Trump. the above cartoon post was one of those: If you can't dispute the truth, you discredit the messenger. In this case the LP as a whole and not the founder specifically who is no longer a part of LP

I’m guessing the DOJ would eventually have something to say about it

That is a me and not I teammate. Maybe what the high school coaches in CO said about him is true. The coaches said in high school said he was a jeerk quit often. Sounds like the kid will need a reality check of humility.

This is a pretty damning accusation. How confident are you that this actually happened this way? But in the end, gone is gone. Who cares how it went down? Go get 'em Smothers!

This is what I keep telling myself too. I'm hopeful for a more well rounded offense next year that utilizes skillsets of multiple players. I'm not gonna go crazy and say the offense will win a lot more games. But it will be nice to see a guy like Stepp used on 1st and goal from the 2 instead of Robinson, and sending taller WRS down the sidelines that can theoretically win some 50/50 balls and not have to use TE's for that. But then I wonder why that didn't happen to an extent this year... Who knows what 2021 will be, I just hope it's less s#!tty

Is it possible to discuss recent (or longer term) Husker Football happenings without being depressed? Just sayin'.

Yeah, 3 out of the 5 top examples everytime this is discussed (Mayfield, Murray, Hurts) all went to OU. Seems like the exception rather than the rule.

I guess you have never heard Trump negotiate anything in the last 30 some years. It’s even in his book. He threatens to take everything away as a negotiating tactic. Hence the, maybe US should leave NATO unless funding is more equitable soundbite. And that US funding line is waaaaaaayyyyy over there by the 3.5% mark. Funding and spending go hand in hand, so increased funding usually leads to increased spending. Unless you are the US government, then increased spending is independent of any funding. Trump helped Ukraine more than Obama in his eight years and opposed the Russia Germany oil line. Both things are not Russia approved. Russia didn’t do s#!t with Trump. It’s a cute Democrat talking point, but that’s as far as it goes. Go look back with clear eyes at what actions the Trump administration took against Russia and compare to what the Obama administration put into place in his eight years. Even outlets like CNN agree the Trump Admin was tougher on a Russia.

Wrong and wrong. The case is not weak. Just watch and decide with an open mind. Save four or five Republican senators none are willing to throw him under the bus because they know the crazies rule the party. That's why the likes of McCarthy, Graham, and McConnell flip flopped and are all now again gobble gobble knob knob on the little digit.

Cult of Trump in full operation snuff out opposition mode

The 130 FBS schools, 121 transferring QBs stat is really eye opening. So many guys greatly overestimating their own value as a football player. Everybody wants to be The Man, but the cold reality is that most of them never will be.

Trump was over a billion in debt and the Russians bailed him out. ► Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump's real estate, but evolved into something far bigger. ► In 1984, David Bogatin — a convicted Russian mobster and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. (NY Times, Apr 30, 1992) ► Felix Sater is a Russian-born former mobster, and former managing director of NY real estate conglomerate Bayrock Group LLC located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Michael Cohen--Trump's former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob. This goes back more than 30 years. ► Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Bayrock (mentioned above). Bayrock was run by two investors: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and poured money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management. ► In July 2008, the height of the housing bust, Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. Again, this was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value. ► Semion Mogilevich was the brains behind the Russian Mafia. Mogilevich operatives have been using Trump real estate for decades to launder money. That means Russian Mafia operatives have been part of his fortune for years. Many of them owned condos in Trump Towers and other properties. They were running operations out of Trump's crown jewel. ► So many Russians bought Trump apartments at his developments in Florida that the area became known as Little Moscow. The developers of two of his hotels were Russians with significant links to the Russian mob. The late leader of that mob in the United States, Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, was living at Trump Tower. ► According to a Bloomberg investigation (3/16/2017) into Trump World Tower, “a third of units sold on floors 76 through 83 by 2004 involved people or limited liability companies connected to Russia and neighboring states.” ► In 2013, Federal agents busted an “ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring” run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. They operated card games, illegal gambling websites, and a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” connected to Semion Mogilevich. ► The Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. That is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have been operating out of the home of the president of the United States is deeply disturbing. ► Rudy Giuliani famously prosecuted the Italian mob while he was a federal prosecutor, yet the Russian mob was allowed to thrive. Now he's deeply entwined in the business of Trump and Russian oligarchs. Giuiani appointed Semyon Kislin to the NYC Economic Development Council in 1990, and the FBI described Kislin as having ties to the Russian mob. Of course, it made good political sense for Giuliani to get headlines for smashing the Italian mob. ► A lot of Republicans in Washington are implicated. Boatloads of Russian money went to the GOP--often in legal ways. The NRA got as much as $70M from Russia, then funneled it to the GOP. The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee lead by McConnell got millions from Leonard Blavatnik. In the 90s, the Russians began sending money to top GOP leaders, like Speaker of the House Tom Delay. Craig Unger's book alleges that most of the GOP leadership has been compromised by RU money. ► At the Cityscape USA’s Bridging US and the Emerging Real Estate Markets Conference held in Manhattan, on September 9, 10, and 11, 2008, Donald Trump Jr. was frank about the tide of Russian money supporting the family business, saying "...And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." ► Eric Trump told golf reporter James Dodson in 2014 that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” ► It's believed that Russian oligarchs co-signed Trump’s Deutsche bank loans. Credit redditor erikannen

Yes, didn't I imply just that? And that's a blanket statement that can easily be said about Democrats. It's buzz word mud slinging. If that's your platform more power to ya.

https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?400414-1/president-obama-statement-keystone-xl-pipeline&popoutPlayer

I know farmers here in Fillmore County whose fields it would have directly run through

Not as big of part as some people try to make it.

Real-life football isn't Madden. You don't just bring in a new system or coach or playbook and everybody gets it right away; these things take months and years of teaching. Lots of people are great at getting on the white board and scheming stuff up, but scheming stuff up is maybe 25 percent of the battle; the other 75 percent of it is the logistics of teaching 50+ teenagers the system. The more base stuff is already installed, the more fine details you can teach them. We should all be hoping for continuity. Also Tom Herman is a giant dbag.

Haha

Also, I said stupid or brainwashed. It's a big difference from "and." The point was you can be smart and brainwashed. I know people who are really smart in other ways and I feel they're brainwashed when it comes to Trump.

This kind of talk is a bit obnoxious, btw. knapp is often critical about the left/DNC. He made a post about something s#!tty they were doing in the past couple days.

You're talking as if no federal coordination, a s#!tty federal response, and a president actively refuting the science are things no one has any control over and would be the reality regardless of who is president, when it fact the president is a big factor in all 3 of those things.

The bolded is a pretty terrible take, and I think you should think about why.

Are you calling Obama racist too?

That is said a lot but I'm not sure it's really true. Suh's national prominence really took off his senior year (2009). By that time the recruiting for the Class of 2010 was on the downhill finish. In 2011, we got four-star Todd Peat, he just didn't work out. In 2012 we got four-star Greg McMullen (solid but not spectacular), Vincent Valentine (NFL), and Avery Moss (NFL). In 2013 we got Randy Gregory (not quite the same position but still DL) and Maliek Collins (NFL). So in the three classes after Suh we got four NFL guys and two more four-stars. That seems like pretty good success. I think when people say that they are basically saying we didn't get another Suh. But that's a pretty unrealistic expectation.

Ha ha touché, but absolutely not. The only time I've ever seen a game in Manhattan is when T-Magic ran all over them as a freshman, and I was treated terribly by K-State fan under 50. With that being said, I live in SEK and it seems to me that a lot of people in KS have a lot of faith in K-State and Klieman. I definitely want Nebraska to get every kid out of Ks that is highly ranked, we missed out on a several in the last 10 years that have went on to become very good ball players at other schools