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God if we can get some receivers making plays down the field, the offense is going to explode.

Where's Nebraska55fan to offer some clarity to this situation?

Some posters on here might explode too if you catch my drift

Must..keep..anti..Kool-aid stance that he is known for….f#&% OHH YEAH

Are some of you surprised we don’t have proven depth behind a 4 year starter? Others that couldn’t beat him out left. Welcome to college football for the last dozen years. I’d say Smothers will be more than adequate.

At Rutgers.....that won 3 games last year and lost to Nebraska. I fail to see how Vedral is an example of inability to manage a roster. He had his chance to play and he was clearly not the answer here.

We've only won 16 games the last four years. Safe to assume our normal uniforms are cursed too.

We had approximately zero guys who could run a route and make a catch like that last year. I just drank a cup of koolaid.

You say Ohio State has multiple players with QB experience? Ohio State's top 2 QB's entering the 2021 season are CJ Stroud and Jack Miller (not including Quinn Ewers). Both are redshirt freshmen entering this season and have combined for ZERO attempted passes in their college careers. Wow, that's some awesome QB experience that Ohio State has returning.

Bringing in Vedral and letting him leave were both clearly mistakes by Frost. Seems pretty easy to understand

So, you’re ignoring the fact my other reason was to add depth. He was a player who knew the system and could run it from day one. That’s quality depth from day one. But, you tend to ignore that part. All you’re doing is stretching for a reason to complain.

I've seen him catch a lot of errant, off-target snaps; he might have the best hands on the team.

Was Vedral a wasted scholarship when he played snaps as (including a start) as a backup QB in 2019? After that, he left NU to become a starter at another school. I would love to have Vedral, but Vedral wanted a place to start, and he found that at Rutgers. I fail to see how NU mismanaged the Vedral situation.

I will start, I miss (now, at the time I hated it) my mom making meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy and some corn. Of course, had to put ketchup on the meatloaf.

I'm not. I don't know the answers. That's why I'm asking you. But you don't seem interested in explaining your reasoning.

Vedral wanted to try and play at Nebraska. Frost offered him to come back to NU, compete for the job, and see where it went. If the NCAA didn't screw up his transfer season in 2018, Vedral would have been a solid back-up that season. In 2019, Vedral was the main backup for Martinez, and played a decent amount of games when Martinez was injured. How is that mismanaging a scholarship, unless you think Vedral was worth only a walk-on spot to be a backup?

So, any time a QB doesn’t like his spot on the depth chart, it’s the coaches fault because of mismanaging the room?

lol.. there is plenty of vaccine out there. we have reports of it going to waste because no one uses it. don't sell us that bravado about doing it for others and admit you are afraid of the shot Bryson.

Have fun tackling him in the 4th quarter.

Vedral was a good backup the staff brought in who was going to be third-string and transferred for a starting opportunity. Can you explain what you think our coaches did wrong there? Are you suggesting they be like: "No, Noah, we need you to turn down this chance to start to stay here in case our first two QBs get hurt." QBs transfer when they don't get the chance to play. That's college football in 2021 for better or worse.

The top OL group still seemed to be Corcoran, Piper, Jurgens, Sichterman and Benhart. Bando also rotating in at LT.

https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22456544/covid-19-mask-mandates-lockdown-debate-evidence And yet, looking at the case and death numbers since the coronavirus pandemic began, it’s not obvious which states were cautious and which were not. New York, the original epicenter of the outbreak, has endured the second most deaths per capita behind New Jersey (271 per 100,000). Florida and Texas, despite much criticism of their laissez-faire approaches, rank right in the middle among states (26th and 24th, respectively) in the number of deaths per 100,000 people. California fared only marginally better, sitting at 30th. The one Covid-19 intervention that definitely worked was mask mandates.The evidence on lockdowns may be dicey, but the science on masks is clear: They work. Even experts I spoke with who think harsh lockdowns may have been counterproductive say indoor mask mandates were clearly effective.

I've been wrong about a lot of things in my life (zips up fanny pack), but I feel like I'm going to be right about this. Watching the spring game, he's the most complete back we have...then Morrison and Yant. Stepp gets a pass because I haven't seen him in our offense. Ervin is our next great RB at Nebraska, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

I hear they're moving AM to receiver this year because some of us on the board are unhappy with his development. I hope you're happy.

Scott Frost shouldn't be blamed for passing on Joe Burrow. That's pure hindsight. Quarterback development has been a concern given the first three seasons of the Frost era. These two statements get to live together in the same world.

I personally feel that if it was illegality that he was worried about, it would have been leaked far before now. Rather, I think he is such a narcissist that he cannot bear to have it become public that he isn't even worth (gasp) a billion dollars.

Holy hell did this turn into a train wreck.

To be clear, it is entirely unacceptable to suggest Kevin Warren quit as commissioner and go off to get another "diversity person position." The implication there is quite obvious. It doesn't matter if you think his race played a role in his hiring as B1G commissioner. He is a college educated attorney who has worked not only in law firms but in several important front office positions for a number of professional sports franchises, many of which were positions that had nothing to do explicitly with diversity and inclusion. He could quit and get a job in any number of roles or positions.

I don't have an issue with legitimate conversation. There are things that need to get better. But I think the we-suck-at-everything and I'm-only-going-to-look-at-the-stats-I-want-to-look-at from some is ridiculous. His claim was stupid. I simply pointed that out. But I still don't believe it's a foregone conclusion that we are lacking in QB development. We failed to recruit an entire offensive unit of players over a combined four straight recruiting cycles. We only recruited two contributing WRs over a five year period and neither completed their eligibility here. It looks pretty likely that we only recruited three contributing RBs over a five year period and they played a combined three seasons for Frost, mostly his first 1.5 years. I don't know how people can look at that and come to any conclusion other than we just didn't have much to work with. That first year when we had several NFL-level guys on the roster we took a QB who hadn't played football in nearly two years and turned him into a Heisman Trophy candidate. We were #25 in the country in Total Offense running a brand new system; #2 in the B1G. The last two years we had very little talent at the skill positions around him. The most simple explanation is that the offense suffered when the talent decreased. Really anything else takes ignoring numerous data points. Such as a school record for completion percentage that led the B1G Being the #6 rusher in the B1G (not among QBs, overall) Being #4 in rushing TDs in the B1G (not among QBs, overall) There were only two QBs in the B1G that had a significantly better passer rating. He had the #2 QBR in the B1G last year; the only guy ahead of him was the #11 pick in the draft who had two of the best WRs in college football to throw to. The overall results were bad. I get that. That passing game wasn't good. I get that. But that doesn't mean it's all the QB's fault. Or that we aren't developing QBs.

I finally forced (yes forced) my 27 yo son to get vaccinated today. He’d been blowing it off and saying he didn’t need it. First time Ive had to jerk the slack out since he was teenager.

I am drinking all the kool aid.

Another way to look at potential teams is to look at their athletic department revenues. An obvious caveat, though: a lot of that comes from a team's conference and its TV contracts, which would change if the school changed conferences. So it's only really an apples to apples comparison if you compare two teams from the same conference - you're looking more for potential revenue than anything. https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances Couple things that stand out from that: the Pac-12 only has one team in the top 25. Trying to run a network on their own (without partnering with one of the big networks) hasn't paid off. That alone should be enough incentive for teams to jump. Also, despite their football success, Clemson is only the third highest in ACC revenue.

Bryson's an a$$, who projects himself as the boy-genius on the PGA Tour. You put it well, he didn't get the vaccine because he thought he was invincible and he's also ultra-conservative (he counts the Trump kids as personal friends). The whole "saving the vaccine for those who need it" is complete BS. There are plenty of vaccines going around.

JoJo claims the fastest three guys on the team are Oliver Martin, Samori Toure, Deontai Williams and CTB. Yes, when asked for the fastest three he listed four. But I like that list.

The B1G isn’t going to bring in a school (save for Norte Dame) that is already in their footprint. That means no Iowa State. Colorado OTOH would make for a good moving buddy with Kansas (since Oklahoma went full derp with Texass). The PAC-12 could then bring in Okie Lite, KSU, Iowa State, Texas Tech, and TCU, put them in the East with Utah and the Arizona schools, and you’ve got a decent PAC-16 East that expands their footprint into Texass (DFW), Oklahoma (Tulsa, OKC), and Kansas (Kansas City and part of St. Louis). Turn around and start a non-con scheduling agreement with the B1G (e.g. Kansas State @ Nebraska, Colorado vs. Okie Lite, Kansas vs Sister Mary Immaculate of the Blind) to initially prey on nostalgia…and everyone is a winner. Except Texass, because they will always be cheating, thieving whores.

Colorado makes sense to me. Geographically, AAU member, TV market.

That bball baggage is worth a lot of money

Honestly, I know they don't bring anywhere near what others could bring as far as media markets, size of fanbase, and pedigree, but I wouldn't mind Iowa State at all. They're a smaller version of Nebraska and Wisconsin fused - simple midwestern folk that love to party and love their underdog. There is a lane and approach to be taken that isn't trying to do the exact same thing as the SEC and be the biggest/baddest/most. If the B1G has its own unique identity and footprint and experience, that draws attention.

Mandates sneaking up on people like

I just want to make sure that I didn't fall into a coma and miss a couple of years....Yant is a TRUE FRESHMAN, yes?? That man is scary! lol

"art everywhere" lol

Pour me a glass of Kool-Aid.

Whatever you say my man. I think we all understand the singular point you have been trying to get across for weeks now. Only two answers per post

No more than two questions per post please. You sound like my kids when they are in the car with me.

This is probably one of a few bullet point reasons why Moos retired. Probably pulled a Murtaugh too... Apologies for the expletive, but I figured you can't pull a Murtaugh GIF w/o showing the expletive. It's internet law or something.