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Both Thompson and Smothers were welcome to stay. They both wanted to leave (CT to be promised a starting job, Logan to be closer to home). What was Rhule supposed to do, lock them in a closest in North Stadium and make them stay? Neither Thompson or Smothers were able to practice in the spring. I think Rhule rightly brought in a starting QB. Sims numbers had been trending up every year at GT. For some reason it just happened to be a disaster.

So you actually expected to see improvement in the QB room when the raw materials were Sims, Haarburg and an injured Purdy? And you blame Satt for that? SMH

Did I miss the part where our QB for most of last year looked remotely capable of completing deep passes to literally any receiver in the world?

That's easy to say looking back. But, heading into 2023, Thompson had shoulder surgery and was not available for Spring. They didn't even know if he was going to be available for fall camp, if my memory is correct. So, they went and got Sims after not being in the college game for a while and knowing anything about they players. They took advice from someone and it didn't work out.

Satterfield deserves credit for at least trying to come up with a system that fit the players he had available. Some of you clearly expected him to make chicken salad out of chicken s#!t. Not happening. Some of his play calls really seemed to lack situational awareness, though. I still feel like Sims's collapse was too severe to really be explained by coaching, so I don't really hold it against Satterfield, either. Still, Sims was Rhule's guy, and Rhule's biggest mistake to date. And his second biggest mistake was his management of the rest of the QBs room. Is there anyone who thinks that Haarberg and Purdy were better backups than Thompson and Smothers would have been? (I hold personnel issues like that more against the HC than the OC/DC, though obviously the whole staff is involved to some degree.)

Make up your mind, did we have a good deep threat WR last year or not?

Thompson was kind of an injury-prone guy. Hard to say how many games he would have even lasted in 2023. But Sims was fumbling snaps and turned the wrong way multiple times on running back hand off plays. His play was atrocious even just outside of stats when he suited up for the Huskers. I can't say that about Thompson's time as a 'sker. But, the entire conversation is definitely water under the bridge at this rate anyway.

Scott..?? Is that you..??

The issues were on Offense and some Special Teams. You want to ride Satterfield for a few years in an era where talent goes to greener pastures in hopes he comes around? One of the many knocks on the guy is he is too complex with his playbook. Couple that with this - did you see any improvement from our QB room at all? We have a coach who we want to give more time, in hopes he can be developed, in an era where talent flees in an expeditious fashion, because looking for better coaches and proven commodities is...not the right thing to do? Satterfield is a weak link in the tied-for-second most important coaching role on the team. Let's now build strategic foundations around this fact and all of this "time" we have for him to come around, fingers-crossed hopefulness, and coins in wishing wells. Glad he's removed from QB oversight. Next good move will be to remove his play calling duties. Give him more time to come into his own as a budding OC...

But you're only doing it for 2023 numbers, right? If I look at Thompson vs Sims in their entire collegiate careers prior to the 2023 season and I adjust for the competition Thompson faced, I'm taking Thompson as the better QB. I'd take him as the guy I'd want heading into game one for 2023 Nebraska. And if I factor 2023 into the whole career, I'm still taking Thompson, personally.

Maybe. It's just hard to shake the eye test impression of how Thompson played against our P5 schedule last year, and not conclude he was a better quarterback than the three guys we ran out this year.

You can really say it is the NE vs. the rest of the country. The reason it is really tough to say that is Urban areas tend to be controlled by Dems and they have some of the worst public schools in the country. I don't think it is that simple. Suburban areas tend to be a little more republican and it has some of the best schools. I think it is really more about economic factors other than who they voted for.

Agree with that second paragraph, for sure. To the first part, I'm still trying to figure out why the staff went so hard with trying to set up a power run QB scheme leading into year one. A lot of keyboard warriors think they have all the answers there, but I'm not so sure. But, like you said in the second part - Rhule is getting things fixed. I think our program has a bigger head of steam right now than I reasonably thought we'd have at this point if I go back to just after the Georgia Southern loss in 2022 and Frost's firing. The 2023 season was really disappointing on offense because of how good the defense wound up being, but good things are ahead.

Yes, but Thompson also had a better passer rating than any of the three. With much worse talent around him. In hindsight, Rhule made the incorrect decision on the QB position last year. Casey wasn’t the problem in 2022 and Rhule would have been better off bringing Casey, Smothers, Purdy back if all three wanted to be back vs bringing in and settling for Simms. Rhule by all accounts has fixed his mistake on the recruiting trail and with a dedicated QB coach it seems and we all hope he can build a QB pipeline in the future based off of what we hope is Raiola’s success.

why you gotta be dissin’ Harberg like that?

TL;DR Who gives a s#!t? They're gone. How do any of the past QB's that aren't on the team anymore have anything to do with the hiring of Glenn Thomas? Whatever happened and whoever we should or shouldn't have kept at QB doesn't matter for how the Glenn Thomas hire shakes out. Let's focus on who we have available at QB.

Tattoos and cheeseburgers. I don't think either one is the reason why a coach gets in trouble. You usually get in trouble when you aren't truthful. Has the NCAA suspended Harbaugh for anything yet? Michigan's suspension might not be the same as a possible NCAA suspension. The moral superiority of Michigan and their fans is something else.

I get you're making a point, but you should probably ban yourself for a few days for putting that in writing anyway.

Apparently you did as we had the WR tied for the league lead in 50+ yard TDs.

It's not just that. We lost three scholarship QBs (Thompson, Smothers, and Torres), but only brought in one scholly QB to replace them (Sims). That's some questionable roster management at the position where you really wanna make sure you get it right. Imagine if we'd brought in a couple more scholly-worthy QBs. It's not a stretch to think that at least one of them might have panned out as a starter that was at least somewhat better than what we saw last year, and maybe a lot better.

Gee...wonder why Hunter doesn't want to testify in private....and why Comer doesn't want him to testify in public.

Guess we can say goodbye to that SI ticker at the top of every page on this site... https://frontofficesports.com/sports-illustrateds-publisher-lays-off-entire-staff-future-unclear/

Just to be clear. This is the guy they picked to replace the guy who was having threesomes with his wife. I still firmly believe that it's in the publics best interest that the videos of the wife and the other woman be released. I'm only thinking about what's best for the country.

We've reached out and there has been "some engagement" with Proctor. But I am assuming every other P5 program has as tried to talk to him as well. Something working in our favor is his girlfriend goes to Creighton.

Definitely agree with you. I’m happy with the direction things are going, and very happy the coaching staff has decided to do away with the heavy QB run game as you said. The coaching staff is looking like they are able to get more out of the players than the Frost staff was able to do! Rhule and staff need to pull in a too 15 recruiting class for 2025 and lock in a stud 2026 QB early on when that time comes (rankings by star ranking/per recruit, not overall points knowing it will be a smaller class) and then he will really have things going for the future. I think he can do it.

I gotta say, I'm kinda excited for the Polynesian Bowl. Hope to see all 3 Dylan Raiola, Carter Nelson, and Preston Taumua playing together. 8 central on the nfl channel.

Good lord "Farmers"... Don't get me started (again) on those MFers and their constant complaining.

Thompson had a worse QBR than any of our three last year. Against worse competition.

Rhule has added some good stuff. While not totally nixing what he started. we should be happy w that. we can get better w what he has added. That’s the goal, and always should be; players, coaches, NIL, portal, etc…he’s trying make things better and we should just simply applaud that instead of over dissecting things.

Sounds like he will be here this weekend.

Me too. Beer. I don’t drink that much but it better be good and it better not closely resemble the swill the mega brewers put out. Also meat, especially steak. I won’t buy just anything from anywhere.

Agree. He seemed ok when Obama was in office, but his latest stint as PM has him looking like a despot.

Jake Peetz - LA Rams https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2022/12/10/rams-jake-peetz-coach-assistant-nebraska/

Is this the Louis Vuitton Minecraft line?

I read somewhere that Rhule wanted a designated QB coach last year, but the guy they wanted turned him down. (guy from 49ers?) Satt was always supposed to be OC and TE coach but, he was thrown into being QB coach because of this. So, now, the staff is more in line with what Rhule originally wanted. I'm not sure all of this is because Rhule was unhappy with what the offense looked like last year. It might be more of what his long term goal has always been.

I think my biggest concern, assuming we have decent QB play now, is end of game management. I felt that was pretty bad at times, even though we had a lot of practice at it. But one thing that fixes/hides that is scoring more points and being in fewer one score games.

She does in that lop your Johnson off and throw it the front yard if you ever cross her kind of way

Actually, it was a shoulder. https://www.on3.com/college/nebraska-cornhuskers/news/quarterback-casey-thompson-pretty-limited-shoulder-injury-head-coach-matt-rhule/

Similar to if you only play three games and one of them is on the road at Clemson with Florida Atlantic players who finished 4-8 in a crappy conference. It can deflate a ranking. I think we both made the relevant point that Casey only played 2 1/2 games yet people want to use those stats to assess his ability instead of the 2021 and 2022 stats.

I wish he would have linked to a source. This one disagrees with Brian. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

It really looks more north and south division as opposed by Dem/Republican.

She must just be skimming, flipping through, looking for photos

Is that over 140 years?