Ran distance events in track and wrestled varsity in high school. Ran cross country in college. Learned the game of basketball in intramural at college and played many basketball tournaments, city leagues and noon ball at the local YMCA till I was 65. Started running sprints at seniors meets around the country about 9 years ago. I have 7 grandkids that I love dearly.
The crowd was loud and Illinois was missing three’s. The team did enough good things to win. It was one we badly needed. They could have folded but they battled. Good for them!
Essegian can’t hit a bull in the a$$ with a mop. We are two steps slow at nearly every position. What appeared to be a decent team has slipped to pitiful. They could pull their collective heads out and get back on track this year but their time is running out. This bad loss might be the one that ends it. What pains me is Wisconsin playing two Nebraska kids. The two Wisconsin kids on our roster aren’t quite as successful.
If right out of junior college and if he never came to Lincoln and he answered an ad for dry wall installers he is not making $25-28 to start. Those guys work like fools and earn every penny.
This one sticks in my craw. He was an absolute nobody 18 months ago. The coaches stayed with him (yes I know pot roast is like a father to him) but this program gave him the opportunity. He would have been hanging sheetrock somewhere making $15 an hour.
It would seem to me that the 45 kids we will no longer have on the roster will end up at non power Four schools, Div 2 schools, junior college or even NAIA colleges. If they thrive they can always enter the portal and get back to Nebraska.
This to me was the relevance. Your statement that they have lost out on everyone which seemed to infer once the current crop of seniors graduate our O line room would be in trouble. My statement meant that all is not lost in recruiting since the addition of the portal.
We have recruited heavily on O lineman the last two years. If we have injuries or lack of development by a few of these there is always the portal (which I know Rhule doesn't want to do excessively.)
Unless he is playing games with us he has in the last hour or so posted a pic of Memorial Stadium with fireworks. No solid news of a commitment yet that I've seen.