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Cue all the comparisons to small, white slot receivers in the NFL.Yeah, you're probably right -- I still think he'll get a shot to make a roster, though.With guys like Welker, Amendola, and Edelman making a name for themselves (less Amendola), if they can get in the right system, he'll have a shot. No mention of Wayne Chrebet, Steve Largent, or Brandon Stokley?Just throwing out the few I currently know who are in the league and having success. Can add Jordy Nelson. Yeah....the only thing Westerkamp and Nelson have in common is they are white and play WR. Not even a remotely fair comparison to Westerkamp there. Nelson is a monster.

I'm not sure why you're throwing Boise, Utah and TCU in here as comparison examples. It's significantly easier to build a powerhouse programs when you're playing in a largely crappy conference (none of those schools have been in Power 5 conferences for more than 5 years). I fully agree with you on Baylor and Art Briles though. He has them absolutely humming.

If people hated Mike Reilly for passing too much they'll despise Fuentes.

Kelly only had Mariota for one year (his RS FR year) His other QBs were Thomas and Masoli. Cool story tho bro.

Lol...you do realize that Chip Kelly took Oregon to 4 straight BCS games when he was the HC at Oregon right?

Ummm...Chip Kelly's offense is run based. Check Oregon's rushing numbers when he was the OC. They averaged over 270ypg rushing.

The emergence of schools like Ohio, Wyoming and FBS schools like UND, SDSU, etc have also really cut down on the amount of kids that would probably walk on at NU. College is crazy expensive nowadays.

Your philosophy works great when you have unlimited rosters and the old scholarship rules where they could offer everyone under the sun. 85 schollies makes things just a wee bit tougher. Solid rant though.

Michigan just hired an NFL OC to be a position coach. They also hired a former USC associate head coach as a position coach. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2015/01/16/michigan-announces-2-more-assistant-football-coaches/21884403/ I would have liked to have seen more big name hires at Nebraska, but hopefully this staff will be good. I am slightly worried about Banker. Jedd Fisch is getting hired as the OC. I'm not sure what the big deal is there. The Jaguars were a goddamn dumpster fire on offense.

I may have missed this from another thread and if I'm not allowed to link content from the OWH Bottom Line please delete. http://www.omaha.com/huskers/blogs/tbl-husker-recruiting-roundtable-with-clouse-schaefer-and-harvey/article_4593d1b2-9ab3-11e4-aa94-df91abbbcb05.html Part 2 addresses In state vs. out of state. I thought the panel did a good job of describing it. If you are worried about losing kids to Ohio, Wyoming, Iowa then that is a terrifying sign of the level of talent Nebraska is going after.

I understood cutting football with the leap to D-1 it was going to be really, really hard with Title IX plus the conference they play in. It's hard for me to be impartial on the wrestling issue since I wrestled, my coaches in HS were UNO wrestlers and I have a lot of friends/acquaintances that wrestled for UNO. I can't believe they didn't give Denney a shot at making the program self funded. They could've done it. With that being said, I have no desire to go back and re-hash that argument as it was brutal. I agree with what a previous poster said, as a college football player, Trev Alberts absolutely belongs. As a man, I don't care for him.

Graduated. The Russell Wilson transfer and play somewhere your last year. No, I get that. Russell just didn't transfer for the hell of it. He wanted to win and there were thoughts he might not be QB1 as hard as that may be to believe. So, what's this guys situation? I thought Wilson transfered because O'Brien didn't want to let him play baseball anymore....man, I just don't quite remember. I could absolutely see your point being the reason as well as I think that's when NC State had Mike Glennon getting ready to 'emerge'.

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He'll be a pass rushing specialist and situational run player His position will depend on the team that drafts him naturally. The best current pro matches I can think of are guys like Bruce Irvin and Von Miller that I think Gregory could project to. I agree with some of the other posters ITT that he needs to pack on some muscle.

There might also be some Pac 12 Network money starting to funnel in as well.

No kidding here. I get that a lot of folks only focus on Nebraska football, but shoot Oregon State seemed like they were on ESPN's Thursday Night Game all the time. I still remember when they upset #1 USC in 2008, Quizz Rodgers ran for like 200 yards.

There is "promise" and there are results. Yes, there are no results for this staff at Nebraska yet. How awful of them? We know Brown is a pretty good coach, but this doesn't make him the only pretty good position coach out there in the world. We also know Brown does not really recruit. And that he's been on the verge of retirement. So, I don't think it's much a stretch to think this young guy who has spent three successful years at OSU, and four as an assistant coach for the 49ers under Harbaugh, is a good position coach and an able/willing recruiter. If Ron Brown had been hired from another school by Mike Riley, I'm sure the complaint would be: 24 years and all he ever did was be a positions coach? Bingo. +1 there. It's not like Brown isn't still going to have some exposure to the program through his FCA work.

The problem is while Moss thought it was the funny, the Lincoln PD and the University of Nebraska didn't. Like it or not, athletes are going to be held to a higher standard and football at Nebraska are under an even bigger microscope. I have no data to back this up, but I think Moss's chance to play went out the window when Pelini got sacked.

Interesting take on Pearlman. I'm guessing you're looking through the lens of athletics and not academics (kinda generalizing the two). While I agree that HP may come across a little 'dated' and 'out of touch' at times it's very hard to argue that he hasn't done an excellent job in raising UNL's national profile in other areas. Heck, the move to the Big Ten is going to bring in how many untold millions of dollars?

Marshawn Lynch I'm fully aware of Beast Mode (big Seahawks fan since Largent was @ WR). Notice I said, 'One of the last' and not, 'the last'. But now we're just nitpicking.

Huge man crush on Steven Jackson he was a monster for the Rams. Too bad they essentially just sucked for the vast majority of his career, he deserved better. One of the last true bell cow RBs.

Agree wt you. While Gil was my 'emotional' pic in 2007 - Johnson was my mental pic for the HC job that went to Bo. I thought that if this guy can win wt the option at Navy and do it wt lessor recruiting advantages, he could do it in Lincoln. We'll he proved that the option can still work. Let's be realistic, most Ds are built to stop either a pro style or spread or read option. Not many Ds are prepared adequately to play the option. Even in the day when Tom ran it and Ds could prepare for it (whether it be our version or the wishbone version), when execute well, it was still almost impossible to stop. I just wonder what Johnson could have done wt our resources. He's done very well at GT. I disagree a little with the bolded, I'd say above average is probably more appropriate. I'll give him a little bit more of the benefit of the doubt b/c GT is a tough school to get into academically although he's in very fertile recruiting grounds that should offset it quite a bit. Johnson's records @ GT...one great year (Big Six bowl win) one pretty good year (losing to lol Iowa in the Orange although I can't hate too much as I won a bucket of cash on Iowa +6) one above average year (9 wins, first year) and then a mix of average to crappy years after that. I can't remember which poster mentioned it, but Johnson's offense hums with Justin Thomas running it. You get Vad Lee running it, you get .500 ball. As with every other offense, good QB play=good offensive results. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2008–present) 2008 Georgia Tech 9–4 5–3 T–1st (Coastal) L Chick-Fil-A 22 22 2009 Georgia Tech 10–3 [Note 1] 7–1 1st (Coastal) L Orange† 13 13 2010 Georgia Tech 6–7 4–4 T–3rd (Coastal) L Independence 2011 Georgia Tech 8–5 5–3 T–2nd (Coastal) L Sun 2012 Georgia Tech 7–7 5–3 T–1st (Coastal) W Sun 2013 Georgia Tech 7–6 5–3 T–2nd (Coastal) L Music City 2014 Georgia Tech 11–3 6–2 1st (Coastal) W Orange†Georgia Tech: 58–35 37–19

I can't see Rex getting too much in the way of snaps at Cincy unless the injury bug hits like it did today, they are loaded at RB with Hill and Benard. I think Rex can make some hay for a team down the road ala Woodhead. He seems to have pretty good hands, if you couple that with good blitz pickup you'll hang around a while in the NFL.

+1 to this. I guess I don't get it, if you assemble an all star support staff, in 2-3 years those guys are all gone and you have to replace them all again. The way I look at is, alot of these guys seem to be off the radar a little bit which I have little qualm with. If it works, awesome these guys will most likely stick around as they all seem to have good relationships with Riley. If it doesn't work, well the lot is getting flushed and you're in the same boat you were in with the first scenario.

He *might* be able to get a P5 HC job in a couple years, it'll be at a pretty crappy school though if you made me guess (Wilson @ Indiana seems like a decent comparison).