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Yep, agreed. The question is how is Purdy wired? Is he comfortable living the backup QB life aka the most popular man in Nebraska? He'll get a nice chunk of change for those efforts in a place he's familiar with. Or is it, pop in the portal and spin the wheel? If he wants a guaranteed starting spot he'll probably have to go G5 but on the other hand, I could see him maybe going to a school like Oregon State or Wazzu that has seen their QB room get raided with all the turmoil. I guess we'll see right?

I'd be more than happy with a QB room next year of McCord/Purdy/HH/Kaelin + non-scholly guys. I'm not sure if Purdy would be interested in sticking around knowing he's not a lock for the starting QB role but it would be great if he did. I think Purdy is a more than serviceable back-up QB given Nebraska's track record of QB play. I'm still holding out a small bit of hope that Flores transfers back from Okie State following next year's season if he isn't able to get meaningful playing time.

Terry is a goddamn animal on the wrestling mat. Just a tough, mean SOB.

You gotta think Harrison Jr is definitely gone. Getting a giant bag as a RB though is pretty compelling. Less games, fewer carries, way weaker competition. It's definitely something to think about.

I hate to admit it but I do like the Loadholt hire for the reasons you described. Bedenbaugh is an elite, elite OL coach.

Holy smokes, that's a big time pickup by CU.

I fully expect Sims to land softly at a G5 school. Best of luck to him wherever he ends up.

Harry Nilsson's cover of "Without You" is also superior I think to the original version written by Badfinger.

I think you're thinking of Dylan Edwards, who is the shiftier RB.

I blocked Twitter on my work computer for productivity reasons but if anyone wants to follow Matt Gajewski, he has a Google Doc link made up of all the transfers. Dude is a machine.

Maiava is a stud. Would be a tremendous get.

Missed this in all the hub-bub but it looks like McCloud, the stud QB from James Madison is in the portal again. 3400 yds 32/9 + another 300ish rushing yards plus 8 more TDs. IIRC he's got one year left and I wonder if he follows his coach to IU. Would be a good get for sure.

Phil Parker is an absolute wizard and Iowa has been very fortunate that he's been happy to stick as the DC all these years. I keep waiting for Ferentz to hang it up in the hopes that Nebraska would make a strong play at LeVar Woods.

Yep, I totally get it and I fully realize I'm in the minority on this particular issue.

I think Alberts is grossly overpaid with his new deal. He got an absolute gift from Ted Carter on his way out the door. Trev is paid like a top ten 10 AD despite having ZIPPO in terms of notable accomplishments since he's taken over at Nebraska. I'll level with you though, I'm always going to hate his guts for what he did to UNO Wrestling and I'm way to close to that situation to be impartial unfortunately. With that derail out of the way, I'm super pumped for Tony White to have secured a fresh new bag! GBR!

Somehow still making less than Trev Alberts.

The boys are out in Las Vegas this week for the Cliff Keen tourney which is shaping up to be pretty salty. Will be lots of good competition out there. 184 in particular is loaded with 4 of the top 5 guys in the country there. Nebraska is projected to defend the title from last year. GBR! https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/11386425-2023-cliff-keen-las-vegas-wrestling-invitational-schedule https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/11545893-2023-cliff-keen-las-vegas-invitational-pre-seeds

IIRC, he was a really late Oregon flip but Ohio State might've also been in the mix. There is weirdly some smoke on him going to Michigan State which I kinda get as I don't think MSU has a literal scholarship QB on their roster presently. In retrospect, he should've gone to Oregon, redshirted and spent a year under Bo Nix's tutelage but hey, he wanted to play from day 1. The talent is undeniable but man, his body language was terrible at UCLA. And he played like crap!

I think Scalley is gonna be at Utah forever and plans on taking over for Witt once he moves on. I figured USC would snag Lynn from UCLA personally.

That makes a lot of sense from SDSU's standpoint. They've been pretty defense-orientated for a while. I'm not surprised they'd go with an offense focused HC given the amount of skill position talent that is in their backyard. This was also the rumor on why CU demoted Sean Lewis from OC.

The Penix/UW thing was a perfect fit since DeBoer was the OC at Indiana when Penix was there. Penix showed flashes at times but as @teachercd mentioned, he was always hurt. IIRC, he had 3 or 4 seasons end early due to injury. I was honestly pretty surprised he came back to UW because he made it through a season with no injury. He's looked a little off these past few games so I wouldn't be surprised if he's knicked up again.

I know Utah was running vanilla schemes and was going with the 3 yards and cloud of dust but that Staub kid looked not too bad at QB on Saturday. He did a nice job of getting the ball out quickly.

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