Scott Tenorman

It's going to be tough for him. He's going to need a team to believe in him enough to give him a few years to learn a new position. My money is him in the CFL, maybe as a QB.

Ameer did 24 reps. 10 seems pretty low if he's looking to be an every down back.

I love Tommy for the heart he had, but DPE is a casualty of TA as our QB. He only threw to westy, reilly, and alonzo. Yolo bomb central was our offense with Tommy, and DPE lived on the wrong street.

Gifford also seems like a really small OLB. Maybe he has put on some good weight though? Where else could he go? Not big enough to play inside.

Just seems like there is something else going on with him. The tendency would be to say that the coaches "don't like him" which probably isn't fair. But how he's been treated just doesn't seem to match his play on the field. He didn't get a Blackshirt at the beginning of last season despite starting the first game (albeit with Gerry suspended). Then he led the team in tackles and had an INT in the first game and STILL didn't get a Blackshirt. It wasn't until after the second game - after another INT and several tackles - that he finally got one. Then there were comments from the coaches towards the end of the season about how his play wasn't that impressive or something like that. Even though he had the most INTs and was one of the leading tacklers. Just seems odd. He seemed to have very hot and cold moments from what I saw. There were times where he looked great and was in the right place at the right time, but there were other times where it looked like he got exposed a little bit. Made some really nice plays and some pretty bad plays. To be fair, there were times where just about everybody got exposed on defense. I think it's pretty telling that they've got Reed and Jackson/Kalu starting. Gotta be one of the things MR wanted to change from last year in getting athletes on the field. Wonder if that bodes well for guys like Mo Barry.

Something had to have happened, earlier today Schaefer said he was confident but not confident enough to put in a CB.

Mel Gibson was in that?

I like Miami. Name that movie The Godfather Part II Wrong. Guess again. Mel Gibson Hamlet

I like Miami. Name that movie The Godfather Part II

very very good shot here. I would imagine we will use Bookie (if we land him) on O/D similar to how we told Lenoir we would use him for some snaps on O this past cycle as well. What makes you think we have a great shot?

Doubt it.

Pretty irrelevant argument, but yeah I'd rather have Darnay. Not much of a gap there tho, Bookie is good.

Not a huge surprise.

Gotta imagine almost everybody will go after him.

Cautiously optimistic. There's always been puff pieces in the offseason like this.

He's given nothing in his time here to show that. I think he's done a solid job recruiting, but there has to be improvement this year.

I wish.

Not disappointed, just not super excited. Is the transition to a 3-4 for DB's that big of a change? People keep saying it's this huge deal that he knows the 3-4, I'm just wondering how much of a change it will even be for defensive backs. The selling point for me is that he's super experienced, that could be valuable with how young our staff is overall.

If Nebraska had the 58th rated class, that would be a C+ class. I'll ask again: If we take the notion that any recruiting class below 40 is an F... Then does that mean that since 2011 Wisconsin has been kicking our collective arses up and down the field, every single year, with consistently "F" rated classes? I would love for someone to address this question without moving the goalposts. And remember that Northwestern, Purdue, Illinois, and Iowa (whom we've supposedly out-recruited by a wide margin every single year) consistently play us tough and down to the wire every year. Or, could all you guys just admit that the level of separation from a class rated 20th to a class rated 11th is a matter of perception? Naw, you wouldn't do that...cause seeing all those stars nest to recruits names are pretty. I am not saying we shouldn't recruit the best talent out there, but you guys take opinion (recruiting rankings) and state them as absolute fact. Doesn't ring any "alarm bells" when recruiting analysts say you could, in a given year, swap the #10 team for the #1 team? I mean seriously, these rankings are nothing close to absolute. They're much closer to absolute than not. Are you saying there's no correlation between recruiting rankings and the top 25? I don't think anybody takes them as complete absolutes, but they're pretty close on average. Some under achieve and over achieve every year, that doesn't mean recruiting rankings are total crap.

Lebron James My cousin who had 12 ppg in high school It's not about talent, Oh wait it totally is.

I feel like a lot of people don't understand the value of redshirting. If the player is good enough to start or see a significant amount of snaps on offense or defense, you don't redshirt him. If he's not good enough and he's a freshman, that player should be redshirted imo. If the player isn't starting or seeing the field a frequently, you probably aren't getting a ton of value from him. Take Lamar Jackson. Did he provide much value to the defense last year? Not really, no. He barely played. I realize they weren't going to redshirt him because of the playing time he was promised when recruited (assumption). But on paper, should he have redshirted last year knowing now how much he was used? Absolutely. I guess you can argue he got some experience, but I'd much rather have an extra year of him than the minimal snaps he saw. So either he was misused, or a mistake was made in not redshirting him imo. If none of the lineman were good enough to break the rotation, they should have been redshirted. If they were good enough and were redshirted anyways, I'm guessing the coaches are making a decision that the value provided down the road will be greater than the value provided as freshman. I think they made the right decision.

I feel better about Bookie than I ever did about Darnay.

LB - OT is quite the range. Compliment to his athleticism. Isn't he only like 6'3 though? Hard to imagine him being an elite OT at that height. If anything he could be a linebacker.

Not necessarily wrong either.

Seems like a hard OSU lean.