Wunderkind

3 hours ago, Mavric said:

Lubick sure seems to indicate that he's expecting to have all the TEs for Illinois.

At least some good news for today

I like his film aggressive, gets off blocks, and doesn't give up on plays 

Boom!

3 hours ago, flatwaterfan said:

 

That's what I was looking for! My thoughts after watching the highlights.

The Red would have scored a lot more points if tackling was allowed the first half.

AM's stats should have been better drops and poor route running hurt. He did have a couple bad throws. 

Backup QB's look athletic, but neither looks ready to play meaningful minutes yet. 

If QB's were allowed to be tackled they would have gained a lot more yards.

The starting offensive line opened up some big holes. 

RBs looked good. 

19 hours ago, Toe said:

 

I've said it before: good teams that couldn't get out of their own damn way, led by a good coach who couldn't get out of his own damn way.

That about sums it up.

15 minutes ago, Decked said:

Ah. I knew I was missing someone! Yes Stille will start. Stille, Daniels, & Ty Rob. 

There's a lot of players, so easy to do. Now it looks about right Will be interesting at RB as it appears right now that injuries will determine the starter. Thankfully a long way until the start of the season so hopefully they all get healed by then

4 hours ago, GretnaHusker14 said:

I like this other than the Falck and Alante Brown projections. Brown was in the rotation last year and should play a similar role to what Wandale had. Obviously he wont replace what Wandale produced but giving us a shifty wide receiver is always an asset.

5 hours ago, Decked said:

QB: Martinez, Smothers, HH

RB: Stepp, Scott, Ervin, Yant

WR: Toure, Nixon, Brown

WR: Falck/Manning, Hickman

WR: Martin, Betts, Liewer

TE: Allen, Vokolek, Fidone

LT: Corcoran, Banks, Prochazka

LG: Piper/Bando, Nouili/Miller 

C: Jurgens, Hixon

RG: Banks/Schiterman, Nouili/Miller

RT: Benhart, Nouili, Miller, Fritzsche

 

DE: Ty Rob, Rogers 

NT: Daniels, Black, & Stille on 3rd downs, Polar Bear

DE: Thomas, Rogers 

OLB: JoJo, Wright, Gifford

ILB: Honas, Kolarevic

ILB: Reimer, Henrich

OLB: Nelson, Payne/Tannor on 3rd

CB: CTB, Clark, Lynum 

CB: Newsome, Joseph

S: D. Will, NPG, Gifford 

S: Dismuke, Farmer 

Looks pretty good other than one major qualm. Stille 3rd down nose tackle and that's it?

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

I have to think that part of Frost’s attitude towards the WRs is that he finally has guys like Betts, manning, Brown and others that have finally been in the program long enough to know what they are doing and look good. These are guys that should be stretching the field and making the offense better. 
 

it’s exciting.  

I really want to drink the KoolAid. We seem to have more of the pieces this year. Could be the year we've been waiting for. Then I remember the last several years and it tempers expectations. 

8 hours ago, knapplc said:

Good luck Yvan.

 

 

Not a bad place to end up.

Fidone

Prochazka

Kpai

Ho'ohuli

Lutovsky

Bretz

Sleeper: Ervin

10 hours ago, uberism said:

 

Meh, a lot of those players in the portal are in there because they never were able to see the fied or if they did just a few snaps and it is there way to try and get one last ditch effort to play some action in a game at a different school. Can't expect there to be a Miller and Martin in the portal that are willing to walkon. 

There's a lot of talent from Tennessee in the portal.

The other sunshine pumping thread is bogus, so let's get some actual Kool-Aid flowing. 

To start our defense is almost intact as 9 out of 11 starters are back on a defense that has consistently improved. Our biggest need is a consistent pass rush and there are glimmers of hope as both Nelson and Payne had their moments. There is also a chance that Tannor or Cooper could breakout although I think this is less likely. Also, Stille and Rogers could continue to develop and generate more pressure from the inside. With a better pass rush I would expect more turnovers with QB strip fumbles and hurried throws turning into interceptions. Even without a good pass rush the defense has improved and is likely to be better in 2021. Of course if the offense can improve than the defense will also look better. 

On the offensive side of the ball we lost Robinson, but we have picked up some talent. The USC RB has a lot of potential, if he can stay healthy, and several of our RB's could be better than Mills. We had some injuries and a shortened season, but with a full spring and fall our RB's have the potential to make great strides. At WR we picked up the young man from Montana and Martin will have a full spring and fall as well. Nixon was injured and Manning, Betts, and Brown will have a full spring and fall to develop. We now have a stable of big WR's (Manning, Betts, Toure, & Martin) to go along with some faster WR's (Nixon & Brown). At TE Allen and Vokolek have looked good, especially Allen and with the Freshman Fidone coming in the TE position has quite a bit of fire power. As a Freshman Martinez looked good when he had some big down the field threats and now he will have them again in 2021. I think there is a good chance he will improve with the bigger WR's who can hopefully win some jump balls and make some plays down field. We lost two OL including our best Tackle, but his backup sure looked good in the one game he started. RT should improve with some seasoning as should Jurgens at Center who is maybe our most athletic lineman. Piper is back which just leaves one whole at guard with a number of candidates vying for the job. 

ST has been bad although improved from 2019 as at least we could make a FG in 2020. There were some injuries that hurt us here as well. Frost seems focused on improving this area as can be seen by the number of kickers/punters we had on the team. Even being average here makes us a much better team. Finally, turnovers and penalties have killed us and need to be fixed. A full spring and fall practice should help but we are still young on offense, so maybe some wishful thinking. 

2 hours ago, Corn55 said:

How bad of a season would Frost be able to survive? I think he'd get another year if he went 3-9. But would he survive 2-10? 1-11? 0-12?

f#&% it. I'm rooting for 0-12 just to maximize the odds Frost is fired.

I'm rooting for us to go 14-0. Why the disdain for Frost? I hope he succeeds even if it has been a rough few years. 

3 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

Somebody was awful at punt returns and lost us some yards. 

Looked up his highlights, they are impressive. Big thing is whether he can block well.

22 minutes ago, Mavric said:

HOL did an article on the B1G's 2018 recruiting classes today. 

 

Nebraska signed 25 players and has 13 of them left

Penn State signed 23 and has 16 left

Michigan State signed 22 and has 15

Iowa signed 23 and has 16

Minnesota signed 26 and has 14

Purdue signed 24 and has 17

Illinois signed 25 and has 15

Rutgers signed 22 and has 13

 

Other schools didn't lose as many.  But several of those schools didn't go through a coaching change and have lost nearly as many as we did in a transition class.

 

I'm not saying it's not an issue.  But it'd definitely not just a Nebraska thing.

There have been some players we lost that I wish we wouldn't have. However, most would not have had much playing time if they stayed. Hope that attrition slows down though, otherwise it becomes more concerning.

3 hours ago, Savage Husker said:

Grand Canyon College - keep some of these for profit student-athletes honest!

I would be down with that. I own a little bit of LOPE. They typically have a pretty decent basketball team. Used to be coached by Dan Majerle.

12 hours ago, Hilltop said:

Those calling the big ten teams mediocre are hopefully watching the bowl games.  Pretty dominant so far.  Nebraska hasn't looked good but their competition was better than many thought.  Our offensive production against northwestern for instance looks a lot better right now.  

I was just thinking the same thing today. The Big 10 was better than we thought.

We lack two things a QB that can throw the ball accurately down field and a pass rusher. At the other positions we have talent it's just young. For some reason Martinez has the yip's in passes over 10 yards. If we could throw down field it would open up everything else and the offense would look much better. The defense looks way better, but we can't get to the QB. If we had a pass rusher or two the defense would look great. We've tried to bring some pass rushers in but they haven't worked out.

On 12/7/2020 at 1:30 PM, The_Fan_Man said:

Here is Buckley's senior highlight reel. He's got a great motor, really nice football sense, and a powerful base. Of course, I don't think he's playing against the top level of Michigan football, but he's got 9 good minutes of film, which is tough to do at any level. If he's already 280, I have no doubts that he'll play on the interior line once his upper body starts to fill out.

That was what I was thinking too. That he would possibly move inside.

We really need a pass rusher or two. Other than that we're pretty solid. But man would that help.

3 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

This is good 

(feel free to move if needed)

 

 

Funny skit. Interesting that they left out Tennessee. Don't want to pick on their own I guess.

8 hours ago, Decked said:

Fidone, Rollins, Carnie 

Great minds think alike, I was just about to say the same thing. The trifecta of TE's.

That sucks, I liked this dude. But, I expect we will get another good one. 

14 hours ago, Warrior10 said:

Intangibles too. Loves football, loves Husker football.

16 hours ago, Decked said:

4.6 40 at 6’5 225 right? Yeah. This guy will get some offers. 

He opened up some eyes with those numbers.