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3 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:

I think more character. Supposedly he just rubbed the coaches and players the wrong way. I know it's just a first impression, and he's made another visit, but just something to keep in mind if NU is slow to offer. 

Maybe they thought he was a prick? Whipple should like him then. 

18 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

The first step towards bringing Bill Callahan back to coach Offensive Line.

Never heard of the hand signal meaning anything racist. Honestly didn’t know Herbie even did that. The only way I have seen that symbol was to mean okay and it was used by satanic people. The hand signal makes a 666. But hell I guess it’s now racist. Everything is racist these days 

2 hours ago, Savage Husker said:

Frost admitted (to Benning recently) that he messed up by trying to win early and not focus on building the culture and team development.

So you are saying the last 4 years was Frost trying to win? 

Holy s#!t I would have felt better if he was sacrificing wins for culture. If the last 4 years is what it looks like trying to win what will it look like if we sacrifice wins for culture?

How the s#!t is playing walk on receivers trying to win with Manning and Betts on the bench.

18 minutes ago, WVhuskerXX said:

 

He wont be standing out in the sun when he gets here.

I think we need to go offer all the Bama and Georgia players who just went in portal 

56 minutes ago, Decked said:

Wonder how many more guys we can take 

Depends how many current roster guys we willing to boot 

59 minutes ago, theknife said:

Word is the staff reached out to Nesta Jade Silvera, DT from Miami.

Now thats the kinda dudes we need to be going after consistently.

Can’t wait to watch CT Scan the field 

58 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

So does this count as Frost's first 5 star recruit? 

4 minutes ago, seaofred92 said:

 

If he would have come in town this morning he could have seen decoldest morning of the year. Brrr

I will be curious to see if Whipple ends up extending an offer to Flores at Gretna. The kid looks like a leader with decent athletic ability and a strong arm.

29 minutes ago, chamrocck said:

I would hate the playoff to go beyond 8 teams which seems inevitable. College football is great because every game matters. It is must watch TV every Saturday because that school that is having a hu-hum year can rise up and create the big upset and knock that big name team out of the playoff. Don’t mess that up!  I watch very little NFL. Why? Because a week 7 game between the Packers and Vikings doesn’t mean anything. Or a week 10 game between the Cowboys and Giants probably doesn’t matter. But if Ohio State loses in week 2 or Alabama loses in week 8 it is huge. I was shocked hearing how many OSU players sat out the Rose Bowl. This is not the Gasparilla Bowl, it’s the freakin’ Rose Bowl! I’m concerned we could be losing a very special thing. Don’t screw it up!

Every game doesn’t matter anymore though. Hell Georgia lost the last game of the year and still got in the playoff. So that game meant nothing. Especially when they lost by 3 scores and still got in. It used to be if you lost early enough you could get back in contention. Now you can lose the last game of the season 

5 hours ago, Stumpy1 said:

Someone not in the portal yet? 

Yes. Bryce Young. After winning the Natty this year he wants a new challenge 

We always win the off-season around here. Then the season starts.

As the game evolves I wonder how the future of player eligibility will look. I don't think 20 years ago many people thought this is what college football would become with Transfer Portal, NIL, probably paying players in near future. So a complete shift to player rights and allowing them to do what is in their best interest. Part of college athletics was that they were "Amateurs" which essentially meant they were not being paid for what they were doing. They received a free education as compensation but they could not be paid. So food for thought- I wonder if in the future players would be allowed to come back and compete in college after testing the waters in the NFL for a year. The current system they "forfeit" their amateur status as soon as they hire an agent for the draft I believe. So say a redshirt sophomore goes pro. Finds out he is not ready for the jump. Perhaps in the future he may be allowed to come back and compete in college for 2 more years and try going pro again in the future. 

I am just curious on people's thoughts if that could be possible in the future. The current system is already trending away from them being "amateurs" as we have some kids with NIL deals of $1,000,000 as it is. So if they are no longer amateurs and college football is basically just becoming a minor league NFL. Then why not be able to go back and forth? No different than a MLB player getting sent down and if they develop more they can be brought back up. 

Just an interesting thought I had on how the game could evolve. I never thought I would see the transfers and NIL so who knows where this could go. For the record, I liked the traditional way college football was setup. College football feels more like a business now.

I still dont understand how he is rated .833 composite. .79 by 247 and has offers from Bama, Virginia tech, Texas A&M among many other P5 programs. 

3 hours ago, Red Five said:

I believe that Purdy has 4 years of eligibility if you include the free Covid year.  2020 was a "free year", 2021 would have been a redshirt (played in 1 game).

 

With the staff in win-now mode, I thought we would be going for the 1 year left "proven" guy, not someone who was a backup at their prior school.

 

Plus bringing in someone with 4 years of eligibility is a good way to run off a QB or 2 on your roster.

I get it but if we are looking to bring in possibly 2 QB's. It would make sense we would bring in a young guy to sit for a year behind the older 1 year immediate impact guy. Also if the staff feels like they need to bring in 2. It means they are not impressed with the guys on the current roster so maybe they dont care if they run them off. It is s#!t and get time- if you cant produce or the new staff thinks you wont produce in the future. Replace them.

10 hours ago, Bigred_inSD said:

Thompson  is head and shoulders better than Purdy

He is 3 years older so I would hope he would be more developed and ready to play.

37 minutes ago, Nebfanatic said:

I feel you but the thing is how did Martinez look as a freshman? Like he had the IT factor. Smothers played well for 3.5 quarters with a gameplan that played to his strengths and protected a freshman starting his first game against one of the best defenses in the country. Smothers looked very promising imo. I think we could win with him at the helm. But to say he has the IT factor and Martinez doesn't based on that performance is a stretch to say the least. He turned it over twice in crunch time, usually Martinez only does it once. Also that last one was pretty aweful. Martinez makes some bad mistakes but I can't him see him throwing one away in that fashion(give him one more chance he'd probably prove me wrong lol) 

 

 

All that said, I like Smothers and I think there are more important targets in the portal. We need to sure up the OL. If we didn't get a transfer QB I wouldn't be too worried honestly. Smothers can do some great things and with Whipple coaching him up I think there is alot more potential there than people are expecting out of him. 

I agree. I never thought Martinez would peak at his freshman season. I also am not saying I think Smothers is the answer. I am just saying I dont think it is fair to compare a senior to a freshman. The fact a freshman had similiar results to a senior says more about the senior than the freshman IMO. 

10 hours ago, Hilltop said:

You do realize decent QBs don't wait to play until their junior year anymore, right?

Mac Jones says hello. 

I agree many kids now days think they are entitled to play now. But there are probably many examples of a Mac Jones. 

6 hours ago, Nebfanatic said:

Is that why he turned it over twice in crunch time? It was the exact same outcome as when Martinez started realistically. 

Do you think it’s fair to compare a 4 year starter and a freshman with no game experience? 

2 hours ago, lo country said:

My concern is the Whip offensive scheme predicated on a pass first concept.  PFF had our OL score their highest grades in run blocking with 1 or 2of our OL guys actually scoring 0% in passing during some games.  Unsure how Raiola and Co fix that enough to support passing the ball more. But looking at the W-L record, we were pretty much combat ineffective in every facet of our team the past several years.....

 

I am hoping the comments about Austin basically doing nada were true and Raiola can at least make theme average.  Losing our starting center will leave a mark moving forward IMHO.

What comments about Austin doing nada? If he wasn’t doing much it is worrisome about frosts decision making if he kept him here for 4 seasons and even promoted him last year 

30 minutes ago, BIGREDIOWAN said:

Getting tired of checking this thread multiple times a day only to see no QB's have decided to come here. 

Yep. I just want to see like 2-3 OL and a QB