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LJS or OWH had an article on him, and right now the plan is outside WR. He played TE in high school through his sophomore year which is a large part of why he's still listed that way some places. There's definitely a chance he moves down to TE eventually, but WR is the plan for now.

It's possible, but I don't think he's ready as a Big Ten TE - he's like 200 lbs. The TEs in the portal were not even on the depth chart, although it is pretty thin either way. Lindenmeyer has a specific role (and I'd assume Flynt in this class is penciled in there as well), and everyone else we've signed recently needs to add some weight. I think if Nelson plays it will either be out wide, or exclusively as a second TE off the LOS. Or maybe he packs on some weight over the summer and shows up at 230, but I think it'll take a year or two.

The only kinda awkward part about it for me is The Athletic just wrote an article 12 days ago about Jurevicius titled Caroline Jurevicius, daughter of former NFL receiver, ‘playing the long game’ with Nebraska volleyball. Which appears to no longer be the case. It does sound like Cook/Reyes should have communicated better with her regarding her redshirt and the game in Memorial stadium. But realistically you don't agree to that article if you're already planning on leaving, so it is a little odd.

He's not their QB coach (Mike Sullivan), and not even the assistant QB coach (David Corley) - his title is just "Offensive Assistant Coach." So probably not to blame for their problems, but also you'd figure if he was a great QB coach they'd have him in a more QB-centric role.

Talking about who they'd want to play for though, not which team has fans that want them there. If someone would rather play baseball instead of going to the Vikings, they'd probably just retire from sports altogether rather than have their NFL rights owned by the Bears. Obviously not how it works, people will play for whoever drafts them and that's not a foregone conclusion with a high school senior. But just gotta say there are more reasons to want to avoid the Bears than most teams.

I hate to break it to you, but no one would rather play for the Bears than the Vikings. If we're talking NFC North he'd probably pick the Lions given his dad's 14 year career there and their current upward trajectory.

The other problem is this just gets us back under the scholarship limit with the incoming recruits. We were always going to need to lose 2 players, to add anyone else we'd need to lose another.

Yeah I don't think it's a bad comp, I was just expecting it sooner because of the location and size similarity. Even the Miami board brought it up. If he has even a fraction of David's instincts he'll at least be alright and he appears to have a lot of experience blitzing which is good with our system.

We made it all the way to page 2 before the David comp! Which, to be fair, is hard not to see. Undersized but speedy LB spurned by his hometown Canes who ends up at Nebraska - that's going to be tough to live up to, but you know he'll have a chip on his shoulder. And I'd take anyone with legitimate upside at LB at this point, that position is thin on underclassmen.

I mean I'm always nervous, you get down the the final couple of teams and they are really, really good. But I agree with what caveman said in another thread: Wisky has just had our number in a way that's hard to understand. It's not that way with every team - when they won their championship in 2021, they lost to Purdue in 4 both times they played, and we beat Purdue both times we played them. We just haven't matched up well with them, and Texas is a different team. We at least shouldn't lose for the same reason Wisconsin lost to Texas.

We could really use some more LBs, this would be huge. Wright/Gbayor/Bullock is fine for now, but then 2025 you're looking at Gbayor (Sr.)/Dylan Rogers/???? and we only have one guy in the 2024 class who might be a LB in Braylen Prude.

Fields? He was working at Rover but I think was dealing with some minor injuries. Coaches spoke highly of him, but I don't recall them going out of their way to bring him up. I do hope he grows into an LB though, we've got more rover-type guys on the roster than we do LBs at the moment.

I think Coleman, Lloyd, and Doss will take significant steps forward this year. I'd love an experienced guy too, but the year 2 leap for WRs is a thing. TE volume is a bit weird, but some will be at WR. Flynt is a true TE, gotta think the plan for Nelson is to be one as well - but the other guys (Clark, Smith) might be large WRs. Somebody like Kewan Lacy or Nate Frazier would be great at RB because we've got guys with injury issues. I think a healthy room of Ervin, Rahmir, Emmett, and Ives is fine - Ives is going to look like an entirely different dude with an offseason of S&C. But the first two haven't had a healthy year yet so it is concerning. And there's no Kenneth Walker in the portal - the big names are going elsewhere, and the rest are just bodies.

This makes me feel a lot better about LB - we do not have a lot of depth there and Bullock is pretty solid. Also I'd assume since the walk-on scholarships are year to year (or even semester?) he'd be a good candidate for an NIL "scholarship" rather than staying on an official one to help manipulate the numbers.

I think he's a good OC. Even during his time here, there was a lot of praise from neutral observers about his scheme and gameplans. It was just all of the other stuff that he was terrible at, and then the scheme suffered trying to make up for self-inflicted deficiencies. That said Iowa isn't a good fit. The Big Ten in general is tough, but I think he could run a good offense in the right situation. But a lot of head coaches (Ferentz included) would have limitations on how he runs the offense and I don't see Frost going for that.

Probably some lingering OSU picks that they never bothered to change when he flipped to Georgia.

And maybe people are taking it as a sign that the NCAA is resigned to not enforcing sit-out years/waivers in the future, in which case it is a lot easier to clean house. But for now, it's just that players who are currently sitting out a year can start playing. You can only make players leave your first year as a coach. But this would still make it a lot easier to process players in subsequent years - right now you can tell them "you're not going to play here" but they might still stick around and hope for an opportunity rather than sit out. If coaches tell them they aren't playing here but they could be immediately eligible somewhere else, they're more likely to take the hint and bail. Something has to happen with our roster for sure though.

See that's what I thought, but it's not based on when you enter the portal. It's just for the next 2 weeks (potentially longer depending on what the judge says then) players are eligible - and there aren't many games in the next 2 weeks.

It's about to get crazier out there: This isn't bad IMO, just opens the door for guys who already transferred once and don't want to sit out a year but aren't thrilled with their current situation. A door that could close quickly. EDIT: I misread it, really only impacts some bowl games. The actual trial outcome could change things but this actually isn't that big of a deal.

I wondered about this - we need an RB plus he and Raiola were tight. But didn't figure it would actually amount to anything - that would be huge.

At the risk of reading into things way too much, I think this tweet is also related. Which I would read as 3 coaches going to Miami, two of whom are probably Dvoracek and Knighton. Cafe con Leche is a Pitbull song, so also points to Florida. To go full conspiracy theorist, the 3 palm trees could be the recruits rather than the coaches and we only have 2 committed from Florida. So maybe Sanders? There will need to be more current roster turnover, committed guys not actually signing, NIL "scholarships," or all of the above to get this roster to 85.

How is trading the ~#28th ranked QB for the 1st/2nd ranked one "blowing up in our face?"

They assistants seem... giddy.

I'd assume 2.0 is a reference to Raiola being a legacy - Dominic was 1.0, Dylan is 2.0.