Husker in WI

3 minutes ago, Toe said:

I think we're just down to Taumua left to sign, right? (He's in Hawaii, prolly just rolled outta bed.)

Signed right after you posted pretty much:

1 minute ago, HANC said:

Gradney ?  Has he signed yet?

Gradney has signed, all good there. There were some efforts to flip him, hence Cooper's reply:

Rhule said they consider him a positionless player and they expect him to play WR, TE, and RB. So he's Satterfield's new Jaheim Bell I guess.

1 minute ago, soup said:

So at this point we have almost everyone signed, right?  Who's left.

I don't think Taumua can sign yet since he's in a much earlier time zone (and he probably isn't awake yet), but I think that's it.

From his interview on the signing day livestream, ate 2 tomahawk steaks at Misty's and then had some Cane's later that night. A true lineman.

5 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Sounds like he is on the Ruggeroli plan.  Coming in as a walk on (with NIL) and scholarship comes in a year or 2.

That makes a lot of sense - I am all for taking 6'3 guys who run 10.6! But coming off an injury and with limited film he'd probably be a candidate to get dropped from a lot of schools. So getting some NIL money initially but not using up a scholarship during recovery is ideal. One of these years we're going to have to sign a class of like 12 guys though.

10 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

When I watched his film he has a little Jalen Ramsey in him.  I know he has to get adjusted to college football but he does a tremendous job of turning his head and looking for the football.  Most high school kids don't, they just turn and run.  He got swag.  Not sure why he isn't more highly thought of in the recruiting rankings maybe bc of his height.  He is 5'11 which may explain why they don't.

He's my pick to be this year's Dwight Bootle, hopefully without the ACL tear. Both small, but Bootle had just worked his way into the two deep as a true freshman - the Bufords (and Bootles) are just good football players. 

11 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

So Rivals has him as a tight end is he coming here to play as one or is he fast enough to be a wr like others think?

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.

35 minutes ago, gobiggergoredder said:

In a first for me I have to go with @Huskerfollower4life.  I think he plays.

 

Didn't we already have two TEs enter the portal?  He's a freak athlete.  The talent difference will be significant but he'll adapt and I think it'll be quick.  

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.

5 minutes ago, tyrone_biggums said:

does that excite us with the current Steeler's QB play?

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.

8 minutes ago, MyBloodIsRed16 said:

I would.  And I'm pretty sure more ex-huskers have played for the Bears than the Vikings.  

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.

3 minutes ago, MyBloodIsRed16 said:

he was right the first time.  If the vikings tried to draft him he would pull a John Elway and threaten to play baseball

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.

4 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

Agreed. Let's hope we pick up just as many as we lose.

1 hour ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

Problem lays in who wants to ride the pine with 4 so. & 2 jr. starters. Portal players want to play 

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.

2 minutes ago, Stumpy1 said:

Miami had him playing as a MLB because of how he reads plays quickly and that is why I said Lavonte.  I could also see him playing outside because of his speed. 

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.

7 minutes ago, Stumpy1 said:

Think Lavonte David.  He is a little bigger but has the speed. 

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.

9 minutes ago, Hilltop said:

Anyone else nervous about this matchup?  Texas isn't the same team that lost some games early in the year.  I think the Huskers will have their hands full if Texas serves the way they did last night.  They made a very good Wisconsin team look really bad...  

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. 

1 minute ago, BaytownHusker said:

What happen to the kid from Oklahoma in the 23 class?  I for sure thought he would be fun flying around at LB in this defense.

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.

12 hours ago, Decked said:

Now that we likely only have one real target from the portal in Hill at DB..this feels pretty devastating to the offense. We need 1-2 WRs & a RB so badly. There is a distinct lack of playmakers. That backfield is barren. Devoid of talent. They should’ve let Johnson & IGC go. Not sure what the likelihood of getting Washington back is. But they really need some dudes to help out. I just don’t get why we are bringing in the TE volume in the 2024 class either. 

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.

31 minutes ago, gobiggergoredder said:

I'd be curious to see how this would go.  I think it could be argued that his OC experience (success) was on the coat tails of others.

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.

Just now, hskrpwr13 said:

 

Which team is getting the other 21.5%?

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

Just now, gossamorharpy said:

I need to read more on what this means.  I'm still trying to figure out if Rhule has the ability to move players off scholly in his first year. In doing some research and other boards, I'm 95% sure rhule basically has through the end of this school year (May 2024) to reduce roster down to 85 via that "first year coach" provision.  There's some confusion if the first year means 12 months after hire date, or if is the first full school year (calendar).

 

If we truly do land Raiola and mccord, something tells me we'll be in the running for a few other guys who would be welcome additions to the team.  Somepoint we gotta get down to 85....

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.

3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Deion gonna ship out 2/3rds of the players he brought in last year via transfer in the next 2 weeks.

1 minute ago, gossamorharpy said:

Rhule about to do the same over the next 45 days  

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.