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WyoHusker56

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  1. I'd take Tommy's era of offensive stats sure, but in no world would I replace AM with Tommy. You drop AM into the talent Tommy had and AM probably breaks every QB record NU has.
  2. But when every big school has boosters funneling $20k to the players then it comes down to the facilities again. Also, I bet if Miami wanted new facilities this guy would get out his check book again. These boosters don't hesitate to throw money at the schools and players. Not to mention who's to say this guy wasn't already giving this money and now he's just doing it legally.
  3. Ya 2018 was still good, but like you said a lot of that was still Frosts team. Heupel's teams just trended downhill from there. It's not like they got bad, but they were never as good. And I agree on the QB play. I also wonder though if some of the QB looked so good because of the play around them. Those teams had great RBs, TEs, WRs, and lines. Mariota and Milton were great, but the players around them were too. Martinez's ceiling is probably close to those two, but he has to reach it for us to have that sort of season.
  4. The fact that Heupel took over that team and made it worse every year speaks a lot to what Frost did too. Frost took a good team, made it great and then Heupel took it over and had success early, but has never replicated what Frost did. In this case Frost took over an awful team and now he needs to make it average (lot harder than it seems) before he can make it good then great. I'll admit I want Frost to succeed because of who he is, but I think we need to give him at least two more years unless things just fall off the rails this year. Everything is in place this year to make a jump forward and it needs to happen, but I'm not in the camp that thinks less than 8 or 9 wins this year is failing.
  5. I've worked in digital marketing and done a lot of influencer campaigns and such for the last 7 years and these early sponsorships are so hilarious. Though the early influencer marketing attempts were the same and it has really settled in now. All these kids are just grabbing a quick buck and good for them. I now know what Gopuffs is! ha
  6. Ya usually, state taxes say you have to live there or have to have earned the money in the state. So, if you play a game in the state and are paid for that you get taxed. However, if you sign a deal for your NIL and sign deals in your home state then you aren't getting taxed for going to play elsewhere as it isn't tied to the game. Also, I doubt most state officials/legislatures are going to want to see kids in their state getting hit with crazy tax bills. That'd be a PR nightmare they'd fix quickly.
  7. I genuinely have no idea, is Callahan the one who ranks the kids? Or is he more of a journalist and they have guys behind the scenes with legitimate experience who evaluate the kids. There has to be tons of former college players, coaches, etc. that want a gig like that, but without being a journalist.
  8. Honestly, it feels like kind of a lazy attempt on a logo. Cam's "juice" logo was way cooler and original.
  9. Typical that AD is let go in concert with the disastrous seasons and not randomly in the middle of the summer though too. Had Moos "retired" within a month of football season then I'd follow here, but this seems very unrelated to sports performance. Especially considering the recent Baseball success.
  10. This is a really good point. You'll forever have a segment of the fan base that dislikes you for that and it'd be even worse if your guy came in and was mediocre.
  11. Can you name one advantage of going back? There is just as many teams to beat us perennially OK, OK ST, Texas, Baylor, TCU, we'll still have an Iowa team to lose to Kansas State is basically Northwestern. We'll have a mind numbing loss to Kansas just like Illinois. We'll have less money, worse TV rights and be in a less respected conference. We'll have to deal with Texas's BS. I just don't get people's desire to go back. We left for good reasons that still exist.
  12. The Ed Stewart stuff coming this fast makes it seem like he was their pick and something forced them to move quickly to get him.
  13. Considering Ronnie Green was part of the search that landed Moos on the grounds of hiring Frost, I imagine he'll conduct this search on the grounds of we're letting Frost build this. As long as the upper leadership is united behind Frost still I can't imagine they'd bring in an AD who was willing to rock the boat for his guy that quickly.
  14. Wow, I have something in common with a power 5 AD. My boss and I had a strong disagreement this week and I also abruptly "retired" today.
  15. Except nearly 100% of that stays local. The CEO of GSA makes like $200k a year which is a pretty modest CEO salary. College athletes free labor helps fund multimillion dollar salaries for coaches, ADs, commissioners and presidents.
  16. Louisville's coach saying LM left because he expected a starting job and what not was so much worse than anything Frost said. Frost didn't need to make the reference, but he's not wrong and for kids not named LM transferring 2-3 times or more is going to make it really likely you never graduate.
  17. I mean Frost has already turned this around. The first draft after he was hired there were no Huskers selected and only one in the two prior which is on Pelini/Riley. Since then we had two selected in 2020 and two in 2021. Likely at least two maybe more in 2022. So, I think he'll send players to the NFL that's something that takes time to show up though.
  18. I think the only QB we've recruited under Frost that we promised could keep playing QB that others didn't was McCaffrey. AM was very much recruited as a QB. So, was Smothers. Haarberg's recruitment started late, but he was still looked at as a QB by the schools that recruited him. Bo did this a lot though.
  19. The top 10 has 5 starters and 2-3 contributors in it. Plus it's just that a top 10 with the lowest number being 34 inches which is WAY above your average. So, there is probably a whole lot more starters and contributors a couple inches down the list you can't see. This top 10 doesn't say anything about our players needing to work harder.
  20. I think you're underestimating how good a 34.5 inch vertical for an OL is. Only one OL in the combine out jumped him and he tied Alex Leatherwood who was drafted 17th overall. He out jumped Travis Etienne, RB from Clemson, 1st round pick, by a full inch. He out jumped multiple WRs, LBs, OL, DL, RBs, and Safeties who went in the first 3 rounds. Cam is a freak of an athlete and that jump doesn't discount the athletes we have at other positions at all.
  21. The problem is you don't know which read the guy who was open 12 yards is. He could be the last read and QBs are taught to take the first open read. Or maybe he was the first read and he was covered, the QB moved on and then he came open. Judging who a QB is throwing to while watching with no knowledge of the play or reads is really not an indication of how good a QB is.
  22. Smothers has been on campus for a year and we've seen extremely limited practice video of him. There is no way to expect he'd be a savior. Haarberg is a true freshmen again no way to expect he's a savior. How many coaching staffs are recruiting and developing guys into saviors by their redshirt freshman year? So those two can't even realistically be judged. McCaffrey was a miss but that's 1 out of 4. Martinez has another year to show what he can do before you can say this staff didn't develop him well.
  23. This sounds more like media and fans anointing the newest recruit as the savior every year and then doing it again the next year and disparaging the other guy to promote the savior. We did it with Martinez, McCaffrey, Smothers, Haarberg, seems like a trend in over hyped expectations and not recruiting/development issues.
  24. I think people forget that Brown was a QB until he switched to WR in prep and then had last year. He's still learning the position. Nixon has played the position and is a coach's kid so there is a good chance that if he's healthy he can jump Brown. I still think Brown plays and flashes a few times this year.
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