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2 hours ago, Decked said:

Seems like they move Butler, Umanmielen, & Sherman all over. Not sure position really matters anymore. 

2 hours ago, Akees said:

Butler is a DE. PWill is going to be the starting Jack when healthy. He flashed much more last year than Borders or Sherman. 

Legitimately forgot about Umanmielen. Was he rehabbing this spring?

9 minutes ago, Decked said:

I don’t think he was going to start. Probably wanted to play now. Have to think with his lack of stats he would be going to a non-power five school. 

Just curious since it’s hard to keep track of the “Jack” LB depth. Who do we have? Jimari Butler?

3 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Pretty sure that is Rex Guthrie.

The dude wearing number 12 as a DB, wasn’t a white dude.

4 hours ago, Decked said:

Confirmed he is walking-on. Starting out more than likely at LB but could play RB. 

An athletic freak no doubt. He would probably been at Nebraska his entire career if the frost out Rhule in could have happened a year earlier.

Athletically reminds me of Phalen Sanford, off the chart combine style stats. Size wise could play inside or out as an LB on the smallish side.

Really seems like a Rhule kind of guy, fast and athletic and can be taught how to play “college football”. 

6 hours ago, GSG said:

Maybe they could add a specialty section of the facility like "The Bo Pelini Rage Room" where you can break s#!t and scream? 

 

Could also add the "Scott Frost Margaritaville Bar" for those 21+ 

 

 

I think you are forgetting the Mike Riley soft serve and sundae bar. Filled with every sprinkle you can imagine.

16 minutes ago, Red Five said:

 

100% agree.  And I love 12 because it keeps some meaningfulness to the regular season for teams you know are going to make it.  Makes winning your conference a big deal.

 

If you get to 16, may as well do away with conference championship games.  Teams playing in those would almost be at a disadvantage as it would be an extra game of wear and tear on the players.

The trick will be to either win your conference or somehow be second best in your division and still be in the top 12. To get a bye or skip the CCG respectively. 

12 minutes ago, DGNU said:

Is Ochoa a walk-on? Not seeing him listed anywhere, schollie-wise...

Yes he is an NIL walk-on. As well as the two we added today, they were just more highly-touted.

15 hours ago, PasstheDamnBallGuy said:

I wonder how close Lendhart is to being on this list. 

I’m not sure that Lenhardt is truly considered an edge. It’s hard to define an “EDGE” anymore, so not saying you’re wrong. 
 

He should have graded out close to the top of whatever they consider his position to be for freshman.

EDIT- looks like he is listed as an EDGE in PFF, shows what I know. 

Recently saw some talk about Sam LaPorta being the best TE in the NFL this year. He was a stud at Iowa and did great in the league this season.

Got me wondering what his dimensions were out of HS. 
 

He was a 6’4” 208 pound wide receiver in HS and only rated a 3 star. (Star rating isn’t my thought here)

Nelson has similar dimensions and a higher star rating- which at this point I equate to athletic ability. If Nelson grew to be Sam LaPorta I would be ecstatic, we could use a strong TE rep in the NFL.

The other note here is that I feel like the TE spot is the hardest to project from HS to the NFL. Plenty of college position change TE have been successful in the NFL. Just seems like a hard position to peg until the player has matured. 
 

Super excited to see what Nelson can do in the future.

4 hours ago, Huskers93-97 said:

From what I can see he was a low 3 star as a prospect and hasn’t played much the last few years. What is there to be excited about? 

When he originally transferred to Texas he was considered a major get 4 ⭐️. He got hurt and didn’t show his potential at Texas. 
 

Bottom line: he is experienced and had a really high projected ceiling at one point. Hopefully he can prove that ceiling to be true. If not, hopefully he can be a consistent pass catcher for the younger guys to learn from and pull his weight on the field.

From the looks of it we are going to run out of #15 jerseys to give these guys.

1 minute ago, HANC said:

Gradney ?  Has he signed yet?

Shows signed on 24/7

I thought if they took an OV they couldn't do the "NIL Schollie". 

Just now, SouthLincoln Husker said:

Why?  I though he was visiting today or tomorrow.  Also possibly part of the McCord transfer. 

They are talking about Former 5 Star current JUCO WR Demond Demas. Not Fleming

33 minutes ago, Mavric said:

I'm a big fan of grabbing 4-5 guys out of the portal that you think can help.  Sounds like we'll be on the low end of numbers this year.

 

But hopefully we can hit better than last year.  Looking at the list, we got really solid guys in Ben Scott and Marco Ortiz (for a few snaps per game).  Kemp was OK but I was hoping for more.  Sherman was decent but not a game-changer.  Fleeks contributed a little.

 

But then you go through Sims, Gilbert, Hood, Knaak, Jeudy, Wallin, Borders and Collier and there's not a lot of contributions from that list.  Some are still fairly young but I'd like most of my portal guys to be a bit more instant-impact.

Wallin was a JUCO guy, more of a normal recruit than a transfer portal guy. Knaak seems young and that he will contribute soon. Borders played a fair amount but definitely didn't stand out.

I agree with you, going to the portal should be someone who is more of an instant impact guy, or a game-changer.

I think we just ended up with guys who were rotational guys, or improvements over the options of a freshman wideout.

Entered the Transfer portal. 

9 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

Nebraska will probably find another dual threat qb who can't throw and is turnover prone.  I hope for the better but Nebraska seems to not like to get new nice things.  We tend to shoot ourselves in the foot a lot.  I really wish they stop going after a dual threat qb and go get a pock passing qb.  The last qb that didn't have wheels to run was Zach Taylor and look how we did.  Yes different time and conference but same concept.

Ummm…. I still have nightmares about the statue of Tanner Lee. He could be noted as the QB who began this downward trend.

14 minutes ago, Husker in WI said:

 

Not to downplay any of the others, but yeah him and Q are the ones who will be tough to replace on the field. As long as Gifford comes back I still feel good about the secondary, but Brown and Q were undoubtedly our top Safety and Corner by pretty big margins. 

Singleton was also up there pre-injury.

Just curious.. since we missed out on the extra 15 practices for a bowl game. 
 

What kind of rules are in place to keep the roster from meeting and running their own “practice”. With maybe some coach suggestions. 
 

Kind of like the voluntary High school practices in July, that coaches can run as “camps”.

If the upper classmen are intent on winning, what is preventing them from doing this for next year?

this is a question more than anything….

Really surprised on Gifford

Let it be by the code

Scott got blown off the ball by 3 yards on that one.

On 7/19/2023 at 11:10 PM, Mavric said:

 

No longer on Hutchinson roster.

At this point, I'm not sure why we don't have another RB commit. We should at least be pursuing somebody else.

I don't want to lose this guy, but this year showed the need to have 3-4 RB's in the stable and prepared to play. I feel like we need another, (maybe portal guy), aside from Kewan.

But we need to do anything and everything to keep this kid in the fold.

Houston Christian University, was Houston Baptist University up until 2022.

Only reason I am familiar is because Lance Berkman (Big Puma) is the Baseball Coach at the school now.