The_Fan_Man

His HUDL highlights are great and I really enjoy watching that style of offensive line play at the high school level.

1 hour ago, Toe said:

247 ranks the top 25 facilities in college football. Nebraska comes in at... not on the list. While teams like Northwestern, Texas Tech, Kentucky, and even Illinois appear.

 

https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/college-football-recruiting-2021-facilities-Alabama-Clemson-Ohio-State-LSU-Texas-Georgia-Florida-160189814/#160189814_16

That is a dumb list and seems more like the author was concerned with which place he'd want to spend a week at on vacation. Ranking facilities because they have a recording studio or a minigolf course instead of medical facilities, nutritional support, performance labs, and strength facilities is silly. Having been to more than a few of these places, I can say that Nebraska's facilities are in that top level, especially when the new facility comes on board. 

If Hubert has the size (and it looks like he does), then his hands, blanace, and motor make him look like an easy offer. Getting over two sacks and 4 1/2 TFLs per game is wild. I hope the coaches get a chance to see him in person.

18 minutes ago, Lightfighter214 said:

Marriota was first scene by mark helfrich.

 

Herbert is the same year as milton, frost cant get credit for both

Scott Frost was the guy who identified Justin Herbert and was his lead recruiter. Then he was hired by UCF and identified McKenzie Milton as his target for UCF. He was the lead on both of those guys. Not to mention his role in getting Marcus Mariota and Vernon Adams.

The Tommy Armstrong comparison is great. He looks really good.

Also, after getting injured in the first half, his team was in the craziest 4th quarter in high school football since the Tyler/Plano East game of 1994.

I think we have a really good group of linebackers coming in but I'm also an idiot.

1. Thomas Fidone
2. Wynden Ho'ohuli
3. Henry Lutovsky
4. Mikai Gabor
5. Kamonte Grimes
6. Randolph Kpai

Sleeper: Seth Malcolm

Thomas is smooth for a guy that tall. Really makes guys miss.

1 minute ago, Huskers93-97 said:

I would happily take Freshman Martinez over Sophomore or Junior Martinez. 

I don't think there is a likelihood of Adrian Martinez having a 2800/1000 season with a 4-to-1 TD/TO ratio but I wanted to put in the best case scenario for roster attrition that would have solved the problem.

Just now, Huskers93-97 said:

At the rate transfers are happening around the country I think it might just sort itself out. Unfortunately for most of those kids the other teams wont have room on their roster either so they will have to go down a level or 2. Or guys that are not in the 2-3 deep and are a junior or senior maybe programs will just have to push them out to get back to an 85 limit in a few years.

A bunch of the transfers seem to be because programs realize there is an inevitable scholarship crunch coming. I agree with Mavric that there is going to be some form of easement by the NCAA but who knows what form it will take? It's difficult to imagine a scenario where teams aren't forced to have smaller classes in 2022 and 2023 at least.

Assuming we want to take a QB in the upcoming class, the numbers dictated that we had to lose one quarterback. Ideally, McCaffery moving to WR or Martinez having such a great year that he was in demand as an NFL QB would have solved this problem but it had to happen in some form.

Obviously losing Wan'Dale Robinson hurts a bunch and you want an athlete like McCaffery on the team but maybe not as a QB. I think that people are missing the long term picture with transfers this year. Remember that every single player gets an extra year of eligibility out of this season. For example, Adrian Martinez will be a junior going into next year and Logan Smothers will have the same eligibility as a true freshman. However, the extra scholarships above the 85 limit is only good for those players that were seniors last year.  We don't know how many football scholarships teams will be allowed in 2022 and that makes things very interesting.

So we are at 89 scholarships for next year (with the possibility of adding two more). Let's make a wild example and say after next season and say no Huskers on scholarship quit, transfer, or go pro over the next year. We would bet at 83 scholarships in 2022, only able to add two more recruits total. 

Essentially, Nebraska (and almost every other school) needs noncontributing players to transfer out in order to build their future. Numbers are going to be very tight everywhere. Without the NCAA amending their 2022 scholarship rules, we will need about a dozen scholarship players to leave.

Here's a short video where Tom Osborne agrees that not going for two earlier was a mistake.

The only Big 8 teams that Rozier didn't get 400 yards against were Iowa State (377) and Mizzou (305) even though he only played three seasons. He averaged over 153 ypg against the Big 8.

1 minute ago, skers83 said:

Melvin Gordon. Wasn't that in one game?

Three Games

2-5-0

9-216-1

25-408-4

With Darren Sproles getting inducted to the CFB Hall-of-Fame, OWH writer Sam McKewon pointed out that Sproles had 458 yards against the Huskers in his career. It made me think about who has gotten over 400 against us and, more importantly, which one of our guys went for more than 400 against a single opponent.

My initial comb through found five six players that accomplished that against Nebraska;

6. Brad Smith (Mizzou): 428

5. Montee Ball (Wisconsin): 446

4. Darren Sproles (Kansas State): 458

3. Billy Sims (Oklahoma): 587

2. Melvin Gordon (Wisconsin): 632

1. Jonathan Taylor (Wisconsin): 674

Nebraska has had at least six players accomplish this feat against ten opponents;

Roy Helu (Mizzou): 406

Ken Clark (Oklahoma State): 424

Ameer Abdullah (Illinois): 433

Eric Crouch (Colorado): 434

Mike Rozier (Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Colorado, Oklahoma): 587, 584, 499, 462, 405

Calvin Jones (Kansas): 596 Edit: Thanks Husker in WI

Ahman Green (Iowa State, Mizzou): 599, 440

If anybody can think of some other examples, I'd love to add them to the list. There's probably a bunch that I'm forgetting.

Good luck to Stoll, he's been a very good blocker that has the ability to pick up short yardage very well. It's tough to lose a leader like him from the team, but I hope that he finds his niche in the NFL.

22 hours ago, ScarletRevival said:

 

Quick math, in the 90 year period from 1869-1959 Nebraska had zero claimed National Championships and average less than 1 win per year more than each of those 3 programs.

 

If you'd like to consider that to be head and shoulders above those programs then we will have to agree to disagree.

 

Thanks for doing the leg work, though.

Well, we didn't start playing until 1890. We could claim a National Championship if we wanted in 1902 where we didn't have a point scored on us all year. We also could claim it for undefeated seasons in 1903, 1913, and 1915 or with dominant teams with tough schedules in 1921, 1922, and 1933 without much controversy. We're were so much better than those guys even before Devaney got here. Don't look up Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State, or Minnesota though. They were killers in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

20 hours ago, macroboy said:

Did somebody think they just won an argument by quoting our record from 1890 to 1940?

 

It would be hard to find better proof of how far we have fallen than that right there.

 

who f@;$(&::ng cares?!?!

The point somebody made was that Nebraska was only Devaney and Osborne with a barren wasteland outside of those 40 years. That is objectively untrue. Nebraska has a long, dominant football tradition. We have as many exceptional years as Notre Dame, Alabama, Oklahoma, USC, Michigan, or Ohio State. And...why wouldn't you care about history. Notre Dame is in the playoff and talks about the 4 Horsemen and George Gipp and Knute Rockne. Alabama can't stop talking about their Mount Rushmore of coaches with Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Bear Bryant, and Nick Saban. Michigan has 1997 as the only National Championship since Jackie Robinson played for the Dodgers and still acts like they are one of only two teams in the Big 10.

College football is a story of continuity of teams despite a turnover of players. It's unique in that way unlike any other sport.

44 minutes ago, Huskers93-97 said:

Prove it. How many wins does Nebraska have pre 1960? 

How many wins does Iowa have pre 1960? 

How many wins does Northwestern have pre 1960?

How many wins does Purdue have pre 1960? 

 

 

Nebraska was one of the powers of college football before WWII, having the 5th best winning percentage from 1890-1941. Then it was 20 terrible years until Devaney showed up. From Devaney's first game to the last game of Tom Osborne's recruits, Nebraska had the best 40 year period in college football history. Since 2002, Nebraska is 35th in winning percentage.

Nebraska has nearly a century of exceptional football and about 35 years of bad to average teams clumped into two periods.

From 1869-1959

Nebraska: 359-211-34

Iowa: 293-242-28

Northwestern: 272-266-37

Purdue: 295-228-39

I'm realizing that a lot of guys probably haven't seen Johnny Rodgers for more than a few of his big punt returns. Here's a 15 minute highlight of what he looked like on the field. He was the best offensive weapon in college football in the 1970s and probably the best player ever to put on a Husker uniform.

4 hours ago, Hedley Lamarr said:

That makes one of us. I am sold on his athletic ability but I do not view him as a refined QB that isnt going to take a few years of development to hopefully become our QB. The kid is a D1 athlete I just wonder if he ends up being a QB or moving to another position. 

I'm not saying that he's Trevor Lawrence or Justin Herbert. I'm just much more encouraged by his film than I thought that I'd be. The one thing that really excites me about Haarberg's prospects as a QB is that ability to drive the ball in on a deep out. We haven't had a guy that could physically do that since Tanner Lee. Obviously his lower body is a mess and he fades away on too many passes, but when he's balanced and takes that short step into a throw, it's so much better than what we've had. I don't think he needs to be broken down and rebuilt.

It's really all about how quickly he can understand the offensive concepts and how well he can quickly decipher a defense. That's a big leap from Class C. I don't see him on the field in the next two years, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him in front of Smothers at some point.

Heinrich Haarberg posted his senior highlights recently. But maybe more interesting are the 5-10 minute highlights that he posted of every game this season. One of the most informative about his skills would be their playoff loss to Adams Central. Haarberg is a big, good looking athlete, the type that get drafted early. He's got a big arm and passes really well on the run and under pressure. I was iffy about him as a QB going into this year, but I am pretty sold on him being more than an athlete when I see him play against good competition.

Gbayor's senior highlights are on HUDL and it's mostly just him beating up dudes on the field, which is what you want to see from an inside linebacker.

1 hour ago, Husker in WI said:

That's pretty high for low expectations, our starting TE has only hit that mark 3 times in the last decade. Kyler Reed had 395 in 2010 and 357 in 2012, and Tyler Hoppes had 377 in 2017. Allen is technically on pace for ~360 if we assumed 12 games for this year. But if Fidone gets 350 as a true freshman probably not even starting, I will be all aboard the hype train! I'm already mostly aboard anyway.

I agree with you completely and you put it better than I did. 350 yards would be an incredible year and mean that he's every bit the 5 Star that we want him to be. But my expectations are a lot lower, that he plays some slot and catches some first downs that get us excited for his future. I mean, Kyle Pitts only caught three balls during his Freshman year coming into a situation at Florida that is similar to ours next year.

15 hours ago, Farms said:

Some people may not like comments like that but I love it. We need more alphas on this team.

I like the attitude, but temper my enthusiasm in reading too much from it. Maybe he's unique, but I remember the same things surrounding Niles Paul before he got here. How he was a culture changing receiver and just a killer that was unlike anybody we had in the locker room. He gets to Lincoln and what he thought was hard work wasn't hard work in the college sense. Paul was able to dedicate himself athletically and had a very nice career at Nebraska and in the NFL. But that expectation that you step onto a college field and do things the same way that you did them in high school usually smacks you in the face pretty hard.

The athleticism and size that guys like Fidone and Paul possess let them dominate the high school level. There is a lot to learn about the craft and maturing as an athlete, especially at the TE position. I expect Fidone to come in and be an instant contributor from the slot, be a mismatch in the red zone, and play some H-Back in some of our 10 and 12 packages. However he's going to be behind Allen and Stoll (if he returns) on most of our 11 personnel sets. I don't put too high of expectations on any freshman to come in and save the team, especially at such a physically demanding position.

For me, if he stays healthy and gets 350 yards next season, that would be a tremendous accomplishment.

Remember that Bobby Newcombe was much, much faster before his injuries. He still has the New Mexico state record in the 100m dash. I think that Robinson has as much talent as anybody to play the position in the since Nuke (and maybe including Bobby). Pierson-El and Spielman would be in the conversation as well.

Here is Buckley's senior highlight reel. He's got a great motor, really nice football sense, and a powerful base. Of course, I don't think he's playing against the top level of Michigan football, but he's got 9 good minutes of film, which is tough to do at any level. If he's already 280, I have no doubts that he'll play on the interior line once his upper body starts to fill out.