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I hesitate to feed into all this speculation, but I seriously doubt a trainer makes anything close to an assistant coach these days. Kieth Williams managed to continue training the likes of Tyreke Hill while he was a position coach at NU and Pep Hamilton did the same across his various coaching gigs.

Is that a euphemism?

Safe to say this would be the biggest recruiting W for Nebraska since Tommie Frazier

I would hope that's not their sales pitch. In what world would they not want both?

Smart choice. Narduzzi's scheme is right at the top of those I'd want to play in.

Dillon Gabriel choose UCF over USC because of Jeff Lebby, followed Lebby to OU, and was presumably leaving OU to follow Lebby to Miss St.

I guess loyalty has its limits and they are Mississippi State &/or $

These collectives have a "money grab" feel to them that make politics seem above board. An overhead % of zero, pleasant & shocking surprise.

I think Lynum is more of a quarters or zone corner & NU is a base man off defense under White. He received pretty extended playing time due to injury in a few games, including the Michigan game, and not only wasn't victimized, I only noticed a few passes caught on him, but it seemed like White played a lot more cover 3 and 2 when he was on the field. Maybe protecting him a little bit??? I feel like when Nebraska was at their very best, they had a lot of players like this contributing in secondary roles, and on special teams. It's hard to improve when you are constantly getting younger, but that's the modern era of football, and the cost of coaching turnover.

One of the litmus tests for QB's is the ability to throw the ball from the 40 to the goalline on a rope. The play starting at 41 seconds is a little late, but from the 46 to 5 yards deep in the end zone. He's a little pedestrian in his drop and therefore a tad late on a number of throws, but his fundamentals, and arm talent are better than anything I can recall seeing at Nebraska.

Title IX was always the roadblock in attempts to provide player stipends. The dam finally broke with a NIL solution coming from the outside and has been manipulated to simply pay players. Now the NCAA is back where it started looking at dramatically higher figures, but pandora's box is open. The price for doing nothing.

This is probably closer to how it should be given the direction NIL has taken or should I say a more honest approach of doing what is being done behind the scenes. But, it appears obvious they ran into the obstacle of complying with Title IX while developing it. Seems general managers will be a reality in college football soon.

I think you're asking if informal workouts typically associated with the summer can be done in the spring term during non spring practice time. The answer is yes, but it's not really replacing formal bowl practices that occur over the winter break, and time is limited because winter conditioning is the priority. Somebody else referenced staff participation, I'm not certain, but I believe the NCAA now allows staff to be hands on for 8hrs a week during informal workouts. I have no idea if that also would extend to "informal throwing sessions" during the spring term.

Exactly. I won't pretend I'm certain what it is, but it's the vision they are selling to recruits, and at some point sooner rather than later what they are producing has to resemble what they are selling.

If anybody is familiar with AAU baseball tournaments, a lot of teams try to hold their best pitcher until the championship game, while the teams that typically get there focus on winning the game they're in, and worry about what's next when they get there. Improving QB play next season is not just W's & L's in 2024 IMO, NU is stacking some reasonably impressive talent in the WR & TE rooms and how long will they be content splitting 11 catches & 135 yards per game or even modest improvement from that? Establish proof of concept, set a standard as high as possible, and then attracting QB's who can play up to that standard is increasingly easier.

This is spot on. Saban isn't a master developer of talent, he puts as much talent as he can acquire in the room, and it's survival of the fittest. There is a highway of discarded blue chip recruits in his wake. Ryan Day didn't bet the future of OSU on Dylan Raiola & he had him committed.

He's following Lebby

It was Rhule's connection to and recommendation from Geoff Collins that generated interest in Sims. What Rhule probably should have asked himself was why Key, the coach who recruited Sims, his former OC, & new HC wanted to move on from him. Rhule took some big swings on reclamation projects in year one, they each bombed miserably, hopefully he is done taking rehab projects.

He fumbled vs Cal and lost his helmet on the play, literally spent time sitting on the field straightening out his head sock before even looking to see who recovered his fumble.

If I'm picking up what Rhule is putting down, should White leave, the next DC is already on staff. It seems clear McGuire is being groomed on the offensive side of the ball, I haven't gotten the same sense of a clear #2 on the defensive side.

This is indeed how it's being utilized and coach Prime saying wait until you see what we have coming before they've played their final game & a single player is in the portal is the answer to the question nobody really wants to ask. I'm not naive, but Rhule is on record as saying NU won't do this because and I'm paraphrasing here, I can't ask our players to follow the rules if we're circumventing them.

If I'm Rhule, I have Evan Cooper contact Don Chaney Jr.

He's also looked like he was aiming the ball or pulling the string on it. His best college game may have been his first & his confidence is shot.

The defensive staff's ability to get production from such a large volume of players was impressive. They definitely provided proof of concept on that side of the ball. Fidone & Prochazka made it out of the season in tact, several young players got their feet wet, & there was modest improvement on the O-Line. I wouldn't go so far as to say a foundation was laid, but they aren't starting from scratch again this spring.

The improvement on D was better than I could have imagined. Taking ways to self-destruct to a new level was unimaginable. Going 0-4 needing 1 win to become bowl eligible, kinda pathetic given the competition. Defense A- Offensive F Special Teams C-