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44 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

I’m having trouble believing that the full time QB coaching gig at DONU can compete monetarily with being a private coach for the likes of Mahomes. Seems like he would need a whole bunch of leeway with his time commitment to NU and that might not be too great. 
 

Look at me go. We don’t even have McCord or Raiola signed yet and concerned about the availability of a coach who also hasn’t signed up  
#peakoffseason

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.  

2 hours ago, Decked said:

I tortured little red in my basement 

 

 

you’re welcome 

Is that a euphemism?

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

30 minutes ago, Red Five said:

 

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

On 12/10/2023 at 6:46 PM, Mavric said:

 

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

1 hour ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

What do you mean???

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.  

1 hour ago, The Murphinator said:

 

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

29 minutes ago, Red Five said:

"100% of your contribution goes directly to student athletes"

 

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

6 hours ago, Caliborn72 said:

The first loss that’s a bit of a bummer. Thought he played pretty well when he got PT this year - but I also felt that other starting corner spot could have been his all year and it’s probably not a great sign that he never took it. By all accounts though, he brought good energy to practice and I am rooting for him to land at a good spot.

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.  

14 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

 

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.  

13 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

I see that, but I think that unless the payments are raised significantly, football players are still underpaid? The amount they can make under this proposal is still limited by Title IX considerations. Until schools find a way around Title IX, which I think is only possible if football is privatized, the amount players can make is still much less than their fair market value.

 

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.  

On 11/27/2023 at 10:27 PM, AlaSker said:

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….

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.  

6 hours ago, Undone said:

 

This is some really good analysis right here. And it isn't just accuracy or play calling in general that affects the bolded part. I think it's also:

 

1. Some kind of drive by our staff (past and present) to run the QB quite a bit.

2. This season we ran the play clock down on almost every single play, resulting in fewer offensive plays, period.

 

People will argue that item #1 starts to go away if the other elements are clicking. But this goes to the last thing you said about "establishing a proof of concept." This is kind of rhetorical here, but what is the proof of concept?

 

I think we're all really wondering that heading into year 2.

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.

2 hours ago, Hayseed said:

Might as well stick with who we have then and hope we’re good enough to beat Minn and NW

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.  

On 11/29/2023 at 5:51 PM, Undone said:

 

But nevertheless it's kind of in conflict with Rhule's statement of basically saying "Well, shucks...a good QB costs a lot of money these days!" Because if money isn't the problem, you buy the best players you can get and you develop them. It's an arms race.

 

Don't f*** up with another Jeff Sims, coach. And if Purdy is the guy, make him significantly better than he is right now by week 1 next season.

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.  

12 minutes ago, gobiggergoredder said:

Wasn't OU his second team?  He had a pretty good year.

 

How anyone thinks a lower level team is ever going to keep good players in beyond me.

He's following Lebby 

3 hours ago, Scofrosghost said:

He was Satterfields hand picked guy. But you’re right Rhule should have watched some tape and said “no, bad Marcus!” 
 

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.  

2 hours ago, chamrocck said:

Highly touted recruit and UCLA QB Dante Moore in the portal. From what I saw of him he needs work. Bad body language and seemed like he didn’t want to be at UCLA. 
 

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/dante-moore-enters-transfer-portal-touted-ucla-qb-to-explore-options-after-rocky-freshman-season/amp/

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.  

On 11/25/2023 at 10:00 PM, lo country said:

IMHO, the way the portal is now, unofficial folks, will reach out to "perspective" transfer portals unofficial folks to gauge interest and arrange NIL deal.  Don't really think that the "higher" rated guys just enter and hope to be taken.  Wonder who we are reaching out too?

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.

1 hour ago, Mavric said:

I think Sims actually does have the best arm.  He just can't make good decisions with the ball.

 

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-