Farms

1 hour ago, Akees said:

Is Eric Fields banged up? Rhule mentioned in camp that Fields would be a factor on Special Teams.

Could be. But Rhule seems like he is conscious of preserving redshirts. Maybe we’ll see him in 4 games in the later in the season.

HH played a good game but still feel that we need to temper the enthusiasm a bit. From what I saw he pretty much locked onto one receiver as well. Against a better team that’s not going to work. He should have had one interception as well that was dropped by the defender. 

Per Sean Callahan Farmer is the only player missing from fan day. Both Newsome and Singleton are there.

12 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Maybe part of why we're taking 36 defensive backs in this recruiting class???

Could be. Also you look at a guy like Farmer that’s listed as a Junior but has already played 4 years here. I mean we know what the ceiling is and Rhule might be wanting to roll with younger guys. I think we’ll havre some guys not listed at seniors be encouraged to move on if they don’t do it on their own.

12 minutes ago, lo country said:

If Farmer and Newsome are gone, wth......That'll leave a mark.  Any idea the reasons?  Just saw something on Reddit and Huskermax....Some smoke to that ref Farmer.

Supposedly didn’t get along with Cooper, lack of buy in. Further supposedly Farmer had been passed by Sanford and wasn’t even on the two deep. But Newsome would be odd considering Cooper gave a seemingly glowing review of him a couple weeks ago. 
 

Sean Callahan acknowledged the smoke but seemed to be referring to Farmer. He seems to be avoiding answering when being asked about Newsome. Something is definitely up.

That being said I just don’t see either Farmer or Singleton as huge losses other than hurting depth. Newsome is a potential NFL guy and had one spot locked down, he’d obviously be a huge loss.

4 hours ago, Red Five said:

Internet rumblings of Myles Farmer not being around...

Word on another board is Farmer, Newsome, and Singleton are all gone. Wow if true. 

2 hours ago, Decked said:

I would take Brix, Massey, & Pyfrom no questions asked. 
 

 

that would be a great sweep! I think we maybe get 2/3. 

Brix is a guy you make room for even if the other two are already committed. I’m just not sure if that works the other way around though. Wishful thinking would be that Brix is leaning N so Pyfrom wants to secure his spot but I’m not sure if that’s the case. 

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

From portal departures we ended up at 88.  But according to Rhule we got down to 83, then filled back to 85 with 2 walk-ons (my guess is Bullock and Boerkircher).

 

 

Sounds like possibly Bleekrode, Ortiz, and Fleeks not on "scholarship" + at least two guys taking the "retirement package"  Guessing those guys would be from the LB/DB rooms.

27 minutes ago, Decked said:

Allen to the portal. Hurts us next year. EJ/the guy they brought in this class are pretty suspect.

Luckily RB is an easy position to get a guy from the portal if needed. Also the easiest position to have a freshman be an impact player. Gotta go get a stud this class.

1 hour ago, Decked said:

Good for players great for the top of the line schools. Horrible for non-power five schools & FCS programs as they are basically just farm teams 

I'm not so sure about that.  Just as you have guys moving up from lower levels you have guys transferring down as well. Still though it sucks if they luck into finding an absolute stud he won't finish there.  Overall I think it may increase parity of college football throughout the Power 5 but I also think it's going to make it extra tough to knock down the top dogs now.  It's going to be rare that teams like Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State ever have an off year because they'll never have holes in their roster.  They whiff on a few QB classes in a row, no big deal just go to the portal and get somebody better.

7 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Time to update the Frost high school WR/TE recruiting chart.  Wouldn't be surprised if I have to update this another time next week.

 

Only 4 of 18 WRs remain.  And only 1 of those 4 have ever played in a game (Betts).

 

Only 2 of 7 TEs remain at TE (2 moved to defense this spring).  The 2 remaining have played in 1 game.

 

HS WRs

2018 Andre Hunt - 0 games / 0 yards / kicked off

2018 Miles Jones - 1 game / 26 yards / transferred

2018 Justin McGriff - 0 games / 0 yards / transferred

2018 Dominick Watt - 0 games / 0 yards / never made to campus

2019 Wandale Robinson - 18 games / 1494 yards / transferred

2019 Darien Chase - 1 game / 13 yards / transferred

2019 Demariyon Houston - 0 games / 0 yards / transferred

2019 Jamie Nance - 0 games / 0 yards / transferred

2020 Zavier Betts - 18 games / 526 yards / quit for 2022 season, back for 2023

2020 Marcus Fleming - 1 game / 75 yards / transferred

2020 Alante Brown - 22 games / 279 yards / transferred

2020 Will Nixon - 1 game / 5 yards / transferred

2021 Latrell Nevell - 0 games / 0 yards / transferred

2021 Kamonte Grimes - 0 games / 0 yards / transferred

2021 Shawn Hardy - 0 games / 0 yards

2022 Janiran Bonner - 0 games / 0 yards

2022 Decoldest Crawford - 0 games / 0 yards / transferred

2022 Victor Jones - 0 games / 0 yards

 

HS TEs

2018 Katerion Legrone - 1 game / 8 yards / kicked off

2019 Chris Hickman - 5 games / 90 yards / called it a career

2021 Thomas Fidone - 1 game / 0 yards

2021 James Carnie - 2 games / 0 yards / transferred

2021 AJ Rollins -  7 games / 0 yards / moved to defense

2022 Chase Androff - 0 games / 0 yards

2022 Brodie Tagaola - 0 games / 0 yards / moved to defense

Absolutely atrocious.

It sounds like Alante wanted to be here but he was not academically eligible for this semester. That’s why the reports were that he could return this summer. He had to get his grades up to get back to get back into the University. Either things weren’t looking good in regards to him getting that done or Rhule likes what we have enough that he told him that it’s best for him to move on. 

47 minutes ago, Decked said:

Would’ve been nice as a depth piece/return man. 

I think it was stated that he had some family issues that caused him to be away from the team. But we do have to trim the roster so the easiest place to start is with a guy who hasn’t been here. If Rhule likes our depth at the receiver position he may have encouraged him to move on. 

Lot's of speculation about Ajay Allen it seems.  Either he's giving us clues on his social media or he likes to egg it on.  There's obviously going to be some guys to leave that we don't want to but I hope he isn't one of them.  

20 hours ago, Mavric said:

White listed Hartzog, Javier Morton, Tommi Hill and Farmer as some of his best cover guy working for the starting CB spot opposite Newsome.

I'm holding out hope that Hill can still reach his "Sunday Guy" potential that we heard about last year.  

On 4/5/2023 at 6:37 PM, Mavric said:

The story always was he wasn't interested in basketball after college.

 

Perhaps he's changed his mind.

 

 

Well he started a trucking company in the peak of the freight market post-covid.  The bottom has completely fallen out of freight now so I imagine his pro basketball options are much better than trucking at this time.

38 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Every scholarship counts against the limit.  The extra year just means they can count longer.

Oh yea, it was just the first year that seniors didn’t count. 

48 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Nice. I believe it was the spring games two years ago that I noticed him and thought he might be a walk-on to look out for. I’m almost surprised this is the first time we’re really hearing about him.

2 hours ago, Mavric said:

Newsome and Hartzog seem to have spots locked up.  Farmer, Collier and Omar Brown have been with the first unit.  Gifford didn't seem to be practicing while they were watching but he would be out there as well.

 

Clark, NPG, Singleton, Hill and Gage Stenger looked to be the second unit.

Is there a possibility that Clark could not count against our scholarship limit? Could he technically be called a covid guy still?

2 hours ago, Decked said:

Butler could be used interchangeably. Getting Riley Van Poppel, Maciejczak, Lefotu, Carroll-Jackson as big guys will help with some depth I would think. Goldman may also play defense but I think he will most likely play OT. A transfer at both lines would be very welcome. Especially another nose/big. 

Sucks that none of the guys you listed were early enrollees as they could be getting some good reps this spring with a couple starters out.  Van Poppel looks pretty mature and will probably have as good of shot as playing as a freshman as any DL ever will which is still not ideal.  Maciejczak obviously has the brute strength but I have no idea what we should expect from him. 

2 minutes ago, Undone said:

I would hope that Sherman and Butler would routinely be on the field at the same time. I get that it's more of a three linebacker scheme so maybe you're choosier about who's out there.

 

It just makes me wonder though if Sherman might occasionally actually be counted as one of the linemen, maybe on third downs? Could that be a realistic possibility?

They do have packages that put them on the field at the same time.  Would likely see them together on 3rd down, especially obvious passing situations. 

2 hours ago, Mavric said:

Walk-on John Bullock from Creighton Prep getting some time with the 1s (Henrich is out).  He's gotten several mentions from the coaches.

 

Borders and Gbayor with the second unit.  Snodgrass in there as well.  Kpai and Malcom trailing.

 

Kind of a change for this group in the new scheme.  Previously, the DL tried to eat up blockers and let the LBs run.  Now the DL is going to shoot more gaps so the LBs also have an assigned gap that they have to secure first.

 

Butler running with the 1s at the Jack spot but Sherman right there as well.

I've thought Bullock would contribute before his time here was over, he looks like a dude.  Had high hopes for Kpai, but he and Malcolm probably need to start showing something or they're going to get pushed out.  Rogers might have the best chance of any freshman at early playing time.

6 hours ago, Toe said:

 

I should have worded that differently. Haarberg was QB2 at the scrimmage, with Thompson and Smothers still limited.

34 minutes ago, sho said:

 

I'm assuming once Thompson's yellow jersey comes off, he will be at worst #2 on the depth chart.

I don’t think there’s any doubt he will be. But if he ends up behind Sims, Im not sure he sticks around. So who ends up QB3 could be important. Also I’ll throw out another scenario. Say it ends up like, 1. Sims 2. Thompson 3. Haarberg/Smothers 4. Purdy 5. Torres. I think it’s possible that at least 2 out of 3 of Thompson, Purdy, and Smothers could move on if Sims is the starter and Haarberg is ahead of Purdy/Smothers.

Reports from practice are that Sims looks very good. Haarberg is reportedly the #2 guy right now and looking good. It’s going to be an interesting fall in the QB room.