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How obviously morally bankrupt does your organization have to be to get a unanimous condemnation from the 2021 Supreme Court lmao. This is hilarious.

Maybe he was going to commit but couldn't get the graphic done in time?

I think the much more likely scenario is that Christian told him, "Oh, Nebraska's not playing you? Just transfer somewhere else and be the starter!" because that's what Christian would have done in that scenario. But Christian is much more talented than Luke so that's not really going to work for Luke, especially if he insists on playing quarterback.

I mean with the portal now the odd man out of Johnson-Scott-Sevion is almost certainly going to transfer. Or are transfers anticipated in the 14-16? I can't imagine if Williams wanted to come here we wouldn't take him, and his skill set is different enough that they could function together.

Hayes seems like a Duck-R guy and Williams seems like an straight RB. I think we should take both?

This is like Journalism 101 that Mitch is screwing up here. "Reporting" is sharing verbatim quotes or information that you can confirm to be true. If Frost had said "Luke McCaffrey already transferred twice," or he had asked a follow up question, "Were you talking about Luke McCaffrey?" and Frost said yes, Mitch would be 100 percent within his rights and job description to share what he did the way he did. "Editorializing" is when you take information from a source and apply your own assumptions to it. So "Well, he didn't mention Luke McCaffrey by name but everyone knows he's talking about him, so I'm fine to report it as fact." Editorializing is acceptable in columns or editorials but not in reporting. In the grand scheme of things this isn't that serious but not a single serious journalism person would cosign Mitch's actions here and he's an absolute clown for trying to defend them the way he is. I subscribe to The Athletic because they are the last place that covers baseball really well and I love the Cubs writers but I wish The Athletic would hire someone who can effectively report on our team .

This is a completely reasonable, thoughtful, and even-handed thing to say that's now going to get pummeled into the ground because one of our beat writers is a dip. Mitch Sherman loves to play fast and loose with editorializing in his articles and he deserves a lot of flack for it.

IDK Mills was a power back who never broke tackles and went down on first contact. He had decent vision and was good at taking the yards that were given to him by blocking or scheme, but he wasn't really creating any new yardage through his own skill like good backs do. I think he was the best option we had and seemed like a good dude but I am hopeful Stepp or one of the freshman hits and we can get better production.

I just mean that losing regular season games isn't going to be consequence-free like some people seem to be suggesting. If you're a P5 team and you lose zero times or one time you're a lock to be in the playoff most years. If you lose twice you're probably safe but maybe not guaranteed. If you lose three times you're at the whims of a ranking. A G5 team can't lose at all and make it. Teams are going to try very hard to make themselves as safely in the playoff as possible. Plus with the 12-team there's the incentive for the byes. This isn't like a 68-team basketball tournament or NBA playoffs where you can sleepwalk through a 30+-game regular season, get a decent mid-tier seed and then turn it on for the postseason in substantially the same situation as if you had tried hard in the regular season. Under the CFB playoff if you don't have it turned on in the regular season you're probably not going to make the playoff.

I think our RBs aside from Ozigbo and Mo Wash have left a lot of yards on the field and we need to (and can) get a lot better production from them. I think we should still use the QB as runners a decent amount because they're good runners, we have a coach who is good at coming up with ways to run them, and it's an inefficiency we can exploit against better teams, but I'd be a lot more comfortable if it were in the 8-10 carry a game range with an emphasis on getting down before contact than some of what we saw last year. Despite what some of our fans believe Frost is extremely good at scheming up the run game dating back to UCF so this isn't super surprising to me, even despite the numbers we saw in the box last year.

"We actually all loved this incredibly frustrating and subjective system that left almost everyone unsatisfied and angry"

People are acting like you'll be able to lose six games or something and still get in the playoff. In an average year, a P5 school is not going to be able to lose more than once or twice and be guaranteed a spot in, and a G5 school is not going to be able to lose at all.

I mean, the production still counts the same whether it comes from a QB or a RB. I would like our running backs to be able to handle more of the bulk to avoid QB injuries and fumbles, and because generally when you're dependent on a QB spread run game it's hard to move the ball in the red zone where the field shrinks. But Frost is very good at QB run game stuff and we should continue to use it a lot. We just need to develop some things outside of it (like a downfield passing game to get people out of the box).

I'm not trying to single you out or put words in your mouth; I guess I'm just responding to a general sentiment I've seen. I just feel like during the BCS days everyone said, "This sucks because we can't be sure the best teams are playing!" Now that we have a system that more fairly determines the best teams, people say "Well only the best teams are benefitting from this!" I get Alabama-Clemson fatigue, but there have always been elite programs that dominated stretches of the sport no matter the postseason format. And I'd much rather the actual best teams play each other and settle it on the field than say, have a B+ Notre Dame team squeak through an easy schedule undefeated and get a title shot like what was happening under the BCS or the bowls. I think expansion will alleviate a lot of your issues, too.

I've been seeing "Actually the playoff is bad!" pop up recently with the expansion talk, which is absolutely wild to me. I don't remember a single college football fan I knew in the 2000s who didn't completely LOATHE the BCS. Four teams isn't great, but a flawed playoff is a lot better than what we had. If you have concerns about parity or cheapening of the regular season with the playoff system I can buy that (personally I think that's a lot of handwringing about things that have always existed in the sport, but to each their own), but I absolutely do not understand people who are suddenly revisionist history-ing the BCS. We all hated it!

Homie we need to worry about making a bowl first.

Our plan is to have our safeties just blast the hell out of everyone and then have the targeting penalties two-platoon. When one group goes out for targeting the other group will just be getting off its suspensions.

I think we should all be about done engaging with people who want to insinuate Martinez is bad. There are some very fair criticisms to his game and he certainly needs to cut back on the turnovers, but he is a good player who is far from the problem with the offense and has shown he can operate at a high level when he has talent around him. I'm hopeful that he's going to get that this year.

Noah Vedral leaving Nebraska for Rutgers and ending up with a better offensive supporting cast is hilarious.

Yeah, I guess always the more competition the better. But we already have two dedicated punters on the roster in Cerni and Przystup. Unless they expect one to transfer or are just trying to flood the position with bodies and see who hits I think this is more likely a sign that they're not particularly confident in either of those two.

Pursuing a punter is a sign they're not comfortable with who's in the building, which is ... not great.

If Luke wants to come back and play WR/RB I'm all for it. He would be a great wideout and was well-liked on the team, plus from a PR/outside perception standpoint it would be good to see someone leave and then ultimately decide things were better here. If we want another DB we should go hard after the guy who just bounced from KU, Karon Prunty. He might be out of our league but he is an incredible player.

Satterfield also seems like he's not the most honest person of all-time so I'm not sure I take his presentation of events at face value.

I don't know if I question the vetting; I think it's just an unfortunate confluence of events. We signed a bunch of teenagers who moved from Florida to Nebraska two months before a once-in-a-generation pandemic no one could have forseen hit. Wandale clearly has people in his ear, Luke wants to play QB and the other guys were all disciplinary or processed guys.

There's a lot more to being good at football than just being fast. He is an excellent tackler who fits gaps and seems to read plays very well. Northwestern pumps out AA linebackers with guys who aren't faster than this on tape. We also haven't made a bowl in four seasons so we're not really in the running for blemish-free prospects. We can take Martin and Meyers.