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5 minutes ago, Decked said:

Jesus Christ Troy Walter’s blew a fatty! 
 

 

What a flop. That’s on Frost. Confident Lubick is gonna be an upgrade with a full year at the helm. Just wish we still had Wan’Dale. 

I think it has more to do with the change in body type of the WR unit than anything else. Nance and the kid from yesterday are skinny sprinters without a big blocking radius. The guys they have been recruiting the last two classes are big bodied WR's and the class they are currently recruiting are going to be big bodied kids too. 

The skinny sprinters worked in the Pac 12 and AAC, but in the Big Ten it ends up with your offense getting beat up by the defenses. 

Creame of the crop has risen and the bottom 2 are now gone. It's not hard to replace a guy that saw the field for 5 total snaps in two seasons. The good news is that Martin will no doubt be put on scholarship now. 

I'd bring in 3 WR's for the 2022 class and it seems like that is what the coaches have wanted to do prior to even spring ball anyways. 

The talk is mostly a "wished we had a star RB by now." But it's a tad unrealsitc at this point. You can't just look at the # of years and make a blanket statement. 

When Held arrived he took Ozigbo from deep in the running back depth chart to a 1,000 yard rusher and he made it onto an NFl roster. A bad coach isn't going to be able to do that. 

He had Washington that showed signs of being an electric player but we all know what took place there. 

When he was at UCF he took some kid out of Miami that was about 5'7''' with sprinter spead and was one of the major players for their undefeated season. 

He has recruited pretty good talent to the RB room at Nebraska and now it is time to start getting results from those that he has recruited. You can't expect every RB recruit to pan out. Not even WI gets all of their RB recruits to pan out. If one of the running backs gets past 700 yards this season then we have something starting to develop. Would be ideal if one of them can get to a 1,000 yard season. For all we know Morrison will come out as one of the two feature backs. 

You just have to be patient and see how things unfold the next two seasons for the RB room. I'd be willing to put money on the table that one of the RB's currently in the running back room makes it to the NFL. 

What would be best for everyone is for Martinez to have a strong season and try to make an NFL roster the following season. Then #10 takes over, IMO. 

19 minutes ago, runningblind said:

 

We were talking about running backs, in a running back thread, but thanks for your contribution.

His UCF guys ended up UDFAs while he took a guy buried on the depth chart his first year at Nebraska to the NFL. 

Some fans want to think everything is a fail for some dumb reason. 

And soon to be star players in the Big Ten such as our LT and Nash were Held recruits. 

But more power to those that want to create a talking point to sleep better at night. 

11 minutes ago, BigRedN said:

The post/comment was about Held.  So, which recruit would you be referring to with him?

 

Tay Gowan - Held recruit. 

Mike Hughes - JUCO

Both drafted, both in the NFL. 

6 minutes ago, BigRedN said:

I'll insert Breece Hall here.  There's a guy that we passed on ... proof of the "recruiting eye" of our staff [at least, as I see it].  

While you can show that example, I can show examples that the staff was a lot higher on than recruiting sites for guys that are currently in the NFL. It goes both ways, just so you know. 

11 minutes ago, hagg said:

I did a search in the forums on "scott frost" and this topic came up.  It's old but I didn't want to begin a new topic. 

 

I notice many times that the Lincoln newspaper sports writers mention and seem to criticize the coach for talking up the players and the coming season.  Coach Frost, once in front of a microphone and cameras seems to remain positive, all the while delivering poor seasons as the games go by. 

 

That made me think of great coaches, past and present, and how they talk about their teams, the players and the performances in practice or in games etc.  Coach Saban is known to publicly be hard on this or that squad (the d, the o, who ever he sees not performing, even the quarterback now and then, or a receiver).  I used to watch Steve Spurrier cuss his team terribly during half time interviews and then come out and play  better second half.  And we all know about Woody Hayes. 

 

Made me wonder.  Made me wonder if Scott Frost can really see what's up.  Or is he just being a real good public relations guy for Husker football.  I'm asking.  I'm not making a statement that he should complain about the players.  It's more a question in my mind of whether or not he's just wanting to be seen a certain way.  Some of those other coaches may not have cared much about how they were seen as long as they got their wins, and maybe the negative remarks got around to motivating players?

You haven't watched much of Saban then. Hell, he was praising his new QB just last month. 

Yep the Gretna kid. I expect his recruiting to grow next month when he can get in front of college coaches and I'd be surprised if he didn't throw for Frost and didn't get an offer. I like the kid's talent. 

9 hours ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

The one I think is overrated is Reese Mooney. My daughter went to his high school (Denham Springs) and I saw him play last year a few times. I had no idea he was supposed to be anything special. Didn't stand out at all to me. Only QBs I saw last year in Louisiana that stood out were Arch Manning and Zeon Chriss.

I watched a couple of Flores game on YouTube tonight and also watched a game of Mooney to do a comparison. Flores is better, much better. Stronger arm, more accurate, better pocket presence. 

I suspect Mooney wanted to be N but the staff wants to hold off until they can get Flores onto campus to watch him throw. I suspect the 2023 QB is going to be Flores. 

Went on YouTube to watch a couple of games of Flores to see how legit he is as a 2023 QB recruit. He is legit. I suspect he camps at Nebraska this summer and gets an offer and ends up committing to Nebraska. He can throw a really nice ball and has good accuracy. May not have as big of an arm as the 2021 in-state kid has, but he and Flores would be good in-state gets at QB. 

15 minutes ago, Stumpy1 said:

I highly doubt it. 

I don't. He's scheduled for an official visit. The only QB to have an official so far. Why would you bring in your second or third choice ahead of your first on an official? 

35 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

We are already well under the 85 limit.

Figures. Went to HOL and scrolled down to and it showed 86/85. After your post I went back and low and behold, they count seniors that returned. SMH. In that case, time to put about 3 guys onto scholly - Martin and Yant are two of them. 

On 5/3/2021 at 12:08 AM, TheBugeater said:

Green jersey AM hype is funny.

 

1. 0% chance he ever plays in the NFL.

2. He’s not a 4.4 guy. There have been 7 college quarterbacks in the past 30 yrs that have ever been timed under 4.5.

 

Bottom-line. Don’t care about the yards or the completion percentage. AM is 1-13 vs Wiscy, Iowa, NW, OSU, Mich, Col. In 29 career starts, he has beaten 1 team with a winning record.

 

He is who he is. He’s a great kid, and he might be a little better this coming year, but he’s not gonna win ya a lot of big games. 

People always say stuff like your #1 and then the player gets into the NFL and plays for several seasons. Farniok is the latest example. The guy got drafted after people were saying he wouldn't get a sniff. 

Hamstring injury and COVID slowed down Morrison last season. Thus, this is basically his first year. 

https://www.fox23.com/sports/edison-retire-sevion-morrisons-football-jersey/VYSM2ZDPOBCIFFDSR26TO63E2Y/

37 minutes ago, Decoy73 said:

Then where’s Thompkins in all this?  Sure, he seems injury prone, but so does your starter. 

Battling with Ervin and Morrison for 3rd. I suspect what will slow down Ervin is learning the playbook and having the blocking schemes down. 

If I had to put $100 on the table for the RB rotation going into the IL game (on game day), I'd go with Steep, Scott and then Morrison. 

Stepp is the starter

Scott is the backup

Ervin is the 3rd guy unless Morrison beats him there. 

Yant needs to be on scholarship

That would be ideal. Rahmir I think should stay and give it a shot at WR. 

We still need one more scholarship player to leave to get to the 85 limit (remember, returning seniors do not count this year). Who is that person going to be?

11 minutes ago, Hedley Lamarr said:

over MJ Morris? 

yes

I suspect that this is the QB that the coaches want. 

38 minutes ago, Stumpy1 said:

This is a stupid comment considering we took AM when he missed his whole Sr year because of injury and has been injury prone every year. 

People tend to become blind in regards to QB recruiting based off of a rating when they get rated before their senior year. There are a lot of 4-star QB's that were severely overrated going into college. Scott Frost's best 3 QB's he has coached in his college career were lightly recruited. 2 of those 3 made it into the NFL as starters. The other may not make it due to injury. 

Martin needs to be put on scholly. 

1 hour ago, Decked said:

He was one of the best sophomore quarterbacks in the country. You know nothing. 

He is better at baseball than football. He missed most of his junior season with an injury and the camps he went to since his junior season hasn't yielded good impressions. 

There are other QB's that I think fit better at Nebraska

I'm not saying he sucks and isn't a P5 QB, but his rating is overrated. 

24 minutes ago, suh_fan93 said:

No surprise here. Kid didn't have the skills needed at this level of football. Texas was smart by cutting him when he was committed to them. 

Late class additions if you were not recruiting them for a long time tend to not pan out and that goes back to the Bo days too.