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If we're just tossing out names with Husker connections, Gerry Gdowski is looking for a job...

Oh, it's Thurston again.

I was just looking at 247's list of top recruits from Alabama. Unsurprisingly, the top 16 are staying in SEC country, most going to Alabama. If we got Abrams-Draine, though, we'd have the top two from the state that didn't stay in SEC territory, #17 KAD and #18 Logan Smothers.

I almost wonder if Walters over-estimates the value of his own stock as an HC...

You 'member that one time Kunalic kicked one out of bounds on the last drive of the game? I 'member. (unfortunately)

Thread split, please...

You sound like Steve Pederson, assuming that NFL coaching is 'better' than college coaching. NFL doesn't necessarily pay better than the upper tiers of college coaching. Dawson was already in the top ten college DL coaches' salaries at Nebraska.

Please can we not hire another Bruce Read?

If Dawson decided we weren't good enough for him once, I'm OK not coming back...

Really, I think you could cut that down to bad OL play (especially early in the season) and no deep threat. Almost all of our other problems on offense stemmed from those two. I mean, I wouldn't say that we had bad WR play - Spielman and Wan'Dale were pretty great at what they do. Problem is, neither is much of a deep threat - we didn't have a real replacement for Stanley. Hopefully someone emerges for that role next season. As for the OL, well, I was saying all year that they were really inexperienced for an OL, and thus I expected them to continue to suck most of the year. OLs take more time to develop and gel as a unit than anything else on a team. But the flipside is that in the long-term, the same players could improve substantially. I think we started to see some of that toward the end of the year. What's as interesting as anything is how few O linemen we took in this recruiting class - hopefully that means Frost feels good about his current players' potential in the long-term. Question is, just how 'long-term' do we need to look before the OL starts to look like what Frost wants?

Nah man, Sweater Vest!

Agree, but AFAICT it's a lot more due to a lack of decent players (and recruiting misses) than coaching. I mean, Shaquem Griffin seemed to do pretty OK under DeWitt's coaching...

Luke McCaffrey as.... a future All-Pro at two positions? His brother just got that honor, anyway. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28416013/panthers-star-christian-mccaffrey-named-all-pro-2-positions

Kinda like how Callahan gets credit for recruiting a lot of guys that Bo found success with.

Damn. Sounds like too much stress from being pulled in two directions: starting his new and better life vs staying and helping his family. The kind of situation that will get your mind going in circles, in the worst way.

Yeah, being moved to QB probably hurt his ranking a bit. Even then, he's just shy of 4* on 247 and Rivals, and still 4* on ESPN. https://www.al.com/highschoolsports/2019/11/ole-miss-commit-kris-abrams-draines-move-to-qb-has-given-spanish-fort-a-needed-spark.html Both from the Mobile area:

Also from the Mobile area:

I think you meant to post this on this board: https://www.huskerboard.com/index.php?/forum/159-other-sports/

@SouthLincoln Husker Two big shirts, if you look closely.

@Cdog923 Well sure, if you wanna get all technical...

@C-4 On the other hand, our top-rated commit is an OT...

Only on Rivals, he was 3* on Scout and unrated by 247.