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According to his 247 page, he's gonna have to compete against our other 32 d-linemen, and we're gonna have to compete against the other Nebraska for his services.

4 hours ago, Hilltop said:

Lol, going to have to pass on that.  I just can't get behind a guy, or a team, that climbed to the top by breaking the rules.  Their "turn around" lines up perfectly with their start of their rule breaking.  JH was desperate as he was squarely on the hot seat.  Some respect that he found a way out but doing it without integrity doesn't sit well with me and it casts a shadow over all the athletes that he took down that road.  BS to me.    

Fleeing to the NFL to avoid sanctions is a pretty classic move. Pete Carroll is another one.

3 outta 4 CFP teams gonna have a new HC next year.

Poor thing died of a broken heart after not getting Dylan!

We're hiring this guy?

@Fru Agree. Like I said earlier, last year we lost three scholly QBs and only brought in one. This year we've lost two and brought in two, which doesn't fill the depth hole from last year.

If Haarberg sees the field as a QB next year on anything more than a 'starter's helmet got knocked off so he has to sit out a snap' situation, it would mean that something has gone horribly, disastrously wrong.

10 hours ago, Mavric said:

Ah.  Damn.  You got me.

 

A guy with 6 catches for 237 yards on the year is exactly the same kind of receiving threat as a guy with 71 catches for 1,043 yards.

Huh, guess that stat you threw out about having a WR leading in 50+ yard TDs wasn't particularly relevant to the discussion about our QBs after all, then.

2 hours ago, Mavric said:

Did I miss the part where Nebraska has a WR this year that is going to be catching 50+ yard touchdown passes in NFL playoff games next year?

37 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Apparently you did as we had the WR tied for the league lead in 50+ yard TDs.

Make up your mind, did we have a good deep threat WR last year or not?

4 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

We essentially swapped Thompson for Sims

It's not just that. We lost three scholarship QBs (Thompson, Smothers, and Torres), but only brought in one scholly QB to replace them (Sims). That's some questionable roster management at the position where you really wanna make sure you get it right. Imagine if we'd brought in a couple more scholly-worthy QBs. It's not a stretch to think that at least one of them might have panned out as a starter that was at least somewhat better than what we saw last year, and maybe a lot better.

56 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Did I miss the part where Nebraska has a WR this year that is going to be catching 50+ yard touchdown passes in NFL playoff games next year?

Did I miss the part where our QB for most of last year looked remotely capable of completing deep passes to literally any receiver in the world?

Guess we can say goodbye to that SI ticker at the top of every page on this site...

https://frontofficesports.com/sports-illustrateds-publisher-lays-off-entire-staff-future-unclear/

2 minutes ago, Mavric said:

I must not have looked at those stats again after Sims got some more playing time against Maryland.  Before that he was higher than Thompson.

 

But, again, that's really only because Thompson threw for 280 yards and 5 TDs against Monmouth.  Sims was better (using that term extremely loosely) against D-1 competition, let alone P5 competition.

If you're honestly trying to convince yourself that Sims, Haarberg, and Purdy are better QBs than Thompson, you do you I guess.

2 hours ago, Mavric said:

Thompson had a worse QBR than any of our three last year.

Might wanna double check that number for Sims. And as Archy said, Thompson was highest of the four in passer rating, and almost every other relevant stat.

Satterfield deserves credit for at least trying to come up with a system that fit the players he had available. Some of you clearly expected him to make chicken salad out of chicken s#!t. Not happening. Some of his play calls really seemed to lack situational awareness, though.

I still feel like Sims's collapse was too severe to really be explained by coaching, so I don't really hold it against Satterfield, either. Still, Sims was Rhule's guy, and Rhule's biggest mistake to date. And his second biggest mistake was his management of the rest of the QBs room. Is there anyone who thinks that Haarberg and Purdy were better backups than Thompson and Smothers would have been? (I hold personnel issues like that more against the HC than the OC/DC, though obviously the whole staff is involved to some degree.)

Joe Ganz moves to FBS coaching, hired by new Middle Tennessee State University HC Derek Mason as tight ends coach.

https://footballscoop.com/news/sources-derek-mason-makes-another-move-on-mtsu-staff-hiring-former-nebraska-qb-joe-ganz

There it is. I'd heard Glenn Thomas was a done deal over a month ago, they were just waiting for the Steelers to finish their season.