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For those who didn't see, Raiola's son Dylan is looking to be a pretty hot 2024 QB prospect. Already has an offer from Georgia, and some other top schools wanting to get a better look at him. https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/recruiting/2024-qb-dylan-raiola-is-going-to-sling-it-around-yard-at-fnl-and-his/article_4b5ae119-9692-5ce3-8478-f21791118e23.html#tracking-source=in-article

Louisville, Kenf#&%y, does anyone really know the difference?

@Crusader Husker If a good education were his original priority, he would've just went to Rice to begin with. Though I suppose it's possible that when he left Kentucky, he gave up on the NFL and decided to just focus on his education.

As far as speed goes, from what I've heard Smothers's best asset there is that he's quick and shifty in the pocket, avoiding the rush well. A 4.5 40 is what I've heard, too. Not quite as good on the deep ball as Haarberg or Martinez, but good accuracy and just about automatic within 10. Biggest problem for him is just limited development time. More time is spent developing guys farther back on the depth chart during spring and fall camps, while during the season itself most of the focus is on getting the top two guys ready for that week's opponent. But last year we didn't really get a spring camp and fall screwy too. Verduzco pretty much alluded to this and said Smothers came in this spring kinda cold and regressed on some things they'd worked on in fall camp, but should be OK on as he gets more reps.

Somebody on the Rice board has already suggested moving Luke to WR.

I would say it's more likely the other way around. Remember that Rice's HC is Christian's old OC - Christian probably told Luke to go to Rice to begin with. Luke wanted to be a P5 starter right away so he tried Kentucky, and when he couldn't get the job he took Christian's idea as Plan B. And now that Luke flipped, Christian is having a big ego "I told you so!" moment. Still a bad look either way.

Yeah, big long striders like him can be deceptive at first glance. I'd like to see some actual timed numbers.

Time for Stepp to step up! (I'll see myself out.)

Decided to poke my head into a Rice board. They're pretty much all smiles there, and talking about him a lot more as a runner than a passer.

@B.B. Hemingway Or not listening to it.

@Lorewarn Not really. All that Apple allows is reskins of Safari. If you download, say, 'Firefox' for iPhone, about all you're really getting is just the Firefox menus & UI system. Under the hood, the browser engine that draws the pages is Safari's, not the actual Firefox engine (Gecko), because Apple doesn't allow it. Consequently, if a page is broken in Safari, it'll typically be broken in all browsers on iOS.

Bad advice, bad attitude, bad diligence, bad decisions with where to play, bad decisions with where to throw the ball...

Maybe you should try using a different browser. Oh wait, you're an Apple user so you can't.

DING DING DING DING DING DING

Well.

@Mavric Also not helpful for mental health...

Someday, maybe the corners of Memorial Stadium won't look like they're made out of Tinker Toys...

Starting McCaffrey shouldn't have happened either, so...

Probably sums it up:

^ Well, at least he completed a couple short passes in that video, even if they were against air...

Well, that does make me feel a bit more optimistic about him - he's at least somewhat open to playing other positions.

He's mostly just throwing shoulders in that clip. I think the only actual tackle he made was on a guy who didn't have the ball...

And I'm betting that Ohio State told him that, and he wound up overcompensating and playing soft when he saw the field for them.

You mean Crouch wasn't being butthurt about not being the guy under center?

@BigRedBuster Yeah, I was thinking specifically of Toure, Manning, and Kolarevic when I wrote that. I'm more interested in lower division guys who have proven themselves than guys with lots of hype but no results to date.