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I really liked our black unis.

For everyone dwelling on Frost's attrition, please take in to consideration how popular the Transfer Portal has become. It's to the point where most teams expect crazy attrition each season. Then remember that Frost took over in 2018 which was the 1st year the Transfer Portal existed.

My last point is that everyone harps on how many guys have left the program and how most went on to have lackluster careers. What people are overlooking is that when players left early for the Transfer Portal, we were replacing their spots with HIgh School recruits.

For example: We'd lose a Junior, replace him with a High School recruit the next season who would end up Redshirting. That leaves you with huge holes on the roster. This matters when you've lost 60 plus kids to the portal in 4 seasons.

USD, South Dakota wears read and is an Adidas school.

Regardless of outcome, which would you rather have? Which is better for recruiting and our program?

A. The national media being positive towards Nebraska, still and expecting us to be good again?

B. The national media being negative towards Nebraska, expecting we won't be any good?

C. Nebraska being mostly irrelevant nationally. Losing more of whatever aura the program still has. At the same time being able to fly under the radar?

On 1/8/2020 at 1:05 AM, HUSKER 37 said:

I'm not convinced we will have ''more talent than anyone else in our division'' or how you would effectively even measure it...  It's not like everybody else just stops recruiting more talent. Minnesnota and Wisky will probably be our measuring sticks for the next few seasons...   Until we get enough depth to get the second string guys more valuable experience/playing time, talent alone won't win as consistently as most of us grew up watching..  I guess I still hope for more MNCs before Football is outlawed.. But either way...Still will enjoy the ride.

BigPeterJ is referencing our recruiting classes compared to Wisconsin, Iowa, and the rest of our division. All the recruiting sites have us consistently bringing in better talent. Logically if we start retaining our talent and we do a decent job with development then we should have "more talent than anyone else in our division."

I'm excited for Cam at Center but I am wondering why Josh Wegener isn't being mentioned with guys with experience at Center? Is he not with the team now?

Husker.com Bio:

Wegener joined Nebraska after a two-year career at Iowa Western Community College. Wegener was rated as the No. 1 junior college center by JCGridiron.com. He played in nine games on the offensive line for the Reivers in 2018 before suffering a foot injury. In his first year at Iowa Western in 2017, Wegener played in four games on the defensive line before suffering a torn ACL. Wegener played his prep ball for Algona High School in Iowa. 

5 hours ago, madrat said:

I'd like to know who is 'king of the boards' drill with this group.  I doubt it is either Matt Farniok or Brendan Jaimes.  My favorites for starters would be:

RT    76    Jaimes, Brenden SR

RG    71    Farniok, Matt RS SR

C      58    Wegener, Josh SR/TR

LG    70    Sichterman, Matt RS JR

LT     54    Benhart, Bryce SO

 

Backups

G/T    75    Hixson, Trent RS JR

           56    Wilson, Boe RS SR

           73    Bando, Broc RS JR

           XX    Corcoran, Turner FR

           57   Piper, Ethan RS FR

           78    Fritzsche, Jimmy RS FR

           77    Lynn, Michael    RS FR

           56    Shefke, Collin RS SO

           61    Balenger, Mitchell RS SO

C        52    Forbes, AJ RS SO

 

Is Gaylord even coming back?  He graduated and if he would like to stay on I'm sure coaches would enjoy that.  But he could just as easily do the transfer portal for some graduate hours somewhere else.

RT    76    Jaimes, Brenden SR

RG    71    Farniok, Matt RS SR

C      58    Wegener, Josh SR/TR

LG    70    Sichterman, Matt RS JR

LT     54    Benhart, Bryce SO

We just spent most of this season going through some major growing pains with the OLine finally starting to come together at the end of the season. It appears you feel it's in our best interest to start the process over again by completely changing things up at every position.

Are you just hoping for a major mix up OR do you think Austin will actually make some major changes?

1 minute ago, In the Deed the Glory said:

Wasn't there talk of moving Benhart to LT?

And moving Jaimes to RT?

The Line improved quite a bit by the end of this past season and everyone returns! Even better is all the good stuff we've heard about the Redshirt Freshmen. 

I am far from an OLine expert and don't know much about what goes on behind the scenes but here's my way too early projection of next years line up. 

Would love to hear your thoughts and see your projections.

Returning Offensive Line Depth:

LT: Jaimes, Bando

LG: Hixon, Raridon

C: Jurgens, Farniok

RG: Wilson, Sichterman 

RT: Farniok,  Benhart

Potential 2020 Line:

LT:

1. Senior, Jaimes

2. RS Junior, Bando

LG:

1. RS Senior, Farniok

2. RS Junior, Hixson

C:

1. RS Sophomore, Jurgens

2. RS Sophomore, Farniok

RG:

1. RS Junior, Wilson

2. RS Junior, Sichterman

RT:

1. RS Freshman, Benhart 

2. RS Senior, Gaylord

I'm hoping both of our Freshmen, Turner Corcoran and Alex Conn get the luxury of redshirting.

1 hour ago, WVhuskerXX said:

Doesn’t matter who is back there if you can’t block.

 

also, Woodyard was given the chance last year. I assume the fact that you forgot that shows how unimpressive he was. 

I went back and watched each of his few returns last year. I saw him muff a return against Purdue and take off after that. The guy looks extremely fast. We don't have speed in our return game now. He is one of the fastest men in the B1G, why not try to give us a spark!!

I have a hard time understanding why we have not had a kick return game this season! We have a Husker on scholarship who's highlights are mostly him looking like Devin Hester against Junior Colleges.

Why is he not playing? How is our special teams coach not able to figure this out!!!

Woodyard Highlights

Frost took over a team that had losing seasons in 2 out of 3 seasons before he arrived. He didn't ruin the program. 

He is the PERFECT fit for our team. If we want to help our program we'll get off his back, show support, and be patient. 

I don't think we should prioritize redshirting Rahmir. RB is probably the best position as far as making a difference right out of high school. 

Unless the freshman RB is injured (Ronald Thompkins) or there are a stable of top backs already on the roster who are set to get the majority of carries, RBs should get on the field ASAP!

On 10/28/2018 at 5:19 PM, MichiganDad3 said:

If we have any chance of winning, the score will be something like 56-53

You sir are 100% correct. First team to that punts or fumbles loses!

#1. I learned that when we take shots deep from time to time, this offense can work really well.

#2. I learned that we still are not fortunate enough to be extremely conservative on offense and score points.

My take away is that we are not good enough to run the ball up the middle 70% of the time and score points.

We stayed extremely conservative today on offense which put a lot of strain on our defense. We will lose them all if the playcalling is ever that conservative again.

12 minutes ago, HuskerNation1 said:

Seriously what is depth after Bunch. 

Just Matt Masker. We are going to need to get creative.

10 hours ago, Ziebol said:

Colorado is one of our weakest opponents. I see 4 wins if we lose tomorrow(5 only if we play the make up game.) I had us 6-6/7-5 before the Akron game. If we can’t beat our 4th weakest opponent at home then no I do not see them hitting 5 unless there is the make up game. This schedule is extremely unforgiving.

I think you are in for a pleaseant surprise brother! Expectations will sky high after today’s game. 

THE BIG RED MACHINE IS BACK!!!

32 minutes ago, 4skers89 said:

OSU... well good luck to him.  Too bad he didn't get in at USC and guaranteed an NFL career.

USC also has a true freshman starting QB who just skipped his senior year of high school. He'd be in almost the exact same situation as he was in Nebraska. Only difference is he'd be running the west coast offense.

Crazy to think that we only have one scholarship option at QB. With that being said, both of our walk on options seem to have the skill set for our spread style of offense. Both can run and throw but both need to get playing time or it could get ugly later this season.

If you haven’t seen the other QB’s in action, click the links below:

Andrew Bunch highlights

Matt Masker highlights

43 minutes ago, It'sNotAFakeID said:

Looking at the depth chart (link above) - two things stand out. 

 

1) Looks like we'll be running a 3-4 defense. I believe we tried this last season (I forget - I've erased that season from memory), but hopefully this year's version will look much better. Maybe we'll be able to see the safeties and corners on TV. 

 

2) The offensive line looks bigger than years past. As listed on the depth chart, the average weight of our starting offensive line this year is 322 lbs. That's 17 pounds heavier on average when compared to 2017 and 23 pounds heavier on average when compared to 2016. Also, the weight gain in returning players from 2017 to 2018 is incredible. 

 

• Jaimes is up to 300lbs from 280lbs
• Foster is up to 335lbs from 310lbs
• Conrad is up to 320lbs from 300lbs
• Farmer is up to 325lbs from 305lbs
• Farniok is up to 330lbs from 315lbs

 

That weight (presumably strength) gain crushes the difference made from 2016 to 2017:

 

• Nick Gates went from 290lbs in 2016 to 295lbs in 2017
• Foster went from 310lbs in 2016 to 310lbs in 2017
• Decker went from 285lbs in 2016 to 305lbs in 2017
• Farmer went from 295lbs in 2016 to 305lbs in 2017
• Conrad went from 305lbs in 2016 to 300lbs in 2017

 

Assuming this weight gain is increase in muscle - I'm going to be optimistic about the performance of our offensive line this season. 

 

Relating this back to Martinez, I think the offensive line may give him more time than most QBs we've had in prior years. That should only bode well. 

38 minutes ago, FTW said:

 

having the safeties that far back was part of Bob Diaco's "winning strategy." 

The 3-4 has nothing to do with last years issues. We played prevent defense all year long. It was like we were attempting to stop a Hail Mary at all times! 

This year we will attack. You will see linebackers blitzing, dline rushing, and DBs taking chances. Might give up points but there will be a night and day difference between what we saw in last years 3-4 prevent scheme vs this years at 3-4 attacking scheme.

So much happening today. Did coaches go over the Official depth chart? Wonder what’s up.

13 hours ago, Ulty said:

I like them...but why would the Under Armor game feature Adidas uniforms?

Can’t tell if you’re joking but the Army All-American game and the Under Armour game are two different events.

6 minutes ago, BlitzFirst said:

Trolling me for having a vote for POB before POB left?  You guys are awesome.

Having an opinion is a sin brother! Why would we want to speculate during the off-season!? JK

I think Smothers will do wonders under Frost. If Martinez or Gebbia is QB when he gets here, he’s athletic enough to pull a Bobby Newcombe, who played WR/WB/PR in ‘97 while backing up Frost and started QB in ‘98. I can see Smothers being an impact player and get on the field as a WR/RB also waiting to take over as QB. 

We we can use athletes like him in this system!!