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1 minute ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

I do! 

Some damn fine writing...




 

...probably.

24 minutes ago, Husker in WI said:

It was a rotation, with the idea being that should be a game with national interest. Not the conferences fault we didn't hold up our end of that. It is kinda their fault the structure changed right as we would've moved away from playing them consistently but that's just how it goes.

This is as believable as people who claim to subscribe to Playboy for the articles...

1 minute ago, secretasianman said:

Oh come on.  The whole “conference hates us thing” is so Big XII.

Except for playing tOSU nearly every year I'd agree with you.

1 minute ago, Red Five said:

When Raiola commits to Rhule, I will donate $50k to 1890 if Rhule tweets this gif:

 

I wouldn't put it past him.  Rhule got a little street hustle to his game.

3 minutes ago, Undone said:

 

This context is huge if true.

That's the story from the Georgia 247 board.

25 minutes ago, Gorillahawk said:

If it is Christensen it also a huge recruiting tool. The guy is personal QB coach for Mahomes who is the darling QB of the NFL right now, not to mention he works with other NFL QBs and several high caliber college guys. It is a great sell "come work with the guy who made Mahomes, Ewers, etc., etc." It would attract high quality talent to Nebraska, and could make the program one that consistently puts guys in the league

Seems like a great long term investment.  Paying each QB, competing on the open NIL market for the highest offer seems to be an endless treadmill vs being able to offer the best coach as a pathway to the NFL combined with reasonable NIL

8 minutes ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

There has been too much drama in this recruitment.  Even if he flips, it's not a done deal until the papers are signed! 

In 2023, not even a signed LOI means much.

It’s about like planning a tinder date for your own wedding rehearsal dinner at this point…

Looking at the current CFB landscape, it's not really as surprising as it would have been a couple of years ago.  As an "all world" freshman, if he has a struggle or two, it's easy to get benched and then have Georgia buy a hot QB from the portal.  Look at what happened with QB1 out of Ohio State.  Dude lost one game and they're looking to buy a new QB to replace him...  

If Rhule has a reputation for helping kids develop and giving them an honest shot to work through some struggles, I can see a place like Nebraska where the pressure to "WIN NOW" isn't nearly what it is at Georgia, Alabama, OSU, etc.  

It's surprising if we get Dylan, but not shocking IMO.

8 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

Where/How do you arrive at CFB players “should” be making $650K?

 

Of course I’m an older curmudgeon but this whole NIL, portal, pay the players thing is seriously turning me off to the whole mess. In just a few short years they’ve already ruined my ideal of CFB. How committed do you expect fans (the people who actually drive the dollars into the sport) to be to teams of unproven overpaid prima donnas? Ya know what, if tuition and an education and a whole bunch of other perks aren’t enough for the players, they can go showcase what they might bring to the table for a potential job in the pros somewhere else.

 

There already is no longer school pride or interest in player development. It’s already produce at the highest level or GTFO for me. The genie is out of the bottle. CFB has already screwed the pooch….over money that everyone is too greedy to grab. I seriously have no interest in being a rabid fan of an NFLesque college sport. And I don’t care if it isn’t fair that players may be exploited. This whole idea of funneling them their share of pie has it so f#&%ed up I really couldn’t care less how any team or player does in this environment. I don’t see no loyalty, perform of GTFO being a sustainable model for continuing the revenue stream the sport currently has. Maybe I’m weird?

I couldn't agree more.  

If they want to be minor league pro's, fine, but I'll take my eyeballs and $ to the NFL and watch the real pro's play a much higher level of the sport, with more parity and reasonable rules around $ and it's influence on the game.

College football was special based on intangible relationships between players, fans, and universities.  That's over.

Eventually CFB becomes minor league baseball.  Does any minor league baseball team produce 85k fans for 50+ years?  

35 minutes ago, Undone said:

 

Is this confirmed information or just assumed to be true?

 

Could be that the NCAA would make outside NIL against their rules when this rolls out, I'd think?

NCAA v. Alston, ruling in 2021 opened the gates.  NCAA cannot control NIL or it faces antitrust problems.

And there is a class action lawsuit against the NCAA that could be upwards of 4 billion awarded to players in the past.

The genie is out of the bottle.

It won't matter. NIL can exist outside and on top of any NCAA institutional direct payments.

42 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

This $ grab has about ruined college football in my mind.  I don't blame these young men at all for taking advantage of the system as it currently exists, but the system (NIL/portal combination) sucks.  NIL or the portal wouldn't be too bad in isolation but the combination has created an environment that's extremely disappointing.  

Just now, Moiraine said:

 

Well, which losers you are talking about? 

It should be pretty obvious.

1 minute ago, Waldo said:

You’re the worst kind of fan. Probably said this year 4 of frost 

Supporting the team from losers who’ve never won anything yet run their mouths make me a bad fan? If so, I’m proud of the title.

Well crap.

It’ll get better. Takes time.

GBR!

Still in it. Let’s go!

Good drive to tie the game. 

1 minute ago, HuskerX said:

 

IT'S YOU. PACK YOUR BAGS, NANCY.

We’ll see.  I’d rather be gone than be you.

1 minute ago, Cornfed said:

How the F is this guy not banned. Please handle your ish admins. 

I already contacted them. It’s him or me. I’m fine either way but I won’t be part of any board that allows this sort of bs toward our players.

3 minutes ago, HuskerX said:

SCORE, YOU WORTHLESS BASTARDS!

You are pathetic

Let’s go boys! Let the pathetic “fans” out the back door as we turn this bus around!

6 minutes ago, Heretic Husker said:

stopped watching- I've seen this game 100 times and it never ends well

Bye Felicia 

4 minutes ago, ndobney said:

Well I know how this ends I’m out

Good riddance

6 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

Most of the waste is in payroll, because it's often used to get nothing in return. Trev Albert's is already on staff, and now we're paying more for the same thing Nebraska had last week. 

 

Granted, this isn't particularly bad as far as waste goes. I just find Athletic Departments to be wasteful in the salaries they pay. 

 

The new football facility is $165 million, which is par for the course. It's mostly waste - a fancy locker room, sensory chambers for napping, a player lounge, offices for coaches, practice fields... all things Nebraska already had, but something schools had been doing to keep up with an appearance that they are committed to football. 

 

There does seem to be a realization that this spending is mostly frivolous, luckily. Schools are now asking donors to send donations to NIL collectives, and soon Football players will negotiate revenue sharing via a CBA. Schools aren't going to have to waste money on lazy rivers (Clemson) or nap pods (LSU) or what have you. Players are only going to care where they'll make the most money. 

And at that point, college football will be dead.  Just a lower level professional league that pales in comparison to the NFL.