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At this point I just don't want to wake up to a reddit post titled: TIFU By Recruiting the Top Player in the Country.

That's why most of these 1 year guys transfer. In the case of McCord, he's done his time sitting behind others. It's his time to play.

How much I got to donate to get a QB. A real one this time.

Could definitely be one of those hidden gems and sounds like he's doing us a solid with our scholarship numbers just because he really wanted to come here. Instead of celebrating getting another lineman, we're all crying about QBs.

I thought that too until he scheduled a visit to Michigan St. We'll see, though. This QB recruiting cycle has more twists than any soap opera.

I think the family thing gets overplayed. Certainly it got our foot in the door, but we're a week away from signing day and he's still committed to another school, and that wasn't even his first choice. Frost probably could have done more to have put us in a much better position years ago, but I don't think it can be denied Dylan and his familty have taken a very business type approach this. Rhule probably wont be fired anytime soon because that buyout would be obscene but there's lots of way this could go south, including firing other members of the staff. There's just so many situations where Dylan isn't the roadblock to Kaelin's playing time and so many situations where people at another school potentially could be. I just like the guy and hope he's looking at the bigger picture and not running off to play somewhere he doesn't want to really play at when there's so many potential scenarios where this isn't maybe the detriment it may appear at first glance.

Notice in Rhule's interviews this season how non-committal the answers were about the future of the offense. By coaching standards he's a pretty straight shooter, but not on that question. It just backs up the idea that they weren't necessarily doing what they wanted to be doing but what they had to do given the extraordinary situation they were in. The McCord news today is disappointing. There are varying opinions on just how good he really is, but this program right now has a tremendous bottleneck that is the QB position and he's certainly good enough to have helped resolve that. There isn't a player on this roster that same thing can be said about and it's a very tall order for *any* true frosh QB to do that on Game 1. I feel like any talk of scheme is pretty academic until that QB question gets solved.

Up until 5 mins ago there was too much smoke around McCord, too. Everyone, everywhere was convinced he was coming to Nebraska. That's why I take all these rumors with a grain of salt.

Where's all of this good news everyone was teasing this morning. All we've done today is potentially lose 2 quarterbacks.

In that interview he's not only expressing what he'd desire to do but also recognizing the challenge of it in today's landscape. You can be an awesome development program only to see your guys poached. That's rampant in college football. I don't think any coach is really happy with how this is going right now and I think most are well aware you're not going to maintain enough NIL resources to both bring in players and fend off poachers.

If we look at top rated QBs over the past few years, then there's a better than average chance Raiola eventually transfers. I feel very argumentative in this thread and I don't want to be but I feel I'm fighting against a wave of very short term thinking that is in no way indicative of how college football actually is functioning right now. This article on QB transfers has some insane stats on how ridiculously prolific QB transfers have become.

I still think what I thought before the season.....I don't think he wants to do as much of that as he did, but they had to do what they could just to hope to move the ball. When you look at a guy like Carter Nelson, you're almost wasting his talent as an inline TE. He's ideal split out. At SC, you'd see Satterfield play a lot of multiple TE sets at times but he'd put them all over the field. So, I think you can still generate good box counts with how he'd ultimately like to do things if he had the personnel to do it. The quotes are appropriate there, for sure. They're only a power team relative to what the general college football landscape is. Their passing game has a lot of Air Raid concepts, for instance.

I really hope Kaelin stays. Given time I think he has the potential to develop into something, but as a prospect, he's not even in the same Zip Code as Raiola. Very few are. Everyone would take DR over DK. But in a few years from now, that may not mean much. QBs are weird like that. You could have a guy that's all world talent beaten out by a guy that looks like he should be sitting in the stands.

I don't think it's that speculative. We saw him come on for a couple of plays vs Minnesota that back up the idea they may have wanted him in a sort of multi-purpose role but then it became apparent punting on first down was probably a better option than letting Sims continue to play so a lot of things had to change.

Against the head coach whose defenses were predicated on 2 high safeties. That's why I'm not responding to the rest of your comment. That idea is pretty foundational to understanding the post.

Nebraska is the OG at that. I'd like to think the last 7 years have humbled us somewhat, but it's in our DNA. When I watch Georgia media and fans these last few weeks panicking because they lost 1 game and potentially one big recruit and yet they still have a fantastic QB room, almost certainly the top class and will rank very, very highly next preseason it gives me deja vu to how we once behaved. The difference, and likely why Dr Tom lasted as long as he did, is we didn't have the internet back then to amplify everything. At Georgia, Raiola is another QB whom may not even ever start as crazy as that sounds. They have a lot of talent in that program and as amazing as Raiola is as a prospect you could make the argument he isn't even their best QB prospect in this class. Plus Kirby has developed a habit of having QBs sit several years and that may not jive with what Raiola is looking for. Here, he's the legacy, the savior of the program. We saw how Frost handled that burden as coach.

And where will they be at a year from now? 2 years from now? Look at Nebraska's QB room between the start of spring ball this year to what it could be at the end of spring this year. Things change incredibly fast in this era. Yeah. That means you're constantly getting recruited over. Even if Nebraska gets all of their wishlist this week, there still aint a lot of numbers in that room next year. We're seeing around 80 QBs or so a year enter the portal. They ain't all happy stories at the end of the day. Not a lot of true freshman QBs getting P5 starting jobs, either. You go basically anywhere worth going to and you're going to have to dodge prep recruits and transfers and beat someone out for a job and then go do it again the next year.

Probably a good sign that Raiola is coming. I still don't like to see it, though. You jump ship because they recruit someone else, but then you go to another place and they still are going to recruit guys there, too. There's just too many unknowns in this game over the course of the next 4 or 5 years to jump ship because of one recruit.

Where's that eye emoji all the kids use these days.

Until they can button down the hatch on transfer rules and NIL, I don't think anything will be stable. Before you can even read this post there may be a decision (even if only temporary) in a case currently ongoing that would lift even the relatively minor transfer guard rails the NCAA has currently.

If he steps foot in Lincoln this weekend then he isn't getting on that plane to go back. What is there for him to actually see....he already knows the place better than some of the janitors do. If he comes this weekend, it's to sign papers and get his picture taken.

That's because everyone on here is a boomer that thinks a pager is modern technology.

These like systems everything uses now need to go extinct. Mean and stupid posts get liked at an absurd rate in comparison to actual meaningful content. I may click it every once in a while around here just to avoid posting a reply, but by and large I completely ignore it.

RE: Mavric The sad thing about those posts is they have some really good QBs on that team and another incoming freshman that is very, very highly touted in his own right. Unless there is some unknown domino effect at play, losing Raiola won't impact them in the slightest.

I agree, and that was always my opinion when it came to JUCO players back in the day because they filled a similar sort of role to team composition as the transfer portal does now. I don't think Rhule really sat down and did the math when he made that comment. He's just sort of exaggerating making a point and I think we will see him take on average about the range we are thinking he should. He's the same way when he describes the weather/running game. Listening to him you'd think the Big Ten sat in some hellscape where passes go to die when he knows full well some of the best passers of all time played in northern climates and much further into the winter months than college football sees. He's going to take more than 2 guys a year the same way he's currently spending millions of dollars of someone's money to purchase a passing game (if rumors are true).