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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).

You don't need Matlock to make that case.

I'm going to say something very controversial. OL is overrated. I'd only say that to this fanbase. It's not because it is a position group that is overrated, it is that I think some Nebraska fans honestly think bad offensive line play causes cancer. The biggest component of the running game is box count and the biggest contributor to sacks is the QB. Not that the offensive line doesn't matter, they absolutely play their part and I'm poking fun at fans more than diminishing their contribution, but it is amazing how much better they seem to get with a good QB and a light box.

Dylan doesn't need to explain why. The speculators need to explain why, but it's not even that. The 'why' is just evidence. Right now the only thing anyone seems to know, or at least willing to share, is that he's visiting Nebraska this weekend. As I explained in his commit thread, that's very significant. However, any reasonable person should be able to admit that without any other substantive evidence, whether that's a cause for a potential change of decision or at least a formal declaration, this is very speculative. Almost everyone here has been around a long time. We've all seen weird things late in the recruiting cycle.

I'm cautiously optimistic on any of them, but I'm really hopeful we get McCord. I've commented before on this, but one of the things I really didn't like about our passing game was it had no rhythm. A lot of that is playcalling, play design, coaching points, etc, but when that stuff was better at times we also saw QBs throw inaccurate passes and make poor decisions. Ohio St with McCord had great rhythm in their passing game. His back foot hits and he's ready to throw. When the play breaks down, he's no Houdini, for sure, but when he can keep that rhythm he's a very good QB.

Teach needs a pay raise.

I'd like to at least see a public de-commit from Georgia before I got too excited. 5 mins from now we could learn Georgia repaired the situation and it was all a big misunderstanding. A lot of insiders, whether that's from Nebraska, Georgia, or national are predicting this flip but no one is saying why this is suddenly happening. Lots of theories, but nothing concrete. That's a big red flag for me.

I wouldn't put it past him hiring the checker at HyVee if he thought he could turn him into a football coach. He coaches coaches.

I see it completely the other way. It's made it easier for the top teams to stack top classes year after year because it's so much easier to move guys out of your program. Some programs still did that in the past, but you faced a tremendous backlash when you pulled a scholarship. A team like Georgia now can just stack 5 stars on top of 5 stars and process them through the portal when they don't play. I don't think we've seen an era this stacked at the very top end since the NCAA scholarship reductions several decades ago. It seems like it has spread the talent out more, but in the past those guys would have started at other programs, anyhow, because they didn't want to sit behind 5 stars at the premier programs. Why even worry about that now, because half of the players either move onto the NFL in 3 years or exit via the portal. I would also say that there's generally more talent overall in college football because basically everyone has tremendous facilities now. The number of programs investing heavily in development and nutrition is vastly improved over a few decades ago due to the tremendous amount of television money now in the sport.

I dont think he's a QB. I've never thought he was a QB. In the spring I commented on him potentially being a Wildcat guy because Satterfield and Rhule have a past history of doing that. In reality, it was also because I just didn't think he should be an every down QB. I like him a lot. Great person, great competitor and a good athlete. I think he's a guy that can help the team elsewhere and maybe if he doesn't do it via switching positions it could still be as a Wildcat. The rumored incoming QB options aren't exactly mobile. Haarberg can put his head down in tough situations to get yards and throws a decent deep ball when they cheat on that.

The Big Ten doing Nebraska a favor? Can you share the drugs with the rest of the class.

I don't feel bad for him at all. He still has a scholarship to his dream school. My pitch to him is very simple. He wants to be here, we want him, and with all of the transfers and injures there will eventually be an opportunity. This is a place with a statue of a backup QB. It'll be so special to a kid like him to come in for a banged up starter to drive down for the winning TD in a big game.

Its one thing for a commit to take an official early in the season because official visits are cool. You don't do it a week before signing day just to visit your uncle after your family uprooted half way across the country. Georgia may ultimately find a way to retain him, but there's something to this.

TE coach is the entry level position on the coaching tree. Being a hybrid position, it's the easiest position to coach on the offense. I'm all for the idea of a dedicated QB coach with Satt at OC/TE. His dream is to play 4 TEs anyhow, so he may as well coach them.

I don't think that is nearly as important as it once was. You have top picks coming out of lower divisions now, entire starting offenses full of players that went to lower tier schools. Players often have their own private coaches. Games are on TV all of the time so you get exposure practically anywhere. The NFL has shown, especially over the last decade, that they'll go where the talent is. It may affect your draft stock a little bit if you did it at an SEC or Big Ten school, but the real money is in your second contract and no one will care where you went to school once you're in the league. I'd advise a guy to go where he'll have fun during his college years. If fun means competing for national titles, then you're going to have to pick that from that very selective group that can recruit enough aggregate talent to do that. If you just want to be the starting QB, you could go to Wyoming or Texas Tech.

I dont know how feasible that is as a get, but I'm just of the opinion that you should have a dedicated coach for what is disproportionately the most important player on the field. I think OCs wanting to be the QB coach is too often a control issue rather than one of efficacy.

Just think of him as a guy that's really good at learning a new playbook.