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10 minutes ago, Undone said:

I think the big difference with Raiola as a star QB and those guys though is how he might help land other skill players on offense.

The QB in the modern game is obviously super important, but the threshold of what that QB needs to be is way lower in college football than in the pro game if you have all of the other pieces.

In Nebraska's situation where you don't have stacked 5 stars everywhere then nothing will progress your team faster than a bonafide star QB. It's not just going to make the offense so much better, but it will make this defense, which is already pretty good and will return a boatload of talent, that much better because you can play more aggressive. When you know your offense won't score and therefore any big play you give up might be the game and you have to hold them to field goals and manage short fields and those things you have to call a game differently. When you get up a few scores though, which Nebraska hasn't been able to do in quite some time, you can take so many more chances.

To me, the recruiting doesn't come as much from signing a guy like this, it comes from the wins a guy like this can help generate. Nebraska has the fanbase, the facilities, the conference....everything they need except for the wins.

13 hours ago, Decked said:

But they really need some dudes to help out. I just don’t get why we are bringing in the TE volume in the 2024 class either. 

I think the idea there is similar to the DBs.....bring in a lot of athletes you like and move them around.

13 hours ago, Decked said:

We need 1-2 WRs & a RB so badly.

Losing Lacy really hurt this class.

4 minutes ago, soup said:

What's the difference then between Nebraska and MSU?  Nebraska isn't just gonna sit back and not acquire quarterbacks either.

Exactly. Everyone will keep acquiring talent and the grass isn't always greener. Dozens of transfers every year learn this lesson the hard way.

Presumably, one of those places is somewhere he wants to play at and the other is the place he's running towards. There could obviously be a lot of issues other than just competition that we just don't know about and maybe never will.

2 hours ago, Lunchbucket said:

I'm guessing this changes DK looking at MSU? 

This was always expected, and possibly more. MSU isn't just gonna sit back and not acquire quarterbacks.

1 hour ago, Akees said:

 

They are two years apart. When Chiles is a junior DK will be a redshirt freshman. 

And Raiola is a 3 year guy (especially if we don't get a transfer qb), and Kaelin is a 5 year guy.

If it's just playing time, and it could be more than that, then he really needs to get some good advice and think this through.

32 minutes ago, Undone said:

You'd have to probably start with how much total money is in the slush fund. But we don't have that info.

What's a 3rd string Center at Georgia making? It's easy to justify in our heads to pay a QB X amount of money because of the value of the position is so high, but it's the collective total of the team that matters and your ability to not only pay that but continue to pay an ever escalating increase.

Sports economics don't function quite like regular economics because the values are only significant relative to each other. 10 million dollars is a lot of money but if you think you're better than the guy making 15 million then you're getting screwed. Sports organizations all over the world have had to put in spending regulations to literally keep teams from spending their way into debt. It's so easy to justify player expense in the name of competition but what happens is at the end of the day the payout doesn't always cover the expenditure.

The NIL thing right now has no real regulation and with the way the NCAA and its member schools are set up and with the courts constantly getting involved I'm not sure how there can be, legally speaking, any sort of regulation needed to get this thing in check without a significant restructuring and collective organization by the respective parties.

I think we see their problem.

Required - Mommy not needing to drive you to work.

Desired - It'd be sorta nice if you've ever called plays.

Notice even that desired section they don't just list a desire for previous offensive coordinator experience but rather 'Successful football offensive coordinator experience'. What does that even mean? Is that a polite way of saying "Did you only keep your job because Daddy was your boss".

5 minutes ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

I don't really see the fit with him coming back and probably wanting a starting spot and him potentially having to compete with Riaola who is the number one qb in the nation.

That's the only part that does make sense. Casey never had that high of draft stock to begin with.  He might as well come back, collect his NIL check from the AARP and pal around with his buds.

4 minutes ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

 And we haven't lost DK yet either.

I'll answer his question this way then.....CT probably has a better chance of playing at Nebraska right now than DK does.

1 minute ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

So is Casey Thompson in the mix or is that wishful thinking? Very odd to see him come back to visit friends in the middle of December of all the possible times to swing through. 

Silly season. I think.

Who would have guessed with this morning's fireworks that we'd lose two QBs but get a very talented offensive lineman to walk on.

I guess it makes as much sense as that for a former QB in his 217th year of eligibility to come back simply because he was seen playing some ball on campus.

15 minutes ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

Just wait & see. 

How long? I gotta return to my pumpkin in a few days.

2 minutes ago, DrunkOffPunch said:

Considering his other options, I don’t know that that’s true.

Who are his options that would pony up a rumored 2 mil for a rent a player and feel they got their money's worth.

10 minutes ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

I will believe it when it's actually official.

I probably wont even believe it then. That's how crazy things are starting to get.

Just now, Born N Bled Red said:

Rhule and Co learned with Sims not to guarantee a starting spot.

What they should have looked at were his stats. That look on his face when that reporter told him Sims had led the country in turnovers is forever ingrained in my memory.

7 minutes ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

I wonder if there is NIL involved & possible scholarship next year. 

Almost certainly. Would explain the canceled OV.

If it's true Casey has transferred back, this is officially the craziest day in recruiting history.

EDIT: To be clear, I know nothing.

26 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

I would expect the going rate for a guy like McCord would be about $2M.

What can I get for a wrinkled $20 and a couple of promising looking scratcher tickets.

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.

2 hours ago, GSG said:

He doesn't want to compete with anyone. He just wants a guaranteed starting job.

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.

3 minutes ago, Stumpy1 said:

Well, well, well…

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.

2 minutes ago, Packerhuskerfan said:

I think Daniel Kaelin would stick with us long term.

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.

16 minutes ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

I can understand that but not many of the QBs transferring have an uncle on staff or have the family connections to the university quite like his.

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.

2 hours ago, Undone said:

I think you're right that the 12 man stuff diminishes as the team starts executing better (whether that occurs through more time in the system or with better players or because of whatever).

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.

2 minutes ago, Caliborn72 said:

Fwiw there’s simply too much smoke around Raiola for there to be just negative news

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.