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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.

He really likes Runzas.

It was huge. He was going to be the bigger, badder Tommie. Very different guys, but that's how elevated the hype was.

As much as some of these QB names excite me, maybe the rumor I'm most excited about is the idea of dedicated QB coach being hired.

I think Kaelin stays. He's very mature for his age and obviously a big fan. Of anybody coming into this situation I think he will understand that a QB room in the era of the portal and NIL shifts rapidly.

This offense will turn a mediocre QB into a turnover machine, too. I have no faith in Satterfield's ability to develop a QB and the entire passing game needs an overhaul. A lot of these interceptions fall on Satterfield. Things like running verts with 2x2 sets against 2 high Safeties bracketing with no hots. Especially in the college game, take the thinking away from the QB. Give him actual progressions....1,2,3 release. This offense lacks routes that work off one another, lacks break timing, and has too much waiting for someone to hopefully get open. It's a nightmare for *any* QB. While we certainly had to make lemonade out of lemons from the QB position I think it's equally fair to say we completely and utterly failed to help our QBs.

We didn't have a scheme this year. You know that because if you have a scheme then half of opposing defense isn't waiting on the QB on every option play because they have to account for the other plays/components that make it an actual scheme. A big reason so many plays ended up as QB runs was the scheme as such didn't exist to force defenders to account for someone else. About the only symmetry this offense had was to hope they over-commited to the QB runs enough that eventually you could drop one over the top for a big play.

It's not near the best Husker defense, and that's ignoring relative strength of opposing offenses. But, it's a great first year, let's not let past greatness overshadow that. To get that kind of buy in on year one is something special. As time goes on we'll get pieces that fit even better and White will get more accustomed to calling the defense to better fit this league. I'd say its pretty fair to say they exceeded expectations on that side this year despite being put into a lot of really bad spots.

That's been the trend in the sport for quite some time now. It's simply far, far easier to scheme offense than recruit defense. Especially if, as you said, you have skill talent nearby and you're target is primarily to be bowl eligible or a little better every year. If you want to challenge for titles, it's all about the defensive front and pass rushers, imo, even over QBs because that's the best way in the modern game to account for the numerical binds that modern offenses can put you in. In terms of keeping White, it was probably a good year for a couple of schools to have job openings available. Pay the man and keep recruiting more defensive speed and let him cook.

What they need is a Quarterback.