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20 minutes ago, PasstheDamnBallGuy said:

After watching the interview I will say that in the context of what he was saying it sounds more like what he wants in an ideal scenario and a message to the roster that if you are here they are going to try to develop you.

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.

1 hour ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

If his goal is to be a starter though, it's a much easier road to go elsewhere than trying to beat out a 5-star legacy QB who is regarded as a Top 3 HS QB this year.

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.

3 minutes ago, Undone said:

And I worry we won't get the light boxes with all of the 12 man personnel stuff (and even some 22 man) that Satterfield seems to want to do.

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.

7 minutes ago, Undone said:

Michigan is considered by our fan base as a "power team."

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.

3 hours ago, Stumpy1 said:

He is an absolute no brainer take over DK.

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.

2 hours ago, Hayseed said:

This is pure speculation

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.

10 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

Up until Fickell was brought in, we knew damn well wiscy was running it and we still give up a ncaa record, in 3 quarters

Against the head coach whose defenses were predicated on 2 high safeties.

8 minutes ago, gossamorharpy said:

I don't know how you can say the biggest component of the running game is box count

That's why I'm not responding to the rest of your comment. That idea is pretty foundational to understanding the post.

3 hours ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

At Georgia, the expectation would be to compete for playoff spots and getting to the National Championship. With the way they recruit, anything that isn't at least qualifying for a 12 team playoff is a massive failure. I think Georgia fans would expect to win at least 1 playoff game each year.

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.

4 minutes ago, Decked said:

Michigan State has like 1 QB on that roster.

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.

7 minutes ago, Decked said:

Big boy football often leaves someone out in the cold. 

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.

2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Dice = Vegas, so Ruggeroli?

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

1 minute ago, Hilltop said:

The 12 team playoff is going to help keep some kids stable imo.   

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.

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

Then, if he gets on the plane Friday, you would have to assume he is flipping to NU, right?

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.

7 minutes ago, HuskersNC949597 said:

And yet, here we all are on message boards refreshing the page all day.

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

14 minutes ago, cheekygeek said:

Odd that nobody liked this idea when I posted it two pages back. 

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.

49 minutes ago, Mavric said:

I really think Nebraska can/should be in the 4-5 range each year.

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).

14 minutes ago, Mastershake said:

A case could be made that there more pressure on him if he comes here.

You don't need Matlock to make that case.

40 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

we need a good OL

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.

38 minutes ago, Huskers93-97 said:

Not sure why some think he needs to explain why. Who cares why 

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.

43 minutes ago, lo country said:

Now if we land Raiola, McC and some of the others I will be shocked, but for today, we are in the media for all the right reasons.  

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.

38 minutes ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

1890

Teach needs a pay raise.

25 minutes ago, ladyhawke said:

Hilarious! This kid hasn’t played one second of college football and folks are going ape over him. 
I will believe it when I see him dressed out in a Husker uniform, on the field playing his first game.

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.

2 hours ago, gobiggergoredder said:

Rhule is doing a culture build.  I just don’t see him bringing in a guy that coaches QB camps and private sessions.

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.

31 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

But, one thing I’m thinking is, I think it’s spreading the talent out more in college football.

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.

On 12/10/2023 at 12:58 AM, Huskerfollower4life said:

Haarberg should be moved to tight end bc he needs a proper qb coach to fix his throwing mechanics and their is a ton of work that needs to happen in order to get there. 

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.