Toe Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 @Undone Yep, we saw pretty clearly what happened when the last of Bo's OL recruits graduated. 1 Quote Link to comment
BIG ERN Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Until one of us wins the B10 no one really cares. QUICK: Nebraska won 9 games in 2011. What bowl game was that?? Yeah... Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 4 hours ago, swmohusker said: Iowa has had some talent. You can almost make the argument that they underachieve for the talent they have on the roster. Nah. The talent they have they hand crafted in a way that maximizes the least. They overachieve because the talent they have on the roster wasn't there at the start. Quote Link to comment
swmohusker Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 3 minutes ago, Landlord said: Nah. The talent they have they hand crafted in a way that maximizes the least. They overachieve because the talent they have on the roster wasn't there at the start. AJ Epenesa was not hand crafted. Wirfs was also a beast coming out of HS. Some guys they develop, some are pretty talented players. 2 Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 4 hours ago, BigPeterJ said: Iowa has been decent for a long time now and sometimes very good. And its very hard to beat them in a rivalry game, in Iowa City. That was one hell of a win by Bo. I dont even think Eichorst believed what he was saying. They do have much better talent than their recruiting rankings. They are getting some skill guys too. That freshman RB they got already looks very good. How do you quantify that they have much better talent than their recruiting rankings? I'm curious what you base that statement on. I'll buy that they have done a better job developing players and that they know what they are and what they want to do but "much better talent"....based on what? Quote Link to comment
BigPeterJ Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 2 hours ago, JJ Husker said: How do you quantify that they have much better talent than their recruiting rankings? I'm curious what you base that statement on. I'll buy that they have done a better job developing players and that they know what they are and what they want to do but "much better talent"....based on what? They just look like better athletes than we have. We called a bad game, and AM played bad, but we played harder than any other game of the year. Iowa has some talent, and their freshman RB looked really good. Something we havent been able to say ourselves. Nebraska hasn't had a good RB in a while. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 20 minutes ago, BigPeterJ said: They just look like better athletes than we have. We called a bad game, and AM played bad, but we played harder than any other game of the year. Iowa has some talent, and their freshman RB looked really good. Something we havent been able to say ourselves. Nebraska hasn't had a good RB in a while. I won't dispute any of that. We can say they've played better, been more productive, have developed better, have beaten us, outcoached us and all kinds of other things. But you can't say they have much better talent than us. That simply isn't true. Their talent is what their rankings say it is. They've just done more with what they have. Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 11 minutes ago, JJ Husker said: Their talent is what their rankings say it is. Their recruiting rankings? Or their end of season top 25 rankings or what? 1 Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 11 minutes ago, Landlord said: Their recruiting rankings? Or their end of season top 25 rankings or what? The statement he made was that they have much better talent than their recruiting rankings. My point was that their talent is what it is, they simply have developed and done more with what they have. Unless somebody has developed a newfangled measure of talent? Or maybe he’s going off “the eye test” Quote Link to comment
McGuillotine Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Here is Iowa 1 1 Quote Link to comment
huskerfan333157 Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 10 hours ago, Undone said: According to the recruiting site rankings, I'm pretty sure we've "out-recruited" Iowa in terms of average class rank the last five seasons. So why have they produced more NFL talent than we have? I'd say there are three possible explanations, all of which could be true to some degree: 1. The recruiting site rankings aren't exactly what we think they are. 2. Iowa is better at developing talent. 3. Iowa is better at identifying talent in high school film, regardless of where that player ranks on the recruiting rankings sites. I think it's a combination of #2 and #3. But probably mainly #2. Look at the recruiting rankings AFTER attrition, they're about 40 spots better 2 1 Quote Link to comment
I am I Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Can we just be sick of them beating us every year and call it a rivalry yet? I want to beat Iowa so bad I feel like I’m 10 yrs old and cried when OU got the best of us with Bosworth and his ugly a$$ color striped haircut lines. I only measure Wisc a rival because we MUST beat them to be in B1G champ games; they’re way out of our league. look, Iowa gets it done. Every single player knows exactly what they need done, and they do it. On that note, I don’t ‘feel’ like Nebraska has every player dialed in to just DO THEIR DAMN JOB. Or the long term developed talent. you think Nebraska got WR talent in the 90s here because Osborne promised them 80 catches over a career?? Hell no. They came to catch 3 passes a game for big yards and WIN the damn game, and play for Bowls and championships, by blocking their asses off and making most of their opportunities when the ball did come their way. we need players here who can be developed, work their asses off while biding their time, and buy into a whole program philosophy. Then you get the 2-3 players a year who can transform a 9-10 win team into a 12-14 win team. That takes a SYSTEM. And that’s what Iowa has, a tried and true system and program that players know exactly what they’re signing on for and have the patience to wait for “their turn”. That’s the difference: a long game, long term approach, marathon, system, program... I believe Frost gets this too and is doing it the right way, even tho results (wins) haven’t materialized yet. But it’s on the way. 2 Quote Link to comment
BigPeterJ Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 1 hour ago, huskerfan333157 said: Look at the recruiting rankings AFTER attrition, they're about 40 spots better I admit i haven't looked at the rankings post attrition. But i have looked at OUR roster in great depth. And we have very little talent in our upcoming Junior and Senior classes. Less than Iowa, hell..less than Purdue. When people look at our recruiting rankings they are ignoring attrition..i agree with you on that. I am sure Iowa had more talent than us last year on the field. I imagine POST-attrution rankings would show that , but simply the eye test made it clear. Iowa has some ballers. It is humbling to say, but Iowa had more talent than us last year, including some young guys. We dont have a running back I have seen, as good as Iowa's freshman. Hopefully Sevion or Scott can be that for us. But lets be honest, we are all excited about RB rated in the 50ish range. We used to have some of the best RBs in the country, now we get giddy over a 40-50th best back in the country. Hopefully a bit of diamonds in the rough. Quote Link to comment
Toe Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 6 hours ago, BigPeterJ said: But lets be honest, we are all excited about RB rated in the 50ish range. We used to have some of the best RBs in the country, now we get giddy over a 40-50th best back in the country. Average rank of the top RB recruit in our last three classes is 22, although the highest-ranked of those was Washington. Losing him hurts, but what can you do in a case like that? More than anything, it probably hurts us in terms of depth, and RB is one of the most important important spots for depth due to high injury potential. Quote Link to comment
gobiggergoredder Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Look at the Huskers still in the NFL....... Rex, Ameer, Lavonte....I’m sure there’s more. That talent just flat out hasn’t been on the roster in recent years. You can’t “develop” what you don’t have. 1 Quote Link to comment
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