Your 2025 Nebraska Cornhuskers

Red Five said:
Clouse with some galaxy brain stuff


Side note:  If you have a 8th/9th grade son, start having them learn to long snap.  One kid of my friend learned to long snap from watching you tube videos in 9th grade because a friend down the street was a kicker and he would tag along to kicking sessions.  Started snapping for varsity in 10th grade.  Now is being recruited by many midwest schools (including NU).  Great way to get your college paid for.
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You liar.

You don't have any friends :lol:

 
Red Five said:
Clouse with some galaxy brain stuff


Side note:  If you have a 8th/9th grade son, start having them learn to long snap.  One kid of my friend learned to long snap from watching you tube videos in 9th grade because a friend down the street was a kicker and he would tag along to kicking sessions.  Started snapping for varsity in 10th grade.  Now is being recruited by many midwest schools (including NU).  Great way to get your college paid for.
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Everybody needs to relax, Haarberg will be just fine at QB/TE. 

Especially after Fidone and Bonner go to the Portal.   :o

 
Trying to read the room here- was today a good day?  Are we happy, confused, irritated, it’s complicated, other. What is our status?  

 
krc1995 said:
Trying to read the room here- was today a good day?  Are we happy, confused, irritated, it’s complicated, other. What is our status?  
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Great question.  Im in different about this recruiting class.  Yes I like the guys they brought in but realistically how long is it going to take most of them to develop and be contributors on the field?  2-3 years that's my guess.  Yes the transfer portal has always been a thing if you needed a couple of kids but it feels like we are going to turn into Colorado not with how many transfers but with how the coaches are going to have to rely on them so heavenly to produce.  The kids on the roster for the majority aren't ready to step in and be starters rn especially on defense bc they are undersized and really have no in game experiences.

 
krc1995 said:
Trying to read the room here- was today a good day?  Are we happy, confused, irritated, it’s complicated, other. What is our status?  
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I think it's a huge positive Rhule was able to keep the class together despite the chaos around the program.  I think he projected confidence at the press conference regarding next steps.  Reading his room, I think he feels adding Holgorsen moves the needle, White & Knighton are replaceable.  Reading between the lines of what I heard from various players and coaches yesterday, I think the defections I found concerning before, had less to do with coaches moving, & more to do with how Rhule envisions distributing assets.   To build off his own NFL free agency analogy, he's not overpaying for his own free agents.  Time will tell if I'm right, if Rhule can bring his vision to fruition.  He openly discussed bringing 10-14, 5-7 players on each side of the ball in from the portal.  If that's the plan, I think it needs to play out before I could express optimism or skepticism.  

 
Huskerfollower4life said:
Great question.  Im in different about this recruiting class.  Yes I like the guys they brought in but realistically how long is it going to take most of them to develop and be contributors on the field?  2-3 years that's my guess.  Yes the transfer portal has always been a thing if you needed a couple of kids but it feels like we are going to turn into Colorado not with how many transfers but with how the coaches are going to have to rely on them so heavenly to produce.  The kids on the roster for the majority aren't ready to step in and be starters rn especially on defense bc they are undersized and really have no in game experiences.
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Red Five said:
Clouse with some galaxy brain stuff


Side note:  If you have a 8th/9th grade son, start having them learn to long snap.  One kid of my friend learned to long snap from watching you tube videos in 9th grade because a friend down the street was a kicker and he would tag along to kicking sessions.  Started snapping for varsity in 10th grade.  Now is being recruited by many midwest schools (including NU).  Great way to get your college paid for.
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That would be awesome actually, and you'd think throwing as a QB would have to translate some into velocity on snaps. I do think if he's serious about the NFL being a core special teamer is his best chance, and if he's no longer the backup QB there should be less hesitation about putting him out there. If he can't snap he should hold on kicks, I've always hated that switching to the punter. I get that they have more time to work with the kicker on it, but I like a better threat of a fake/more competent player making something happen on a bad snap even if we don't do it often.

 
OT-ish, but I'm reading The Athletic's article on FSU's collapse, and this bit stood out:

Last cycle, Florida State courted similarly established transfers, too. But when they failed to sign top targets like Kyle Kennard (a Nagurski Trophy finalist at South Carolina), Nic Scourton (one of the SEC’s most disruptive defensive linemen for Texas A&M) and Carter Smith (Indiana’s starting left tackle), the Seminoles had to pivot to the portal’s next tier. They veered further from production and more toward potential.

Six of their 17 transfers were coveted, top-110 national recruits in high school who signed with major programs (Georgia, Alabama) but totaled just four career collegiate starts. Another, receiver Malik Benson, was the nation’s top junior college recruit in 2023 but caught only one touchdown in his 14 games for Alabama.

If Seminoles staffers thought they could fix the talented prospects they unsuccessfully recruited previously, they were wrong. Bama’s backups, it turns out, were backups for a reason; the front office, a former staffer said, “went 1-for-17.”

“They completely failed,” said a source familiar with the team’s roster construction.
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Critical lesson for the portal era. You gotta prioritize guys with actual production over guys with mere potential.

 
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Toe said:
OT-ish, but I'm reading The Athletic's article on FSU's collapse, and this bit stood out:

Critical lesson for the portal era. You gotta prioritize guys with actual production over guys with mere potential.
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Which proves something I’ve thought of for a while. It really doesn’t matter where the transfer comes from. Ones from Alabama can be duds. Ones from FCS can be studs. Evaluate the player….not based on where they are coming from. 

 
BigRedBuster said:
Which proves something I’ve thought of for a while. It really doesn’t matter where the transfer comes from. Ones from Alabama can be duds. Ones from FCS can be studs. Evaluate the player….not based on where they are coming from. 
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Exactly! Maybe we did, maybe we didn’t….. but two years ago we should have been all over SDSU guys, tossing money around trying to nab them.  McCormick is an OL who starts for the Steelers, Greenfield is an OL for the Giants, Davis is a RB who is on the field for the Jets and Kraft is quickly becoming one of the best TE for the Packers…. Instead we bring in guys who didn’t start or got benched

 
HANC said:
Exactly! Maybe we did, maybe we didn’t….. but two years ago we should have been all over SDSU guys, tossing money around trying to nab them.  McCormick is an OL who starts for the Steelers, Greenfield is an OL for the Giants, Davis is a RB who is on the field for the Jets and Kraft is quickly becoming one of the best TE for the Packers…. Instead we bring in guys who didn’t start or got benched
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I'm willing to bet this changes across the board (proof over potential) due to the reduced roster sizes. Of course that also means the truly productive players from the portal will become more expensive.

 
Huskerfollower4life said:
Great question.  Im in different about this recruiting class.  Yes I like the guys they brought in but realistically how long is it going to take most of them to develop and be contributors on the field?  2-3 years that's my guess.  Yes the transfer portal has always been a thing if you needed a couple of kids but it feels like we are going to turn into Colorado not with how many transfers but with how the coaches are going to have to rely on them so heavenly to produce.  The kids on the roster for the majority aren't ready to step in and be starters rn especially on defense bc they are undersized and really have no in game experiences.
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Just taking the class at face value- this has got to be one of our better classes in regards to quantity of 4-5 star kids. Total class of 20 kids and depending which site you look at I think like 13 of 20 are rated a 4 star by at least one of the 4. I believe 4 and 5 stars are considered kids with the potential to make immediate impact. So I think nearly 70% of class being impact is pretty solid 

 
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