Pipe Line said:

Major Whif not to replace them in the portal though. I was a huge proponent of letting guys develop over a few years like Nash and Ty did. Nah, just replace em with absolute hogs in the portal so there’s no drop off. Huge miss and it’s showing

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Flabio said:

Bradden is another example of Rhule bringing in development coaches. Bradden may be able to coach however he has NO recruiting ties as he’s coming from the NFL. It will take years for him to establish some of those relationships. NU is not a program or paying for development coaches. The assistants are getting paid really well but a lot aren’t able to execute right away.

If the Eck hire doesn’t open Rhule’s eyes to needing to bring in assistants who can execute right now then nothing will.

I still can’t get over how bad Rhule’s first staff was. Cav and MaGuirre alone were horrible. Will not get back into Satterfield. The AD will have to push him but he seems to be stubborn that this is his way.

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V-Doub said:

To be fair Bradden walked into a difficult situation. We all were concerned about the dline lacking size and experience. Now, some coaches are able to bring a player or two with them, Bradden didn’t have that luxury so this will be his 1st full recruiting cycle. I’m gonna hold of some judgement until I see what we do this cycle. We could, in theory (other teams have done it) completely flip the script if we hit on a couple good portal transfers.

Now the oline on the other hand… We spent a bunch of money Spindler and Prichett. The narrative and drum beat was the oline would be a strength and they’ve been the same shit show we’ve seen for years now. Spindler has been good to serviceable but not great by any means. Prichett by all accounts has been almost a complete bust through 7 games. Donnie has had 4 years to produce an above average offensive line. How many more years of failure do we need to see? Rhule… You fell for it again.

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Flabio said:

Agree and I think Bradden will have the chance to be a coach who can execute in coaching and recruiting at the level we need however it may take five years to get there. Do we have five years and is that what we’re paying for to develop coaches while we don’t get results?

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Juro said:

When you go from having Butler, Robinson, and Nutsmasher who got most of the snaps last year to this year's of Jeudy, Lenhardt, and Van Poppel, it's really hard to have a fair idea if its the coach or the talent.

Even a great chef is going to have issues making a good plate with hamburger helper, american cheese slices, and mustard.

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Tsakoi said:

1: Jeudy, Lenhardt and Van Poppel do not make anywhere near enough plays. To the point that when you actually do hear their names you had forgotten that they play. We desperately need some sort of production from those guys and we are getting next to none.

2: The transfer portal has been a casino crapshoot for Nebraska.

The good rolls of the dice...

Andrew Marshall
Dasan McCullough
Kyle Cunanan
Kevin Gallic
Peter North
Nyziah Hunter
Williams Nwaneri
Evan Stone
Jamir Conn

Crapped out......

Rocco Spindler. For the supposed amount we are paying he should dominate and he has just been average.
Elijah Pritchett. See Spindler, but instead of average he has been too many times a detriment. Not worth top dollar.

Missing so badly on the OL positions has cost us. Its not like we didn't try, we did bring in like 5 OTs for visits before EP.

Marques Watson-Trent. He hasn't dispelled the rumors that the BIg 10 was too high of a reach for him.
Dane Key. Zero catches against MSU and Minne. 3 for 36 yards against Mich. What are we paying top dollar for again?

Jaylen George. Non factor player.
Gabe Moore. Non factor player.

I will say about those two DL that I doubt they are getting any sort of NIL or rev share money.

Justyn Rhett. Probably wasn't in the plan for this year anyway. Has played some and made no splashes.
Marcos Davila. Passed by a true freshman and a former lower division safety on the QB depth chart.
Hardly Gilmore. Just a waste of time all around and wasting time costs you in other areas.
Jack McCallister. We passed on him to get......Archie WIlson who has not been the "weapon" we were sold on. (I think Archie counts as a freshman and not a transfer)


So that puts us at 7 for 17 hits in the old transfer portal, which to me is probably what the average is, but we crapped out with the two high dollar OL and big money WR. When 2 of your 7 good ones are specialists you see that we have only 5 high snap count contributors out of the 17, which is bad bad bad for the money invested.

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Sous Chef said:

I could do it.

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V-Doub said:

Lol Bradden doesn’t need 5 years. If he’s worth a shit he’ll field a vastly improved Dline next year. This isn’t 2002 anymore, coaches don’t necessarily need great HS ties to retool a position group. He just needs money and the smarts to spend it wisely.

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Flabio said:

Bradden is another example of Rhule bringing in development coaches. Bradden may be able to coach however he has NO recruiting ties as he’s coming from the NFL. It will take years for him to establish some of those relationships. NU is not a program or paying for development coaches. The assistants are getting paid really well but a lot aren’t able to execute right away.

If the Eck hire doesn’t open Rhule’s eyes to needing to bring in assistants who can execute right now then nothing will.

I still can’t get over how bad Rhule’s first staff was. Cav and MaGuirre alone were horrible. Will not get back into Satterfield. The AD will have to push him but he seems to be stubborn that this is his way.

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Flabio said:

Then why did we hire Mozee? We don’t have NIL like that. We lost Sone to GA over NIL.

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