If can Indiana can do it so can Nebraska.

TampaBaySkers · 2025-12-07T08:04:19-0600

Cash68847 said:
I expect Cignetti to put together another good portal class going into next year and whoop our ass. I really have no doubt.

This years portal class ranking:

NU - 13
IU - 25

I’m afraid it’s more a case of Xs & Os than the jimmy and the joes

TampaBaySkers · 2025-12-07T08:07:00-0600

Cornicator said:
I'm sure a lot of good players will want to play for him. But that portal class, outside of Mendoza, wasn't the reason he won the Big Ten. It still goes back to the nucleus he brought from James Madison.

His portal class ranking was #30 his first year & he was getting a ton of talent from small schools, but they were still mostly 3 stars.

He’s hit back to back homeruns on QBs in the portal though

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/season/2024-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24040

Baron Winnebago · 2025-12-07T08:09:06-0600

Cigs gonna have a Saban like grip on the Big Ten as long as he wants to coach and that's the reality we have to deal with far beyond when Rhule is shit canned

Cash68847 · 2025-12-07T08:10:04-0600

Cornicator said:
I'm sure a lot of good players will want to play for him. But that portal class, outside of Mendoza, wasn't the reason he won the Big Ten. It still goes back to the nucleus he brought from James Madison.

They still did a pretty good job of hitting on portal additions. Cignetti has it figured out. I could see Indiana taking a step back, but I’ll be surprised if they aren’t always a top 15 team under Cignetti at this point.

TampaBaySkers · 2025-12-07T08:14:41-0600

Baron Winnebago said:
Cigs gonna have a Saban like grip on the Big Ten as long as he wants to coach and that's the reality we have to deal with far beyond when Rhule is shit canned

Only hope is he strikes out on his next qb choice

Cash68847 · 2025-12-07T08:15:21-0600

TampaBaySkers said:
This years portal class ranking:

NU - 13
IU - 25

I’m afraid it’s more a case of Xs & Os than the jimmy and the joes

I think a lot of it is still about the Jimmy and the joes in most cases, but Cignetti is one of those few coaches who is just the man. He can identify talent and coach them up. He is on another level. He is easily the best coach to come out of the Saban coaching tree which is crazy.

doublewing · 2025-12-07T08:17:24-0600

Cignetti is in another stratosphere than Rhule. He can evaluate talent, has a great staff, his team plays with an edge, and they are beating great teams. No amount of $$$ for buying players is going to make Rhule a coach on Cig's level.

Cornicator · 2025-12-07T08:26:10-0600

TampaBaySkers said:
Only hope is he strikes out on his next qb choice

If you look at portal rankings for 2025, Mendoza was the #2 ranked QB in the portal behind Carson Beck. So I'm sure he will once again get a great QB.

On a side note, it's crazy how Kiffin identified Trinidad Chambliss. That dude was like the 30th ranked transfer QB in the portal.

NEHusker54 · 2025-12-07T08:27:02-0600

This line of thinking is flawed. We are Nebraska. This will not happen.

Flabio · 2025-12-07T08:33:39-0600

Indiana’s staff has likely been together a long time and is A+. NU is continuing to piece together a staff and identity. If we started signing top 10 classes that would help us jump up more quickly however we aren’t catching the Indiana staff unless the bottom falls out with their talent levels.

Poor_and_Stupid · 2025-12-07T08:35:05-0600

TampaBaySkers said:
Nebraska’s portal class was ranked much higher than IU’s. Need to identify and evaluate talent at a muncher higher clip

The Simulation™ is real. It doesn’t matter what we do. If we had all their transfers they would suck here. If they had our transfers they would be incredible there.

Poor_and_Stupid · 2025-12-07T08:36:36-0600

NEHusker54 said:
This line of thinking is flawed. We are Nebraska. This will not happen.

Have you considered joining us at the Sandy Vagina Crew?

Cash68847 · 2025-12-07T08:37:00-0600

Flabio said:
Indiana’s staff has likely been together a long time and is A+. NU is continuing to piece together a staff and identity. If we started signing top 10 classes that would help us jump up more quickly however we aren’t catching the Indiana staff unless the bottom falls out with their talent levels.

I’m actually surprised his two coordinators haven’t been up for some of these head coaching jobs. They are in that 35-40 year old range.

ShortSideOption · 2025-12-07T08:37:03-0600

Cornicator said:
I'm sure a lot of good players will want to play for him. But that portal class, outside of Mendoza, wasn't the reason he won the Big Ten. It still goes back to the nucleus he brought from James Madison.

Which really begs the question to me… most of those dudes were at James Madison, so Nebraska could have had nearly all of them if they identified and wanted them. It’s coaching. Cignettis offensive and defensive coordinator has been with him since he was at Elon. They have their way and they stick to it.

Southendzonehusker · 2025-12-07T08:37:11-0600

Baron Winnebago said:
Cigs gonna have a Saban like grip on the Big Ten as long as he wants to coach and that's the reality we have to deal with far beyond when Rhule is shit canned

Have you ever heard of Kirby Smart?

ShortSideOption · 2025-12-07T08:37:46-0600

Flabio said:
Indiana’s staff has likely been together a long time and is A+. NU is continuing to piece together a staff and identity. If we started signing top 10 classes that would help us jump up more quickly however we aren’t catching the Indiana staff unless the bottom falls out with their talent levels.

Rhule better start making the right hires. We are going to be on our 3rd DC in his 4 seasons here for 2026.

Cash68847 · 2025-12-07T08:38:52-0600

ShortSideOption said:
Rhule better start making the right hires. We are going to be on our 3rd DC in his 4 seasons here for 2026.

We know how this ends most of the time.

Baron Winnebago · 2025-12-07T08:39:43-0600

Southendzonehusker said:
Have you ever heard of Kirby Smart?

Baron Winnebago · 2025-12-07T08:41:03-0600

Poor_and_Stupid said:
Have you considered joining us at the Sandy Vagina Crew?

The regular meetings have terrible food and no one has any fun, but what we lack in positivity, we make up for with accepting the inevitability of death

NCsker · 2025-12-07T08:43:05-0600

That SOB Van Owen said:
I used to think so but I don’t think we can.

You’ve become quite cynical over the past few months, it’s a bit disheartening. Is there a process to get a HES badge revoked?

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