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2025-26 #PortalSZN Thread

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Feb 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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  1. Seaofred92 Seaofred92
I didn't make that statement in a vacuum. The tater I responded to claimed that EJ did not make a difference in our w/l total, which even you apparently know is a trash take.
My bad! I was catching up on pages this morning and missed the context of your statement. When a thread gets to 110 pages, I usually miss some posts leading up to other posts.

Yes, EJ was worth a couple of wins all by himself.
 
Wild how many taters we have coping with the "EJ didn't make a difference" line
No one said he didn't make a difference. This is such a dumb comment. The point is he played in 12 games and Nebraska went 7-5. The starting QB played in 9 games and was 7-2, and leading in the second half of the 10th game before he got hurt. Nebraska then went 1-3 in games he didn't start. So, no, I don't think EJ was more important to the team than the starting QB, and I'll never believe a RB is more important to a football team than the QB. That also doesn't mean that the RB can't be the best player on a football team.
EJ was responsible for somewhere near 65% of the offensive production. It’s not unreasonable to think Nebraska goes 4-8 without him.
EJ accounted for ~38% of the offense.

NU total offensive production in yards - 4,817
EJ total offensive production in yards - 1,821
 
I get that Indiana and Texas Tech are doing very well. I guess you can add Okie state for getting the north Texas guys.

But what are the other schools with significantly more commits than Nebraska at this point?

I was just checking one of the portal trackers and it seems like most schools are in the 1-2 range so far. A handful of places have 4.
 
$$$ and watching a portal guy in David Bailey wreck havoc on Big 12 OL
Also, Aurich was there only two years. White was already a team captain in Aurich's first season with SDSU, when Aurich was DE coach. He made 1st team all MW in that year - Eric Schmidt, another 4-2-5 guy, was the DC.

I'm sure White likes Aurich but he's not an Aurich protege.
 
No one said he didn't make a difference. This is such a dumb comment. The point is he played in 12 games and Nebraska went 7-5. The starting QB played in 9 games and was 7-2, and leading in the second half of the 10th game before he got hurt. Nebraska then went 1-3 in games he didn't start. So, no, I don't think EJ was more important to the team than the starting QB, and I'll never believe a RB is more important to a football team than the QB. That also doesn't mean that the RB can't be the best player on a football team.

EJ accounted for ~38% of the offense.

NU total offensive production in yards - 4,817
EJ total offensive production in yards - 1,821
We had that this season and it was not a factor in wins-losses. Where you see when we had a QB with P4 talent we had success, when we didn't, we were awful.
 
What are we talking about? Making a difference and being directly resonsible or wins and losses are not the same thing. Nebraska got the doors blown off them when EJ had his best game of the season.
 
I believe the statement I made in another thread is to lock it for only portal news, so we don't have to see the bitches talk back and forth.
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What are we talking about? Making a difference and being directly resonsible or wins and losses are not the same thing. Nebraska got the doors blown off them when EJ had his best game of the season.
EJ was not a factor, eh?

We had that this season and it was not a factor in wins-losses. Where you see when we had a QB with P4 talent we had success, when we didn't, we were awful.
 
You could make a strong case for Michigan St and UCLA being losses without EJ. Michigan St mostly because of the weather that day not allowing much of anything through the air mixed with very timely impact plays by EJ. EJ also stabilized us vs Maryland when things were reeling. Strong possibility we are not in position to win there without him.
I guess...I mean 83 yards rushing against MSU doesn't scream absolute difference in the game.

I'm likely not going to see a RB being directly resonsible for wins-losses without it being a career type day.

I'm also not going to discuss this anymore because it makes no sense to do so.
 
How do you hire Trey Whites DC and then watch him go to Texas Tech? That shit is embarrassing.
It's only embarrassing if you haven't been paying attention and/or you are a completely fucking idiot.

Texas Tech has proven that 1) they are willing to outspend anyone and everyone for portal players they want - they targeted White as a top priority. On top of that, they also have a proven track record of taking portal players and them having tremendous success.

Lastly - players don't follow their coaches all the time! Remember last year when Tony White left for FSU - Princewell ended up transferring to Ole Miss. The majority of our defensive players that left ended up at other schools than FSU.

Don't be so simple minded...
 
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