Wild how many taters we have coping with the "EJ didn't make a difference" line
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EJ was responsible for somewhere near 65% of the offensive production. It’s not unreasonable to think Nebraska goes 4-8 without him.
1. I thought Indiana would do well in the portal as that is their identity in roster management.
2. TT would duplicate last season's portal blue print, so I expected them to do well in the portal.
3. I thought Nebraska would act with a sense of urgency, knowing that they would need to overpay to get the guys the NEED to be competitive. Nebraska is not in a position with their roster to be trying to establish market rates for players or constrain themselves to a perceived market value for top portal talent. The reality is that TT is setting the market value for portal talent and others have to adjust. The Nebraska roster is so obviously void of talent that they needed to get high level players at each level of the defense. That's a completely different post to explain the reasoning.
Indiana and TT MADE themselves "hot destinations" for portal talent. Nebraska has to do the same and they are not.
All the big players in last years portal are moving fast and setting the narrative, not having it dictated to them. So… let’s just do things totally different than what the most successful teams at recruiting the portal are doing, yeah that will work. 😒
I can see this position because you refused to overpay for A level players.
For sure, he was our best player! I just have never understood the point of making these what if statments. Like when people say "if Phill didn't have MJ or Kobe, he wouldn't have won 11 rings." Probably true, but he did and he has 11 rings.
If we didn't have EJ, we would go 4-8 or 5-7. But we did have him, and we didn't go 4-8 or 5-7.
$$$ and watching a portal guy in David Bailey wreck havoc on Big 12 OL
I expected Nebraska to realize what Texas Tech realized 2 years ago...elite players don't want to be in Lincoln, but they need elite players to be competitive in the Big 10 so they have to money whip them into coming to Nebraska.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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