2025-26 #PortalSZN Thread

djw004 said:

I’m so on the damn fence with this.

1) we gotta play with the big boys. Hell the medium boys

2) what the hell else can we do after getting the commitment, acceptable paper work in hand, and then an 11th hour “psych” - I’m not sure what we are supposed to do if we aren’t given the chance

3) and if they gave us a chance to match and we said “piss off” that’s one - but also, there has to be SOME responsibility here. If he’s demanding sorsby/Leavitt money after agreeing to 2/5 of that, that’s pretty wild. We are literally promoting extortion at that point

The answer can’t be “cave to every demand a 20 year old makes”. You don’t negotiate with terrorists, and this is fucking TERRORIST behavior

@FBI @DHS @NCTC

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MincheyMania2026 said:

Can we just convince Husan Longstreet to enter the portal with a significant amount of money

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djw004 said:

I’m so on the damn fence with this.

1) we gotta play with the big boys. Hell the medium boys

2) what the hell else can we do after getting the commitment, acceptable paper work in hand, and then an 11th hour “psych” - I’m not sure what we are supposed to do if we aren’t given the chance

3) and if they gave us a chance to match and we said “piss off” that’s one - but also, there has to be SOME responsibility here. If he’s demanding sorsby/Leavitt money after agreeing to 2/5 of that, that’s pretty wild. We are literally promoting extortion at that point

The answer can’t be “cave to every demand a 20 year old makes”. You don’t negotiate with terrorists, and this is fucking TERRORIST behavior

@FBI @DHS @NCTC

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RedSavage said:

I wonder…Did Minchey know he was never actually coming here and just completely play us for leverage

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Flabio said:

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Flabio said:

Was odd he wasn’t visiting until Wednesday and hadn’t signed imo. Particularly when we should’ve already had this worked out ready to sign day 1 as we have an entire operation setup to contact agents etc.

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djw004 said:

And a 2 million dollar qb saying “now it’s 5” is just trying to fuck us until we can’t walk

No clue if those numbers are real…

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Irv said:

Guys, you are absolutely fooling yourselves if you think this is just a money issue.

We are a mediocre football team. We have run a mediocre offense for 3 seasons that, a QB’s agent might reasonably conclude, severely diminished the prospects of a celebrated 5-star.

We chose to stand pat on that offense and assumed everyone would buy into the idea that what it has looked like for the year plus Dana was in charge was not what it really was.

It’s a miracle we got Minchey to commit in the first place and why a lot of us were excited to have him.

Making the choice to go play for the hottest offensive mind not at Indiana instead of the 20 points a game struggle at NU is a rational choice.

We thought we got lucky. But we didn’t.

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Flabio said:

We can make all the excuses in the world and rationalize it however we want. Reality is we got beat for talent that we desperately need and may not have a similar replacement option for. That’s why Rhule gets $12mm a year to execute.

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Seaofred92 said:

Re-bolded - the commitment without a signature is nothing. This entire situation STUNK from the beginning. Wednesday visit date setup, was supposedly “done” before the portal even opened yet nothing came out until late yesterday… just odd all around

Regarding the “you can’t cave into every demand a 20 year old makes” - cool. Thats how coaches get fired. There is no salary cap. Not spending the money doesn’t mean we get a bunch of other good players, it just means we don’t get the guys we want and instead get random floatsam to be filler

The entire NU operation is an absolute joke

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BigRedSob said:

that’s it! We need to take all the money, and build a $40 million basketball team. The transition is nearly complete

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djw004 said:

I get it. I fucking get it. Which is why I’m so torn. Like 75/25 pissed at Rhule vs just the game…

My biggest frustration is the lack of contingency. Identify your top 3, approach then all with a strong number and first to sign gets it. Take the flip out of the equation

But I do disagree with the “there is no salary cap, pay whatever” when you know you have a number, that’s YOUR salary cap. And every guy has a number at which you say “naw”. The fact we put ourselves in position to have this happen is the most frustrating - get the damn signature. And if 40 mil ain’t cutting it, then you gotta find a different way to skin the cat.

But it’s revisionist to say this stunk the whole time. He was our shining example of “we are tampering like everyone else - this was a done deal when the portal opened.” So we can’t swing the pendulum back and say “SEEE! We knew it all along, we weren’t ready”

Again - 75 pissed at Rhule so don’t hear this shit as a cop out for him.

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Irv said:

It’s shocking how bad we seem to be at some of this organizational stuff. I really thought this would be a strong suit of Rhule’s.

The hiring has been poor, to be charitable. This came off like a fucking clown show.

It’s really troubling that we finally hired a CEO coach and he doesn’t seem capable of managing a Denny’s at the moment.

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Bootleg11 said:

lol he even had a do not contact tag



What a piece of shit Minchey and his agent are.

Nebraska just isn’t a serious program. They desperately need to hire a coordinator as HC from one of the top 10-15 programs to show them how to act in this era of football.

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Flabio said:

Don’t hate the player, hate the game? 😆

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