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2025-26 #PortalSZN Thread

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Feb 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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I could honestly get behind this approach but they’re not even doing this, and they still dont have a DL coach.
And they’ve only landed 1 OL in the portal.
Are there any other prospects they are after we know about?
And the 1 OL is an interior player which does nothing to address the obvious issues with the OL
 
I've posted this a bunch of times but I will again...

disaster. Nebraska is operating like a middling Big 12 team but they're gonna tell us that they are trying to compete for Big 10 championships and playoff bids. But the team they are going to put on the field next year appears to be a middling level Big 12 team.
 

The positional cap is good in theory, but Nebraska(and FSU) dont have the recent success to set prices. Youre gonna have to overpay sometimes to get who you want when you arent producing results on the field and at the draft.

Texas Tech figured that out. If you arent the most desirable location/program/coach/etc, you have to overcome with Money.
Minchey and his Agent obv played Nebraska, but they also need to prevent that from happening in the first place
 
I've posted this a bunch of times but I will again...

disaster. Nebraska is operating like a middling Big 12 team but they're gonna tell us that they are trying to compete for Big 10 championships and playoff bids. But the team they are going to put on the field next year appears to be a middling level Big 12 team.
Nebraska fans are the biggest fools if they continue to sell out the stadium going forward.
 
The positional cap is good in theory, but Nebraska(and FSU) dont have the recent success to set prices. Youre gonna have to overpay sometimes to get who you want when you arent producing results on the field and at the draft.

Texas Tech figured that out. If you arent the most desirable location/program/coach/etc, you have to overcome with Money.
Minchey and his Agent obv played Nebraska, but they also need to prevent that from happening in the first place
I don’t think minchey really played Nebraska.
I think when the time came to sign he simply couldn’t see himself at Nebraska.
 
The positional cap is good in theory, but Nebraska(and FSU) dont have the recent success to set prices. Youre gonna have to overpay sometimes to get who you want when you arent producing results on the field and at the draft.

Texas Tech figured that out. If you arent the most desirable location/program/coach/etc, you have to overcome with Money.
Minchey and his Agent obv played Nebraska, but they also need to prevent that from happening in the first place
Said this yesterday before the Minchey news...got rebuked for "turning the message board into RSS"
 


3 days from expected entrance to signature. Didn’t realize that was allowed. Doesn’t Mizzou know they should’ve offered him half the money and setup time for him to come to campus next week? What was the upper bound of their positional salary band for QB set by their GM before the portal opened?


Did they even consider what their backups or committed high schoolers thought about this signing?
 
Someone on RRS posted this morning that McKewon said on the radio this morning that we "like our RB room and likely won't be aggressive at that position in the portal." Anyone else hear that and can confirm?

Would be incredibly stupid IMO
this just can’t be true. They did everything they could not to put Nelson and Mozee on the field this year. They way overworked EJ because they knew these guys weren’t lead backs.

The portal is your opportunity to get better. You have got to be interested in making yourself better everywhere you can, but especially in the spots where you are definitely not even an average big ten conference team.
 
You need to put a tampon in and STFU for 72 hours
Fact is there is nothing exciting about the program right now.
If you are a college kid why would you go to Nebraska right now? Especially a qb.

If you go on X the entire fan base is an implosion. There’s absolutely no momentum in the program.

If you are a qb the narrative is Nebraska failed Raiola. And rhules other qbs at Nebraska has been failures.

Rhules job security is in question.

And then on top of all that you go low balled.

Fact is simple. When Nebraska reached out to Minchey 4-5 weeks ago(around Penn state week) the program was completely different than it is now. Rhule got dildo’d back to back to back.
 
Now remember - you can’t complain yet or else you’re turning this place into HOL. We’re only 3 days into the portal, Nebraska has time to fix it!

I’ll fucking say it and I don’t give a shit what anyone thinks. Rhule has completely lost what little momentum he had, kids don’t believe him or believe in him and this portal class is well on it’s way to being a huge embarrassing failure.

I said I’d give it a few days before I draw any broad conclusions. I’ve seen enough. Rhule has botched this and I don’t see him turning things around. I’m just stating what my eyes plainly see. I know some will say… “we won’t really know if Rhule blew it until several games into next season.”

Lol ok… you can wait and prolong your acceptance of the obvious. But it’s not gonna happen. We’re 100% fucked and Rhule will likely be fired after next season. (or he should be, we might be too cheap to fire him)
 
Said this yesterday before the Minchey news...got rebuked for "turning the message board into RSS"
I also said this yesterday. It's not a novel idea and seemingly obvious, yet NU doesn't want to live in reality. NU is the team that constantly states that things shouldn't be the way they are, rather than operate in the reality of it is what it is.
 
Fact is there is nothing exciting about the program right now.
If you are a college kid why would you go to Nebraska right now? Especially a qb.

If you go on X the entire fan base is an implosion. There’s absolutely no momentum in the program.

If you are a qb the narrative is Nebraska failed Raiola. And rhules other qbs at Nebraska has been failures.

Rhules job security is in question.

And then on top of all that you go low balled.

Fact is simple. When Nebraska reached out to Minchey 4-5 weeks ago(around Penn state week) the program was completely different than it is now. Rhule got dildo’d back to back to back.
If we paid Minchey $3m or whatever you’d be bitching about that instead. Just STFU already.
 
Our fans would also go insane if they found out we were paying a back up with 26 attempts $2 million.

I would rather pay Chiles $2 million than Minchey. I don’t know. The portal is so gay.

No it’s us, we’re gay, Nebraska. You don’t get to choose the environment you exist in, you can only choose how you navigate that environment. Winners find a way to succeed with the cards they’re dealt, losers complain about having a bad hand.
 
The positional cap is good in theory, but Nebraska(and FSU) dont have the recent success to set prices. Youre gonna have to overpay sometimes to get who you want when you arent producing results on the field and at the draft.

Texas Tech figured that out. If you arent the most desirable location/program/coach/etc, you have to overcome with Money.
Minchey and his Agent obv played Nebraska, but they also need to prevent that from happening in the first place
This. TT wasn't shit until this year. They were 8-5 last year in a weak ass B12 conference. They backed up the brinks truck and we all saw the results this year. Now are they maybe still doing some overpaying of players in the portal? Probably but I would venture to guess it's a hell of a lot less this year now that they've had some on the field success. We HAVE to spend HUGE at least one year to really move up in the world bc the on the field results just aren't getting it done which means we are going to have to buy it. I for the life of me cannot figure out why this staff can't figure that out.
 
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