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Ok. But maybe we can at least get a ticktock of how we were able to dislodge this guy from another school. The behind the scenes efforts to convince this guy to transfer must have been fascinating.
Surely it will click at school six. He’s a good and probably cheap depth piece which we need.
Long story but I know a few key players and take a lot of pleasure in rooting against ISU's success
He's cheap and essentially told Campbell off
Pollard moneyballed Campbell like crazy and they weren't fundraising like they should have. Campbell was asking for more resources and Pollard told him no with the rationale being a lack of progress - which is an insane premise at ISU. Cockeye State has had an insane amount of personnel turnover since the Fiesta Bowl, mostly outside of Campbell's control and still outperformed what should have been regression. I.e. the starting qb immediately following Purdy getting banned from the NCAA for life and having the best regular season in program history immediately following. Meanwhile the program has been one of the most injured in the country over the past three years. Fans have put Campbell in statue territory over the past two seasons due to a)newfound success against the hawks and b) the first ten win season in program history. Moreso the first
Secondly he's one of the only ADs in the country making NIL decisions when it comes to player's rev share numbers (which is both insane and has changed since Rodgers took over). Campbell wanted this to change so they could be flexible in the portal both from an acquistion and retention standpoint and Pollard refused, stating that it opened them up to Title IX and employment law liability - to which most schools, especially in the Big 12, have said fuck it
Similar circumstances when Cael Sanderson left
Similar circumstances when Hoiberg left
He's done the same to Otzelberger but Otz has been fundraising himself with 2-3 select hoops donors, primarily dennis albaugh
The backdrop to all this being:
1. Massive revenue cliff coming and the athletic department facing significant financial hardship in the near future. ISU is one of the least insulated schools and is having active discussions about dropping a tier in the event the state refuses to bail them out
2. Cytown - Significant real estate project with the aim of funding athletics is not going as well as it was intended to - this is Pollard's project
3. The athletic program itself being mostly tapped on means to increase revenue and Pollard being against selling alcohol. (Famously calling drinking fans "slobs")
This backdrop is important because Pollard was maintaining a 'first right of refusal' for the whale donors checks because Cytown has been such an insane lift and required lots of financial and political capital.
That's an incredible amount of insight. Appreciate the writeup.
I've been wanting MC to coach at NU for the past 7 years. I think he's fantastic. Too bad ISU is such a poor and will soon be in a G5 conference.
Was he disfigured from all of the inbreeding?
Boy if I had a nickel for every development project around a sports stadium ending up in development hell, I'd have a modest amount of nickels
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I like his addition as a depth piece. Now, if he is EDGE #1 next year, I won't love that. He isn't a great player, but he is far from a bad player too. Good pickup, but need to add a "dude" in that room.
2022 was when he began to really voice frustrations about the school's NIL infrastructure. He would have walked to Nebraska
Fanbase was not on board and they were trying to win a presser. Is what it is
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2025 is giving us some recency bias that he can't develop DL. Rhule has had awesome DL's everywhere he has been, including here, EXCEPT for 2025.
Go back to 2023 and the main concern going into the season was the DL. But they ended up being the strength of the defense. Not believing that Rhule can develop the DL seems like the bigger stretch.
No, but I think micro plastics have tanked his testosterone level.
2 quality 3s and atleast somebody who can play 1 technique. Elijah Jeudy has scarred me.
How much part of developing Ty and Nash did he actually have? Nash also got worse after Rhule let him wrestle. Ty was always going to be good was just a matter of time IMO, I’d also argue Lendhardt, RVP, Jeudy and Keona Davis all regressed after a year or more in his system, granted it could have been them just being played out of position and or a clueless DC. He’s also always had a pretty good DL coach at his side I believe.
Add in the mismanagement of Princewill and Mcgahee and the amount of misses in evaluation with portal adds and start to question if he’s still got it on the DL portion.
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Lenhardt was always going to be a guy who plateaued early. He was a guy who physically matured early and then stopped growing, which is why schools started backing off of him in his senior year of HS.
My belief has been people thought RVP was farther along than he really was after freshman year. As a freshman almost all his snaps were situational short-yardage snaps. Rhule RS him because he wasn't going to play enough year 2 to warrant losing a year of eligibility. He was still developing.
I thought we got an amazing amount out of Jeudy. He was essentially a complete bust at A&M, and only had 21 snaps there in two years. By the time he was in year 5 at Nebraska he got 464 snaps and was at least serviceable.
Davis had over 100 snaps as true Freshman, over 400 as a true sophomore. He came in raw. He got higher PFF grades his sophomore year. There aren't very many DL in the B1G who have over 500 snaps after only two years in college. He is still pretty early into his career.
My belief has been people thought RVP was farther along than he really was after freshman year. As a freshman almost all his snaps were situational short-yardage snaps. Rhule RS him because he wasn't going to play enough year 2 to warrant losing a year of eligibility. He was still developing.
I thought we got an amazing amount out of Jeudy. He was essentially a complete bust at A&M, and only had 21 snaps there in two years. By the time he was in year 5 at Nebraska he got 464 snaps and was at least serviceable.
Davis had over 100 snaps as true Freshman, over 400 as a true sophomore. He came in raw. He got higher PFF grades his sophomore year. There aren't very many DL in the B1G who have over 500 snaps after only two years in college. He is still pretty early into his career.
Agree with most of this, other than how I’d rate Jeudy’s snaps/time on the field.
You’re right in that we got more playing time out of him than A&M did or likely would have, but I’d say he was OK 25% of the time, neutral 50% of the time and an absolute blocking sled the other 25% of his snaps.
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