2 points I'd like to make after 7 games.

[Tsakoi]

1: Jeudy, Lenhardt and Van Poppel do not make anywhere near enough plays. To the point that when you actually do hear their names you had forgotten that they play. We desperately need some sort of production from those guys and we are getting next to none.

2: The transfer portal has been a casino crapshoot for Nebraska.

The good rolls of the dice...

Andrew Marshall
Dasan McCullough
Kyle Cunanan
Kevin Gallic
Peter North
Nyziah Hunter
Williams Nwaneri
Evan Stone
Jamir Conn

Crapped out......

Rocco Spindler. For the supposed amount we are paying he should dominate and he has just been average.
Elijah Pritchett. See Spindler, but instead of average he has been too many times a detriment. Not worth top dollar.

Missing so badly on the OL positions has cost us. Its not like we didn't try, we did bring in like 5 OTs for visits before EP.

Marques Watson-Trent. He hasn't dispelled the rumors that the BIg 10 was too high of a reach for him.
Dane Key. Zero catches against MSU and Minne. 3 for 36 yards against Mich. What are we paying top dollar for again?

Jaylen George. Non factor player.
Gabe Moore. Non factor player.

I will say about those two DL that I doubt they are getting any sort of NIL or rev share money.

Justyn Rhett. Probably wasn't in the plan for this year anyway. Has played some and made no splashes.
Marcos Davila. Passed by a true freshman and a former lower division safety on the QB depth chart.
Hardly Gilmore. Just a waste of time all around and wasting time costs you in other areas.
Jack McCallister. We passed on him to get......Archie WIlson who has not been the "weapon" we were sold on. (I think Archie counts as a freshman and not a transfer)


So that puts us at 7 for 17 hits in the old transfer portal, which to me is probably what the average is, but we crapped out with the two high dollar OL and big money WR. When 2 of your 7 good ones are specialists you see that we have only 5 high snap count contributors out of the 17, which is bad bad bad for the money invested.

 

[Slam Duncan]

Dane Key is dependent on the qb.
The qb is dependent on the OL.

I don’t think that’s really fair

 

[Tonkasker]

Spindler has been good enough to justify

 

[Juro]

We always knew the transfer portal was going was going to be a dice roll. Sometimes we win with a transfer, sometimes we don't. Every school has that as well.

But the biggest thing I have learned from these last few weeks is if we're going to keep missing out on quality offensive and defensive linemen, then we need to bring in quality, proven coaches for those positions.

No offensive to Donny and Bradden, but if we want to start winning at a high level, we cannot continue to bring in assistant to assistant coaches and hoping that they get the success we need to win.

I'll give the benefit of the doubt to Bradden since it his still his first year, but Donny R, you just cannot have a line looking this bad at the OT position.

 

[Pipe Line]

Archie wilson has been fantastic, atleast compared to what we’ve endured the last decade

 

[ThomOsborneMD]

You get Archie’s name out of your mouth

 

[ChocaEgg]

At what point is it fair to start shitting on Bradden? Extremely underwhelming hire with little experience and no crootin connections. DL full of four and five stars that play like FCS backups

 

[Juro]

At what point is it fair to start shitting on Bradden? Extremely underwhelming hire with little experience and no crootin connections. DL full of four and five stars that play like FCS backups

When you go from having Butler, Robinson, and Nutsmasher who got most of the snaps last year to this year's of Jeudy, Lenhardt, and Van Poppel, it's really hard to have a fair idea if its the coach or the talent.

Even a great chef is going to have issues making a good plate with hamburger helper, american cheese slices, and mustard.

 

[Quint]

When you go from having Butler, Robinson, and Nutsmasher who got most of the snaps last year to this year's of Jeudy, Lenhardt, and Van Poppel, it's really hard to have a fair idea if its the coach or the talent.

Even a great chef is going to have issues making a good plate with hamburger helper, american cheese slices, and mustard.

We’ve got talent, but it’s young.

Juedy isn’t a stud. RVP is about where Nash was his sophomore year and will get better. Lenhardt has really leveled off after a good Freshman campaign. I don’t know if that’s talent ceiling or coaching.

If we don’t lose a bunch of the guys I think will be impact players in ’26 and beyond, we’ll be pretty salty. Still need another legit NG to make it all work, but I agree with your assessment of the ’25 line.

 

[ChocaEgg]

When you go from having Butler, Robinson, and Nutsmasher who got most of the snaps last year to this year's of Jeudy, Lenhardt, and Van Poppel, it's really hard to have a fair idea if its the coach or the talent.

Even a great chef is going to have issues making a good plate with hamburger helper, american cheese slices, and mustard.

I absolutely expected a dropoff in production, but I didn't expect the entire unit to be absolutely worthless. Cam, RVP, Jeudy, Nwaneri, etc were all very highly regarded players and shouldn't be this bad.

Idk if it is a JoBu problem or a Bradden problem. Unfortunately I think we'll have to watch a few more years of suck regardless of what the root cause is.

 

[Blakejc]

Up until Minnesota Keona Davis had been a major disappointment. Hopefully it wasn’t a blip and he’s actually turning a corner.

Ultimately, we can’t protect the qb and can’t get to the qb. Not many great teams use that formula.

 

[Cash68847]

At what point is it fair to start shitting on Bradden? Extremely underwhelming hire with little experience and no crootin connections. DL full of four and five stars that play like FCS backups

I think it has to do more with the jimmys and the joes in the D line. It’s no big shock to me we aren’t very good with what we lost and what we had coming back.

 

[ChocaEgg]

I think it has to do more with the jimmys and the joes in the D line. It’s no big shock to me we aren’t very good with what we lost and what we had coming back.

We have some good players, so while there was clearly going to be some dropoff with Ty & Nash moving on, we shouldn't be as terrible as we are.

 

[mcgradynu]

I refuse to believe that we just miss on OL talent to this level. At some point that narrative doesn’t hold water and I think we are long past it. This is coaching and development on the OL.

 

[dom91932]

During the offseason the spin was that the D line would be young and undersized and the O line would be a strength of the team.

I'm willing to give Bradden the benefit of the doubt as this is his first year. My major concern is there has seemingly been no improvement from the defensive line, outside of Nwaneri, over the course of the season.

Rhule mentioned that this year was supposed to be about production over potential. Uncle Donny is 0 for 2. This is a production business. If "the standard is the standard" then it needs to apply to the coaching staff, regardless of the coach's last name. There is no way Dominic Raiola can credibly look at the O line over the last four years and think the performance has been acceptable.

At what point does this get more attention? We've continue to be physically pushed around in the conference:

Strength and conditioning needs a look, too. Both lines are lacking strength and they seem to get slower the longer they are in the program

 

[Pipe Line]

When you go from having Butler, Robinson, and Nutsmasher who got most of the snaps last year to this year's of Jeudy, Lenhardt, and Van Poppel, it's really hard to have a fair idea if its the coach or the talent.

Even a great chef is going to have issues making a good plate with hamburger helper, american cheese slices, and mustard.

Major Whif not to replace them in the portal though. I was a huge proponent of letting guys develop over a few years like Nash and Ty did. Nah, just replace em with absolute hogs in the portal so there’s no drop off. Huge miss and it’s showing

 

[Flabio]

Bradden is another example of Rhule bringing in development coaches. Bradden may be able to coach however he has NO recruiting ties as he’s coming from the NFL. It will take years for him to establish some of those relationships. NU is not a program or paying for development coaches. The assistants are getting paid really well but a lot aren’t able to execute right away.

If the Eck hire doesn’t open Rhule’s eyes to needing to bring in assistants who can execute right now then nothing will.

I still can’t get over how bad Rhule’s first staff was. Cav and MaGuirre alone were horrible. Will not get back into Satterfield. The AD will have to push him but he seems to be stubborn that this is his way.

 

[Chi7397]

Bradden is another example of Rhule bringing in development coaches. Bradden may be able to coach however he has NO recruiting ties as he’s coming from the NFL. It will take years for him to establish some of those relationships. NU is not a program or paying for development coaches. The assistants are getting paid really well but a lot aren’t able to execute right away.

If the Eck hire doesn’t open Rhule’s eyes to needing to bring in assistants who can execute right now then nothing will.

I still can’t get over how bad Rhule’s first staff was. Cav and MaGuirre alone were horrible. Will not get back into Satterfield. The AD will have to push him but he seems to be stubborn that this is his way.

Cav was Riley, no?

 

[V-Doub]

1: Jeudy, Lenhardt and Van Poppel do not make anywhere near enough plays. To the point that when you actually do hear their names you had forgotten that they play. We desperately need some sort of production from those guys and we are getting next to none.

2: The transfer portal has been a casino crapshoot for Nebraska.

The good rolls of the dice...

Andrew Marshall
Dasan McCullough
Kyle Cunanan
Kevin Gallic
Peter North
Nyziah Hunter
Williams Nwaneri
Evan Stone
Jamir Conn

Crapped out......

Rocco Spindler. For the supposed amount we are paying he should dominate and he has just been average.
Elijah Pritchett. See Spindler, but instead of average he has been too many times a detriment. Not worth top dollar.

Missing so badly on the OL positions has cost us. Its not like we didn't try, we did bring in like 5 OTs for visits before EP.

Marques Watson-Trent. He hasn't dispelled the rumors that the BIg 10 was too high of a reach for him.
Dane Key. Zero catches against MSU and Minne. 3 for 36 yards against Mich. What are we paying top dollar for again?

Jaylen George. Non factor player.
Gabe Moore. Non factor player.

I will say about those two DL that I doubt they are getting any sort of NIL or rev share money.

Justyn Rhett. Probably wasn't in the plan for this year anyway. Has played some and made no splashes.
Marcos Davila. Passed by a true freshman and a former lower division safety on the QB depth chart.
Hardly Gilmore. Just a waste of time all around and wasting time costs you in other areas.
Jack McCallister. We passed on him to get......Archie WIlson who has not been the "weapon" we were sold on. (I think Archie counts as a freshman and not a transfer)


So that puts us at 7 for 17 hits in the old transfer portal, which to me is probably what the average is, but we crapped out with the two high dollar OL and big money WR. When 2 of your 7 good ones are specialists you see that we have only 5 high snap count contributors out of the 17, which is bad bad bad for the money invested.

That’s a 40% hit rate. I would be curious to see what teams like Texas Tech and Indiana did in the portal. 40% seems low to me with the type of money that’s getting thrown around these days. I’m guessing other teams/coaches are probably hitting on a 60-70% rate with portal transfers. I know OSU brought in a bunch of transfers last year and seemingly hit on about every damn one of’em. I believe they spent 21 million just on portal transfers last year and it got them a national championship.

 

[Irv]

Bradden is another example of Rhule bringing in development coaches. Bradden may be able to coach however he has NO recruiting ties as he’s coming from the NFL. It will take years for him to establish some of those relationships. NU is not a program or paying for development coaches. The assistants are getting paid really well but a lot aren’t able to execute right away.

If the Eck hire doesn’t open Rhule’s eyes to needing to bring in assistants who can execute right now then nothing will.

I still can’t get over how bad Rhule’s first staff was. Cav and MaGuirre alone were horrible. Will not get back into Satterfield. The AD will have to push him but he seems to be stubborn that this is his way.

The developmental coach thing is really a problem. Butler may end up being a great college DC. But there was no reason he had to learn on our time and our dime.