I swore on a sports nightly in the last month Dannen stated we would have over 30 million to spend on football in 2026...maybe I am dreaming
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If I had wheels, I'd be a wagon.
Also, if Raiola didn't get hurt, we'd probably beat USC and either Penn St or Cockeye.
I don't think anyone expected any of those things. I think what people expect is to start signing some of the guys we're bringing in, as other teams are clearly already doing the same. Did anyone expect Okie state to sign one of the top qbs and rbs in the portal? Oh wait, they followed their HC. Did we think we might get a similar shot with some of the SDSU guys? Sure did and we were more like an after thought. TT wasn't shit until they signed a ton of dudes in the portal last year. Money talks and if we have it, it's time to nut up or shut up.
That INT rate is the one that scares me. Hilariously, Raiola is more of a statistical comp to Mendoza than Hoover. 8 y/a, 11.05 y/c smack in between the 2 for INT rate, 18/6 vs 16/6. More realistically like 240ypg than 222 (due to USC injury).
Obviously that INT rate can be coached down. But some guys just will never stop hucking picks haha.
I believe they’ll spend $30M. I don’t have confidence that they’ll spend $30M wisely. We’re going to once again be the schmucks that overpay for B/C level players.
He didn’t outright say it. But heavy implication
Wild how many taters we have coping with the "EJ didn't make a difference" line
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.
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