Emmett J. in the portal?

[SlumpBuster]

It's how people cope with losing one of our few playmaking skill players.

Think if you go back just a few weeks in the WiscyDicks game thread and said "hey guys, EJ will enter the portal soon. How do you feel?"

Absolutely no one would have said "no big deal, we'll find a replacement!"

Exactly. People pretty much always assume the new guy will be an upgrade.

Everyone thought Dowdell would be an instant upgrade over everyone in the room but he clearly wasn't.

 

[Slam Duncan]

Replaceable if you just assume that we find someone of equal or greater talent.

Even if you are lucky enough to find that, you then have lost a good player that provides depth at a position where players regularly rotate.

Idk why you think the sky is falling because Nebraska lost a good, not great running back

 

[jickey moseph]

If it’s so easy to find better players in the portal why haven’t we done that yet

It's not open yet? Did you think of that?

 

[Mavsker]

When I heard we had to cut a bunch of players I naively assumed it was going to be mostly our walk-ons and third stringers, not mostly our starters
Sumbitch

 

[SlumpBuster]

Idk why you think the sky is falling because Nebraska lost a good, not great running back

I don't think anyone is saying the sky is falling, but clearly finding "good, not great running backs" is not as easy as some like to make it sound since EJ is probably our best back in the past 5+ years.

Dowdell has physical tools, but definitely lacks vision (guy misses holes a lot) and I have no idea whether or not that's teachable.

I know this. No matter who we get in the portal, we would be better with EJ on the team. He is probably what...the 3rd or 4th best offensive weapon we have?

 

[jickey moseph]

Dowdell has physical tools, but definitely lacks vision (guy misses holes a lot) and I have no idea whether or not that's teachable.

Was EJ any better at hitting holes?

 

[Adolph Coors]

Week 2 or 3. I don't get the hype on the board. Who does he compare to?

i think he has a speed size hands combination we havent seen from a DONU back in years. he is the real deal. its too bad he was injured this year. he is high school jeanty

 

[huskerj12]

college football sucks

 

[cwessel76]

college football sucks

Seriously. NIL/Portal is really sucking the enjoyment out of it.

 

[SlumpBuster]

Was EJ any better at hitting holes?

MUCH

 

[huskerj12]

Seriously. NIL/Portal is really sucking the enjoyment out of it.

Yeah it's hitting pretty hard this year. I'm getting to the point where I'm gonna be more invested in the careers of my NCAA 2010 recruits on PS2 than actual players.

 

[jickey moseph]

MUCH

Felt like DD’s positive this year him just running through the hole, but his downfall was his inability to make a singular tackler miss.

 

[doublewing]

Idk why you think the sky is falling because Nebraska lost a good, not great running back

At no point did I say the sky is falling.

I'm saying this is bad attrition.

 

[cwessel76]

At no point did I say the sky is falling.

I'm saying this is bad attrition.

Yeah this sucks and there’s no other way to accurately state it.

While it sucks we have to just move on.

 

[SlumpBuster]

Felt like DD’s positive this year him just running through the hole, but his downfall was his inability to make a singular tackler miss.

Man go back and watch, he misses holes constantly. He doesn't read the line very well, he just runs straight where he intended to go. If the hole is there, he's great and I love how hard he runs. But there's so many times where the hole was just one step either left or right and he misses it.

 

[Kazman5k]

This guy probably won’t win the doak walker like Emmett surely will next year but it would be a nice consolation prize

 

[Herbie]

This guy probably won’t win the doak walker like Emmett surely will next year but it would be a nice consolation prize

I’m sure that dude is following anyone willing to give him a bag

 

[doublewing]

I’m sure that dude is following anyone willing to give him a bag

He'll have a social media post soon revealing we're in his top 39 teams.

 

[Herbie]

He'll have a social media post soon revealing we're in his top 39 teams.

Oh shit. He’s so fucking N

 

[Scott Hall]

Better can be found. He had a few games of good play. It is what it is.

We have what 38 to go?

What a cluster fuck ncaa has caused by being midtard.

NCAA knew this would happen and tried to fight it. Ultimately players suing the NCAA won and this is what we get.