So your assumption is that most schools have multiple productive tight ends returning every year?
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Nebraska Portal Departures 2025
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I read this as Miami is tampering like crazy and having to pay players nil and buyouts so nil deals for lesser players are on hold
Players have to actually play before they can be considered productive don’t they? None of us are at practice and at some point they are considered “ready to play”. I don’t think too many people were clamoring for us to spend money on a proven tight end in the portal this year when there were obviously way more issues. Also, say what you want about Haarberg but he’s a damn good all around athlete.
A damn good athlete but a damn bad football player..
Elite athletic talent that didn’t translate to football.
We’ve had too much of that shit for too long.
Just the good ones.
We have a large percentage of our fanbase that looks at our roster as opposed to the 2001 Miami or 2011 Alabama and say we’re lacking. Well no shit. Every year 98% of D1 rosters are lacking compared to last year's NC roster, but we "just don’t have the money.” or “Our staff sucks at recruiting and developing."
I can’t say enough about what Cignetti did these last two years, but I don’t expect anyone else to duplicate it outside the top ten most attractive programs for HS and portal kids.
Nailed it.
There are maybe 2 or 3 schools without roster deficiencies. Everyone else is in roughly the same boat as us.
What did you exactly expect from him this year ? He was an athletic QB turned TE playing his second year at the position. I don’t recall him ever really hurting us too bad. I didn’t agree with all the under center stuff they did with him this year but that’s not his fault.
That’s how people described me. Minus the damn good athlete part.
Not portal but Benhart finds a home.
Between him or Corcoran, one of the 2 easily have the most sacks given up in school history with the other coming in 2nd. 3rd place can't be close.
Then it goes back to the ‘What are we doing with what we’ve got’ conversation, and that’s not just development, but how we use the talent to hand in our systems.
For both our stated goals from an offensive and defensive perspective, we’re somewhere between ‘OK’ and ‘Good’ from a talent perspective, yet we find ways to return sub par results consistently. Fire Butler, change QB types through the portal and what are we going to look like next fall? Will a more mobile QB and a likely upgrade at tackle allow Holgorsen to be Holgorsen, or is he still going to be a hybrid blend of what he did well in the past and what our stated goals are?
Aurich comes in, but we fail to adequately address the elephant in the room along the front, so aside from a shift to the 4-2-5, how much is going to change? I will absolutely listen to the position that our D line not knowing where they were supposed to be last year in the Penn State game…..game 11…is largely on the staff, so those changes should result in at minimum much better assignment based play. We’re still really putting a lot in a small group of returnees I happen to like but haven’t bloomed yet. Do we get what we need out of the D line and Lb’s this fall, or maybe more importantly does the staff get the best out of what we have in those rooms? That’s where we’ve been lacking IMO, on both sides of the ball.
I’d love to see a better RB room, or a better OL room, absolutely love to see more difference makers at DL and LB, but what we’re doing with what we have seems to be as big a problem as anything. Figure that out between now and September and ’26 might not be the shit show most think it will be.
It's been pretty clear this deal was struck a week ago