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Portal Season Thread
According to the stat sheet, you don't play at all, hoss.
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Glad to see he is willing to play on punt coverage.
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I am of the opinion that talent wasnt the issue at OL last year. Greg Austin didn’t get fired because he sucked at recruiting.
it never is
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LINCOLN — Nebraska would like to add one more defensive lineman to its roster, and one potential target is among the top transfer prospects still available.
Nesta Jade Silvera, who racked up 105 tackles and 16 tackles for loss in four seasons at Miami, opted for the transfer portal instead of the 2022 NFL draft. NU is one of Silvera’s potential destinations. The 6-foot-2, 306-pounder could be a one-year replacement for Damion Daniels, who declared for the NFL draft in early December.
Silvera is a graduate of prep football powerhouse American Heritage and was a top-100 prospect in the 2018 class. He made waves when he committed to Miami by calling it “the crib.” He referenced that line again when he left Miami last week.
“I love the crib, but it’s time to do what’s best for me,” Silvera said on Twitter. A call to Silvera by The World-Herald was not immediately returned.
He had 38 tackles and 5.5 for loss last season at Miami, which fired head coach Manny Diaz and hired Mario Cristobal in the offseason. Cristobal has overhauled Miami’s staff.
NU has had limited success recruiting American Heritage in the past, but the Huskers do have recruiting connections there and throughout the Miami area.
NU has options for replacing Daniels among its current defensive lineman, including Ty Robinson and Casey Rogers. But Daniels’ ability to play an interior spot helped NU’s run defense immensely, much as Daniels’ older brother Darrion did in 2019.
Nebraska has been preparing Nash Hutmacher to become the next nose tackle — and massive Jordon Riley also has one year left — but Silvera would provide immediate experience and likely production.
Nebraska has vied for other defensive line prospects too, including Mekhi Wingo, who left Missouri after his freshman year. But Wingo on Jan. 11 trimmed his list to LSU, Arkansas, Oklahoma and USC, and is visiting several of those schools this weekend.
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On the 247 message board they are saying Nebraska is in his top 2, but the source was supposedly Dean so take it for what it's worth.
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Yeah NU and a mystery Florida school. PSUcks is supposedly out. cORNpORN said we're in good shape, so we probably won't get him.
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Oregon starting RB Dye enters transfer portal
Oregon starting running back Travis Dye has entered the transfer portal after leading the Ducks with 1,271 rushing yards last season.
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Oregon starting RB Dye enters transfer portal
Oregon starting running back Travis Dye has entered the transfer portal after leading the Ducks with 1,271 rushing yards last season.www.espn.com
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Husker portal class currently hovering around the top 10
ByBRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON 4 hours ago12
The 2022 recruiting cycle seems like the complete gear shift into a new era of recruiting analysis – one in which the transfer portal piece is now clearly attached to the high schoolers and JUCO prospects signed. In Nebraska's case, as you'll see by the numbers, the portal piece is getting closer to taking up half the cake.
It's been building closer to this the last few years. But it jumps out more than never now, especially as you think about this 2022 cycle and how the Husker football program has functioned in it. Because for many months in this cycle, it was noted – fairly – that Nebraska's small class was ranking far below the just-inside-the-top-25 sphere many NU classes before it have generally hovered around.
That's still the case. On that specific front, Nebraska's smaller 2022 high school/JUCO class has just 14 commits and ranks 52nd in the 247Sports composite rankings, though that is a climb from NU's positioning ranked in the 70s at times in this cycle, with December adds like four-star cornerback Jaeden Gould and former LSU wide receiver commit Decoldest Crawford helping a Husker climb.
But if you want to follow through with the effort of fair evaluation, you must combine that part with the portal part – in which the Huskers are ranked No. 11 in the current 247Sports rankings – to get the true picture of what the cycle is bringing in for Nebraska.
At least on paper, which is all we have for now.
Mind you, the Huskers are getting the benefit of the doubt in those portal rankings for plucking Pheldarius Payne back out of the portal and on to the roster, but there are nine other additions and each of them have at least two years of eligibility still. Three of those have at least three years left to play and one has four. So it's not necessarily the, 'Hey, just fill this gap for a year' type of additions sometimes associated in passing conversations about the transfer portal. That portal class also has its headliner in QB Casey Thompson, and important additions like punter Brian Buschini and kicker Timmy Bleekrode that Husker fans will realize the weight of more than others.
How it's playing out should not surprise. Frost has said this was part of Nebraska's recruiting plan this cycle throughout the fall. And the way college football is going, get used to it.
"I think the days of signing 25 kids on signing day and going to the next signing day and signing 25 are probably over," Frost said back in mid-December. "There are extra years with COVID and the transfer portal possibilities and other things. It is kind of a moving target every time. Our goal is to try and be as nimble as we can through all of those changes and adjustments to college football and try to accumulate the best players we can and put the best team together as we can. That is one of the reasons we did not want to sign that many."
Frost referenced at one point some teams in the league that quickly improved their standing by finding those right pieces in the portal to fit into what they had. He didn't name names, but Michigan State is probably the lead case study in this from last offseason.
It was recorded in one MLive.com article that Michigan State lost 27 players to the portal between November, 2020, and August, 2021, just before Mel Tucker's team set out on an 11-2 campaign. But MSU in turn added 19 transfer additions in that time. It wasn't known exactly how it was going to work out, of course. Michigan State was not a preseason top 25 team. But the Spartans found the right combination of personnel and belief in the system and what was being built for a top-10 season.
“The players that we acquire, the players that we recruit, that we bring here, right away they feel that culture,” Tucker told MLive.com. “We onboard them, we explain to them what this is all about and how we go about our business on a day-to-day basis. And that’s after a lot of research and background checks, character references and things like that to make sure that the players that we bring here, they fit into our culture because everybody that’s in the portal is not for us. We do our due diligence and we feel like our culture is one where we can add players that are the right fit that can help us win football games.”
Can Michigan State back that up consistently? The jury is out, and you better still have some foundation in place that you're setting your new portal pieces atop.
But the portal remodeling game is picking up among other high-profile programs. Look at the top 10 teams in the portal rankings just above Nebraska right now: Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Florida and trying-to-find-it-again Florida State are all there.
The Huskers are playing a bigger portal hand than most so far, but it's certainly a growing hand for teams across the country.
In the Big Ten, only Indiana has added as many from the portal so far as Nebraska. The Hoosiers have 10 gained from the portal. Purdue and Minnesota have both picked up six. Michigan State, perhaps a little more settled this go round, has added four. So the Huskers are playing a bigger portal hand than most so far, but it's certainly a growing hand for teams across the country.
It's also worth recognizing that in certain cases Nebraska has added portal prospects the staff is already plenty familiar with from their high school recruitment.
Defensive back Tommi Hill from Arizona State might have been in the last Husker class had COVID not canceled his visit chance to Lincoln. Offensive lineman Kevin Williams Jr. is an Omaha North grad who had been to Husker camps. Running back Deondre Jackson from Texas A&M is a Georgia native and had a connection with Sean Beckton. Trey Palmer followed Mickey Joseph from LSU to Nebraska.
So there wasn't a ton of extra homework on some of these guys involved.
"You never when you're recruiting somebody," said Husker defensive coordinator Erik Chinander. "And sometimes you might tell somebody the truth and it may come to fruition and they all of a sudden call you and say, 'Coach, exactly what you told me was going to happen, happened. Can I come back to Nebraska?' ... And sometimes that relationship that you built with those young me and their families, if it's handled that right way, sometimes that can lead to a second opportunity for both the young man and the school."
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The dude had more catches and yards than Betts in 21 and is immediately the best athlete on the team. Really nice pick up.
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