Replacement QB Options For Minchey

[Carm]

Aidan Chiles was at Northwestern yesterday to see Chip Kelly and Jerry Neuheisel. They would seem to be the competition for Chiles at present.

 

[rsmacke]

Aidan Chiles was at Northwestern yesterday to see Chip Kelly and Jerry Neuheisel. They would seem to be the competition for Chiles at present.

Both of them clear Holgorsen and Glenn Thomas at this time.

 

[Fargo Husker]

one guy I was looking into as a possible second behind Minchey was Mercer’s kid, Braden Atkinson

Jerry Rice award winner, threw the hell out of the ball. I think he’s visited Notre Dame and is looking at Baylor also, and then some ACC schools as well. 3 years of eligibility

66% for 3600, 34/11

Stats don’t show he’s too mobile, but again I was looking at him as a 2nd option you take a chance on. Much higher risk for our current situation

Bonus: has a western Nebraska last name

Atkinson was one I thought of as well. We have at least some cursory interest as Barthel started following him a little while ago.

 

[Carm]

Would rather have him than Sims 2.0 (Chiles)

Sims 2.0 has fewer career INTs than Raiola. He only threw 3 INTs last year. He just happened to throw 2/3s of them against us, which colors your perception.

 

[cwessel76]

What if he is not a competent QB? What if he gets injured?

Then what? Who else do we have?

Do we any other option behind him to save the season?

Not saying we don’t need another QB but we can be somewhat selective.

Hell, Ole Miss made the semifinals with a former D2 QB at the helm.

But also, QB play was among the least of our concerns last year when compared to OL, DL, and LB play.

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

Can we “Minchey” another program?

Anyone know if:

Barnett III
Kienholz
Houser

…Have signed?? Or just committed?

There was talk of CJ Bailey, he decided to stay at NCState - can we tamper the hell out of him?

Other schools make their commits sign electronically immediately.

Ours tell us they have to print out the paperwork, find their favorite pen, sign and return in 3-5 business days and we say “cool cool” cause we are retarded.

 

[Herbie]

Sims 2.0 has fewer career INTs than Raiola. He only threw 3 INTs last year. He just happened to throw 2/3s of them against us, which colors your perception.

People are still blinded by Raiola as some great qb

 

[Tsakoi]

Sims 2.0 has fewer career INTs than Raiola. He only threw 3 INTs last year. He just happened to throw 2/3s of them against us, which colors your perception.

I think the main difference in our pursuit of Chiles and Minchey is that Chiles will want to go to a school where he knows he's the starter.

Because of Lateef I'm not sure Nebraska offers that. I really don't know that for sure, but seems that way.

Does the Minchey betrayal (that's what it should be referred to for historical accuracy) change our strategy? Will we be willing to risk pissing off Lateef now?

 

[Herbie]

Other schools make their commits sign electronically immediately.

Ours tell us they have to print out the paperwork, find their favorite pen, sign and return in 3-5 business days and we say “cool cool” cause we are retarded.

Nebraska gives vibes of the struggling SMB rep that fails to have customers sign with them in the meeting so they set the docusign to resend the document 2-3 times a day

 

[Herbie]

I think the main difference in our pursuit of Chiles and Minchey is that Chiles will want to go to a school where he knows he's the starter.

Because of Lateef I'm not sure Nebraska offers that. I really don't know that for sure, but seems that way.

Does the Minchey betrayal (that's what it should be referred to for historical accuracy) change our strategy? Will we be willing to risk pissing off Lateef now?

Lateef is clearly not ready to be a starter right now. Maybe in a couple years.

Nebraska and Rhule don’t have 2 years. You do whatever you can to sign a qb who can start right away and Lateef is collateral damage at that point.

 

[Fargo Husker]

I think the main difference in our pursuit of Chiles and Minchey is that Chiles will want to go to a school where he knows he's the starter.

Because of Lateef I'm not sure Nebraska offers that. I really don't know that for sure, but seems that way.

Does the Minchey betrayal (that's what it should be referred to for historical accuracy) change our strategy? Will we be willing to risk pissing off Lateef now?

Regardless of what Rhule said publicly, there’s a 0% chance Minchey was coming here to potentially not start.

 

[Carm]

Other schools make their commits sign electronically immediately.

Ours tell us they have to print out the paperwork, find their favorite pen, sign and return in 3-5 business days and we say “cool cool” cause we are retarded.

you can't make anyone sign - I know you know that. You might make it harder to stall for very long with electronic signatures, but if they're not ready to sign they just might let you terminate your offer.

I really think the only thing docusign would have done is expose that we weren't his real first choice sooner. He was clearly waiting on Kentucky as Stein had told him he was number two on their board. We were the back-up plan.

It would have been better to know we were second choice a little earlier, but it wouldn't have given us a better selection at QB, it appears. Just the same guys were are looking at now, just sooner.

BTW, why do we believe we aren't using docusign and didn't do so in the case anyway? I'd be absolutely shocked if this wasn't done electronically. We likely knew he was stalling for some reason. Nobody does this stuff with paper any more.

 

[herbsinator]

you can't make anyone sign - I know you know that. You might make it harder to stall for very long with electronic signatures, but if they're not ready to sign they just might let you terminate your offer.

I really think the only thing docusign would have done is expose that we weren't his real first choice sooner. He was clearly waiting on Kentucky as Stein had told him he was number two on their board. We were the back-up plan.

It would have been better to know we were second choice a little earlier, but it wouldn't have given us a better selection at QB, it appears. Just the same guys were are looking at now, just sooner.

I think a lot of the Texas Tech offers are “exploding” offers. Basically the offer is only good if they sign in the room. You have to come correct with the money part of the equation if you do that. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Kentucky offer to Minchey was similar to that.

 

[wildcat_husker]

I think the main difference in our pursuit of Chiles and Minchey is that Chiles will want to go to a school where he knows he's the starter.

Because of Lateef I'm not sure Nebraska offers that. I really don't know that for sure, but seems that way.

Does the Minchey betrayal (that's what it should be referred to for historical accuracy) change our strategy? Will we be willing to risk pissing off Lateef now?

I'm sure there's a way to smoothly tell him he's going to be the starter and then if he totally underperforms, you move Lateef ahead of him.

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

you can't make anyone sign - I know you know that. You might make it harder to stall for very long with electronic signatures, but if they're not ready to sign they just might let you terminate your offer.

I really think the only thing docusign would have done is expose that we weren't his real first choice sooner. He was clearly waiting on Kentucky as Stein had told him he was number two on their board. We were the back-up plan.

It would have been better to know we were second choice a little earlier, but it wouldn't have given us a better selection at QB, it appears. Just the same guys were are looking at now, just sooner.

BTW, why do we believe we aren't using docusign and didn't do so in the case anyway? I'd be absolutely shocked if this wasn't done electronically. We likely knew he was stalling for some reason. Nobody does this stuff with paper any more.

My post was mostly a joke, but the point is if KM stalled signing, we definitely should have known what was up and kept recruiting other options. And maybe we did. But the info that’s been put out there makes it sound like we were caught completely off guard even though he delayed signing over the weekend.

 

[Bootleg11]

It doesn’t matter. We are watching the titanic sink in slow motion.
Might have to do it for 2 years because Nebraska might be poor.

They sure operate like they are poor

 

[Bootleg11]

Other schools make their commits sign electronically immediately.

Ours tell us they have to print out the paperwork, find their favorite pen, sign and return in 3-5 business days and we say “cool cool” cause we are retarded.

Nebraska still doing fax machines

 

[whoboppin]

I'm sure there's a way to smoothly tell him he's going to be the starter and then if he totally underperforms, you move Lateef ahead of him.

I don't know why its so hard for people to understand this. Hey Minchey/Chiles/Insert Transfer you are going to be our starter. But then in the spring if Lateef is suddenly Lamar Jackson you start him and who cares about Minchey/Chiles/Insert Transfer. Its not lying, thats football. Paying them is just a sunk cost.

 

[djw004]

Nebraska still doing fax machines

Something about the sound of that signing rolling in

 

[Carm]

But the info that’s been put out there makes it sound like we were caught completely off guard even though he delayed signing over the weekend.

We couldn't have been completely caught off guard because he delayed the OV and was stalling on the signature.