Sunken Cost

[Tsakoi]

Development of your young guys needs to be quality and pay off for your program when those players reach a certain age. Nebraska has absolutely failed to take advantage of situations where development can be improved (bowl game practices for example) and also completely wasted in season development by having players transfer out.

How much practice time did we use last year on Zavier Betts only to have him quit football before he could play a bigger role on the team?

Other examples:

Wandale Robinson probably had a ton of practice time devoted to getting him ready only to have him use that experience to benefit Kentucky.

Maurice Washington is another. There are more.

Nebraska has had this strange streak of promising looking young guys that suck up practice reps and playing time only to bounce (or get bounced) and leave us in a situation where the next man up has basically zero experience.....year after year after year. No continuity to overlap the years. No chemistry to build on year over year. No familiarity or momentum to take advantage of. It is a sunken cost that we can never get back and one that we keep repeating.

End of rant.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I mean if it's a sunk cost there's no reason crying about it because it can't be recovered

 

[Tsakoi]

I mean if it's a sunk cost there's no reason crying about it because it can't be recovered

Cry about it? No we shouldn't. Avoid doing it so often by realizing that it is hurting the program and emphasize player retention and how that benefits you year over year? Yes we should.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Cry about it? No we shouldn't. Avoid doing it so often by realizing that it is hurting the program and emphasize player retention and how that benefits you year over year? Yes we should.

What do you propose we do other than not give our best/most promising players the most reps?

 

[Adolph Coors]

our wide receivers wont look remotely the same as the last 4 years

 

[Kaladin]

Development of your young guys needs to be quality and pay off for your program when those players reach a certain age. Nebraska has absolutely failed to take advantage of situations where development can be improved (bowl game practices for example) and also completely wasted in season development by having players transfer out.

How much practice time did we use last year on Zavier Betts only to have him quit football before he could play a bigger role on the team?

Other examples:

Wandale Robinson probably had a ton of practice time devoted to getting him ready only to have him use that experience to benefit Kentucky.

Marcus Washington is another. There are more.

Nebraska has had this strange streak of promising looking young guys that suck up practice reps and playing time only to bounce (or get bounced) and leave us in a situation where the next man up has basically zero experience.....year after year after year. No continuity to overlap the years. No chemistry to build on year over year. No familiarity or momentum to take advantage of. It is a sunken cost that we can never get back and one that we keep repeating.

End of rant.

God damn you Scott Frost for not being able to see into the future

 

[Tsakoi]

What do you propose we do other than not give our best/most promising players the most reps?

We should absolutely give the best and most promising guys the reps, but then find a way to keep them on the roster so we don't lose all that time and energy we spent on them.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

We should absolutely give the best and most promising guys the reps, but then find a way to keep them on the roster so we don't lose all that time and energy we spent on them.

Well... Yeah

 

[Jim14510]

Well... Yeah

Stupid

 

[doublewing]

In the era of the transfer portal and NIL, all bets are off. Guys that may have seemed happy and getting all the touches will jump ship.

 

[Pepe Silvia]

the biggest sunk cost dragging the program down is Scott Frost. everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

Isn’t this offset when we pick up a transfers and we assume they received better coaching at the school they were at before they came to Nebraska?

 

[Tsakoi]

Isn’t this offset when we pick up a transfers and we assume they received better coaching at the school they were at before they came to Nebraska?

That is literally what we have to hope for. But I highly doubt a successful program can be built by relying to heavily on that.

We need Trey Palmer to be better than Zavier Betts. And that could happen this year. But how many times can we get that to work in our favor?