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Taylor/Ellis transferring to Millard South

In a vacuum, this is a positive and will more than likely end up being beneficial for Nebraska.

Broadly, this is gross and not something I'd want to become the status quo. IMO, you can't bemoan that the transfer portal has "ruined college football" and then be okay with HIGH SCHOOL KIDS transferring routinely for money/recruiting purposes.
I'd agree but it's part of the game. Might as well play it like everyone else.
 
I'd agree but it's part of the game. Might as well play it like everyone else.

Amen! If each year we can find a way to get 6-10 highly ranked recruits to move to Omaha to play together at one of our local high schools (by offering free housing and cars) and they build that bond and are in town around the team and the staff constantly, that's a great thing for us.
 
I wish people would just shut up about the “Nebraska way”

Nebraska way changes from context to context and who you talk too.
F the Nebraska Way the only way I care about it the way to win

Hell it’s arguably the reason we have been middle to bottom of the pack for 20 years

Yes Ik the opinion of a poor like me doesn’t matter.

Now with that said, I in general don’t like the whole transferring of high schools. The sense of home town pride is no longer there.
This is an issue that goes beyond just sports and starts with the lawmakers in Lincoln
 
I wish people would just shut up about the “Nebraska way”
Nebraska way changes from context to context and who you talk too.
F the Nebraska Way the only way I care about it the way to win
Hell it’s arguably the reason we have been middle to bottom of the pack for 20 years

Yes Ik the opinion of a poor like me doesn’t matter.
I think the "Nebraska way" criticism has become kind of a nonsensical punching bag.

The core of the idea is toughness, hard work, & generally carrying yourself in a way you can be proud of. We were always seeking out competitive advantages, innovation, and trying to find edges where we could, particularly finding solutions that best suit the somewhat unique aspects of our state. Really it's the opposite of the "stuck in the past" criticism. What those innovations & edges look like will vary in each era of CFB.
 
I’m very impressed by the Rhule haters here. You can take any bit of positive news and make it into an indictment of Rhule without breaking a sweat. Top notch work boys. Keep it up.
I don’t think this is at all directed at me.l but made me want to say my thoughts

I don’t hate Rhule or Trae for playing this game. I hate the game for allowing it. But it the game is there might as well go balls deep and play the shit out of it
 
I think the "Nebraska way" criticism has become kind of a nonsensical punching bag.

The core of the idea is toughness, hard work, & generally carrying yourself in a way you can be proud of. We were always seeking out competitive advantages, innovation, and trying to find edges where we could, particularly finding solutions that best suit the somewhat unique aspects of our state. Really it's the opposite of the "stuck in the past" criticism. What those innovations & edges look like will vary in each era of CFB.
See this is what I mean, it can have different meanings to different people.

Because if you that the argument of competitive advantage and innovation that a move like this fits that description.

Tbh we really haven’t been innovative on any fronts for a while imo
 
are you proposing a rule that for sports you need to live in a district but to attend school you do not (in the case of open districts)? The change to open districts, when it was made, had pretty much zero to do with athletics.

I don't know what exactly it looks like, but some sort of common sense rule.


Out of district attending open enrollment school, you can be sports eligible
- if you meet full-time student requirements
- live with parent(s) within reasonable driving distance
- housing and transportation cannot be paid for


These should be easy ineligibles
- A kid's parents parents living in Grand Island and he lives in Omaha with a coach.
- Out of state kids living with a volunteer coach.
- An out of state kid living in Lincoln, preparing for college, attending a high school 50 minutes away.
 
I don’t think this is at all directed at me.l but made me want to say my thoughts

I don’t hate Rhule or Trae for playing this game. I hate the game for allowing it. But it the game is there might as well go balls deep and play the shit out of it
Like I said it sucks but it's how the game is played now. You can't be like a Dabo and bury your head in the sand because you don't like the portal for instance.
 
So it opens a door for us at Millard South, but doesn't it close the door at Trae's old high school?

Are out of state high schools gonna love sending their top guys to Nebraska and be totally alright with Nebraska recruiting more of their dudes to possibly do that again later?


This plan seems ill conceived.
He literally says that he got the blessing from his coach and couldn’t have done it without his former school.
 
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