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Clark looks like the exact kind of kid DH likes on the outside. I also think Lloyd and Barney are the exact kind of players he likes as inside receivers. Let's hope he stays and brings the best out of these young WR's.
Yes. I have a lot more confidence in that happening with DH. Also hope we can continue to use and develop Bonner and Carter Nelson (if healthy?) a lot more going forward. Satt didn’t know how to use any of these guys well — he had no feel for it.
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Cutting the roster to 105

As far as I can tell, with the current roster + incoming recruits we are at 171 players. We have 16 players who will have exhausted their eligibility, so that means we will need around 50 players to enter the portal and/or be processed. And this is before adding any players from the portal, so we could be looking at 60+ players leaving the prgram.

Going to be a wild off-season
I thought Rhule said 30 were planning on walking Saturday although some will be juniors

Deion had the right idea

Uh...
1 - Drelon Miller - Highly regarded Freshman WR who just had a breakout game against Utah. Compares favorably to a young LaViska Shenault. Has started at RB and WR for CU. Just figuring it out but will be a big-time player for CU.
2 - Omarion Miller - Sophomore WR, averages like 21.5 yards per catch. Big play WR who will no longer have to wait his turn. Injured on the season or would be having a big year.
3 - Cordale Russell - Freshman WR, former 4*/top 50 (ESPN/On3) who was injured early on and will miss the season. Supposed to be back in December but not expected to play this year. Has displayed big time talent in his short time on the practice field.

Those 3 are expected to be the best set of WRs we've had since Westbrook, Johnson, and Carruth were running all over the field in the 90's. The potential is there and not hard to attract the top rated QB when you have that on the roster. Had all 3 been healthy, they would have made a lot more noise this year.

Others:
Kam Mikell - Freshman, Highly rated WR that is redshirting this year.
Terrell Timmons - So., has played in place of Horn after his injury. Getting his feet wet. Time will tell.
Jordan Onovughe - Freshman, highly rated WR that plays sparingly this year.
Asaad Waseem - Freshman, hugely productive high school career. Special teams player this year.

Several highly rated recruits likely coming this cycle when signing day or whatever it is called now happens. I wasn't sure before, but after Juju's commit and their chatter on social media, I'm guessing they will sign (or send in financial aid papers or whatever they do now). I think WR will be the strongest position on the roster next year and maybe the strongest in the country when the dust settles. It will certainly be top 10 at a minimum.

Yeah I don’t think skill position players are going to be a problem for you as long as Deion is there. He clearly knows how to emphasize that part

Fred nailing it about the Creighton Cuckster Fans!

I think Fred is a good guy and a decent coach. I think what he said has been taken a bit out of context. I'm sure Fred isn't afraid of or overly stressed by Creighton's BB program. More so it's probably the overreaction of fans that make it a frustrating week of coaching.
You’re the one who used words like “stress” and “”afraid” while doing your usual finger-wagging about taking his comments out of context. I just found his remarks to be odd, and a bad look for someone whose team plays a maximum of 3 or 4 competitive non-conference games per year.

Football Wisconsin at Nebraska Preview & Prediction (CollegeFootballNews.com)


Wisconsin at Nebraska Game Preview and Prediction
by Pete Fiutak, CollegeFootballNews.com

Will Nebraska ever be bowl eligible?

It seemed like a done deal after a 5-1 start, but the offense went bye-bye on a four-game losing streak, and now the stress is off the charts that it's happening AGAIN. It's Nebraska -- it's supposed to be in the College Football Playoff hunt, and instead, no Power Four program is on a longer bowl drought.

2016.

That's the last time the Huskers were in a bowl. Lose, and it comes down to next week's trip to Iowa.

Wisconsin also needs this go get bowl eligible. It started 5-2, and then the schedule kicked in hard, the O collapsed, OC Phil Longer was relieved of his duties, and the team needs a win or it'll need to beat Minnesota to get to six wins.

WISCONSIN (5-5) at NEBRASKA (5-5)
Saturday, November 23 - 2:30 PM (CT) - Big Ten Network

Why Wisconsin Will Win
Alabama, Oregon, Penn State, USC and Iowa. The offense fell flat against the five great defenses on the slate, and was good against everyone else.

The team came up with over 300 yards in the five wins, fewer than 300 in the five losses, and now the O should be a bit more effective with a tweak in styles from the Longo era.

Those five teams the Badgers dealt with in the losses were also able to run. When the defense holds up and the quick passing game clicks from the start, the team rolls with a little positive momentum.

Nebraska needs to run well to win. It was able to slip past Rutgers, but it's 1-5 when it doesn't run for at least 130 yards. The Badgers are 4-0 when holding teams to under 130 yards on the ground.

Why Nebraska Will Win
Yeah, Wisconsin wins when it gets to 300 yards of total offense, but that's not a given.

The Huskers have kept six of the ten teams it played to 301 yards or fewer, and with everyone in the stadium jacked and the team pumped up on Senior Day, the D should come up with something special.

It's not just on the offensive side. The Badgers struggle and lose against anyone who can throw. Iowa ran wild in its win, but everyone else who beat UW came up with more than 200 yards through the air.

New Husker offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen got his feet wet last week in the USC game, but the O struggled. Expect QB Dylan Raiola to get hot with time to work against a Badger defense that doesn't get behind the line, but ..........

What Will Happen
...........there's pressure, mostly on the Nebraska side, to win-now-or-else.

Wisconsin will try to mix it up a bit offensively, but it'll stall way too often.

Nebraska will sputter and cough, and it'll have a few problems with field goals -- there will be a big miss early in the fourth quarter.

But the Huskers will come up with one last big stop leading to one gigantic moment for the Husker faithful.

Prediction
Nebraska 23, Wisconsin 20

Spread
Nebraska is favored at home by 2.5 points. The over/under is set at 42.5

Cutting the roster to 105

Here is a quick toss out of some guys I question will ever do anything in the future, we can start with them:
Alvano
Bretz
Rollins
Ervin
Teddy P
Hood
Tagaloa
Stenger
Rogers
Turner
Doss
Ives

Plus, guys I felt might be reaches:
Taylor
Guthrie
Peters


So, we could easily have plenty of room
Teddy and Turner not going anywhere if they're healthy. Good luck with that preditcion bud, you're gonna need it! Neither is Doss or Ervin.

Deion had the right idea

They are they same team they were last year and when we played them early. USC and Ohio State don’t beat us by 3 TD’s, but sure CU would. Come on.
Bullshit, teams change as the season goes on.

You can pinpoint the exact moment that this Nebraska team started to falter.

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From the preacher:

"How about instead of like, making it about them and talking to them, how about we just make it about us and play the best football we've ever played? So I don't wanna see that anymore, I don't want to disrespect them, I want to respect us."

Not only is this soft as babyshit, it's a total inability to read the room. These players were jacked coming into the locker room up big on a rival. They were motivated by the Colorado shit talk, and they played with moxie. It literally disappeared after Rhule's speech, we were held out the entire next half, and never played like that again.

I get that for middle-aged losers, its hard to understand what motivates younger generations, but telling them to stop leaning into what it is that's making them play with an edge is absolutely not it. Rhule lost the team after this speech.

Go ahead and google how Saban and Smart talk pregame/halftime if you want to see how a winner communicates.

Fred nailing it about the Creighton Cuckster Fans!

I used to hate Creighton. a lot.

since they've moved to the premier basketball conference in the country, however, I have a hard time hating them as much as I once did.

I now believe it's pretty awesome that the state of Nebraska boasts a legitimate annual Final Four contender while giving Omahans a chance to see traditional Big East powers up close.

Hope we can continue to play them tough and find ourselves in the field of 68 for a second straight season. it's nice to have this measuring stick on the schedule every season.
When did Creighton join the B12? 😉
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Cutting the roster to 105

Not disagreeing, but I've heard of most of these guys. The majority of the guys getting cut I doubt most of us know they exist.
Right, most of the walk ons that aren’t on the scholly chart.

So, in digging further, 97 are on the list but Coleman and Syncere are gone… so 95. Then, take out seniors and it’s now 78. We have 20 commits and potentially another few so let’s call it 24 just in case. 78 and 24 make 102, three guys (net) from the portal make it 105.

Ok, we do have room. Still, some of these guys need to move on so we can take more portal guys. I would love to see 2 OL. 2 WR, 1 LB, 2 CB from the portal
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