Chasing 3- Fall Camp

[Yantzeee]

Betts 2.0?

Betts, Coleman, and Hall dreamed like a dream scenario a few years ago.

Looks like the reality is Llyod is the best WR out of Omaha

 

[BTF69]

I get it. But if you’re going to suffer through the process of it all, give some god damn effort when it’s game time.

Sure, I get that. I don't know the play in question but maybe he broke off a route. Who knows.

 

[Dean Pope]

It's not just Nebraska kids. Remember how Omar Manning panned out? Some of these guys just got too comfortable dominating kids in high school. College is a completely different game. It's why the recruiting rankings are such a sham most of the time.

And some of these talented kids aren't used to getting coached.

I agree completely regarding recruiting rankings. If you want to sign a four star kid who plays as hard as a "walk-on", get in line. Everybody will be after those guys. Other 4 star kids get offered and then not much becomes of it. Wonder why?

 

[dinglefritz]

Bingo. I get dogging it during practice, but it’s game time. How do you not get pumped up to play

We have to be careful about trying to guess what is going on sometimes. Players can be playing with undisclosed injuries or illness. Maybe they run that play 10 times in practice and the ball is never thrown to them. As. I recall, the explanation for what happened was that one of the WRs didn’t get quite deep enough on their route and it allowed their DB to make a heads up play by coming off of their guy.

 

[V-Doub]

And some of these talented kids aren't used to getting coached.

I agree completely regarding recruiting rankings. If you want to sign a four star kid who plays as hard as a "walk-on", get in line. Everybody will be after those guys. Other 4 star kids get offered and then not much becomes of it. Wonder why?

Hard work beats talent when talent won’t work hard.

 

[Dean Pope]

Hard work beats talent when talent won’t work hard.

Great quote. And talent that always works hard is almost impossible to beat.

And the thing I've tried to get at all of these years is with Husker fans who think that any four star even if they aren't hard workers should be panning out like any other four star. And nothing can be further from the case. I like those re-rankings that have been given to some four star HS kids who enter the transfer portal. A lot of those guys should be rated as two stars.

 

[haileyhusker]

I said it in another thread a few months ago. Long story short, I just don't think Coleman likes playing football.

Fall camp a grind. He’s still only in second year of college football. Probably should have been a RS freshman. I think it’s early to judge whether or not he “wants it enough”. He’s a good kid and the staff will keep developing all of him. He’s talented. He missed time in the spring. Early to judge much IMO.

 

[bob5150]

Sometimes it is not "lazy" it is more that the kid just doesn't like it all that much. I know us dorks LOVE to romanticize it and we would bleed for NU and run through a brick wall and blah blah blah.

But you have to love it, college FB at that level is 24/7 now.

I had a friend who walked on in the mid 90s and won rings, hardly ever played at all, a few times on some extra points. He said by his 3rd year he hated it, hated lifting, hated running hated practice and especially hated the forced hanging out stuff. Not that he hated the guys on the team, not at all, but he just wanted to go to his dorm or apartment and veg out, not always having some "event" planned out for him. Maybe hate is the wrong word but that was the word he used.

Sports suck when you don't love it. Just like most things. Think of it like that dead end job you have where you are just going through the motions. You do just enough to stay under the radar and not get bothered.

Agree. Know a couple of guys from later teams who said, in summary, that they were glad to be done playing football when it was over, and they stayed away from the game for a while afterwards because there were other things to do.

 

[bob5150]

We have to be careful about trying to guess what is going on sometimes. Players can be playing with undisclosed injuries or illness. Maybe they run that play 10 times in practice and the ball is never thrown to them. As. I recall, the explanation for what happened was that one of the WRs didn’t get quite deep enough on their route and it allowed their DB to make a heads up play by coming off of their guy.

Also agree with this. Just like TMart, I thought Amart was wussing out on plays for about a 3-4 game stretch.
Of course, we found out later he was playing with a broken jaw.