Countdown to 105
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Stay classy. Maybe I’ll enlist litespeed to do a poll to see who the terrible posters are… I’ll gladly let my name be represented in this poll and see how many votes I get. Would you allow your name in such a poll? Methinks you wouldn’t like what you find…
I’m puzzled by all the concern about 105 limit. I’m pretty sure we won’t be lamenting on the quality of 4th and 5th string guys. I might be wrong.
Glad you are good Easy - you are missed. Be well.
Agreed. I'm actually more worried about the quality of some of our 1's.
Just about every Husker fan wants to see area kids do well. It’s only natural for there to be remorse if things don’t work out for them. We fall in love even with distant recruits and want them to succeed as well. Some of maybe is living vicariously through them chasing the dream we once had as kids.You truly do not know most Nebraska fans on message boards.
I’m wondering if the roster size limitation is going to end up putting some older QBs in to the portal from top programs.
27-28 guys? Name them.
We ain’t doing your work for you. This has been mentioned literally hundreds of times on this board. Go use the search function. The case has been presented - you go disprove it..
We ain’t doing your work for you. This has been mentioned literally hundreds of times on this board. Go use the search function. The case has been presented - you go disprove it..
Quality of the psn groups 1s and important 2s. Top third, middle or bottom third.
QB - top, RB - middle, WR - top, TE - middle, OL - middle
DL - middle, LB - middle, DB - middle
ST - bottom
RB
The sad thing is I don’t know if we have 5 RBs that could ever see the field.We have a lot of walk-ons on the roster not ever going to play. IM Hipp ain’t on this roster.
EJ, Ives, Nelson, Parker, Booth.
Ives and Nelson must show something this spring or you go into the spring portal and dispose of one of those guys. Maybe a 6th for a FB.
QB
Technically think we are already down to 5 QBs but I think you have 4 with HH as an emergency option. Longval seems like the obvious dude to move cause he’s older and still hasn’t climbed the depth, but seems more talented than Soukup. God help us if we ever have to play anyone outside of DR, TJ, or Davila.
OL- I count 22 on the roster. Seems that Teddy P and Corcoran are the obvious good byes. Yes they had legit talent. Yes they started games. But their bodies are telling them to quit. They are too broken for football. It ain’t magically going to change
WR- Magini, DJ Singleton (way to small), and Haussmann out and then your at that Magic 14
TE- who knows. If Carter is a WR, which I think is best, I don’t see a lot of talent here. Carter needs a top notch coach and I think WR coach is way better than TE coach to tape into his skill. HH and LL then there are a lot of unknowns. But I’ve been saying for years now Matt Rhule hasn’t had TE based offensives really. Greg Olsen fled Carolina when Rhule came in. And please don’t get your panties in a bunch Rhule fan club. This just his style. He ain’t the only coach to be like that. When it comes to receiving anyways.
Long story short. 105 is very do-able. I didn’t think so until I really started looking at the roster the way inWV broke it down
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I think it's possible that EJ could start the season at the level of productivity he finished last season and if so, he could be a in the top third of RB talent in the league. I think the staff likes what they see in Parker, and also were complementary of Ives focus in bowl practices. He might have given them an excuse to not sniff so strongly in the portal.
If Raiola can get a better feel for the QB run game, he could be top 3 or 4 in the league. I think Holgerson can get him there and if Thomas sticks around, he is a definite added bonus to that room.
If I am Raiola and Rhule, I am all for keeping both Corcoran and Teddy P on the roster if they are medically cleared to play. Corcoran apparently had a pretty wicked tear, so he might be done. But if healthy, Turner might be a starting guard and Teddy could at least provide an experienced backup tackle.
As for TE, I think Holgerson sees use for a more inline blocking TE (Lindenmeyer, Markway) and more athletic guys that can be moved around (HH, Carter Nelson). Holgerson likes Lindenmeyer.
The WR room is already working itself out. But that room has leveled up at least one notch.
I completely agree that 105 guys is plenty to field a full, competitive team and to run practice. Nonetheless, there will be something lost, particularly at a program with the walk-on tradition of Nebraska. My wife's brother is a perfect example. He came out of a town of 700, walked on and was cut twice -- once after freshman year and once following his redshirt year. He was literally 10th string at his position. Coach Osborne and his position coach sat him down and respectfully thanked him for trying but told him they didn't see a future for him on the team. He spent that summer lifting and running and conditioning in ways specific to his position, showed up the first day of fall camp and basically refused to leave. They let him come back. Eventually, some guys at his position quit, others got hurt, he worked harder than others and, long story short, he ended up as a starter for two seasons. You would recognize his name if I mentioned it.
Heck, even I went through something similar. Played at a small college and then transferred to UNL thinking I could play there too. It took about 30 seconds for the coaches (and me) to realize I was nowhere near good enough. But the point is that they gave me a chance in the same way my brother-in-law just wanted a chance. A lot more walk-ons will be like me (never even close to good enough) but there were always that couple who "made it." And now they won't have that opportunity.
We loved them and could in a way relate to them. Just off the top of my head I can think of walk-ons who contributed from Ansley, Orchard, Plattsmouth, Hyannis, Crawford, Benkelman, Wahoo, Tekamah, Cozad, David City and Shelby. There were many others. When those kids were playing, their whole towns came to a halt on game days. The rest of the state took pride in it too and helped everyone feel like this was truly "our team." Those walk-ons were us. With Rhule having his own walk-on story, he understands this.
I worked in college athletics for many years and fully realize this is the time of "corporate" college football. Although I don't necessarily like some of what is going on, I'll continue to watch and support "my" team. But something has been lost and it's a shame. Just one guy's opinion.
Teddy has been injured every year for the last 4 years. Turner has 1 year in the last 4 of not battling an injury, he had season ending injuries the last two years. Best for the kids to leave and not do more damage and best for the team to move on to guys with able bodies
Great story and thank you for sharing. Do you think some of these walk-ins in the future will be D2 guys who maybe have the same drive and develop a little later to come back? With the transfer rules I don’t think the D2 is a relegation it once was. There will be some diamonds out there I think and hopefully they get a similar chance as the player in the story.
My hope is that the extra 20 scholarships get us a few more local kids who have been going to KSU, NDSU, and other nearby programs. Our walk on program has been degraded by the number of area kids accepting scholarships to FCS programs and other area D-1 programs. Back before the emergence of the Dakota programs and the decline of our own, it was a lot tougher decision between walking on at NU and taking a full ride at SDSU or NDSU. An area kid I know of about a dozen years ago was recruited pretty hard to walk on as a DT. He ended up at one of the Dakota schools and found his way to an NFL roster for a while. Maybe we’ll have room for a kid like that now.
I think the beauty of the old walk on program was you didn't have to be a stud HS athlete in order to participate and get a chance. I never even started for my HS team (though I did play in a state title game), and yet I probably would have been good enough to walk on. That path is now completely eliminated.
No you wouldn’t have been able to walk on .every walkon Nebraska has had at least started for their HS . You honestly can’t be this dumb.
Wrong again. First of all, I'm a bit of a late bloomer. I was a much better athlete in college than I was in high school. I was much bigger, faster, and had very good measurables. Secondly, I had a few buddies who walked on at Nebraska. I didn't realize I was good enough either until I was dominant playing a pickup football game against them. I tried out for the rugby team too and was the best athlete there. I had the intention of doing that too until I found out about 5 AM conditioning and was no longer interested.
Congrats give yourself a medal for the best athlete never to walkon and play for Nebraska.
Didn't have the intention to until you called me out for no reason and without basis.
It depends. How bad do those guys want to play football? A lot of NU walk-ons through the years passed on Kearney State/UNO/NW Missouri/Dakota schools scholarship offers because they wanted to play for NU. Without that walk-on opportunity going forward, do they still want to play football or will they just enroll as a student at the big state university? I don't know. But if guys with that level of talent still want to play the game, the potential is there for UNK, etc. to get some talented kids who might have otherwise tried for "big time or nothing."
The odds of a non-starter who didn’t start for his high school team being allowed to walk on at NU were EXTREMELY slim. I think the last guy to play at Nebraska who sometimes didn’t start for his high school was Andy Means maybe. I’m not even sure if that’s true or urban legend. It might have been due to injury or disciplinary issues He was a very athletic DB. I think he even came in on scholarship.
IF you didn’t start for your high school team you might have gotten a tryout but you weren’t making the team. I had multiple guys in my frat who were absolutely studs on their high school teams and they rarely even got to suit up for home games as walk ons. I’m talking about all-state class B and C honorable mention best players in their conference guys.
You are full on delusional or maybe not right in the head. There are no kids who weren't studs on their teams that walk-on and make it. You can't point to one. In my high school alone we had quite a few kids who walked on over the years and were like 5 string under Osborne, Solich, etc and they were all state players.
When I was in high school, I was scrawny and 170 lbs playing DE. By the time I was a freshman in college, I was 6'3" 205, and ran a 4.5 40. I was a better athlete by that time than the guys who got scholly offers to smaller colleges. I've never had a formal training program either, so I could have easily put on 30 lbs of muscle and not lost any speed.
I don't lie about anything, so you must be projecting your own moral values there, or lack thereof. I played a pickup game against Henrich one time and basically ran circles around him.
You have eligibility left call Rhule and ask for a tryout.
What age in high school were you 170 lbs? Freshman, Soph??? Nebraska doesn't have an open tryout for walk ons. They aren't going to waste their time with 200 Johnny Tryhards who couldn't even start on their high school teams. Even if they did, those kids would get absolutely no attention at the the walk on tryout, because the coaches would be looking at the players that had tape and stats and actually played high school football, who they won't have to teach basic football too. Having the athletic ability is really just a small portion of the equation.
Give him a break. He’s just bringing us the “original content” and “topics of discussion” he self-promotes all the time.
Probably has lots of regrets missing out on that NFL money that would have been sure to follow if he only could have stomached those 5 am workouts…
Made himself out to be lazy. Crazy flex he was trying to go for
That was Rugby practice not football. He decided to not even give football a shot.
