Did we play our entire travel roster?
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White has been playing a ton of guys, including a ton of freshman-even in key situations.
It’s pretty remarkable.
Also shows that you can coach kids up and prepare them for their role in a short time.
Kids like to participate and not sit the bench for 3 years waiting to see if they get injured in practice to miss their opportunity.
He seems like a bright spot in an otherwise bleak looking staff/team.
I’m glad they are letting kids play. It’s good for keeping things competitive within the team. This is a rebuilding year. I was saying it before the season started and it’s pretty obvious now.
They travelled about 75 guys. I think the conference limit is less than 60. BiG expanded rosters to 74 back in 2018 I guess but I’m not sure they still do that.
We played 3 true freshman dlineman + Princewill. 2 true freshman DL have sacks this year. The future looks bright on the dline. So pumped about the D.
Again, it's a build in it's 2nd game. They got freshmen playing on offense too. We're probably gonna get our wish seeing more of HH. Hopefully all us armchair coaches know what we're doing.
Now we have to keep those kids in the fold. Michigan will be contacting them, probably a few other cheaters as well.
I’m not sure there’s a single guy on our roster that Michigan would want right now. We can sell early playing time to recruits.
Let's hope nobody writes White a blank check after the playoffs.
Cam Lenhardt gonna be a stud. Riley Van Poppel even got a sack, just needs to bulk a up a little.
Agree with some posters that White has been a bright spot. I love that they're finally playing more than 12 defenders each week. Great to see Gbayor get some PT, along with Lefotu and RVP yesterday.
Rough start to the season, but things should start to turn this coming weekend.
Rough start to the season, but things should start to turn this coming weekend.
Hopefully Michigan keeps their grubby hands off Lenhardt.
The defense will get better and better as the year goes on and SOOOOO many guys are getting snaps and he does it in a smart way. He just puts them in, they get a few snaps and then they rotate out. He is not scared that they will go in and immediately the other team will score a TD.
If NU is willing to let a QB turn it over several times a game, they should be willing to let freshmen with real TALENT make a few mistakes.
I'm talking about the defensive side of the ball. Specifically those freshmen D-linemen. They've looked better as freshmen than anything I've seen at NU in quite a while. We need to lock those kids up.
I wish we would do some of the same on offense. The left side of the OL has been bad, would love to see Luto and Teddy P get some PT this week.
Lutovsky wasn't any better than Piper when he was in. No idea why Corcoran wasn't spelled for most of the game.
I hope that Teddy is ready to go and takes over LT. You can then have Piper, Luto and Corc battle it out for LG.
On the left side of the OL, I would love to see anyone get a legit shot other than Corcoran and Piper.
Yhe coaches always say the OLmen are trained to work at any position. It would be nice to take 2 young ones and at least give them a chance. That left side has been a sieve in pass pro and provides no push in the running game.
Our OL coach was retained for one reason and one reason only
And that reason is headed to UGA
Coaches, every year, across CFB prove that you don’t need 3-6 years to turn things around. White is further proof.
Gbayor played 43 snaps and had 6 tackles including a TFL. That's production.
It's amazing to watch someone like him fly around and tackle like a missile. I don't remember him playing last year.
He looks great. On special teams he is big time and now showing it on the D side. It sucks so bad that our O is this bad because this team could be good. The D and special teams have looked decent.
Tony is obviously a special coach, but let's not forget that Busch had been able to unplug the D's head from it's colon by late season last year, so mentally that transition had begun. There isn't an excuse for the mistakes the offense it making, but the pivot from the sling it around the yard offense to the present run focused work in progress is not a thing of beauty.
The excuse for the offense has been almost exclusively QB play. One RB fumble. A WR false start. A couple of O line false starts on the road.
The way forward is to establish rhythm in the run game. NU had that at times in the first half and it was at least in part facilitated by the motion action NU was using. And of course Sims stepped all over that by calling some snaps at the very moment the motion guy could obscure it.
NU should be optimizing all aspects of the run part of the playbook. And then coach the QBs (all can run) to take the angle to the sidelines if defenders are locked onto the pass routes. I think Sims takes five yards every time. Haarberg looks like this could be a promising part of his game as well.
HH isn't the answer. His last competitive game was against a C1 team in nebraska. Not sure he's ready for the big lights yet.
29 defensive players got snaps.
I don't understand this line of thinking. What could go wrong that would make it any worse? HH throws a pick 6 every time he throws? He fumbles every snap? If he starts and has 4 bad series then Sims can't relieve him?
Not saying that we shouldn't give him a shot. Saying don't be shocked when the outcome is the same.
apparently nothing at all. It's pretty disappointing to see what we have to show for all of the money spent over the years. We can't even find a guy to hand the ball off without fumbling.
Obviously being facetious a bit, but man this last two weeks have been disappointing. I really thought we would have shown better offensively.
Tough to swallow. I wasn't too sure how this year would go as far as wins and losses, but I was certain that Rhule's teams would not shoot themselves in the foot.
It appears he fired the first foot shot when he didn't upgrade the qb room.
Rhule wouldn’t have him over Purdy on the depth chart if he didn’t see potential.
