Elite 11 invite. 4 star TJ Lateef N
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Not doubting his dual threat credentials, but I watched two years of HUDL tape on him and he is a passer first as advertised. He moves the pocket well with a good awareness of threats, not as good as DR but then I haven't seen someone at DR's age who senses threats as well as he does.
I would assume the younger Raiola is the 26 qb. Lots of people who could potentially get that spot. Bell West kid. Vanden Bosch kid... 25 is a tough class to recruit a qb. 26 could be far easier if DR has a good year. 26 qb could win the backup job as a freshman and then compete for the job in year 2.
The daughter is, "Runs from Buffalos". She hit the portal already.
Of course if Dylan starts for 3 years and turns Pro for his Senior season..
That is going to happen now more than ever with portal/NIL - got to keep getting more talent each class.
That's why you never pass on a good one. Get the best one you can get every year and let the pieces fall where they may.
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3 Elite 11 QBs on the roster next year. QB room has gone from a weakness to a strength.
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I’m reading “The Leadership Secrets of Nick Saban” right now. He was/is very much a “next man up” guy. One of the top priorities, if not the top priority, every year was recruiting the best talent they could find to fit the process. No promises, no guarantees. Just hard work and an opportunity. I’m sure there’s some fluff in the book, but looking back Saban had a system and he worked it and better the players were the better the system worked.
Obviously the portal makes it much different now. But college football is much more offensive now and the QB spot is arguably more important now than ever. The urgency to sign an elite level QB in every class is higher now than ever.
The only way to assure the kind of QB depth needed to be in the top group of the B1G (and thus in the mix for the expanded CFP) is to stack blue chip talent every year.
Absolutely..people not wanting another great QB because we THINK we already have one makes no sense whatsoever to me.
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I haven’t heard anyone questioning it - but 100% agree … iron sharpens iron!
Unfortunately they are ahead of us in all the preseason rankings. If they keep beating us with garbage qb’s elite 11 won’t matter.
BUT - this is changing for the foreseeable future starting in 2024. Hawks will resume their rightful place in the pecking order as we ascend to ours.
Even looking ahead to 2026, it will be interesting to see how good Vanden Bosch and little Raiola are this Fall…
Frost had 5 years and never had anyone push/challenge Amart. Left the cupboard bare for Rhule. Purdy and Haarberg. Rhule goes "Oh shit!" and grabs the best transfer he could find. Sims turns out to be a dud. You'll notice Rhule will never be without options from here on out. He's always in recruiting mode.
Does the Big Ten Conference have only 10 teams?
It is very hard to stockpile elite talent at the QB level at any school, even elite ones, and it is even harder for a team like Nebraska which has had so many losing seasons of late. These talented young guys at QB want to be starters. They might be willing to sit on the bench for a year or even two for a chance to play on a national title contending team with deep NIL pockets. But unless Nebraska pays them a million bucks it is hard to get them to Lincoln absent a promise to be the starter. All of this just points to the power of Rhule’s personality in getting three elite QB’s to Lincoln. We all need to appreciate how difficult a task that is. Rhule has got it going.
Currently 20 quarterbacks are chosen to participate. In the past, from 12 to 24 have been selected to the finals, with 400-500 total quarterbacks participating in regional events.
