So true. Love hearing your insights!
Yeah his playing time diminished. None of our receivers got any separation deep either.
Misused. Schemed him deep on PA in 2023. Not in 2024. Incorrectly gave Neyor a lot of those opportunities.
His weakness was simply his size. B1G DBs could molest him pretty easily if they could get their hands on him before he got past them. Him leaving surprises me but you’re right about the 105. There’s no way we asked him to leave.
Development is out now with NIL. Why bother? Open the wallet and get what you want? Why "develop" a player just to have him scooped by a bigger or richer program down the line. This is the new paradigm.
Good coaches work around that. Get him in motion, run him off crossing routes, ect.
McGuire didn’t help the younger receivers, my question was why didn’t neyor sit and Lloyd get more playing time, the last 4 games neyor checked out
IIRC, the prior staff wasn’t seriously after Lloyd but Cooper loved his speed. Local kid with great wheels and a WR room light on talent, so an offer was made. Fast forward a couple of years and things are different in that room.
But you have to take and probably try to keep a guy like Lloyd. He’s still so young. The hit rate on any recruit is far less than some think. You have to mane gamble a little on raw local talent especially now that we have 105 scholarships. Some think we can just buy better talent or speed in the portal. I doubt we’re going to be able to outbid people for half of our starters like Oregon does.
We obviously don’t know the particulars, but there are a lot of TEs and WRs of all different shapes and sizes on the roster, so there Is a lot of competition in the pass catching game. Lloyd knows where he is in the pecking order better than any of us. I think he might be a good fit for a Big 12 team.
We've got freshman receivers coming in who are just as fast and more likely to have the want to for football. We didn't make a ton of use for him this year anyway. I don't think this is a huge loss.
Considering we're top 10 in the transfer portal rankings, I'd reckon that's about where our NIL is. We've been able to outcompete other programs for the guys we want and fulfill our needs.
I could see him following his former WR coach or going to a nationally competitive track team school. I think he's a really good kid. Best of luck to him.
Although he is featured in an Omaha First National Bank commercial along with Nash and Lindsay Krause. This might be a play on his part to increase his share of NIL, but who knows.
None of those guys are as fast as Lloyd, but they may be better football players. I think Mills has to play right away.
Morgan, Spielman, and Wandale were all HS recruiting hits, and we developed them. Spielman was an accomplished college WR before he transferred to TCU and did almost nothing. An argument can be made that we didn’t fully develop Wandale, since he had a lot more production in his one year at KY than he had here.
I think we are saying the same thing... we've developed only a few impact HS WRs in a very long time and have only been able to retain essentially one of those through the end of their college careers - Morgan.
If we don't find at least a good portal OT I will be very concerned. Personally I would prefer an OT and a OG/C.
I get Wandale is short, but maybe if AM wasn't throwing passes 3 ft over his head he would have had some more production.
The comment was focused on the past decade. We've developed plenty of high school WRs if you start going back 10+ years, but recruitment and development fell off a cliff under Riley and Frost, and is TBD under Rhule. Bell and Enuwa were recruited by and played for Pelini from 2010-2014
Let's not forget the California bashing when Riley's time was ending. Just recruit the best, coast to coast. And, being a RAIDERS fan, the only thing they will get done is BPA. I'm praying we don't draft Shaddeur.
NU has always pulled quality kids out of CA and Fla. The list of all time Huskers from those two states is long.
I was told a story about a metro kid who went D-1, broke out as a RSFr, transferred to a similar D-1 school, and got lost in the shuffle. Anyhow, now they are playing DII ball and killing it. Coach told me that its important not just to choose a place that you can play, but a school and a level where you can flourish. Some of these kids don't always realize that their top-tier offer isn't necessarily their best offer.
