Nebraska Team Stat Rankings
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Teams do this constantly with minimal repercussions. And it would have been well worth the risk. As we would have landed both McCord and Raiola, AND the stud receiver from Ohio State. And likely paired a potent offense under senior leadership with a top 10 defense. We would have been in playoff contention this year, and all of our recruiting problems would have melted away. Like I said before, I think we only get 3 years out of Raiola, and how much more prepared would he be if he got to take a redshirt year? And then after having a great year with McCord, we would have had 3 more years of Raiola, instead of only two before he enters the draft. That's how things should have turned out. Again, I always know what I'm talking about and I'm always right.
He was fast as hell as a freshman. And if he wasn't playing fast, that had more to do with mindset than physical ability. Like I said with proper development and mindset, there's no reason Robinson couldn't have been a first round draft pick.
How so - we landed the highest recruit ever at Nebraska. Think it worked just fine.
You don't determine starters based on potential ceiling, you determine them based on who is the better player right now. And right now, that is McCord.
My way would have worked a hell of a lot better. As we would have landed the highest recruit ever AND be in playoff contention this year with a senior QB and another stud receiver from Ohio State.
Yeah, I think he would have done well here, too. But unlike DR he would have been one and done.
Just remember. We played 1 terrible team and 1 bad team.
Yep - I should have known. My bad for thinking HCMR knew how to get it done when he could have followed oldjar07. Who would have been our QB next year?
this is undoubtedly true
but it's been nice to not also look like a terrible or bad team while doing so
No question. I am deliriously happy with where we are. Just still have a much higher ceiling to get to. At every level.
In terms of Raiola vs. McCord, Raiola is huge legacy recruit and is one of the best, if not the best, prospects to join the program. By all accounts, he is obsessed with improving his game and is setting the standard in terms of knowledge of the playbook and play execution. He has the potential to be a GOAT level player within the program. McCord is a very fine QB that we could have had for one year.
It's isn't a very hard decision at all.
It's isn't a very hard decision at all.
You determine which QB you want to have in your program based on potential. Matt Rhule, in year 2, chose to build for the future. As of right now, having Kyle McCord as the QB would not have had one iota of difference in the win total.
Again, right now, I don't know who the better player is, but I would pick Dylan Raiola as QB for Nebraska every time.
Or you get both QBs in and win a lot of games. Both now and in the future. That's my position.
But you don't keep both. If Raiola wins the job in an open competition McCord leaves. If you promise the job to McCord and tell Raiola that he has a chance to win it, he will find out you lied. He doesn't sign with you. Then you piss off a Husker legend, and you lose respect with every Husker Alum. Not a risk a 2nd year coach, who is trying to establish his culture and get buy in, is going to take.
There is no way you were getting both QBs. So your fantasy position is irrelevant.
In scenario 1, McCord couldn't leave because he would have already transferred here. In scenario 2, it's not a lie and how would Raiola even find out? You don't tell the whole world what you promise. You only have to make that promise to one guy. We could have and should have gotten both. That is my position.
Average at best. Singleton had 3 total tackles in 2022. This staff got a bunch of underachieving players to where they are now. No reason to think they can't do the same with other players. It isn't like they didn't have 2 freshman all American players last year....
Even losing the bulk of the oline, the progression of DR and the young group of skill guys could offset any step back the d takes. That is why playing DR now is so important. Other players will be attracted to that. Easy to sell a vision of transferring here when every player in America knows who DR is and what he is doing.
You don't think the QBs talk? Good God.
McCord could have left after the spring. He is a grad transfer.
Nebraska does not have the luxury to play around with a 5 star QB, especially one that has transferred a ton in high school and committed to multiple schools just to get McCord.
It's a ridiculous idea, and much more of something Frost would have tried(and failed) to do.
Did you not call him a rental that will be at Georgia in a few years and did you not say his signing isn't program changing?
we might just find ourselves in playoff contention without syracuse's QB.
should be favored in all but 2 games this year.
You can't promise Mccord and his dad that Mccord is starting and still have a fair competition. I doubt Mccord wanted to be here with DR either way.
I can't believe that we have fans that would entertain signing a portal qb after the best qb recruit called us out of the blue and asked if he could come here. Glad Rhule was smart enough to kick Mccord to the curb and focus on DR and his development.
And... Just like you said, Rhule is establishing a culture. Raiola is a culture guy and McCord is a mercenary. Raiola fits with everything Rhule stands for. A kid who loves football and is willing to put in the time to exceed expectations. I'm with you. In this instance you take DR 100% of the time.
Exactly. It's quite simple. 5 star generational qbs don't fall in the lap of a team that hasn't gone to a bowl game in 7 years. It straight doesn't happen. Since it did, you do nothing to f it up.
If he was promised to start and was interested in coming here in the first place, why wouldn't he want to come here? We promised one instead of the other when we could have promised both.
In my scenario, that vision lasts for 3 more years after this year instead of 2, and think about how much more appealing that would be.
You keep saying this as if there is any possibility that would have worked out. As Tuco pointed out, McCord could have left after spring practice, and Raiola would not have stayed if it became obvious that Rhule lied to him. Since you clearly have lost any touch with reality I realize it's pointless to argue with you, but come on.
I was all about McCord until about a nanosecond after DR announced he would be making a trip to Lincoln. And it was clear at the time that NU could have one, but not both of them. Everyone, including the McCords knew the deal was off and they quickly moved on.
Huh? You can't promise both without lying. I don't know what you love about Kyle Mccord so much but no coach in the country is taking Mccord over DR. He's at Syracuse for a reason and not some big time program. He's a good qb but there isn't any evidence at this point to support saying he would win us games that DR wouldn't. He had a 24 to 6 td/int ratio last year......... with Marvin Harrison Jr as his primary target.
The problem is not taking McCord over DR. It's taking both. Why is this so hard to understand?
Because there is not a world where they both come here! DR came to start year 1 - McCord wasn’t going to run the risk of getting beat out by DR to show up. There is no world - except in your fantasy land that both come here.
Both was never, ever, an option. Ever. You made up a scenario that didn't exist. You wanting Rhule to lie and scheme the Raiola family is just stupid on so many levels. The kids uncle is on the staff for God's sake. Rhule would have to not only trick Dylan's immediate family, he would have to trick his staff. What is wrong with you?
It's not lying or scheming more than already took place as all promises are lies. I don't know how your idea of scheming is any more acceptable than any other type of scheming.
