I would argue spending 1.5 mil to get an above average QB would be a wise investment. Not many ways that you can reasonably expect to positively impact your future trajectory with such a simple proposition. Compare to it to the cost of firing a coaching staff, or dwindling fan engagement.
Well I’d be curious how they’d feel about another 7 loss season too…
I think he’s going to go to bat for his players but this was also a plea to boosters to hook him up with a bag that will bring a big time qb to Lincoln.
If that's true, Amigos got taken for a ride.
He was describing the current landscape of college football so people have some context if we don't land a top 10 portal QB. He laid out his alternative plan to coach up current QBs or a similar transfer QB, noting it is harder, but also that there can be benefits for team morale and cohesiveness in doing so, as long as you pay market to retain your guys once they develop.
Here is my argument for the Huskers to go out and get a topflight, competent quarterback. Washington, Oregon, Texas, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, LSU, ND and Oregon State (there maybe more). 2 things these teams have in common. They spent money for a transfer portal quarterback and they are in the Top 25.
I think the landscape of college football has changed. Quality players at all positions are going to cost schools money. It is going to be up to the Nebraska's leaders to decide if they really want to win football and basketball games. If they do it will require spending money on players. If they choose not to pay the big bucks, I think Nebraska will continue to trudge along as they have at being a below .500 team.
They better make the right decision to suit the current environment and quickly because more of the same is not gonna cut it. People below the age of 25 do not care about Nebraska athletics. The athletic department better give them a reason to care in light of how much money the football program brings in. Do they really want to die a slow death, because it’ll be that much harder to turn it around.
It would be nice to at least watch a December Husker football game with my kids. My one elementary aged kid said he didn't even know the Huskers could play after the Iowa game. Ridiculous.
nope, long time k-state talking head, tim fitzgerald. tim is dealing with cancer. great guy and friend.
Maybe I've just become an old "Get off My Lawn" type of guy. I love college football season. I love putting out my Nebraska flag every Saturday in the fall. I can't do it without yelling out proudly, "Go Big Red". I hold onto every play. I text a friend and Husker fan that I have known since I was 12 years-old throughout the games. I was at Boulder for the CU game and I watched every second of the rest of the games. I prefer to watch the games alone, so I am not distracted. I used to watch every game at least 2 times and sometimes more. Now, I only rewatch the wins. I cannot take re-watching the screw-ups. More often than not I do not get to ring old, large, school bell in our backyard because the Huskers have failed to win. On those rare occasions I get to I am ducking and diving away from our Llewellin Setter who insists on playing linebacker opposite of me as I recreate runs by Rozier or Burkhead on my way to the bell.
Exactly. Many under that age actually seem to WANT to care. But it's hard when the glory days are past and current team doesn't even remotely resemble what we once had.
How many turnovers did he have. Satt has proven he can't coach that out of players.
Not true, my 15 year old cares a lot about NU athletics, and he grew up in Colorado.
Probably. I can't keep up on what coach is leaving and who's in the portal anymore. Total shitshow CFB has become.
And the scary thing is that they won't miss them at all.
Yep. Those are just the dudes that leave because they won’t play.
