We will see how it plays out. 22 was not a good indicator. Frost and Whipple fought for control of the direction of the offense.hard for a line coach to do much in that situation Enough improvement seen this year and OL recruiting is on an upward tick.
2nd best OL recruiting class at NU in the internet era. I’d say it’s more than just an upward tick.
They weren't, but they were under performing at best. He's slowly, foundationally, started turning it around.
As I posted we will see. Best indication is when the players who were recruited by Donnie and coached by him from day one are on the field.
When you watched some of our guys move it was obvious they lacked the needed agility to play where they were playing. That was an evaluation problem regardless of where Rivals had them ranked.
The OL was vastly improved and even played relatively well when several starters went down. For once I saw guys get better as individual players. Under Frost it seemed like (other than Cam Jurgens) player development was non-existent.
Corcoran played guard in high school yet for some reason Rivals etal ranked him as an OT. He was playing out of position at LT and Teddy wasn’t near ready. People should thank Corcoran for trying to help the team by playing out there.
2nd, by like 100 yards. My bad.
It's far easier to just shit on him than to think critically about the situation.
Logic and fairness aren’t commodities found often on here
Rhule said specifically that Raiola was in his office working that entire time. The other guys stopped and collected their paychecks.
That’s fair. It would be nice to be able to recruit to a team that hasn’t had a string of losing seasons though. That makes it damned tough.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure most of the Rhule guys like Barthel and Cooper were already in place from the time Rhule got here. There would have been no reason for Applewhite or Fisher to be working for NU. Their replacements were in place before Rhule took the job, at least the way Cooper told it.
As I recall it, all of those guys were still under contract and being paid when Rhule was hired. I also recall him interviewing most if not all of them. Raiola and Mickey were supposedly the only guys staying in touch with recruits. The rest of the guys bailed out.
I read this and thought "no way". Went back and looked at the last 15 plus recruiting classes and you could actually make that argument. And this class even has a major reach and an athletic project in it.
I’m sure they’re aware. With the Iowa loss and rumors about Tony White, I’m sure they’re busy trying to hold their class together. I wonder if the White rumors had anything to do with Jones decommitting.
Who was our leading rusher?
Probably the guy with no other power five offers including the two in state schools.
