Smothers to the portal
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Damn. I'm good!!
Now the Huskers will win 8 this year and win the bowl game!! Let's go!!
Rhule & Satt didn't hide anything on Saturday.
The QB depth chart:
1 - Sims/CT
3 - Haarberg
4 - Purdy/Woche
The QB depth chart:
1 - Sims/CT
3 - Haarberg
4 - Purdy/Woche
Nothing about this shocks me. wish him the best.
I get it, but wasn’t Smothers injured? No chance to be on a depth chart if you aren’t healthy…
Smothers seemed like nothing but a class-act, standup guy and teammate. He didn’t complain, zero drama, and he was committed to the team.
Definitely wish him well.
Definitely wish him well.
chronologically, yes.
however, HH backed up Sims and played exclusively with the 1s and against the 1s
purdy led the 3rd/4th teamers against the 3rd/4th team defense
Wish him the best. Seemed like a great kid and great family who were loyal through trying times. It is cases like Smothers that cause me to not always think that kids that opt for the portal are disloyal. Best wishes to him.
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That isn’t official. It’s a random national “analyst” repeating a rumor. ☹️ Hope he isn’t that doofus who was posting on here wanting to be first.
I think Rhule wants HH and Purdy to stick around.
I think purdy's status as having already transferred once (even though the NCAA are toothless) makes it a lot harder for him to leave
No, it is a 247 guy. But here is our old friend nebraskafaninwi/antirowboat/nationanalyst twitter.
Looks like he fancies himself a Big Ten insider these days.
I also think Rhule thinks he could win some games with a game manager mobile QB like Purdy if he had to. He’s a very bright guy. Some say we would only play 2 QBs but that’s cutting it razor thin depth wise to only have 4 guys. Woche is a walk on camp arm. Too bad Synek left.
In the right RPO system I think Smothers could win some P5 games for somebody. Seemed like a great kid. Hope things work out for him. I’ll bet Tim Albin would love to have him at Ohio.
When Held took the OC at Northern Alabama last year, I was sure Smothers would follow him and tear it up there.
If he could get a grad scholarship offer to even be a backup at a top academic school he should take it. His future lies elsewhere than as a pro QB.
If he has his degree, kudos to him. I hope he enjoyed his time in Lincoln, both as a student and athlete, and always considers himself a Cornhusker. This stuff is not easy on these college kids
Does anyone know if HC MR indicated he will be over this much every year? I get it that they want to build the best possible roster every year. Or is he so high over this year because he is new?
Had to flip a 4 win roster.
It would be hard to be this much over every year. He gets to cut guys this year, because he is in his first year at the school. He won't be able to do that after this year. I would expect us to be more like 5 over a year moving forward.
Kid most likely just wants to play and sees himself now buried on the NU QB depth chart. Best of luck to him.
Good luck to Smothers. He’d have won the Iowa game in ‘21 if our special teams understood the difference between left and right.
Thanks Logan for everything!! Best wishes for you, wherever you go
Was a much better QB than Purdy..
FWIW!
Yeah, losing Logan and Torres and keeping HH and Purdy is not the scenario I was hoping for
Or if he didn't tend to flop at crunch time. I saw him do enough cross brained stuff against Minnesota last year, when it looked like we might mount a comeback, to understand why he didn't challenge Martinez and CT on the depth charts.
Seemed like a good dude and honestly, got a shot to win the starting Husker gig. Didn’t stand out when the moment presented itself. That moment is gone. Good luck to him.
Exactly. He can win games with his run threat and a RB run game and play action passes.
Still trying to wrap my head around how Smothers would have 'won the game' if it wasn't for other circumstances. He threw the ball right to an Iowa played when the game was on the line. I think, given his scant playing time after that, the coaches were afraid to give him any important assignments. He never really played after that until the Minnesota game this last year. In which, again when we had a chance to take a lead and he had ample room to use his speed to get a first down he wound up and threw a pass to no one out of bounds.
He just tended to make big mistakes when the pressure was on. He really should have considered a position switch to db more. Remember Tony Veland?
he also hit the hip of a would-be ball carrier on a botched handoff turned lost fumble to start the entire momentum swing
If only our bird brain former coaches would have started him from the beginning and he would have had more reps etc all that would have been smoothed out.
The WR ran the wrong route
Whipple didn’t give him good okay calls to take advantage of his skill set.
The would be RB was in the wrong place.
The WR ran the wrong route
Whipple didn’t give him good okay calls to take advantage of his skill set.
The would be RB was in the wrong place.
Not a BIG qb. Should go FCS or maybe a MAC caliber school. I think he could tear it up at NDSU or SDSU.
I had 911 waiting every time he took a snap in case my heart went out. Good kid though and team player. Curious if he turned down a position switch.
I had 911 waiting every time he took a snap in case my heart went out. Good kid though and team player. Curious if he turned down a position switch.
