I think there’s arguments to be made all around, but see the RB room right now (or WR at times in recent history) decimated with injury. Minus a solid group of walk-ons the team isn’t even practicing.
Mark Pelini...cough cough....er I meant SPENCER LONG. You did say good ones.
I have said this repeatedly. You can only have so many coaches on the field. Divide the players and reps however you want. Do you want a lot of players to get fewer reps or fewer players to get more reps? Can you imagine walking in and seeing that many guys, in shear numbers, ahead of you? I just don't think it does justice to all players, walk-on or scholarship. JMHO
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought Tomich was prop 48, not a walk on. Edit:. Google is my friend. Prop 48 and walk on.
This does make me chuckle a bit... you are assuming 3 or 4 scholarship transfers but no walk on transfers. You are also assuming no scholarship transfers in from other schools. I guess if it helps you make you point that we have more walk ins than scholarship players, why not present it in the way that beat makes your point.
I think Tomich might be #1, he was a two time all American. Barron Miles is in the Hall of Fame (cfl)
Wow, never knew Redwine was a walk on. These guys all from yester year, except the kickers, and kickers are usually walkons across the country.
I'm curious to know what the rational is for having such a big roster. You're going to get a handful of guys that will break through, but is it worth the overall bloat? It seems that there are more downsides to having so many players on the team versus having a more selective number. If 166 is good, why not shoot for 200? Surely they know who has a legitimate shot of being on the team. If you're the fourth stringer and a walk-on, you are practice squad chum. That's a high price to pay.
Here’s my thought. I suspect you need approximately 50 players for the scout team and in this time of the transfer portal it’s highly unlikely a true freshman or redshirt freshman or sophomore, on scholarship, is part of that group. So after a year or two a lot of these guys move on, thus the need to replenish. The % of this group that ever see game action let alone meaningful snaps is ridiculously small. They walkon to stay part of the game at the highest level with the slight chance that their friends/family might see them in action on the field in Memorial Stadium.
That was when he was allowed to have a different set of coaches overseeing the Freshman team and the walkons. Now it's a drain on the staff to focus and be efficient and effective during limited practice time.
Or for future reference you can go to huskers.com and count the players on the roster your own damn self. 166 isn't an inflated figure.
How did they do this in the past? Was there more “assistant coaches” because this is not the first time Nebraska has had this many football players on the team to go through spring and summer training. Before title IX back in the 80’s and 90’s we had many, many more, right, or am I wrong?
I wonder why it quoted me as saying that when it wasn't?
Yes, way more assistant coaches, they even had a bunch of recruiters doing nothing but recruiting.
You are claiming that scholarship players are “80 or so.” Is it 80? Or 82? 83? You claim 80 or so. You also claim some will be transferring to get us down to what... 78? 76? But you make no mention of any walk ons that will transfer. I think the current scholarship number is 83, not “80 or so.” Even with transfers out, we will almost surely be getting a few transfers in. Our scholarship numbers will be pretty close to 85, if not exactly 85. Don’t be mad at me for your waffling on the numbers.
Sorry, I think you had a quote in the original that I must’ve erased “Tru’s” name somehow.
you just went back 30+ years with those 9 guys. I don't want 86 walk-ons limiting how much time a coach spends with the 2 deep.
I have a friend who has finished the second year as a walk-on. He says they don't get much coaching. How can they? Frost wants to limit practice time and hold in the morning. TO worked with the walkons. Old Charlie told a story about working with the lower units and they were not getting it done correctly. TO kept making them for it over and over. Charlie said coach the only people you are punishing is the coaching staff. TO told Charlie that was part of the job.
What is dumb is that IF the 3 deep is getting the bulk of the reps, (approx 70 players). Why do you need 96 players to split the rest? Couldn't you get it down to say 140 or better yet, 120 and split the leftover reps between 50 and not 96?
