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College Football 2017 Offseason: We're Not a Football School Anyway

El_Chino

Member
How could I forget.

jjasper
new Volunteer Rocky Top superfan LionPride
old Volunteer Rocky Top superfan mre
Always thought he was a Bama fan haha, wish we had tags to keep track like CFB Reddit.
So to recap Nebraska's summer so far:

  • Junior WR Stanley Morgan Jr. and Junior DB Antonio Reed (both key starters) get busted in Florida on pot, will probably be suspended some amount of time.
  • Early enrollee WR Keyshawn Johnson Jr. (son of NFL star) also gets busted for pot, leaves team, will return in Jarnuary (?)
  • Safeties coach Bob Elliott dies shortly after stepping down to off-field job.
  • Chris Jones, one of the team's best CBs and a key player in our secondary, blows his knee out and won't be back for 4-6 months.
  • Two highly ranked defensive recruits (4* DB Elijah Blades and 3* DT Deiontae Watts) don't academically qualify and end up going to JuCos.

And this off-season was all going so well too.
Good thing he didn't come to Florida
 

El_Chino

Member
Fuck every last one of y'all.
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If Cyan can give tags, I hope he gives mre a "Big Urnge" tag just so we're all clear where his loyalties lie.

Hey man, I know last year was supposed to be your year but it's okay. There's always next.
Seems appropriate.
Do you really see anyone in the West beating you..

Really?

A&M will collapse as usual, LSU has no QB, and Gus still hasn't shown us anything to get excited.
Well Appalachian State almost came close.
 

FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
Whatever you do, just leave Scott Frost alone.

he's ours... just be grateful we lend him to you as long as we are capable (and I hope that's a long ass time, personally)

Doesn't Frost still kinda resent Nebraska? I thought the fan base and/or a previous administration left a bad taste in his mouth.

Good thing he didn't come to Florida

It was a last minute flip, iirc, so I mean, it only really hurts in that he was the only DB in our class last year (because our DB coach Brian Stewart, who's now Rice's DC, fucking sucked at recruiting). In fact, I think Florida stopped going after him hard because they knew his grades were bad. But with the other hits to our secondary and the fact that we're installing a new scheme (moving to a 3-4 under Diaco), it hurts just that little bit more.

But I mean, shit, if you can't get into Nebraska, you're not getting into any P5 school, except maybe a lower tier Big XII school. You were always JuCo bound.
 

jstevenson

Sailor Stevenson
Doesn't Frost still kinda resent Nebraska? I thought the fan base and/or a previous administration left a bad taste in his mouth.



It was a last minute flip, iirc, so I mean, it only really hurts in that he was the only DB in our class last year (because our DB coach Brian Stewart, who's now Rice's DC, fucking sucked at recruiting). In fact, I think Florida stopped going after him hard because they knew his grades were bad. But with the other hits to our secondary and the fact that we're installing a new scheme (moving to a 3-4 under Diaco), it hurts just that little bit more.

But I mean, shit, if you can't get into Nebraska, you're not getting into any P5 school, except maybe a lower tier Big XII school. You were always JuCo bound.


Based on Blades scores he wasn't getting into any P5 school. But it's all due to Brian Stewart checking out on all of his top targets, and Donte Williams not being able to close the gap. DB should be fine in the long-term as long as the team doesn't implode on Riley prior to that.

He was a partial qualifier, but I think those JuCo coaches got into his head and convinced him Nebraska screwed him or something stupid.

Sucks for this year.


And Frost had animosity towards Bo. But they had a bad start to their relationship.

I don't believe Frost has any issues with Eichorst.
 
Do you really see anyone in the West beating you..

Really?

A&M will collapse as usual, LSU has no QB, and Gus still hasn't shown us anything to get excited.

Doubt any Bama fan thinks any team not named FSU has a great chance of beating us during the regular season this year (and ion necessarily think FSU does either). Auburn's the only wild card; give Gus a pretty damn good QB and a RB like Pettway, and he'll have a chance. Stidham could be that, and he could not be. Too early to tell. I think they lose too much on defense for that to matter, but them niggas have a way of lucking into shit 🙄 LSU's got the opposite problem, and we get em at home this year, so for once, I'm not remotely worried about them posing a threat.

Ole Miss ain't gonna be able to stop anyone, but their offense is gonna be pretty damn explosive. Throw in the fact they don't have anything to lose this season, and, I'm glad we get em at home, but I'm not really worried about em. Think Mississippi State and Nick Fitzgerald might be fun to watch, but that's it. I like Sumlin, but I don't see how he keeps himself a job this season. Same with Bielema.
 

FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
Based on Blades scores he wasn't getting into any P5 school. But it's all due to Brian Stewart checking out on all of his top targets, and Donte Williams not being able to close the gap. DB should be fine in the long-term as long as the team doesn't implode on Riley prior to that.

He was a partial qualifier, but I think those JuCo coaches got into his head and convinced him Nebraska screwed him or something stupid.

Sucks for this year.


And Frost had animosity towards Bo. But they had a bad start to their relationship.

I don't believe Frost has any issues with Eichorst.

I don't think Blades is coming back at all (nor Watts for that matter). I'm not super versed in all the rules and legalities, apparently, Nebraska didn't choose to 'protect' Blades as a prospect whiles he's at Arizona Western CC, so there's a good chance he never comes back even after the 2017 season.

Ah okay. I mean, at some level, you can't hate your alma mater that much, but he was only at Nebraska two years after he transferred from Stanford. And depending on how Riley's tenure ends up, I don't know if he'd even want in this pressure cooker.
 

jstevenson

Sailor Stevenson
I don't think Blades is coming back at all (nor Watts for that matter). I'm not super versed in all the rules and legalities, apparently, Nebraska didn't choose to 'protect' Blades as a prospect whiles he's at Arizona Western CC, so there's a good chance he never comes back even after the 2017 season.

Ah okay. I mean, at some level, you can't hate your alma mater that much, but he was only at Nebraska two years after he transferred from Stanford. And depending on how Riley's tenure ends up, I don't know if he'd even want in this pressure cooker.

you can't officially protect anyone. If you tell the kid hey you won't make it but we'll send you to this school and then in two years you come back, and you give that super talented kid right into the arms of a JuCo, those coaches will tell people off and keep the kid on course to come back to you. But they don't have to, there's no official rules. And Nebraska didn't try to place him because Nebraska believed it was in his best interest to go to Nebraska as a partial qual.

Those JuCo coaches talked a big fucking game for guys that essentially poached the kid from going to a real university with a full academic support structure to help the kid gets where he really wants to go, and as I've heard it, essentially poisoned him against Nebraska.


Frost is from Nebraska, he doesn't hate Nebraska at all. He also, from what I've been told, believes he isn't ready for the job yet. Dude is picking his spots carefully. If he does take Nebraska over, it'll be when the talent bench isn't depleted, which is one of the things Riley is doing really well right now.

the biggest key is the team can't implode this year. Riley can sell a future even at 7-5 or 8-4... but less than that and it'll be rough
 

ag-my001

Member
Any South Carolina people renting out rooms for the eclipse in August? Perhaps just a staging area for testing and watching between 12+ hour drives.
 
It's humorous and sad that some recruits base their announcement date on when their professionally produced 3 to 5 minute long announcement "journey" video is completed. Sounds like thats why Brennan Eagles delayed his announcement.

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It almost makes me miss hat ceremonies.
 

jstevenson

Sailor Stevenson
9-3 I think is the ceiling atm for y'all

I think 10-2 is the ceiling if Nebraska truly does have a 1st Round QB.

I'm expecting a 7-8 win season myself

Opposite directions, but if you want to come hang out in Lincoln, Nebraska, our local semi-pro baseball team is doing a special noon game and they'll pause mid-game so everyone can watch it. I don't have any rooms to rent but hotels in Lincoln are pretty cheap.

are they? I heard the last hotel room got rented in Kearney for 850 bucks for the night. I assumed Lincoln would be expensive too.
 

jstevenson

Sailor Stevenson
Y sources: Explosive new information has put Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze's job in immediate jeopardy. A decision should come soon.Pat Forde (@YahooForde)
 

Plasmid

Member
Well we're fucked. Didn't even leave over sanctions just escorts. That's terrible though especially if it was for recruits.


YOUR UNIVERSITY ISSUED PHONE HUGH? RLY
 
So.. yeah Alabama is winning the West for sure

This is hilarious. Crazy how fast things come crashing down. Everyone and their mothers were calling out Ole Miss as being shady as hell.

Just more crazy that it's a standard booty call on a university phone that does him in.
His ass probably forgot which phone was the burner..

Mre.. where are you.. this is your moment
 
So.. yeah Alabama is winning the West for sure


His ass probably forgot which phone was the burner..

Mre.. where are you.. this is your moment

Picturing that makes it even more hilarious. Because I've been there. Not with escorts, but just with other stuff that shouldn't be on a work phone. Luckily my work phone now is owned and paid for by me - the university doesn't administer the account. And with a call time of under a minute? He probably realized he fucked up and hung up as fast as possible.

If it was for himself, I'm not sure why that's enough to force a resignation. If it was for recruits, why the hell was he calling himself? Should have had some low level people doing that for him! Maybe he's a micromanager.
 

FelixOrion

Poet Centuriate
Fuck this came out of nowhere. Fucking amazing. I hate Finebaum, but, fuck, his shows are probably going to be fire.

are they? I heard the last hotel room got rented in Kearney for 850 bucks for the night. I assumed Lincoln would be expensive too.

You're probably right I guess, though its not like Kearney is built for tourists (despite how much tax payer dollars they sink into silly projects to convince people it is). There probably weren't that many hotels rooms to begin with.
 
I don't know, can you normally get phone calls out of hell

I think he's in Dayton
God be with him

Picturing that makes it even more hilarious. Because I've been there. Not with escorts, but just with other stuff that shouldn't be on a work phone. Luckily my work phone now is owned and paid for by me - the university doesn't administer the account. And with a call time of under a minute? He probably realized he fucked up and hung up as fast as possible.

If it was for himself, I'm not sure why that's enough to force a resignation. If it was for recruits, why the hell was he calling himself? Should have had some low level people doing that for him! Maybe he's a micromanager.
Probably because they are trying to head off the worst stuff at the pass to keep it buried and I'm sure the university doesn't want their top employee call hookers on his downtime. That's a PR nightmare.

Hey Les is still looking for a job
I need this to happen

Rick Pitino is laughing somewhere.
Oh I'll bet he is.
 

ag-my001

Member
are they? I heard the last hotel room got rented in Kearney for 850 bucks for the night. I assumed Lincoln would be expensive too.
I found a B&B outside Knoxville that had a few rooms available at their normal rate. I was planning on skipping this one for the 2024 sequel, but when you figure in weather it's always better to have more chances. Plus this one will line up better with work.

Also, :jnc at Mississippi.
 
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