OT: Nebraska
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The NCAA is a joke.
Make it a ONE time transfer and it curtails much of this stuff.
Make it a ONE time transfer and it curtails much of this stuff.
No I mean the unlimited transfer portal is a joke. Nebraska may well be losing a mass of players, like Washington did this year
Remember a couple of years ago when Ruhle was the hot to trot coach? Now looks like guys can't get away from him fast enough.
If you read the article, it's more about the new roster limit rules and such. Nebraska won't be alone, and unless Stoops pulls some magic, we could see a mass exodus ourselves.
If guys can't help you win games, why would we want them around? Stoops has been clear...there's going to be a flush with initial impact expected to bring in at least 10 portal guys.
Transfer portal world will be crazy in December, but the Nebraska story is a little misleading. They currently have 150 players on the team!!! Like everyone else, they’re limited to 85 scholarships. However, beginning next year, their entire roster cannot exceed 105.
Rhule is mainly talking about having to cut his roster by 45 players. I heard a clip a few weeks ago of him talking about how several of these non-scholarship players are culture building pieces that are critical for his team.
I don’t pretend to know how these players impact a team.
Regardless, December will be a crazy month. Stoops and UK have done an excellent job since portal began of retaining who they wanted to retain. It’ll be interesting to see what shakes out. I do think he’s pushing all his chips in next year on young talent combined with transfers. I won’t be surprised if he lets some older (and talented) players leave … especially on offense. By letting them leave, I mean they won’t offfer the same amount of NIL $. I think there were some offensive players that ate a chunk into our NIL. That’s the new college landscape.
Start with Boley, Wilcox, Gilmore, Rodriquez and the young D guys.
I don’t know anything. I’m 100% guessing they don’t pay Brown this year.
I’ll miss his potential on special teams, but I think they’ll invest in some of the younger receivers and maybe bring in 1-2 from portal.
The issue is this. Schools will be raiding all sorts of rosters to reach that 105 limit, most of those kids that lose their spots as non-scholarship players may wind up at a lot of mid-major MAC level schools. MAC level schools are the ones that are going to be hit worse by this.
I dont know if it is or not. Posted on their board they were expecting those 40+ and several posters followed up with why it was happening.
I'm old enough to remember the 1970's, 80's, & 90's when Nebraska was a powerhouse in football. Now they're to college football what Indiana is to college basketball.
If I understand the math and what they're doing, then some of these decisions will help MAC schools while others will hurt MAC schools.
1. Nebraska is having to reduce their total roster (not scholarships) from 150 DOWN to 105. I'm not sure how many of these non-scholarship players are at Nebraska just for football, but I would think the ones who still want to play football will be pushed toward MAC type schools.
2. When SEC (and other P4 conferences) increase their scholarships from 85 UP to 105, then I agree with you, that many of these additional 20 players per team will come from MAC type schools.
Frankly, I don't know all the details about Nebraska. I just caught a 30 second clip a few weeks ago from Rhule. His example was a pre-med student on the football team with a 4.0 GPA. Rhule was talking about how this specific player was a big part of their culture and operated more like a GA for the players. 150 total players sounds like a lot of players. I personally don't see the harm in limiting the roster to 105. At the same time, whenever the SEC increases the scholarships to 105 it will NOT help UK. Schools like UK benefited several years ago when the NCAA limited yearly scholarships to 25. It prevented the big football schools from stockpiling recruits. I guess the portal will even it out because players will not stay at school if they don't see a pathway to the field.
Nebraska was at the top for awhile, they had a tremendous walking program, mostly linemen who were so juiced up there wasn't a good complexion or full head of hair in the OL room.
Devaney/Osborne got huge props for building and maintaining great teams but they took the 'roid era to a whole different level.
They would have 12-15 OL that all looked alike. Bad complexion, balding enlarged brown, huge heads likely on growth hormones too.
And Devaney/Osborne rode them into College Football Hall of Fame. Disgraceful.
Years ago we had a case with a lawyer who played LB at Nebraska in the 1980s, played with Danny Noonan (who he said was the strongest human being he ever met). Anyway, this guy claims he never saw a single player doing steroids with Nebraska. Take it for what it is worth. As an aside, Noonan's career was cut short with the Cowboys due to recurring injuries, which I believe is a symptom of steroid abuse.
Not so fast, counselor:
Osborne Admits Isolated Steroid Use by Players
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said Tuesday that at least one and maybe more Cornhusker players have used steroids, but said the football program will continue to take steps to wipe out use of the drug. …
www.oklahoman.com
Football player steroid use disclosed - UPI Archives
A former strength coach at Auburn University has told Sports Illustated he sold anabolic steroids to several University of Nebraska football players during...
www.upi.com
Of course he didn't, opponents were getting exposed from sweat from Nebraska linemen.
That's like Dabo saying his guys that failed their PED test got exposed from the hand lotion they were using.
Oh I am not quite that cynical. I would guess a lot of baseball players that played with McGuire, Bonds, Clemens, et al could honestly say they never saw them take steroids, or lots of Penn State players, maybe 99% of them, would tell you they never saw Sandusky do anything strange with young boys. Lots of members of Catholic parishes swore they never suspected the Father of molesting young boys either. Maybe they all had suspicions, but still could honestly say they never saw it happen.
Wasn't trying to imply you were, sorry if it came across that way.
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