I have not said he is bending the rules. You guys with your made up scenarios are. I’m just trying to rationalize why you guys think he would do this. Wouldn’t the simplist solution be to get down to 85 scholarships like it’s required to be? That was the purpose of the thread. How will he go about reaching 85. But posters kept describing scenarios to be at 100
What does the word priority mean to you? Not having a clue when you want private dealings to occur or relating the importance to one half of those doing the dealing?
Again you are suggesting that Rhule has set the priorities for how NIL is to be spent for 15 additional scholarships. That doesn’t make sense to me. Everyone seems to think the plan is to have 10-15 addition scholarship level funded players.
So you'd rather just have 85 and spend the NIL money on them rather then see that money used for a player that entered the transfer portal?
Another quality and gainful post.
I feel that coaches need to constantly utilize the recruiting of high schools, junior colleges and the transfer portal to get the best 85 they can. In the NIL world it’s pretty obvious that NIL can effect this quality.
I understand what you'd like to see, but today we can't live with what's worked for the past 40 years when NIL didn't exist, it would put us at a huge disadvantage.
It’s always been the situation where better players get replaced. Every team has gotten down to 85. There is zero reason to believe keeping up means having more people on scholarship.
Guess we'll just have to disagree. I'd rather have 85 on scholarship, and if we can add a few from the portal through NIL that's better than telling 14 guys to take a hike.
I’m kind of assuming that Rhule might have over extended a bit at high school level not anticipating the success they were going to have later in the transfer portal. It’s also possible the late addition of Raiola fueled those transfer opportunitie.
Would it surprise you to know that you've made that position abundantly clear many pages ago?
Agree. I will always defer to Coach Rhule’s judgment about what size roster he wants, whatever the number. He knows what will work for him. And he knows the players he wants on that roster, regardless of stars. This has been clear with how he has approached recruiting from day one. He is VERY strategic. And very focused on HIS guys. And guys who will be a good fit in Lincoln. (Compare this to the recruiting nonsense of Callahan, for one example, who threw out offers to stars but paid no attention to fit or culture, among other misses; not shockingly, guys did not stick around.) Rhule also leans hard into developing excellent football players from excellent athletes. Maybe some guys won’t develop as hoped, but I appreciate his track record (no pun intended). I also appreciate that this approach demands a bigger roster to absorb development. And patience. He knows this. It’s obvious how he’s going about things. He’s a deliberate guy, with a plan. And the plan obviously is incorporating NIL, transfers, and all the opportunities the new college football allows.
Nice. I like how posters attack my posts regarding being 10 guys strong as if Im making something up. And their only solutions are skirt the system and rules. It’s like a cult…..we shouldn’t talk about it. The only reason it appears like he might have made a mistake is…..he might have. We ARE 10 heavy and it needs to be dealt with.
