might be leveraging for NIL moneySpeaking of Colorado ... Lemonious-Craig -- their WR who had 154 yards receiving in the spring game on Saturday -- he entered the transfer portal last night.
might be leveraging for NIL moneySpeaking of Colorado ... Lemonious-Craig -- their WR who had 154 yards receiving in the spring game on Saturday -- he entered the transfer portal last night.
I’m late to this thread, just got done watching the recording of the Spring Game. This post legit made me laugh out loud. Can we just pause and acknowledge the team has 2 weeks of Spring practice with a new offense and defense, and that no coach is going to put his scheme on film with any level of detail in a Spring game? Judging what we just saw for level of deceptiveness is a fool’s errand. We might want more information, but we can’t pretend we got enough to make statements like this.
So they installed a different offense in two weeks to throw everyone off? That is a brilliant plan.I’m late to this thread, just got done watching the recording of the Spring Game. This post legit made me laugh out loud. Can we just pause and acknowledge the team has 2 weeks of Spring practice with a new offense and defense, and that no coach is going to put his scheme on film with any level of detail in a Spring game? Judging what we just saw for level of deceptiveness is a fool’s errand. We might want more information, but we can’t pretend we got enough to make statements like this.
I 100 percent agree on the CU stuff. No really comment there.You are putting far too much stock into a spring game.
I've seen spring games in Lincoln that made Nebraska look like they were on their way to 10-11 wins. And then reality hit that Callahan was our coach.
Every coach has a different approach to a spring scrimmage in front of the fans. Every coach is working on different things, emphasizing different things, tinkering with different personnel. It's like NFL preseason games. They almost never are an indicator of regular season success.
Deion has yet to coach against an opponent that had more talent than his Jackson State teams. He had 3, 4, and 5-star kids on an HBCU roster, playing HBCU teams with no stars. No doubt Sanders increased the talent in Boulder -- but it was rotten for a long time. Now it's subpar. Most teams CU will play this season will have more talent than Deion's kids -- including Nebraska. Matt Rhule has done infinitely more than Deion at much higher levels of football. Forgive me for not buying into the Deion hype until I actually see him coach an FBS football game against an opponent he can beat by simply having a huge talent advantage.
I didn't see CU's spring game, but if you're saying they were slinging it, makes it sound like their defense was putrid. No less than 90% of the teams they'll face this season will present defenses far superior to what the Buffs rolled out yesterday. I remember Joe Dailey being a NU spring game star -- well, it's because he was throwing against an absolutely horrible Cosgrove defense.
Spring games consistently bring overreactions. Always have, always will.
He is also surprisingly indifferent about crab cakesI hate to say it but @CrabHusker hates tater tots.
Totally Agree. Spring Game is for looking at individual play and learning. My detail opinion I would add to your list.I am not in sync with OP. I really liked (in order of emphasis):
1) Sims
2) D scheme
3) Running Back Room
4) Improved team speed on D
5) Improved D tackling and physical play
6) Receiver Room (including TE's)
7) QB under Center
Some things to tighten up but I came away more positive than expected.
I'm curious why you feel Rhule is trying to fit a round peg in a square hole.I 100 percent agree on the CU stuff. No really comment there.
As far as DONU, if I am a first year coach I try to treat this like a practice and get reps. Reps doing the bread and butter of what the offense and defense plans to be and reps doing the little things like substitutions, clock management, tackling, blocking, ball management etc. I think what we saw was that the defense surprised a lot of people. Especially since we were missing 2 key pieces. But I think the game management, ball management, and the bread and butter offense disappointed a bit.
Obviously this team still has a lot of time to install a lot of different pieces. But as far as a first spring game I would give this a 5 and that might be generous. I just don't see this group being bowl eligible right now but I think its more because Rhule is trying to fit a round beg into a square hole. Just my observations.
I 100 percent agree on the CU stuff. No really comment there.
As far as DONU, if I am a first year coach I try to treat this like a practice and get reps. Reps doing the bread and butter of what the offense and defense plans to be and reps doing the little things like substitutions, clock management, tackling, blocking, ball management etc. I think what we saw was that the defense surprised a lot of people. Especially since we were missing 2 key pieces. But I think the game management, ball management, and the bread and butter offense disappointed a bit.
Obviously this team still has a lot of time to install a lot of different pieces. But as far as a first spring game I would give this a 5 and that might be generous. I just don't see this group being bowl eligible right now but I think its more because Rhule is trying to fit a round beg into a square hole. Just my observations.
"I hate to say this, but..."For those of you prone to start a statement "I hate to say it....". please just don't. You already started by saying you hated to say it... please stop. No body wants to hear why you feel so inclined, just rest assured that when you knew you hated to say it, well, we all hated to hear it as well.
"I hate to say this, but..."
"I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but..."
"This goes without saying, but..."
And the list goes on and on...
Maybe a little overwhelmed by everything going on? Def, they all looked cold..She looked cold. I hardly find that as qualifying as upset.
True... didn't come off as a good look for her, for sure...no matter the reason.I'm not sure, everybody else was cold and yet smiled. She was not have any of the smile BS.
Remimds me of when peope say "completely destroyed." Is there a partially destroyed?At the end of the day, it is what it is