Arrival/Departure List 2022-23

Born N Bled Red said:
No. You say, hey Casey Thompson, You're a star man. To keep you here, our NIL agreement is going to give you NIL groups are going to get you $250,000. But, we need you to give up your scholarship. You'll still get all same benefits being on the team as far as academic help, access to the training table, and everything else. So, all you'll be giving up is the $25,000 a year scholarship benefit. Doing so will help us recruit new talent that will give you a better chance to succeed/ a higher probability of getting a combine invite and make the team better as whole so we can have more success. If you pay for schooling yourself, you're still going to be netting $225,000 per year take home. What do you think, can you make that sacrifice for the team?
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I get what you’re saying and I think it could be arranged but I’m not sure any coach or University rep can be involved in that discussion, just like they can’t talk NIL dollars with the players. It’s a fine point that I’m sure could have a work around but I don’t think the school could do that type of bargaining directly.

I don’t really like where that leads. Basically teams with enough NIL dollars wouldn’t have to award any scholarships. They could simply buy the players. Of course, as wide open and unregulated as things are currently….

 
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Pure speculation, but…

Those that are buried on the depth chart may find that they have earned a scholarship to play at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (now led by Frost’s former RB Coach, Ryan Held). All their credits would transfer & (especially if they are from the area) it would keep them in State & likely within range for family to get to games. Danny Woodhead had a successful NFL career after playing at Chadron State (formerly in the same league as UNK) so a kid can still dream…

Rhule seemed very cognizant of Held’s Twitter account for some reason.

 
BigRedBuster said:
A lot of transfers from D1 programs end up at lower levels. 
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Lower level, sure. But wouldn’t UNK be considered a few levels lower? I actually don’t know but my thought is it’s too much lower for it being discussed as some sort of alternate path for our players. Is UNK even classified as DII or DIII, NAIA….anything?

 
cheekygeek said:
Pure speculation, but…

Those that are buried on the depth chart may find that they have earned a scholarship to play at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (now led by Frost’s former RB Coach, Ryan Held). All their credits would transfer & (especially if they are from the area) it would keep them in State & likely within range for family to get to games. Danny Woodhead had a successful NFL career after playing at Chadron State (formerly in the same league as UNK) so a kid can still dream…

Rhule seemed very cognizant of Held’s Twitter account for some reason.
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Woodhead ended up in the NFL because he’s Woodhead.  If you’re not cutting it at Nebraska, you’re likely not cutting it in the NFL.

You transfer down to play, not to get to the league.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
UNK is D-2. They are a level below the FCS teams, but not the worst level out there. 
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Thank you. Do you think UNK is a viable path for enough of our former players to be a subject of discussion?

My point was, if we have many go that route, it would seem we had miserably failed at evaluating and recruiting.

 
JJ Husker said:
Thank you. Do you think UNK is a viable path for enough of our former players to be a subject of discussion?

My point was, if we have many go that route, it would seem we had miserably failed at evaluating and recruiting.
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I understood your point, and it made 100% sense. If there are a number of scholarships players to go from NU to UNK, then there is a problem with identifying, evaluating, and recruiting talent out of high school. Even if we have a lot of walk-ons who go the UNK route instead of plenty of nearby FCS schools, then why are those walk-ons at NU in the first place? 

 
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BigRedBuster said:
Once they leave Nebraska, I really don’t care where they end up.  
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I don’t care where they end up either but if we have significant numbers ending up at UNK then it would signal a pretty serious problem with the job Nebraska is doing evaluating and recruiting. Sorry but it just struck me as an unrealistic tangent and unworthy of being considered.

 
JJ Husker said:
I don’t care where they end up either but if we have significant numbers ending up at UNK then it would signal a pretty serious problem with the job Nebraska is doing evaluating and recruiting. Sorry but it just struck me as an unrealistic tangent and unworthy of being considered.
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Sure….if we are continually feeding UNK. They are Division 2. So one level lower than FCS.  

 
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Obviously the number of guys that play in Lower div are far and few between but guys like London Fletcher, d!(k "night train" Lane, Pete Metzalarz, and Billy "white shoes" Johnson are all DIV III players. There are plenty more so it can happen

 
Born N Bled Red said:
No. You say, hey Casey Thompson, You're a star man. To keep you here, our NIL agreement is going to give you NIL groups are going to get you $250,000. But, we need you to give up your scholarship. You'll still get all same benefits being on the team as far as academic help, access to the training table, and everything else. So, all you'll be giving up is the $25,000 a year scholarship benefit. Doing so will help us recruit new talent that will give you a better chance to succeed/ a higher probability of getting a combine invite and make the team better as whole so we can have more success. If you pay for schooling yourself, you're still going to be netting $225,000 per year take home. What do you think, can you make that sacrifice for the team?
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I don’t think walkons get the same access to meal plans and other support services. I recall watching a show/documentary following walkons and the young man couldn’t sit at the training table all year like the scholly players and had to buy his own food. Maybe that has changed or maybe the gap wasn’t as big as the show made it out to be, I would be interested to know what walkons can and can have access to.

 
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