Who's Leaving? 2024/25 version
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JJ Husker
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Boy it sure is a good thing every other team in CFB isn’t having the same thing happening that our 6-6 team is having :facepalm:
BigRedBuster
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Thanks, that's what I'm looking for. So, before the recent 7 over the past 48 hours, the number was 45.
Now, a lot of those are going to be walk-ons. Any clue how many of those were on the team? If the scholarship limit was 85, you would think that would be around 65. But, like I said, a number of those had major NIL deals...so not really a true walk-on.
Let's say 10 of those walk-ons would stay and be given scholarships. That really means a total of 55 players would leave the program with a number of transfers coming in to get back up to 105. There's going to be some good players looking for a place to play.
It's the reality this year for a lot of teams no matter what the record is.
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JJ Husker
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Oh, don’t get me wrong, we certainly are capable of performing worse with better players :lol:
SouthLincoln Husker
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Using mavs updated spreadsheet, i cut most of the walk-ons & I get 97. We will have more leaving & some new recruits. I still think we will have room for some portal additions.
Huskerfollower4life
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No I understand that every team has to cut their rosters but the players that are leaving probably would have started next year now it will feel like year one all over again.
floridacorn
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I would have preferred Rhule stick to his development plan instead of mining fools gold from the portal. He keeps referencing his past pattern of success to instill confidence, but he's deviated from that blueprint himself, and it didn't provide the short cut he expected. Let's be real, he went from talking playoffs to I've been here before in the span of 3 weeks. Pretty sure NU could be mediocre w/o the portal guys and would be set up a lot better moving forward.
gossamorharpy
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Well, seeing how banks and neyor didn’t do much of anything from late September to end of season, we pretty much played without them anyways
To deliberately ignore the portal would be foolish. Let’s not forget we had key guys on our o line, backfield and throughout the defense from the portal. We struck gold in the first few years with toure and Palmer, have faith having an actual OC and his coaches will translate to us landing and coaching up some high impactful guys again
BigRedBuster
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To not do anything in the portal would he idiotic. Rhule wants to build the core of his team through recruiting and development. But, every year we should go out to the portal and find players they think can fill spots of need on the team. That's what everyone is going to do.
What he's talked about is doing it differently than what Prime has done. And...I fully support him on that.
floridacorn
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I'm not suggesting NU ignore the portal, I'm suggesting you don't catch the elite programs taking their scraps.
Huskerfollower4life
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Also add in the fact that we will actually have a wr coach that played that position and you should get more productivity from them. I understand that position coaches teach other positions that they never play McGuire(qb) but to bring him in as a first year position coach didn't help at all. Never understand how McGuire was going to make the wide receivers better if he never played that position.
gossamorharpy
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Oregon is largely number 1 due to the portal. Ohio state employs a portal qb. Michigan won the natty last year with a great run game and stout defense, a defense that featured a linebacker that was once a husker.
I get what you’re saying- but Rhule has done a pretty solid job on the young in house guys- Barney was arguably our best receiver. EJ looks like a more electric back than ever before.
the key is to balance both. We’ve got a young qb, young skill guys with tremendous promise and solid pieces defensively. There are young guys more than capable from in house ready to step up but it’s critical we fill holes with guys who are ready to play and contribute immediately
funhusker
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How many staffers does one think NU has working full-time (plus overtime) monitoring the comings and goings of 100+ college fb programs looking for kids to reach out to. This offseason is going to be bananas, and sadly some talented kids are going to be left without a home even though they are absolutely talented enough to play D1 football.
Wistrom Disciple
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15-20 or roughly 2 per position group more than likely. The roster reductions will have a lot of consequences for all programs, but especially for programs that do not have the proper scouting or connection bases (HS coaches, area recruiters, etc.) to connect quickly with potential targets.
Unfortunately, if this 105-man limit holds for next year and beyond, programs will be more reluctant to have redshirts. Development will need to be rapid or else programs will have to move on. Taking a flyer on a player like a David Hoffken (redshirt from Germany this year) will be almost non-existent as programs simply won't have the space to offer projects very often. Poorly thought out decision and should have been phased in over a few years.
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