Nebraska football chat: Talking transfer portal quarterbacks

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Husker Big Red. Good morning, everybody. Welcome into the chat. And Danny, how are you doing this

morning, man? I'm doing good. I've been busy this week, a little tired after a busy week of news

But, you know, I've always said, and, you know, this may be the wrong attitude, but the

offseason rumor season is a lot more exciting than the regular season for football, at least

as of late. And I suppose I'll get to basketball talk eventually, but I kind of buried the last

game out of my mind. But other than that, you know, I think we're, I think we're doing okay

It's, you know, we said this last year and I feel like we're saying it till we're blue in the face

but I truly believe it's an exciting time to be a Nebraska fan right now

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um it's good to see you guys again um and go big red of course as always and yeah it's it's going

to be an exciting day like how excited is everybody for you know arkansas and nebraska today i know

everybody wants to talk to the transfer portal quarterbacks but uh it's going to be a big volleyball match today at uh at the bob absolutely and you know this is a young team but also a

battle-tested team in the sense that John Cook is at the helm, and he's certainly done, you know

a big match or two in his time at Nebraska, so it's going to be a fun day, and, you know, I think

it's a testament to how well-run, you know, Cook has made this program. Hopefully other sports

either take cues or follow suit, because Cook is cooking right now. And, you know, he was able to

land, you know, Merritt Beeson in the transfer portal. And she's been, you know, spectacular

but also, you know, a really great freshman class. I mean, three, you know, three freshmen

I believe, you know, all region players. So yeah, it's going to be an exciting day. Hopefully they

can pay it off. And you know, Wisconsin obviously is still looming out there. They're in the elite

eight, you know, Stanford, I think is another team, but it'll be fun to hopefully get a chance

to play Wisconsin for the national championship. At some point, I would like to think that our

football team can compete for a national championship as well. So yeah, guys, let's get

to it. We're going to chat here till about 930 Eastern, about 830 Central. So about, you know

20, 30 minutes here. So get your get your questions in. But there's been a lot of talk

on the transfer portal stuff. Obviously, everybody is focused in on the quarterbacks. Kyle McCord

obviously is the is the hot topic of conversation. You know, there's been rumors of, you know

him going to be taking a visit early next week you know the twitter x or whatever you call it

i've seen those room i haven't seen it you know from any trusted reporters or anything but if that

visit does but if that visit does happen like if he does come and visit soon or next week what do

you think that that means for nebraska's chances danny i think it means very good because i've

heard all sorts of things on you know x talking about kyle mccord as being the favorite and look

I've had my doubts about Kyle McCord, but the more I watch his film, the more I think he'd be a really good fit for this program

And not only may we get Kyle McCord if McCord comes to Lincoln, but we also may get his teammate, Julian Fleming

And I would gladly take that package deal any day of the week. Yeah, 24-7 sports, Mike Schaefer just had kind of an insider report that Nebraska's in good shape with Julian Fleming

So take that to mean whatever it will. But usually, I mean, a lot of times with these kind of transfer portal things

I mean, there are some guys where it's kind of a drawn-out process, but some of them have kind of an idea of where they want to go

And I said I wrote this at HuskerBigRed.com this week. I think Julian Fleming and Kyle McCord would be a dream scenario for Nebraska

because Fleming, while he hasn't had even 1,000 yards at Ohio State

I mean, he's had to play with some of the best wide receivers in the country. So just getting out on the field there is tough

And I think, you know, him, Malachi Coleman and Jalen Lloyd, Thomas Fadoni

I mean, you can you can trot those guys out there with your 11 personnel and you're in a pretty good spot offensively

And that that would be, I think, an attractive group for almost any quarterback, because I know that Coleman and Lloyd obviously have a lot to prove and Fleming, too

But you have basically two five star guys in Coleman and, you know, Fleming, who is who was a five star

Coleman was, you know, just outside that range. And then Jalen Lloyd, who joined Marvin Harrison this season

being the only guy in the Big Ten with three touchdown receptions of over 50 yards

And then you add Fedoni in next year. He's going to be even better. I mean, he got good down the stretch this year

But next year, we're going to really see the actual Thomas Fedoni

Like, you know, Wes Welker, the year after he tore his ACL, was okay. And then the year after that, he was like, really, Wes Welker again

And that's what I think we're going to see. Yeah, yep. Yep. Yeah, I remember that

So that's what I think we're going to see out of Thomas Bedoni next year. I agree

And, you know, people are saying, oh, what does Nebraska have to sell? We have inexperienced young receivers

And, you know, we have, you know, a running back room with not a ton of depth

And this, that, and the other thing. Well, once you get a good quarterback, those inexperienced receivers can really show what they can do

I mean, you know, I think, honestly, the person who benefited the most from, you know, the inconsistent play at quarterback last year was Thomas Fedoni

He had a connection with Heinrich Harburg. And, you know, he even was able to, you know, get, you know, on the same page with Trevor Purdy

So, you know, I think, honestly, you can sell these young receivers as being an asset because, truthfully, I don't think they got a fair shot to show what they could do

But yeah, Julian Fleming and Kyle McCord, I'd gladly take that any day of the week

I think, you know, McCord would allow Nebraska to be able to compete for, you know, a Big

10 West title and also, you know, give Nebraska, you know, more of a national brand recognition

than they already have. Because right now, you know, everybody knows what Nebraska football is

and, you know, what the program means. But at the same time, college football is a very

what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business. And Nebraska, quite honestly, hasn't done much lately. So getting Nebraska back on that national recognition scale

to where kids of today understand what the program means and not just, you know, oh, back in the 90s we went with Tom Osborne

I think that's important too. uh definitely as i did want to say yeah there is no more big 10 west after this year so it's all

one big uh one big division but um at any rate you know we are going into the 12 team playoff

though and so any you know a lot of basically any team that's ranked going into november is going to

have an opportunity to you know put itself into the playoff mix so it's not it's not like super

far-fetched you know especially if you get a guy like mccord who you know i mean it's really

interesting if you've seen like urban my like urban myers kind of can't believe that kyle mccord

transferred and i mean i guess you know the thing is is that they did he didn't you know ryan day

said that he didn't guarantee him the starting job so i can understand that i mean this guy played

really well um look he didn't play as well as cj stroud but i don't there's not very many guys

that are going to play that well i mean that's hard to follow cj yeah i mean like i said like i

said before you know if if uh if nebraska had a quarterback last year that threw 24 touchdowns and

six interceptions we we probably would have won 11 games maybe 10 but there's the only game really

on that schedule that wasn't winnable for Nebraska this year was Michigan and even even the Colorado

game if you get quality quarterback play in the first half when they have their opportunities it's

an entirely different game so I mean it really I do think that especially with the schedule next

year on the one hold up that we do have that we should mention with Kyle McCord is and this has

kind of been brought out is that he doesn't, you know, necessarily like the idea of going back to Columbus and playing Ohio state And I can understand that I mean that all like I don know that until you hear it from his mouth that just speculation in my opinion i mean yeah so time will tell but i mean i don know if i would put that and i not saying you are i

just saying generally speaking i don't know if i would make you know put that as a huge storyline

yet it's just uh it's oh it's always the thing that i was worried about you know does he want

to play, you know, how does he, cause I mean, maybe it's like, he likes his teammates and

doesn't want to play against those. You know what I mean? Like, unless you absolutely have to

but at the same time, if that's your stance, then I, you really can't play in the big 10

So, I mean, I don't, I don't really think that that's necessarily the case. I mean

we've, some of the other teams that I've heard kind of in the rumor mill for him are like

Syracuse and Pitt, you know, Mississippi state picked up a quarterback and they were one of the

the ones in the mix that got Blake Chapin, who was another guy that Nebraska was kind of in the mix for

but I wanted to. And Sam is right on this point. I mean, so it's going to be interesting to see if that's actually true

I, like I said, I'm not going to believe it until I hear from McCord's mouth or he doesn't

suit up against Ohio state next season. But I want to get back to this question from Rick

So, you know, who do you guys think that we will get

And then do you think that we'll get two quarterbacks? And you guys can kind of throw your answers here into the chat, too

and we can kind of discuss it. But do you think right now, Danny, that Nebraska is going to get Kyle McCord

I'll just ask you straight out. Is that your prediction? Yeah, Sam Levitt and Kyle McCord are my two

So I think we will need two. So I think Kyle McCord, I'm not going to say it's a done deal

or anything like that, but I feel very good about Nebraska. you know landing mccord and you know rick said he heard that uh mccord will be here on monday so

i mean i think things are going to move quickly once that happens and damn it's just exciting to think about isn't it there has been you know there's been um talk of

it i mean there's some twitter accounts and stuff that had talk of mccord i mean and that's why i

like to say rumors because you know they're not really you know it's just kind of like anonymous

Twitter accounts, but they have had some credible information before, so I do think it's worthy to

pass along. That's why we're saying rumors because it's not verified. It's not nobody from 24-7 or

one of the reporters that we know. A lot of times, kids even say it themselves on their own Twitter

account. Hey, I'm going to Nebraska this week. It's going to be interesting. I do think that

But Nebraska offers a good situation, though, for Kyle McCord. You know, like I said, most of the – I mean, we don't know for sure

that Bryce Benhart's going to come back yet, but, you know, most of the offensive line looks like it's going to be back

and some, you know, exciting, young, talented guys there too. The defense is going to be pretty strong, I think

So it's a good situation for a proven quarterback, and that's what Nebraska needs

And it also does seem like that if they need to spend, you know, $2 million

I don't think Kyle McCord's going to cost that much, but he's going to he's going to cost probably a million

Kim Ward is going to cost probably around two million dollars. Yeah, probably. Yeah. So, yeah, I think it will be I think Kyle McCord would be perfect for this team

It does seem like the 1890 in the NIL stuff is ready to go

So it's interesting because they put out a video this week, like an introductory video explaining what they are and nothing like a donation and a quarterback chase to really get your NIL operation moving

But anyway, I'll say yes to this question. I did want to say I'm skeptical they can get McCord and Levitt

I feel like Levitt's going to want to go somewhere that he can start right away

but that doesn't mean that they can't get him. I do think there's a good chance, but at any rate

just wanted to throw that out there. And then Josh, yeah, so if we get Levitt and McCord

does Chubba and Harburg, do they both leave? yeah I mean there's no reason for either of them to stay really because by getting those two you're

saying that you want to completely remake the quarterback room and so I mean Treba's already

done his time on the bench I don't see why he wouldn't leave Harburg I mean he performed well

in spots last year but in comparison to say Leavitt and McCord he's not really the best quarterback

option? I think it's, yeah, it depends. And this is where, you know, I could see what I could see

happening with Chubba, even if, um, even if they just get McCord is I could see him entering the

portal, but not making a decision just to see, because he's a guy that really could see what's

out there. Um, you know, if another power five team, you know, it was like, Hey, we're going to

give you a chance, but if not, I mean, the way Nebraska has their NIL set up, they have like a

base amount of money right so he's already getting nil here and then uh you know kyle mccord only

has one year left so theoretically and i'm not sure how many how much time cheva has left so

um just bear with me but theoretically he could you know potentially redshirt this year and still

have maybe another year to start and have to look at what he's done with all of this and actually i

think he already did a redshirt but um at any rate i definitely think part of state cheva did it uh

for the red shirt yeah but i do think he's had his covid year so let's see because yeah so i'm

not sure if that would work out but um i mean i would expect him to say i do think that harberg

might stay because i don't think that there's going to be like if if he jumps into the transfer

portal i don't think teams are going to be beating down his door like even group of five teams to

have him be their starter um maybe an fcs team like but for nebraska i think he could have a

specific role like I've said the wildcat type quarterback you know they could try to make him

a tight end but you know just just make him make him give him a taste some hill package you know

get the football into his hands because the one thing that the quarterback does you know even if

the defense knows that the you know you put him in there and the defense knows that the quarterback's

going to run it gives you an extra blocker and in short yardage situations that can be you know a

real advantage and the thing about it is he's he can he's not like a halfback he can throw the ball

a little bit so if teams really are gonna like overplay his package you know they can i mean he

showed it this year he hit lloyd and coleman down the field so i do think they could keep harberg and

limit some of these because the thing about it is like it's nice to say yeah we want to be a

running team in the big 10 but how many how many running quarterbacks are there in the big 10 that

actually last like for the entire season well i think they realized once the sims thing didn't

work out pretty early on like they had to change their offense to where they could at least move

the football down the field I don't think you're going to see you know the as much running as we

did last year I think you know part of the thing that drove us crazy was Marcus Satterfield's

insistence to you know pass these deep throws and go and you know have you know quick fast you know

drives early and I think that's the offense that he wanted to run but we just couldn't run

because we didn't have the personnel. I mean, now I think we're going to hopefully have a more, you know

deep threat downfield offense with, you know, a complimentary running game, not making the running game, you know

the entire focal point of the offense like we had to do, quite frankly. And, yeah, Vince, you make a good point

So if the million-dollar mercenary goes down in game two like this year, you're not worried about having a backup

I mean, I definitely am. I would love if Chubba Purdy would stay here, and I think there's a chance he could stay here

I think Sam Levitt would be a good backup. I'm skeptical that Nebraska could get him

I think they would still go get another guy. I think they're going to get two guys in the portal

I just don't know if they're going to get McCord and Levitt. But, yeah, they need to have somebody besides

If you get McCord and if the other guys leave, you've got to get somebody else that's actually played college football

in my opinion, which isn't easy to do because everybody wants to start. So, I mean, it's easy to say like

hey, let's go get a veteran backup. You know, this isn't free agency in the NFL where, you know what I mean, there's only 32 jobs

There's 120, 30 starting jobs out there and everybody wants one. So, you know, it can be really difficult

to get a guy to come be the backup. I mean, you do have Daniel Kalin

and I do, he's been rolling early and I do think, you know, he's an elite 11 quarterback

So, I mean, that's one potential option. And that's why I think, you know

it would be bad to have harberg around because he at least has experience and he can at least you know step into us if he has to go into a game like he one big 10 football games before so you know that why I hope that at least one of those veteran guys sticks on the roster I wouldn be surprised if they didn and you know I don have any inside knowledge I just you know kids want to play and you know I think Harburg I feel like Purdy would be able to get another shot

somewhere like you said earlier I'm not sure about Harburg but you know I would love to see

Harburg stick around if if you know they can find a role for him but we'll see I mean it's just crazy

to think about less than you know a month after the season ends like three weeks or something

you know we're already talking about remaking the room and we definitely need to do that

um yeah it would be awesome um to let uh daniel kalin learn a little bit i don't think that

there's i don't think he's going to be the starter next year you know not um not basically if

nebraska uh has their way because you definitely you know putting putting a freshman out there is

not the way that you really typically want to go about it sometimes they are great i mean we've

We've seen it work before. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not ��

he just doesn't strike me as the guy that's going to come in and light up. I think he needs time to develop

That year to develop is really crucial. And especially at the college level

Because we've had a guy like Luke McCaffrey sit on the bench for a year or so

or a guy like even Noah Vigral when he was here or Andrew Bunch

We've had backup quarterbacks have those years to develop and they just didn't develop

So if we develop Kalen properly, I think that's going to be the most important thing because we haven't had a solid quarterback room

and a consistent quarterback room in quite some time. Yeah, Sam, I do think that he would probably move around to tight end

but I'm just saying I still think you could give him some snaps at quarterback because he's still pretty effective in those running situations

I don't know where he would fit at tight end, to be honest with you, because you have Ian Flint, Carter Nelson, Thomas Fedoni, Nate Borkutcher

No, did he graduate? Is he graduating? I don't believe so, no. No, I don't believe so either

So that's four tight ends right there. So I don't even know where he would fit. I mean, you can always find room for it

The thing about Heinrich is I feel like he'd be pretty good. He actually probably could do the Geranium-Bonner, what he did

but actually do that a lot better because I just feel like he'd be a much more effective blocker

You know, so I don't, I just feel like, you know, you could find a way with him

Who knows? I think it's, it's interesting. Nebraska hasn't had a lot of guys leave in the portal yet

So I do think that that shows that the way that they had their NIL set up, like the bottom

level guys in the roster aren't like, you know, trying to leave quickly to get NIL somewhere else

So I do think that that's a good thing because I mean, you know, there's only like three

weeks left in the portal. So, you know, it doesn't make sense. Like if guys from Nebraska, I mean, like I understand teams that have like are in the playoff or whatever, if you're going to wait

But there's no reason for any Nebraska player to wait. I mean, except like Chubba Purdy trying to see what's going to happen at the quarterback position

Or maybe, you know, maybe Nebraska adds somebody to your position and then you jump in after that

But I don't think that there's going to be any like top end guys on the roster that are jumping in the portal at this point

Speaking of guys leaving, you also had Quentin Newsom and Omar Brown declare for the NFL draft

and you know brown brown had a great year this year so i think even though he doesn't have you

know consistent tape at nebraska like he did um like you know normal draft prospects do you know

i think it was smart of him to go and i think newsom you know obviously he's been around the

program for quite some time excuse me and um you know i think i'll be interested to see where they

because Omar Brown also has some tape from UNI. So Brown had a great year, and I think this was as good a time as any

for him to try to see if he can make it in the NFL. I think one thing that helps Omar Brown is teams play a lot of nickel

and dime defense anymore, and he's somebody that can fit into that really well

He can cover and he can tackle. And so those are two things that you really need in today's NFL

You have to be able to tackle the real, the premier athletes and you got to be able to

try to cover somebody out in space. And, you know, and I think that Omar Brown does that well enough that maybe he doesn't

get drafted, but somebody is going to get him an opportunity as a priority free agent

But it wouldn't shock me to see him like, you know, seventh round get picked

Quentin Newsome, I definitely think is getting drafted. Like it would, I would probably think day three, depending on what, what his 40 time

is, but he's still a guy that's pretty solid. I think, you know, he's one of those guys you could get like the fourth or fifth round that you could play a little bit as a rookie, like if you needed to, and he would be fine because he, he just, you know, like the, especially the last two years when he's really been the number one corner

Like, I just feel like almost, he just never really gets toasted. I mean, he does get beat sometimes, but there's never a day

Well, there's just never a day where you're like, man, we, you know, we lost his Quentin

Like he, if he does get beat, he comes back and makes a play. So I really think he's going to have a good long career in the NFL

Yeah, I think both Brown and Newsom have a chance to do that. And, you know, I'm excited to see where they go

And I don't think it's going to be – I think we're going to see a lot of draft picks here in the coming years

And, you know, that will continue to help with the program development as well

Go get a real running back. Yeah, I like Emmitt Johnson and Gabe Irvin's coming back

I would like to – Yeah, it's just Gabe Irvin because of his health at this point, I think, though

Well, yeah, but I mean, yeah, he's still part of the equation

I do. Yeah. Yeah. I do think it's weird. You know, they're it doesn't seem like right now they're going to have a running back in

this class. So, I mean, it is a little weird to have two classes and essentially only have one running

back in two classes. So I really feel like they almost have to, you know, I know they're looking at the numbers

right now, but if they could get a back with like, you know, multi-year eligibility, I

definitely think that they would do that well and you know i think they have what lamar radcliffe

coming next weekend and there was one other i don't know if that's gonna happen that doesn't

no i don't think that's gonna happen so basically the running back board is from everything that

i've read this is this this isn't you know my own info but from what like brian munson has been

saying and even the guys at us for 24 7 like amari sanders is the only take that's there is

there isn't going to be anybody else taken in this class beyond Amari Sanders. So I don't think, yeah

I don't think there's any running backs being added to this class. I'd be, unless there's another D commitment

Like, I think that's why JD Crispy. I think they're like, dude, we just don't have room for you

I honestly forgot about JD Crisp until like he said something on X or whatever

So. Yeah. That's why I wasn't really worried about it because I just think that

you know, it was a numbers game. Yeah. Yeah, and I do think that it will raise the stock of guys going into the NFL

especially getting a good quarterback will raise the stock of Thomas Fedoni

That will help him more than anybody on this team. And, you know, to Rick's point, Emmitt Johnson, I don't think, you know

you always want to start as a player and things like that, but I don't really think he even thought he was going to be a huge part

of the running back equation this year. And now I think with a full offseason, you know, under his belt as, you know

quote-unquote the starting running back you know i think he'll i think they'll be able to put more

muscle on him and you know they see a plan with him as well yeah i like him at johnson he averaged

4.6 yards per carry looks so in the last um you know basically he has so northwestern he had 73

yards then 76 against purdue 57 against michigan state 84 against maryland which is a pretty good

defense actually yeah 50 against wisconsin he kind of got hurt in that game never got never got

20 carries so i would like to see him get more attempts but uh yeah i i feel i'm not worried

that much about emma johnson i do think that they need to get more depth though because anthony grant

didn't really work out like you said gabe urban's hard to trust ramir johnson's hard to trust we

don't know anything really about quit knives at this point so they they could use like a you know

one of those 215 pound guys that can run over people that you you know that's not like uh injury

risk. What about Connor Booth? Yeah, he's not 20, he's a 2025 guy though

Oh, 2025? Okay. Well, that's something to keep in mind for next year because I think

the fact that we haven't taken our running back in the last two classes means that we're going to

have to really focus on the position for the future. I think it's a fair question

I'm confident in the play and ability of Johnson. Emma Johnson that is I confident you know as long as he stays healthy that Ramir Johnson can make an impact due to his receiving ability And Ives the jury still out on him just because we haven really seen him a ton

mostly on kickoff return, if I'm not mistaken. I feel like Ives is going to be, you know, kind of a Ramir Johnson type

So I don't know if he's going to have like a super huge role while, while, you know, Ramir is still here

And I am excited to have Ramir back because I do think he can actually run

the ball better than people give him credit for and Gabe Irvin if he can just stay healthy but

that's why you can't count on it so you know then again though it's easy to say that because you

know it's there it's not like there's an unlimited amount of players you can add to this roster

right like you can only add 85 scholarships and NIL NIL people so so we'll see I mean like I've

said I really don't think Nebraska is going to be adding like a ton of transfers maybe like five

it the most maybe you know i just don't see him adding it there's just not a lot of room on this

roster and you know vince brings up an interesting question here i mean it's making the transfer

portal very crowded i will say that and i don't think you're going to see as crowded a transfer

portal uh in the coming years because the covet years will be gone um i'm not i don't really think

it's hurting being able to bring in young guys a ton i'm sure there's situations where you know

you want to bring in a young guy and you can't because you know some guys on his you know

fifth or sixth year or whatever but I don't think it's hurting a ton I mean

if you take a look at you know the 2024 class for example there was what 27 commitments if I'm not

mistaken 28 yeah I think I'm not sure I think it's a 27 right now I'm not 100 sure though so

So although you may see some attrition with the 2024 class, I mean, you've seen Chris, Carlin Jones, you know, guys like that

I feel like it's more hurting the transfer portal and the kids who enter

than our ability to bring in young guys. Because for the kids who enter the transfer portal

I mean, there's a ton of names in there already and, you know, only so many spots. Yeah, I think that it's – I think that with the extra years

and stuff, it has limited some of the spots for some of the lower ranked players at the Power

5 level, but I don't think it's the young guys that the teams

want still, I don't think that's impacted them at all. Keywon Lacy's off the table

The second he decommitted, he was done. Just like Carlon Jones. He's actually training

back to Ole Miss now, so it's weird, but whatever. Then Sam

says, I guess if we go to more pro offense and run

the ball less maybe we don't need a strong deep room and I think if you get a guy like McCord

you know you'll see a pro offensive style a little bit that's my take on it you know I think

I think honestly a pro offense is more what Satterfeld wants to run than what we saw last

year so Sam definitely has a good point there um and in terms of the COVID year um Josh I

I think as long as you played that year um or whatever then I think you can use it so but

we're getting we're getting pretty uh close to being done with it there's not there's not many

guys good because there's so many there's just so many names right now especially in the portal and things like that it makes things really crowded um yeah so i mean and it's just you

know college football is just really a really old sport right now so that's and that's the same with

college basketball and um so i think even even when this stuff is done you're still gonna see

you know what the transfer portal has has done in my opinion is with freshmen and with incoming

recruits is that, you know, it's just limited the power five opportunities because, you know

teams like Nebraska or, you know, whoever they're, you know, if they need like a starting cornerback

they're not, they're not really relying on, you know, a freshman to come in and play that role

And if it's, if there's not, what's happening now, and what I think you're going to see more is

guys that, you know, go to the FCS for a year and then have a good season, then they're going to go

into the portal group of five guys, you know, all that type of stuff. So I think that it just

it makes more competition right because if you're like a three or four star freshman you just you

have to come you have to earn your keep more than you did than you did before so it makes it tough

for everybody all around there's less spots but it just uh there's still scholarships so i mean i

don't think that you know it's costing anybody a chance to play but maybe it may be a chance to

play at their you know the university of their choice i guess yeah you know i think also too

it just reaffirms the notion that you know in college football you have to win now and you know

although development is an important process in college football and you know recruiting is still

important in college football I mean it's a win now business especially you know with the transfer

with the transfer portal and things like that it's no longer becoming an amateur game of high school

kids living out their dream it's now becoming more of a business you know say what you want

about that but you know with the nil and you know transfer portal and things like that it's just a

new era of college football where you need to win in order to you know earn your keep so to speak

um so let's uh we'll address this topic then we'll kind of wrap it up because i gotta get

running here but uh vince devil's advocate why would a top tier qb play for sat who has who has

he put in the NFL? Um, I, you know, this is a question we talked about this the other day a

little bit. Um, but you know, you look at, it's not like Spencer Rattler played better with Marcus

Satterfield coaching at Nebraska. So, um, he has, and he has coached a little bit in the NFL

I believe. Um, I just, I don't have his resume in front of me right now to, I'm just kind of fuzzy

on it, but I do think that that's an issue. Um, but at the same time, there's only like all the

all the top, you know, there's only so many, there's only so many Lincoln Riley's and Ryan

days out there you know what I mean so I feel like uh you know with Matt Rule and kind of his

ability to you know at least kind of sell prospects on what's needed for their NFL development I don't

think that's that big of an issue and I don't think it's who and you know why would I play for

Marcus Satterfield I think it's more of a you know what does Nebraska have to offer me and you know

I think you know the new facility you know young weapons to play with you know NIL money because

it's there. We saw as soon as Matt Ruhle mentioned his asking price, a donation was given to the

program. So it's there. And I think the chance to really turn this program around and be the guy

I think for these kids, that's a big selling point too. It's not about selling your history

It's about selling what can you do now. And I think Nebraska has a lot of, you know, those

things going for him because this is a program that wants to win and hasn't won in so long

being the class or you know the season to win is a big selling point um and yeah josh tanner um

you know basically saying we're going to get a new qb coach but yeah i've i've said that it's

possible but at least that means somebody has to go though so what do you know does that mean that

you know we have satterfield back at tight end you know that's just like if that was going to

happen like i don't know why it hasn't happened already you know if we were going to josh martin

the tight ends coach is following Julian Fleming so I don't think he's necessarily left yet either

I mean he could just go back to his role as an yst it's not like he could get fired but he

would have to go back to an off-field role so that's why you know like if you're going to make

that move and go get a quarterback's coach like you got to do it within the next month like that

I mean I guess you unless you're waiting for the NFL season or you have you know like Jake

Pete's or somebody specifically in mind which would be nice Jake Pete's at all how about a

new alignment you see us taking anybody else in the portal um maybe maybe another defensive back

but i don't really i don't really see us being portal heavy this this uh year um yeah i mean

maybe an offensive tackle like i said you can never have enough of those guys but you know if

if uh prince lee mammalian wants to come here um but yeah outside of that you know like outside of

really, really good players. I think quarterback, receiver, and maybe linebacker, and that's

probably about it. But all right, everybody. Well, it's been a lot of fun chatting with you guys. I

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