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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent


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24 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Bobby likely doesn’t know who it is either. Like I said, for the staff side, at least, there’s apparently not enough fretting over it for the name to even be leaked due to outreach and such to keep the player in the fold. How we feel about it will be different, I’m assuming. 

One thing I have noticed is that Bobby often oversells the doom.

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25 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

Dane Key from Kentucky is who we should have gotten.  He's a stud.  Just played with a shitty QB

Well, going from Kentucky to Nebraska isn't a surefire solution to not playing with a shitty QB.

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1 hour ago, Fud said:

Wingo messed up his read on some option routes, but he was a true freshman

But Bond was fucking up option routes all year as a third year player

I'm not a Quinn apologist, but it's difficult to be confident in your anticipation throws when your WRs don't run the correct routes 

I’m told that Bond might be the dumbest human being to ever don the burnt orange and whit. I alluded to that during fall camp. This isn’t a surprise. 

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31 minutes ago, Teamdirtyleg said:

One thing I have noticed is that Bobby often oversells the doom.

He’s just a dude that’s always looking for an anvil to fall that has scars of so much shitty football at Texas that it orients him to say silly things like “Texas is going to have at least 8 guys drafted” when it’s at least 11 no doubters, or predict us to get boat raced by Bama or the like. 
the flip side is he is incredibly grateful for and appreciates any success we have and doesn’t take it as a birthright or anything. I like Bobby for sure- this isn’t a criticism, just my take on his orientation. 
 

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3 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

He’s just a dude that’s always looking for an anvil to fall that has scars of so much shitty football at Texas that it orients him to say silly things like “Texas is going to have at least 8 guys drafted” when it’s at least 11 no doubters,

Well, 11 guys is “at least 8,” so you agree with him here. 

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5 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I’m told that Bond might be the dumbest human being to ever don the burnt orange and whit. I alluded to that during fall camp. This isn’t a surprise. 

The Ewers camp was actively running Bond and Mukuba over and backing up and then running over them again heading into the CSU game. Until Bond’s injury, they looked like idiots on both fronts. 

Ultimately, Bond’s lack of prep and lack of size made him mostly a liability on the field, and his attitude allegedly sucked off the field, once his injury happened. 

As to being the dumbest guy on the roster, or ever, well, there’s a guy that transferred after disappointing everyone on this board who allegedly can’t read at a JR high level. 

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10 hours ago, Richter said:

I think orakpo was dominant.  More power, maybe less twitch/speed to my untrained eye in comparison to CS.  I feel like Kindle never fully hit his potential, other then I think he was the one who killed TT mahomes before he became KC mahomes...

 

10 hours ago, Richter said:

Maybe, I’ve been drinking some wine

 

10 hours ago, Richter said:

He killed someone.  And then he fell down some stairs.

Avatar and stuff.

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5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

The Ewers camp was actively running Bond and Mukuba over and backing up and then running over them again heading into the CSU game. Until Bond’s injury, they looked like idiots on both fronts. 

Ultimately, Bond’s lack of prep and lack of size made him mostly a liability on the field, and his attitude allegedly sucked off the field, once his injury happened. 

As to being the dumbest guy on the roster, or ever, well, there’s a guy that transferred after disappointing everyone on this board who allegedly can’t read at a JR high level. 

Thats interesting on the Ewers camp on Bond, but what’s the bitch about (or why would they even have an opinion on) Makuba? 

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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

Bobby likely doesn’t know who it is either. Like I said, for the staff side, at least, there’s apparently not enough fretting over it for the name to even be leaked due to outreach and such to keep the player in the fold. How we feel about it will be different, I’m assuming. 


If we only lose one player this cycle that we would have wanted to keep while adding 7-8 players in the portal and somehow convinced Campbell, Taaffe  and Moore to return that is a big fucking win. 

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22 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

As to being the dumbest guy on the roster, or ever, well, there’s a guy that transferred after disappointing everyone on this board who allegedly can’t read at a JR high level. 

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Spoiler

Didn't Javonne Shepherd end up leaving with a 0.0?

 

 

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Just now, Laxtonto said:

So then we need to probably find a SR or Grad TE this Spring?

Not the worst issue as far as losing a potential player that could potentially be a starter...

So the TE room is Shannon / Randle / Washington / Townsend / Winston - not bad if Washington is what he's hyped to be.

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1 minute ago, immamac said:

lol, coulda told you that was coming at the beginning of last season when he just didn't even want to join burnt ends for no reason and ghosted and the response from the rest of the guys was "yeah, not worth talking to him about"

Well then we definitely don’t want him if he doesn’t want to be part of our group 

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1 minute ago, Vertigo said:

I really don't think this is a loss at all. 

Not at all. It helps clear the way for some of high potential players already on the team. I wanted Niblack to be a contributor but he just wasn’t. A perfect example is when he caught a pass in the flats against aggy and only had one defender in the general vicinity. That defender easily tackled him for a gain of one yard. 

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So the TE room is Shannon / Randle / Washington / Townsend / Winston - not bad if Washington is what he's hyped to be.

Yeah but that’s a room full of guys who have basically never played college football. Real snaps anyway. Portal for sure here.
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7 minutes ago, texifornia said:

So the TE room is Shannon / Randle / Washington / Townsend / Winston - not bad if Washington is what he's hyped to be.

A year from now I hope the conversation will be, "Townsend is a beast. Might be hard to keep several other guys from hitting the portal, but whatever."

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12 minutes ago, Red Five said:

With all of Sark’s connections there, how did we end up taking so many Bama busts that are clearly not culture fits?

Niblack's biggest issue was not being able to pick up the offense. Maybe his lack of immersion in the culture was a part of that, but if he could be trusted to play the position, he would have played.

If Gunnar didn't turn into what he did this year, he probably plays a bit more too.

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21 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

Does this mean we're gonna have to sit through a Friday of CTJ and Sydney foreplaying in this thread again? Being that Sydney hates Tight Ends and such?

Right now, somewhere, Sydney is almost certainly masturbating furiously to the confirmation of Niblack’s departure. 

18 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Well then we definitely don’t want him if he doesn’t want to be part of our group 

Why the hell would anyone want to be a part of our group? If I could find a better class of losers to hang out with, I’d have left years ago. We’re a confederacy of dunces if there ever was one. 

15 minutes ago, Red Five said:


Yeah but that’s a room full of guys who have basically never played college football. Real snaps anyway. Portal for sure here.

They clearly thought the same in pursuing the Purdue TE. That said, the word all fall and continuing this winter is that unless someone is of seriously high caliber, they’re going to mostly stand pat. If they like what they’re working with this spring, it would take someone special for them to make a move. Agbo still being on the roster probably helps. 

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17 minutes ago, immamac said:

lol, coulda told you that was coming at the beginning of last season when he just didn't even want to join burnt ends for no reason and ghosted and the response from the rest of the guys was "yeah, not worth talking to him about"

I dont get this. Did he not understand he would receive money?

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Just now, TrashMaster G said:

I thought the portal deadline for our guys was Wednesday? Or is Niblack a grad transfer?

Wednesday deadline to tell the school. Friday (48 hours) deadline for the school to put the name in. Clearly the staff couldn’t convince him to stay so his name went up today 

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6 minutes ago, Atticus said:

Niblack's biggest issue was not being able to pick up the offense. Maybe his lack of immersion in the culture was a part of that, but if he could be trusted to play the position, he would have played.

If Gunnar didn't turn into what he did this year, he probably plays a bit more too.

His biggest issue was Helm and Juan were just better players 

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4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Right now, somewhere, Sydney is almost certainly masturbating furiously to the confirmation of Niblack’s departure. 

Why the hell would anyone want to be a part of our group? If I could find a better class of losers to hang out with, I’d have left years ago. We’re a confederacy of dunces if there ever was one. 

They clearly thought the same in pursuing the Purdue TE. That said, the word all fall and continuing this winter is that unless someone is of seriously high caliber, they’re going to mostly stand pat. If they like what they’re working with this spring, it would take someone special for them to make a move. Agbo still being on the roster probably helps. 

confederacy of dunces

my band name I called it 

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2 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I mean- I think it’s like 15 or 20k a year per TE. Would you hang out with you for a mere 20k if you didn’t have to?  

I'm sure he was set to receive considerably more than that as a likely potential starter, but it sounds like another school paid stupid money 

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