NIL Trunk
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I'm not so sure the portal quality and quanity is all that tereibly high this year? Somebody correct me if wrong, but it seems like a lot of so so... or at least more so so, than difference makers?
I am not sure the evidence is in yet. That a player that we valued at $1M was offered $2M somewhere else is not conclusive that we are losing out due to money. I had a candidate come into my office and tell me that he was offered 60% more than I believed this associate was worth on the open market. I told him that he should definitely take that other job because he was not yet worth the ridiculous amount of money that he was being offered. Not that our firm did not have the money; just an evaluation of market value. After the other firm figured that out 18 months later, candidate was back asking our firm for a job.
Frankly I think we have offered too much for too little performance to date. If Minchey is a sign that our personnel people will pay but not overpay, good news.
Frankly I think we have offered too much for too little performance to date. If Minchey is a sign that our personnel people will pay but not overpay, good news.
That's valid. It does seem the portal quality was a lot higher the last couple years. But I am solely basing this off feelings and (likely distorted) memory, and not any stats or data. I also feel like in the previous years players committed right out the gate in the portal as soon as it opened that first day; like PS2's flying off the shelves during Black Friday shopping in 2005.
Rhule said we could get anyone we wanted after he was extended in Nov. Seems to be a ******* lie.
I think that feeling comes from the fact that a lot of the Spring guys who would normally go out left at this time. Usually December was the high quality market, spring was the depth piece market. Now a lot of the good players are being hidden by the guys going to G5 or lower.
If getting the star player from our new DCs old team isnt worth opening the check book, then I call BS on the entire idea of us having anywhere close to a top 10 NIL fund.
How do we know we didn't do that? I find it impossible to believe we low balled him. Is it posaible he gkt the same money elsewhere from a program that (gasp) develops players and puts em in the league... and even if he took slightly less elsewhere, he looked at it as in investment in his draft stock?
It's like that every year.
The best players stay with their teams.
The NIL fills holes for those teams by out bidding everyone.
The rest of us try to fix entire groups with what's left but don't have enough money.
Yes I want all the money spent on lines that can be.
We are t spending money for a QB
Not gonna happen and smartly so
just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I am with you, to be fair though, I don't think they would have matched it anyway.
Probably seems that way because we almost need an ENTIRE starting 22 of portal transfers. Most teams just pick up a couple guys to plug in where they have a gap. Due to Rhules incompetence in several areas of his job we have A LOT of gaps.
Using that logic, Nebraska should be able to get a bunch of top guys for cheap, after everyone else is done. Since there won't be a huge demand for everyone because "most teams" only need a couple of guys.
Does Tech have a reputation of developing players? Does Mahomes carry that much weight? Because until buying this year's team - they havent really been in the spotlight since Crabtree was hauling in passes (alright maybe thats a bit dramatic but you get what I mean).
Development wasnt necessary at Tech. Or Miami. Bagmen did the job. Is it so horrible here we cannot also purchase our way to prospects?
Drop some money on these twins
If i'm a player with NFL aspiratioms, I know which program i'm hitching my wagon to, between the 3
Shouldn't be very many that are taking up anything significant. Hunter mainly. Also probably want to keep Justin Evans and E Pritchett anyone else could go to the portal but likely wouldn't be able to make any significant $ and probably less than what we are paying them. Maybe Shavers also. Obviously there are a few younger talented guys that we want to keep based on upside.
With Minchey it is possible that the assessment was he was valued at a certain price point and it turned out to be like when you are at an auction and someone outbids you and you think "dude you can have it at that price"
There is plenty of talent we're not in the running for. Which is fine, I think we should be economizing this portal cycle, and saving up for next portal cycle to spend big when hopefully we would have more momentum than 5 of 7 losses to end the season.
Local radio talking heads did say Minchey was their #1 QB target.
Don't doubt it but you wonder what the agreement stipulated in how dollars were handed out... nobody will spill those beans of course but there has to be a ceiling of what you feel a kid is valued at. But if we never even got the chance to counter then the kid didn't even glance back a second.
Yeah that works if your "firm" or team, has a proven record of success and they need you more than you need them.....
The Husker football firm got physically manhandled all season long and lost our entire offense.....we dont have the luxury
Do top players want to play for Rhule? Do they think he will get them to the playoffs?
You guys didn't appear to hear the other 35 schools say the exact same thing. This just means that players will make more money but ****** teams will still be ******.
Sounds nice. In three years, he hasn’t focused on the lines. Now I’m supposed to believe he is focused now? Sure - I suppose so, maybe.
That works in a market where there is more than candidate, which in this case there is. If Minchey can get $2M, and Nebraska can get as good of production from a $1M guy and spend that extra $1M in the trenches where we were physically manhandled, then thats better strategy. While perhaps they wanted Minchey, Nebraska did not need Minchey. Signing Minchey was not going to solve the manhandling problem.
What all this NIL talk is really revealing is simple: despite the public messaging, Nebraska does not have an unlimited budget.
The GM appears to be assigning internal “values” to HS and portal players and letting guys walk if they ask for more. The problem is that market value is what players are actually getting, not what Nebraska says they’re worth.
The fastest path to winning would be Rhule identifying the portal players he believes he could win a title with—and then paying whatever it takes. We can’t do that. Most fans subconsciously know it, which is why you hear things like “don’t spend on a QB, spend on the lines.” That’s loser logic. You need players at every position to win.
Rhule says the market is set by the “desperate,” but that’s only half true. It’s really being set by programs that can easily afford to pay a little more without it hurting them. Calling them desperate doesn’t matter when they’re winning and the money is immaterial to them.
So why the constant media narrative that Nebraska has the money? Because selling hope is their job. Admitting the reality would force fans to confront that, without change, the ceiling is low. It also provides cover for the university to brag about profitability while siphoning football revenue into the general fund.
That propaganda has real downsides: it creates unrealistic expectations, turns the head coach into a scapegoat, and removes any urgency for a true grassroots NIL push. Fans are told, “We’ve got it covered,” which is increasingly obviously untrue.
TL;DR: Nebraska is poorer than we want to admit, and pretending otherwise is hurting the program.
If we don't have them it's because we didn't want them.
Currently for this portal, Rhule is batting 1.000
You are encapsulating this to one position and one example.....where are our RBs? Why didnt we get a sniff from SDSU edge rushers? Where are the DL or a DL coaching hire?
If you are going into year 4 and saying we need to choose between having top 20% in conference QB play, and having strong offensive and defensive lines, this debate is already over. There is no reason that should be an either/or scenario in year 4 at NU. You could literally put those bullet points on every head coaching job description in championship level football, and it was the expectation when we hired Rhule and every other coach the past 3 decades. So if our coach isnt achieving both of those, then he doesnt just get an "awe shucks" free pass to year 5.