NU has a new QB commitment
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Don’t get greedy. There’ll be a couple stars at some point. As long as we don’t exceed mid 3*!!!
I’ve heard them talk about him on 590. IF I remember correctly they were talking about some P5 interest in him but they thought he might sign with an FCS team. They liked him a lot. I think this is a very nice walk on pick up for us.
Joe Ganz was a 2 star and was headed to play baseball for a MAC school if I remember correctly. We need at least 1 if not 2 walk on QBs in this class.
Ganz turned out to be a major pleasant surprise. I do remember how fans ridiculed him when he was recruited. Love how he proved all those "board experts" to be so wrong.
Looks like a good walk-on pickup. Visited Iowa 3 times for whatever that is worth. Sounds like a kid who would have ended up at SDSU or NDSU and we would have all been wishing he was here instead.
I was friends of a friend of a walk on QB when I was at NU, so this post hits close to home.
He was obviously a pretty spare player, but even he had enough pull that we could skip the lines and get free drinks at the Rail whenever we went out with him. Sooooo...yeah...that was pretty kickass CSB
He was obviously a pretty spare player, but even he had enough pull that we could skip the lines and get free drinks at the Rail whenever we went out with him. Sooooo...yeah...that was pretty kickass CSB
. Sounds about right. He’ll win 6 in a row after the vaunted 4 star scholarship kid goes 2-3 and gets benched.
Maybe I'm missing some kind of sarcasm but this is a walk-on offer. What is the downside?
To be quite honest, schools like NDSU and even maybe SDSU have run circles around us with regard to finding qb's.
Walk ons are an easy target. I’ll never understand denigrating a walk on’s ability when he chooses to pass up scholarships from lesser programs to join the Huskers. The walk on program has been all about giving kids a chance to mature and develop. We end up with a starter or two it seems out of almost every walk on class. There have plenty of NFL QBs from small schools who were spurned by major college programs.
My feelings exactly. I know not a lot of walk on's turn into starters percentage wise but when they do, I'm always very excited for an underdog being able to prove all of his know-it-all critics wrong.
Some people just need to ***** about everything, huh? Go Skers!
It's a freaking walk on.
No idea if NDSU was recruiting him but it appears SDSU may have. I'm not sure I would call either of those schools lesser at this point in time. Both would probably beat us regularly.
soooo let me get this straight, because it honestly seems like you argue this opinion a lot--
you're saying that we're better off with lesser talent? I mean it seems like the athletic department is right there with ya...
Let me jump in. I think we are better off with MORE talent. Adding a walk-on qb who apparently has some P5 interest but is otherwise FCS caliber is nothing but a win. How could anyone see it otherwise? What is the downside? You like other walk-on qbs more and he took that spot?
I don’t think he was bitching. I think his post was probably frustration over the lowering of the bar for our QBs and team. It just came off wrong.
How is recruiting a walk-on qb that looks to have interest from Iowa and SDSU lowering the bar?
And in the past we've lost walk on offers to their scholarship offers. Absolutely zero downside to this
Okay, maybe my post was harsh so @cavalot I apologize. I doubt he cares. I just think Rhule is taking a lot of heat 6 games into trying to raise the Titanic from the floor of the seabed. We're 3-3 and heading into a stretch of very winnable games. I'm excited and I'm trying to take Coach Rhule's advice to enjoy the ride and NOT just fixate on where we should be 2-3 years from now. When I see someone insinuating that Rhule taking a walk on means that he's ok with below-average talent across the board or that any of us are ok with winning 6 games... that's just a ridiculous post.
This kids offers were Souix falls and Wayne state and Midland. He was never getting a scholarship to A FCS .
I've seen him play as I have kids at Blair but I'm a poster on a message board so I don't know squat about analyzing the potential quarterbacking ability of a high school kid so I won't pretend to.
Right exactly my point. IN THE PAST, we were losing walk on offers to their scholarship offers which really blows. Hopefully we've gotten off rock bottom from that is my point.
Should we wasted scholarship
. Absolutely not but walk on offer Absolutelyhmmm P5-caliber starter goes down and FCS-caliber backup? I mean we kinda have FCS-caliber backups right now. And this is what it looks like... wanting more talent @ arguably the most important position.
I'm just amused how people continually say they'd rather develop 2/3-star talent than see the Athletic Dept pay for 4/5-star talent and develop THAT. Sure you're gonna have some that don't stick, but name a better metric for success coming outta HS. There isn't one, especially now that 'watching film' in earnest in the recruiting process has become 'old-school'. If there's ANYTHING that could replace Stars, it's probably that. But generally there's not.
Most 5* goto the NFL. Fact. More 4* than lesser go on to play pro.
IMHO we'd be a more competitive team with NFL-caliber players on our team, something that COINCIDENTALLY we've been lacking, AT THE SAME TIME our teams have generally sucked balls. Weird how that works.
Pay some players = more competitive team. Relying on what we currently have and having shown no signs of changing = status quo. Bowl games (mid-to-low tier) here and there.
He’s a walk on. We need a walk on QB or two if for no other reason than to run scout team and drills
IF it turned out he developed in to a guy on the 4 deep, great. If not he helps the team. It’s all a win for us.
Its called being a cynic. It really has nothing to do with Rhule and more to do with a fan base that gets excited over a walk on qb that isn't going to do anything more than what we already have at this point in the QB room.
The sarcasm/irony hits a chord when we are all wishing for 6 wins....when just a decade ago 9-10 wasn't enough. Hell 20 years ago 11 wasn't enough. I'm sure that Rhule isn't ok with 6 wins.....but I know this fan base is simply hoping for a bowl game. LOL....just let that soak in for a moment.
LOL pie in the sky thinking. or maybe your being facetious. Either way...it really won't matter.