Transfer portal ranking
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30th portal And the 81st recruiting class. I’d say 4 to 6 wins if we catch lightning
Does that include the long snapper we picked up?
Don’t care about rankings anymore: they mean nothing when It comes to Nebraska. Nebraska for years had better recruiting rankings than the teams they continue to lose too.
2026 College Football Team Transfer Portal Rankings
The 2026 college football transfer portal team rankings.
Often when someone commits to Nebraska their rating would go up. Not because they deserved it necessarily but because Nebraska has a lot of recruiting news customers who buy good news if it's for sale. I remember watching fans campaign to the raters for someone to "get their 4th star" and then when they did it was like "yay we are going to be good now". If you can find the original rankings before the bump they are usually more accurate.
What’s the ranking of our coaching staff out of a 136 FBS teams?
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I disagree, it usually appeared that players would drop in the ratings after committing to Nebraska, especially the last 7-10 years
Exactly. Nebraska had a better transfer portal class than Indiana last year.
It’s not the talent that is the problem, per se. It’s the coaching.
I know its become fashionable to call out Rhule, but the level of his con man abilities is an extremely high level, the week of the big USC game this guy steered the conversation to the PSU opening as if he was a legit candidate and got much of the fanbase worried about him leaving before the tough part of our schedule was played and he was exposed.
He leveraged this to get himself a contract extension that now holds the football program hostage and in no way deserved. He sold it by saying we now have financial commitment to go out in the portal and compete with anyone. Look at the top 100 players in portal we have none and I dont know if even a top 100 visited, thats ridiculous when you basically punt on this recruiting class saying you were going big in the portal.
He leveraged this to get himself a contract extension that now holds the football program hostage and in no way deserved. He sold it by saying we now have financial commitment to go out in the portal and compete with anyone. Look at the top 100 players in portal we have none and I dont know if even a top 100 visited, thats ridiculous when you basically punt on this recruiting class saying you were going big in the portal.
So just to confirm, when Nebraska has a class that ranks 15th in the recruiting rankings, the rankings don't mean anything. When Nebraska ranks 80th in the rankings, the rankings are gospel and are a true indicator of a recruits potential?
Just making sure I am getting the narrative.
Just making sure I am getting the narrative.
I'd say its a combo of both. I've been to practices. Our dudes don't match Indiana's dudes. And neither do our coaches...especially the top dog.
Maybe the second greatest conman of all time?????
Well said.
I’ve joked about offseason titles for years - going back to the Riley era. This years recruiting class and portal class? Ouch. Even Rhule can’t sell the hype with the mediocrity he’s showing..
Jeez some of you people are dense..We had a very young team was the reason why we didn’t have a lot of recruits was the reason why the ranking was so low.
Get a clue.
Ohh it’s douche bag back again.
And talent evaluation.
Stop.losing to teams with worse rankings would be an improvement.
So last week when NU's portal class was 12th nationally and 3rd in the B1G you were too busy with Kirk's reach-around to comment. Glad you took a break and dropped in.
I believe our RB recruit dropped dramatically after he committed to us. That Miami offer meant nothing I guess.
FWIW Cignetti was coaching at Bama when they had multiple guys test positive for PEDs after their championship game..
The number of high school recruits in your class is WAY over valued in the rankings. Has been for years.
Getting a good class in is half the battle
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developing them is the other half.
we’ve been losing half the battle. Looks like we are now losing both. Sorry man. I know you’re high on Rhule and trust him but this isn’t a good look.
Agreed! The good news is we've actually improved on that somewhat.
Record against teams finished .500 or better
Pelini (4 years) 18-15
Riley (3 years) 7-16
Frost (5 years) 5-28
Rhule (3 years) 7-14
Record against teams that finished below .500:
Pelini 15-2
Riley 12-3
Frost 13-10
Rhule 11-5
Nebraska has slowly gone back to "beating the teams we should beat" in the sense that we should expect our team to almost almost always beat a team that doesn't go bowling.
Now, our record against winning teams is horrible. But for us being a middle of the pack low end bowl eligible team, going 11-5 against teams that don't go bowling is an improvement from the barely .500 results we had from the previous coaching staff.
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Ummmmmmm…….how’s it worked out? We’re a top 25 class before players leave which we averaged 38th. Is it wrong? It’s been 26 years and counting
You are reaching here. None of that was in my post.
It is just simple confirmation bias. My post had nothing to do with development. It was simply based on comments from people on this forum. Ratings don't mean anything.........until it confirms my opinion on how this staff isn't bringing in the players I want them to from the portal, then ratings matter. It goes both ways.
It is very possible to ruin good players with bad coaching, it is impossible to win with bad players and good coaches. Rhule needs top classes to have any chance because his coaching staff is ***, and has been. Having bad classes and *** coaching is a recipe for bad seasons. He has made some changes, we'll see how the oline and DC fares. Our schedule doesn't leave a lot of room for improvement record wise though, even if we hit homeruns in the coaching department and NIL we won't probably win more than 6.
Dude, at what point does the schtick get old for you? It is one thing if people didn't know you are a fan of another team, and they just think you are ill informed, but quite another when everyone is on to this charade and you continue. I bet it was funny at the beginning when you were telling people what you were doing. You both got a laugh, but now it is really just pathetic and a little sad. I hope you get the help you need.
I think you should include Callahan and Solich as well. It would be interesting to see where we've been since Osborne.
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Record against teams that did not go bowling:
Pelini 15-2
Riley 12-3
Frost 13-10
Rhule 11-5*
Year 1 losses Minnesota (5-7 but went to a bowl due to their grad rate)....Colorado( No bowl )....MSU (No bowl) ..... Michigan...Maryland...Wisconsin.....Iowa all went bowling
year 2 losses UCLA (no bowl) ....Illinois...Indiana...Ohio St...USC....Iowa...all went
year 3 losses Michigan...Minnesota...USC...Penn St....Iowa.... all went
3 losses to non bowl teams ('23 CU...'23 Michigan St....'24 UCLA) for Rhule not 5
Pelini 15-2
Riley 12-3
Frost 13-10
Rhule 11-5*
Year 1 losses Minnesota (5-7 but went to a bowl due to their grad rate)....Colorado( No bowl )....MSU (No bowl) ..... Michigan...Maryland...Wisconsin.....Iowa all went bowling
year 2 losses UCLA (no bowl) ....Illinois...Indiana...Ohio St...USC....Iowa...all went
year 3 losses Michigan...Minnesota...USC...Penn St....Iowa.... all went
3 losses to non bowl teams ('23 CU...'23 Michigan St....'24 UCLA) for Rhule not 5
It will be dope to see what happens when every single person hits the portal after one year, and in each succeeding year after.
Coming soon: in-season transfers
Totally makes a person want to buy tickets and new merch!
Coming soon: in-season transfers
Totally makes a person want to buy tickets and new merch!
I think you’re reaching.
saying rankings don’t matter is a foolish way to kid yourself into thinking things are better than what they are. It’s how losers talk. But you be you.
I could but I’ve specifically been focusing on stats and records since our time in the B1G to at least have some consistency. The Big 12 days are drastically different from the Big 10 days. Heck, Pelini time in the Big 10 is drastically different from today in the Big 10. But 1 thing has held true since Osborne (maybe Solich as well if you want to be generous), Nebraska is not a premier program nor is it a respected program.
You have it backwards, I do believe ratings matter. I tend to look at individual player ratings and not overall team rankings. First of all, not every team has the same needs, be it numbers in the class, numbers at positions that have a disproportionate number of players in the top 250 etc. There are teams ranked highly that are there simply based on the number of recruits vs the ability of the recruit.
What I am talking about here is the narrative switch from posters who will complain that Nebraska is ranked 80 or whatever in the HS class of 2026, writing things like Nebraska won't win unless they are in the top 20 of these rankings. Then when Nebraska is ranked in the top 20, these rankings don't mean anything.