The Wistrom Way would be to beat out a guy when he knows he can do so.
This is not The Wistrom Way.
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Gebbia is a Beaver
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The Wistrom Way would be to beat out a guy when he knows he can do so.
This is not The Wistrom Way.
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Jonathan Smith the OSU coach had recruited Gebbia when he was on the staff at Washington.
I hope Gebbia takes OSU to the Rose Bowl. Then perhaps we can stop hearing about how Smilin' Mike was held back by lack of resources and bad facilities. You know, before he came to Lincoln and was held back by the previous coach's bad recruiting and later by an intrusive AD. If he gets curb-stomped at his new gig, it will probably be because Moose Johnston is a micromanaging GM and the Alamodome is just so antiquated. Poor Mike, such a fine coach but always a victim of circumstance.
I wouldn't call it losing to them. More like they ended up on the "Island of Misfit Toys".
Agree. The Oregon State program has done nothing of significance for over 50 years (with the exception of 1 year when Dennis Erickson coached). It’s not like these dudes are trucking off to a major program.
Makes perfect sense. He was MR's guy. Now we'll see if he still is...if any of that even matters now.
I agree, he very much had a chance. Seeing that he chose Oregon St, he wanted a guaranteed starting job. Apparently John Smith recruiting him heavily when he was at Washington. So guessing there was a promise made.
I still don't get this line of thinking. Why does it have to be a guarantee or a promise to start? Why couldn't it simply be that Oregon St was one of about 6 P5 schools that are on a quarters system and the one that has a senior starting QB. This allows Gebbia to transfer and be eligible to play and compete for the job next year. Why can't it just be that he didn't want to be buried on a depth chart at Nebraska when he could actually play in games, when it counts, somewhere else?
The number of threads and the amount of people in their feelings about this is still strange to me, considering he wasn't big enough and he didn't fit the offense anyway.
Ending up at OSU isn't a surprise and problem in the works as a contingency for awhile, but I wonder why Gebbia didn't just play the season out and then explored a bigger field for a transfer school. Sure, he loses a season, but now he competes to be the starting QB at Oregon State. And if he doesn't win, he's the backup at Oregon State, at least until he can exercise the grad transfer option.
Again, because he wasn't ever going to be the starter here. Losing 25% of your eligible years is a big deal.
If I said you can only work for 40 years at your present company and your ceiling is assistant manager, or I'll give you a list of 5 or 6 companies where you can work for 30 years and your ceiling is manager or I can give you a bigger group of companies where you could work 20 years and your ceiling is manager. Which would you choose? Everyone can be different.
As I've said, as a fan of Nebraska, we want what is best for Nebraska, so we want to have the best assistant managers, if you will. We don't understand why someone wouldn't want to be a part of this company. But not everyone thinks that way. Some people don't want to be assistant managers their whole lives, they want more.
If a person can get 3 years instead of 2 and the trade off is a smaller pool of schools to choose from, I can see that decision making process. Then if they choose a school where the coach recruited him previously, and a school that he has some sort of familiarity with, I can see that that decision making process even more.
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I'm quite sure I'm being naive ... but it would be interesting if there was contact between the OSU staff and Gebbia or his representatives prior to being released. Maybe it isn't forbidden to have contact with another programs players parents to open the dialogue about transfer. And to be clear this very scenario may have happened with Vedral and Neal.
The bottom line is players are going to look out for their best interests. Maybe the hard/unfortunate lesson is he staff have to look out for the program's best interests - even if it means not being 1000% transparent in these type of scenarios.
The bottom line is players are going to look out for their best interests. Maybe the hard/unfortunate lesson is he staff have to look out for the program's best interests - even if it means not being 1000% transparent in these type of scenarios.
At the end of the day, TG had to do what was best for him. It might have been his only or best option, considering the circumstances. The timing certainly sucks and who knows, he may have had this on his mind for quite some time ( not necessarily going to OSU) if he didn't win the starting job. At the end of the day, CFB is big business and decision-makers make tough ( and not always the right or well thought-out decisions).
I wish him nothing but the best.
The linebacker makes sense. Gebbia to OSU makes zero sense. They have 6 freshman and sophomore QBs on their roster.
But they have 6 sophomore and freshmen QBs on their roster already. This move makes no sense to me. He would have been better off going JUCO unless he got some kind of promise that he would be the starter.
Yep I don`t get it either. Whats he going to do then if he isn't named the starter? Transfer?
He had to have gotten some kind of guarantee from OSU's staff that he would be the starter. OSU was either his only option or somebody made a promise.
It's Oregon State, I'm guessing none of those 6 QBs were high school All-Americans like Martinez. Probably 2 and low 3 star guys. If he can't win the starting job there next year, then he's just not a Power 5 level talent.
That may be truth. It just seems weird to leave one QB competition where you're one play from being the starter for 4 years to a place where you've got to beat out 6 guys some of whom were also recruited by the current HC.
Based on what? Sheer numbers? Gebbia is by far the most recruited player in that QB room. Not that it makes a huge difference, but I think you need to look deeper than just how many QBs there are
Heh.....yes, that doesn't make an ounce if sense. But even more, throwing one snap away from playing at NU to play with the Beavers???
Crazy.....
No one should feel sorry for Gebbia now. He left the Huskers to go play at one of the Black Holes in the Pac 12. Did any of you see the picture of Oregon State's spring game that I posted back in April or May? There were maybe 5000 fans watching the game. That is how irrelevant Oregon State football is. I still wish him luck (he is going to need it) and hope he does well.
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That simply isn't true. IF Martinez gets hurt, he was one play away from playing in a handful of games in 2018, depending on the severity of the injury. Going into 2019, he would have been competing with 3 guys that were recruited by the current coach, he wasn't going to beat all 3 of them out.
Again if you take off your Nebraska blinders, it isn't really that hard to see.
I think it makes perfect sense. Remember back to last November when TG's dad said it would be a mistake to fire Riley. TG is a throwing QB, most of the time Oregon State is going to be behind in most of the games, therefore the QB will get a chance to sling it all over the place. I am sure TG's dad was excited to see a Coach Riley led Husker team so that his son could throw 50+ times a game because we would be down by 30 at the half. Gotta pad the stats to get to the NFL.
Speaking of The Island of Misfit Toys, what exactly was the Dolly's problem that made her a misfit? She looked like your standard rag doll to me.
I think she was pregnant. She was knocked up by the cowboy who rides an ostrich. No one wants a pregnant rag doll.
Can we just stop talking about this kid now? Only on the Scrolls would there be a week's worth of whining about a 170 lb BACKUP qb who QUITRollingLaugh Hopefully the kid does smoke the ganja so he gets the munchies, puts on some weight, and starts looking like a high school football player at least.
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What?? No matter where he goes, he's going to have competition. Even the pathetic Beavers have qbs he's going to have to beat. Maybe even more than one or two qbs.
If he wants something for nothing.....he's in for a brutal awakening.