Sevion would have played last year had he not come down with Covid in early part of the season.
RB intrigue - Jaquez Yant
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I'm told Haarberg has an awkward motion but the coaches don't want to fix it for fear of messing him up.
You are being told that? Why not just go watch the videos of him and form your own opinion?
Just at a quick look he has a pretty quick release. It looks like he has kind of a low stroke but still has a lot of power. There are multiple clips of him throwing 40+ yards tosses with little effort and looks to be pretty accurate.
His height will certainly help with the little bit lower motion.
What do you think?
I liked the mantra about AM last year, “He has Luke now on his heels pushing him to excel and a better group of WR’s and RB’s, so expect big things.”
Now this year it’s, “With Luke gone, AM doesn’t have someone on his heels and can settle down and come into his own and has a better group of WR’s and RB’s, so expect big things.”
Yes, not impressed with his HS videos re: his throwing mechanics. Holding the ball around your waistline before throwing deep is something a QB coach should address.
One could argue that (before throw position) is not the “stroke” itself. One could be working on exactly what you are saying but ultimate throwing motion is same. Then again I am making this stuff up because video of spring has been so limited !!
Are you just making stuff up? I literally just watched his video and he holds the ball at shoulder level on almost every throw.
The coaches also said his mechanics are “pretty clean” so they are just working on drops and other things.
Doesn't really sound like the coaches just don't want to mess with him to me.
I recall that McCants in the one year he had opportunity to start as a senior was a decent passer, who won all conference. Would dispute the idea he was not a good passer.
He was just decent as a passer. And he certainly did not make all conference because of his passing. The dude had good wheels and played on a good offense. He was no better a passer than AMart is. And the fact he made all conference despite being just an average passer makes my point. He is remembered as a good Nebraska QB because he was on a damn good team. The way some of you are talking on here about AMart it would seem that he is just the worst passer in the history of football. Good grief. He isn’t great, but he isn’t horrible either. If had been on the team McCant was on he would have been all conference too.
Here are McCants' 1991 statistics in passing and rushing. Yes, he did well / decently his senior year.
11 games
97 completions of 168 attempts (57.7% passing)
1,454 yards, 8.7 yards/attempt
13 touchdowns / 8 interceptions
117 rushing attempts, 654 yards, 5.6 yards per rushing attempt
7 touchdowns rushing
Keithen McCants' Career Stats @ DONU
Nebraska Team Win-Loss Record in 1991 = 9-2-1
Compare this first to Jamal Lord's junior (2002) and senior (2003) year stats:
2002 2003
Games 14 13
Passing Completions 95 85
Passing Attempts 204 176
Passing Completion Percentage 46.6% 48.3%
Passing Yards 1,362 1,305
Touchdowns Passing 12 6
Interceptions 12 8
Rushing attempts 251 215
Rushing Yards 1,412 968
Rushing Yards per attempt 5.6 4.4
Touchdowns Rushing 8 10
Jammal Lord's Career Stats @DONU
Nebraska Football Team W-L Record 7-7 10-3 (followed by Steve Pederson debacle & Solich firing)
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I agree that McCant was a better QB than I anticipated. Mike Grant was supposed to be the guy, as I recall, and just buckled under the pressure of being the starting QB or something. McCant took over and played well, all things considered.
That being said, McCant wasn’t asked to throw the ball too much, giving him an easier time with more defenses stepping up to stop the run and leaving DBs on an island more often.
At least that’s how I remember things.
I wanted Luke to take the reins once he was inserted as starter but we all saw it. The guy ain’t got it. He’s a gadget player and should be playing wr, I’ll eat crow if he does well at Louisville, but the one thing that gebbia and Luke both have in common is they know how to tuck tail and leave. Frost is too stubborn for my liking with his program but there is no way he sticks with Adrian if either would have stayed and consistently outperformed him.
Don’t agree with your thoughts. Both Gebbia and McCaffrey were to small to take the physical toll on Big 10 play. Gebbia could not run adequately, and McCaffrey we found could not pass well enough, and the way he left the program revealed character flaw issues.
Gebbia looked pretty damn good against Oregon in his last game last season. Meanwhile, Martinez hasn't won against a single Top 25 team in three years.
You mean character problems with the head coach and how he strung Gebbia along until he thought Gebbia couldn't transfer anymore.
Most freshmen are too small, but gain weight in time. Also, most freshmen don't have confidence problems. That little detail is pretty important for your most important position on the team.
He strung him along until he could not transfer? Not only did you make that up it’s also proved to be wrong because he did F’n transfer. You guys are too on the make **** up ledge ?
The only way Gebbia managed to transfer to Oregon State is because that university operates on a Quarters based system, which has slightly different rules and time frames than most other semester based universities.
You should probably do some research before you mouth off.
I promise you that Oregon St would have beat them the last two years. OREGON ST. Hell, former Neb linebacker Avery Roberts was first team Pac-12 and in consideration for Pac 12 defensive player of the year. Apparently our coaches couldn't reach him. Oregon St's coaches could.
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Listen, we know he did transfer, but that is not what this is about. Scott ended the QB competition precisely when players could not transfer to 99% of schools. Scott didn't know about the quarters based school having a slightly different window. Gebbia knew he was being played, and ended up playing the coach in return. This is a perfect example of player mismanagement, that started off Scott's coaching career at Nebraska. The worst part of it, is he promised the job to get AM's commitment, so the whole thing was a rouse to begin with.
Gifford is a bad choice for you to use as an example. I would bet money that he'll play on Sundays. It's tough sometimes to project a late bloomer coming out of high school like the Giffords have been. Yant would have power 5 offers if not for his academics. Spring ball is all about giving guys who are showing up in workouts a chance to show what they can do. With all of the RBs on the sidelines in shorts, I wouldn't get too worked up about Yant getting reps.
Yep. Inexcusable to lose a backup QB with a 1:6 TD/INT ratio. How will we ever move on....
It’s like Groundhog Day all over again. You have no idea if AM was promised the starting position and there really is no reason to think he was. The only person saying AM was promised it are the voices in your head.
Just because the player you wanted to start lost the job, doesn’t mean it was mis managed. Gebbia had every chance to compete, he lost and decided to take his ball and go home. And has only proven Frost made the right choice, as he has been much worse than AM to this point of his career.
While official stat line does show the 1 TD, I still take exception to those mini-toss handoffs counting as passes. 0:6 better reflects the situation.
He ends it a week before game one with a fall camp that is ~6 weeks long. Not exactly stretching something out that was unknown at start of camp
I suspect three years coaching in the B1G has given Frost an appreciation for backs with a little thump.
I agree, just not on the goal line. Im not sure who our new goal line back will be now that wandale is gone. My money is on Matt Schuster at a bruising 5’7” 170lbs from Cozad.
Maybe Frost should try the 220 pounder at the goaline and not the 160 pounder. He's free to steal that idea if he wants
Don't hold your breath. We haven't recruited a top RB since Abdullah.
We never had a problem recruiting RBs. Hopeful Frost comes up with a better game plan so we can land the stud RBs we were so accustomed to having on the roster year in year out