Every Husker fan is tired of losing. You aren’t unique. I don’t see a lot of defending. You’re choosing to take the strange route that somehow having Trae Taylor, the #1 ranked QB in the nation, is a bad thing. Just because DR didn’t live up to the hype, doesn’t mean TT is somehow destined for the same results. I’ll take every damn 5 star QB we’ll ever be able to land. Turner Gill would have been a 5 star. Tommie Frazier was a 5 star. Everybody complains about lack of talent on the roster and somehow having TT committed is a bad thing.
And let’s be clear, TT is light years more athletic than DR. Clear as day.
I see a lot of hype, and I see a kid who chose to play in Omaha in order to be closer to the program, than going somewhere that would challenge him more or where he might get better development.. it's a safe move.
I will not take every 5 star player.. talent for talent's sake doesn't make much sense, unless they fit your system. We don't actually have a system, or if we do, it's a very poor one.
I look back at players like Crouch, Ganz, & TMart.. gutsy, competitive, and were a running threat. You could put Armstrong in that category too, but he got shortchanged by the system change, and Ganz wasn't really a mobile guy, but became one, and had all the grit and made things happen.
Contrast that with AM.. gifted athletically, but not a competitor. And if you've been paying attention to who is in the QB room now, there is clearly 1 competitive guy, who is also mobile.
I'm not sure how TT is going to turn out, but he's a good talker, a great talker actually.. sort of like the HC. Carmel Catholic went 8-3 last year. I don't know what kind of competition they have there. I'm guessing it's low. If it was a super competitive league, maybe that makes more sense.
Not saying he doesn't have strengths.. we can sort of see those already, with little to see visually. Maybe he has more rabbits to pull out of the hat.. cool if he does.
What I'm really more focused on is the head clown. He fell into the current situation with QB1.. the guy they were going after was Jeff Simms 2.0. He allowed a coach who instantly upgraded the team to walk away, then handed the job to GA.
How long will the OL coach last? That's been 1 great decision, surrounded by a bunch of other bad ones. No RB in the portal, no real work on the Dline.. I have no idea how the defense shapes up, if at all.
I once said Rhule can be successful in spite of himself, and I think that is this year.. but it doesn't mean that Rhule is now hitting on every cylinder.. he's not.. and then you have the AD also robbing the program and begging for ticket sales after he blew up the way tickets worked.
Most think this season will be crap, and maybe it will be.. I don't think so, but I haven't seen anything fundamentally change other than a new Line coach, and how long does he last, when the HC considers himself a line coach too and people start praising him big time this year. That is what happened to the special teams coach.. and Rule, can't stand that. He's shown it.
