What if Omaha Turns on Trae?

dinglefritz

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Not all were but the majority were.
Last time I checked, it’s a good idea to have the ball in the hands of your best player as much as possible. From our standpoint, yeah I didn’t like to see him take some of those hits, but that’s the way he plays. HUGE upgrade over what we’ve seen the past two years.
 

wondrboy

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I have never gotten excited about Trae’s commitment. I always assumed he would end up getting more money from a team with deep pockets and would defect from us. Going to be hard to keep him if he is as good as advertised after we go 5-7 or 4-8 this year.

Let’s face facts. Nebraska football needs a large influx of NIL money or else we are going to continue to flounder. College football has become a semi pro money racket and only teams with sh$t loads of money will be in the playoffs. NU has “decent” levels of money, but not enough.
Whatever you say, Matt...
 

Zeke Husker

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Will Rhule and other coaches get up to see him this season? I think they need to keep recruiting him.
 

orclover11

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1620 is already mocking Trae and a small portion of fans at the moment for his social media presence.

I mean isn't watching a random junior you don't know or care about play football kind of creepy then? If the kid is taking money, he is an entertainer, and must deal with the consequences of the decision. All football players decide to "get on stage". They don't need to. They are only paid because they provide meaningless distraction to millions of people through the drama of the sport. There are thousands of teams they could play on for free for the love of the game. They love the attention and the payouts and there are consequences for that.
 

skin-tight

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I have never gotten excited about Trae’s commitment. I always assumed he would end up getting more money from a team with deep pockets and would defect from us. Going to be hard to keep him if he is as good as advertised after we go 5-7 or 4-8 this year.

Let’s face facts. Nebraska football needs a large influx of NIL money or else we are going to continue to flounder. College football has become a semi pro money racket and only teams with sh$t loads of money will be in the playoffs. NU has “decent” levels of money, but not enough.
Wait wut? Didnt Rhule say that he has received all that he needs to be competitive with anyone when there was a boost of NIL during the off season? I'm nearly certain that he did.
 
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RBigredMax1

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Last time I checked, it’s a good idea to have the ball in the hands of your best player as much as possible. From our standpoint, yeah I didn’t like to see him take some of those hits, but that’s the way he plays. HUGE upgrade over what we’ve seen the past two years.
Oh I agree completely. Tight game - let him cook! I liked watching him and that bomb he threw was an absolute dime.
 
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Gary getting out is all anyone needs to know about how things are going for that place. Any talent that was there is now gone.
Excellent point!

I used to listen to Sharpe via podcast daily from afar. Now, nothing from 1620 makes the playlist. Horrible move by them!
 

wondrboy

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He’s not wrong. Whether Rhule can build a competitive team with Additional NIL resources…. That’s another story. I don’t think he can.
You could make an argument that he needs more NIL to compete with the playoff-type teams. But needing more to avoid floundering ? Needing more to consistently compete with (much less beat) the Iowa's and Minnesota's ? Unacceptable
 

Man Woman & Child

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Wait wut? Didnt Rhule say that he has received all that he needs to be competitive with anyone when there was a boost of NIL during the off season? I'm nearly certain that he did.

No, that was during the season last year that he sold that load of crap, shortly after he and his agent fleeced our AD for a raise and extension. After the season, when he produced the 62nd ranked overall class, he walked it all back and sold the load of crap that once he got all he needed to be competitive with anyone, all the other teams in college football raised their spend to compete with us and outspent us and put us back at a disadvantage. Try to keep up with his loads of crap would ya?
 

Anon1750875978

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You could make an argument that he needs more NIL to compete with the playoff-type teams. But needing more to avoid floundering ? Needing more to consistently compete with (much less beat) the Iowa's and Minnesota's ? Unacceptable
Husker fans need to lower expectations, so as not to be disappointed.
 

singlet

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I mean isn't watching a random junior you don't know or care about play football kind of creepy then? If the kid is taking money, he is an entertainer, and must deal with the consequences of the decision. All football players decide to "get on stage". They don't need to. They are only paid because they provide meaningless distraction to millions of people through the drama of the sport. There are thousands of teams they could play on for free for the love of the game. They love the attention and the payouts and there are consequences for that.
Watching someone play from the stands and sliding into his DMs are not the same. You know this.
 
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QAnon399535

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No, that was during the season last year that he sold that load of crap, shortly after he and his agent fleeced our AD for a raise and extension. After the season, when he produced the 62nd ranked overall class, he walked it all back and sold the load of crap that once he got all he needed to be competitive with anyone, all the other teams in college football raised their spend to compete with us and outspent us and put us back at a disadvantage. Try to keep up with his loads of crap would ya?
Almost like we won the war on recruiting 38 times!
 

orclover11

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Whatever you say, Matt...
NU needs to prove it can use its "decent" money well before there is heavy investment. I guarantee when we get a coach who squeezes the most out of the situation...ie...9 wins, beating a top 25 team, winning a game in November, you will see the money flow in. I don't know why but I also feel that there will be some involvement from Tom Ricketts eventually. He is a huge husker fan, and has done an amazing job with the cubs...being fiscally responsible by building a player first team and growing the value of the team.
 
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