How do CFB Roster cuts impact Nebraska?-November 20th, 2024-4:00pm
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What up wacky Wednesday, Jay Forman, Austin Omen. We're the old school crew. We are brought to you by the Mercado, certified Piedmontese, special ingredients and butcher shop, 84 and a half, like 30th and Yankee Hill, 85th and Andre Matt, 168th and Maple up there in the oh. Obviously, you know, slowly but surely is probably already made or the decision is made. Potentially next year going to the 105 and how that will change the landscape of college football and who it will hurt, who it will potentially help. And what will be the collateral damage of it that we'll talk about that today? We'll talk about the college football playoff rankings that came on Tuesday last or last night. Excuse me, we'll go over a little bit of the coordinators. At least our old school take on it. Old school or excuse me, the coordinators talked yesterday on old school. We'll cover that a little bit, but more importantly, we're going to do a little whiteboard session, not this segment, but the next. That will be. That would be a simple like something I would do periodically probably do it a lot for opponents, potentially, obviously for ball games and obviously playoff games with the NFL in games during the year, but we'll break down a play via the whiteboard. It's a pretty cool thing we do would be able to put up a couple screenshots and put up a pivotal play in the game from USC. And I'll go tonight and try to do get some screenshots for. Pivotal offensive scheme that Nebraska could potentially face. Resembers a little bit of USC been watching a little bit of tape. So we got a lot of stuff going on. Obviously right in the middle of the week, little chilly weather. So, you know, right on time for the big bad badgers to come in, but we got about eight minutes before we go to break. But, you know, the big news are just really taboo, sweetie. And I think coach rule talked on a little bit was as you get towards the end of the season, potentially if you're looking 105 in the face and you're at potentially, you know, if you got 130 140 kids on the roster, maybe once they say you're at 145. All things being equal, you will have 40 kids not on your team next year. Obviously it really, really hurts the walk on programs across the landscape of college football at every level. But then obviously with Nebraska, who has a rich history of finding players that begin their careers at walk on as a walk on and then turn into legendary players in some instances that help when, or at least when I played, help us win plenty of conference championships division championships and ultimately big part of the three national championships. So, it's near and dear to the program at Nebraska. It's also, you know, near and dear to me, like one of my best friends, Ben Butenbach, butenbach, a chiropractor as well, was a walk on. He was a great player, great friend, great leader. You know, I think about guys like that, Brian Shaw. I think obviously Joel Macavica, who might might have might be the best running fullback that we've ever had, guys like that or walk on. So think about Buddha, Joe Wilkes, Matt Hoskinson, all those type of guys that, you know, Matt Virzel, all those guys are walk ons that end up, you know, not only contributing, but playing and starting at times at Nebraska, you know, and this, if we were in this day and time, Clint Brown, who I was talking about was a big influence and helped me figure out what I was doing here in Nebraska. He was a walk on and he's a coach now in college. And so you got to think not only is it affecting the players that become a part of the program, but also it affects, you know, in Clint's case, he's a he's a coach. So, you know, I think some of the lessons that he learned by being a part of, you know, Nebraska for four or five years, probably, you know, helped him become a, you know, pretty dang good college coach. So it's going to have big effects, you know, in a negative way for the walk on programs, you're going to see a lot of kids that choose not to play football, which then, you know, doesn't allow them to not only be a part of any program that they choose to, but then also the life lessons of playing a team sport and doing it for the greater good and continue to work when you necessarily don't get the instant payoff. Well, we just talked about in the crossover with Easter, which was great. If you get a chance to go back and listen was missing, you're actually taking it away a little bit more from the fabric college football. Yes, it's a push it could up the ante of who you offer when you offer them, but it should be like that anyways. Now, when you got to have 105 guys on scholarships or guys are, you know, or whatever sport guys are girls. The good every person on the team is going to be on scholarship. There is some some sacrifices. So the walk on programs or walk on athletes and the lower end of the rosters are going to be sacrificed and the only plus side of it or potential is the division to FCS and AI, a division three could get the, you know, after effects in a positive way. That means you would be able to have a bigger pool to, you know, recruit from, but then again, some of the kids that maybe want to walk on there that maybe come from a smaller school won't get the chance to go there. So then it's going to be a trickle down effect and then ultimately it'll put more heightening in an exposure and need will be more a la carte in the transfer portal, which then could hurt high school recruiting. So there's a lot of things that will indirectly and directly be affected. You know, potentially if it goes to, you know, 105 and it's probably more than I'm even talking about right now, but just off the top of my head. It definitely is going to hurt some programs or just hurt just, you know, some young athletes that, you know, want a chance to just, you know, be at the University of Nebraska, play football, so forth so on. So, I mean, historically, I understand the value of it to the state, to the state, being able to, to allow athletes who want to play for Nebraska to stay in Nebraska and be a part of it. That used to be a forum for intramural sports at the university level for you to still be active in it and kind of bide your time. Club football. Yeah, sure. Being a thing. It also speaks to the days of actual university and freshmen and football. Yeah. And I don't know why the conversation hasn't switched to, well, let's just bring back the thing that it used to have. Yeah. Like this is a thing that worked. And I don't know any program in the country that doesn't understand the value of having for a freshman quarterback who's not ready a chance to get reps, get in the system, learn the verbiage, change his body for the kind of pudgy offensive lineman who wants to transform himself the extra year of academic maturity, that red shirt year, right? That, you know, we haven't said that there's a limit on the number of red shirts that you can actually have and have a red shirt program, right? Because I know for a fact that Iowa would match up with Nebraska in freshman football. They'd get on a bus and they would go play right. Did some, you know, I don't, Jay, I don't understand why we were missing the layup on this. Yeah. Well, I think it's just because NIL was never. You know, done the right way is essentially a free for all. And then with the TV contracts and the potential of, you know, a couple power conferences potentially getting together, which is obviously big 10 SEC and so forth, you know, the ever, ever changing landscape because football, you know, you kind of, you know, just gloss over that. I mean, let's be honest, the NCAA, you know, as it stands or as it was, was supposed to do for the greater good for student athletes. It was never, that was never it. It was essentially, you know, free labor and we're seeing the byproduct of it. So. I mean, can you, can you do? You can, but they won't do it. They first of all, all the money that that would cost more money. So they're like, okay, we're already having everybody be on scholarship and so forth and so on. I think it'd be great if, if, if you got everybody on the same page with it, but then there'll be some schools that really don't want to do it. They figure like, we're going to try to go get our best one on five and we'll roll with our one on five versus if you had the other 40, you could get together and kind of do scrimmage. You don't mean, I mean, you could just do like, why not have Nebraska prep? Yeah, you should. I don't. Again, I don't. There are ways. I, it, it, it makes Jay, it makes my head hurt sometimes that if for whatever amount of money and we're talking about, let's say highball 1.5 million to get X number of players into the system, into the academic programs, right? They still have to be able to get to University of Nebraska or you're developing or advancing them academically while they're there, right? IMG has figured out on the high school level and it's still a year more of maturity. That's one of the benefits of going the IMG is a year of, of, of academic and athletic maturity, right? Prep schools all over the country exist. Naval Academy has a prep, prep school, Creighton prep for all intent purposes, teachers and works from the same system. So why would you not? Encourage a. Forty eight player, 50 player prep program that allows, and again, you can work from the same academic standard. Same academic program, I don't think academics they care about. Well, but I mean, yeah, I do not care about school, but I think that's a thing, right? That that people looking for a place where you can grow a rewarding career, look no further spectrum, a leading connectivity company is hiring near you. Working here means connecting with great colleagues, interesting projects, market leading benefits and dynamic growth opportunities. That's why Forbes named spectrum one of America's best large employers. We're currently recruiting for professionals in sales, finance, IT, engineering and more. Visit jobs.spectrum.com/podcast to connect to the perfect opportunity. That's jobs.spectrum.com/podcast. 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Get more with Geico who struggle in their freshman year as much as they struggle because of athletic immaturity. It's academic maturity immaturity. Well, it's time management, right? It's dealing with college and all the different stuff being away from home. They used to have freshman teams and all that and they don't have many more, probably not financially beneficial too, but it would plus. I don't think every school has the financial means, but I'm sure the NCAA could scrounge up with some money for some lower end schools or make it an option per conference or, you know, whatever you could. There could be or you just have. I don't know 10, 20 prep schools, I guess I'm just going off a figure. The prep school is going to happen. Yeah, I mean, if it does, I mean, it's great, but the guys that are going to be sacrifice are in between when it goes to 105 and when the prep schools happen because it's not going to be in conjunction with the 105. But, you know, eventually, if you're having a thing, it'd be great if there's 20 kind of college preps where you can kind of, you know, put together or put the second chance you, you know, you'd like to think that that happened. Jukos might be beneficiaries of it and stuff like that. If you, if you can kind of say, listen, I can't get you on our 105 this year, but I can help you out in a roundabout way where they're setting you up with the NIL deal, but I need you to go to this coach at this place, at this school. He can get you right. And then I'll see you next year. You know, that's a different way to do it. That happened. It happened. I know when I was being recruited in 1979 that there were programs that said, listen, you go here in year one as a freshman. They run the same system. We run their coach under the same terminology. You'll be able to have a year of academic success under your belt. We trust you with that. Your body's going to change and you'll be able to do that. So does Nebraska have a feeder school? Like they used to go to Kansas and pull players from certain schools. And that was pretty regular. I know in Texas, those schools have feeder systems that absolutely. I don't know if they do the prep schools. That stuff is not going to come down the pipe no time soon. It's unfortunate because there's going to be a lot of, you know, it's kind of like I look at it like without NFL Europe, you don't get London Fletcher, you don't get Kurt Warner. You don't get a lot of Hall of Fame players. Yeah. There's no different than not having a prep school or walk on by no means. I think either one of those would be a walk on here, but in comparison to the NFL versus NFL Europe, which essentially was a six game farm system. Obviously in a whole nother continent. You got you got a lot of players out of there. I mean, heck, I remember my man. I call him Freaky Freddy Jones. He was the only Colorado Buffa. Like besides Sam Rogers, he was a defensive end in college. Came to Buffalo was on the practice squad didn't, you know, kind of got hurt and had a high tricky high ankle sprained. They sent him over there after a couple of years of being just kind of special team. He ends up getting picked up by the Chiefs and he ends up playing three more years. He ends up playing and, you know, legit, and then he started playing plan because he actually got because he never played linebacker before. So then he got a chance to go over there to play outside linebacker, middle linebacker week. So now he was more appealing to when he went to the Chiefs. He could play special teams like like no other, but now he had ability to back up all three spots. And so, you know, I mean, just on that alone, you're going to be missing out on some great players and, you know, great opportunities for see a kid that come in because you'll get a kid that, you know, he might be from the, you know, middle of nowhere of Candice. They're even sometimes the middle with nowhere at Texas that needs to go that normally would be able to go to whatever university and really, you know, get bigger, faster, stronger, but he's a great athlete and maybe as the best mindset and then tech, he might get taller. But now those kids are just going to be walking around the face of their now. If things change and the landscape of college football changes to the 105 and then sometimes sometimes you go back, but I think it's going to put pressure on the staff to find and start to create true now. True and I'll do air quotes, honest partnership with lower level schools. My question is to be, look at this moving forward. Is this going to make those lower levels of football deeper? Because this, there's, you know, 45, 50 guys that would have been on a division one roster or is that what they should have been because these walk-ons are probably best suited for these levels. We finally get to see just how good the true level of competition is. Maybe down a step. Yeah. I mean, that's a good question. Um, I mean, potentially like we know that there are guys. Micros, you were sitting at a JUCO. Trow Farley was sitting at a JUCO. Like this isn't, this isn't new business. It's just revisited rebranded, re re-wrapped and. Yeah, but that exists. I just had a JUCO because you're not a qualifier is different. Not really. Well, I'm saying like those guys are always going to be special. What I'm saying is across the board, like fringe players that are, you know, walk-ons to a D one roster. You know, if roster sizes weren't 150, they probably wouldn't have ended up D one anyway. So this is the level they should be at. Whereas Rosier and Farley always belong D one. Whatever is taking another journey. Whatever the number of, of this. Okay. So for every great athlete who made it to Nebraska, those athletes themselves can name two or three guys who are better athletes. Then they are and either they got in the wrong system. They did something dumb off the field or they just didn't get the break. Like Jake can tell you he got friends that listen, they were born. Yeah. I mean, that's that's that's in every sport. I think the difference between back when we have props and heavy JUCO was more of a. I mean, we'll get into it like a systematic. You could say like systematic, I guess, somewhat racism where they don't get the type of teachers that they need. So therefore you can't qualify in the ACT. I know guys that didn't even know what the ACT was. And that's how they because they had to go to JUCO. So they're high school. Nobody was helping them. That's different versus I am academically and, you know, accepted, but I'm not good enough. It could help the lower lows, but I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. You're going to get a lot of guys and just going to say, you know what? I only want to there's guys that are walk ons and they're cool with being walk ons majority of them are majority of them are very realistic when they're walk ons. They're here, but they might want to work their way out to be second on the depth chart and then be the core special teams guy and then be a guy that can step in and eventually start. That's what they're they're they're not coming here. Like, I'm just a walk on and then I'm going to end up starting in your year to that's not the easy way it works. So you might get a lot of guys that might just move on and say, you know what, I'm going to go be an engineer. I'm going to go do this and go do that. And then you got something that might go down to potentially hopefully division two and then FCS and all that. Then it could the pool would be bigger, but then that's also going to trickle down some of the lower level of FCS and those guys might quit. So there's going to be some positives of it, but then also the some of the positives of it going to be. Well, you asked me, you didn't give me a scholarship at school. I'm from your state and I go to FCS and I ball out and then I get to transfer up and then I get to show you. That's where the pro that's where you'll see some good stories of that and it's just a Bible. You're not going to be able to service everybody, but I'm going to tell you what for those student athletes that you make the 105 and you down like the lower 60 or below. You better you look, don't get comfortable. Do not get comfortable. Because I'm telling you, it will be the bottom of that 30 40 will constantly be revolving. Again, where maybe programs that I don't know, maybe a lot of former NFL alumni could say, hey, this is what it takes to compete and stick on a roster. No long term basis. Yeah, but they will they will move and they will shock. They will shock and drive that lower 30 because if you're if you're back against the wall, I'm going to really look like I'm thinking me more. If I saw a good top 50 40 and I want to make some and I can go get some more 20 guys that from the FCS and I can bring them in starters and rotational players. Then the younger guys that only been here for a year, you got to go. Sorry. So it's a now so as much as people, you know, like in the big 10, you know, or generally here where, you know, like down in the SEC, it's a one year contract when you're on scholarship. That's what everything's going to be across the board. So no more coming here and you can kind of ride coattails and keep your nose clean. It's steak sweatsuits and all that other stuff, and just kind of go through it and you're here to party versus the play. You've got everything about playing before your party and that's including the players that are playing and you can't miss now coaches won't be able to miss. Like that extra luggage will cost you. Yeah, you can't miss but if you do miss you better, you better rectify that you get you have options to rectify it quickly, because now you can be able to you can. All right, dude, you got to go. You're not good. Well, it's it's 100 with what 364 programs and 50 plus players. Do the math. You can fix a problem. They're out there and that's just from this level. That's not even from the Juco next level division to like literally you've got access now. And if you're just not good at it, that's on you. Yes, you're, you're, it's going to be year to year basis though too. Not year to year, but I mean, depends on who you are, you're going to have to change some stuff based on what you're doing. So anyways, we'll revisit that. We're going to try to, we're going to take a quick break, come back and then we're going to try to get to this whiteboard Wednesday from the USC game. So the one play or there's plenty of plays. One play I felt like it was good to teach off of. I've been in this position plenty of time. And it's a difference between a half a step and a right hand and left hand to potentially could have, you know, swayed the game another way. So anyway, J former DP Austin, old school will be right back. How do you feel when you switch to Geico and save on your car insurance? It's like going to work on one Thursday morning and thinking to yourself just one more day until Friday. But then somebody in the elevator says, happy Friday. Then you check your phone quickly and discover today is actually Friday. 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