demoncore1031
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Rocco needs to improve his accuracy if he's gonna play in the NFL. Hos completion percentage is way below average for a college QB.
Jett Thomalla COMMITS!!!
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Rocco isn’t a first round pick. He’s a later round guy.
Nebby plays the 4th easiest schedule in the Big 10 and one of the easiest of the Power 4. However, the schedule this year is set up for disaster. Nebby has Michigan at home, USC at home, Iowa at home and Michigan State at home. If they lose three of those games in front of a large Nebby home crowd (on top of losing at Penn State) Rhule will face boos when it comes to the Iowa game, IMHO. I am very interested in seeing how they play against Cinci.
True. At the same time, nobody leans on said argument harder than the middling to bad big 10 teams.
Ohio State's staff isn't selling the opportunity to compete against teams like iowa, Rutgers and Purdue lol
He had two full years left. How can you possibly know that?
Wait—do you have a time machine? Can I borrow it? Just for five minutes, I promise!
You might be referring to Nick Leaders. Early-ish 2000 recruit from the Omaha area. If I remember correctly it was a huge recruiting win for Iowa State. He came in and started as a true freshman at defensive tackle. Guy was an absolute stud.
Agree - but this is something he can improve with experience. He made a ton of difficult, well placed throws with many in clutch time, too.
My thoughts (hopes) is he does improve quite a bit, but come draft time I'm thinking his height will cause most teams to not give him a 1st round grade (to their detriment) and a lucky team will get him in the 2nd & he'll have a Jake Plummer to Drew Brees type career. As I said, a man can dream, so I will - positively.
Beings I added to this thread veering off course, I'll re-add my excitement for this recruit and feel his buying in to the foundation Campbell & Co. have establish & want to continue building upon. LFG
demoncore1031
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We are going to have a pretty awesome quarterback depth chart soon with Becht (senior), Manske (sophomore), and Thomalla (freshman). That's pretty damn good.
6'-1" is on the lower end, but not a total detriment. Most quarterbacks are 6'2" to 6'4", but guys under 6'2" that currently start are Purdy, Mayfield, Murray, Williams, Hurts, Tua, Russ, and Young. Rocco won't be a first round pick, but he's got great numbers and if he keeps on getting a little better in each of the next two seasons he could be a 2nd or 3rd round pick by the time he's done. Love that he has two more years left as he could go down in history as the number 1 or 2 quarterback ever for us. It'll be tough to beat out Purdy, but it's certainly possible. In his two years (even if you avoid his first year where he got a redshirt), he has 6,625 passing yards, 48 touchdowns, 17 picks, and 11 rushing touchdowns (his running capability is massively underrated). Purdy had 6,232 passing yards, 43 touchdowns, 16 picks, and 13 rushing touchdowns. The one area where Purdy is a good amount ahead is completion percentage as he was around 66% and Becht is around 61%.
Forgot about him. That makes our depth even better!
You wouldn’t use it for 4 minutes and then keep going back in time again so your 5 minutes never runs out?
Rhule implying that top 20 programs aren't offering sophomores is certainly a take... I thought he was going to turn the program around but he clearly doesn't get it.
This is exactly why Rhule is trying to pretend like Nebby doesn't need the in state kids. Dude is a complete clown. Gonna be hilarious when An SEC school backs up a Brinks truck to Dylan Raiola's house and Nebby loses their golden boy.
Football is operating differently than basketball though. Development still matters. Yes, kids are going to transfer but if you want any shot at the NFL kids are going to stick around more.
The Booster's are going to eat Rhule alive for this too.
Ferentz tried to bad mouth CMC/Iowa State like 6 years ago on this same topic. The whole "our offer means more" approach by old Kirk hasn't worked out real well.
Doubtful he’s thinking of Leaders. He was an ISU legacy, and his brother, Andy, was already on the team. Although he was a very good player (1st Team All Big 12 as a senior) he was also not his listed 6’2” and deemed too short in terms of recruiting accolades. Him and Curvey made for a couple slippery interior defensive linemen
DMac’s most highly ranked Nebraska kids were Billups and Hicks.
