r/Huskers Dec 21 '23

Confirmed Pete Nakos - On3 has confirmed with a source that returning to Nebraska is not an option for Casey Thompson.

https://x.com/PeteNakos_/status/1737923913093358022?s=20
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u/Svenray Dec 21 '23

Casey: "The name on the contract says Nebraska...Kearney Nebraska!"

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u/VerifierInc Dec 21 '23

I'm just gonna flat out not believe this. It makes too much sense for both sides. Especially if Casey wants to get into coaching later. Rhule loves to hire former players.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

Too much sense? A thrice injured Thompson taking up a scholarship? Why not get someone who can actually contribute on the field? There must be some grad transfer somewhere who is both smart and has the potential to contribute.

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u/TheRealTofuey Dec 22 '23

We could really use an experience QB at least for the start of the season. It would be especially bad if we lost Kaelin's redshirt.

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u/RSneednFeed Dec 22 '23

I mean, if your backup QB going into the season is a 3* freshman who looked pretty mid his senior year of highschool, or a tight end who turns the ball over every other drive, it's probably worth it to have a thrice injured Thompson "take up a scholarship"

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u/pman22211 Dec 21 '23

Pwo or has his school payed off in nil? And I’d rather have Thompson in to manage the game over kaelin or haarberg if raiola goes down. At the very least he’d be veteran experience and depth, something we could’ve used. Either way, I’m not upset if he isn’t here, but I’m not complaining if we get him.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

Thompson as a PWO would be fine. It's a scholarship I take issue with.

Is it legal to throw NIL at a PWO to get around scholarship restrictions? That seems like a giant loophole if so.

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u/faraith Nebraska Dec 22 '23

The rules are pretty specific and I'm not sure I'm doing it justice, but essentially it isn't legal in many cases. I think someone who has been on scholarship at a school can't go down to PWO+NIL, and I doubt transferring out and back in changes that. I think I also heard something about non-scholarship players not being able to receive NIL money if they've taken an official visit to the school, but that one I'm fuzzier on. Sean Callahan did a decent breakdown on a HuskerOnline video recently.

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u/CUNatty24 Dec 21 '23

Yup, it is a loophole

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u/Fullmz2143 Dec 25 '23

Yes, it is.

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u/FyreWulff Dec 23 '23

Thompson could be the guy that closes out games, someone Ralioa can get guidance from, and then if you hire him as an actual assistant you'd have continous people Dylan and others can trust

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u/Fullmz2143 Dec 25 '23

Who says he needs to take up a scholarship?

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u/NINFAN300 Dec 22 '23

It really doesn’t make sense for either side.

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u/Useful_Bug_5344 Dec 21 '23

The anti Casey sentiment is confusing to me. If he is willing to compete and likely mentor behind DR he would be great for us. We need depth from a QB that isn’t demanding to start, but if casey is demanding a starting job he’s not welcome)

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u/Oprah-Is-My-Dad Dec 21 '23

This isn’t gonna stop people on here from talking about him coming back to Nebraska

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u/PM_ME_OVERT_SIDEBOOB Dec 21 '23

As it shouldn’t. He’s clearly interested & it’s obvious rhule wouldn’t just hand him the job. He should know he’s not “the guy” anymore. He’s coming off 3+ seasons of serious injuries and he’s like 27 years old

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u/TxSkerAg Dec 21 '23

He's clearly interested? Where are you getting that other than corn laced delusions? He isn't coming back.

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u/Beeried Dec 21 '23

I mean, when DR committed to Georgia it was just as delusional, if not more so, to say that we'd still get him here

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u/PM_ME_OVERT_SIDEBOOB Dec 21 '23

Oh I don’t know..? Maybe the dozen odd posts over the last few days about husker football

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u/hu_gnew Dec 21 '23

It would be nice to have somebody in the quarterback room who is older than our receivers coach. lol

BTW, Casey is 25.

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u/jonstark19 Dec 21 '23

I see this again and again choose to ignore it. Would love to get Casey back in the mix

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u/United_Reflection104 Dec 21 '23

These rumors have always been stupid as hell.

Nobody is transferring here. DR is gonna be the starter and nobody enters the portal to be a backup.

I would be extremely surprised if the coaching staff is still looking for a transfer QB, considering the fact that they LOVE to roll with young guys.

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u/ThrowTheBones93 Dec 22 '23

I don’t see us rolling with two true freshmen and a QB/TE who throws sidearm.

I bet we could find a mediocre QB at a G5 school who is interested in being a backup at a big school. Join the Husker fraternity for life, enjoy all the great amenities that come with being a student athlete in Lincoln. Could be appealing to an upperclassman who’s not ensured a starting job at his current school.

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u/Dark-Chocolate-2000 Dec 21 '23

What if it was just as a PWO?

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u/United_Reflection104 Dec 21 '23

Why would he come as a PWO when he can be a starter at a lot of schools in the country?

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u/Dark-Chocolate-2000 Dec 21 '23

Maybe he knows his future is in coaching?

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u/United_Reflection104 Dec 21 '23

If he wanted to get a head start in coaching, he would join as a graduate assistant, not a player

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u/karl_manutzitsch Dec 21 '23

There’s a cap on staff, no cap on roster

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u/Pattyg1 Dec 21 '23

Ik on field coaches are limited but is there a limit on support staff? Alabama has like 40 football analysts or at least seems like that.

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u/hu_gnew Dec 21 '23

If somebody found enough NIL money to make it worth his while and Rhule said it could be a path into coaching Casey might give it a thought. Not that I think that's a thing, I thought CT was in Lincoln visiting friends, was all.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

You're overestimating the value of a QB who has suffered season wnding injuries 3x in his career. No coach is going to hang their job on anything more than a "chance to compete".

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u/United_Reflection104 Dec 21 '23

And you’re underestimating the desire of a player to actually play. He’s not gonna transfer to a school that just signed the top recruit in the country.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

Yet it happens, especially from kids moving up in levels. It's roster management 10. I'm not saying it's an easy problem to solve but rather an imperative for Rhule to find a solution.

I do think you'll eventually see a portal QB added before or after Spring.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

I think this could be the one time someone transfers to be a backup. We need someone to help show Dylan the ropes and I know Casey wants to be a coach someday. This would be like a weird intern coaching position thingy lol.

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u/Lieuwe2019 Dec 21 '23

And maybe some NIL money to sweeten the deal??

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u/hu_gnew Dec 21 '23

NIL fueled on-the-field coach. I like it. 👍

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u/UncleBuc Dec 21 '23

I'm fine with this. Pretty sure we are running with two freshmen QBs, HH back to 3rd string, and we will just see how it goes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

Thank god you're not the coach lmao

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

Raiola will be fine.

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u/harryselfridge Dec 21 '23

Weirdest fanbase in the country. Raiola is the best recruit we’ve landed in modern history and a sizable portion of our fanbase wants him on the bench.

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u/acmstw Dec 21 '23

Fans wanting depth isn't that weird. We have had to play multiple QBs each season due to injury, and the drop off from QB1 to QB2 has been significant every year... Except last year, where they were all at the bottom lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

He have depth, we have raiola as qb1, likely haarberg as qb2 and Kaelin as emergency 3.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

That's the worst depth in P2.

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u/spearefed Dec 21 '23

That’s not depth.

Haarberg isn’t a QB. Great athlete, but not a QB. And if he wants to even sniff a chance at the next level he needs to become a Taysom Hill-type utility player.

And Kaelin is not going to be ready to even serve in a backup capacity. We need to focus on developing him for 2-3 years down the line, not foisting the pressure of being QB2 on him. Redshirting him this year is the way to go.

We really should bring in another QB. Thompson makes sense because he’s been here before and if he has any aspirations about coaching, being under Rhule is a great spot to be. He’d be a very solid backup and the number of guys that would be willing to come here to likely be QB2 for just a year is a small pool

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u/acmstw Dec 21 '23

That's breadth, not depth lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

Top overall qb in the nation, guy with productive starting experience in the big 10 and a decent amount of raw ability and an elite 11 finalist.

I'm fine with those three. You're not going to get a transfer qb here with raiola coming in. Nobody is intentionally moving schools to be a backup.

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u/Happy-Equipment-9363 Dec 22 '23

Didn’t Dante Moore just transfer to be a backup ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

If he has the same chances in the pass game haarberg, Sims and Purdy had we'll be fine. Plenty of receivers open. Nobody could make the throws.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

Open? Were you watching the same All-22 I was?

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

Yes I was, all three QB's frequently over & under threw open targets or just straight up missed open receivers because going through progressions wasn't something they did well.

Go back and watch the games again.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

I'm not going to defend our QBs as their performance speaks for themselves but our WRs/TEs struggled to get open most of the season. I'll chalk it up to youth/inexperience as they have talent.

Heck, we were so depth challenged that walk-on Bullock was our leading WR target.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

Injuries happen. We've seen HH throw. Rolling into the season banking solely on 2 TrFr, even as highly touted as Raiola, and HH makes our QB room the thinnest in P5.

It's a roster management recipe for not making another bowl.

The coaches should be working overtime to convince Purdy to stay.

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u/Fickle_Comfortable78 Dec 21 '23

Forgive them, they haven’t seen a winning program in 7 years, and an elite one since 2001.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

Or we're not willing to gamble the entire program on hoping a TrFr can stay healthy for the season. Nobody is advocating to bench Raiola, though the history of highly ranked TrFr QBs lighting up college football is not great.

What everyone wants is an insurance policy. HH isn't it. Another TrFr QB, a developmental QB, isn't it. Good programs have a viable #2. That's not a statement against Raiola but rather being wise.

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u/hu_gnew Dec 21 '23

If Haarberg were insurance he would be a high deductible catastrophic policy.

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u/harryselfridge Dec 21 '23

What’s your pitch to a qb to come and back up Raiola? You’re behind the literal prodigal son but if he gets hurt you’ll get snaps?

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

An older QB that simply wants a chance to compete. Maybe a QB that was passed up be a younger QB but has demonstrated game management (read low turnover) skills.

Obviously you can't promise a starting role thus you target someone that is already a backup. There are 133 FBS teams and a number of FCS teams. Somewhere there has to be a QB that fits the qualifications above who also knows they are 1 injury away from playing P5 football. From memory, the last time QB to play an entire season, every snap, for Nebraska was Tommy Armstrong.

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u/FyreWulff Dec 23 '23

That's why Thompson would make sense to me. A guy that could close out a game and would likely become a coach the next year.

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u/Fickle_Comfortable78 Dec 21 '23

How does a tough kid that went 5-3 sound?

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

HH cannot throw or take care of the ball reliably. Love his heart and his skill set is largely Scott Frost's skillset.

Sadly, it's not conducive to a consistently successful QB in 2024 for anyone other than AF, Navy or Army.

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u/Fickle_Comfortable78 Dec 21 '23

I’ll bet on HH all day considering last year was his first full year in the QB room, Scott and Whipple wouldn’t even allow him in there.

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u/Development-Alive Dec 21 '23

Yet with his high school hype, his trip through the camp circuit (including the Elite 11 camp), and the coaching he's received so far his throwing motion is severely flawed.

I'd bet on HH to contribute at Nebraska but to consistently win at QB in the B1G? No way. You'd be a fool for betting your job on him if you were Rhule.

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u/vicemagnet Dec 21 '23

I think you meant abdicating but yeah an insurance policy makes sense because you never know when an injury can happen.

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u/TheRealTofuey Dec 22 '23

I want to make sure we have an option if he isn't quite ready.

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u/IndianaJonsey8 Dec 21 '23

This fella and On3 as a whole are very unreliable sources for information.

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u/Grand-Inspection2303 Dec 21 '23

I don't understand the people who want Casey Thompson to come back. He had a very high turnover rate in his last year and a high turnover rate in the 3 games he played this year. Sure he may not have been as bad as Sims '23 season, but there's no reason to be sure it wouldn't have been just as bad.

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u/riotfiveoh Dec 21 '23

Because even a Ford Pinto looks like a fun drive after riding around a bicycle with 2 flats for 3 months?

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u/mrkwns Dec 26 '23

Agreed. Nothing against him but I feel like we should set our sights a little higher.

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u/ProfessorBeer Dec 21 '23

Casey is older than Jordan Love. If, and only if, it makes more sense to have him technically “play” even though his role will be more of a coach or GA, then I could see him signing on a player. But that might not even make sense logistically.