HuskerOnline – The Weekly Rundown: Can winning the off-season get Nebraska over the hump??

It has been a giant month for Nebraska with low season additions. Will that get the Huskers over the hump in 2022?

We hit on that and extra within the Weekly Rundown Column.

You must really feel fairly good about this stuff proper now:

Successful the low season: It is sort of turn out to be a operating joke. Nebraska wins the low season yearly, and they’re as soon as once more doing it proper now.

With the newest addition of Alabama transfers Kaine Williams and Stephon Wynn Jr., the Huskers have now added 14 gamers from the switch portal and 32 scholarship gamers general to their 2022 roster.

I do not care who you’re, that sort of roster motion goes to get folks’s consideration. Scott Frost and his workers have gone all-in to creating this teaching workers and roster higher. This would be the greatest one-year haul of gamers NU has added in program historical past in the event that they shut with Texas WR Marcus Washington.

It truly is exceptional to suppose the quantity is at 32 when it was simply at seven on Dec. 4. NU has added 25 new scholarship gamers to their workforce now during the last 169 days.

A greater line of defense now than on Apr. 9: When Casey Rogers went into the switch portal days after spring observe ended, it felt like Nebraska was in a extremely dangerous spot with their line of defense heading into 2022.

They had been in a possible place the place they had been going to have to start out or play a number of gamers with restricted or no play expertise. Issues have actually modified in a rush.

The Huskers have added TCU’s Ochaun Mathus, Texas Tech’s Devin Drew and Wynn during the last month. I am going to say it proper now, it is a main improve over the lack of Rogers, Jordon Riley and Deontre Thomas, who all may/ought to nonetheless be on this soccer workforce.

Invoice Busch: This was the Invoice Busch weekend in Lincoln. Three of his massive recruiting targets had been at NU in operating again Dylan Edwards, offensive lineman Cayden Inexperienced and vast receiver Jaidyn Doss.

Busch is relentless on the recruiting path relating to protecting dialogue along with his major targets. His arduous work paid off with what gave the impression to be a really profitable recruiting weekend in Lincoln.

These had been my surprises of the week:

Successful the Wynn battle: I am going to say this, per week in the past presently I do not suppose Nebraska had an incredible really feel on the place issues had been going with Wynn’s recruitment.

In actual fact, Georgia Tech thought they’d Wynn as of late final week. I am informed Wynn knowledgeable Frost on Thursday afternoon issues had been trending within the Huskers’ route. It is a massive get, as Nebraska simply would not have gamers with the construct or expertise of Wynn on their soccer workforce.

Nebraska baseball not making it to Omaha: Of all of the shocking or dangerous issues that occurred to Nebraska males’s athletics in 2021-22, when you would have informed me Will Bolt’s workforce was not going to qualify for the Large Ten Match, I might’ve thought you had been loopy.

This weekend was a intestine punch. I feel everybody felt they had been going to get issues discovered late with sequence towards Large Ten backside feeders Minnesota and Michigan State. The Huskers went 3-3 in these video games. 4-2 would have gotten them to Omaha this week. They’ve actually nobody accountable however themselves. NU received simply two-of-eight weekend sequence this yr in Large Ten play.

2020 Energy 5 TV cash: Kevin Warren and the Large Ten’s indecisiveness over deciding on in the event that they had been going to play in 2020 ended up costing the league arguably $100 million.

The Large Ten claimed simply $679.8 million in TV revenues in 2020, which was down $89 million from 2019.

In the meantime, the SEC, which began its pandemic season on Sept. 26 made $833 million – up $105 million from the earlier yr. The Large Ten did not begin till Oct. 24. That misplaced month of soccer on TV was expensive for the Large Ten.

Nonetheless, it may have been a lot worse. Think about if the winter/spring season concept would’ve gotten off the bottom? Who is aware of the place this league could be proper now.

Questions nonetheless encompass this stuff:

Will Nebraska add Texas WR Marcus Washington?: Texas WR Marcus Washington was in Lincoln this weekend for his official go to.

All accounts are the go to went very effectively. The query is what’s subsequent? It seems to be a two-horse race between Nebraska and Purdue. My feeling now could be the Huskers have the sting on this one.

Are the Huskers nonetheless recruiting JUCO DL Taylor Lewis?: Santa Clarita (Calif.) School of the Canyons defensive lineman Taylor Lewis visited Oregon State this weekend. He is stored restricted communication with Nebraska during the last week.

Lewis has but to arrange an official to Lincoln, and he informed me this week a Husker coach could go to his faculty in California within the coming days.

With that stated, now that NU has Wynn within the boat, are issues accomplished with Lewis? Immediately, I positive get that feeling. With Mathis, Drew and Wynn, I simply have a tough time seeing the Large Crimson including one other defensive lineman.

Shifting ahead, this has my consideration:

Large Ten over/below win totals: The VegasInsider over/below win totals got here out for 2022. Within the Large Ten West, Iowa and Wisconsin cleared the path with an over/below win complete of 8.5. Nebraska is subsequent in keeping with a complete of seven.5, adopted by Minnesota at 6.5. Purdue was not listed, however one would anticipate them to be within the 6 to eight win vary as effectively.

What these early numbers are saying is the Large Ten West at the very least right now seems to be a whole seize bag. Often, a workforce like Wisconsin is nearer to a 9.5 complete. It is usually fascinating how excessive persons are on the Huskers, with so many unknowns proper now. To me, it is all in regards to the schedule and simply how favorable the primary 9 video games are.

Oklahoma is the one workforce the Huskers see with an over/below greater than 6.5 wins over the primary 9 video games, and they’re at 9.5 wins.

Ok-State’s over/below win complete: One of many extra shocking over/below win totals was Kansas State at simply 5.5.

One would suppose the addition of QB Adrian Martinez this low season paired with operating again Deuce Vaughn would bump the Wildcast to extra the 7 to 9 win vary.

Wichita RB Dylan Edwards: Till Sunday, it was arduous to get a learn on the place issues sat with Derby (Kan.) operating again Dylan Edwards. However after this weekend, it is clear the Huskers are very a lot in it with the Kansas Gatorade Participant of the Yr.

The query now could be what different official visits with Edwards take?

Fremont Bergan LB Kade McIntyre: NU vast receivers coach Mickey Joseph was by Fremont Bergan this week to see LB Kade McIntrye. The query now could be will the Huskers are available with a suggestion? You get the sensation if it occurs, it has to occur this week.

By the best way, after seeing McIntyre’s brother Koa McIntyre run a ten.8 digital and win the Class C 100 meter title, it’s a must to surprise if he too ought to’ve garnered a Husker supply? Koa McIntyre signed with Wyoming.

Sean Callahan may be reached at sean@huskeronline.com and he may be heard every day at 6:45 am and 5:05 pm on Large Crimson Radio 1110 KFAB in Omaha through the soccer season. He can be seen on KETV Channel 7 in Omaha through the fall and every week he seems on Nebraska Public Media’s Large Crimson Wrap-Tuesday’s at 7 pm.