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I'm absolutely baffled. This SHOULD have been Sully's team next season.
It’s great news when some players leave the program. Obviously Sullivan isn’t one of those, it would be great to have him around, but keeping around backup QBs with any significant experience is not really a thing these days.
Eh, I'm just saying here's a dude who probably came into the spring thinking it was finally his time after watching us bring in two grad transfer QBs in a row who cut the line; his head coach and position coaches leave, and then he gets the rug pulled out from underneath him by a bunch of strangers. A victim of circumstance (and yes, his own ceiling)...I still feel badly that he will probably look back on his many years at NU with some negativity.
What is the “rug pulled out by a bunch of strangers” part? Clearly Sullivan can see that Bryant was the superior QB and we would not have won as many games with Sully starting. Sully got to start 4 games anyway I believe. The year before, Sully was just a RS FR so he wasnt really “cut in line” by Hilinski.
I'm just acknowledging the kid has put in his time and just when he thought (hoped?) the starting job was his, a new coach who might not even have a permanent local address yet comes in and changes it on him (again!)
In the olden days when programs used to develop players rather than reload from the Portal, he would have clearly "earned" the job by virtue of being the best QB evidently on the roster at the recent spring showcase.
Nailed it. That cannot be an oversight. Speaks volumes about his feelings.
I think the general attractiveness of the program for a QB recruit is irrelevant at the moment because a done deal is soon to be announced.
Again, IMO there wasn’t a wide gap in performance based only on last Saturday. Any team that hands a job over to any non Superstar talent without giving the other players a legitimate opportunity to compete for the role will be engulfed in locker room turmoil. The job wasn’t and shouldn’t have been handed to Sully.
Don’t besmirch Cole Freeman like that.
It is weird that Mike Wright (if he’s the presumed guy) announced for the portal I believe after Sullivan announced, and he does not have a no contact tag. How could the could the coaches have told Sullivan that a taking a transfer was a done deal? Maybe it is someone else.
That sounds risky. 'We plan to take a QB, it's not Gronk, we have a few prospects', vs a guy that can probably win 4+games for you with a semblance of an OL. If NU gets nothing, or nobody better than Hilinski, we are in deep 💩. I expect the defense to be really solid, but they need a functional QB, not like Deacon Hill.
If we need Sullivan to beat Miami, EIU, and two of Indiana, Illinois, Purdue, Maryland, Duke, Wisconsin, Iowa, we are indeed in trouble.
It's an insurmountable bar for the guys remaining on the roster, which is what I said
Are you saying that the QB room remaining on the roster can win 4+ games? I don’t think so. Very sketchy to say they told Sullivan something definitive without having a transfer lined up. There’s been absolutely zero rumor mill evidence that any QB had talked to or visited NU at any time.
I feel like this is an overread; don't see what Schill/Gragg have to do with this transfer, especially when the glaring omission is the coaching staff in his statement.
Winning 4 games is a somewhat low bar considering that Sullivan's sample size is small over 2 years and includes 1 result that could be considered outstanding.
