Sounds like a good fit. A school that specializes in slow Linbackers who can't finish a tackle.
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Yanni is no doubt a good person but was definitely not George talent wise. Not even close. He must be a good student or he would not have been able to get into Northwestern. Look at it this way Yanni is getting a great education and we are getting an opponent with a less speedy LB to exploit.
Yanni was exactly as his high school coaches described him - enormous potential, none of his brothers drive.
Northwestern is an extremely selective school accepting only 7% of applicants and is well perceived by academia.
I won’t miss Heldt at all.
All he do was crash inside, and fail repeatedly to disrupt anything— leaving the edge wide open to fakes and RPO..
A rather cowardly DE— unable/ unwilling to stick his nose into the play to seal the edge.
I don’t get it. He’s got no chance to play there for 2 years. And if he sticks it out there, they could easily buy a guy from the portal who has actually played to start over him if he even becomes the backup there. He should be transferring down to actually play football.
Meh. It was coaching. 1000%
Not to say he’s great or ready to contribute at a school like Clemson but he was out there doing what he was told. It was bad and totally the wrong thing but he had no LBs to back him up and got benched a few times for making plays but not in the flow of what was called on defense.
We should be just fine without him but he’s a guy who still has potential to be good at the CFb level.
I agree. I liked Heldt. Has all the physical tools, but needs a coach to instill the mental tools. He'll play on Sundays.
Who knows in another seven years from now he might be on some NFL teams practice squad.
And once again you know everything and I know nothing. You say 5 players entered the portal and then returned. Go ahead and name them! And who of those 5 players is an actual difference maker? Or will be a starter? And who of those 5 players actually got a better offer? And do you have any proof they actually entered the portal?
That’s like saying a player entering the nba combine is going to enter the nba draft!
So who entered the portal that decided to come back? And were they even serious about leaving in the first place?
That’s like saying a player entering the nba combine is going to enter the nba draft!
So who entered the portal that decided to come back? And were they even serious about leaving in the first place?
I’ll double down on my statement. You mentioned position players. Did any of them develop physically by redshirting? Were any of them better for redshirting? I can name just as many who didn’t redshirt who were just as good and didn’t redshirt. The entire point of redshirting linemen was to recruit smaller linemen and then use a year to beef them up. And my entire point was that any lineman that is worth anything was already on a weight and conditioning program in high school and one more year of drinking protein shakes is not going to add another 40 pounds to a 260 pound lineman or develop stronger muscles! You failed to grasp the main point of my argument and decided to go on your own tangent! The only reason the above players redshirted was because they were at a position where they didn’t start. Did they actually develop? Or were they actually just as good as freshmen but just didn’t have an opportunity to play?
I would like to see when a player enters the portal the door is shut and they can’t come back. This will end some of this nonsense.
Only 3 have withdrawn from the portal. Browne was technically gone when Singleton signed.
'Selective' does not apply to football players and legacies.
Further, selectiveness is not a measure of quality. Look at the NU website to see all the worthless or even frivolous majors that are offered.
I don’t know everything.
Tra’mar Harris
Jamari Payne
Ahrmad Branch
Nick Levy
Sterling Smith
I don’t know if all those guys will start. Branch is expected to complete and was the second fastest WR we had last year. Nick levy is our staring king snapper and when he saw we were hiring an elite ST coach he decided to stay. Harris and Payne were true freshmen and great recoveries. I don’t know anything about smith. Also Mockobee was expected to move on if Purdue didn’t keep Conard, so chalk that up to wait and see who the coach was but I didn’t count him since he didn’t officially enter the transfer portal. The other 5 did.
Again don’t let facts get in the way.
Selective applies to all Northwestern students. Your personal opinion of the worth or lack thereof of majors at Northwestern has no influence on the academic status of Northwestern University. It does however speak volumes as to your lack of intelligence. Northwestern is considered a top ten university (because of their selectivity and rigor) while Purdue is considered a top 50 institution.
No need to be insulting. I think an important element of intelligence is being skeptical in general - such as, for example, in not accepting without question the PR flacking that 'elite' universities continually spew out to justify their astronomical tuition costs.
Selectivity is a clearly a farce in many respects at schools like NW given legacies, athletes and other special considerations, but how can you speak with any knowledge about the 'rigor' of such schools? How is rigor measured and compared? Have you not heard of grade inflation?
If you look at QS World university rankings, one of the most respected university ranking systems, Northwestern is 76 and Purdue is 89.
QS World University Rankings 2025: Top Global Universities
Dinkins has withdrawn, that makes six official. I think less than 50 have withdrawn in all of D1 football and we have 6. I think the next closest is 3.
