I think using the word "worrying" is bit excessive. I have always said that we have to be concerned about recruiting all of the time, even in the spring. My reasoning is we have and have had offers out to some big guns and we wait as they have lots of options. Each one that goes off the board to other schools naturally reduces the number of highly ranked kids. So, while that isn't something worth worrying about, it is a mathematical reality, the pool shrinks.
Of course, I agree, but a month or two ago the other poster was really lamenting that we only had 3 in state commits. Many posters, myself included, preached patience, because this seems to happen every year.
It would be nice to get back to the days where we had our pick of the liter and had to turn guys away. We are a long ways from that reality.
Actually we never really had our pick of the litter on a sustainable and ongoing basis. We got a few but we were mainly smarter in terms of recruiting hidden gems and developing them. Dr. Tom always ranked higher in the final team rankings than he did in the recruiting rankings.
That is urban legend. Tom was selective and got who he wanted. Think Gill, Frazier, Berringer along with RBs who were who’s who in RBs of the day.
He was relentless in recruiting- most overachieving program under his watch related to local talent.
In terms of fan support, facilities and now leadership we got it real good at Nebraska. I think this next decade is going to be fun…
Well since Sanders can go any where he wants and those schools all have everything it will probably come down in the end to how close the relationship with Raiola really is. Basically is that relationship strong enough to overcome the distance factor (since that's important to the family)?
I believe this is where winning becomes very important. Win 5 games and this kid ain't coming here. Win 8 or 9 games and all the sudden he can see the momentum. NIL negates some of the distance factor. Kid can fly mom and dad out whenever he wants and foot the bill.
I really like that the Huskers now are planning ahead for the QB room. Thomas seems to be doing a very good job so far but of course the real proof will come in the Fall during real games. I'm excited to see how it unfolds.
I think it’s short sighted to assume an NFL’s team record after firing a coach is directly related to that firing. That crappy franchise is a direct result of their GM and owner. Their last coach wanted Stroud and he was overruled by his GM and owner. ALL of the Roster Rhule had to work with was dictated to him by an incompetent GM. Go read what Ameer has had to say about Matt Rhule.
Yeah. I'll say that back when he was coach I wasn't following actual recruiting like I do now.
For the record I wasn’t saying that Carolina was better without Rhule. I was saying they were better without their starting QB and RB.
Under Mike Riley we went after many big fish consistently, but consistently we had little to no chance of actually landing those big fish.
Like Micah Parsons really liked N but thought the coaching staff was a joke… or something like that.
This is what I love about Rhule. He’s not content with landing a couple of dudes here and there like when Frost got Wandale and basically called it a day.
Let’s tap the breaks a little. Nick Saban never had a losing season in college. Also, there’s been way more NFL head coaches that got fired in the NFL, came to college and sucked then there were Nick Saban success stories. We had one that sucked named Bill. Can we just hope for a good season vs pretending Rhule is the next coming? geeze… one step at a time please.
