500 Mile Radius for 2018

[wxman39]

Just used Rivals Prospects for 2018 that were high 3*s and above. Here is the 500 Mile List. I didn't include Oklahoma. Quite a few Missouri kids on this list for 2018.

Trevor Trout DT 6.0 6'3" 295
St. Louis, MO
32
Kamryn Babb WR 5.9 6'1" 175
St. Louis, MO
68
Michael Thompson DT 5.9 6'4" 273
Saint Louis, MO
92
Cameron Jurgens ATH 5.9 6'3" 235
Beatrice, NE
72 Nebraska
Micah Jones WR 5.8 6'5" 196
Gurnee, IL
158
Devin O'Rourke DE 5.8 6'6" 230
Frankfort, IL
216
Cameron McGrone LB 5.8 6'1" 210
Indianapolis, IN

Adrian Jackson DB 5.8 6'3" 205
Denver, CO
171
Mario Goodrich ATH 5.8 6'2" 180
Lee's Summit, MO
188
Tyrone Tracy Jr. RB 5.7 6'0" 182
Indianapolis, IN

John Waggoner DE 5.7 6'5" 230
West Des Moines, IA

Ronnie Perkins DE 5.7 6'4" 260
St. Louis, MO

Miles Emery DE 5.7 6'5" 235
Overland Park, KS

Daniel Carson DE 5.7 6'5" 270
Independence, MO

Elijah Teague DT 5.7 6'3" 292
Chicago, IL

Daniel Parker Jr. DT 5.7 6'3" 270
Blue Springs, MO

Jack Sanborn LB 5.7 6'2" 210
Lake Zurich, IL

Devin Haney DB 5.7 6'2" 165
Kansas City, MO

Dallas Craddieth DB 5.7 6'1" 180
Florissant, MO

Tyrik Henderson DB 5.7 5'10" 160
Carol Stream, IL

 

[jeans15]

And we should be all over them.......we got about the right amount of recruits from California this year

We need to re-establish ourselves in Missouri first and foremost. Trying to build your class from states outside of that radius is a mistake, imo.

 

[Bruce1981]

I see we already have a commitment in that radius and are targeting most of them. I trust Riley until he gives me a reason not to.

 

[nebcountry]

If I counted correctly, 20 recruits on the list. We've offered just 7 out of the 20, I would hardly call that "most". One of the players has NU already picked as his one and only highest choice, and we don't offer.

The question is, is it better to chase the coastal recruits all year long, let the radius players commit to other teams, and then hope mom doesn't get in the way of a January commitment. And if mom gets in the way in January, it's slim pickens and uphill battles trying to flip recruits.

My opinion is we need get more commits earlier in the cycle. That way we don't need to still fill 30% to 40% of class down to the wire, with slim pickens and uphill battles. I don't live in a vacuum. If we're "in it" with 10 big namers that'll commit right before signing day, I'd only expect to get 0,1, or 2 of them anyway.

Is it settling? I don't know. If we had 19 guys committed at this point and we're looking for just 3 more, swinging for the fences, I'd feel a whole lot better about our recruiting. Rather than needing 7 or 8 more guys, and seeing that not quite 1/3 of the class will be last minute reaches.

 

[Bruce1981]

If I counted correctly, 20 recruits on the list. We've offered just 7 out of the 20, I would hardly call that "most". One of the players has NU already picked as his one and only highest choice, and we don't offer.

The question is, is it better to chase the coastal recruits all year long, let the radius players commit to other teams, and then hope mom doesn't get in the way of a January commitment. And if mom gets in the way in January, it's slim pickens and uphill battles trying to flip recruits.

My opinion is we need get more commits earlier in the cycle. That way we don't need to still fill 30% to 40% of class down to the wire, with slim pickens and uphill battles. I don't live in a vacuum. If we're "in it" with 10 big namers that'll commit right before signing day, I'd only expect to get 0,1, or 2 of them anyway.

Is it settling? I don't know. If we had 19 guys committed at this point and we're looking for just 3 more, swinging for the fences, I'd feel a whole lot better about our recruiting. Rather than needing 7 or 8 more guys, and seeing that not quite 1/3 of the class will be last minute reaches.

Thank God you're not a coach there targeting all 20 guys and ignoring the coast. Tom didn't even do that.

 

[nebcountry]

Thank God you're not a coach there targeting all 20 guys and ignoring the coast. Tom didn't even do that.

You said "ignoring the coast", not me. I said they've offered 7 out of 20, that's not most.

 

[Bruce1981]

Yeah I said most. What do you want him to do? Offering all 20 isn't the way you recruit.

 

[nebcountry]

Yeah I said most. What do you want him to do? Offering all 20 isn't the way you recruit.

I'm not the one going all extremism. I didn't say offer all 20. We can't sit around on our hands on these radius guys, they'll commit somewhere else. At the end of the cycle, we'll be late offering low rated guys, and someone on here will have a long write-up on what a great late pickup he was. And that is a recipe for Bo Pelini recruiting. Someone will want to bring up the AA homerun, but ignore all the Talon's, Alston's, Bush's, etc strikeouts.

Imo, we can't pass on the good but not the greatest that's in our area. And that means we should fully 100% expect the coaching staff to land a 50 mile radius player, and not break out the ticker tape parade because they landed a kid from Beatrice.

Mario Goodrich as an example out of the OP's list. He already has NU as his top choice, 6'2", 180 lb, 4* athlete. He has 5 mid/lower tier P5 offers, but we haven't offered. He may not be our very top choice, that will be some kid from Oregon or Georgia who doesn't even like NU, but is willing to at least talk to the coaches. So we'll spend all year trying to woo the Oregon or Georgia kid only to find out in January that he's going to Oregon or Georgia. Meanwhile, the kid close to home commits to a nearby school and shuts down his commitment.

 

[baseball31ne]

Nebraska to get back to their top-level has to dominate the recruiting in the Midwest. To me that means getting the top three or four players out of the top 6 from Nebraska every single year. That means then getting out of the top 100 or 150 players from just in the 500-mile radius Nebraska needs to have the second or third most of those players from any other team inside that radius. From there we can go and try to find that Elite Talent that sits on the coast and sits down in SEC country. Is it going to be easy, no. But Nebraska needs to do that they have the sources of income to be able to beat the bushes to find that talent and put the Blood Sweat and Equity into it by our coaches. It would be helpful if the social media stay strong and stay positive about the program and honestly nothing's better than getting nine 10 11 12 wins a year for recruits to see that that's where they want to go. Got to start having more of each