Ainsworth TE Carter Nelson Gets Bama Offer

[Huskers123456]

Not upset in the least (speaking for myself). Just confused by this fan base. For years we heard how it’s such a priority that every Johnny Tryhard from Central City has a spot to walk on at NU. Now that a kid like this comes along (with legit measurables, and yes I get he plays lowly 8 man), gets offers from the legit heavyweights in the sport…. And the narrative is turned to “yeah but there’s no way they are actually interested because he’s from a small town”.
Freaking weird reaction. A psychologist would have a field day with our fan base.

Like I said earlier. If it was an OU offer I would totally believe he has an offer where he could commit and sign. It's 2 states away. Coach is from Kansas. Etc.

Bama and I'm leery. I believe it was more of a "you have an offer" with some super fast legal disclaimer about how the offer is based on coming to their camp and passing the eye ball test and then he can't get hurt either. They also reserve the right to pull the offer if some 5 star Georgia TE commit changes his mind.

But make no mistake. I don't care whether Bama offered him or not, Rhule does in fact need to keep kids like this home. These TE/DE body types from Nebraska have done pretty well over the years, unfortunately usually at other schools.

 

[RedBaloneyPony]

Kid is a stud. Crazy part to me is seeing how far Ainsworth has fallen. The used to be a decent sized C-1 school.

Farms get bigger. Towns/Schools get smaller. Happening all over rural Nebraska.

 

[SuperBigFan]

Farms get bigger. Towns/Schools get smaller. Happening all over rural Nebraska.

They were C1? Wow, when?

 

[leodisflowers]

They were C1? Wow, when?

When I was in HS they were C-1. That was 98-2002

 

[WHCSC]

I think there is a misunderstanding about offers. Just from my (horrible) coaching experience the offers TEND to work like this.

1. Committable: Staff has met with the kid, family, coaches and teachers/counselors, people like that. Kid has visited the campus and USUALLY taken an official, not always, but usually.

2. Offer/not committable: Staff says "we want to offer you a scholarship to attend XYZ but we want you to visit us first, right now you are at the top of our list for your position.

It isn't that they are not interested, it is that they are very interested but they treat scholarships like gold and they are doing their research. Just like Frost offered kids that never visited campus, they accepted and then left a few months later.

You offer to get THEM interested, because the worst thing you can do (as we saw with Frost) is NOT offer, wait, and then try to get involved late.

Are there instances when an offer is 100% committable right away, with no visits or anything like that, sure. It happens.

And I'm sure there are lots of kids self reporting an offer that they never received

 

[SuperBigFan]

And I'm sure there are lots of kids self reporting an offer that they never received

For sure!

SOooooo many kids get the "form letter" from "the coach" and think it means an offer.

 

[BleedRed78]

For sure!

SOooooo many kids get the "form letter" from "the coach" and think it means an offer.

Hey! That's how I always treated my ONE whole P5 "offer" from K State during the Callahan years! 😉