I've always looked at the Composite top 500 rankings to see how many we have commits from as well as how many visited. Looking at top 500 on the composite is important due to site rankings discrepancy. There are top 100 rivals players that are 400+ in the composite for instance. If you are in the top 500 in the composite you typically have 10+ P5 offers and are a high 3 star and above on average and are in the upper .5% of high school players nationwide. Also top 20 classes every year take an average of 24 players which equals 480 players to fill those 20 classes. Looking at the top 500 not just the top 250 is very important. Looking at the last 15 years you need to average around 65-75% of your class to come from the top 500 to compete for championships.
This class is already absolutely loaded compared to other years going back to Callahan in the top 500 with OV's from the #1-5 players at almost every position (Foster, DPJ and Lewis, Holmes/Lenoir/Blades, etc.) We've never had that much talent on campus for OV's.
If you would of told me 4 years ago that in the 17' class we would have the #1 OT, #1 WR and #1 CB all take OV's I would of told you to lay off the crack. Getting them on campus is a huge deal and athletes take notice. Recruiting needs positive momentum and winning on the field to be elite. The progress in two years by this staff is amazing and will only get better in the future. For those that still aren't happy with our recruiting for whatever strange reason you're an idiot FYI.
Now think about the last 8 NSD's. We've either already had the class completely finished minus waiting for some random low 3 stars or 2 stars to decide or we were in on maybe 1 or 2 big fish that wouldn't pick us. Thanks Owa.
This year is pretty nuts just looking through the names yet to decide. 12 players we either have a hat on the table or they took OV's this year and are still deciding. Also unheard of for us.
List below: All these players either took OV's, Committed or we were close on. 11 Commits in top 500 as of right now plus another 7 making NSD decisions. 11 out of 18 players are a 4 star on at least 1 site. Pretty impressive laying it out like this...this staff put in work.
Averaging out ESPN, Scout, 247 and RIVALS
5 - Foster
12 - Peoples Jones
20- Carr
23 - Holmes
31 - Lewis - NSD
50 - Tyjon - Commit
52 - Shelvin
66 - Lenoir - NSD
82 - Graham
85 - Jaylon Johnson
102 - Greg Johnson - NSD
105 - Robert Beal - Maybe a suprise weekend visitor?
113 - Filiaga
125 - Holloman
138 - Blades - NSD
140 - Falo
143 - Calloway
157 - Bowden
172 - Avery Roberts - Commit
192 - Jaylon Redd
202 - Gebbia - Commit
216 - Tilford
226 - Alaric Williams
242 - Bynum
266 - Kelly Powell
271 - Hodgins
300 - Jaevon - Commit
313 - Calvin - Commit
322 - Isaac Slade
329 - Rahyme
331 - RJ Potts
343 - Noah Ellis - NSD
341 - KJJ - Commit
352 - Jake Ferguson
394 - Grimes
413 - Jaimes - Commit
417 - Bryan Thompson - NSD
418 - Watts - Commit
419 - Gavin Holmes
435 - Deontre Thomas - Commit
438 - Sichterman - Commit
442 - Verdell - NSD
456 - Guy - Commit
471 - Jack Coan
481 - Nick Robinson
500 - Leitao - Jerk
Notable 500+ - Michael Ony (537), Evidence (513), Curl (581), Husker Lynch (597), Evan Fields (600), Damion Daniels (626), Porcher (651), Darrian Felix (659), Trajon Cotton (669), Jeremiah Hawkins (697), Kurt Rafdal (699)
I could go on and on and probably missed 10+. Some straight studs in the 500+
Everyone enjoy next Wednesday and start bringing the positivity to Husker football again. We will start seeing results on the field and the team and coaches need our patience and positive support. What they are doing with the difficulty in recruiting to middle america is nothing short of amazing.
Sorry for the long post but this is the stuff I find very interesting.
GBR
This class is already absolutely loaded compared to other years going back to Callahan in the top 500 with OV's from the #1-5 players at almost every position (Foster, DPJ and Lewis, Holmes/Lenoir/Blades, etc.) We've never had that much talent on campus for OV's.
If you would of told me 4 years ago that in the 17' class we would have the #1 OT, #1 WR and #1 CB all take OV's I would of told you to lay off the crack. Getting them on campus is a huge deal and athletes take notice. Recruiting needs positive momentum and winning on the field to be elite. The progress in two years by this staff is amazing and will only get better in the future. For those that still aren't happy with our recruiting for whatever strange reason you're an idiot FYI.
Now think about the last 8 NSD's. We've either already had the class completely finished minus waiting for some random low 3 stars or 2 stars to decide or we were in on maybe 1 or 2 big fish that wouldn't pick us. Thanks Owa.
This year is pretty nuts just looking through the names yet to decide. 12 players we either have a hat on the table or they took OV's this year and are still deciding. Also unheard of for us.
List below: All these players either took OV's, Committed or we were close on. 11 Commits in top 500 as of right now plus another 7 making NSD decisions. 11 out of 18 players are a 4 star on at least 1 site. Pretty impressive laying it out like this...this staff put in work.
Averaging out ESPN, Scout, 247 and RIVALS
5 - Foster
12 - Peoples Jones
20- Carr
23 - Holmes
31 - Lewis - NSD
50 - Tyjon - Commit
52 - Shelvin
66 - Lenoir - NSD
82 - Graham
85 - Jaylon Johnson
102 - Greg Johnson - NSD
105 - Robert Beal - Maybe a suprise weekend visitor?
113 - Filiaga
125 - Holloman
138 - Blades - NSD
140 - Falo
143 - Calloway
157 - Bowden
172 - Avery Roberts - Commit
192 - Jaylon Redd
202 - Gebbia - Commit
216 - Tilford
226 - Alaric Williams
242 - Bynum
266 - Kelly Powell
271 - Hodgins
300 - Jaevon - Commit
313 - Calvin - Commit
322 - Isaac Slade
329 - Rahyme
331 - RJ Potts
343 - Noah Ellis - NSD
341 - KJJ - Commit
352 - Jake Ferguson
394 - Grimes
413 - Jaimes - Commit
417 - Bryan Thompson - NSD
418 - Watts - Commit
419 - Gavin Holmes
435 - Deontre Thomas - Commit
438 - Sichterman - Commit
442 - Verdell - NSD
456 - Guy - Commit
471 - Jack Coan
481 - Nick Robinson
500 - Leitao - Jerk
Notable 500+ - Michael Ony (537), Evidence (513), Curl (581), Husker Lynch (597), Evan Fields (600), Damion Daniels (626), Porcher (651), Darrian Felix (659), Trajon Cotton (669), Jeremiah Hawkins (697), Kurt Rafdal (699)
I could go on and on and probably missed 10+. Some straight studs in the 500+
Everyone enjoy next Wednesday and start bringing the positivity to Husker football again. We will start seeing results on the field and the team and coaches need our patience and positive support. What they are doing with the difficulty in recruiting to middle america is nothing short of amazing.
Sorry for the long post but this is the stuff I find very interesting.
GBR
