Future secondary...

[HBK4life]

I know these former Huskers were on different teams but the guys we are getting now I'm thinking of a loaded group of guys like the Bullocks twins, Tyrone Williams, Keyou Craver, Prince, Dennard, Mike and Ralph Brown, Mike Minter..etc..etc. #Stacked..GBR

 

[jeans15]

We have stocked some talent there.

 

[bigboxes]

I made that comment this last week. This will be our best secondary (talent wise) since the late 90's.

 

[PeliniTheCrutch]

I made that comment this last week. This will be our best secondary (talent wise) since the late 90's.

I disagree. You are putting this group ahead of 2009? 2003? 2010?

 

[litespeedhuskerfan]

I made that comment this last week. This will be our best secondary (talent wise) since the late 90's.

The flying ninjas were pretty awesome.

 

[bigboxes]

I disagree. You are putting this group ahead of 2009? 2003? 2010?

Yes. As a group, this will be our best secondary since the late 90's. No disrespect towards Prince.

 

[PeliniTheCrutch]

Yes. As a group, this will be our best secondary since the late 90's. No disrespect towards Prince.

Me and you are way off then. I see at least one safety spot as a huge question mark, one projected starting CB that couldn't play dead last year(although athletically gifted), and the other corner(jones) was mediocre the last half of the season. Hoping the new coaches make a world of difference though. That is definitely a position group where coaching can boost the on-field performance in a big way.

 

[HBK4life]

Yes. As a group, this will be our best secondary since the late 90's. No disrespect towards Prince.

Gotta disagree on that one. Those secondaries with Prince, Dennard, Hagg and Gomes in 2009 were a solid bunch. Also, the 2003 bunch with the Bullocks boys and Fabian were also a good group.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

The potential for this group is high. I can see where it may well become the best. But....

It's impossible to compare what might happen to what has already happened. It's pointless, one side has statistics the other has 40 times and verticles.

 

[bigboxes]

C'mon guys. I realize they may never be as good in reality as they are on paper, but from a recruiting standpoint they look like the best secondary as a collection that we've had in a long time. I meant no disrespect to those that have come before them. Haha! It's good to have that problem (and expectations).

 

[jflores]

I disagree. You are putting this group ahead of 2009? 2003? 2010?

C'mon guys. I realize they may never be as good in reality as they are on paper, but from a recruiting standpoint they look like the best secondary as a collection that we've had in a long time. I meant no disrespect to those that have come before them. Haha! It's good to have that problem (and expectations).

Indeed. Prince was a 3 or 4 star RB coming out of AZ I think it was. Dennard was a late 3* find. The Bullocks brothers I honestly don't remember what they were ranked, 3* a solid bet

If this group that includes Lamar Jackson, Bookie, Blades, Goodrich, and potentially Griffith live up to billing, this could be quite a group.

 

[suhnami]

Let's see which ones make it to campus and beyond their freshman year

 

[Cornicator]

A lot of the claims are a tad baseless here. However, there are a few things we can all agree on:

- If you can't play shut down defense in the back end with this amount of talent, then you should probably stop playing football.

- While its premature to compare them to the best of all time, its also reasonable to say its a significant step up from trotting out dudes like PJ Smith, Harvey Jackson, Josh Mitchell, Daniel Davie, and Andrew Green. And at the very least, Nebraska won't be in a situation again where they need dudes like Justin Blatchford to play out of position at Nickel or undersized transfers like Byerson Cockrell to come in a league like the Big Ten, when they're really built for playing in a more pass happy league like the Big 12 or the MWC.

 

[huskerfan1414]

Its a shame DuJuan Groce was not memtioned in this thread. Terrible shame.

 

[HBK4life]

Its a shame DuJuan Groce was not memtioned in this thread. Terrible shame.

He was in the etc..etc with others like Michael Booker and Bruce Pickens.

 

[inWV]

2009: Fonzi, Dejon, Asante, Hagg, Matt O and Prince. I will be more than pleased if we have six guys that play at the level of these six.

 

[Husker Sledge]

Wasn't it 2009 D that led the country is scoring defense? That group was amazingly good considering how much they were on the field! Remember how brutal our offense was?

 

[otismotis08]

The Peso defense was pretty salty.

 

[PeliniTheCrutch]

Wasn't it 2009 D that led the country is scoring defense? That group was amazingly good considering how much they were on the field! Remember how brutal our offense was?

Zac Lee + Shawn Watson...deadly combination.