I hope so otherwise what are you doing. No more stopping by the office to eat snacks and shit. No more trying to be a "friend". This is big business and should be treated as such.
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I hope so otherwise what are you doing. No more stopping by the office to eat snacks and shit. No more trying to be a "friend". This is big business and should be treated as such.
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I thought kid looked pretty talented on film. But I've seen so many guys "look" talented and it never translate to the field that I'm numb to it. Wake me up when one of these guys leave Nebraska and thrives at another school.
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I think it is pretty common in basketball for "city" kids to go anywhere. Far more Seattle area kids go out-of-state than stay and play for the Huskies, Cougs and even the Zags. For example, Jaylin Stewart from Seattle's Garfield High is playing for UConn.
Who is from Federal Way, WA, a Seattle suburb. Interesting piece of trivia, Donny, was an All-State Soccer player too. I watched Donny play just about everything. I lived in the same area and Federal Way High is where my brother went for his senior year of high school after our dad got transferred from Nebraska to Seattle.
Donny was a fan favorite in Storrs. Love the quote from Calhoun about Donny during his Junior year. “He’s making shots he wouldn’t have taken last year, and would have needed written permission to take his freshman year.”
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Classic example of a kid who is deemed a four star early in his HS career and doesn't get much better. Common story at NU in the last 12 years or so.
Yes they do.
Well, I don’t know any specifics about UNK, but there are definitely NIL programs at DII schools.
So we thinking this was a Rhule force out? Hopefully he would be smart enough to not leave without a good offer.
For the years toward the end of Mac Brown's time at TX, people wondered why Mac's always top ten ranked recruiting class were able to underperform. Well, every year Texas gets the pick of high talent emerging from their Jr HS year and the coaches (all with quite a bit of tenure) often has their players committed before the kids played a single down of Sr year football. So they got more than a few kids for whom their Jr year of HS was their best year. Frost's game was taking kids that had blue chip athleticism, but were NR between the ears and just not particularly good FB players.
I don’t know how much things have improved at UNK but when they moved to the MIAA a decade ago they were giving out about 15 scholarships out of the 36 allowed in D2. I know it’s improved a lot since then but I doubt they are giving the full 36 plus NIL
Coach Osborne once spoke to this. He said you have to be careful when recruiting Texas kids. Since they either train for or play football year-round, many of them have already reached their full potential by 11th or 12th grade. They won't get bigger, stronger or faster regardless of how you try to develop them.
And dozens of schools have been in-person evaluating them since these kids were in 7th grade. Why I think recruiting Cali kids can be more productive if you have any connections.
It's interesting. I don't know much about Burkhead's HS development, but he was highly sought after by Beck. I imagine he was a kid that took football very seriously and was probably as prepared for college ball as any high school kid could be. He was never the best athlete on the field, but often the best football player. In his case, he probably did maximize his potential in high school, but then made some physical gains in college and then maximized them, all the while just being a damn good football player.
Excellent point. And that's why Nebraska's players also lasted longer in the draft back in the 80's and early 90's. It was assumed that NU had maxed out their physical potential. Not much upside left.
Then repeated that in the NFL. There's something to be said for just being a smart, reliable football player too. And a hard worker. Meanwhile, people wonder why PJ Fleck is 6-1 against Nebraska even though we out recruited him every year.
that may have been true in the late 90’s. But now days nearly every state has 7 on 7 leagues all summer and lineman camps all summer. Hell Steve Warren has a football Academy in Omaha. It has less to do with playing playing year around than it does the quality of the high school coaching. There are at least 20 coaches in the Houston area alone that make $120k per year to do nothing but coach HS football. No teaching duties at all, not even a random PE class.
The pay is enough to entice a lot of coaches to stick around at the high school level rather than pursue a position coach job at the collegiate level.
I just think Texas is evaluated and recruited so heavily that you have to know what you are doing compared to Cali.
Perhaps, I’m just saying the playing year around isn’t the reason why some Texas players reach a higher level quicker or why some college coaches aren’t able to get the to improve more. I think that some of the high school coaches down here are just better at getting kids to reach potential than many of the college coaches, especially the younger position coaches.
