Kenny Wilhite is the new Director of High School Operations.
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Well deserved to both. Hopefully this plants Brasfield with NU athletics for years to come.
From everything I've heard, Brasfield is someone that will make our athletic department better and UNL officials want to keep this guy around for a long time. Based on that, this promotion makes a ton of sense and shows a commitment to Chris & his family.
Wilhite, I've never heard anyone say a negative thing about him since he joined the staff a couple years back. Seems to really get along with recruits, players, staff and everyone that comes in contact with him.
Typical - should have opened the pocketbook and grabbed Ed Ogeron! He wanted to come here so bad he would have taken any job!
That's false just to name a few.
Omaha South
Omaha North
Omaha Central
Bellevue West
Lincoln High
Lincoln Southeast
Lincoln Christian
Beatrice
Aurora
At least this staff didn't try and contact a Nebraska high school and asking for a coach who passed away.
Give this staff a little more time to go throughout the state, with Kenny in charge now it'll continue to improve.
I know at least one coach at Bellevue West who likes the staff's interest in their RB. He said the dude was a straight up beast.
Pretty sure they are interested in a few BWest guys for 2017 and 2018. I'm excited for Junior Day.
I don't follow the Metro very much (I can't get too much into HS football now that I've been out of HS for 16 years strangely enough) but it does seem like there are some very intriguing prospects starting to hit the market. I hope Nebraska can make some hay.
This friend of mine, he played safety at Navy and had several clips of him getting abused by LaDainian Tomlinson, so I'm pretty sure he knows what a beast RB looks like up close and personal. Makes me excited to hear him say that, at least.
I can say you're full of shit, 110%.
Jaylin Bradley is the guy you're talking about, and your friend is correct. He is an impressive athlete.
Whatever the case, 7 instate walk-ons isn't going to cut it. That's extremely low.
I am happy Brasfield is out of the position. Maybe he amazing. But all I know is what is in front of me... Got beat out on 2 instate kids for commits & were almost too late to offer one really good one in Engelhaupt. (Thank god they finally came to their senses)... All I am saying is the staff didn't have a banner year with NE HS football with Brasfield at the helm of HS relations.
Again, maybe Brasfield is a freaking fantastic guy to have on staff but he didn't prove it at his old position. Maybe this new spot is more his speed.
But I see this move as a positive from the staff. Same with the H.H. firing. Riley is fixing his problems.
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Here we go again. Can we please stop playing the "give the staff a little more time" card. Seriously.
It's more than 7 but you keep doing what you do, believe in shit that isn't reality. Plus, walk-ons aren't just limited to in-state kids.
Brasfield wasn't responsible for scholarship recruiting, there's your non-realistic belief bullshit. Hughes was canned, he's primary the reason one of the in-state guys went elsewhere - at least that's what a mentor of his has strongly hinted on Omaha airwaves.
Again, in your world, Santa Claus is real.
@northeastNebraska is 110% spot on, the staff spent the first year getting their feet wet with in-state coaches, and it'll continue to get stronger this year and years to come.
No, it's only been a ONE year. They've adjusted and made a few changes that folks like you claim he would never do. I will give them more time.
Let your Mike Riley hate keep rolling, because that is all your posts are. Garbage hate on Riley. He's been here barely a year. Bo had seven.
Riley deserves a little time to figure out the state and region for recruiting. Having Kenny in charge will help move the process along believe me.
Exactly. They won't treat it as a burden or "doing their diligence" like the last staff did with guys like Harrison Phillips or Drew Ott.
Riley and his staff will get to know coaches and players and not just expect them to show up in Lincoln without doing any groundwork work like Lord Voldemort before him did.
I'm not 100% on the topic, and too lazy to look it up, but how is 7 walkons low? I know we all love the walkon program, but it's kind of intersting. If we had 85 on scholarship and averaged 7 per year. That puts us at 113 on the roster, and I thought off the top of my head we can only suit 110 for home games. I'm pretty sure other kids walk on or can try out, and so that number would increase. Also, we already seem to have a good number of walkons. You may be correct that it is low, but I bet it will be higher than 7. I think 7 is just publicized to date this year. Feel free to tell me I am screwed up that is just my rough take not knowing much on the topic.
7 instate kids per husker max. http://www.huskermax.com/recruits/2016.html. If they are wrong, I guess so am I. And obviously walk-ons are not limited to just instate kids. But besides Matt Slauson (which was a glorified walk-on really, how many out of state walk-ons ever pan out?
The director of HS relations doesn't help in recruiting? Obviously he cant "recruit", that would be against the rules but he's in touch with HS coaches, no? Builds relationships with those coaches? Especially the instate guys, no?
PS I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I herd you ate him,
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Complete bullshit. Stop reading the ramblings of ignorant losers from other states posting on things they don't know about.
And so you go with cliché #2 for Mike Riley fans. It doesn't have to be Bo or Mike. One could like both of them or one could like neither of them. I know that's difficult to imagine for some on this board but the two are not mutually exclusive.
And back to the "give him more time" cry. Please look at how many coaches are fired after year 1 in the NFL. Sometimes, time doesn't matter. When something isn't a good fit, it just isn't a good fit.
They are wrong, you are wrong. BH is from Nebraska, plays in Io_a.
Stew Bradley, start there and work backwards. Slauson wasn't a walk-on, my goodness you don't even know WTF you're talking about.
Help, yes. In charge, no. And that's what you tried passing on regarding Brasfield with your "he got beat out...". No, he didn't.
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Ho-Lee-Shit dude, you're dumber than I thought.
1. This isn't the NFL.
2. Look at the franchises who are firing coaches after one or two years. My Raiders did it for a long time in the mid 2000's and it was a disaster. The Browns do it all the time, Dolphins, Bears, etc. It doesn't end well.
If Riley went 1-11 or 2-10 it may have been a different story. This isn't a Turner Gill to Kansas situation. He's not a bad fit (yet to be determined) you can't judge him off a year where he lost 5 games in the final minute of each game.
He has flaws as many do, but the guy deserves at least three years to get his guys in here and see what he can do. I didn't like Pelini at all, but I gave Pelini three years and after the debacle of 2010 I was off the wagon.
This staff took about half the # of walk-ons that we normally take. Of course I am basing this off of what Huskermax has. HTO obviously has a different #. The thing about walk-ons is, the more taking, the more likelihood that 3 or 4 of those guys will make the 2 deep (historically speaking anyways). Obviously, you cant take 30 (though I believe one year Bo did take 30) but you want to take about 15 or so.
Is an interesting clip on the HOL Radio Show. Click on the Clip 1 (DL Coach Opening). Nate Clouse and Sean Callahan talk about Brasfield and Wilhite around 6:30 of the clip. Will be interesting to see some of the names some of you guys call Clouse and Callahan.
i8uP, feel free to post some Callahan and Clouse quotes from the above clip to prove your point, as there may be some unwilling to listen to the clip.
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Here are the walk-ons I found.
Corn Nation
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown High School
Ty Chaffin WR 6-5 200 Burwell, Neb. Burwell HS
Creighton Hamik LB 6-3 210 Kearney, Neb. Kearney Catholic HS
Tanner Hass ATH 6-0 195 West Point, Neb. Guardian Angels HS
Branden Hohenstein TE 6-4 205 Sioux City, Iowa Bishop Heelan HS
Todd Honas WR 5-11 200 Aurora, Neb. Aurora HS
Tavlin Hunt LB 6-0 215 Lincoln, Neb. North Star HS
Grant Jordan FB 6-1 205 Omaha, Neb. Westside HS
Spencer Jordan LB 6-2 215 Omaha, Neb. Westside HS
Eli Sullivan DB 6-2 190 Longmont, Colo. Longmont HS
Congrats to them all.
Corn Nation
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown High School
Ty Chaffin WR 6-5 200 Burwell, Neb. Burwell HS
Creighton Hamik LB 6-3 210 Kearney, Neb. Kearney Catholic HS
Tanner Hass ATH 6-0 195 West Point, Neb. Guardian Angels HS
Branden Hohenstein TE 6-4 205 Sioux City, Iowa Bishop Heelan HS
Todd Honas WR 5-11 200 Aurora, Neb. Aurora HS
Tavlin Hunt LB 6-0 215 Lincoln, Neb. North Star HS
Grant Jordan FB 6-1 205 Omaha, Neb. Westside HS
Spencer Jordan LB 6-2 215 Omaha, Neb. Westside HS
Eli Sullivan DB 6-2 190 Longmont, Colo. Longmont HS
Congrats to them all.
I would assume we'll eventually end up with more walk-ons as the process plays itself out. I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly) that the walk-ons that were announced were of the "preferred walk-on" status.
I guess I'm "cornfused" as to why spinner is having a heart attack over only 7 walk-ons. 7 walk-ons is a full quarter of the 28 kids who are "signing up" to come to NU this fall. ESPN ran an article on how nearly 30% of our two deep was walk-ons this year (I think the exact number was 28%), and no one was quite happy with that. The number of walk-ons do not seem to be a problem even diminished.
In the past, coaches have seemed to indicate that dealing with anymore than say 120 kids is unwieldy given the restraints on coaches and practice time. I was under the impression in the recent past, we've had a 105 or 110 man roster, when you subtract the 85 schollies, you get something like 20-25 walk-ons on your full up roster. A number which works out to less than 7 walk-ons a year to keep it filled.
In the past, coaches have seemed to indicate that dealing with anymore than say 120 kids is unwieldy given the restraints on coaches and practice time. I was under the impression in the recent past, we've had a 105 or 110 man roster, when you subtract the 85 schollies, you get something like 20-25 walk-ons on your full up roster. A number which works out to less than 7 walk-ons a year to keep it filled.
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Based on a quick count on the Huskers.com roster, we currently have 140 players on the roster, including the incoming freshmen. Based on the dataomaha.com count, we currently have 86 scholarship players. Obviously, both will change. But as of this moment in time, we're carrying 54 walkons. Assuming both total lists match up.
Concerning the original issue with the # of walkons, I'd assume you'd treat the class like the scholarship players in some regards...a lot of seniors graduating or just players leaving = a larger group coming in. So you'll vary in total class size from year to year.
I can absolutely understand that a large team (120+ as you mentioned) would cause logistical issues, and I think the issues would be further exacerbated by having to adjust your planning for fluctuating numbers. I mean, the difference between 100 and 150 is more than a full two-deep roster. Keeping a steady total would mean you could roll over more of what planning and organization was successful in the past, without having to tinker with it too much to make it fit your present.
HTO and others can bash me all they want but I don't give two sh____! All I know is that I talk to many HS coaches and the last 12 months was not good in terms of relationships with NE high school coaches. No contact from UNL, phone calls not returned, prospective walk ons not evaluated, etc....
I think Kenny will do a better job and he needs to. There are too many good players that can help the program as walk ons. Like or hate Jeff Jamrog, he took that part of his job serious and was able to give a number of players an opportunity to live out a dream!
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Lolz. You don't care, but here you are spreading your bs lies. You don't talk to high school coaches more than long enough to hand them the burger out of the drive thru window
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Yea. I am the one here spouting shit with no proof and no examples. Another recycled bloner. So very sad.
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