Fine. This does happen every year. Doesn’t change the fact this guy is still gonna have some legit talent before now and signing day(s). He can only do so much with what we have. We’re not close to being great. We’re a couple standard deviations from being great.
Michigan tampering with Nebraska players just like they did with Wisconsin
Michigan has a lot of heavy hitter boosters. People who really thought we were going to kick ass with NIL IMO were naive. We don’t have near the alumni depth of wealth as a lot of schools
I haven’t heard this but doesn’t surprise me with Harbaugh. Stud coach but toes the line
you don’t remember Jim Leonard calling out Michigan for going after Wisconsins running back
The 2023 recruiting class will not be much of anything. Same thing happened with Ruhle at Baylor the first year. Much easier to recruit at Baylor than NU.
The freshman class is less important than Jucos and transfers. We need to find a lot of instant impact talent. Currently 13 frosh still committed (in flux obviously) and I would predict we lose about 15-20 more from the current roster that we need to replace with transfers who can contribute sooner rather than later.
That’s an extremely important point. Rankings made several years after the class entered school are WAY more relevant
Yeah, I’m surprised there’s not more junkies putting out this type of data that paints a much clearer picture (e.g. it’d be interesting to compare different sources).
I think it says that MAYBE Rhule’s ability to evaluate talent and P5 potential is much greater than Frost’s and the recruiting services. Considering some of the posts from our very own RecruitingAnalyst-national is there any doubt that Rhule could do better……
i think too much focus is on single classes or a single recruit
The only time you need this rankings is when you are defending a hire or justifying the need to fire a coach. Those sort of rankings don’t drive posts on a daily basis. It is more fun to talk about current class rankings and current players than it is to discuss what could have been. No one, outside of teams with new coaches, is posting about the revised rankings of past recruiting classes.
True- the ones who care the most are those of us desperate to make sense of the torture we’ve suffered and needing hope to cling to for the future.
Either Frost and Co had no idea what to do with the 5* talent they got, or they had a unique ability to sniff out recruits who became busts.
Perhaps, but my point was simply that no one cares about those ratings on a daily basis or why they aren’t a prominent part of this website or any website. The only time they are relevant is when you’re defending a coaching hire or justifying why a coach was fired.
It’s an explanation in numerical terms of suckitude.
They’re relevant in historical terms to maybe explain failure and perhaps from repeating the same mistakes. Looking forward is fun but it’s all hypothetical.
OK they are relevant to people who recruit. Considering I have made no past recruiting mistakes, I do not need to know my past failures nor do I need to worry about repeating that same mistake. Neither do 99.9% of the people who post on message boards.
At the conclusion of this season, NU had 59 kids on the roster from Nebraska.
Rhule may be fine ... but with the transfer portal and NIL, things have completely changed since Rhule last coached in college
Personally paying attention to the success rate of our past recruiting classes has curbed my enthusiasm for recruiting rankings to some degree. I like Rhule’s philosophy about verified track speed and then he’ll make them bigger and see where they fit.
The kids that need developing might be more likely to stick than the guys who are sure they’re ready.
But is that by choice or due to the circumstances of Nebraska having classes ranked 15-25 and the on field results not matching? I’m just saying a vast majority of message board posters aren’t in a position to care about re-ranking recruits after they are done playing. Fans of Nebraska, Texas and Texas A&M maybe the only 3 that are to defend firing coaches and Iowa, Wisconsin and Northwestern for defending why they keep their coaches despite rarely winning anything but division titles.
**Edit** I see the day coming (if it's not already here) when a coach or coaches will seek out an opposing player after the game, during the handshakes where they tell the kid, "you really played a great game today, if you ever get tired of playing for a team that's not winning, we'd love to have you at the U of >>>" They would have then had a chance to see the kid on film, and in person as well as size up the kid to see how big he actually is.
I think it’s already happening and there’s no doubt back channel contacts are happening.
There's almost going to have to eventually be some type of recompense situation.
True. I don’t quite understand the exodus out of Lincoln with Rhule at the helm. Thought the kids would be pumped to play for him but doesn’t seem to be the case yet?
