A collection of Ross Els quotes and how far we've come.
"The problem is we aren't going to get a ton of commitments, obviously, until we get kids on campus. And because of our small population base around here, it's hard to get kids to come visit us right away when we're not paying for it. It's expensive."
"Some kids will make the circuit," Els said. "They'll go along that East Coast and hit four or five schools. Well, when you come to Nebraska, where else are you going to go? No place is really very close. They have to make a special trip. ... It's not an excuse. It's just a fact that it's hard to get kids up here early.
"You can't compare us to Ohio State and Michigan and Notre Dame," he said. "We will not fill up that quickly. If we're filling up that quickly, it's either because we just won the national championship and everybody wants to play for us, or we might be not very selective in who we're taking. We don't throw offers out there just to throw 'em out there."
"This week there was some gray area of (assistants) really not deciding where they wanted to go until the last minute," Els said. "There were either options or it was a situation where we said … I don’t know. It was just different for some reason of being a little bit unsure on where to go. I guess I don’t know why."
"I think you start panicking when you don't have a large number (of commits) and you don't have anybody else that's interested," said Nebraska's second-year coordinator. "We're not in that situation right now."
"I would be worried about not having very many commitments only if we didn't have good relationships with some good players," Els said. "And we do have those kind of relationships right now. We feel really good about a number of kids that are really, really good players that just haven't held their hand up yet."
" I’m just saying my job isn’t all that hard. I just have to know how to count to seven because we can’t have any more coaches than that on the road at the same time. I also have to be able to count to six to make sure we don’t see the same prospect more than six times. In all honesty, the recruiting coordinator stuff here is pretty simple, really."
"The problem is we aren't going to get a ton of commitments, obviously, until we get kids on campus. And because of our small population base around here, it's hard to get kids to come visit us right away when we're not paying for it. It's expensive."
"Some kids will make the circuit," Els said. "They'll go along that East Coast and hit four or five schools. Well, when you come to Nebraska, where else are you going to go? No place is really very close. They have to make a special trip. ... It's not an excuse. It's just a fact that it's hard to get kids up here early.
"You can't compare us to Ohio State and Michigan and Notre Dame," he said. "We will not fill up that quickly. If we're filling up that quickly, it's either because we just won the national championship and everybody wants to play for us, or we might be not very selective in who we're taking. We don't throw offers out there just to throw 'em out there."
"This week there was some gray area of (assistants) really not deciding where they wanted to go until the last minute," Els said. "There were either options or it was a situation where we said … I don’t know. It was just different for some reason of being a little bit unsure on where to go. I guess I don’t know why."
"I think you start panicking when you don't have a large number (of commits) and you don't have anybody else that's interested," said Nebraska's second-year coordinator. "We're not in that situation right now."
"I would be worried about not having very many commitments only if we didn't have good relationships with some good players," Els said. "And we do have those kind of relationships right now. We feel really good about a number of kids that are really, really good players that just haven't held their hand up yet."
" I’m just saying my job isn’t all that hard. I just have to know how to count to seven because we can’t have any more coaches than that on the road at the same time. I also have to be able to count to six to make sure we don’t see the same prospect more than six times. In all honesty, the recruiting coordinator stuff here is pretty simple, really."
