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Zavier Betts

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Former Husker football player arrested in Stanton County for suspended licenses and probation warrant

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A former Husker football player was arrested in Stanton County on Friday.
The Stanton County Sheriff’s Office contacted the driver of a vehicle, 23-year-old Zavier Betts of LaVista, on Highway 15 northeast of Pilger. Betts' vehicle had reportedly sustained a flat tire.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Betts was found to have a suspended driver’s license and also was wanted on a probation warrant, with no bond, out of Woodbury County, Iowa.
Betts was placed under arrest and jailed pending an extradition hearing back to Iowa.

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Glad to see he’s doing well
I don't know the kid personally, but I remember listening to media types say that Betts may have other interests and football may not be for him. I guess the translation for that is that he's a criminal?
 
I remember the two Omaha prospects with similar names. Notre Dame got Zavier Watts (two time All-American). We got Xavier Betts, who was said to have "other interests" outside of football. Nice work, Frost.
You have their names mixed up. Nebraska got Z and ND got X.
 
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But when some of us pointed out he was on a bad trend line, and these types of things were character red flags. Shouldve never let him back on the team, etc.....we were called racist and lectured on how it was just a minor drug charge, etc.
I don’t remember anyone saying Nebraska was racist. Quite making crap up.
 
I remember the two Omaha prospects with similar names. Notre Dame got Zavier Watts (two time All-American). We got Xavier Betts, who was said to have "other interests" outside of football. Nice work, Frost.
Given the trajectory of the program in the past decade Notre Dame got the Zavier that they were supposed to get and NU got the Xavier that they were supposed to get. Watts basically said he couldn’t go to NU cause the just weren’t very good.
 
Given the trajectory of the program in the past decade Notre Dame got the Zavier that they were supposed to get and NU got the Xavier that they were supposed to get. Watts basically said he couldn’t go to NU cause the just weren’t very good.
Even the most biased fans on here wouldn't argue that Watts had a much better career at ND and he's a better player coming out than if he had come to NU. Honestly, I think there's a small chance he wouldn't have even played at NU. Players just seem to disappear in Lincoln. Frost might have had him riding the bench behind a less talented older player or had him playing out of position. It sounds silly to say that but I don't think Frost's group even had him evaluated all that highly because they didn't go after him hard.
 
Even the most biased fans on here wouldn't argue that Watts had a much better career at ND and he's a better player coming out than if he had come to NU. Honestly, I think there's a small chance he wouldn't have even played at NU. Players just seem to disappear in Lincoln. Frost might have had him riding the bench behind a less talented older player or had him playing out of position. It sounds silly to say that but I don't think Frost's group even had him evaluated all that highly because they didn't go after him hard.
I think they didn't go after him hard because they knew he wasn't coming their way.
 
I think they didn't go after him hard because they knew he wasn't coming their way.
I'm sure that is true, but that's just an excuse. They didn't go after anybody very hard those days. Someone told me that in his entire time at NU, Frost got out to watch ONE prospect play in person.
 
I'm sure that is true, but that's just an excuse. They didn't go after anybody very hard those days. Someone told me that in his entire time at NU, Frost got out to watch ONE prospect play in person.
That is so sad. Osborne seemed to support Frost too. I guess loyalty to an old player. I think we’ve been too hard on players that played for frost. It’ll be very interesting to see how the sequel at UCF goes.
 
That is so sad. Osborne seemed to support Frost too. I guess loyalty to an old player. I think we’ve been too hard on players that played for frost. It’ll be very interesting to see how the sequel at UCF goes.
Have you ever let blended margs sit too long? They get watered down and taste like sh*t!
 
I don't watch player interviews. But I know he wasn't coming to NU. Did Frost even bother to watch him play? I doubt it.

Knowing Frost and company they likely totally gave up on him the second they heard he wasn’t all interested in NU. One big difference (among many) between Frost and Rhule. Rhule doesn’t give up on a guy he wants until the kid signs somewhere else. Frost and company were seemingly looking for any reason to do less.
 
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Knowing Frost and company they likely totally gave up on him the second they heard he wasn’t all interested in NU. One big difference (among many) between Frost and Rhule. Rhule doesn’t give up on a guy he wants until the kid signs somewhere else. Frost and company were seemingly looking for any reason to do less.
It had nothing to do with how Frost recruited or didn’t give up on his recruiting. It was the W-L of the program. Rhule would have never got him to Lincoln in the same situation.
 
I don't know the kid personally, but I remember listening to media types say that Betts may have other interests and football may not be for him. I guess the translation for that is that he's a criminal?
No, he is/was into video games and comics, movies, stuff like that, basically he was a "normal" high school kid that just happened to be really good at high school football.

Had it not been for covid, where we just decided to pretend that grades and test scores did not matter, he would not have made it to college.
 
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It had nothing to do with how Frost recruited or didn’t give up on his recruiting. It was the W-L of the program. Rhule would have never got him to Lincoln in the same situation.

I didn’t say that Rhule would’ve got him to Lincoln and I don’t think he would’ve. I said that Rhule wouldn’t have given up on recruiting the kid until he signed with ND or specifically told Rhule to stop contacting him. So yes it has a shit load to do with Frost’s lazy ass recruiting, even if effort wouldn’t have paid the off with Watts, it would’ve with other/some recruits. (if that effort actually existed, which we both know it did not)
 
Zavier was a nice kid, but prioritizing things is not a strength. Seems like he didn't take care of his case from Sioux City, so that woukd be one example.
 
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