Recent Recruit Offerings

[Mavric]

I'm OK with reaches etc if you are willing to max sign EVERY year

With a class this big there will be a few reaches, you aren't going to get 25 high 3stars and above. But I'd rather reach early on a kid and be N if/when he blows up. Then reach a couple days before NSD.

I guess I don't think this is right - at least about getting three stars. High three stars maybe but that's not what we're looking at right now. The 2014 class had 25 members and only one was a two-star according to the 247 Composite (Irons). The 2013 class was 23 guys and only Miller was a two star.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

I'm OK with reaches etc if you are willing to max sign EVERY year

With a class this big there will be a few reaches, you aren't going to get 25 high 3stars and above. But I'd rather reach early on a kid and be N if/when he blows up. Then reach a couple days before NSD.

I guess I don't think this is right - at least about getting three stars. High three stars maybe but that's not what we're looking at right now. The 2014 class had 25 members and only one was a two-star according to the 247 Composite (Irons). The 2013 class was 23 guys and only Miller was a two star.

I just find it highly unlikely that these guys we are offering dont end up with 3 stars

 

[teachercd]

I'm OK with reaches etc if you are willing to max sign EVERY year

With a class this big there will be a few reaches, you aren't going to get 25 high 3stars and above. But I'd rather reach early on a kid and be N if/when he blows up. Then reach a couple days before NSD.

I guess I don't think this is right - at least about getting three stars. High three stars maybe but that's not what we're looking at right now. The 2014 class had 25 members and only one was a two-star according to the 247 Composite (Irons). The 2013 class was 23 guys and only Miller was a two star.

I just find it highly unlikely that these guys we are offering dont end up with 3 stars

I think they end up with 3 stars too. I can't imagine a situation where NU is taking "a lot" of two star guys.

 

[Mavric]

I'm OK with reaches etc if you are willing to max sign EVERY year

With a class this big there will be a few reaches, you aren't going to get 25 high 3stars and above. But I'd rather reach early on a kid and be N if/when he blows up. Then reach a couple days before NSD.

I guess I don't think this is right - at least about getting three stars. High three stars maybe but that's not what we're looking at right now. The 2014 class had 25 members and only one was a two-star according to the 247 Composite (Irons). The 2013 class was 23 guys and only Miller was a two star.

I just find it highly unlikely that these guys we are offering dont end up with 3 stars

That's fine. But a class full of three star guys isn't an improvement in recruiting over where we've been. In fact, it would probably be a little bit worse. Perhaps the results will be better but that's not the trumpeting we've been hearing for six months.

 

[teachercd]

I'm OK with reaches etc if you are willing to max sign EVERY year

With a class this big there will be a few reaches, you aren't going to get 25 high 3stars and above. But I'd rather reach early on a kid and be N if/when he blows up. Then reach a couple days before NSD.

I guess I don't think this is right - at least about getting three stars. High three stars maybe but that's not what we're looking at right now. The 2014 class had 25 members and only one was a two-star according to the 247 Composite (Irons). The 2013 class was 23 guys and only Miller was a two star.

I just find it highly unlikely that these guys we are offering dont end up with 3 stars

That's fine. But a class full of three star guys isn't an improvement in recruiting over where we've been. In fact, it would probably be a little bit worse. Perhaps the results will be better but that's not the trumpeting we've been hearing for six months.

This is what I was getting at...We don't want the same recruiting rankings and we sure don't want worse. I get it, Riley and his staff will develop them better. I believe that 100% I really do but the chances of getting a high % of lower ranked guys to all develop to a level that is extremely high sounds daunting.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

Riley with consistent top 25 classes is something he hasn't had the luxury of. I still think we end up top 25 when all the dust settles

 

[teachercd]

Riley with consistent top 25 classes is something he hasn't had the luxury of. I still think we end up top 25 when all the dust settles

I agree with that. Now, how does that measure out in terms of wins, that is the big question.

 

[Warrior10]

There's a reason I specified "high 3star" aka borderline 4 star.

 

[Mavric]

Riley with consistent top 25 classes is something he hasn't had the luxury of. I still think we end up top 25 when all the dust settles

If we take a bunch of the guys who we've been offering recently, we won't be close to a Top 25 class.

 

[Mavric]

There's a reason I specified "high 3star" aka borderline 4 star.

Agree. But I doubt a lot of these guys are going to get there. The may be a few but not many. Most will probably be a three star but not a high one.

 

[teachercd]

I just think we should be aiming for highly ranked players AND expect them to get the great coaching and development that we know Riley is known for.

 

[Mavric]

I just think we should be aiming for highly ranked players AND expect them to get the great coaching and development that we know Riley is known for.

As I've said before, it's early (for us). We'll have to see how this class - and subsequent ones - end up. But I'm just confused by a bunch of the offers I've seen lately. It's quite possible that several of them will turn into really good players. But it's also extremely unlikely that we are finding all these diamonds in the rough when others aren't. A few? Yes. This many? I'm pretty skeptical. If our recruiting is going to improve as much as so many are claiming, we shouldn't need a lot of diamonds in the rough.

Of course the other possibility is these are a bunch of un-committable offers. With how many guys are saying we've barely talked to them before offering, I'm starting to think that is a very real possibility. As long as we're being honest with them, I guess that's OK. But I'm not a fan. An un-committable offer really isn't an offer at all so I don't get the point.

 

[teachercd]

And we all want to see NU having a recruiting class ranked in the top 20...if it got in the top 15 we would be giddy...top 10 and most of us would be totally erect...I can't even imagine what some of your guys sock drawers would look like if NU got the number 1 rated class.

Like Mav, it just seems like some of the offers are very Beavery.

 

[SouthLincoln Husker]

I agree with better recruits, but recruiting is about relationships and we are still in the honeymoon. In addition, many players want to win and play in the NFL. We need to learn how to win the big games. I think recruiting will get better, but it may take another year.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

And we all want to see NU having a recruiting class ranked in the top 20...if it got in the top 15 we would be giddy...top 10 and most of us would be totally erect...I can't even imagine what some of your guys sock drawers would look like if NU got the number 1 rated class.

Like Mav, it just seems like some of the offers are very Beavery.

That's a very good way to put it.

Lots of +1's in this thread. Riley is able to coach kids up, look at the recent NFL draft and the number of Oregon State players that were taken. But, as stated previously, Nebraska needs the combination of player development and an influx of talent to win championships.