***2018 Recruiting***

ColoradoHusk said:
I also think we may see some greater attrition in the coming months that happened under previous staff's.  I think there will be some guys who won't be willing to put in the work and will just leave on their own or Frost and staff will recommend guys that they move along.  That will open up more spots.

One thing that Sam also pointed out was how Riley and his staff whiffed in their 2nd year of recruiting, when they didn't bring in 25-26 guys.  I know they got some guys in their 2nd class, but they seemed more interested in building that 3rd class.  I was so upset when Riley was taking the "long game" at NU and not showing any urgency, and I am sure you were pointing similar things out, too.
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Mavric said:
There is definitely truth to this.  I don't think we should add guys to to add them and I don't think Frost will.

The other side of that coin is that we have a 19-scholarship senior class right now so next year's class can already be at least 22.  And our junior class is 17 at the moment (counting current JUCO commit Woodyard) and will probably increase by a couple more JUCOs.  So that recruiting class will be above 20 as well.  And that's before you account for any attrition in the next two years, which there will be some.

So I'm not very concerned about saving spots at this point.  Get the best guys we can at positions of need.  It won't be the worst thing if we don't fill the last couple possible spots but I wouldn't slow anything down to make sure we have spots for later years.
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Good points. Brion Carnes and couple of those other NSD commitments didn’t work for Bo. Didn’t follow BC’s recruiting classes close so unsure specifically there. 

Anyway, with my rose colored glasses, do you guys think Frost has a better, more clear vision and plan to implement where if he does bring in some last minute targets, he has a plan in place for their roles?

I can see a qb, some linebackers and OLman being ran off the team. For a few, I literally mean they’ll be ran from the team after workouts. 

 
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It will be interesting to see what recruits we are still in on are available after the early signing day. I'm not sure how many we are in on, and not sure about, are signing soon.

 
jsneb83 said:
With the Martinez commitment, we are now 54th in the 247 Composite team rankings.
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I have been following recruiting from a distance the last few years but with the Scott Frost hiring and the excitement around the program I have been following much more closely this year.  Can someone with more knowledge in regards to 247 explain why class rankings are based on the total number as opposed to the average rating for the players committed/signed?

Looking back at 2017 Nebraska finished 23rd but if it was based on the average player rating the Huskers would have finished 19th.  For 2018 with the current commits, the Huskers are ranked 54th based on the total but would be ranked 21st at this point in time based on average player rating.

 
jgreen727 said:
I have been following recruiting from a distance the last few years but with the Scott Frost hiring and the excitement around the program I have been following much more closely this year.  Can someone with more knowledge in regards to 247 explain why class rankings are based on the total number as opposed to the average rating for the players committed/signed?

Looking back at 2017 Nebraska finished 23rd but if it was based on the average player rating the Huskers would have finished 19th.  For 2018 with the current commits, the Huskers are ranked 54th based on the total but would be ranked 21st at this point in time based on average player rating.
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Would you rather have 20 players on your team or 10? If you take one 5 star should you really be the #1 class?

 
Hedley Lamarr said:
We obviously are not done recruiting and will get more 3 and 4 star prospects. I still think we end up with best class in the West. We already have the best QB recruit in the West 
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And then the class ranking should go up. I was just explaining why even though our average prospect rating is high, our class ranking is low.

If 10 4 stars went against 20 3 stars, I'd put my money on the 20 3 stars

 
tyrone_biggums said:
And then the class ranking should go up. I was just explaining why even though our average prospect rating is high, our class ranking is low.

If 10 4 stars went against 20 3 stars, I'd put my money on the 20 3 stars
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You are correct. It is all a hit or miss numbers game. If you are hitting on +50% you are doing a damn good job. The trick signing enough guys. 

 
jgreen727 said:
I have been following recruiting from a distance the last few years but with the Scott Frost hiring and the excitement around the program I have been following much more closely this year.  Can someone with more knowledge in regards to 247 explain why class rankings are based on the total number as opposed to the average rating for the players committed/signed?

Looking back at 2017 Nebraska finished 23rd but if it was based on the average player rating the Huskers would have finished 19th.  For 2018 with the current commits, the Huskers are ranked 54th based on the total but would be ranked 21st at this point in time based on average player rating.
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Rivals uses the top 20 commitments for each class for their team ranking formulas since most times that is the low end of a class number. That way things are evened out whether you signed 20 or 27. 

 
tyrone_biggums said:
Would you rather have 20 players on your team or 10? If you take one 5 star should you really be the #1 class?
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BIG ERN said:
Rivals uses the top 20 commitments for each class for their team ranking formulas since most times that is the low end of a class number. That way things are evened out whether you signed 20 or 27. 
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This really gets at the question I had... If Team X has room for 17 recruits and averages a 92.00 rating and Team Y has room for 24 recruits and averages a 89.00 rating I would rather have the class with the higher average rating.  Just confusing to me that the total number of commits would be the indicator given that every team has ebbs and flows to the size of a class.

 
So UCF's last practice of the week was this morning.  Should be a bunch of visits tonight then OVs starting to show up tomorrow. Dead period starts Monday.

Going to be a crazy three more days......

 
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