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Dr. Strangelove said:
Is adding the 11th 3* player of the class and winning a recruiting battle against Louisville, Murray State, and Eastern Kentucky "good news"?
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I didn't want to muddle up a recruit's profile thread so I'm responding to this post here instead.

For all the talk, there haven't been a ton of results.  Now - for me - they still get some latitude for taking over a program with the longest bowl drought in the country and still six months from completing their first pseudo-full recruiting cycle (thought it's probably more fair to say the next class is really the first full cycle).  And the guys who commit first are usually the in-state guys who are generally lower-rated and they guys who are your "take-a-chance" guys who you aren't exactly recruiting against the big boys for.

That being said, we definitely haven't been landing many top-end recruits.  There were only four four-stars in last year's class (per the 247 Composite), one of them was in-state and two others were the lowest-rated four-stars get.  This class is probably at least half done with only three four-stars and they are all the lowest rating to be a four-star.

I think it's fair to observe that if Dylan Raiola hadn't fallen in our laps, the results would be pretty underwhelming to this point.  

The caveat to this is we basically don't have scholarship limits anymore so you can probably take a few more fliers on good athletes that a few of them are bound to over-achieve.  And winning more games on the field will undoubtably change things in recruiting.  

But we really need to find some of those wins this year or we'll have kicked the can down the road another year.

 
Mavric said:
I didn't want to muddle up a recruit's profile thread so I'm responding to this post here instead.

For all the talk, there haven't been a ton of results.  Now - for me - they still get some latitude for taking over a program with the longest bowl drought in the country and still six months from completing their first pseudo-full recruiting cycle (thought it's probably more fair to say the next class is really the first full cycle).  And the guys who commit first are usually the in-state guys who are generally lower-rated and they guys who are your "take-a-chance" guys who you aren't exactly recruiting against the big boys for.

That being said, we definitely haven't been landing many top-end recruits.  There were only four four-stars in last year's class (per the 247 Composite), one of them was in-state and two others were the lowest-rated four-stars get.  This class is probably at least half done with only three four-stars and they are all the lowest rating to be a four-star.

I think it's fair to observe that if Dylan Raiola hadn't fallen in our laps, the results would be pretty underwhelming to this point.  

The caveat to this is we basically don't have scholarship limits anymore so you can probably take a few more fliers on good athletes that a few of them are bound to over-achieve.  And winning more games on the field will undoubtably change things in recruiting.  

But we really need to find some of those wins this year or we'll have kicked the can down the road another year.
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All of the above is absolutely true.

Perhaps Rhule really does have a bit more secret sauce that causes leads to under-the-radar guys to blossom on the Football field. But at the end of the day, Nebraska needs a massive increase in its acquisition of talent. 

 
Good post, I’ve definitely been downgraded to mildly disappointed so far. With the acknowledgement that we can ramp up momentum with a good season. I’d also add that not all 3-stars are created equal and I mostly like all of the 3-star players we’ve landed.

I did mentally note how out of the blue it felt that Rhule brought up how good the staff is at identifying unheralded gems a couple weeks ago when it seemed we had a ton of momentum with higher profile players. Not that I don’t believe the staff is strong in that regard but it felt like a weird omen.

I also think McGuire could really use a good season in the worst way. It’s clear that Raiola is helping get some high profile WRs interested but I’m sure anti-recruiting is currently very loud at that position.

 
Caliborn72 said:
I did mentally note how out of the blue it felt that Rhule brought up how good the staff is at identifying unheralded gems a couple weeks ago when it seemed we had a ton of momentum with higher profile players. Not that I don’t believe the staff is strong in that regard but it felt like a weird omen.
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I've looked a couple of times and can't find it.  But I'm sure there was an interview shortly after he was hired where he said something to the effect of "I have really great recruiters and I can't wait to see what they'll do now that they can walk in with a Nebraska 'N' on their shirt".  Well, I'm sure that helps get more attention from a lot of recruits but it hasn't exactly translated to better results that he's had recruiting to other places.

 
Mavric said:
I didn't want to muddle up a recruit's profile thread so I'm responding to this post here instead.

For all the talk, there haven't been a ton of results.  Now - for me - they still get some latitude for taking over a program with the longest bowl drought in the country and still six months from completing their first pseudo-full recruiting cycle (thought it's probably more fair to say the next class is really the first full cycle).  And the guys who commit first are usually the in-state guys who are generally lower-rated and they guys who are your "take-a-chance" guys who you aren't exactly recruiting against the big boys for.

That being said, we definitely haven't been landing many top-end recruits.  There were only four four-stars in last year's class (per the 247 Composite), one of them was in-state and two others were the lowest-rated four-stars get.  This class is probably at least half done with only three four-stars and they are all the lowest rating to be a four-star.

I think it's fair to observe that if Dylan Raiola hadn't fallen in our laps, the results would be pretty underwhelming to this point.  

The caveat to this is we basically don't have scholarship limits anymore so you can probably take a few more fliers on good athletes that a few of them are bound to over-achieve.  And winning more games on the field will undoubtably change things in recruiting.  

But we really need to find some of those wins this year or we'll have kicked the can down the road another year.
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Obviously, I would love to have recruiting going much better.

But, do you think it's dropped off since Rhule came?  Or, about the same was before he came?

 
Dr. Strangelove said:
All of the above is absolutely true.

Perhaps Rhule really does have a bit more secret sauce that causes leads to under-the-radar guys to blossom on the Football field. But at the end of the day, Nebraska needs a massive increase in its acquisition of talent. 
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I would say the 3 star kids he has taken generally are great track athletes with high end speed. So maybe need development in football so they don’t have the ratings of a polished football player but their ceiling is high. I believe Oregon used that same model in their building years before their recruiting took off after the Ws piled up 

 
Huskers93-97 said:
Another thing to touch base on is everyone has always said Oregon was hard to recruit to. Isolated in the north west. So it just shows winning makes recruiting easy. So the narrative Nebraska is hard to recruit to is just an excuse. Win and the talent comes. 
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Do you actually believe they have a worse geographical base to recruit from? Just because people say something doesn’t mean it’s true.

 
BigRedBuster said:
But, do you think it's dropped off since Rhule came?  Or, about the same was before he came?
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Depending on how you weight getting Raiola, I'd say the results so far are a drop off from where we've been.  Getting a five-star QB is a game-changer but I'm not sure Rhule and Co. should really get much credit for that.  Other than that, there hasn't been much of note.

But, again, they haven't had a ton of time to really show what they can do.  And a little progress on the field will go a long ways.

 
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