DE Harrison Phillips [Stanford - Signed LOI]

Appears both Phillips and Stoltenberg will get a serious look at O-line at camp. They think Phillips strength, motor, and wrestling ability may work well at center.

 
it's not a matter of does this guy have football talent and can he play at NU. I think it's more of a matter of is this guy one of the best options we have at this point. The staff knows most of the NU guys will jump on an NU offer as soon as they get one. So unless the kid is crazy good, the staff will extend offers to the big time kids far away that most likely wont jump right on an NU offer before they will offer him. It's kind of a we know we can get Harrison so he is our safety if we don't get one of these other guys who really have a little more (fill in the blank) speed, quickness, strength, coachability, height, weight, experience against higher level talent, winning program, etc.

 
gratefullred said:
Danimal said:
Appears both Phillips and Stoltenberg will get a serious look at O-line at camp. They think Phillips strength, motor, and wrestling ability may work well at center.
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I would say it is a risk to assume either one could put on the weight to play O-line.
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Guessing we'd have input from our S&C program on whether they can put on the right kind of size. We do already have several offers out to OL-recruits that are fairly similarly sized that we won't have gotten as good a look at. Phillips is supposed to get a look at 3-technique too. Maybe nothing comes of all this with him or Stoltenberg(slight edge to Stoltenberg) but should be interesting.

 
I would rather have a Nebraska kid who wants to be here than a knucklehead from outside the state who can't stay out of trouble. Come on Harrison, commit!

 
gratefullred said:
Danimal said:
Appears both Phillips and Stoltenberg will get a serious look at O-line at camp. They think Phillips strength, motor, and wrestling ability may work well at center.
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I would say it is a risk to assume either one could put on the weight to play O-line.
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Caputo and pensick are not much bigger than Phillips. Phillips wouldn't.be a guy who.played right away. He could redshirt and easily put on enough weight to play center. We pull with our center aloy so.they need to be.quick rather than big.

 
I'd rather Harrison go camp at more schools, get more offers, and commit to us sometime mid season so that the media perceives we got a good one to give Nebraska talent some positive energy for a change.

 
great job HP to recieve the offer.. i thought it should have been dished out a while ago... worried it might kinda spurn him but he obviously seems that this did not bother him..... awesome for you HP!!!

 
I'd just as soon he commit. Recognition is nice and all, but I'm a lot more concerned about getting the players we want on campus. The more trips a kid makes, the greater chance someone else catches his eye. If NU thinks he can play, get him on board.

 
In the end I feel he is likely going to end up at Kansas State unless offered. From what I have been told there are multiple KSU commits working him hard and they know he is just waiting for a Nebraska offer but how long does he wait? The RSS crap didn't help either.

 
Huskers covet Millard West star, even if position is uncertainColumn by Sam McKewon / World-Herald staff writer, PUBLISHED THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013 AT 10:38 PM / UPDATED AT 7:48 PM

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It's a risk anytime you recruit a guy without a perfect position in the system, but, with Phillips, it's a worthy risk. In-state kid, good motor, motivated, smart, plays with leverage. Tom Osborne and Bob Devaney historically and consistently found a place for that type of kid at Nebraska, especially when good FBS programs — Stanford, UCLA and, yes, Kansas State — come knocking. Even if all of them don't pan out, you make the room. There's a difference between a perfect plan — which, in recruiting, doesn't exist — and a sound one. Offering Phillips is sound.

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Pretty good article a couple days back by Sam.

We have a HUGE crop of instate talent this year. Maybe two or three times as many as most years.

 
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dylan said:
I'd just as soon he commit. Recognition is nice and all, but I'm a lot more concerned about getting the players we want on campus. The more trips a kid makes, the greater chance someone else catches his eye. If NU thinks he can play, get him on board.
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This.

Who gives a crap about the publicity. Why provide more opportunities for another campus to grow on him. Seriously there is no way in hell I'd want Harrison to take another look at Stanford.

 
I hope Harrison commits before the season so he can be there at every home game with Luke Gifford, DJ Foster, Mick Stoltenberg and those guys can help recruit the guys we get on campus. Harrison stated that whichever school he committed to, he would immediately become a lead recruiter.

 
Ed Helms said:
I hope Harrison commits before the season so he can be there at every home game with Luke Gifford, DJ Foster, Mick Stoltenberg and those guys can help recruit the guys we get on campus. Harrison stated that whichever school he committed to, he would immediately become a lead recruiter.
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You saw his twitter response when he got the Nebraska offer. All Caps... I JUST GOT OFFERED BY NEBRASKA! #GBR. He didn't tweet with near the excitement for the other schools.

 
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