Eric the Red
Team HuskerBoard
[SIZE=14pt]Here is the rivals article that came out earlier on wednesday Nov. 30:[/SIZE]
Recruiting is not known for always being the most civil proposition. A recruit will make up his mind for one school, but unless the recruit or parent is firm, the schools will continue to call the young man. The letters do not stop. They are always flowing through the mailbox and the requests for in-home visits or official visits come through the mail or over the phone.
Rivals.com
Head coach will be addressing the same press this time next year.
HuskersIllustrated.com learned from a very reliable source two weeks prior to last weekend's blowout over Colorado that all of the Nebraska coaches would be returning next year. Other words, they had been assured they were wanted back. That would include Nebraska head coach Bill Callahan.
Others evidently did not get the message. The internet and the talk shows were rampant with this coach or that coach being replaced. That is fine and fair - to a degree, but what can be more disturbing is the tendency for certain Division I football programs to fabricate what is going on with another competitor. I assume some of their ammunition comes from Huskerland itself.
The fabrication is relayed to prospects that have already given their word to Nebraska or are presently being recruited by the Cornhusker coaching staff. We have heard it in our recruit interviews prior to the Colorado game. It is not our place to question those that have been told these deliberately false or improbable accounts of the state of Nebraska's coaching status. We did not include them in our updates, but we made note of some of the comments.
"Coach Callahan won't be there the whole time I'm there," one committed recruit told me.
"I heard that the boosters were going to try and buy out Coach Callahan's contract," another said.
"I'm still committed, but I'm not sure coach Callahan will be there much longer," yet another committed recruit said.
"I heard some of the coaches are going - heard from my teammates and everybody," yes from another verbal commit.
"The Nebraska staff is going to be fired," one prospect who was going to commit to Nebraska said.
"They've been losing all these games...they'll probably get fired. That's what I've heard." That came from another prospect . He had the Huskers in the lead earlier.
Words like "probably" won't be taking any other visits or "I think I'm still committed" make one wonder.
It doesn't take a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out how these distortions got embedded in the brains of impressionable eighteen-year olds. It comes mostly from teams that would rather make up a story than to recruit a prospect on level ground.
Those teams were not expecting Nebraska to win over the past weekend. They were expecting the Huskers would get thrashed. Then, they would increase the pressure with the unfounded rumors of coach Callahan's coaching demise.
The following was reported to us by Seth Jensen after the Colorado game he attended. Seth Jensen, the 6-foot-3, 275-pound defensive tackle from Fort Morgan, was and still is 100 percent committed to Nebraska.
"I've felt for a long time that the best is yet to come, and I think when you add the recruiting class that's coming in with the players already in the program, you can see that great things are in store for the future of Nebraska football."
Mike McNeill's response was quite similar to Jensen's.
"The coaches think I can stretch the field and be the type of tight end that does well in the West Coast offense and you saw against Colorado what the offense is capable of doing. I think with the young guys there now and the guys coming in you'll see even more improvement and it'll only get better and better from here. I think it's the perfect situation for someone in my position."
D.J. Jones has taken the high road and he is thinking for himself. He has not been swayed by the negativity by other coaches.
"It's not affecting me at all. I have my own mind about things and I feel that coach (Bill) Callahan is making things happen there. The Colorado game showed that. It's not like I'm going to let anybody else make my opinions for me. I'm positive that coach Callahan will take the Huskers back to the level they have been in past years. I still get letters from a few schools trying to recruit me, but I'm going to keep my word and stay with Nebraska."
It has been less than two recruiting cycles since coach Callahan and his staff have been recruiting their prospects. It has been two regular seasons since they have taken the helm. Improvement has been made and it will take a little more time. In-home visits started a few days ago. Those visits should help to solidify the verbal committed prospects and to counter the falsehoods.
The negative recruiting teams were somewhat too early.
[SIZE=14pt]Here is his on Huskerboard:[/SIZE]
It was not that long ago that Nebraska ran an option offense that was limited in what it could do with the talent recruited. Recruiters from other schools would whisper in a recruits ear that if they ever went to Nebraska, they would probably never see the NFL because no team in the NFL runs a pure option offense or even half of it.
The fact Nebraska went 17-12 in 2002 and 2003 helped show the weakness of Nebraska's recruiting and that teams now understood how to defend the option. Play-makers were going to successful school with a offense that could offer them more exposure such as Oklahoma, Miami, FSU, Texas, USC, UCLA, LSU and Auburn. Nebraska was left picking up the scraps and leftovers from teams who had already recruited who they wanted and recruits who had waited to long to commit to those top schools.
A new breed of negative recruiting has recently emerged and whispers which were once few and far between are not constant on a daily basis
"Coach Callahan is going to be fired"
"The coaching staff wont be there for all 4 years"
Some kids will take it into consideration and drop a school after a rumour like that, regardless if the rumour has a base to it or not. Negative recruiting tactics are as old as dirt, but when the rumours involve players Nebraska has currently recruited and been commits to the school for a few months, some recruiters are beginning to show their weakness and fear of what NU could do with the right guys.
One recruiter in particular heads the negative recruiting campaign. Oregon LB's coach Don Pellum who has been spreading false rumours surrounding the status of the NU coaching staff. Pellum is currently responsible for recruiting guys NU is in on like Major Culbert, Jonas Mouton, Ricky Thenarse, and JUCO Ashlee Palmer.
Another dirty recruiter in the business is from another Pac-10 school. Arizona offensive coordinator and QB's coach Mike Canales. Mike is responsible for recruiting guys which NU was heavily in on such as Stanley Havili, Sheerace Wright, Naderris Ward, and Deshon Matthews. Mike has taken it upon himself to spread a rumour that if Callahan and staff don't go to the Big12 title game next year, they will be fired.
The recent win over Colorado seems to have intensified the negative recruiting from other schools who believed that NU's performance on the field earlier this season and it's 3 consecutive losses was enough of a negative for them to not join in on the campaign, but now rumours that the win over Colorado has only bought the coaching staff some time but not a lot.
Nebraska coaches have been hitting the road the past few days, visiting commits who have been hearing such rumours. Nebraska has paid a visit to NU commits Seth Jensen, D.J Jones and Ricky Henry. Other guys who have gotten in-home visits include A.J Wallace, Butch Lewis, J.B Walton, Greg Davis, and Corey Young just to name a few.
As the negative comments from recruiters mentioned above and other recruiters continue to intensify from now until signing day, NU coaches will be on the road non stop trying to put out fires set by other coaches. Programs are slowly beginning to understand the impact of NU's recruiting reach and that this staff will stop at anything until it exhausts all the recruiting cards in its hand before it gives up on a recruit.
Some have wondered why our recruiting has taken a dramatic slowdown compared to last year. You now have the answers.
Recruiting is not known for always being the most civil proposition. A recruit will make up his mind for one school, but unless the recruit or parent is firm, the schools will continue to call the young man. The letters do not stop. They are always flowing through the mailbox and the requests for in-home visits or official visits come through the mail or over the phone.
Rivals.com
Head coach will be addressing the same press this time next year.
HuskersIllustrated.com learned from a very reliable source two weeks prior to last weekend's blowout over Colorado that all of the Nebraska coaches would be returning next year. Other words, they had been assured they were wanted back. That would include Nebraska head coach Bill Callahan.
Others evidently did not get the message. The internet and the talk shows were rampant with this coach or that coach being replaced. That is fine and fair - to a degree, but what can be more disturbing is the tendency for certain Division I football programs to fabricate what is going on with another competitor. I assume some of their ammunition comes from Huskerland itself.
The fabrication is relayed to prospects that have already given their word to Nebraska or are presently being recruited by the Cornhusker coaching staff. We have heard it in our recruit interviews prior to the Colorado game. It is not our place to question those that have been told these deliberately false or improbable accounts of the state of Nebraska's coaching status. We did not include them in our updates, but we made note of some of the comments.
"Coach Callahan won't be there the whole time I'm there," one committed recruit told me.
"I heard that the boosters were going to try and buy out Coach Callahan's contract," another said.
"I'm still committed, but I'm not sure coach Callahan will be there much longer," yet another committed recruit said.
"I heard some of the coaches are going - heard from my teammates and everybody," yes from another verbal commit.
"The Nebraska staff is going to be fired," one prospect who was going to commit to Nebraska said.
"They've been losing all these games...they'll probably get fired. That's what I've heard." That came from another prospect . He had the Huskers in the lead earlier.
Words like "probably" won't be taking any other visits or "I think I'm still committed" make one wonder.
It doesn't take a Philadelphia lawyer to figure out how these distortions got embedded in the brains of impressionable eighteen-year olds. It comes mostly from teams that would rather make up a story than to recruit a prospect on level ground.
Those teams were not expecting Nebraska to win over the past weekend. They were expecting the Huskers would get thrashed. Then, they would increase the pressure with the unfounded rumors of coach Callahan's coaching demise.
The following was reported to us by Seth Jensen after the Colorado game he attended. Seth Jensen, the 6-foot-3, 275-pound defensive tackle from Fort Morgan, was and still is 100 percent committed to Nebraska.
"I've felt for a long time that the best is yet to come, and I think when you add the recruiting class that's coming in with the players already in the program, you can see that great things are in store for the future of Nebraska football."
Mike McNeill's response was quite similar to Jensen's.
"The coaches think I can stretch the field and be the type of tight end that does well in the West Coast offense and you saw against Colorado what the offense is capable of doing. I think with the young guys there now and the guys coming in you'll see even more improvement and it'll only get better and better from here. I think it's the perfect situation for someone in my position."
D.J. Jones has taken the high road and he is thinking for himself. He has not been swayed by the negativity by other coaches.
"It's not affecting me at all. I have my own mind about things and I feel that coach (Bill) Callahan is making things happen there. The Colorado game showed that. It's not like I'm going to let anybody else make my opinions for me. I'm positive that coach Callahan will take the Huskers back to the level they have been in past years. I still get letters from a few schools trying to recruit me, but I'm going to keep my word and stay with Nebraska."
It has been less than two recruiting cycles since coach Callahan and his staff have been recruiting their prospects. It has been two regular seasons since they have taken the helm. Improvement has been made and it will take a little more time. In-home visits started a few days ago. Those visits should help to solidify the verbal committed prospects and to counter the falsehoods.
The negative recruiting teams were somewhat too early.
[SIZE=14pt]Here is his on Huskerboard:[/SIZE]
It was not that long ago that Nebraska ran an option offense that was limited in what it could do with the talent recruited. Recruiters from other schools would whisper in a recruits ear that if they ever went to Nebraska, they would probably never see the NFL because no team in the NFL runs a pure option offense or even half of it.
The fact Nebraska went 17-12 in 2002 and 2003 helped show the weakness of Nebraska's recruiting and that teams now understood how to defend the option. Play-makers were going to successful school with a offense that could offer them more exposure such as Oklahoma, Miami, FSU, Texas, USC, UCLA, LSU and Auburn. Nebraska was left picking up the scraps and leftovers from teams who had already recruited who they wanted and recruits who had waited to long to commit to those top schools.
A new breed of negative recruiting has recently emerged and whispers which were once few and far between are not constant on a daily basis
"Coach Callahan is going to be fired"
"The coaching staff wont be there for all 4 years"
Some kids will take it into consideration and drop a school after a rumour like that, regardless if the rumour has a base to it or not. Negative recruiting tactics are as old as dirt, but when the rumours involve players Nebraska has currently recruited and been commits to the school for a few months, some recruiters are beginning to show their weakness and fear of what NU could do with the right guys.
One recruiter in particular heads the negative recruiting campaign. Oregon LB's coach Don Pellum who has been spreading false rumours surrounding the status of the NU coaching staff. Pellum is currently responsible for recruiting guys NU is in on like Major Culbert, Jonas Mouton, Ricky Thenarse, and JUCO Ashlee Palmer.
Another dirty recruiter in the business is from another Pac-10 school. Arizona offensive coordinator and QB's coach Mike Canales. Mike is responsible for recruiting guys which NU was heavily in on such as Stanley Havili, Sheerace Wright, Naderris Ward, and Deshon Matthews. Mike has taken it upon himself to spread a rumour that if Callahan and staff don't go to the Big12 title game next year, they will be fired.
The recent win over Colorado seems to have intensified the negative recruiting from other schools who believed that NU's performance on the field earlier this season and it's 3 consecutive losses was enough of a negative for them to not join in on the campaign, but now rumours that the win over Colorado has only bought the coaching staff some time but not a lot.
Nebraska coaches have been hitting the road the past few days, visiting commits who have been hearing such rumours. Nebraska has paid a visit to NU commits Seth Jensen, D.J Jones and Ricky Henry. Other guys who have gotten in-home visits include A.J Wallace, Butch Lewis, J.B Walton, Greg Davis, and Corey Young just to name a few.
As the negative comments from recruiters mentioned above and other recruiters continue to intensify from now until signing day, NU coaches will be on the road non stop trying to put out fires set by other coaches. Programs are slowly beginning to understand the impact of NU's recruiting reach and that this staff will stop at anything until it exhausts all the recruiting cards in its hand before it gives up on a recruit.
Some have wondered why our recruiting has taken a dramatic slowdown compared to last year. You now have the answers.
