Self Imposed Sanctions

Anyone know the number of offers we actually issued to recruits this year? In the hundreds? It seems like we were certainly trying to get a full class = whatever the magic number might be?

 
If the idea of holding back is to smooth things out for next year or hold some for a grad transfer of Juco I'm OK with that. One's that we have hanging around that we wish we could have filled I think should be considered in the self imposed sanction category even if we can still give them out to a walk on. I will add that I did like that this class doesn't have any head scratchers in it. It seems like in the past you would see one or two guys that seem out of place.

 
I would have preferred a bigger class (around 25). Yeah there might have been lower ranked guys brought in, but you never know about a guy until they get on campus.

I don't think a team can have too many bodies on the o-line, d-line and secondary. Many people criticized Bo for not signing the maximum number of players, and Riley deserves similar criticism.

 
I'd agree with the OP here. The numbers fall a few short. If we end up having to do a post-mortem on the Riley tenure at Nebraska, we're going to point to moments like these when classes needed to fill up but did not.

I mean, it was reasonably close, and I do understand we had a few spots saved for guys and a weird situation with a triple decommit. We also added two big commits on NSD, which is amazing. Would've been nice to have had a few more contingencies...

But i suppose it's also not over. The staff could be active on the grad transfer wire, as someone has suggested.

 
zoogs said:
I'd agree with the OP here. The numbers fall a few short. If we end up having to do a post-mortem on the Riley tenure at Nebraska, we're going to point to moments like these when classes needed to fill up but did not.

I mean, it was reasonably close, and I do understand we had a few spots saved for guys and a weird situation with a triple decommit. We also added two big commits on NSD, which is amazing. Would've been nice to have had a few more contingencies...

But i suppose it's also not over. The staff could be active on the grad transfer wire, as someone has suggested.
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Were we over or under last year? I don't remember.

As long as we're usually on target or over, it's not a problem. When we're under years in a row, then we get into trouble.

 
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I can't recall either, but I feel like we were a bit on the low side as well. It's going to be hard if this keeps happening. You have to max out the numbers as best you can, within conscience.

 
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