Carm said:

He did move it behind the paywall. The story Tim refers to is premium content. They don’t reflect it in the publicly available list. Tim has a pretty good list.

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Lionsfan93 said:

Darion's mom is a "Husker" fan, but his dad is a pretty big Cockeye fan. My sister is fairly close with his mom.

I heard a couple of fun stories over the weekend about Darion's recruitment. Cockeye St was another school that was recruiting Darion pretty hard prior to his commitment to Cockeye. Immediately after the Cockeye St v Cockeye game - Darion was sitting on his coach watching the coaches shake hands - Darion got a text message. It was from Jon Heacock, Cockeye St's DC. I can't remember exactly what the texted said, but it was extremely passive aggressive about his decision to go to Cockeye.

Darion was shocked and didn't know what to say back - the game hadn't even been over for 5 minutes. He showed his dad the text and his dad told him that the coaching community is pretty tight- knit and you don't want to burn any bridges. So Darion just texted back something along the lines of "Congratulations...great win." Almost immediately Heacock fired back with another passive aggressive text. The Jones family was very unimpressed with Heacock's actions.

Apparently Cockeye has continued to tell Darion that they are going to target Donovan in the portal and that they will get him to Cockeye too. I'm not saying that there is tampering, per se, but that's what they are telling Darion. And their mom also didn't make it sound like Donovan is unhappy and will be entering the portal or anything.

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Edited my original post. Accidentally said that their dad is a Husker fan. He is not. He is an Cockeye fan.

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nja13 said:

Damn, this weekend might be the most star studded visitor list to a Husker game ever.

Mongo just dropped his visit preview, and Nebraska will be hosting six of the top 30 players in the nation from the 2027 and 2028 classes. 👀 I mean, we can afford to have our annual cock tease with the No. 1 OT (who will be there and is also the No. 1 overall player) and finish runner-up as usual and still land a massive class.

Class	Name	Pos.	Stars	Nat'l rank	Pos. rank	Visits to LNK
2027	Kennedy Brown	OT	5​	1​	1​	2
2027	Tory Pittman (N)	S	4	23	2	Lots
2027	Juju Johnson	CB	4	24	4	2
2027	Duvay Williams	CB	4	28	5	2
2027	Matthew Gregory	WR	4	29	4	1
2027	Corey Hadley	S	4	57	7	3
2027	Trae Taylor (N)	QB	4	97	9	Lots
2027	Jamar Thompson	DL	4	101	7	1
2027	Isaiah Rogers	RB	4	149	12	2
2027	Semaj Stanford	S	4	200	21	5
2028	Marcus Fakatao	DL	4	4	1	2
2028	Carter Barrett	OT	4	97	5​	2

That's not everyone. I concentrated on guys ranked in the top 200 nationally. The visit list includes five more 4-stars than listed above! And some of those high four stars could become 5 stars once the services update their ratings.

Another amazing thing about the list above, only two of them are taking their first visit to Lincoln (Gregory and Thompson). The rest have visited Lincoln at least once before. That 7-on-7 tournament and Hudl symposium was a stroke of genius and continues to pay off. Edit: I added a column for the number of visits to UNL, totals include this upcoming weekend.

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That SOB Van Owen said:

at enough
I don’t really follow recruiting anymore.

Can someone plz explain to me why our 2026 class is ranked so poorly? And why all top 10 in state players (according to on3) are committed elsewhere?

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Kinish said:

I mean... they are going to hire Levar Woods to be the HC.

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ShortSideOption said:

I went on a pretty good rant about this, so I'll keep it short:

1) When you don't try to put a fence around your state and let people come in and grab recruits your class will be lower because many times it takes longer to sell those out of state kids
2) We are taking fewer guys this year, so the class will be lower, but our average ranking is still middle of the road
3) When your lynchpin QB recruit is your lowest ranked player it makes things tough
4) Conversely, when you have a QB recruit in your own state that would be your highest ranked recruit but you have obligations elsewhere, that compounds things.

I'll stop there. I'm not happy with what's going on with 2026 but we are definitely young. And this weekend could change A LOT.

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Carm said:

There also has been speculation that Rhule may now feel that, generally, well-regarded Nebraska players just won't pan out all that well if they come to Lincoln. It's based on the track record. Also that with the 105 limit here there will be a lot fewer Nebraska kids.

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Herbie said:

I don’t think it’s a broken fence. They don’t see much of anything they can’t live without.

Plus it’s a smaller class. They swing at some bigger names and missed. Account for transfers out and transfers in the class is probably roughly half full maybe a little over. They are saving a lot of NIL money to fill holes for next season over giving it to recruits this year.

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