With your own evaluation process you get first mover advantage, which is a big influence in getting some kids.
I think this is what's happening. We know Rhule is telling recruits that recruits who pick his program when they're down "have a special place in my heart." He lionizes those first class recruits who picked Baylor when they sucked that first post Briles offseason. This is just Rhule trying to be first with recruits he thinks are going to be "discovered" later.
If you don't think it's that, then you believe it's one of two things:
- Rhule is terrible at recruiting & the only recruits he can close are bad players w/ no other P5 offers
- Nebraska FB program has declined so much that the only players they can recruit now are bad players with no other P5 offers
My thing is, the thing we've been doing isn't working, so I'm open to trying something new. We've been star-hunting for CA-FL-GA scraps for the last 8 yrs. We go into those states and find the highest ranked players that every other big school is passing on. It's given us good star rankings and kept our classes in the top 25.... but a huge % of these guys proved to be highly flawed (which is why they're home state schools passed on them). And most of them transfer out of here anyway.
Every NU fan on these boards has been super jealous of the rags to riches/diamonds in the rough development hero stories that Wisconsin and Cockeye have every year. So now Rhule is recruiting some 'diamonds in the rough' prospects but everyone on the message boards is like "bUt tHeiR oFfeR LiStsz!!!!".....you can't have it both ways.