July 🌭 Recruiting Thread

[nja13]

The potential OL for that class before it all fell apart still makes me sick to my stomach.

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Seems like I'm forgetting at least one more. Ricky Henry?

Not just OL. That class was setting up to be the all-time best at NU. We had a 5-star QB (Blaine Gabbert) and IIRC, a top 100 RB in Jonas Gray.

IIRC the only (highly rated) players that stuck through the coaching change were Steinkhuler and Will Compton (cue the Ekler tattoo story)

 

[vailhusker]

I think Riley Reiff?

Edit: Yes I totally forgot about him.

Riley Reiff - Minnesota Vikings - Offensive Tackle

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I am dumb. OT All-American at Cockeye

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[vailhusker]

Not just OL. That class was setting up to be the all-time best at NU. We had a 5-star QB (Blaine Gabbert) and IIRC, a top 100 RB in Jonas Gray.

IIRC the only (highly rated) players that stuck through the coaching change were Steinkhuler and Will Compton (cue the Ekler tattoo story)

I don't know if anyone has ever done it but I would like to see a timeline of the ups and the eventual downs of that class.

 

[Sous Chef]

Defense it looks like but was another one that decommitted.

Riley Reiff - Minnesota Vikings - Offensive Tackle

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Didn't he end up on the OL in college?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Didn't he end up on the OL in college?

Yeah. Ended up a 1st round pick and played OT in the league for like 12 years.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

Didn't he end up on the OL in college?

He was only a first round NFL draft pick on the OL and played until like 2023?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

He was only a first round NFL draft pick on the OL and played until like 2023?

So can we call it a push because Bo landed David Grant?

 

[vailhusker]

Didn't he end up on the OL in college?

Yeah. Ended up a 1st round pick and played OT in the league for like 12 years.

He was only a first round NFL draft pick on the OL and played until like 2023?

I'm a dumbass

 

[nja13]

I don't know if anyone has ever done it but I would like to see a timeline of the ups and the eventual downs of that class.

I don't have a timeline for you, but at one time all of these guys were committed to Nebraska for the 2008 signing class:

Stars	Name	Pos.	Nat'l	Pos.	State
5	Baker Steinkuhler	OT	8	2	1 Nebraska
5	Blaine Gabbert	QB	14	1	1 Missouri
4	Trevor Robinson	OG	37	1	2 Nebraska
4	Jonas Gray	RB	72	4	4 Michigan
4	Bryce Givens	OT	98	12	1 Colorado
4	Will Compton	LB	313	34	4 Missouri
4	David Whitmore	CB	320	20	44 Texas
4	Sean Fisher	LB	333	38	3 Nebraska
4	Dan Hoch	OG	400	31	1 Cockeye
3	Riley Reiff	OT	494	41	1 S.Dakota
3	DJ Woods	WR	-	57	21 Ohio

That's five top 100 players, including two top 100 OTs and four 5/4-star OL (and that doesn't inlude future first-rounder Reiff!). We had the top-ranked player from every border state except Kansas (well, and Wyoming who didn't produce any rated players)

Of the above, only Steinkuhler, Compton, Fisher and Whitmore stuck with NU as the 2007 season fell apart leading to the firing of Bill Callahan.
Some other committed players who stuck:
3-star WR Cam Meredith (who ended up playing DE/emergency DT for us), 3-star TE Kyler Reed, JUCO OG Ricky Henry

Some players of note the Bo Pelini staff was able to add to the class after his hire:
4-star DE Josh Williams
3-star CB Alfonzo Dennard
3-star TE Ben Cotton
3-star S PJ Smith
3-star LB Alonzo Whaley
3-star DB's Steven and Courtney Osborne
3-star LB Micah Kreikemeier 😉
JUCO WR Brandon Kinne

In all, not a bad class for a transition class. Ended up ranked No. 30 nationally by Rivals.

 

[The Bearded One]

I don't have a timeline for you, but at one time all of these guys were committed to Nebraska for the 2008 signing class:

Stars	Name	Pos.	Nat'l	Pos.	State
5	Baker Steinkuhler	OT	8	2	1 Nebraska
5	Blaine Gabbert	QB	14	1	1 Missouri
4	Trevor Robinson	OG	37	1	2 Nebraska
4	Jonas Gray	RB	72	4	4 Michigan
4	Bryce Givens	OT	98	12	1 Colorado
4	Will Compton	LB	313	34	4 Missouri
4	David Whitmore	CB	320	20	44 Texas
4	Sean Fisher	LB	333	38	3 Nebraska
4	Dan Hoch	OG	400	31	1 Cockeye
3	Riley Reiff	OT	494	41	1 S.Dakota
3	DJ Woods	WR	-	57	21 Ohio

That's five top 100 players, including two top 100 OTs and four 4-star OL (and that doesn't inlude future first-rounder Reiff!). We had the top-ranked player from every border state except Kansas (well, and Wyoming who didn't produce any rated players)

Of the above, only Steinkuhler, Compton, Fisher and Whitmore stuck with NU as the 2007 season fell apart leading to the firing of Bill Callahan.
Some other committed players who stuck:
3-star WR Cam Meredith (who ended up playing DE/emergency DT for us), 3-star TE Kyler Reed, JUCO OG Ricky Henry

Some players of note the Bo Pelini staff was able to add to the class after his hire:
4-star DE Josh Williams
3-star CB Alfonzo Dennard
3-star TE Ben Cotton
3-star S PJ Smith
3-star LB Alonzo Whaley
3-star DB's Steven and Courtney Osborne
3-star LB Micah Kreikemeier 😉
JUCO WR Brandon Kinne

In all, not a bad class for a transition class. Ended up ranked No. 30 nationally by Rivals.

Correct me if I'm wrong please but didn't Osborne do some of the recruitment before Bo got here from LSU? I was thinking T.O. was the one that brought in Kreikemeier?
Edit: not that I'm sticking up for Bo!

 

[nja13]

Correct me if I'm wrong please but didn't Osborne do some of the recruitment before Bo got here from LSU? I was thinking T.O. was the one that brought in Kreikemeier?
Edit: not that I'm sticking up for Bo!

Yes, that's exactly what happened. Kreikemeier was kind of a symbolic offer to show NU still cared about in-state players after the feeling that Callahan didn't.

 

[V-Doub]

I believe Baker Steinkuhler (2008) is the only one.

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I think Baker is the only one. Thomas Fidone was very close to being a 5* if I remember correctly. Just outside the top 40 nationally. But I suppose he’s technically from cockeyeville anyway.

 

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Reis Russell - Valor Christian - Interior Offensive Line

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[vailhusker]

Nice shirt

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