June Recruiting 🍆 Thread

[FreightPimpDawg]

spot filled up when Luke committed this weekend

probably

Copium.

 

[Carm]

Super interesting that we are getting all this positive news (crystal ball predictions) from the first weekend of OVs OL recruits. Given that we know it's gonna be a small class, can you see a scenario where, let's say 4 of the 13-15 spots are OL guys? Something like 25-30% of the class being from one position group.

Definitely. I believe the way they are looking at recruiting with revenue sharing is that recruiting classes should be smaller and comprised either of players who can potentially contribute year one or players who play at positions where they are unlikely to play for a couple of years because that position requires additional development (as opposed to just the recruit requiring development).

Since OL require development everyone - only a very few guys project to be contributors in year one anywhere - I think OL will usually be disproportionately represented in recruiting classes from now on. That's one position you need to build and can't count on getting an immediate fix with an upper echelon freshman or a portal guy.

 

[Tsakoi]

Definitely. I believe the way they are looking at recruiting with revenue sharing is that recruiting classes should be smaller and comprised either of players who can potentially contribute year one or players who play at positions where they are unlikely to play for a couple of years because that position requires additional development (as opposed to just the recruit requiring development).

Since OL require development everyone - only a very few guys project to be contributors in year one anywhere - I think OL will usually be disproportionately represented in recruiting classes from now on. That's one position you need to build and can't count on getting an immediate fix with an upper echelon freshman or a portal guy.

This makes sense. The portal and NIL really have changed the way we should look at things.

 

[Carm]

This RPM leads me to believe that we are only taking one CB in this class and Bronaugh was solidified this past weekend (we have a ton of young DBs on the roster now). Derek Young knows Callahan well; I believe he is the guy Callahan sold the K St site to after he managed it for Callahan. Otherwise, why see this right after Jones' Cockeye St OV and right before his Nebraska OV?

 

[tannerkos]

Super interesting that we are getting all this positive news (crystal ball predictions) from the first weekend of OVs OL recruits. Given that we know it's gonna be a small class, can you see a scenario where, let's say 4 of the 13-15 spots are OL guys? Something like 25-30% of the class being from one position group.

Hard to find lineman in the portal

 

[COYS]

I haven’t been following HS recruiting closely this year. What is going on with the instate kids? Are we offering guys and losing them to other schools or is Rhule just trusting their evals and not giving into pressure to offer? It certainly is a risk as no quicker way to turn a fan base against you in this state than to let a large amount of instate kids leave, have success elsewhere and only be winning 6-7 games a season.

 

[FreightPimpDawg]

Fair assessment time.

I am trying to get immersed here. Help me out.

UGA = weird cycle for us. As of right now not our usual standards. Most of the commits look like guys for the swim or golf team if you catch my drift.

Where are y’all at? Up? Down? Stacking talent? Stacking projects and hard workers?

Educate me.

 

[Kazman5k]

I haven’t been following HS recruiting closely this year. What is going on with the instate kids? Are we offering guys and losing them to other schools or is Rhule just trusting their evals and not giving into pressure to offer? It certainly is a risk as no quicker way to turn a fan base against you in this state than to let a large amount of instate kids leave, have success elsewhere and only be winning 6-7 games a season.

Down year for instance kids and 105 limits

 

[Carm]

I haven’t been following HS recruiting closely this year. What is going on with the instate kids? Are we offering guys and losing them to other schools or is Rhule just trusting their evals and not giving into pressure to offer? It certainly is a risk as no quicker way to turn a fan base against you in this state than to let a large amount of instate kids leave, have success elsewhere and only be winning 6-7 games a season.

My take is that they are trusting their evals and, as rosters are limited now, only taking guys that they believe can help them win in the B1G. The state has a lot of guys going P4 but not many P2. An Cockeye St-type roster won't cut it in the B1G.

 

[MaxHuskers34]

I haven’t been following HS recruiting closely this year. What is going on with the instate kids? Are we offering guys and losing them to other schools or is Rhule just trusting their evals and not giving into pressure to offer? It certainly is a risk as no quicker way to turn a fan base against you in this state than to let a large amount of instate kids leave, have success elsewhere and only be winning 6-7 games a season.

They've only offered 3 Nebraska kids this year. Nebraska high school is not good for the most part in the recruiting world this year. The staff have set their sights on much more promising talent.

 

[HomegrownHusker]

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This RPM leads me to believe that we are only taking one CB in this class and Bronaugh was solidified this past weekend (we have a ton of young DBs on the roster now). Derek Young knows Callahan well; I believe he is the guy Callahan sold the K St site to after he managed it for Callahan. Otherwise, why see this right after Jones' Cockeye St OV and right before his Nebraska OV?

We only took one CB last class. Huskers are definitely taking at least 3 this year. That’s why so many have scheduled OVs.

 

[HomegrownHusker]

They've only offered 3 Nebraska kids this year. Nebraska high school is not good for the most part in the recruiting world this year. The staff have set their sights on much more promising talent.

What’s weird is that this is Nebraska’s best instate cycle is over a decade. 20+ guys will go FBS for the first time ever. Talent is only getting better. But the top end quality isn’t phenomenal. So many mid to low 3 stars and that’s why Nebraska isn’t getting involved. Except for Jase Reynolds which is still a mystery…

 

[Goskers07]

What’s weird is that this is Nebraska’s best instate cycle is over a decade. 20+ guys will go FBS for the first time ever. Talent is only getting better. But the top end quality isn’t phenomenal. So many mid to low 3 stars and that’s why Nebraska isn’t getting involved. Except for Jase Reynolds which is still a mystery…

Jase Reynolds still doesn't make sense to me. But, what does make sense is that Rhule and co are big on testing numbers. They'll take a guy that maybe had slightly lower stats in exchange for a 4.4 40. None of the top Nebraska guys really seem to stand out in that way this year. I can't think of any of them that even made state track and if they did, they didn't stand out.

 

[Blakejc]

Does Jase have some younger brothers?

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Worked out great for Caleb Pyfrom...

 

[Goskers07]

Worked out great for Caleb Pyfrom...

Just looked him up again, he's up to 340 according to the Mizzou website. Not good for a dude who had a knock of carrying too much bad weight.

 

[jickey moseph]

Bonner?

 

[nja13]

I haven’t been following HS recruiting closely this year. What is going on with the instate kids? Are we offering guys and losing them to other schools or is Rhule just trusting their evals and not giving into pressure to offer? It certainly is a risk as no quicker way to turn a fan base against you in this state than to let a large amount of instate kids leave, have success elsewhere and only be winning 6-7 games a season.

Another thing contributing to all the local D1 croots is a shift in Cockeye State's philosophy. Their AD has come out and said they will not be fuding the whole 20.5 revenue share. They know they are not going to compete with the big boys in rev share/NIL/paying players. So they are going after a bunch of lower level recurits there won't be much competition for, which means they won't have to offer them much money. That has led them to taking a bunch of low 3-star, 2-star Nebraska boys.

 

[Carm]

We only took one CB last class. Huskers are definitely taking at least 3 this year. That’s why so many have scheduled OVs.

You may be right, but I see it going differently

1. we have 18 DBs on the roster with 3 or more years of remaining eligibility
2. we have had some luck getting guys with potential out of the portal
3. If you take a couple of guys who won't play for 2+ years, you can't afford to pay them revenue sharing, and they will have portaled elsewhere by the time they are ready to play.
4. If you can sign guys who have a chance to play in a year, they make sense, but you typically can't afford to take more than 1-2 of these guys annually because they command too much revenue sharing.

It really doesn't matter how many guys you took in previous recruiting classes.

We only have 4 CB OVs scheduled

 

[Carm]

Worked out great for Caleb Pyfrom...

Yeah, he is no where to be seen on the depth chart or in the convos about who might get some PT this year.