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Husker recruiting could include more portal adds aimed at 'immediate impact guys'​

ByBRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON 4 hours ago

During this Husker bye week, while Nebraska searches for fixes to the ails for this year's team, Scott Frost also took a moment to speak of the search for answers beyond 2021.

Recruiting is sort of getting back to normal in the sense that Nebraska coaches can actually get out on the road again, after generally being at a Zoom's distance from recruits since COVID came into play in the spring of last year. While on the recruiting topic Wednesday, the Husker head coach dropped a key nugget about the program's recruiting strategy in the upcoming months and recruiting cycles.

"This recruiting class, we're going to focus on maybe some immediate impact guys a little more. Probably not sign as many freshmen," Frost said. "When you're as close as we've been, one or two more pieces, one more two more guys, will get you over the hump. So we're probably going to look to the transfer portal a little more, look to the junior college a little more. And focus on those things to make sure we replace a couple guys we might be losing and try to add just a couple more pieces I think we need."

Nebraska, with eight commitments in the 2022 class and maybe space for five or so more, doesn't have a lot of leg room. The roster is loaded up with "freshmen" and losing only eight scholarship seniors. While there is certainly attrition that does, and surely will, happen, it's been known all along the Huskers will need to take a small class.

After last year's COVID eligibility freeze, the class breakdown of Nebraska's roster is decidedly tipped. Nebraska has 156 players and 71 are freshmen and 29 are redshirt freshmen. Sixty-four percent of this roster are 'freshmen' by label, even if some of those are third-year frosh. There are 25 sophomores, 23 juniors and just eight seniors.


For a team that has been close but still pedaling up a hill, to a point that five losses each within one score have Nebraska 3-5, Frost is looking for those couple added game-changers that might have some experience under their wings who can blend with that young core. Granted, any portal decisions have to be made with urgency.

"You're never sure who's going to end up in the transfer portal and have to make faster decisions, and have to stay on top of it a little bit," Frost said.

Any positions Frost wanted to specifically cite that the Huskers would be looking for in the portal? Not publicly, at least.

"You got to take the best guys available. I don't really want to talk about that and do that to the guys currently on our team," he added. "But I think we're a couple pieces away from getting over the hump and winning all these games. So we'll do our best to take the young core that we have, and a lot of really good young players, and try to add to it as best we can through high school recruiting and other ways."

Not being able to get out on the road until now has added a layer of difficulty for everyone across the country, of course.

"That's been tough. Particularly being in Nebraska and not being able to get out. Our coaches haven't been on the road in, you said 600 days? 620 days? It's been a long time," Frost said. "It's just unfortunate."

In the meantime, Frost is locked in on figuring out how this year's roster can turn near defeats to wins to make a run to a bowl game and some momentum that has always just seemed out of finger's reach during a coaching era in which the Huskers are now 15-25. Nebraska has to win three of its final four games to avoid not going to a bowl game for a fifth straight year.

Certainly the bye is a time when you can explore some personnel ideas, but Frost added, "There's only so many ways we can go with it. Most of the guys that give us the best chance to win are already playing, so there's not too many changes we can make, but there are certain positions where there's always competition."

There are some young guys with talent he'd like to see on the field more, but they have to be consistent in availability and knowledge of what's going on for that to happen.

"You just need a lot of reps at things to be good at it. I'm not a good golfer, but if I'm not playing I'm terrible," Frost said. "You've got to be doing it to be good at it, and you've got to experience situations. You've got to see all the signals over and over again. You've got to get repetitions. You've got to do it with the right technique over and over again. So when the key moment happens, you're not trying to find something new. You're falling back on the training you have."
 
vailhusker said:
"This recruiting class, we're going to focus on maybe some immediate impact guys a little more. Probably not sign as many freshmen," Frost said. "When you're as close as we've been, one or two more pieces, one more two more guys, will get you over the hump. So we're probably going to look to the transfer portal a little more, look to the junior college a little more. And focus on those things to make sure we replace a couple guys we might be losing and try to add just a couple more pieces I think we need."
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Translation
We've sucked royally at crooting this year, mainly because I can't figure out special teams, OL play, or how to get my team from stop blowing their foot off in key moments and win games. So we're going to hit the portal and JUCO route in hopes of hitting a miracle to save my job, at the expense of the long term health of the program. Lulz...good luck next guy with basically no 2026 seniors...
 
vailhusker said:

Husker recruiting could include more portal adds aimed at 'immediate impact guys'​

ByBRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON 4 hours ago

During this Husker bye week, while Nebraska searches for fixes to the ails for this year's team, Scott Frost also took a moment to speak of the search for answers beyond 2021.

Recruiting is sort of getting back to normal in the sense that Nebraska coaches can actually get out on the road again, after generally being at a Zoom's distance from recruits since COVID came into play in the spring of last year. While on the recruiting topic Wednesday, the Husker head coach dropped a key nugget about the program's recruiting strategy in the upcoming months and recruiting cycles.

"This recruiting class, we're going to focus on maybe some immediate impact guys a little more. Probably not sign as many freshmen," Frost said. "When you're as close as we've been, one or two more pieces, one more two more guys, will get you over the hump. So we're probably going to look to the transfer portal a little more, look to the junior college a little more. And focus on those things to make sure we replace a couple guys we might be losing and try to add just a couple more pieces I think we need."

Nebraska, with eight commitments in the 2022 class and maybe space for five or so more, doesn't have a lot of leg room. The roster is loaded up with "freshmen" and losing only eight scholarship seniors. While there is certainly attrition that does, and surely will, happen, it's been known all along the Huskers will need to take a small class.

After last year's COVID eligibility freeze, the class breakdown of Nebraska's roster is decidedly tipped. Nebraska has 156 players and 71 are freshmen and 29 are redshirt freshmen. Sixty-four percent of this roster are 'freshmen' by label, even if some of those are third-year frosh. There are 25 sophomores, 23 juniors and just eight seniors.


For a team that has been close but still pedaling up a hill, to a point that five losses each within one score have Nebraska 3-5, Frost is looking for those couple added game-changers that might have some experience under their wings who can blend with that young core. Granted, any portal decisions have to be made with urgency.

"You're never sure who's going to end up in the transfer portal and have to make faster decisions, and have to stay on top of it a little bit," Frost said.

Any positions Frost wanted to specifically cite that the Huskers would be looking for in the portal? Not publicly, at least.

"You got to take the best guys available. I don't really want to talk about that and do that to the guys currently on our team," he added. "But I think we're a couple pieces away from getting over the hump and winning all these games. So we'll do our best to take the young core that we have, and a lot of really good young players, and try to add to it as best we can through high school recruiting and other ways."

Not being able to get out on the road until now has added a layer of difficulty for everyone across the country, of course.

"That's been tough. Particularly being in Nebraska and not being able to get out. Our coaches haven't been on the road in, you said 600 days? 620 days? It's been a long time," Frost said. "It's just unfortunate."

In the meantime, Frost is locked in on figuring out how this year's roster can turn near defeats to wins to make a run to a bowl game and some momentum that has always just seemed out of finger's reach during a coaching era in which the Huskers are now 15-25. Nebraska has to win three of its final four games to avoid not going to a bowl game for a fifth straight year.

Certainly the bye is a time when you can explore some personnel ideas, but Frost added, "There's only so many ways we can go with it. Most of the guys that give us the best chance to win are already playing, so there's not too many changes we can make, but there are certain positions where there's always competition."

There are some young guys with talent he'd like to see on the field more, but they have to be consistent in availability and knowledge of what's going on for that to happen.

"You just need a lot of reps at things to be good at it. I'm not a good golfer, but if I'm not playing I'm terrible," Frost said. "You've got to be doing it to be good at it, and you've got to experience situations. You've got to see all the signals over and over again. You've got to get repetitions. You've got to do it with the right technique over and over again. So when the key moment happens, you're not trying to find something new. You're falling back on the training you have."
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BC and Bruntz are good writers, but all of the 247 guys are scared to death to write anything that might be seen or could be interpereted as pessimistic.
 
OR... SF knows he is on his way out so he is only recruiting kids he knows would stay committed (local and hidden gem types) and leaving a large chunk of the class for the next HC to use to recruit big names based on new hope or portal kids to fill holes... 4D chess games

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In all likelihood, though, the coaches have been enjoying their 620 days of not being on the road recruiting and instead just said fuck it.
 
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