September Recruiting Thread

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]

 

[LoudHogRider]

Rex "No Neck" Waterman. Dat boi has a built in neck roll. Hope Holgo can use him as a FB in goal line situations!

 

[vailhusker]

 

[Fargo Husker]

In his job as a DB would you say that…Duvay covers?


I’ll see myself out.

 

[LoudHogRider]

In his job as a DB would you say that…Duvay covers?


I’ll see myself out.

 

[turek420845]

In his job as a DB would you say that…Duvay covers?


I’ll see myself out.

 

[vailhusker]

Long Snapper from Papillion

 

[nja13]

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.

 

[Fargo Husker]

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

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?

 

[Carm]

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?

1. The class is very small because we have about 90 players who are freshman or sophomores in eligibility
2. IMO the instate players we weren't interested in are generally not P2 caliber

 

[Lionsfan93]

Man what went wrong with Darion Jones

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.

 

[MaxHuskers34]

Darion's mom is a "Husker" fan, but his dad is a pretty big Nebraska 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.

Cockeye coaches sound about as delusional as your typical Cockeye fan

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Darion's mom is a "Husker" fan, but his dad is a pretty big Nebraska 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.

Was Nebraska not interested in Darion or vice versa or both?

 

[Lionsfan93]

Was Nebraska not interested in Darion or vice versa or both?

I edited my original post. I accidentally said that their dad is a Husker fan. He isn't...he is a Cockeye fan. Nebraska was very interested and was definitely recruiting him. I really think that Nebraska did everything they could, but he was pretty set on Cockeye.

 

[RedSavage]

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.

Explains a lot

 

[Goskers07]

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.

Donovan will be one of the top DBs in the conference the next few years, so let's hope that's all just talk from Cockeye.

Will the Cockeye coaches even be there still by the time Darion gets on campus? Ferentz is so close to the end I wouldn't be surprised to hear his retirement announcement at any time.

 

[Kinish]

Donovan will be one of the top DBs in the conference the next few years, so let's hope that's all just talk from Cockeye.

Will the Cockeye coaches even be there still by the time Darion gets on campus? Ferentz is so close to the end I wouldn't be surprised to hear his retirement announcement at any time.

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