September Recruiting Thread

[Goskers07]

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

Probably. But that would be quite stupid.

 

[Lionsfan93]

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.

This is what I keep hoping. Prior to this year, I had heard that Darion was the better prospect between the two....

 

[Omar Little]

Donovan is a stud, will start next year in Ceyair’s spot, and will be an nfl player.

He isn’t transferring to Cockeye so let’s just put that to bed now and move on.

 

[Bulldog10]

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.

Not at all what I expected this guy to look like..

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

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

1. How many of those hit the portal?

2. Half the top 10 are committed to P2 programs. We also took an in state guy rated outside the top 10. I understand that rankings are subjective but just seems like there’s something going on there with all those guys going elsewhere.

But also I’m a moron so.

 

[Goskers07]

This is what I keep hoping. Prior to this year, I had heard that Darion was the better prospect between the two....

I'd heard that too from a coach in the area. Here's hoping he flips to the good guys.

 

[Carm]

1. How many of those hit the portal?

That's certainly possible but I think they are doing their best - maybe even trying too hard - to minimize that

2. Half the top 10 are committed to P2 programs. We also took an in state guy rated outside the top 10. I understand that rankings are subjective but just seems like there’s something going on there with all those guys going elsewhere.

I would say Jensen and Jones were the only ones they truly recruited. Dayton Raiola took the QB spot, so that's why Thomallia was out. We had other TEs we liked as much or more than Jensen and we got one of those. Burbach, Van Seggern ad Wheeler we just seemed to have very little interest in. I think we liked Rule more than Wheeler and we were just taking 1 RB. The two OL? The room is loaded - and big - already. I don't think the coaches saw either one as a guy who could beat out anyone they took in the 26 class.

But also I’m a moron so.

Clearly a bad take

 

[Carm]

There also has been speculation that Rhule may now feel that, generally, well-regarded Nebraska players just won't pan out all that well if they come to Lincoln. It's based on the track record. Also that with the 105 limit here there will be a lot fewer Nebraska kids.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

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Not at all what I expected this guy to look like..

he is elite, my wife went to nursing school with his daughter, I should have parlayed that from coaching youth football to getting on at ISU.

 

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]

 

[Eaton Beaver]

 

[Carm]

why would the poster leave 2027 5* OT Kennedy Brown off his list? Number 1 ranked player in the country.

 

[nja13]

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?

Keep in mind that half the Nebraska top 10 is committed to Cockeye State. ISU is a poor (their AD has been open about this) that can’t afford to pay players so they target “diamonds in the rough” who won’t command much rev share or NIL. They need to sign players there isn’t much competition for, so they target a bunch of mid to low 3 star Nebraska kids.

 

[Frogsker30]

No team this year has 5 passing touchdowns this year.

Safety can only do so much in certain situations

 

[jickey moseph]

High school barstool accounts. Nice