seaofred92 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Love listening to coaching greats talk about things they look for besides the tangibles. Not to harp on this too much but I think we've really started to see a cultural shift on this Husker team under Coach Riley and Geno touches on the importance of buying in together and maintaining positive body language in the below clip. Definitely worth a listen and something to keep an eye on as we bring in kids for the spring game and beyond in the recruiting world, and a lesson for those as to why some kids even despite having all the talent in the world, never achieve the level of successes they should: 3 Quote Link to comment
suh_fan93 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Recruit kids who love the game and who have heart and aren't afraid to work. Just like Osborne did. Start there. Quote Link to comment
Huskers44 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Recruit kids who love the game and who have heart and aren't afraid to work. Just like Osborne did. Start there.How about we learn from Penn State wrestling too? Their head coach looks for players who love wrestling and want to have fun. They just had 5 individual National Champs and a Team Championship. 2 Quote Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Recruit kids who love the game and who have heart and aren't afraid to work. Just like Osborne did. Start there. In the OP's embedded video, that's basically what that coach was talking about. Finding talented players who care more about winning than their individual stats, again what the coach is talking about, is as he said: way more difficult than it sounds. Quote Link to comment
suh_fan93 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Recruit kids who love the game and who have heart and aren't afraid to work. Just like Osborne did. Start there. In the OP's embedded video, that's basically what that coach was talking about. Finding talented players who care more about winning than their individual stats, again what the coach is talking about, is as he said: way more difficult than it sounds. Yeah it's too hard so forget that noise and yes I watched the damn video... Quote Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Recruit kids who love the game and who have heart and aren't afraid to work. Just like Osborne did. Start there. In the OP's embedded video, that's basically what that coach was talking about. Finding talented players who care more about winning than their individual stats, again what the coach is talking about, is as he said: way more difficult than it sounds. Yeah it's too hard so forget that noise and yes I watched the damn video... Maybe you should eat a Snickers... Quote Link to comment
suh_fan93 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 I've always thought the psychological aspect/attitude of good/great athletes was just as important as talent level/ability and it's not something that's talked about very often as for the casual sports fan it's hard to know what kind of player someone truly is. I think Osborne had a good sense of these kind of kids and was great at then getting those players to run through a wall for him as some ex players have said they would have done. I will say though that some kids are just born with an abundance of natural talent. Of course not all of those kids work out either. It's very cool to hear Gino talk about the subject. Quote Link to comment
suh_fan93 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Recruit kids who love the game and who have heart and aren't afraid to work. Just like Osborne did. Start there. In the OP's embedded video, that's basically what that coach was talking about. Finding talented players who care more about winning than their individual stats, again what the coach is talking about, is as he said: way more difficult than it sounds. Yeah it's too hard so forget that noise and yes I watched the damn video... Maybe you should eat a Snickers... Sorry about that. I thought it was understood that I did in fact listen to what he had to say. Even though it's harder finding kids like that these days I'm pretty sure that doesn't stop him. The (his) results are obvious. Quote Link to comment
Scratchtown Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Why are those kids harder to find than they were 10 years ago? Quote Link to comment
Infinity140 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 10 years is a whole new generation were evolving Quote Link to comment
Infinity140 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Someone said once our coach is a dinosaur lol but his a coach Quote Link to comment
ZRod Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Why are those kids harder to find than they were 10 years ago?There's a lot more money to be made these days. Quote Link to comment
Husker from Kansas Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 It's harder to recruit a team full of "those" kids in football than any other sport. No other sport has to recruit the number of kids you do in football. And with all the parity in college football now a days it's almost impossible to get a talented team full of kids like Gino talks about. Quote Link to comment
MasterPulverizer Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 I think this is one of the primary differences in this staff vs Pelini's staff. Riley and co are positive and upbeat and it seems like his recruiting classes have that same look and feel. Pelini constantly had that chip on his shoulder that the world was against him and his teams eventually took that same attitude. That's why the blowout losses would occur - once they got punched in the mouth, they accepted defeat and got steamrolled. Not saying Riley hasn't had his share of blow outs, but you don't see him melting down on the sideline preceding a blowout. Geno can recruit the best players in the country year after year but he can only have 5 women on the court at once. It's interesting that the difference between those that play and those that don't, is attitude and body language. Quote Link to comment
seaofred92 Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share Posted March 24, 2017 follow up from today on the OP: Quote Link to comment
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