HuskerNation1 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 I'm curious to hear everyone's take on how our poor start to the season will impact recruiting. For as good as Riley and his staff are at generating interest in the program, they are just the opposite when it comes to on the field performance. Year 3 of a program is when a new coach should have put his stamp on the program, and the current stamp of this program is quite ugly. No amount of talent can overcome a coaching staff that does not have the team prepared or know how to win games, and if I were a prospective player, unless I am sold on the Nebraska fans and its rich history, I might have second thoughts on allowing this staff to coach me. I am interested to hear what others think. 1 Quote Link to comment
lo country Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 As a player, I'd look at the current scheme and how they are using "my position". For example, if I'm a CB, I look at how they are used. If I'm a 4-5* kid who like someone to play aggressively, play press and simply get physical, I'm probably loooking elsewhere. Same with RB. As a fan, I have seen nothing the past 3 years that says Riley truly wants to be a running team. I'm looking elsewhere. If I'm an OL and Cav is the coach? Forget about it. Then you might have a kid like Micah Parsons who sees the ability to be a starter from day one. Little to no competition to be a DE or OLB..... I really think it come a down to fit. Right now, I see a whole host of needs, but a staff that seems incapable of fixing them. I think it ultimately will hurt us. I.e. Bookie IMHO. 1 Quote Link to comment
Atbone95 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 This. This is the impact on recruitment. (If you don't follow recruitment much -- that's our stud RB recruit that is officially never coming here) 3 Quote Link to comment
lo country Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 And there you have it......First of several I am sure. A shout out to Bookie to join him..... Quote Link to comment
chamrocck Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 I think its a double edged sword. It is a bad team right now but some of these kids have to be looking at this seeing major opportunities to play immediately. So for Parsons and Bookie they are immediately playing as true freshman. We have shown we'll play freshman. 1 Quote Link to comment
NM11046 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 8 hours ago, Atbone95 said: https://twitter.com/uno_tj/status/909142166043164673 This. This is the impact on recruitment. (If you don't follow recruitment much -- that's our stud RB recruit that is officially never coming here) To be fair, if you don't follow recruitment much - this stud RB recruit was NEVER coming here. 2 Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 7 hours ago, chamrocck said: I think its a double edged sword. It is a bad team right now but some of these kids have to be looking at this seeing major opportunities to play immediately. So for Parsons and Bookie they are immediately playing as true freshman. We have shown we'll play freshman. This is a good point chamrocck and usually I would agree with you. In the case of Bookie and Parsons though, those guys are most likely going to play regardless of where they go. Just for the sake of argument, after watching Clemson absolutely manhandle UL last night, if I were a big time defensive recruit, it would be hard to tell that place 'no'. Absolutely, these guys want to play early and often, you have to think they want to be able to sniff championships if we don't have another angle to pull them in like location, relative was an alumni, unbelievable NFL pipeline or something to that effect. Quote Link to comment
Huskers93-97 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 We lose games and there is question marks about being able to develop guys and see them get better. kids want to win, play and be developed to prep for the league. If all they cared about was playing on day 1 they could do that at any mediocre program Quote Link to comment
Huskers93-97 Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Prime example of impact on recruiting we had some good talent in town for the game. They saw us lose, fans boo the team and I have not heard any news or buzz from those kids Quote Link to comment
killer cacti Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 9 hours ago, Xmas32 said: This is a good point chamrocck and usually I would agree with you. In the case of Bookie and Parsons though, those guys are most likely going to play regardless of where they go. Just for the sake of argument, after watching Clemson absolutely manhandle UL last night, if I were a big time defensive recruit, it would be hard to tell that place 'no'. Absolutely, these guys want to play early and often, you have to think they want to be able to sniff championships if we don't have another angle to pull them in like location, relative was an alumni, unbelievable NFL pipeline or something to that effect. Early playing time still happens at CU. CU traveled 72 and played 70 to Louisville. Quote Link to comment
bugeater17 Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 16 hours ago, killer cacti said: Early playing time still happens at CU. CU traveled 72 and played 70 to Louisville. Yup - Clemson playing their freshman back up QB is an example. That kid would of red-shirted at Nebraska. Quote Link to comment
NM11046 Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 On 9/17/2017 at 10:09 AM, Huskers93-97 said: Prime example of impact on recruiting we had some good talent in town for the game. They saw us lose, fans boo the team and I have not heard any news or buzz from those kids Then you haven't looked. All the sites have stories published on kids that were there and had positive things to say. I wonder 93-97, and I don't want this to come across as snippy as it's going to, that's not the tone I'm intending - do you want them to have success in recruiting? Seems like 90% of your posts are mostly how xyz recruit isn't coming for xyz reason. Perhaps you're just a glass half empty guy? Quote Link to comment
spurs1990 Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 7 minutes ago, NM11046 said: Then you haven't looked. All the sites have stories published on kids that were there and had positive things to say. I wonder 93-97, and I don't want this to come across as snippy as it's going to, that's not the tone I'm intending - do you want them to have success in recruiting? Seems like 90% of your posts are mostly how xyz recruit isn't coming for xyz reason. Perhaps you're just a glass half empty guy? In fact one said that we were his top school, another was listed as a commit watch by one of those published site authors, and another one we are seemingly sitting well with. To be fair, I can't say much to 93-97 because I was the first to say recruiting would take a big hit. It still could depending on these next games, but the recruits response was about as good as you could hope for coming out of this game. 3 Quote Link to comment
killer cacti Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 44 minutes ago, bugeater17 said: Yup - Clemson playing their freshman back up QB is an example. That kid would of red-shirted at Nebraska. Why? Dabo's thing is, he's good enough that he's not going to be here for 5 years, so why waste a year of his time? 1 Quote Link to comment
NM11046 Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 On 9/17/2017 at 10:09 AM, Huskers93-97 said: Prime example of impact on recruiting we had some good talent in town for the game. They saw us lose, fans boo the team and I have not heard any news or buzz from those kids 1 Quote Link to comment
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