Recruiting Lookback: Class of 2010

Mavric

Mavric

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Comprehensive review of the Class of 2010 from McKewon:

As spring football has ended, we’ll be spending some time over the next several weeks reviewing recruiting classes — both at Nebraska and in the Big Ten — and the ways in which they’ve contributed to their respective teams. Consider this a rolling process. The 2010 class — fifth-year seniors — and 2011 class — true seniors or fourth-year juniors — will be under review this year. In 2015, 2011 and 2012 classes will be under review. This process helps shine a light on how effective recruiting has been, what impacts recruits have made, and whether recruiting services accurately projected the value of players to a class.
We start by re-examining the 2010 and 2011 classes for Nebraska’s football program.

According to Rivals’ database — which I will use up through 2011 before switching over to 247 Sports for 2012 and beyond — Nebraska signed 42 players in the 2010 and 2011 classes. The 2010 class had 22 signees, and it has long been defined for including five defensive linemen who contributed little to the Huskers over five years; all are now out of the program. That said, the class turns out to be stronger than one thinks at first blush — stronger than the 2011 class, which initially appeared very strong, turned out to be lacking.
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Out of 22 players, 9 started ten games or more. Moudy — if he beats out Price — can make that number ten this fall. That’d be 45 percent. The 2009 class had 20 members, 11 of which started double-digit games. (A 12th player was C.J. Zimmerer, the top fullback, started seven games but served as the No. 1 fullback for two years). If Moudy doesn’t win the job, or has an injury-filled year and doesn’t reach double-digit starts, then the number of double-digit starters will be the same as the number of players who transferred early or left the program without exhausting their eligibility.
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THE STATS:

Best players from class: Lavonte David and Kenny Bell, Jr.

Top position group from class: Wide receivers (Bell, Enunwa, Jean-Baptiste (moved to DB but recruited as a WR), T. Evans)

Bottom position group from class: Defensive line (Ashburn, Guy, Okuyemi, Rome, Vestal)

JUCO recruits: 4 (David, Harper, Jackson, Hardrick, Jean-Baptiste)

HS recruits by state: TX 4 (Guy, C. Evans, Jackson, Vestal) NE 4 (Cotton, T. Evans, Marsh, Rodriguez), CA 2 (Enunwa, Mitchell), CO 2 (Bell, Moudy), IL 1 (Cooper), OH 1 (Heard), FL 1 (Carnes), LA 1 (Ashburn), MN 1 (Okuyemi), MO 1 (Rome),

Players who never arrived: 1 (Harper)

Players who transferred before eligibility was expired: 5 (Carnes, Heard, Jackson, Marsh, Rome)

Players who left/were dropped from program before their eligibility was exhausted: 4 (Ashburn, Guy, Vestal, Okuyemi)

Players who started more than 10 games thus far: 9 (Bell, Cooper, Cotton, David, Enunwa, Hardrick, Jean-Baptiste, Mitchell, Rodriguez)

Guys who played as true freshmen: 4 (Enunwa, Evans, Heard (arrived in 2011) Rodriguez)

http://sports.omaha....the-2010-class/

 
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Mavric said:
Comprehensive review of the Class of 2010 from McKewon:

As spring football has ended, we’ll be spending some time over the next several weeks reviewing recruiting classes — both at Nebraska and in the Big Ten — and the ways in which they’ve contributed to their respective teams. Consider this a rolling process. The 2010 class — fifth-year seniors — and 2011 class — true seniors or fourth-year juniors — will be under review this year. In 2015, 2011 and 2012 classes will be under review. This process helps shine a light on how effective recruiting has been, what impacts recruits have made, and whether recruiting services accurately projected the value of players to a class.
We start by re-examining the 2010 and 2011 classes for Nebraska’s football program.

According to Rivals’ database — which I will use up through 2011 before switching over to 247 Sports for 2012 and beyond — Nebraska signed 42 players in the 2010 and 2011 classes. The 2010 class had 22 signees, and it has long been defined for including five defensive linemen who contributed little to the Huskers over five years; all are now out of the program. That said, the class turns out to be stronger than one thinks at first blush — stronger than the 2011 class, which initially appeared very strong, turned out to be lacking.
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Out of 22 players, 9 started ten games or more. Moudy — if he beats out Price — can make that number ten this fall. That’d be 45 percent. The 2009 class had 20 members, 11 of which started double-digit games. (A 12th player was C.J. Zimmerer, the top fullback, started seven games but served as the No. 1 fullback for two years). If Moudy doesn’t win the job, or has an injury-filled year and doesn’t reach double-digit starts, then the number of double-digit starters will be the same as the number of players who transferred early or left the program without exhausting their eligibility.
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These are always great to read and look at. it makes you seriously consider never looking at another recruiting website.

 
TheSker said:
The defensive line whiffs have been our Achilles heel the past 2-3 seasons.
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Agreed, seemed to do well in most other positions. To the staff's credit though, they made the right adjustment, the players coming in now on d-line over the past 3 classes have been much better. Just takes. 2-3 years for talent on the lines to START to mature.

 
TheSker said:
The defensive line whiffs have been our Achilles heel the past 2-3 seasons.
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This! Missing with the amount of guys that were brought in has hurt big time...seems to be on track the last two classes though. Hopefully they will continue to have it figured out...the best you can at least!

 
Touchdown Tommie said:
TheSker said:
The defensive line whiffs have been our Achilles heel the past 2-3 seasons.
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This! Missing with the amount of guys that were brought in has hurt big time...seems to be on track the last two classes though. Hopefully they will continue to have it figured out...the best you can at least!
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Funny that. I remember thinking back in 2010 that we would pull in a lot of D-line recruits due to Suh's incredible performance at Nebraska. Not sure why it didn't work out that way. (I DON'T mean this as a bash towards Suh. I'm a huge fan of his. In college and the NFL.)

 
NUance said:
Touchdown Tommie said:
TheSker said:
The defensive line whiffs have been our Achilles heel the past 2-3 seasons.
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This! Missing with the amount of guys that were brought in has hurt big time...seems to be on track the last two classes though. Hopefully they will continue to have it figured out...the best you can at least!
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Funny that. I remember thinking back in 2010 that we would pull in a lot of D-line recruits due to Suh's incredible performance at Nebraska. Not sure why it didn't work out that way. (I DON'T mean this as a bash towards Suh. I'm a huge fan of his. In college and the NFL.)
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We did though. Just none of them panned out. I'd list em off, but I aint got all day. LOL.

 
Count said:
NUance said:
Touchdown Tommie said:
TheSker said:
The defensive line whiffs have been our Achilles heel the past 2-3 seasons.
Click to expand...
This! Missing with the amount of guys that were brought in has hurt big time...seems to be on track the last two classes though. Hopefully they will continue to have it figured out...the best you can at least!
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Funny that. I remember thinking back in 2010 that we would pull in a lot of D-line recruits due to Suh's incredible performance at Nebraska. Not sure why it didn't work out that way. (I DON'T mean this as a bash towards Suh. I'm a huge fan of his. In college and the NFL.)
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We did though. Just none of them panned out. I'd list em off, but I aint got all day. LOL.
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I think Suh benefitted us in getting the talented young D linemen that are on the team right now like Valentine, Collins, Gregory, Maurice, Curry...etc.

It is puzzling why we weren't able to bring in some of the top talent we were after (especially some of the JUCO players) right after he was here. But, that's water under the bridge. He is still benefitting recruiting at the position and it looks like a strength of the team right now.

 
There was also talk about how 5-star DTs were blowing up Carl's phone, but nothing ever really came of that.

To me, it seemed like the opportunity was there and the interest was as well for a significant haul at DT in particular, but we didn't really capitalize.

 
Pretty extensive follow-up from McKewon. Pretty much none of the B1G schools ended up with much out of that class.

Michigan’s 2010 class is one of the most crippling recruiting classes I’ve ever seen. A near-complete waste of time of energy. Obviously, those players committed to a different coach who would be gone just ten months after they signed. But out of 27 signees, Michigan had a 25.9 percent retention rate. It’s awful. And it’s part of what made Michigan look and seem weak in 2012 and 2013. As the excellent, linked analysis shows, Michigan had the lowest retention rate of any Big Ten program. Northwestern had the best. And Michigan State — at 71.4 percent — had the makings of the team that won the 2013 Rose Bowl.
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I am not that concerned about them making it. It is the level of play that is important. Those that made it through for Nebraska, would they be starting or playing at Oregon, Stanford, Bama, Florida State, Auburn and a group of others. That is what is important I think.

 
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