*** 2026 Recruiting ***

2 4 stars, 2 high 3 stars, 2 athletic 3 star wr. 6 out of 9. The other 3 are projects, a NE recruit in a bad talent year & 2 back up plans. We are not going to get all 4 & 5 star players.
So two four stars. Luke Sorenson is the only high 3 star. Athletic 3 stars is entirely subjective. There are about 6 projects in this class out of 9. This class is a joke. They wiffed on almost every major target they had.
 
It's ~20th in average star rating, it's just small. Which is a problem and I agree that not having any DL or a QB are big misses. But I'm willing to wait and see what the transfer class is like before passing judgement on the class as a whole.
it is heavily skewed by the addition of Odom. Which props for that one but the quality per recruit is just not good.
 
So two four stars. Luke Sorenson is the only high 3 star. Athletic 3 stars is entirely subjective. There are about 6 projects in this class out of 9. This class is a joke. They wiffed on almost every major target they had.
Stars are subjective to analysis of what could be. Offer list also tells a lot. We will just have to agree to disagree!
 
It's a fair criticism overall. But there's a big difference between taking a small HS class and swinging big on the portal when you still have a returning roster of 80+ players, and what Deion is doing having as many transfers as returning players. He's had 30+ transfers in each year, we're not doing that.
I understand that but the initial blow back from when he(Deion) first did that was huge. Im not saying we are going to do this every year with relying on the portal players to make a difference when they come in but bc our coaches haven't recruited and developed guys well this is why we are going to the portal.
 
I understand that but the initial blow back from when he(Deion) first did that was huge. Im not saying we are going to do this every year with relying on the portal players to make a difference when they come in but bc our coaches haven't recruited and developed guys well this is why we are going to the portal.

Right, but the initial blowback was because he had 52 transfers, 21 high school kids, and I don't remember the exact number but I think less than 20 returning players. That is incredibly different than us taking 10 transfers, 10 high school kids, and returning 85 players or whatever it's going to work out to. We can criticize how light we're going on HS talent this year, but that was only a small piece of the Deion criticism.
 
it is heavily skewed by the addition of Odom. Which props for that one but the quality per recruit is just not good.


Wait so what you're saying is, it's ranked by the same objective criteria that everyone else's class is ranked by?
 
Wait so what you're saying is, it's ranked by the same objective criteria that everyone else's class is ranked by?
I’m saying that the depth of the class is horrible and we have one really good guy bringing up the back end of the class and that Nebraska was and is capable of much better results than what we have seen in this class. This class sucks.
 
Is it just me or should we be seeing more portal offers? Is it just because we are waiting and will be selective? Seems like we should hear about some upcoming visits or something. How we do in the portal will be a big metric for me on our future outlook. This and the DC hire are a critical phase for the program right now. It can’t just all be a focus on a 2027 class, which I do see a lot of good things there. But we have some immediate holes to fix now.
 
Is it just me or should we be seeing more portal offers? Is it just because we are waiting and will be selective? Seems like we should hear about some upcoming visits or something. How we do in the portal will be a big metric for me on our future outlook. This and the DC hire are a critical phase for the program right now. It can’t just all be a focus on a 2027 class, which I do see a lot of good things there. But we have some immediate holes to fix now.
Portal isn't opened yet and there will be way more that jump in in the next several weeks
 
Is it just me or should we be seeing more portal offers? Is it just because we are waiting and will be selective? Seems like we should hear about some upcoming visits or something. How we do in the portal will be a big metric for me on our future outlook. This and the DC hire are a critical phase for the program right now. It can’t just all be a focus on a 2027 class, which I do see a lot of good things there. But we have some immediate holes to fix now.
We are currently tampering to get players to enter the portal.
 
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