Husker Richard
Starter
Enunwa can ball. Check out his film on youtube. I may be wrong, but from what I understand he played against some pretty good competition out in Cali.
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Remember the talk about Bo being a bad recruiter?
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knapplc
International Man of Mystery
What was so impressive about that video is how rarely the first contact brought him down. He was breaking tackles on nearly every play, with the notable exceptions when he caught the ball off balance and was hit immediately. If he got his feet under him after the catch, even LBs weren't bringing him down off first contact. He was clearly the fastest guy in the secondary in those clips, too.
Let's hope he can translate that into the college level. If so, he could be contributing right away.
WR and OL are really the only areas i don't think the coaches nailed. that said, any of the 3 WR's we got could very well turn out to be good ones. really would have liked at least one more OL, though young pelini has some potential. he apparently drew some interest from some D1 schools, but was always heading to NU. another LB would have been nice as well with williams' departure, but we seem to be heading to more of a nickel base defense anyway, decreasing the need for LBs.
would like to see a couple more walk-on OL if we can. one of the failings of billy c's recruiting was not getting enough high school OL. i would hate to see the new staff fall into the same trap. could just be a one year anomaly though.
overall, great class. hit our biggest need positions, particularly at DT, the hardest position to recruit well.
Danimal
All-Conference
Bo isn't a great recruiter but he's a solid one that should find guys that want to play hardnosed Nebraska football and be the best they can be. Starting this season we'll really start seeing Bo's recruits. We'll start seeing what kind of evaluator Bo is. A key to winning at a place with recruiting disadvantages is finding guys that can play at a high level but weren't chased by the big-dogs.
yup, but the early returns (gomes, dennard, burkhead, pj smith, etc.) look pretty good. :koolaid2:
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carlfense
Heisman Trophy Winner
Bumping an ancient thread here . . . but I was never concerned about Bo's recruiting. I don't know where you got the "it still seems odd that you would be concerned BEFORE you were shown what Bo and his staff could do." I started the thread to laugh a bit at the recruiting meltdown that happened in this forum in the fall . . . not because I was concerned about Bo's recruiting.
RockyMountainOySker
All-Conference
I hear you loud and clear. There were many "meltdown" posts this past fall. If I remember correctly, there was a month or two long stretch when we didn't get a single commit...all along Gabbert and Terry said goodbye to NU. People were going nuts on this board.
Thank god this board, like all boards, is straight up speculation and we all learned that Bo is a d*mn good recruiter.
Our 3 :star s are so much better than MU's 3 :star s
:koolaid2: :koolaid2: :koolaid2: .....I am serious though :lol:
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teachercd
Head Coach
I did not mean you, I meant BCers or BRBers. I guess you are one of those then I mean you but you dont seem to be one.
zoogs
Assistant Coach
I hate partisan lines. We're all Husker fans here...and, I think we should all acknowledge things evenly. Give credit where it's due, give blame where that's due. A big criticism of these "BRBers" and some other boards is how everyone has to toe the "company line" and be supportive of the coach, etc. Well, sometimes, that doesn't seem a whole lot different. It's like people are expected to anoint Bo as our savior and the Way of the Light in everything, while at the same time condemning the previous staff for everything they did. That's still toeing the line, 100% kool-aid about the current staff, burning effigies of the previous one.
Skepticism about the current staff is healthy and so too, is acknowledging that the previous staff did do good jobs in a number of areas. And I am on board with this staff personally, but even if someone prefers the last one to Bo's crew, I don't think that's any reason to look down at that or classify them as BC leg humpers or anything. Just a fan with a different opinion. As much as it may seem sacrilege, perfectly smart Husker fans may have plenty of reason to not believe wholesale in the direction of the program. I mean, I'll debate anyone on that if that's what they think, but I feel like tossing labels around like "BCers" is a little narrow sighted.
We're going into Year 3 of the tenure here, remember. 2007 was a collapse of epic proportions. If that happens in the next few years, are we going to be talking about some of our own as ignorant BPer's? I hope not.
Skepticism about the current staff is healthy and so too, is acknowledging that the previous staff did do good jobs in a number of areas. And I am on board with this staff personally, but even if someone prefers the last one to Bo's crew, I don't think that's any reason to look down at that or classify them as BC leg humpers or anything. Just a fan with a different opinion. As much as it may seem sacrilege, perfectly smart Husker fans may have plenty of reason to not believe wholesale in the direction of the program. I mean, I'll debate anyone on that if that's what they think, but I feel like tossing labels around like "BCers" is a little narrow sighted.
We're going into Year 3 of the tenure here, remember. 2007 was a collapse of epic proportions. If that happens in the next few years, are we going to be talking about some of our own as ignorant BPer's? I hope not.
We're not all the same "Husker," fans here, so please speak for yourself. There's a heapin' helpin' of people on this board that I am sad to associate with.
EDIT: Haha, they replaced sh1t lo4d with "heapin' helpin'!" Now THAT's funny.
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