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39 minutes ago, Decked said:

In the portal. Keep an eye on this one.

Hell yes, I'm in. 

4 hours ago, BigRedN said:

Hmmm, wonder how we ever were known for OL ... we were growing them in Nebraska?  I don't think so.  Sure, we have had some ... like Remington.  A pipeline is built by a system ... not because of just location of the talent.  It can certainly be a mixture.  Actually, Wisky getting Nolan Rucci actually proves my point.  They attracted a 5* talent from Pennsylvania because of his belief in making him better.  So, if your premise/statement is fact ... that it is just about what is grown around us ... well, then we should just give up ... cause I don't think the state is gonna produce enough talent to be successful.  That, and, it looks like Nebraska talent doesn't want to be  and 500 radius talent sees greener pastor elsewhere.

The good thing for us is we have had Top 25 recruiting classes with Frost.  That has been great.  He's been just "one class away" ... so, we can all be excited as certainly he is coaching up these great classes into a winning product worthy of the  !

So, let me take it all back to my first post ... Greg of Hail Varsity was making lite of the idea that we are not in on any good OT ... but that was okay since we got one in each of the last three classes.

I don't get why anyone would be happy/content with one good OL person per year thinking that would ever be enough compete for a Natty ... especially when the big boys are adding far better and more prospects.  It appears we have more and more fans buying into a limiting belief or thinking we've arrived and can now sit and relax [that has never been a part of the Nebraska ideal ... until the last 10 years].

 

The largest reason Rucci went to Wisconsin is his brother being on the team there.

I'll skip the next portion of your comments because they are largely your speculation on what I believe, and largely inaccurate. 

To your last paragraph, in no way shape or form is signing one good olinemen per year is how to win a Natty. However, that currently isn't a realistic goal for the program.... so if you're current expectations, right or wrong, are to sign a high profile "Natty Caliber" team with the current state of the program you are going to be disappointed. 

Carry on, I'm looking forward to getting Craig on campus. Appears there is a concentrated effort between 3-4 prospects to find an interior/center. 

59 minutes ago, BigRedN said:

 

Nope, not at all.  Greg seemed to be saying that getting one top prospect per year builds an OT pipeline.  I disagree.  Mavic, perhaps you are saying that as well.  That's all fine.

 

When I start to see a couple of high end four star types commit each year at OT and some real development where we take an unknown mid 3 star type kid and start to produce yearly 1st-2nd round OT's who are drafted ... then you have a pipeline.  I know you know this.  Actually surprised to hear your banter.

 

I think that if we can continue what we got in the past three years and upgrade that previous grade of OT and then the second OT as well ... then do that for 7-8 years ... then I'll be confident to say we have built a pipeline.  Like politics, if every four years the new guy stops building a gas pipeline or a border fence ... can anyone actually say that it's built?  Is gas flowing ... are non-Americans entering without citizenship documents?  If so, something is still broken.

 

We are no where near any the best programs in any conference ... even on our side of the conference, Whisky has recruited better than us at the OT position in the past three years and looks very solid again this year.

 

I'm glad we are improving in the trenches [and hiking a football].  Much needed.  But, a pipeline?  Nope.  We have a start at one position group ... so, hope it continues.  

 

For me, Frost has to go 7-5 this year and then 8-4 next to stay around ... otherwise ... even the OT supposed "pipeline" will have a whole new coach/system put in place.

 

That's how my mind processes out what I think is success for

If Nebraska produced 2 in-state four star olinemen a class like Wisc, I think we'd sign more of them as well. 6 four-star olinemen out of Wisconsin the last 3 classes, 2 out of Nebraska. 

2 hours ago, Decked said:

Throwing a lot of darts at the wall for OT

I think part of it is a lot of the best Oline HS guys play OT for their HS by default. Wouldn't be surprised if we were looking at this kid and the kid from Valor inside based on their measurables compared to our past OT signees (outside of Cocoran because he's on another level as a prospect). 

Iowa, ISU, NW, IU, Baylor offers, sign me up. 

44 minutes ago, Savage Husker said:

Ryan Otton? The family pedigree runs deep, grandson to the coach who retired. Related to UCLA qb. This Tumwater HS is typically a hard nosed program with some strong boys who aren’t afraid to mix it up. 

Yup.

1 hour ago, Savage Husker said:

 
I’m pulling for this one, my brother and I played for his coach in HS (Coach Beattie left our school 2-3 seasons ago after 20+ years and replaced his coach of 40-50 years) and I know Coach had a lot of respect for the NU program. He was also close with Riley too, took our team to the OSU summer camp for about 15 years.
 

I don’t know if he still runs their traditional Wing-T offense, but Beattie (being an OL himself) is known for lining up and being a ground and pound team. This kid should be fundamentally sound in the run blocking game.  

Cool background story. I wouldn't mind him as our TE the class, compliments Carnie and Fidone. It looks like they have another stud TE on the team who's likely headed to Washington to join his brother. 

We are sitting good here. 

Bama offer.

OV here June 11. Also OV'ing Miami, OhioSt, and possibly Bama in June. August decision. Cousin of Lynum. 

1 hour ago, J-MAGIC said:

Wiltfong's CB is just a 5 so not super high confidence ... does that just mean he's making an educated guess based on "Clemson is interested and a lot better than the other teams recruiting him," or is there inside info?

Clemson is bringing him and two others in for a workout. They will choose 1, if they choose him he'll commit. 

Will OV here in June.

Bunch of Arky CB's, I'd say this ship sailed. 

Iowa State CB.

10.37 100m.....

On 5/7/2021 at 8:17 AM, Mavric said:

 

Ran 10.90 at districts today, .03 behind Avante Dickerson. They placed 3rd/4th. 

56 minutes ago, Decked said:

That decision and two week timeline is this week. Potentially today. 

McKeown supposedly talked to him Monday and he said two weeks from then. 

Measured in at 6'4 222 the past weekend. 

OhioSt sniffing around but already have 2 WR in the class and just got a Fong CB for another highly rated WR. 

Schaefer eluded to it a couple times in last few days that he doesn't believe MJ is as high on our board as many believe. 

2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

If he was athletic enough to have us interested at one time at WR, with that size, why wouldn't we be interested at TE?

I speculate they have questions on his blocking ability and/or his ability to put on weight needed to be a Big10 TE. 

Sounds like he's fallen completely off our board at WR and would need to earn an offer at TE. 

1 hour ago, uberism said:

Flipping to nebraska per HOL?

Don't have any info but wouldn't be surprised. He wanted to commit while Helms and Riley were still in play, limited what we could do....different now. 

Rivals officially switched him over to TE. Listed at 6'4 220 there. 

Selected to in Adidas AA game. Hope his visit this weekend goes well, underrated. 

Mooney