Mavric

Yep. Nike SPARQ Verified. Though I'm not sure running the 40 has a lot to do with playing DE.

Player: Stephon Wynn Hometown: Anderson, South Carolina School: T L Hanna Position: Defensive End Height: 6-5 Weight: 255 40 time: Offers: Auburn, Clemson, Duke, Florida, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State, Middle Tennessee State, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Troy, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest Visits: Twitter 247 Composite: Rivals: 247: #47 Overall; #3 SDE; Scout: ESPN: Hudl

Yeah that easily rivals the Niles Paul fumble in terms of absurdity. Niles Paul's fumble had a bigger impact on the outcome of the game though. Not sure if that matters. It's a hilarious moment, but it's actually a "smart" play by Jake. He knew if he takes a step to keep his balance, that's a penalty, so he was trying to hold it waiting for the snap to happen in time so he wouldn't penalize his team. I know it's funny to watch but I've really never understood the ridicule. If he would have just given up earlier and stood up, everyone would have forgotten about it by the next possession. But by trying to hold as long as he could to try to avoid a penalty, it becomes a mockery. I'm sure he laughs at it as well but to try to use it as some point of how bad he was is totally backwards.

Those two seasons are indicative because that's when he'd finally run out of Osborne's recruits and the recruiting momentum that goes with Osborne's success. He couldn't get it done on his own. Those were the only two winning teams. And I didn't count the bowl game because Frank was gone, as you said. NU was ranked 14th on rivals when Frank was fired. So he had some recruiting momentum. I guess I won't get into a debate as to how many TO ""leftovers" he was using to when NU went to an NC game 4 years after TO retired or a dissection of every NU season going back to the 60s when you could find that there were a number of years where NU didn't beat very many good teams (for example, in 1990, NU didn't beat any team that won more than 6 games, think only two had winning records and was blown out by an unranked Oklahoma team). Stuff happens. In totality, I think Frank was a successful head coach at NU. You don't have to agree. But a lot of football minds do. In totality, fairly successful. But again, that includes a lot of time spent riding TO's coattails. It's not just guys TO actually recruited. But who spent most of their high school careers watching Nebraska win national championships. We didn't have to go around convincing guys to be interested in Nebraska. They already were when we showed up at their doorstep. There were plenty of guys on the 2001 team who would have committed and signed within a year or two of winning the third national title in four years. There's a lot of residual there. As that memory started to fade, so did the results. And say a recruiting class is highly ranked at any time other than signing day really doesn't mean anything at all. Did we have more recruits committed at that time than other schools? Would they all have stayed even if he wasn't fired? How many other schools would have passed us anyway? Would they have actually worked out? Way too many variables for that to mean anything. The 2005 class was supposed to be the savior of the program. But it ended up being more hype than substance. And it was really only Rivals that thought it was that good. When you look at it in the 247 composite, it's nothing special. A large number of commits made it look a lot better than it was. There were some pretty good players (Slauson, Bowman, Lucky, Dillard, Potter, Taylor and Turner) plus one elite player (Suh) but out of 32 players that's not a great percentage. Are you sure about the bolded part? One of the reasons for the poor 2002 season stemmed from the fact that our best talent on that team was either a true freshman, a redshirt freshman, or a new JuCo recruit. The Bullocks twins were redshirt freshman, Fabian Washington was a true freshman, Demarrio Williams was an income JuCo recruit, LeKevin Smith was a redshirt freshman, Porkchop and Incognito were both redshirt freshmen, Carriker was a freshman. We had a lot of great young players in 02', but our upperclassmen is where things fell apart. The upper class would have been recruited well into those so called residual years. We had four players who were on the either the first team, second team, or fourth team All American list. Three of those four were freshmen. If we're going to stomp Frank's recruiting, it seems his poorest classes should have been his first two which came right off a NC. Those were some good players. But they weren't necessarily the big contributors that year. The Bullocks were great athletes but even Daniel didn't make a huge contribution that year. Washington was a big contributor but both he and Josh B were NFL guys so you'd expect them to play early. Ross played but he was only our fifth leading rusher that year. Upperclassmen included Ryon Bingham, Judd Davies, TJ Hollowell, Jammal Lord, Josh Sewell, Junior Tagoa'i, Dan Vili Waldrop, Demoine Adams, Thunder Collins, Dahrran Diedrick, John Garrison, Aaron Golliday, DeJuan Grose, Chris Kelsay, Scott Shanle, Wilson Thomas and Justin Smith. Some of the best individual talent may have been younger but that doesn't mean there wasn't talent in the older group. And the younger guys definitely didn't carry the team. The bulk of the offense was upper-classmen with the top two rushers plus #4, the leading reciever, most of the TE play and most of the offensive line. The defense had some younger guys but the DL plus Shanle and Grose were older guys.

Invited to The Opening in July. Will be at the satellite camp in Calabasas next week. Planning to take OVs to Mississippi, Florida, Nebraska and Oregon.

Huskers #42:

I don't think Bush will ever play a meaningful snap barring a rash of injuries. He has a long, slow delivery and it's particularly accurate.

Deadspin

This is gold. Guy covering Ole Miss for Rivals. Note the date stamps.

Looking to visit Nebraska, Michigan and Texas A&M this summer. Washington, USC and Michigan recruiting him the hardest.

Yeah, but which games did you get there halfway through the first quarter and leave at halftime?

NBC

So I guess they just won't replace a couple guys that the cut...

ESPN

One could easily argue that we didn't have a retiring coach had this not happened. You don't cite health as a reason to get out and then become a congressman, and then late AD of the university. It was a way to say goodbye but he wasn't telling the truth, no one will ever convince me of that because of his path he led after. To me, TO was upset. Didn't want to deal, and decided to run. As harsh as that sounds and doesn't feel good to say either. He had promised Frank that he would retire and let Frank take over with some date on that. I gather it was about 1995 or so. But then they got rolling and he stayed around an extra couple years but decided it was actually time to follow through on his promise so he called it quits.

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