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Interview.....paid membership required. Mentions Nebraska, TN, Kentucky and Wisconsin. http://rivals.yahoo.com/video/recruiting-football/RCS-Interview-Brandon-Powell-1114190

Coming for a visit.....don't know the specific day though. Could be this week or next week.

DB http://nebraska.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1486857&PT=4&PR=2 DL and LB http://nebraska.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1486479&PT=4&PR=2 WR and TE http://nebraska.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1485550&PT=4&PR=2 QB and RB http://nebraska.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1485074&PT=4&PR=2 OL http://nebraska.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1486020&PT=4&PR=2

Player: Brandon Harris Hometown: Bossier, Lousiana School: Parkway Position Dual Threat QB Height: 6-3 Weight: 185 40 time: 4.55 Offers: Nebraska, Arizona State, Houston, Louisiana Tech, Arkansas, North Carolina, TN 247: :star :star Rivals: :star Scout: :star ESPN: :star :star Twitter Highlights

When you keep posting the same complaints over and over and over it is being a negative nancy. Maybe some people would be better off being fans of USC or Texas where they can have half of their class committed by the end of March and then wonder why they struggle on the field when they should be champions every year...lol.

Potential summer visit.

Article on Rivals mentions a potential summer visit.

There is no doubt it will become a rivalry. If we are able to go into Wisconsin and get recruits out of that state annually they will flat out hate our guts. They are already pissed we took their highly rated DE.

1: Before they started doing upgrades to their facilities they had the worst facilities in the conference. Now they move to the middle of the pack, if even. Indiana still has a much nicer weight room even after Wisconsin is upgrading it. 2: You honestly want to try and compare traditions and excellence Nebraska has won 5 national titles, a ton of conference championships, and played in a ton of high level bowl games and has more wins over the last 15 years. They had some nice years with Barr and won Rose Bowls. Under Bret they got the depth chart rolling so they could keep at the top of the conference, but they also had offensive lines for the 2010 and 2011 season that were even better than the Alabama offensive line of 2012 and none of those offensive lines can match the offensive line from Nebraska of 1995. 3: Nebraska is one of the all-time winningist programs. Wisconsin isn't even close. They have good the last 20 some years, but before they they were flat out awful and were a complete laughing stock. They need to show they can keep the program at a high level without using the same formula the previous two head coaches used. Just please nobody ever put these two programs in the same sentences for tradition and excellence - current state of the programs is fine, but nothing more than that.

It will depend on their recruiting for the most part. Their new coaching staff is going about recruiting in a much different way than Barry A. and Brett B. did. I was predicting their decline also. I thought their program was similar to Colorado with Alvarez having a similar role as McCartney. Once Alvarez retired from coaching they would inevitably decline. What I didn't understand was how egotistical Alvarez is and how protective he is about maintaining the formula for success that he created. When they hired Anderson I thought maybe he would try to make some drastic changes that might cause a serious hiccup similar to what we experienced with Callahan. Even though he is a WCO guy it sounds like from yesterday's ESPN article he respects their past success and is going to stick with power running game. I'm sure Alvarez hovering over him influenced his thinking. If Anderson is able to maintain the program according to Barry's vision they can probably stay good but never achieve a NC, even after his retirement as AD. I haven't heard how their recruiting has changed. What is the change? As did I, but Bret used the same formula as Barry did and even took the program to a level higher than Barry did. I'm just asking here, it's a serious question. What did Bielema do with Wisconsin that Barry didnt do? Am I missing something? Hired a better staff overall, even with all of the guys he replaced the last three seasons. Wasn't as conservative as Barry. Did a better job of finding recruits that fit the system better (as a team). Player development was better as well.

Great, be sure to tell us that you know, but don't actually let us know. Just like I don't want you to let us know. lol.

It will depend on their recruiting for the most part. Their new coaching staff is going about recruiting in a much different way than Barry A. and Brett B. did. I was predicting their decline also. I thought their program was similar to Colorado with Alvarez having a similar role as McCartney. Once Alvarez retired from coaching they would inevitably decline. What I didn't understand was how egotistical Alvarez is and how protective he is about maintaining the formula for success that he created. When they hired Anderson I thought maybe he would try to make some drastic changes that might cause a serious hiccup similar to what we experienced with Callahan. Even though he is a WCO guy it sounds like from yesterday's ESPN article he respects their past success and is going to stick with power running game. I'm sure Alvarez hovering over him influenced his thinking. If Anderson is able to maintain the program according to Barry's vision they can probably stay good but never achieve a NC, even after his retirement as AD. I haven't heard how their recruiting has changed. What is the change? As did I, but Bret used the same formula as Barry did and even took the program to a level higher than Barry did. The reason why the decline or consistency for the Wisconsin program will mostly come down to recruiting is how successful their new schemes are with the talent/skill they can recruit into the program. Under the early Barry days he went after the big uglies in the region and got them. He went to other areas of the country, for the most part, to get the skill players. He landed some good ones, but not enough to remain consistent long term for remaining at the top of the conference, After Barry had the second run at the Rose Bowl's he went after the big name recruits in the skill positions and lost majority of the battles and the program slipped. Then Bret took over and use the formula Barry did in his early days at Wisconsin. Their new coach is going after the skill players more so than the big uglies on both sides of the line. Where the offers are going is very telling. If he strikes out on these so called "better athletes" and ends up with the lower level guys that don't actually increase the athletic level of the teams under Brett the program will slip. It will take a couple of recruiting classes to get a feel for it. After the 2015 class is signed I will be able to tell how things could be going. I already know they will be losing around 28 or 30 players on their roster after the 2013 season. Going into the 2014 season they will have a ton of inexperience. So the type of guys he brings in for this class and the next class will give the direction of the program.

Technically 2014 ratings are incomplete yet so that year shouldn't be used yet, but regardless it has been this way forever in the recruiting world. That is why it is important that we compete well in the 250 mile radius and then the 500 mile radius and plug out some great talent 700+ miles away.

It will depend on their recruiting for the most part. Their new coaching staff is going about recruiting in a much different way than Barry A. and Brett B. did.

What we need as a program in the recruiting world is to pull of a complete stunner around the country by landing a recruit everyone assumed is a lock for the hometown school. Combine that type of buzz with winning on the field and we would have a ton of positive press going on. If we can get our running game to remain at the top of the country and keep recruiting solid depth at the RB position and get the OL pipeline going again the physical running style will return. It has been proven for decades that you need a powerful run game to win at the highest level. I am happy we are getting back to that style of football.....just spread power instead of option power.

If you know of any names not listed feel free to post it. It will be interesting to see which of the visitors visiting this spring will be back in the summer or Big Red Weekend.

No! Wisconsin doesn't recruit at a high enough level to win at that level that often. Going all the way back to 1993 they have had runs at conference championships to only fall back and come back many years later and the cycle repeats. If Bret B. was still at Wisconsin they would return to the conference championship more often, but there are so many changes taking place there right now you can't say they will win the division 70% of the time......their weight training strategies are difference now, their conditioning methods are different now, their defensive schemes are different now, their offensive schemes are changing style, their practice methods are different now. Everything has changed for how that program is run under the new head coach. If it works they will remain competitive, if it doesn't work they will go back into the dip that has been a historical trend since the Alveraz days. After the 2013 season is done, Wisconsin loses close to 1/4 of their entire roster to graduation and will have a lot of inexperience going into the 2014 season.

And we have no fear of Wisconsin. Anyone that says we are afraid of those guys needs a major history lesson.

It took nine seasons before he went undefeated in conference play. I suspect a similar time frame with Bo, but it could happen sooner.

^^^^^^^^^^^ The curse of HuskerBoard. There is no curse. It was simply due to a poor hire and crappy coaching and crappy recruiting. Then a second hire that was terrible and we all know the results. We are now back to winning at minimum of 9 games a season and that should continue to get better. We have to have stability in the program before we have a shot at getting back to the top. You need stability in your coaching staff to develop relationships in recruiting that go three classes ahead with the way things work in recruiting these days.

1: husker_99 must be on spring break. 2: Solich took over a program that just completed the best dynasty ever and destroyed what was. 3: Callahan continued the destruction regardless of some of the recruits he got. It all starts with recruiting, but it ends with player development. 4: Bo came in and took over the program. A first time head coach that has learned on the fly and continues to win. You don't win 9 or more games every year as a head coach if you don't know what the ^&*( you are doing. You lose games and units play bad because of poor recruiting and poor player development. There is a two year gap of poor recruiting for the defensive side of the ball and it showed last season. It takes two to three years to "replenish" the poor recruiting with better athletes. 5: The team needs to play with some tougher balls and the way you accomplish that is practice harder. That is what is being done this spring. But it needs to continue into the fall. 6: The WR group this year might end up being the best in school history. 7: The running offense is one of the best in the entire country and there shouldn't be no reason why we do not finish near the top again. 8: Beck is the new offensive coordinator and he has a good system going now. We have some good coaches in the program now. But we need stability in the staff so we can keep building those recruiting pipelines....and that is already started with the 2016 class. 9: Teams that win conference championships often times have QBs that won state championships in high school. The data overwhelming supports this. For example, look at who the QBs were when Florida was winning the SEC and who their QBs were and how they did in high school (don't be a fool and fall a trap for the recruiting rankings for QBs....that is the last position you want to do that with). 10: To win in the B1G you need to dominate the LOS.....this isn't a pass happy league where you win by having 20 defensive backs on your roster. I could say more but that is enough for now. Lastly, it blows my mind how anyone could support the coaching job of Solich or Callahan.......they were terrible and there is a reason why neither is a head coach for a major BCS program. We WILL win a conference championship soon and a national championship within the next decade.

The 2000s went down as the lost decade.....amazes me how people do not see that.

Wisconsin isn't going to be the same old scheme wise under their new coaching staff. Heck, they are revamping the defense to a 3-4 scheme and will be changing the offense to a more West Coast style. The schemes that started under BA and continued under Bret B. are long gone now.