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Sorry this would be false. Simi Kuli signed with OSU in 2008 and was a 5 star rated recuit.

From a pac 10 blogger. Looks like UCLA has an uphill battle this coming year. NU's D is going to be great. http://bustersports.com/blog/buster-blog/2010/01/26/pac-10-ucla-bruins-2010-expectations/ How on earth would any parent send their kid to play for Slick Rick, a man that bets on college athletics??? He also killed 2 programs on his watch, Colorado and Washington. How the guy is still coaching in the college game shows you what only a lawyer could pull off, disgusting.

That's actually a compliment when it comes to talent evaluation and recruiting. So are you saying this kid and Evans are superior athletes over Corey Young, Souder and Levorson??? I'm not trying to get into anything, but Cally offered ships to all of these guys that lasted a year at NU, they ended up transferring to UNO or quit football. I guess Bo was right, he said he'd get his QB and he got him.

Yep, here you go Minnesota_husker: Let's see how those girls stack up with this ultimate hottie

That's a lot of 40-50+ year olds from huskerpedia. I only like that site for the links on the front page.

Granted I've never had pink eye, Irie you're in Hawaii or one of the other Pacific Islands right??, I'd take your pink eye and island location right now for my white eye and Denver location. Fair trade??? I got to get there one day, but it's more expensive to visit then to Mexico. Irie could you please send NU some more Raiolas and Fonotis, we need some more of these studs on the O-line.

Well everything I see you post is copied straight from the HuskersIllustrated free board. I guess we know where your "source" comes from. Everything huh? Well I was exaggerating a bit. But most of the time when you come up with some big "information," it was usually posted on HuskersIllustrated an hour or so earlier. Tim_may is a good source of information, give him the credit. Ya, I've been following recruiting for a long, long time. Way back when HI was called Toughtonydavis.com and everything was free. Free updates on all the recruits back then and I used to get way more caught up in it. Not so much anymore. Not that timmy was around back then, but everything regarding recruiting today usually starts with 2 free board posters on HI, timmy and HTO, then it leaks out to all the other husker boards. HI paying members follow his posts and I'm pretty sure there has been some bad blood with HTO regarding this. He's on along vacation. Funny, I've seen other board's posters rip off these 2 for years and call it as their own. I honestly don't care, but find it rather funny when Sam McKewon, the guy that writes for the paper, takes information from these 2, actually asks them questions, and then puts it in his articles.

Pinkel busted out a chopper to visit Gabbert on Friday Night. Apparently with them kicking off their other QB in fall camp they need another QB. Should be interesting. From the OWH: Published Saturday October 3, 2009 The hot seat: Tigers court a second Gabbert BALLWIN, Mo. — Is that the helicopter? A light moves through the clouds on a chilly Friday night. No, that's not it. Seconds later, it's out of sight, far from the football stadium at Parkway West High School in suburban St. Louis. Advertising On the field, under much brighter lights, Tyler Gabbert is playing well enough to be Nebraska's only quarterback recruit for the class of 2010. In the first quarter, he threads three or four tight spirals into the wind, one covering 50 yards and landing in a perfect spot. Not bad for a kid fighting the flu. On a normal night, Tyler may have sat this one out. But it's homecoming, his backup is hurt and the opponent is one of Missouri's best teams. Most important, a familiar Big 12 head coach and his assistants are coming to watch. It's almost halftime. They were supposed to be here by now. Recruiting fanfare is old hat for the Gabberts. Tyler's brother played many Friday nights in front of millionaire coaches. Blaine originally committed to Nebraska, but turmoil in Lincoln in 2007 swayed him to Mizzou. Now he's the Tigers' starting quarterback, subject of rave reviews as he prepares for his first Big 12 start Thursday — against Nebraska. Big brother doesn't get to see many of Tyler's games, but he arrives tonight late in the second quarter wearing a black Missouri jacket and a scowl. Traffic on I-70, he says. Unbelievable. A few minutes later, with 29.9 seconds on the second-quarter clock, Blaine spots the helicopter. It cuts through the clouds east of the stadium, circles clockwise over the field once, then twice, just in case anybody missed it. As the first half expires, the PA announcer says: “Don't forget ladies and gentlemen, a great halftime show ahead.” On a vacant green space over the hill, the chopper lands. Out walks Gary Pinkel. Sibling rivalry A year and a half ago, Chuck Gabbert ushered his two oldest sons to the Florida Keys. A little fishing. A little relaxation. A break from the competition of daily life. The Gabberts, accompanied by a local guide, took an 18-foot, flat-bottom boat off Islamorada, where the sharks loiter near the surface, where the calm waters are shallow enough to stand. “It's like we're living National Geographic,” Chuck says. But his sons couldn't stop razzing each other: Who was catching the most fish? Who caught the biggest fish? Who could reel one in faster? (Tyler says he won; he hooked an 8-foot, 250-pound shark before releasing it.) Chuck, a man of quick tongue and hearty laugh, had lived with this kind of thing for 16 years. He had encouraged it even. But fellas, c'mon, we're on vacation. Blaine is 6-foot-5, 240 pounds. He could be a Big 12 middle linebacker. Tyler says he's 6-½, 195, but up close he looks more like 5-11. More like a cornerback. According to friends, family and coaches, they share at least two quarterback characteristics: a big arm and a relentless will to beat you. No doubt Blaine has the higher ceiling. He is bigger, stronger and faster than Tyler. You hear about guys who hit the genetic lottery, says Matt Biermann, who coached the Gabbert boys growing up. That's Blaine. You have to search a little harder for Tyler's advantages. His release, that's a little faster than Blaine's. His first step is probably a little quicker. People assume he's a nickel-and-dime, dink-and-dunk passer, Biermann says, but his arm is “freakish.” And maybe, just maybe, Tyler has a little more sass and toughness, prerequisites for little brothers wanting to compete with big brothers. Dan Callahan coached Tyler, not Blaine, in youth football. But he's seen enough of both. He says if he had to pick one to accompany him to a foxhole, he'd pick Tyler. “There's another level Tyler takes his game to in the fourth quarter,” Callahan said. “He just won't quit.” Like when he was 11 playing against 13-year-olds. Thanksgiving weekend, it was snowing, windy, 18 degrees. Tyler got hit so hard, he cried. He wouldn't come out, though, and his team won 6-0. Like a month ago, when he led a pair of touchdown drives in the final minutes to beat Ladue 20-16. Tyler's reputation in St. Louis, however, doesn't match Blaine's. Duane Hawthorne, who played four years in the NFL, coaches University City High. He coached once against Blaine, three times against Tyler. Hawthorne sees Blaine as an NFL prospect. But you can find countless quarterbacks of Tyler's size and skill across the nation, he said. “I feel sorry for the kid, because he's always going to be in the shadow of his big brother,” Hawthorne said. Parkway West takes a 14-7 lead late in the first quarter when Tyler throws a touchdown pass on third-and-27. But things go south about the time Blaine arrives. Underdog West gives up 34 unanswered and loses 41-14. Tyler spends much of the second half adding grass stains to his blue jersey. Blaine's first words for Tyler after the game go something like this: You got killed out there. He says it with empathy. Callahan connection The Gabberts' relationship with Nebraska started in 1989. Chuck Gabbert's younger brother played at Southern Illinois, which had an offensive coordinator named Bill Callahan. Twelve years later, Tyler Gabbert, 9, was in Oakland for the national punt, pass and kick competition — he won. Callahan found Raiders tickets for the family. Oakland played the Dolphins, and Chuck, Blaine and Tyler sat near the Black Hole. Tyler remembers seeing Raider fans sticking sharp objects in stuffed Dolphins. Hey, it was a playoff game. In 2005, Blaine attended a Nebraska football camp, starting a courtship that led to a scholarship offer. Blaine had big plans, but as the Huskers' 2007 season slipped into a state of disaster, Callahan and Shawn Watson told the Gabberts they didn't know if they were going to be fired. Blaine's future clouded quickly. “That was a nightmare,” Chuck said. “Imagine at 18, everything you know to be true and correct is turned upside down.” Blaine de-committed from Nebraska, eventually deciding on Mizzou. He watched from afar as Tom Osborne sent Callahan packing. Callahan and Watson were like family, Chuck said. You don't easily recover from an episode like that. “I don't know if you ever really get over it,” Chuck said. “It's not something you forget.” The Gabberts could have tried. But in June, Tyler became the second Gabbert to verbally commit to Nebraska. He also considered Missouri, which offered him a scholarship. Tyler said Friday he passed on the Tigers because of “a numbers game.” Mizzou had a lot of quarterbacks. But in August, Pinkel dismissed freshman quarterback Blaine Dalton from the team. Suddenly, the depth-chart logjam thinned out. Suddenly, Mizzou offensive coordinator Dave Yost started calling Tyler more often. Grand entrance Pinkel's first helicopter barnstorming tour is part of the full-court press. A friend owns a chopper and Pinkel rode it Friday to recruit prospects in the Bootheel, then Illinois. He returned to Columbia for football practice, then flew to St. Louis, where he planned to stop at four games. “Little too much Hollywood for me,” Pinkel said. “My mom (who is deceased) would come down and smack me in the head.” Pinkel makes the grand entrance, but Yost spends more time close to the Gabberts. On the concourse, where the Gabbert crew stands to watch the game, Mizzou's shaggy-blond coordinator keeps an eye on his phone — the Cardinals are winning — as he hobnobs with Blaine and family friends. At one point, Yost stands immediately to the left of Blaine; Chuck Gabbert immediately to the right. Yost is careful not to say too much to Mom or Dad. NCAA recruiting rules dictate that a coach this time of year can evaluate a prospect, but “cannot have any in-person conversations” with a prospect or his parents. Pinkel also acts with caution. He greets Bev Gabbert at halftime not as Tyler's mom, but as “my starting quarterback's mom.” “It's kind of weird,” Chuck said. As for big brother, he tries to stay out of the recruiting process, Tyler said. Blaine's advice: Do what's best for you. Thursday, Mom and Dad will head to Columbia for Blaine's biggest game yet. The winner of Nebraska-Missouri gains an edge in the fight for Big 12 North supremacy, this season and beyond. Tyler won't be there. He can't miss school, so he'll be watching the game in his family room, hopefully with a few buddies. He'll root for Blaine. He'll root for Nebraska. And the next night, he'll face Rockwood Summit. Another offensive coordinator is scheduled to be there. He'll be wearing red.

This is a classic thread. Every single LB is mentioned in this thread except for the one that actually told Carl Pelini to Eff off.

This is the classic case of Nebraska and Notre Dame slow playing him. He has an offer, sort of........ Yes Husker fans, NU plays this game as well.

Sorry, my post wasn't meant to be a threadcrapper or a downer. It was a bad tangent but something to think about.

I’m confused on where this is coming from? I would assume since we have 900 TE’s (11 really) on the roster that Kerr will redshirt. I could be wrong though. Like you, I'm stating and assuming Kerr will redshirt. Sorry to place a tangent in this thread, I was going off on people's instant expectations on players. Also on player's instant expectations of themselves and what happens to those that face adversity, how they handle it and how hard they work to get better. It's a unique process.

Suh needs P. Allen, or someone at that D-End position to step up their games big time. And the D-line will have to play again like they did last season as if they had no LBers behind them to tackle anyone. I'm not holding out hope on redshirt freshman lbs anyways. Post Suh, next year, I hope Carl is that guy like B. Cabral, CU's LB coach that it doesn't matter whose lining up for them to play LB, that unit is a given will be strong. I hate to pump CU, but Cabral is probably the best position coach in this league-imo. How he hasn't gone on to become a D-coordinator at some BCS school is beyond me???

+1 and +1 and +1 I guess in this instant society nowadays and with Rivals/Scout pimping and pumping these kids up so much there is no time for development. They ALL must be complete studs once arriving upon campus. I don't mean to digress and this doesn't relate to Kerr, but it's funny how things shake out (attrition/adversity) during the span of a college career. Case in point Cory Ross. The guy is stacked way at the back at number 8, he develops, doesn't complain, keeps working and slowly but surely the list is widdled away. Numbers of I-backs transfer out in front of him on the depth chart and he keeps going. Cally recruits 5 + 4 RBs his senior year to unseat him and he keeps going strong. Our best o-lineman on this years 2009 team was a greyshirt. Not deemed good enough to get a full ride straight out of HS. I believe there are the same amount of unheralded players all throughout CFB that go on to have steady to great careers then the ones with all the stars a blazing by there names that transfer out never to be heard from again like the Becks and Leon Jacksons of CFB. The one thing the services don't incorporate into rankings is the players work ethic and once they hit campus and face adversity, what do they do??

All true. This really does suck. And yes, losing Castille hurts our running game. A lot. I can’t help but think that the Bobfather would have found a way to keep Castille on the roster. Even TO might have. Things like this, and the Cody Glenn issue from last year, make me wonder about Bo. Oh, I still support him. I just wonder if he knows how to handle things behind the scenes, subtley instead of just napalming the whole situation. It is two entirely different eras. Kids are different, NCAA actually tries to enforce some of the rules some of the time and, oh yeah, THE INTERNET. Yea the NCAA enforces rules, they let you do whatever you want and then after the season is played out, in the off season they state the games each team won won't be counted as Ws. As for the Bobfather comment, see Mack Brown and their star LB that almost drove through an apartment with his car while drunk. Then going home to sleep it off. This after his first DUI. "We'll take care of this in house." Macky states. See Mangino and Talib. The same so called problem that just got Castille kicked off the team. Also Briscoe and his problem with going to class. "In house problems, we'll take care of it" Hunter Teafatiller can get like 6 DUI's and still play, yet Dixon and Castille are kicked off the team for their different, more herbal pain relievers???

Classic!!! Thanks, for some reason that post made me lol. I haven't thought about that show since I was a kid, great show!! Didn't mean to threadjack.

That guy would be Sam Mckweon known as ThePandadangent, a paying member on RSS. I've never paid for any of the recruiting sites and probably never will, but that guy continuously monitors that site and knows the insiders (I know who to listen to to some degree) on the free board and the pay board and takes some of the things they post and takes it as his own. The free board users on HI have had it with him because all he does is post links to his site regarding his articles to Huskerlocker (In which the meat and potatoes of the articles comes from members on RSS). Funny the first documented link to a source on this Spano injury is from McKeweon. Don't know how long he's gonna last with the good graces of Bo's staff that Sipple and Shattel have.

All the things that you mentioned, isn't some of this directly related to TO and his guidance with Bo. Look I know Osborne worked tremendously long hours while coaching, his children and wife have stated this, you also don't keep a staff around for as long as TO did without loyalty AND not working the dog crap out of them. It's a 2 way street there. Funny that TO didn't get over the recruiting hump until he hired Kevin Steele in the early 90s and we all saw what unfolded. That and TO got roasted on the recruiting trail by CU's Mac and his staff of loaded recruiters in the late 80s. The total opposite rule of thumb, the Snyder approach, zero staff loyalty and working the ever living dog crap outta his staff while building KSU up pretty darn fast. Also to see staff coaches run for the hills when given the chance to depart-see Nick Saban right now and why Watson didn't accept that position. I know Stoops and Mangino expect the same type of results from their staff members that they put in while coaching for Snyder. If it truly is going down that way, I can understand why Bo is getting out recruited by KU and OU, they are working harder then NU is plain and simple. Bo didn't recruit to NU his first time around, he didn't recruit at OU, and many LSU fans stated he didn't recruit while down in Baton Rouge. Who knows if this recruiting recipe will work out for Bo with TO's leadership. Right now this is an entire different animal he's facing and he's a rookie head coach. I just wonder if the staff got burnt out from last years 12 month recruiting cycle and or there is some conflicting interests going on right now withing the staff???

I'm not a talent evaluator, never have been but here's some video comparing Evans to Levorson. Some have said similar players. Watch the tape and decide for yourself. However I can spot an explosive athlete on film when I see one at the HS level. Tyler Evans 63-lgjNTvEM S82K7bgurm0

Harper probably will be our next commit out of the list that you mentioned. Adding insult to injury, given that NU has 1000 TEs currently on roster. Sorry, I had to be a a little sh!t just one last time tonight given the current status of things. I have no idea who the next guy is to commit or decommit.

You could bash me as much as you wanted on the internet if was paid in excess of a hundred K per year and from some reports, took June and July off to enjoy: Look we know Bo isn't a slave driver with regards to recruiting (+ coaching), why should he be when he didn't have to recruit at NU, OU or LSU?? Bo's getting tutored from TO who had to recruit against OU only, yet TO still is on record that he didn't get to see his children grow because of the program. Stoops, Mangino, and Snyder are totally opposite of Bo's approach, Snyder worked the dog crap outta both of them and he's still going at those crazy hours and demanding the same from his staff. Ditto to Stoops and Mangino. See how hard Saban is working his staff and look at the results. The proof is in the pudding for all of those coaches mentioned. To put it bluntly, being the CEO of a business making $2 mil a year doesn't allocate you much time off to watch your family grow in ANY profession. Concessions are made when you get to this level. The same can be said of his assistant coaches.

Wow the NU staff really rolled out the NU Orange carpet for this young man..............commits to Okie Lite the next day.

You can say what you want to say, it's only August, but this staff is getting rocked in recruiting. 2 Oline commits and a QB. Oh it will be a small class. Ya it's getting smaller by the day. Hopefully they plan on a big time season and plan on eating off of other team's commits???