Danny Bateman

We gauged his interest, he went to Oregon State. I wasn't a fan. There's a kid from Cali as well we are looking at and haven't offered. He's on the skinnyth side. Ofa Hautau was the name of th kid. Just saw it in rivals database when I was checking to see Collins' rating. Is the Cali kid JUCO or HS EZ? If its a reach and he's not a good get I'd think the staff would be good wit just Collins and Maurice this cycle. Is this not the case? As scary as our depth is right now, between VV, Curry, and th two Dom this year, we have finally gotten some really solid DTs for the future. VV was always a beast, but I personally had concerns about how soon Curry could contribute. Seemed a bit undersized at first to me, but hell we walked into his commit a** backward by hiring Kaz so can't complain. And if my memory serves he was mentioned to get PT before VV this year. What do you make of these four? Do a quick ranking of them?

The Samoan kid. I forget his name too. Haven't heard jack after our offer... Maybe it was a feeler offer and he had no interest?

All this statistic tells me is that we've been consistently good, but NOT great. Not elite. This season was thrilling, with all the story lines. TMart's improvement, Ameer taking care of business for an injured Rex, the receivers' dominance (specifically Turner busting out), EMart wreaking havoc, all the comebacks. But continue to pee our pants in huge games. We're starting to win some of them, like the game with Michigan for the division. But I don't consider that game on the same level with a showdown with an undefeated OSU or the championship game vs Bucky. Bo continues to let his team get blown out in those games, the ones that would get us over the proverbial hump. FACT. And what is even more disturbing is how sloppy the play is in those games. We're talking about breakdown of fundamentals, terribl angles on D, bad ball security..: you all know what I mean. And, the worst fact of all.. In those losses, the team straight quits. They quit in the Wiscy game. Now, This point is countered by how they would NOT give up in all the comeback games, but still begs the question... Why give up I'm thenB1G championship with all that was on the line? Giving up and loss if fundamentals are not acceptable and lead to blowout, embarrassing losses on national TV like we've all seen too much the last few years. I love Bo. He's doing all the little things, and is doing them right, the Nebraska way, to bring this team back to prominence. Our offense looks terrific (minus the fumbles) and I'm stoked to see what he can do with the influx of young athletic talent coming on the D next year. But we continue to be our own worst enemy and implode in the biggest games, the ones we most need to win to take the next step forward. And as much as I like Bo as a person and a coach, and for all he does right, if he continues to lose those games and in the fashion he has been, I truly don't think any of that will matter.

That comment really had some people upset. In reality though a team does need many different personalities etc. Try to find a MNC team without a few people you wouldn't want to be alone in an alley with. Our team has too have as wide a range of personalities as any other team out there.... Given that we recruit nationally. What the announcer said is offensive, but probably true.... Yeah, but when the meanest players on our team have their DAD watching their every move from the box... Come on I think we need a few more Incognitos or Jason Peters on this team to give it some attitude. At the very least, get a few players that are like Bo on the field... Wear their emotions on their sleeve, get fired up, hold other people ACCOUNTABLE when they screw up (god we need a few of these!), and don't take no sh*t from no one. It was good to see Taylor mix it up and not back down from that asshat safety from UGA. We need more of THAT on this team.

If this guy starts lighting it up with threes in March Madness, I swear I'll... Oh, wait.

Man, at this point we seem a real longshot to land Priest. Yet another big big time player we've come down to the end on and whiffed. Really too bad, because we need playmakers on D no matter the position! He could walk in and compete at safety from day 1 and probably start at corner after a year! Plus Bo would make him into a quality human being and is the best in the biz at putting DB's into the NFL. Meanwhile, Miles is a lying douche who doesn't care about his players (OVERSIGNING-- hint hint Priest), and Mora is gonna bolt to the NFL in the near future. And ASU is ASU-- a football nobody, pretty campus, but a good place to catch the clap. It's such a shame. I think we lose out on PW, though I'd love to eat crow...

Agreed, I didn't really consider this until now, but Big 10 > PAC 12. Mora is looking like he'll bolt to the NFL soon, leaving UCLA sucking again. Kelly too is looking around and Oregon is gonna get hammered with sanctions here, though its looking like he's just going to use the Browns and Eagles interviews to drive up his salary at Oregon. Good luck with both sanctions and now being a pariah to NFL franchises after blowing off now 3 TEAMS, douche. But I digress, USC is back to their usual underachieving level of sucktitude. There's Stanford who's been amazingly consistent, and The Beavs are on the rise (got alot of respect for the head coach), but the top teams in their conference minus Stanford look suspect at this point..

Whoa, kid looks unblockable on film... what little of it I watched. I don't know the competition level, but if him and Collins both wind up in, we may have ourselves a really high quality under the radar pair of DT's, ladies and gentleman.

KenFro's hit was still better

Attaboy Landlord. All is forgiven brother. I didn't even notice. Btw is that pony sig really blocked or is that a joke?

Great that he's still considering us... However, this concerns me. You said he sucks EZ-E? Thought he was a reach until I realized he will have three years to play at the school he chooses. Adds depth and gives us another body that we need. Nash did however kinda put it to him. However IWCC Was far better than Dupage. I know you have some sort of connection to IWCC... amazes me we don't recruit out of that school. Any ideas why? Has me scratching my head too... Especially since that Long kid was the #1 JUCO recruit in the nation. Now we're fairly well stocked at wr but still...

Where exactly are you seein that Hacker? Just went over there and couldn't find a trace of Bradley.

Bradley and Toby Johnson, took recruiting trips to Nebraska and Missouri. From what we heard, Toby Johnson liked Nebraska but was lukewarm on Missouri and Tennessee was out of consideration for Johnson. Bradley did not care for Nebraska and was about to commit to and sign with Mizzou but was told by his JUCO coach to wait a few days to let everything sink in after his trip to Columbia. Now out of the blue we are hearing that Bradley gushing about his love for Nebraska and is likely a packaged deal to go there with Toby Johnson. We will soon see. http://www.tigerboar...essage=10319489 That sight makes my eyes bleed.

Dude, you need to see some movies.

I'd bet the house that 5.5 number for Miles is a poorly hand-timed figure or something submitted to Rivals. People, he's a DEFENSIVE TACKLE. Who gives a flying **** what his 40 team is, as long as he eats him some O-linemen.

The weight thing IS a little concerning, considering we've seen how poorly the underweight DT has worked for us so far this season... I have to wonder if he can stay there long term. Time will tell.

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F#CK! Why are we sitting pretty with so many offensive recruits!? Is that really what we should be concerning ourselves with at this point in time!?!? (Yes, I know Miles just committed).

A bit under the radar, but let's hope it works out and welcome to the family. Let's not get ourselves in a "Well, let's take whoever we can get because we're scrambling and our DL depth sucks" attitude, posters. Let's not forget Bo had to do this his first class here the year Cally was fired, and it often leads to taking players who aren't actually worth a scholly just in order to meet some quota. I'd rather not. Not that Miles is that way. A few decent offers in his list. I'm just saying, in general, that is not a good idea.

Curry played too much, Moss will get a Med RS As for DT no one is going to be able to answer that, not even the coaches. I think we have the best shot a Quincy Russell, then Toby Johnson (hes talking about bringing his family back and it would be for a 3rd time) Pecko is probably MSU or Utah, Hooks is Ole Miss or Miami. We may have a shot with Devante Bond. Bo will be soon or already is visiting Hooks tonight, so things could swing, but doubtful. If we could just kidnap (or pay) Hooks Toby and Russell our Dline would be majorly upgraded for the next few years, scary good. We will be lucky to get one to be honest with you, even thou we need 3. Kaz will have a lot of work to do with the young guys and we will lack the depth again next year, unless a couple guys swing our way. How does this vicious cycle change then? It continues to baffle me how, when we run a scheme that is predicated so heavily upon the DL generating pass rush on the opposing QB and fill gaps in run support, that we continue to fail at getting big time DL recruits. McMullen and VV were highly regarded last year, but Curry was a gimme with him loving Kaz while he was at Iowa. Moss didn't really have any other schools that were as high profile as us. I believe it came down to us and ASU no? Especially after Suh's Heisman run, and how he continues to generate headlines to this day, I am shocked that more DL recruits aren't lining up to come to NU. I just wish I knew why. We had a Carl problem for awhile on the DL. I think the guy was a hell of a recruiter and was great at finding Juco guys but on the Dline high school kids he often wanted the under rated guy or a guy he though was a diamond in the rough. A little bit in his defense the Dline recruit s the hardest to get right coming from HS because often these guys are fully developed or don't have a lot of room for growth. They're looking like all pros because they're just bigger and better than most high school kids. But that being said he often over ruled the RC and JP and made us take someone else. Thats why we've got a hole there now between our RS and our SRs. If true I find that VERY interesting skers. I have never heard this before. Can you give a specific example of times this happened? It's a shame if Carl really did this. It implies he was hand-picking his favorite recruits, instead of the consensus higher rated ones, correct?