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Sip at huskerextra said his insider that he really trusts says it is peat to nebraska. We will know in a couple minutes

bubba signed.

$1 million, a few i-pads and a couple LCD tv's don't even put us close to Oregon. Okie St. (locker room at around 1:30 - cafeteria at 3:30) Regardless of the investments, they still finished the football facilities in 2009. The "athletic village" is still being developed (because it is part of a $500 million athletic facility upgrade which has a duration of 10 years starting in 2005) - but that would just put them over the top. What they currently have is still pretty sweet. A story was run by the Times that stated Pickens lost the entire $165 million investment back in 2008, which might be what you are refering too. It ended up being wrong and I think was retracted. OSU was in possession of it, and he pledged an additaion $65 million after that. Then another $100 million for scholarships in February. That brings his total donations to almost a half billion. I think the entire endowment for UNL is barely a billion. While it takes Lincoln taxpayers to upgrade the facilities at UNL - Okie just has to ask Boone. Must be nice The athletic department does not use tax payer money to upgrade facilities. It is all paid for by donations. I think you are forgetting the athletic department makes $100 million each year a large portion of which goes back to the university. They haven't borrowed from university funds for any of the recent projects (west stadium, north stadium). Also the future upgrades to east stadium will once again be paid for by donations, not the athletic budget, university budget, or tax payer money.

He's looking at some schools and Nebraska is one of them. He does know about Ndamukong Suh being up for the Heisman last year but wants to learn more about Nebraska. He has no favorites at this point and might be taking a visit at Nebraska in the future Whatever school he goes to has to have a great graduation APR rate, fan support, tradition, coach/player relationship among others as well. Graduation APR rate - ours is pretty good, not tops, but academic tradition is good Fan support - do I need to address this? Tradition - See fan support. Coach/Player relationship - have him talk to our current players, or just talk to our coaches and he will see that is a priority for us. So I guess he is a lock then...

Thats my birthday, so I would like to think he will commit as a present to me and all of husker nation.

The problem with your theory is that the players you mentioned were all position players. Bubba is a pitcher. I think pitchers can go throught the minors alot faster than position players. like Ez said earlier pitchers can put extra strain on there arms by throwing extra innings. why not go to the minors out of high school make a couple mil and work your way to the majors. See post #294. Starling is a pitcher/outfielder now, but is projected as an outfielder for the majors.

You are right about Penn State, they were #12, we were #22, and OSU was #25. Link This was for last year's recruiting class. There are no team rankings (at least for Rivals) yet this year. But a cursory look indicates we are currently 2nd behind OSU. Yes I know, that is why I used the past tense... they were, we were, was etc...

Sounds like Coach Sims has his ear. Thank you for the update iruletheskool. Sims is such a huge asset to our recruiting it is awesome to have a guy like him. He can coach well also. I wonder if Bo would be interested in bringing him to UNL if we have someone take a job elsewhere. Then again that my slow the Fort Scott Pipeline.

ESPN rates Kortland as the #68 athlete in the nation. He is currently a 3 star and the #9 overall player in the state of Missouri. He was clocked at a 4.49 at the University of Illinois football campe. Here is a little bit of the write up on ESPN, but I am not an insider, so I don't know what the rest says. Webb is a speedy, explosive athlete playing as a dual-threat QB, but will end up as a slot receiver or cornerback at the next level with upside as a return specialist. He is sudden and elusive at the same time and has outstanding feet. Lacks great size and bulk, but...link to story Updated the info post at the top. Thanks for the updates coach

You are right about Penn State, they were #12, we were #22, and OSU was #25. Link

It only takes one. I believe they'll be using a football one. If a player plays football and another sport they are going to use a football scholarship because the other sports have limited scholarships and often give partial scholarships. This is correct. Even Alex Gordon didn't have a full ride scholarship. Baseball has limited scholarships and must split them to get the best players.

Do we have a chance? What position are we looking at him for?

Matt Davison didn't really play basketball. Sure he was on the team, but mop up duty most the time. Wilson Thomas played on the basketball team. Even started. He was a wide reciever when crouch was here (the one out running crouch at the end of the 95 yd missouri td). He was a great athlete. He joined basketball once the football season was over. If we passed more back then or he committed to one sport or the other he could have gone pro on athletic ability alone.

That added weight will help his stock go up if he has a good season as well. Makes him seem more versatile and durable.

Wow...

Great job again Nexus. You should do the professionally, you obviously like doing it, and you keep us all updated. When you do decide to do this make sure you give me a cut for the idea and you don't charge any Huskerboard members.

with that being said Green got his ass kicked last season and was hurt choke times and posted some lame numbers in compasison to his gnarly soph numbers.... is he injury prone?? flash in the pan i dont know but if we are looking for super all star game changers i think AG is quite the opposite... with that being said he obviously has the ankle snapping speed and raw talent that he is a top 20 rivals pic and all that good stuff and recruited so well... so i guess we will have to see..... i think BH is gonna be huge in some capacity for us :koolaid2: Yeah some really lame numbers... 1133 rushing and 151 receiving with 14 tds. We don't need that. You're really calling him opposite of game changer when his bad year is still over 1100 yards?

Whenever he wants too. At this point signing doesn't matter as much because it is past the 2010 signing date. He will probably sign when he visits in the next week.

That's a great point, Zoogies. That is the first thing I thought of when I heard on 1620 that Tevin had committed. The weird thing is, Sloan said he too was "100% committed to NU," and we all know how he worked out. I have a feeling, though, that our staff will not want to turn away Tevin. Also, I get the feeling that Sloan was a bit of an overrated four star who's stock dropped throughout his senior season, as opposed to Tevin, who should flourish. In fact, I did some checking. I knew Sloan committed to Kentucky after we turned him away, but he was not listed on their 2010 commit page, and when I looked up his profile from last year, he was not listed as committed anywhere, on either sight. What the hell happened to Anterio Sloan? Kind of funny. One weird thing I noticed was that Scout lists Tevin's commit date as 6/1/10 (yesterday). Again, Scout gives us a reason to . Anyway, great to have another defensive weapon for Pelinis to mould. GBR!!! Rumor has it that Tevin is so fired up about Nebraska he's going after all hus 4* and 5* recruit friends to get them to get on board... Josh Turner is practically bringing his whole team to camp this summer... that's a good sign that he has high respect for us... Let's dream a bit... if we get Josh Turner, Aaron Green, Cyrus Hobbi, one of the 4* WR, LB Keith Lewis, JUCO LB from Ft. Scott, Wayne Lyons, and some DL like Gerrand Johnson, Jordan Phillips, Todd Barr... we could potentially have 10-15 4* and a 5*... and the good news is that with 9 (well 10 if you count baptist) commits this early on... the staff will be able to focus in more on the positions they have left cuz they'll just need to keep strong relationships with the guys they currently have (instead of trying to build relationships with 20 corners and 20 safeties) etc. I think that with our 10 commits... you'll see the staff aggressively recruit the other positions... dedicate more time cuz they'll have more time... GO BIG RED!!!! Baptist counts against 2010. He is taking the one open scholarship we had that is why he is coming in this year. He in no way effects the 2011 class schollie count.

Do we think he's on his iPhone or similar?

I had heard he liked us, but thought he was far from picking and thought he was still looking at 5.

45 (means unrated) by ESPN... as we've seen they tend to be slow and wrong in their analysis, unless it is in our favor, then they are right.

you would think so, he might still be a 5.8 4 when his ranking comes out, you dont have to be in the top 250 to have 4 Last year Carnes, Cooper, and Rome were all 5.8 4 who were not on the 250, so not worried. Not much/any difference between a 250 player and another 5.8 4

Ranked 110 by rivals and it is now on our official commitment page.

Rivals ranked 142.