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My cousin is on the baseball team and is good friends with a bunch of the football guys. They informed him that Rex Burkhead is out for the season with a shoulder injury. It hasn't hit the media yet but I'm suprised this hasn't leaked yet. I guess it happened thursday or friday. Helu better be ready to tear it up!

I don't get why people are mad at Corso for picking us as the champs!? Put your superstitions aside and hope he's right!

What? You're one of those Husker fans that thought that we didn't have a chance against Oklahoma last year or that we were going to get hammered in the B12 Championship. Did you some how miss the Texas game or our offense in the AZ game? Have some faith in your team and if you want to kiss Texas' ass you're on the wrong board.

Bo is not going anywhere.

By then he will of put too much blood, sweat, and tears into this program. He isn't going anywhere.

I just don't understand this sentiment. Why is yours or NU's pride at all associated with the number of scholarships offered? I say do whatever gives us the most success in recruiting. If that means we offer every player at every position every year, then so be it. IMHO there are probably 500+ high school players with the potential to play for NU, and the notable differences between those players isn't much. There are certainly probably 500 that can play for NU, but it's slightly embarassing to think that we would need to offer 500 (or 200 as in past years) kids in order to get 25 committments. We have almsot 25 defensive linemen with scholarship offers. Our DE offers range from a 205 pound kid to a 265 pound bahemouth. The noticible differences are very noticible. There has to be 5 or 6 of those DL prospects we really want more than the other 20, and 5 that we'll settle for. The middle 15 or so might not stand appart, but there are a few in that list that are considerably above the rest. What happens if the first 5 to committ are in the "settle for" pool? Now we not only discourage others from committing but also have to take a scholarship from another position because he's a "you find room for him" type of player. All I'm saying is I just don't like the idea of offering $125,000 and a chance to play football in red to 100 players only to see 90% of them find greener pastures. That's what slightly hurts my pride. Ask some of the walk ons what that scholarship means to them. Ask some of the in-state recruits like Marsh what that offer meant to him...then ask some of these other guys that we've blanket offered. I'm betting the "value" of that offer is slightly different to the various parties. I know recruiting starts earlier these days - but I still think if we have 1 RB position open in this class we should be able to concentrate on 3 targest and get 1. If we have 4 OL openings, we should be able to identify 10 and concentrate on them. 8 DL prospects maybe 15-18 targets. That leaves a lot of guys still saying no...but also makes sure they know that we are very interested because we don't just offer anyone. Frankly I like Texas's style of recruiting. If they are out on Aaron Green they don't continue to recruit - they move on. In the end it means they find players that REALLY want to play for Texas. Isn't that what we always want here at NU. I don't see how you identify players that REALLY want to play for NU when you just throw offers around as though it doesn't represent a scholarship and a $125,000 committment from the university to their future. If it's just a piece of paper fine - but I think it should mean more. - IMHO - Doesn't We can't recruit like Texas because we aren't Texas. They have things to offer that we simply do not. Also . . . anyone who cares enough about the numbers of recruits offered to be embarrassed needs to step back a little bit. All that matters is that we get quality recruits. Embarrassment doesn't factor into the on-field equation. Yeah, we're not Texas. We should be proud of that. WE ARE Nebraska. I'm so sick of people making out Texas to be some kind of god amongst college football. WE offer things that Texas can't. Sure they have a way bigger recruiting bed but that DOESN'T mean that they're a better football program or that recruits have any more reason to go to Texas. After all...we're the Nebraska Cornhuskers. I think people forget that, forget about our tradition. Sure we were down for awhile but were as good of a program as any and any high end recruit should be ecstatic to get an offer or play for the Huskers.