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You can find my thread that I started before the year saying most of this. Before the year began I said that because of our offensive line's inexperience, we were in year four of a five year project. We started 3 walk-ons at those spots at times this year. I am sorry and this might be the most "un-Nebraska Way" thing that I ever say, but walk-ons were not offered scholarships for a reason. There are many success stories and they are very important to our program, but to claim that we can have a very successful line in this day in age of college football starting 3 walk-ons is absurd. Now if you will remember back to Callahan's 2008 recruiting class, when he was fired we lost: 1) Dan Hoch - Starter at Mizzou 2) Trevor Robinson - was committed, wasn't committed. Im not sure if he would have ever been a husker no matter who the coach was. 3) Bryce Givens - Believe he started at Colorado(?) 4) Riley Reiff - Number 8 overall prospect on Mel Kiper's big board. (bet a lot of you don't remember that?) All of you realize that these kids were either Seniors last year or RS Juniors right? This would be our OL. After we lost those four, we grabbed Brandon Thompson (injuries have plaqued his career but has contributed), Ricky Henry (NFL football player), and David Grant (?). Bo had roughly a month and a half to recruit in that cycle. The above part is mostly for Goalline to educate himself. Now for those of you who dont know how recruiting works and are star gazzers, you recruit players that you think can help you when they are sophomores, juniors, and seniors. When freshman play it is usually more of an indication of lack of depth at that certain position than it is the player's ability. Obviously there are always exceptions. Let me give you my honest opinion on all of these guys as I have broken down all of their tape. For those of you who don't think that I can do it, you were not here in 2009 at all. 1) Afalava - Very athletic LB prospect. Around 6ft2 220 pounds and has room to put weight on. What I like most about him is how much leverage and strength he plays with at the LOS. In his tape you can also notice how he is always swatting at the ball when he wraps up. Always looking to get after the football. People do realize that the staff was more impressed with how well he developed his senior year than Quanzell Lambert? 2) Alexander - Will say that Leroy's hips and cover skills are a bit lazy, but he plays his assignments very well and he is athetic to boot. Never really in the wrong place on the football field. Most of his tape is him at Corner and I think that he would make a lot better of a safety than a corner. Skill set is more like a Safety than a corner. 3) Anderson - It is a very tall task for football players at any level to locate the football, shed your block and go make the play. This kid does it in every highlight. He can really point his hips and drive people back. I am going to go ahead and say that this is our starting middle linebacker for 2012 and he will be a good one. Added strength at that position minus a bit of speed though from Lavonte's game. 4) Armstrong - See my thread a few days ago 5) Brown - You can basically find film of him playing everything on the football and then some. Plays in the Inland Empire (if you don't know what that is you dont follow recruiting and you should not be speaking negitive of our class) so he is doing it against other D1 recruits. Him as a linebacker will fit very nicely into our two-gap technique because it appeared that was what his HS team was playing. He filled holes very well. My knock on him is that he needs to get to the ball carrier a bit sooner, it looks like he reacts instead of anticipates. Which that comes with film room work. 6) Cotton - I cannot find film on him at all. From what I have heard from a few people I trust is that he uses his hands very well. I see him either in the same role as Ben, or even at DE. He is worthy of a scholly. 7) Cross - I almost see a Dan Alexander in him. Big powerful running back. What he will have to work on is running a bit lower, and driving his knees up a bit higher. Those of you who wanted a big power back, here he is. 8) Curry - cannot find film on him at all. 17 offers? Apparently he was covetted. Texas boy as well. Played against other D1 prospects. 6ft3 300 pounds is a big 17-18 year old kid. 9) Greg McMullen - I don't have to even break down anymore film on him. He would have been able to play at any school that he wanted to in the nation. 10) Alonzo Moore - No film that I could find on him. He does claim he is a true 6ft2. He will start out at CB. A 6ft2 athletic as hell southern boy at CB? Sign me up. 11) Moss - for only playing something like 6 football games ever in his life this kid causes a lot of issues in the backfield. There wasn't an OT that I saw that could combat his powerful first step. It reminds me a lot of a four man beating another four man from the top of the key. He is great at getting in the passing lanes with his hands and causing incompletions. He could play a stand-up DE role in our defense like Cam does. That amoeba defense that we run on occasion has this kid's name written all over it. 12) Rose - What I look for when I talk about linebackers is the ability to get around in traffic. This kid stays as clean as anyone and reads the running lanes like a safety should. Has a very strong lower body as you can tell when he makes tackles at the LOS. Would not rule him out of any LB spot this season. 13) Seisey - If you don't already know, you don't follow recruiting and shouldn't speak negitively about his class. 14) Thurston - He is great at using defensive lineman's leverage against them. He has really smooth footwork for a LT but I am told he will play inside for us which is great because he has quick feet for a big guy. The thought of him and Ryan Klacho pulling at the same time really scares me. 15) Valentine - He is like a BJ Rajj from GB. You just can't move the monster. It is an absolute crime against humanity that he was not awarded a fourth star. Kid had offers from a handful of SEC schools and just about every school in the BIG. 16) WesterKamp - We have no playmakers???????????? Watch the kids' tape. Best High School WR we have signed in a long time. There isn't a football team in the NCAA that couldn't have used this kid. 17) Witaker - He deserves a full rant paragraph This kid is a prime example of some of the stupidity of some. Here is a kid that plays in the Inland Empire and dominated it. Yet since he doesn't have a Pac 12 offer besides Oregon we think that throws up red flags. Why are we so concerned about what the staffs at Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA, Cal, Oregon State, Washington, and Washington State do? Maybe there is a reason that those schools go through coaching staffs like a hot knife through butter. Last time I checked most of the schools I listed above had fired head coaches at least once in the past few seasons. Maybe we shouldn't worry about the incompotence of those football staffs and give our staff some credit. I could go down countless examples of what I am talking about but for some of you numb skulls that don't pay attention to things like this it wouldn't make any difference. We have some very good recruiters on this staff and we just added another one in Coach K. This 2013 class will be special I promise you. I would tell you right now that Coach Corey Raymond may just give JP a run for his money as the best recruiter on the staff. We have some very hungry young coaches on this staff that are chomping at the bit to hit the road and these next four weeks are very crutial. I can assure you that we have the right people in the right places on our football staff. 15)