Blake named top recruiter

[Eric the Red]

Blake article

 

At least two recruiting services were likely to name Blake their recruiter of the year. Largely because of his ability to lure those players, Nebraska won a national championship of sorts Wednesday when guru Tom Lemming named its class No. 1 in the country.

[Lucky3000]

Very, very deserving. Its easy to recruit when you're USC and have winning and location in your favor, but he went to the west coast and just dominated. When you take the best prospect out of California, you accomplished something.

[bigredtoad]

Great! Wonder if more teams might start taking notice of the impact he had, and begin to hire more coaches based on personality and people skills instead of coaching ability?

[Eric the Red]

Great! Wonder if more teams might start taking notice of the impact he had, and begin to hire more coaches based on personality and people skills instead of coaching ability?

Yes, I can guarentee to you the rest of the country is taking notice.

 

BTW...What is that big, fat, hairy man doing on this board??

[Blackshirt]

Heres another great article on JB.

 

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=528&u_...3&u_sid=1329403

 

I'll tell you what, he is quickly ascending to the top as one of those people "you'd most like to hang out with for a day". Just seems like a great all around person.

 

"He's a committee by himself," said Brent Whitson, the head coach at Broken Arrow (Okla.) High School who used to coach summer camps in Norman with Blake. "I don't know anybody who's been able to master it like he does. You almost cannot tell the guy no."

 

"As a recruit," Roark said, "he's everything you want."

 

Turner, from Antioch, Tenn., picked the Huskers late in the recruiting process over Tennessee.

 

"As far as time and effort, there was no comparison," said Carlton Flatt, Turner's high school coach. "But more than that, kids just connect with him. With Barry, it was a spiritual deal. Coach Blake made him know spiritual things are important to him, too.

 

"It's something the other schools did not have."

[formerfan]

Very, very deserving. Its easy to recruit when you're USC and have winning and location in your favor, but he went to the west coast and just dominated. When you take the best prospect out of California, you accomplished something.

Before callahan, cosgrove, blake, and co came to NU, the Huskers COULD offer winning to their recruits.

 

Blake, great recruiter, good guy, horrible coach.

[hoyamannn]

Before callahan, cosgrove, blake, and co came to NU, the Huskers COULD offer winning to their recruits.

 

Blake, great recruiter, good guy, horrible coach.

Really? Did they offer winning after the 7-7 season? You think one of the selling tools was "Hey, we won just as many as we lost!"

 

I bet if Blake left the program right now he would have a job at a powerhouse program immediately. He wouldn't have to wait a year to even be considered or wouldn't have to be bailed out by a buddy of his.

 

Nobody that Blake coached on the DL ever said he was a bad coach. He may not be head coach material, but he did prove he was a very good DL coach with the Cowboys.

[Pedro Guerrero]

Nobody that Blake coached on the DL ever said he was a bad coach. He may not be head coach material, but he did prove he was a very good DL coach with the Cowboys.

I agree with you on this one. I think Frankie, although had success could fall under this category. He was a lot better running backs coach then head man. IMO

[formerfan]

1. Really? Did they offer winning after the 7-7 season? You think one of the selling tools was "Hey, we won just as many as we lost!"

 

2. I bet if Blake left the program right now he would have a job at a powerhouse program immediately. He wouldn't have to wait a year to even be considered or wouldn't have to be bailed out by a buddy of his.

 

3. Nobody that Blake coached on the DL ever said he was a bad coach. He may not be head coach material, but he did prove he was a very good DL coach with the Cowboys.

1. How conveniently you forget the 40+ years of winning season (mostly 9+ wins) previous to that blip on the radar screen.

 

2. A POWERHOUSE, like Miss St, or like the powerhouse program he ran at OU?

 

3. But you never hear former players say he was a great coach, either. They say how wonderful of a guy he is, and the great personal realtionship they have with him, but I have never, ever, ever heard one former player said that he made the guy a better player. BTW, you can throw out the whole Cowboys thing, they won the SB and had all of those All-Pro guys there before he ever was hired. He just rode the coat-tails of what Johnson and Switzer did.

[DaveH]

1. How conveniently you forget the 40+ years of winning season (mostly 9+ wins) previous to that blip on the radar screen.

 

2. A POWERHOUSE, like Miss St, or like the powerhouse program he ran at OU?

 

3. But you never hear former players say he was a great coach, either. They say how wonderful of a guy he is, and the great personal realtionship they have with him, but I have never, ever, ever heard one former player said that he made the guy a better player.  BTW, you can throw out the whole Cowboys thing, they won the SB and had all of those All-Pro guys there before he ever was hired. He just rode the coat-tails of what Johnson and Switzer did.

Yup. Everyone just rides on the coat tails of everyone else. Everyone is just using the players that someone else brought in. The grass was greener yesterday. Got it. Thanks.

[formerfan]

Nobody that Blake coached on the DL ever said he was a bad coach. He may not be head coach material, but he did prove he was a very good DL coach with the Cowboys.

I agree with you on this one. I think Frankie, although had success could fall under this category. He was a lot better running backs coach then head man. IMO

I would agree with you wholeheartledly.

[oviedol55]

1. How conveniently you forget the 40+ years of winning season (mostly 9+ wins) previous to that blip on the radar screen.

 

2. A POWERHOUSE, like Miss St, or like the powerhouse program he ran at OU?

 

3. But you never hear former players say he was a great coach, either. They say how wonderful of a guy he is, and the great personal realtionship they have with him, but I have never, ever, ever heard one former player said that he made the guy a better player. BTW, you can throw out the whole Cowboys thing, they won the SB and had all of those All-Pro guys there before he ever was hired. He just rode the coat-tails of what Johnson and Switzer did.

1. You can't take T.O. out of retirement. Get over it. And Frankie's no T.O.

 

2. He's no longer a head coach, he's not fit for a head coach, he's a defensive lines coach, and he's a damn good one and a damn fine recruiter.

 

3. Yeah, he just sat back and drank kool-aid as the Cowboys cruised to win another ring. All he had to do was show up at work. Give me a break.

 

Blake did amazing things with our D-Line. We were consistently ranked in the top 5 this year in rush defense and finished up somewhere around top 10, much better than last year. And you can't say it was all Barrett Ruud, or you weren't watching. J.B. did great things with the guys he had this year. His DE's got adequate pass rushes in most games, and despite the SEVERE lack of depth he had to take over at DT, he took what he had and ran with it. And if you think he's a horrible coach, if you blame the D-Line for this year's poor defense, then you're pathetic.

[Benard]

blake did amazing things with our dline? I thought it sucked. It never did get a rush on the qb. It did ok against the run but really didn't play alot of big name backs. Sproles did pretty well against us I believe.

[DaveH]

blake did amazing things with our dline? I thought it sucked. It never did get a rush on the qb. It did ok against the run but really didn't play alot of big name backs. Sproles did pretty well against us I believe.

30+ missed tackles in that game. I don't think many of those came from the DL either. The LB's and DB's had a hard time with him.

 

We didn't get a rush on the QB this year, you are right. If that improves this year, I think that takes some of the weight off the secondary's shoulders.

[Benard]

blake did amazing things with our dline?  I thought it sucked.  It never did get a rush on the qb.  It did ok against the run but really didn't play alot of big name backs.  Sproles did pretty well against us I believe.

30+ missed tackles in that game. I don't think many of those came from the DL either. The LB's and DB's had a hard time with him.

 

We didn't get a rush on the QB this year, you are right. If that improves this year, I think that takes some of the weight off the secondary's shoulders.

Probably because the dline was nowhere to be found. I wasn't impressed with any defensive coach last year. In fact the only coach that did impress me was wagner.