Popular Post Moiraine Posted August 27, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2016 Where we should be recruiting our players from, and how our past coaches were doing it wrong/right, is argued about a lot, so I decided to make these. These are not really of recruits, they're of the rosters. The way I assigned players was by the first time they showed up on the roster. If a player was on the roster in 2007 and 2008 (like Suh) he was assigned to Callahan. If a player is on Osborne's roster from 1992-1996, they're only included once. One small issue with this is I think someone on the scout team (like when they were huge in the 90s) who moves onto the roster might be assigned to the wrong coach, but I think this would be rare, and they're probably almost always from Nebraska. One other small thing is we've had about 8 players from different countries and some from Hawaii that obviously don't show up on here, so the percentages don't quite add up to 100. (Solich had 3 Hawaiian players, Osborne 1, Callahan 1, and Callahan had 1 Alaskan). I only included the players from 1990 on. If I have more time in the future and people like these I can go back further and see how Osborne's recruiting changed over the years. Another thing I might do is make a Nebraska map showing player recruiting by county. The numbers are the percentages in decimal form. So for the Osborne map, 53.08% of the players are from Nebraska, 5.62% are from California, and so on. Lastly, the color scales are exactly the same for each coach. So if 3% of Solich's roster was from Idaho and 3% of Pelini's roster was from Idaho, they'd be the same shade of red. (except with Nebraska which is always bright red). 12 Quote Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Wow, nice work! Lots of inferences can be made from these. A picture is worth a thousand data points, so to speak. Hard to read on my phone, so I'll have to look more at this later. Really striking how many Nebraska kids were on those 90's teams, though. I had forgotten how many California players Callahan had (if I am reading it right), and how hard Pelini hit Texas. Quote Link to comment
BIG ERN Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Used to like the kids we would get from NJ in the 90s. Crazy to think how many good players were from NE and how that isn't the case anymore. Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Used to like the kids we would get from NJ in the 90s. Crazy to think how many good players were from NE and how that isn't the case anymore. C'mon Nebraska parents! You have to start filling the gene pool with better stuff! I always get irate when people complain about when a HS coach doesn't win enough. They can't recruit (sort of) so they are limited to what genetics has given them. Well most coaches anyways. Quote Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 One thing I just noticed is the fact that TO had guys on the roster from almost every state. He was less concentrated in regions, and truly cast a wide net (while having the highest # of NE kids). I also like the fact that this sample puts TO in a similar number of years to Solich and Bo. I hope that after a few more years we see Riley's map expand in state # represented, and less "ignored" areas (like OK for Bo) Quote Link to comment
AFhusker Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 One thing I just noticed is the fact that TO had guys on the roster from almost every state. He was less concentrated in regions, and truly cast a wide net (while having the highest # of NE kids). I also like the fact that this sample puts TO in a similar number of years to Solich and Bo. I hope that after a few more years we see Riley's map expand in state # represented, and less "ignored" areas (like OK for Bo) Most of that was because during his time only select few teams were on TV. Back then players wouldn't mind waiting two years to play at a school like Nebraska because they would have a good chance of getting noticed by NFL scouts and get invited to the NFL Combine. Since the late 90's every team is on TV and now those same kids can to go the Iowa State's of the world and play right away, get on TV and make it to the NFL. That is why it is harder to recruit in today's era than it was during Tom's. Quote Link to comment
TonyStalloni Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 That took considerable work to assemble. Interesting reading! Quote Link to comment
NM11046 Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Moraine - this is fantastic! Visual learner here so I love this stuff. Interesting to see so much more broad coverage already from Riley with only two years impact. Thanks for this. Quote Link to comment
Bradr Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Thanks for the hard work. Very cool stuff! Quote Link to comment
krc1995 Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Don't know why but I thought Osborne would have had more from Florida. Quote Link to comment
Moiraine Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 Don't know why but I thought Osborne would have had more from Florida.I was surprised too but I think we just feel that way because Frazier was so important. But, 2.36% if his recruits were from Florida. If you delete Nebraska that's about 5% from Florida and there are 48 other states. It was still in his top 10 states. Quote Link to comment
krc1995 Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 I wonder how much continuity of assist coaches affects the true construct of this map? Quote Link to comment
ZRod Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 What I'm seeing is that we need a kid from Montana, South Carolina, and Mississippi if we can expect to win a championship under HCMR... Quote Link to comment
Moiraine Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 Used to like the kids we would get from NJ in the 90s. Crazy to think how many good players were from NE and how that isn't the case anymore. C'mon Nebraska parents! You have to start filling the gene pool with better stuff! I always get irate when people complain about when a HS coach doesn't win enough. They can't recruit (sort of) so they are limited to what genetics has given them. Well most coaches anyways. They're also limited to the amount of funding their high school gym gets. And I believe I read somewhere that some of the top high schools even have nutritionists. Quote Link to comment
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