247: Five Sleeping Giants Who Could Have a Clemson-like Awakening

Going to need to recruit and develop players a lot better to awaken. It didn't happen with the last staff, and it isn't looking too promising with the current staff.

 
lo country said:
Last night, listening to Dabo and the team speak of the win, they talked about one common and shared vision. It was they were all part of something bigger. Something that had been started when Dabo was hired. A concept of being United. A concept and culture of winning. Identifying and representing with those who laid the foundation and those who will come after.

Dabo developed, cultivated and maintained "it". The guy is a phenomenal coach, recruiter and motivator. The staff can develop talent and adjust in game.

Do we have that at NU. A mindset of #allin......... Peter and Wistrom had unfinished business. No self promoting slogans. Simply a unified team, with a unified purpose pulling in the same direction.....

Maybe with all the rumors of selfish play, not buying in, leadership issues etc NU can find it. It sure as hell won't hurt
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Listening to Ben Boulware talk about and thanking those before him for laying the foundation and all that gave me chills. Clemson will be good for a long time with that kind of leadership.

I got chills last night relaying that message to my wrestling team. So cool for student athletes to recognize those that went before them and embrace it as super important.

 
Clemson recruiting rankings from 2010 to 2016: 28 10 15 15 17 9 11

Looks like they broke that string of teams having a top 5 class before winning the Natty

 
Red Five said:
Clemson recruiting rankings from 2010 to 2016: 28 10 15 15 17 9 11

Looks like they broke that string of teams having a top 5 class before winning the Natty
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That really is a pretty amazing stat, and should be very encouraging to Husker Nation.

Michigan and Ohio State showed how beatable they are this season. Not by us, so much...but still. If our offensive and defensive line play improves significantly this next season we would probably be the best team in the West and would be set up to end the conference title drought. How likely that actually is that the play at those positions improves significantly? It's really hard to say.

 
Kinda proves that it takes not only recruiting, but team chemistry, staff consistency, luck and timing.

 
I'd revise your statement Redux to say, 'Kinda proves that it doesn't necessarily take Top 5 recruiting at all to win a title.' I think that's actually the main takeaway from the stat.

 
Undone said:
I'd revise your statement Redux to say, 'Kinda proves that it doesn't necessarily take Top 5 recruiting at all to win a title.' I think that's actually the main takeaway from the stat.
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A poster who doesn't seem to post here any longer has been saying this all season long. I believe he said something along the lines of there being very little difference between the #1-#15 recruiting classes. It seems to me that more than anything it takes one if not a couple special players. Clemson had that in their QB. It's probably why Watson was ranked the #1 QB recruit by ESPN. Clemson won this year by scoring a lot of points. Even in their loss to Pitt, they scored 42 points. It will be very interesting how Clemson does next year after their once in a generation QB is on a NFL sideline and outstanding LB Boulware.

 
junior4949 said:
A poster who doesn't seem to post here any longer has been saying this all season long. I believe he said something along the lines of there being very little difference between the #1-#15 recruiting classes. It seems to me that more than anything it takes one if not a couple special players. Clemson had that in their QB. It's probably why Watson was ranked the #1 QB recruit by ESPN. Clemson won this year by scoring a lot of points. Even in their loss to Pitt, they scored 42 points. It will be very interesting how Clemson does next year after their once in a generation QB is on a NFL sideline and outstanding LB Boulware.
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I can't disagree with any of what you said.

However, I wouldn't use it as an asterisk on the statement that Clemson did in fact win a national championship without going better than 9th in the last seven recruiting classes. I feel like it's a pretty important stat and does actually have some parallels to our situation.

 
I'd like to add that in the Clemson ranking my guess is outside of Watson, that their OL's and DL's hit on better recruits and panned out far better then our team. Our fan based always seems to just look at the recruiting ranking rather then how well we are recruiting our lines and developing that talent.

 
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