A Trip Down Recruiting Memory Lane

[Mavric]

The benefit of hindsight does us good sometimes.

So we can look back on 12 years of Husker recruiting classes — 2007 through 2018 — and examine the best and worst of that era. The hits and the whiffs.

OWH

 

[OH HSKR FAN]

Whiffs, lack of development and the coaching revolving door have been brutal.

 

[Scarlet Overkill]

Man, forgot about many of those guys. 

 

[Atbone95]

The Edna Karr trio was always funny. Couldn't outrun UNL PD, that was peak Huskerboard joke era 

So, too, would have been Damore’ea Stringfellow, who originally intended to transfer to Nebraska before flipping to Ole Miss after a stunning visit.

That is dripping with so much sarcasm, I love it. 

 

[LumberJackSker]

I'm not the biggest Pelini fan but its impressive he won as many games as he did because that staff sure couldn't recruit.  Did any of the 2010 defensive line recruits play more than 10 snaps in their career?

 

[Redux]

Running back Jordan Stevenson was a late signee after he didn’t make grades to get into Wisconsin. He came to camp with a pot belly and bounced out halfway through his freshman season. 

This made me giggle

 

[desertshox]

This made me giggle

where did he end up? i'm too lazy to look it up.

 

[Mierin]

where did he end up? i'm too lazy to look it up.

I just looked. He’s at Independence CC averaging 3.6 ypc. 

 

[Redux]

I just looked. He’s at Independence CC averaging 3.6 ypc. 

Better numbers than I expected.

 

[Toe]

Zach Darlington deserves a place on the 'what might have been' list. And as much as I held out hope until the end, Wilbon should probably be on the misses.

where did he end up? i'm too lazy to look it up.

Apparently he's hoping to go to Georgia, at least from what I can read of the description on this Rivals page. Anyone with a sub wanna give us the gist? https://nebraska.forums.rivals.com/threads/jordan-stevenson-update-lol.228777/

 

[suh_fan93]

 

[desertshox]

the independence stats, for stevenson, are from 2017 and he was a sophomore that year. he only played in 2 games that year. spent 2016 at navarro college. no idea where he went last year but wow did his career go south in a hurry.

 

[KingBlank]

I'm not the biggest Pelini fan but its impressive he won as many games as he did because that staff sure couldn't recruit.  Did any of the 2010 defensive line recruits play more than 10 snaps in their career?

Ya i mean all those pros he recruited getting paid mad money

 

[LumberJackSker]

Ya i mean all those pros he recruited getting paid mad money

Yeah he was bringing in top 5 talent

 

[Enhance]

Ya i mean all those pros he recruited getting paid mad money

Please, let's avoid turning this into another thread defending Pelini from subtle or hyperbolic jabs. It's getting old.

As far as the topic, I forgot how incredibly disappointing that 2010 defensive line class was and how excited I was about a lot of those guys. I remember Chase Rome in particular feeling like a pretty big get and I was really excited about his potential. This line from the article about that class really hits home: "The complete failure of this class was the bedrock problem that followed NU into the Big Ten era."