How Much Talent Does Nebraska Have on the Roster

[NUance]

247 broke down all schools by their current roster and those player's rating out of high school.

Obviously this is imperfect because it's more potential than production but it is better than signing class rankings as it takes into account players that have left (or transferred in).


Nebraska came in at #25. Miami was #20. Miami has two five-stars. Tracy Howard started at CB and made a couple plays. Chad Thomas was on the participation report but had no stats. Miami has an edge in four-stars 25-21 while Nebraska has more three-stars 54-47.

Other Nebraska Opponents:
BYU - 52
South Alabama - Not in Top 100
Southern Miss - 88
Illinois - 58
Wisconsin - 40
Minnesota - 62
Northwestern - 48
Purdue - 61
Michigan State - 23
Rutgers - 46
Iowa - 53

The B1G really has some overachievers. Teams that are doing better than their recruiting indicates they should.

 

[NUance]

Also, it's encouraging that some of NU's most talented* players are freshmen who will be contributing more in the next couple of years.

*highest rated

 

[junior4949]

We may very well have top 25 talent, but one must also consider where it is clustered. Bo seemed to love to stack certain positions. One of his better recruiting classes I believe had three decently ranked RBs in it. Two of those three transferred. We have good talent at certain positions. However, we are severely lacking talent at other positions. This is more than likely the reason why we don't instantly push into the top 25. Stacking all of our so called talent at the RB, QB, etc. position hasn't really worked that well for us.

 

[BIG ERN]

247 broke down all schools by their current roster and those player's rating out of high school.

Obviously this is imperfect because it's more potential than production but it is better than signing class rankings as it takes into account players that have left (or transferred in).


Nebraska came in at #25. Miami was #20. Miami has two five-stars. Tracy Howard started at CB and made a couple plays. Chad Thomas was on the participation report but had no stats. Miami has an edge in four-stars 25-21 while Nebraska has more three-stars 54-47.

Other Nebraska Opponents:
BYU - 52
South Alabama - Not in Top 100
Southern Miss - 88
Illinois - 58
Wisconsin - 40
Minnesota - 62
Northwestern - 48
Purdue - 61
Michigan State - 23
Rutgers - 46
Iowa - 53

The B1G really has some overachievers. Teams that are doing better than their recruiting indicates they should.

A lot of this would also be from having a good coach. Fitz (NW) knows he will never get the players as others in the B10, but he does a hell of a job from who he can get. Starting to see the same from Jerry Kill.

 

[zoogs]

Obviously this is imperfect because it's more potential than production

It's a fatal flaw in the discussion. It's based on what someone thinks these players should do, not any kind of metric of how good they are. Recruiting rankings are, no matter how refined, aggregated or researched, a guess.

It's impossible to accurately rank talent from a guess.

It also completely quantifies every player based on their recruiting ranking out of high school.

If a team is a Top 25 (or so) team, then they should be treated as such. It doesn't matter whether their classes were Top 5 or Top 50.

 

[knapplc]

Maybe the most bestest answer to the question in the title is, "Enough to win our division, but not enough to win a national championship."

Realistically, that's where we are. Good talent, quite a bit of it, but not enough to break through without a Cinderella-type run.

I'm happy with the guys we've got. I would like to see some more talent added, but I'll enjoy watching the guys we have right now.

 

[krc1995]

I'm speaking mostly from memory, but, I vaguely remember reading some research years ago that found most of the guys playing in the NFL were ranked anywhere from 3-5 stars coming out of high school.

Every year there are 25-30 five star recruits for every 300 four stars, and every several thousand three stars. So it makes sense that hundreds more three star players would make it to the league over five stars due to simple probability.

I'm speaking mostly from memory, but, I vaguely remember reading some research years ago that found most of the guys playing in the NFL were ranked anywhere from 3-5 stars coming out of high school.

Every year there are 25-30 five star recruits for every 300 four stars, and every several thousand three stars. So it makes sense that hundreds more three star players would make it to the league over five stars due to simple probability.

I remember an article on likelihood to make it to theNFL based on number of recruiting stars. if course, a higher percentage of five stars made it versus the lower number of stars. Of course there is different levels of making it in the NFL. Maybe stars should be divided by the total amount of career NFL salary?

 

[dvdcrr]

Switch coaching staffs with THE OSU and we would be talking about at least one possible heisman candidate. There is enough talent here that Urban and Co would win at least ten.

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

You gotta start somewhere, and I suppose high school rankings are the way to go.

But it's really hard to scout a kid's head.

Lot of guys look brilliant and unstoppable in their high school film. And there is no denying their talent.

But then they come to college and every other player was the best player on his high school team. The local entourage and support system is miles away. Some genuinely miss their mothers. Some haven't tasted much adversity at all. Others have nothing but a chip on their shoulder, the bad kind of chip. Some think they can still party like high school.

I'd say half the four and five star talent is not equipped for the business of college football, and you will never know it until they arrive on campus.

And when you're dealing with 17 and 18 year olds, about half of those two and three star guys haven't grown into their bodies yet.

Really imperfect science.

In the only measure that matters, Nebraska is 3 points less talented than Miami, and one inch less talented than BYU.