If not for his mom’s insistence on doing the right thing, Tommie Frazier wouldn’t have made an official visit to Nebraska in December of 1991.
And if he hadn’t visited, he wouldn’t have become a Husker.
Such is the uncertain nature of recruiting.
Frazier, a three-year starter at Manatee High School in Bradenton, Fla., was the focus of Nebraska’s 1992 recruiting class, not necessarily from the coaches’ standpoint (for them, one recruit is just as important as another) but certainly as far as reporters were concerned.
“I had the feeling he was the only guy we recruited this year,” coach Tom Osborne said during a news conference on letter-of-intent-signing day.
Frazier was “the guy you’ve all been writing about,” Osborne said.
That’s often the case with quarterbacks, although the Huskers’ class of 22 included another who didn’t draw quite as much attention – Ben Rutz, from Oklahoma City, Okla.
Frazier was special. He was named to the Parade magazine and USA Today All-America teams and attracted recruiting attention from schools across the country.
“He probably had 20 or 30 schools he could have gone to,” said Osborne.
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