Recruiting SquareOffs

42%
Yes

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58%
No WINNER

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42%
Yes

12 Comments
Visitor
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Visitor

The recruiters are going to close strong

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Kevin Bolin
Kevin Bolin

Not likely - these guys have never recruited very well. I see this class being 6, 7 or even 8th in the big ten and that won't cut it.

Alan Blackburn
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Alan Blackburn

The recruits we have are mostly high quality in abilit!

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Terence Knight
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Terence Knight

This Q asks if there are positive signings upcoming–not currently. Reilly is closing in on several 3 & 4 star recruits and should land them soon. NE has not been w/ the big boys for awhile so expecting 5 star recruits now is ridiculous. Lets just aim for a top 20-25 class this year and build w/ that

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Brian Staudenmaier
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Brian Staudenmaier

The 4 and 5 star recruits start developing relationships as sophomores so it's gonna take a few years to really get this machine rolling

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David LaFever
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David LaFever

Lets be serious...it can't be any worse than Pelini's recruiting and then having a good number of players leaving the program due to him. Look at the recruits that played this year..better than Pelini's starters

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Del Vanderbeek
Del Vanderbeek

Kevin Bolin you are right on, I agree with you. We will find out very soon on signing day just how bad it is.

Kevin Bolin
Kevin Bolin

really? Are you serious? Or just trying to get a laugh! Pelini's recruits are the starters. Stanley morgan was a peleini recruit - only Reilly recruit to see th efield was the LB and that was due to them being thin there and having injuries.

Mike Leonard
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Mike Leonard

so much talent in one place

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Daniel Conner
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Daniel Conner

I believe that Riley is a better recruiter than Bo Pelini was.This year will be better than last year, and next year will be better than this year. If this doesn't happen, then we will be looking for a new head coach.

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Steven Dankenbring
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Steven Dankenbring

We have the assistant coaches that can get the inner city kids to look at lincoln

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Arlie Rauch
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Arlie Rauch

Always hoping for the best. A good attitude and some good coaching can make much out of no-matter-how-many-stars a player has.

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Richard Stotts
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Richard Stotts

Due to last year's results on the field with the freshmen class.

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Visitor
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Visitor

Love the qb and rbs

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Kevin Bolin
Kevin Bolin

what RBs are in this class that are high star?

58%
No

15 Comments
Kevin Hamilton
10
Kevin Hamilton

They seem to have stalled and the talent level being pursued does not appear to be at the level necessary to play with the big boys again.

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John Nielsen
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John Nielsen

Riley is in his 60's and Eichorst might not be around NU too much longer. That and the poor record last year doesn't promise much stability or success over the next 4-5 years for recruits.

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Ron Ames
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Ron Ames

Too many important misses.

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Rich Stricklett
5
Rich Stricklett

Haven't had a commit in 3 months

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DHUSK
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DHUSK

No. Just read this stat. "The Big Ten East division has 52 of the conference's 60 4-star recruits this year" We need to step up our game and start bringing in talent if we want to compete with OSU/UM/PSU/MSU.

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Sean Fluharty
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Sean Fluharty

All of this talk about what Riley & Co. could do with the resources available at Nebraska, and they have done very little. We need Top 15 classes in order to compete for championships... instead we'll finish closer to 40

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Kevin Bolin
Kevin Bolin

You are so right! Look at Oregon St. now that he is gone - they have a much better recruiting class with their new coach then Reilly ever had there. They may even finish in the top 30; so don't try to blow smoke at me and tell me he and his staff are good recruiters.

Matthew James Rowling
4
Matthew James Rowling

Only 15 commits and no OT's

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bjb1959
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bjb1959

in general yes, this year, not really. I think their focus is on 2017 although that may be a mistake unless we have some great Jems from previous classes (redshirts) we are unaware of.

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bjb1959
bjb1959

Gems, not Jems....

James Traut
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James Traut

Not necessarily Riley's fault... times have changed and the Husker name draw is now just so-so. Roughly middle of the pack class in the Big10.

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Sean Fluharty
Sean Fluharty

You hire a big-name coach such as Saban or Harbaugh or similar, and the kids will go to Alaska to play for him. Nobody cares about Riley; he's not a hot commodity. It's as simple as that.

Chas Herrera
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Chas Herrera

I don't have much enthusiasm for this whole Mike Riley staff. Seems like a nice guy, but not a successful coach by Nebraska's standards by any means.

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Visitor
2
Visitor

just average at best

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Jonathon Siminoe
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Jonathon Siminoe

We just keep coming up short on the high profile kids so it is a bit discouraging, but having said that I LOVE the fact that we are going after high profile players. I'm very optimistic that this staff WILL bring in the players needed, but it would seem this year we just don't have the draw.

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Kevin Bolin
Kevin Bolin

you need to take your rose colored glasses off and see this staff for what it is Riley left the cupboard bare in Oregon st. when he left and he will do so at UN too best not let him stay long

Jared Phillips
2
Jared Phillips

No evidence to say otherwise

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Wednesday Punk
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Wednesday Punk

I'm just still not impressed with Riley and staff - Even if the guy recruits at the top of the heap for the next few years, and starts putting together some wins, he will be set for retirement in 5 or 6 years (or earlier if the wins don't start coming), and then we start over AGAIN! GBR!!!

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21%
Impressive

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79%
Lacking WINNER

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21%
Impressive

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Stanford Swanson
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Stanford Swanson

One thing this staff can do is evaluate. Patrick O'brien has a chance to be special at Nebraska, the first true quarterback that we haven't had in a long time. They have HS producers like Spielman and Grimm. If they close out the class with guys like Jackson, Farniok, and Watts, it could be top20

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Doug Shonka
Doug Shonka

This same staff thought Johnny Stanton would be a great college QB. Let's not get over our skis on POB just yet.

79%
Lacking

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Jerry Williams
4
Jerry Williams

It is a little early to tell but right now sort of middle of the pack.

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James Traut
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James Traut

Too soon for an accurate estimate but so far very average and no where near the OSU, Michigan, PSU talent projections. NU so far is possibly becoming the Missouri or Okla. State programs of the long ago Big 8 era-- competitive on occasion to win a league title.

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Larry Baumann
4
Larry Baumann

Nothing but mediocre talent at best which matches Riley's coaching abilities. We will see nothing but 2 star athletes until we get rid of this 62 year old bald headed bum!

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Visitor
4
Visitor

Need more Skill Position players and less walk ons. If Nebraska were to play Alabama this September, we would be steam rolled.

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Rich Stricklett
3
Rich Stricklett

Keep losing key players

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Sean Fluharty
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Sean Fluharty

In order to compete for championships we need to finish in the Top 12-15 year-in, year-out. Barely cracking the Top 25 isn't gonna cut it. We were told that Riley & Co. would be able to snare top recruits with all of the resources at their disposal, but they've been disappointing thus far.

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Garret Shaw
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Garret Shaw

We have to get inside the top 20 of recruiting, to get where we need to be.

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Visitor
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Visitor

not impressed at all seem to be losing more than winning

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Ben Brooks
1
Ben Brooks

Very weak at DT and WR

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Keith Petrie
0
Keith Petrie

Need some good offensive line talent and guys with a mean streak on the field. Add some skill position talent and we're all set. GBR!

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Doug Shonka
0
Doug Shonka

Lack of success in 2 key areas - DE and OT

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Randy Wolf
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Randy Wolf

Losing too many previous commits. Winning is important to recruiting and when the Huskers blow games like the Iowa game that hurts.

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36%
Agree

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64%
Disagree WINNER

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36%
Agree

4 Comments
Robert Hegler
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Robert Hegler

It is painfully true. Look at the current recruiting classes of the top 10 teams in the nation and compare their 4-5 star recruits to NU. It is obvious that talent in recruiting is an absolute.

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Rizeabuv Yorzelf
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Rizeabuv Yorzelf

without any other metric, the average star ratings reflect that decline

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Terry Busch
3
Terry Busch

well look ho we do, 'it then,theres your answer

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Wm Salyers
3
Wm Salyers

Huskers don't talk about walk on like they did in the past.

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64%
Disagree

2 Comments
Kraig Lundberg
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Kraig Lundberg

McKewon completely shreds the shallow piece of work that SB Nation calls journalism. I could write a book about why it was so poor and why our recruiting is actually getting noticeably better.

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Ron Bauer
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Ron Bauer

I foresee another 94/95 team in the jell.

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