[Husker] Patience (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> And NU's strongest recruiting year in a decade--if not ever--came the year after
> Solich was fired.  One must grudgingly attribute this to Steve Peterson for
> hiring Callahan and, perhaps more importantly, Blake.

The problem I have with recruiting strength (other than I think most recruiting
analysis is hogwash) it that I don't know what it measures other than 
'conventional wisdom' with regards to the style of offense that most school 
use.

Most teams (now including Nebraska) recruit for the passing game.  

However, the best QB in Nebraska history, Tommie Frazier, was not ranked 
among the top 5 QB recruits because he wasn't a passing QB.  I think he 
was the top rated option QB.

If Bill Callahan recruited only second tier players on offense, I think he
could still have a higher rating than any of Osborne or Solich's recruiting 
teams had on offense, because he's recruiting the same type of players that
other schools recruit.  

Here's a question for those who consider recruiting an accurate predictor of
the future:  How much improvement has there been in DEFENSIVE recruiting
under Callahan?  
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Mike Nolan