[Husker] Patience

[Sean McGrath]

	I can give you that Derek but we really do have to wait to see
how the recruiting class pans out. A perfect example of this is OU. They
had a top five recruiting class three years ago but a lot of them either
didn't pan out, left the team or were injured and couldn't compete
anymore. Thusly, that's why OU is on a down year this season. 
	Another aspect you can put on this is also recruiting for your
needs. When we had Solich and Osborne, we were running the option which
some say was never a great recruiting tool since most of the recruits
look at what the pros run and they want to run that and have a chance to
move on. Some may say exactly, that's why we needed to scrap the option.
I have a hard time believing that. Especially when only about one or two
percent of college athletes ever make it to the pros. What the Huskers
did during the Osborne era was recruit with an emphasis of getting
players that had room to grow and get better. They did that and did that
well. Hell only a couple of schools were after Trev Alberts and we know
how good he became. 

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of dryter at inebraska.com
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:16 AM
To: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Patience

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.

Derek Ryter

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Richard G Smith wrote:

>Steve...I agree with your post completely.  I, too, am a long time
>Husker fan.  I feel that with Callahan and Co. success in recruiting,
>we need to be patient and give the guy a few years to develop the
>system that he envisions will work.
>I was also upset at the firing of Frank Solich, but I felt that the
>recruiting suffered some under his leadership the last couple of years.
>In this day and age in college football, a weak recruiting year can be
>disastrous.


Exactly!

And NU's weak recruiting year came the year after Dr. Tom stepped down.

That was Solich's fault?

Steve Stone




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