[Husker] Recruiting

[Alan Siporin]

I agree with 3aoo (Steven) that the message boards are very poor sources. I
wouldn't consider them as a source. (I said as much in my earlier post). I
also asked for your sources, though, to which your response was "I have seen
a lot of different figures..." I'll repeat what I said before. People have
been repeating assumptions (especially on the internet) to where a majority
now see poor recruiting by Solich as fact. It just is not the case. He had a
couple years in the middle where his recruiting fell off, producing the
often-referred to classes in the forty range. He replaced most of those
coaches and in less than a year had a class that according to Rivals was
14th the day after he was fired.

As to my sources, no, I don't have a url. I have hard copy instead: for the
16 to 40 quote, please read Huskers Illustrated, the hard copy magazine, not
the internet service. March, 2002, page 10 "Most (of the national recruiting
analysts) had the Huskers' 2002 class ranked anywhere from 16th to 40th,
nationally." See Huskers Illustrated, March 2001 page 20, "(the Huskers) put
together a class that belongs in the top twenty. And Huskers Illustrated,
March 2000, page 28, "Nebraska ... put together a class ranked in the top
two in the conference and in the top 12 in the country."

Hope that helps clear up some confusion. Pass it along. Go Huskers and Coach
Callahan! Alan


On 2/4/06 1:40 PM, "3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org" <3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org>
wrote:

> Alan Siporin wrote:
>> 
>> According to Huskers Illustrated, Solich's first, second
>> and third classes were all top twenty.
> 
> Really???  Please tell me where that amazing information is.
> I have seen a lot of different figures for Solich's recruiting
> classes and not one was in the top 20.
> 
> When you refer to "Huskers Illustrated" do you mean Rivals,
> or do you mean their rubbishy free message board?  It is
> certainly possible that some unhinged poster said "Solich's
> first, second and third classes were all top twenty", but
> AFAIK Rivals did not give any of Solich's complete recruiting
> classes a rating in the top 20.
>