[Husker] Recruiting

[Mike Jaixen]

I think in the era of the 85 scholarship limit, you
can utilize JuCo's like a quasi-JV program, giving
players a chance to play at a higher level than high
school and with more opportunities than on the scout
team, then bring them into the program with more
experience.  In a way, it's like a farm system for
college athletics.

A few years ago, I wondered if Bill Synder had found a
way around NCAA limits by using JuCo's.  Using JuCo's
allows us to recruit 25-30 players a year instead of
the 15-20 that we could recruit otherwise. In a way,
JuCo's are kind of a 2-for-1 special.  If you recruit
a JuCo over a high school senior, you get a more
experienced player now, then in 2 years, you'll
probably be able to recruit another JuCo to take his
spot and in the end, hopefully get more bang for your
roster spot.

--- Alan Siporin <alans at efn.org> wrote:

> 
> There's a couple changes in JC recruiting philosophy
> that make it a better
> deal than it used to be.  If you can get the kid to
> enroll by January, he
> goes thru Spring practice and summer workouts and
> it's like having him for 2
> 1/2 year instead of two.  Even better, quite a few
> of these kids (Zach Lee
> and Larry Asante, to name two) have three years of
> eligibility, and since
> both came in time for Spring, they are almost 4-year
> players. (Lee still has
> his redshirt year, so he really does have 4 years to
> play 3.  Even for those
> without a redshirt year, if they enroll in time, it
> can be nearly four years
> of practice time. 
> 
> There are more reasons, but I'll leave it at that.
> 
> Alan Siporin
> 
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Mike Jaixen
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