[Husker] Recruiting

[JEN_SENS]

Both Mike and Alan make good points.

The first years reflected an inordinate number of JuCos because the staff 
perceived a great talent deficit. The first group of JuCos hardly counts 
because the top players had been picked over. The staff recognizing the 
talent left was not top-flight brought in marginal JuCos rather than 
marginal high school players; first because they should have been more ready 
to play and second because the scholarship commitment was a shorter amount 
of time. However, I do believe had Jordan Adams not been sick he eventually 
would have unseated Joe Daily.

Remember also the kids that used to come in as prop 48's no longer can start 
their academic career in Lincoln. They must graduate JuCo first. A lot of 
these guys are coming in as three to play two or three to play three guys, 
giving the luxury of developing them if necessary. In other words, it is not 
a lot different than the old days when a player developed for two or three 
years and then played meaningful minutes.

Also I believe Callahan's philosophy the last two years has been to take the 
best player available. Most of the recent JuCos have been rated among the 
best players in the nation. These players have had a chance to develop 
physically and have played against some of the top players in the country. 
It is normally more apparent whether these players are great players or 
whether they maxed out in high school. It seems that we are getting some 
amazing players in this round.

It appears we have a good start at developing "high learning curve" 
positions in house. Right now, we have a nice stable of quarterbacks and 
offensive linemen. This allows us to bring in the "difference maker" skill 
position player.

One other note on the high numbers. It would be interesting to know the 
number of prep school players that are on the various rosters. The East and 
Southeast schools place their non-qualifiers in these prep schools rather 
than JuCos. Some of these "schools" like Hargreaves are a joke, their only 
raison d'être being to get players eligible.



Gerald



>I think in the era of the 85 scholarship limit, you
> can utilize JuCo's like a quasi-JV program, giving
>


> 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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