[Husker] Coaching Staff, Recruiting, SOS, Etc...

[Steve Stone]

Jeff Volk wrote:

(Big snip)

>On Recruiting:
>
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>
>Since people hate star systems and we all realize they are totally
>subjective and in many cases arbitrary, let me explain this in a
>different way. When it comes to the athletes we are recruiting, it gives
>me a tremendous amount of pause when we start offering scholarships to
>players that no other schools are offering or that schools that are not
>typically competitive are offering. While every team is a little
>different and they all recruit athletes to fit their systems - I feel
>far more comfortable when we are recruiting athletes that at least upper
>division Big 12 schools are also recruiting. I know there are exceptions
>to the rule and that player development is speculative at best, but I
>feel a whole lot better bringing in a kid that Oklahoma and Missouri
>might also have recruited rather than a kid that Chadron and Wayne State
>recruited. I know that many of us have this love affair with the whole
>idea of every kid off of every farm in Nebraska getting a chance to play
>at Nebraska, but that just isn't realistic. We need better athletes -
>not 3 or 4 or 5 star athletes, but athletes that other schools - schools
>who are watching the same game films as we are, are also interested in.
>Period.


I may be speaking only for myself, but I, for one, feel a much higher 
level of comfort in trusting Dr. Tom's judgment of potential 2008 
recruits than that of any other person, coach, or agency.

Nebraska is not going to stop recruiting in Texas, California, New 
Jersey, Florida, Alaska, or anywhere else - - in fact, Nebraska has 
always recruited all over and is not about to stop. Any idea to the 
contrary probably springs from fantasy rather than fact.

As for kids other schools are interested in, historically Nebraska 
has recruited a lot of unheralded kids and THEN other schools became 
interested in them.

Steve Stone