[Husker] Recruiting trend?

[George Rapp]

One consideration to keep in mind is that Tom Lemming - which is as apt a name for a recruiting analyst as I've ever heard - was a personal friend of Bill Callahan's, which may have led to a (conscious or unconscious) selection bias that ranked Callahan's classes and recruits higher.  Also, Callahan tended to chase the 4- and 5- star athletes; Coach Pelini seems to be focusing on filling specific position needs, with a few "athlete" type offers thrown in.  That style never enamored the recruiting gurus when Tom Osborne did it either, and some of his teams turned out OK ... 
8^)

George



-----Original Message-----
From: wpschammel at comcast.net
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:09 PM
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Subject: [Husker] Recruiting trend?

I anticipate a bit of flak for this but here goes. Recent decommits and concern over this year's class made me look at the recent recruiting data and, although I may be a tad premature about this, I am starting to be a little concerned about recruiting trends. 


Specifically, I was looking at the Rivals ranking (and yes, I know, this is not an exact science) for Nebraska classes the past few years and we seem to be going in the wrong direction. I like Pellini a heck of a lot more than I did Callahan but the national class rankings are as follows: 2005: #5, 2006: #20, 2007: #13, 2008: #30 (was top 5 until the firing); 2009: #28, and, so far, the 2010 class is ranked #38. I know Callahan could recruit but apparently could not coach; I am now worried that the reverse might be true with Pellini. By the way, the team with the #1 Rivals ranking the past two years is Alabama, so I don't think these data are totally irrelevant. 


Certainly, the two data points for the 2009 and 2010 classes are not enough to prove anything; I guess i am just wondering if anyone else had the same observation. Here's hoping we land some big ones in the next few weeks and this all becomes irrelevant. 


Wayne 


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