[Husker] Recruiting trend?

[Aaron Wolfson]

Interesting list. The only other guy I've ever heard of is Miller, who had a
good career at Texas.

Aaron


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
> wrote:
> >> I think it's easier to botch good recruiting than it is to coach up
> >> lesser recruits. The last several seasons at NU only prove this in my
> >> opinion.
> >
> > If Suh was any recruiting expert's idea of a 'lesser recruit', that's
> proof that
> > recruiting rankings are worthless.
> > --
> > Mike Nolan
>
> Well, a quick Google search got me the Rivals page for his class, and
> Suh was rated a 4 star and #6 defensive tackle in the nation.  The
> rankings for defensive tackles were as follows:
>
> 1       DeMarcus Granger - Dallas (TX) Kimball   going to Oklahoma (5 star)
> 2       Callahan Bright - Bryn Mawr (PA) Harriton  going to Florida State
> (5 star)
> 3       Jerrell Powe - Waynesboro (MS) Wayne County  going to Ole Miss (5
> star)
> 4       Kade Weston - Red Bank (NJ)  going to Georgia
> 5       Roy Miller - Killeen (TX) Shoemaker  going to Texas
> 6       Ndamukong Suh - Portland (OR) Grant  going to Nebraska
> 7       Ekom Udofia - Scottsdale (AZ) Chaparral  going to Stanford
> 8       Terrance Taylor - Muskegon (MI)  going to Michigan
> 9       James McKinney - Louisville (KY) Central  going to Michigan
> 10      Louis Ellis - Jackson (MS) Lanier going to Mississippi State
> (hope this list doesn't get all jumbled up, but it probably will)
>
> See the article at
> http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=879
>
> I think his development into the player we see today definitely had to
> do with a determination on the part of Suh to excel when the coaching
> change came, and his first two years were under Cosgrove.  Whatever
> they were doing for those two years, it may not have been highlighting
> his skills and abilities.  It obviously took less than a year for Bo
> and Carl to get considerable production out of him as a junior, and
> then his senior season.... well, enough has been said.
>
> My take: recruiting is all about potential, but a lot of things have
> to happen after that.
>
> Nick
> --
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