[Husker] Young Team

[Aaron Wolfson]

I feel like you contradicted yourself there. How can recruiting explain 75%
of success if it's possible to take walk-ons, who nobody recruited, and turn
them into championship-caliber starters? I realize you may have just picked
a number there, but I'm curious how you arrived at it.

Aaron


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Steve Stone <sstone at pvtnetworks.net> wrote:

> Mike wrote:
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>  A side effect of this is that people who obsess about the recruiting
>> ranking are going to need to deal with a low ranking next spring. The low
>> number of seniors means fewer scholarships available to give out, which will
>> keep the Rivals ranking capped low.
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> Recruiting is probably 75% of college coaching success, but it needs to be
> kept in perspective. If I remember correctly, the 1995 Husker squad was
> composed of recruiting years ranked no higher than 15th, yet that team has
> been recognized as the greatest team of all time.
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> Another thing to keep in mind about recruiting: Dr. Tom always said that
> the walk-on program was worth six scholarships per year. During one
> pay-per-view game last year, Kelly Stauffer who was/is a perceptive analyst
> stated that Nebraska could't be competitive if it had walk-ons as starters,
> apparently forgetting that the '95 Huskers had either six or seven walk-on
> starters [defense and offense] in the Fiesta Bowl. Someone must have
> reminded him of that fact because he never repeated that statement.
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> Steve Stone
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