[Husker] Young Team

[Mike Jaixen]

It's not a contradiction if you distinguish between recruiting, which is the act of identifying the best players that fit your program and convincing them to attend your school, and recruiting services, which is the act of ranking high school players.

The two are quite different.  For example, I'll name four quarterbacks and ask you to rank them based on how you've seen them play.

Harrison Beck, Tony Romo, Sam Keller, Joe Ganz

Now that you've ranked them, take a look at how recruiting services ranked those players.  I'll bet the order is inverted.  Who's right?  You decide.

 Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Aaron Wolfson <awolfson0 at gmail.com>
To: Steve Stone <sstone at pvtnetworks.net>
Cc: "husker at tssi.com" <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:33:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Young Team

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:
>
>  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.
>
> 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.
>
> Steve Stone
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