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Nebraska Cornhuskers (corn)

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LordJeffBuck said:
You might be tired of that "excuse", but recruits do tend with to sign with local schools, and it certainly helps to have a strong local recruiting base.

Ohio State recruits nationally as well as anyone, and yet 35 of 84 scholarship players are from the State of Ohio. Eight more are from the border states of Michigan (4), Indiana (3), and Kentucky (1). Sixteen are from regional states (a short plane flight or easy drive from Columbus) of Maryland (4), Virginia (4), Illinois (3), New York (3), and New Jersey (2). Fourteen are from the huge recruiting hotbeds of Florida (7) and Texas (7). Only eleven recruits come from states that have little or no connection to Ohio - California (2), Nevada (2), North Carolina (2), South Carolina (1), Georgia (1), Minnesota (1), Utah (1), and Arkansas (1).

Nebraska has very few D-1 recruits in state, and your border/regional states are no better: Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Minnesota, the Dakotas. The Huskers have to recruit out-of-region in order to find players, and recently they haven't been a major factor in big markets like Texas, Florida, and California. While Ohio State is pulling high-four and five star recruits from Florida, Texas, and even California to add to a strong Ohio and regional base, Nebraska is getting three star leftovers from those states to supplement what little local and regional talent exists.

Sure, a good coach can "sell" his program, but it's a lot easier to sell Ohio kids on Ohio State ... Dade/Broward kids on Miami ... LA/OC kids on USC ... Texas kids on Texas ... and the list goes on. Most top programs have a clearly defined local/regional recruiting base, and not having such a base is a big reason why Nebraska is in real trouble going forward.

Chip Kelly is going to kill it at UCLA because every year he has a hundred top recruits within a 50-mile radius of Westwood. The next coach at Nebraska has no such luxury.
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Only 35 kids on Ohio State's roster are from Ohio? Really? Y'all wanna know how we got rolled by Iowa? That's the reason right there. How many kids from Ohio are playing college football at schools other than Ohio State?
 
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My pastor (Louisiana transplant, self described "Husker fan") is going ape over the hire right now:
He and I are texting one another....

Pastor:
No complaining. Bad pic. Never won a championship na major conf and pd 5 mil. That might put him as d 2nd, 3rd, or 4th highest pd nd big ten. Now lets c if he beats d top teams nd big ten

Me:
LOL he's 3rd highest paid but
#1 He coached in 2 national championship games
#2 He just won a conference championship
#3 he has the #1 Scoring offense in the country
#4 Reason why Nebraska is lagging is because it isn't throwing the $$$ at coaches and assistants because they never really have had to - till now.

Pastor:
Wishful thinking. Urban Meyer won nd Sec and is winning and has won nd big ten. He left a top tier conf and went 2 a top tier conf

Me:
What is wishful thinking?

Pastor:
#1 wat 2 national championship games has he coached n

Me:
Not being able to answer #1 makes u a casual fan, LOL
Frost was an assistant coach with Oregon under both Chip Kelly and Mark Helfrich. They played in 2 national championships (Oregon vs Auburn and Oregon and Ohio State)
He coached a Heisman Trophy winner

Pastor:
Casual fan or not, I know one thing for sure, Frost WILL NOT WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP AT NEB.
Riley would not have
Pelini would not have
Solich would not have
And, whoever comes after Frost will not neither. Neb will not b able 2 get a cont bulk of top tier players 2 come here and this area does not produce very many top tier players like d south has consistently done for d past 30 years
Me:
LOL - again, casual fan
Frank Solich won big 12 championship in 1999.

Pastor:
D way d playoff is presently situated, neb would have 2 win d big ten 2b na national championship game. Now do u honestly believe neb will b able 2 get
by ohio state nd next 7 yrs.
Me:
All they have to do is compete with Ohio State. That begins with winning the division. One thing at a time.

Pastor:
And win a major bowl game against probably a major team from d SEC 2 get 2d nat champ game
Me:
SIGH
You sure you know how this works?
They would have to play the Big 10 championship game first, sir...

Pastor:
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They will have 2 beat ohio st 2 win d div. Ohio state has a LARGE pool 2 draw from right n their backyard for players.

Me:
OMGOODNESS
Pastor - they aren't in the same division, LOL!
And - there are 35 players from Ohio on their roster of over 120 right now.
Their Starting QB? Texas.
Ezekiel Elliott? Missouri
I could go on and on,
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Pastor:
They play just abt every year. It does not matter when they play, that rd 2a nat champ will still go through ohio state

Me:
That's bout the only thing in this convo you've said that makes good sense, LOLOLOL!
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He's a bulldog - he's changed subjects 15 times by now to try to prove his point.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Currently Corn only has 8 commitments and with a Rivals class ranking of 85. It wil be interesting to see if Frost can make an immediate impact on the 2018 class.

https://nebraska.rivals.com/commitments/football/2018

https://n.rivals.com/team_rankings/2018/all-teams/football
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New coaching staff is already recruiting...

Scott Frost and the new Nebraska football coaching staff aren’t wasting any time.
As if Nebraska football fans weren’t already excited about the arrival of Scott Frost, the new coaching staff is injecting a much-needed boost to recruiting at the school. Just hours after the university made the hire official, several top-notch recruits started tweeting out they had received scholarship offers.

More interesting than the players that were announcing official offers was what that said about who we know for sure has already been hired to be on Frost’s staff. The first domino fell when Adrian Martinez, a four-star quarterback recruit made his announcement.

https://huskercorner.com/2017/12/02/scott-frost-nebraska-football-already-recruiting/
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More on that story, LOL....

The most interesting thing about Martinez and Corbin is where they are currently committed. Martinez is a Tennessee commit while Corbin is currently committed to Florida State. It appears Frost and company have no qualms about going after players on teams that currently don’t have a head coach.

Other players that have announced they’ve been offered in the last few hours include Noah Banks, Jaevontae Jean-Baptiste, and Jeremy Webb. Jean-Baptiste is a four-star outside linebacker from the state of Florida. Webb is a junior college defensive back.
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