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Recruiting around the Big Ten

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BUCKYLE;2100657; said:
It isn't 1970 anymore tho. HS kids aren't checking box scores on the net. They're watching ESPN or reading online. Both of which feature all big boy schools, such as Nebbie. Playing in their home state could still be a factor tho, but With Texas as big an area as it is, it will be just as far a drive for mom and dad to go to Iowa as it was to go to TTech or whatever. If they could pull from Texas before...which they did...then they should still get plenty from that state. The parents can still make it to Nebbie home games.
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Most every school, even the best ones, recruit the region they play in for most of their talent. Most of them will have a pipeline into a state outside their region, like OSU with Florida or Oregon with Texas, but even then, most of the players who sign with a school come from the region chosen school plays their conference games in.
 
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NastyNatiBuck;2100690; said:
Most every school, even the best ones, recruit the region they play in for most of their talent. Most of them will have a pipeline into a state outside their region, like OSU with Florida or Oregon with Texas, but even then, most of the players who sign with a school come from the region chosen school plays their conference games in.
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Correct, and Nebraska still plays half their games right next door to Texas. Look, all I'm saying is, in five years, I bet the percentage of texas born players on Nebraska's team is roughly the same as it was last year. That's purely my opinion.
 
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BUCKYLE;2100726; said:
Correct, and Nebraska still plays half their games right next door to Texas.
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What's your address? I'm sending you a map for your birthday. That same reasoning must be why we're bringing in all the Georgia kids, because we're just as next door to them as Nebraska is to Texas, right?
 
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I can see both sides to this argument. But one major thing which hasn't been mentioned is, the Nebraska coaching staff has spent years developing strong relationships with a number of well-placed high school coaches in Texas. They most certainly will continue to leverage those relationships, as well they should.

I think the number of Texas recruits may well decrease slowly over time, but I fully expect the coaching staff to continue to work hard to continue to nurture and leverage the relationships they've painstakingly built in Texas. At the same time, it only makes sense that they should work to build new relationships in B1G country, and Bo's Ohio background as well as some of his recent hires will help that.

To showcase a strong argument about why Nebraska's Texas pipeline is unlikely to dry up quickly - we've also done well in developing relationships in California. This class marks the 14th consecutive year that we've had one or more recruits from California - and I don't think any of those kids have been used to seeing Nebraska play schools in their conference very often! :wink2:

(To compare, this marks the 12th consecutive year with one or more recruits from Texas.)
 
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Muck;2101940; said:
What net were kids checking for box scores in 1970?

Maybe BB73 can chime in on the amount of college scores that were propagating across ARPANET?
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To clarify, this isn't 1970, so hs kids aren't reading box scores of MAC games in the paper....and, they aren't checking box scores period. They're watching highlights on SportsCenter like everyone else under the age of BB73.
 
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Geeze, settle down with the straw men here. Box scores, conference standings, etc, whether they're in a newspaper or on the internet, they're the same thing. I wouldn't give one iota of time to Northwestern's info, but I'm very familiar them because they're in the Big Ten. And local news/sports shows will cover teams that are in a local conference. So, like I said, Texas kids got exposure to Nebraska on a regular basis, because they were in the Big 12. Now that they aren't, local sports broadcasts aren't going to be covering Nebraska, because they've lost that local connection. (And again, they are NOT near each other geographically. Columbus, OH is closer to Georgia Tech than ANY Big 12 team in Texas is to Lincoln, NE)
 
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Joe6809;2101956; said:
Geeze, settle down with the straw men here. Box scores, conference standings, etc, whether they're in a newspaper or on the internet, they're the same thing.
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That's Kyle's point, that it isn't really the same thing.

Kids today have access to more information about little schools in the middle of nowhere (like Boise State) than they would on geographically connected schools like Illinois or Purdue 40 years ago. Theoretically it should be much easier for schools to market themselves to recruits nationally now than at any time in the past.
 
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Muck;2101940; said:
What net were kids checking for box scores in 1970?

Maybe BB73 can chime in on the amount of college scores that were propagating across ARPANET?
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Things were quite different back then. In 1970, we couldn't go to the Internet and find everything we wanted to see. We had to find our porn in magazines.

Wait, what was the question?
 
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Muck;2102018; said:
That's Kyle's point, that it isn't really the same thing.

Kids today have access to more information about little schools in the middle of nowhere (like Boise State) than they would on geographically connected schools like Illinois or Purdue 40 years ago. Theoretically it should be much easier for schools to market themselves to recruits nationally now than at any time in the past.
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Right, that's not the point. The argument isn't that it's easier to find their information, the argument is that you care about their information. I don't read up on Northwestern because they're listed next to Ohio State, I read up on Northwestern because they're going to be playing Ohio State. So that's why I was saying it was a straw man argument, because the box score thing isn't about ease of information, but that they're going to be playing each other... therefore, you pay more attention to them.
 
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Joe6809;2102032; said:
Right, that's not the point. The argument isn't that it's easier to find their information, the argument is that you care about their information. I don't read up on Northwestern because they're listed next to Ohio State, I read up on Northwestern because they're going to be playing Ohio State. So that's why I was saying it was a straw man argument, because the box score thing isn't about ease of information, but that they're going to be playing each other... therefore, you pay more attention to them.
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Right, and YOUR argument is "not the point" either, which is the point that the others are making! :wink2: Again, Nebraska has had California recruits in 14 consecutive classes - which would seem to be pretty impossible if YOUR point was THE point. Kyle's point that your point is not the point is really much more the point. :tongue2:
 
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