NU has a decision to make. With Urban Meyer now bringing his sleazy recruiting tactics to the B1G does the conference bend to the sleaze factor that has made the SEC the most dominant conference? Would NU ever take an approach like that? Alabama signs 25 in every class regardless. Would the B1G allow that now that Meyer is bringing these tactics to the B1G?

Diggs hurt for me... someone on this board told me that if I "ever thought we had a shot at him I was sorely mistaken." Whatever... I thought he was close to being "N" during the season but our staff didn't put enough out there to get him away from home.

My others include:

Marcus Rios
Devian Shelton
Nate Iese
and obviously Andrus Peat

How we missed out on all our top HS secondary prospects i'll never understand. Raymond certainly has to do better.

Doubtful

The sunnier side is that the staff is committed to recruiting these highly rated kids. I would rather have misses on 4 & 5* kids than not trying at all. I think a miss on a recruit is only on the kids in the 500 mile. You tell me that Rutgers has more of a football program to offer than Nebraska, if you believe QL chose Rutgers because of the football program I will think you are silly. These kids chose the school where they will play for 5 years for reasons that we cannot predict and it probably does not have anything to do with Nebraska football and the coaching staff.
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Big red nailed it, thats exactly how my list would look.

Peat was a potential 3-4 year starter. Stanford signed what, six OL 4* or better in this class? How does that happen? Not getting Peat is the biggest loss we've had in years for multiple reasons.

Bullard is a beast and our DE depth will be the weakest position we have in 2013. Ankrah is the only one that has seen the field that would return, that leaves Vestal, Ashburn, Okuyemi and then Moss and McMullen. Losing on Bullard was huge.

Diggs, Beaver, Rios, Shelton, Ford.... How do we not get one off this list? We will graduate 5 CB seniors in 2013. Not only is there a lot of question marks about the talent beneath that group but whoever replaces them won't see much playing time to develop.
List includes Josh Mitchell, Braylon Heard, Charles Jackson. Heard is supposedly testing the waters with the DB's and Jackson still is yet to make it to campus.

Fuller I was disappointed with because his game tape is so electric. I don't know if I would want to see him play DB. After watching some of Armstrongs film and how the coaches feel about him I think we are fine with him.

The better question is how do you NOT know this?

Did Diggs come here? No. So obviously, the staff didn't do enough to get him to come here. Pretty simple stuff.

If you want to argue that it was impossible, that's fine. But that's not what was said.

DA +1. Recruiting is not an easy task. It is a challenge to attract kids to Lincoln. It's not impossible, but it does take some work. How many folks on this board are alumns or current students? I went to MS & HS in Neb, but elected to go to college in SC. I'm a proud Husker fan even though I did not attend or graduate from there (I'd be honored to have a degree from UNL.

In a previous job, I recruited for my alma mater. Kids are looking for so many different things. Nebraska has many positives (the people, fans, tradition, facilities, Lincoln & Omaha and academics). Challenges...winter, Lincoln (it won't appeal to everyone just like NYC or other locations), distance (depending where you live...can I get there easily). Nebraska will wow some (love Westerkamp's quote about ND..."it's not Nebraska.") and underwhelm others.

I like the approach the coaches take with the recruits. They don't promise anything, but set expectations. Several recruits, parents and coaches have given the staff positive feedback on how they conduct themselves. I hope they can improve their closing skills as it seemed there may have been some opportunities missed, but since I/we are not privy to those interactions it's difficult to criticize with any conviction. I am pleased that they are going to makes some changes to their strategy (working DFW).

Let's hope the coaches develop the players and the players put in the work to improve. I'm happy with who we have and over who we didn't get. I support the players that are N!

GBR!

WELCOME aboard, #rt. Good to see you contributing to the board.

Has the sting of losing Peat worn off a bit for folks? What was the most frustrating/disappointing part? They were in so long? Family connections didn't matter? Position of need?

I can only imagine some of these receuiting misses eat at Bo. I wonder if ultimately the recruiting and how much more time needs to be invested at a place like Nebraska will be a reason he looks for something else.

On the opposite side. Any hope some of these losses light a fire under the staff to pick it up.

HAHAHAHAHA I cant help but laugh at this garbage. What do you think Osbourn would be doing?Actuallly going to get mad cause another coach called a committed recruit? Until a player signs on the dotted line and sends it in he can choose to go wherever he wants. Time to man up cause now a big boy is in your neighborhood. Hope Wisconsin realize what big cry babies they look like and what an embarassment their whinny coach appears to be.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

I can only imagine the level of vitriol sent Pelini's direction if he were to pressure kids into committing, only to have them change their minds on signing day, or the month before that.

I think this staff likes to feel secure about a commit before they accept their commitment. Far fewer problems in early February that way.