The Bone Yard

I am sad I missed this thread

We were at 84 for the year.

We entered fall camp with 82. We gave 4 walk-ons spots. Then CJ didnt make it and Bubba went MLB.

84. Lost Ward, Okafor, Kerr and Williams postseason. Down to 80. Graduated 14. Down to 66. Signed 17. Leaves us at 83

FWIW, I wasn't aware of K. Cooper and didn't take into account of J. Williams being booted.

Atleast a dozen. They have taken 25 guys each of the last 4 years... It's a numbers game, and we dont have the numbers

Well at least we will fill with all the walk-ons. Because, you know, that was Bo's plan all along.

This class did not pan out like it was designed. Plain and simple.

That isn't to say I don't like most the guys we got.

I will say it wasn't our coaches fault, we didn't get bush loo, even though I thought he was a reach. The coaches over at that school wouldn't let our coaches get close to him.

Here's what we know about the tight end position for 2013.

We only have 2 scholarship players on the roster NOW that are slated to be here. One of them hasn't gone through a practice yet. The other has been nothing more than a scout team guy. The rest are walk-ons who also haven't done anything of significance yet. Long has a handful of snaps, and that might be overestimating it.

Could some of these guys be good? Absolutely. In fact, I like Sutton...a lot. I also like Cotton's bloodlines. But that doesn't change the fact that there is little depth and the depth we do have is very very young and absolutely unproven at this point in time.

It's not slamming the coach, it's point out the obvious. And you can be real naive and narrow minded if you choose and call me a negative nellie. Of course, by doing it, you are choosing to ignore the positive things I said about the class as well.

Try as he might, DA is simply incapable of handling an opposing argument. Without fail, it descends into name calling and blanket assertions of negativity.

Anyone who tries to pretend there aren't things to seriously question or critique about the program at this point can't see the forest through the trees. The people who want to voice those opinions are just as entitled to say so as anyone wants to take the overly positive tack.

DA makes many of his posts is a self righteous manner, depicting himself as the champion of truth while everyone else is deluded. Disagree with him, and the insults start to fly. He claims he's tired of "negative nellies", but his own rose colored views would portray Nebraska and a few of it's players as BCS title material, when it's obvious to any impartial observer that's not the case. We're a 2nd tier program right now, and there is going to be a fair amount of criticism involved with that. DA seems unable to accept that.

Life goes on...

Meanwhile, this recruiting class measured out at an Average Star rating right around 3.3 per player. This is the same average player rating as Bill Callahan had with that class back in his 2nd year that was rated among the best in the country. He just signed a dozen more players. That we could only take about 20 players is a matter of logistics, but in terms of talent infusion, we are doing fine.

Had this been a year where we could have taken 28 guys, and maintained the same talent level, people would be raving about the class. You can't let the size of this class be the dominant concern. That will even itself out in time.

I have to agree to a point with you. I think this is Pelini's best class to date but I too am disappointed we couldn't close on two or three of these guys. I think we have some major holes on our staff as far as recruitiing goes, especially on the offensive side of the ball. Let's face it, if you are an O-lineman what would make you want to come here and play. Our offense is not suited for taking the next step to the NFL nor is BC a quality O-line coach. When is the last time you have heard his name mentioned as far as recruiting. It is huge for these kids to be able to be recruited by their position coach.

Yeah, the closing part didn't work out with some guys. We can only speculate why some of those guys didn't make it here. It would be interesting to know their decision making.

I agree, on the surface it can appear it was an all-or-nothing approach and no plan B. Maybe they did not see the quality and character in other guys after their targets and, therefore, didn't offer other players just to pass out schollies.

Not trying to discredit your opinion at all, just curious as to why you say this year's class is better than last year's class? There were some misses last year, yes, but not as glaring or wide-spread as this year, imo. With the OL, DT and skill positions brought in last year, I think this class has a hard time measuring up to that one.