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Re: 2009 Recruiting Class
This latest signing appears to be a big in-state committment. Coupled with the Madison recruits on men's basketball and the in-state women recruits, this could be a real turning-point year for Jack Nation as far as homegrown talent.
Here's one perspective regarding the Nebraska 11th-hour walk-on appeal that they KNOW will result in this recruit going back on his word.
Would Stig do it to another program or to a kid he may not really know will get to fulfill a "dream?"
Never know for sure, but from what we perenially hear recruits say about Stig, seems very, very doubtful, doesn't it?
Part of that character our newest young recruit mentioned.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Neb. fb is every MWestern kid's dream, Big 12 is win-win-win, cutthroat, you do everything within the rules (and sometimes outside them, perhaps?) to win. But as long as this coaching regime is in Lincoln, will this recruiting episode be the first thing you think of any time "Nebraska football" comes to mind? It will be here.
Certainly, 18-year-olds sometimes make 18-year-olds' decision, and a kid just starting in life can't be faulted for following a dream. But what life lesson will taken by a young man that had made a committment to a program that, presumably, had dealt with him straight up? Think the rest of his life will provide other committment moments - on jobs, family, etc.?
This latest signing appears to be a big in-state committment. Coupled with the Madison recruits on men's basketball and the in-state women recruits, this could be a real turning-point year for Jack Nation as far as homegrown talent.
Here's one perspective regarding the Nebraska 11th-hour walk-on appeal that they KNOW will result in this recruit going back on his word.
Would Stig do it to another program or to a kid he may not really know will get to fulfill a "dream?"
Never know for sure, but from what we perenially hear recruits say about Stig, seems very, very doubtful, doesn't it?
Part of that character our newest young recruit mentioned.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Neb. fb is every MWestern kid's dream, Big 12 is win-win-win, cutthroat, you do everything within the rules (and sometimes outside them, perhaps?) to win. But as long as this coaching regime is in Lincoln, will this recruiting episode be the first thing you think of any time "Nebraska football" comes to mind? It will be here.
Certainly, 18-year-olds sometimes make 18-year-olds' decision, and a kid just starting in life can't be faulted for following a dream. But what life lesson will taken by a young man that had made a committment to a program that, presumably, had dealt with him straight up? Think the rest of his life will provide other committment moments - on jobs, family, etc.?
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