We don’t have another TE recruit, and recently have by living by the transfer portal for any sort of depth at the position. My gut tells me there is no plan B by the master recruiter Tim Salem, who’s been stealing a paycheck from this University for 9 years. This staff also celebrated when this kid affirmed his commitment in the fall.
His boss is stealing a bigger paycheck from Pitt
Nebraska routinely has 10-15 D1 players. About half normally get NU offers. Top-ranked player was the #1 TE on Georgia's board (NU commit). The talent is rich given the less than 2 million population. Football is ingrained in the state culture. Many players at North Dakota State and South Dakota State, who dominate FCS nowadays, come from Nebraska.
Such ignorance. Nebraska has had three Heisman Trophy winners play high school ball in the state (with less than 1% of the national population) along with several linemen winning awards. Nile Kinnick, Johnny Rodgers and Eric Crouch if wondering. Dave Rimington (viewed as best center ever) is from the state. This kid is #10 and still a 3-star. NU sees him more as a DE or OL and not likely at TE.
Genuinely and as polite as I can be, no one cares. You dropped the ball at your 1 chance to be semi relevant this year by beating Colorado, and didn’t. Your coach ran his mouth and then got his a*s kicked by Deion. Go away.
I read on PSN that he claimed being the thought of being so far away from family depressed him. Some kids just can’t get off the tit.
It's weird that you came here to gloat over a kid that said “And I was just waiting for that first Power Five offer. So, the first Power Five offer I was gonna commit because the first to believe in me, that’s where I was gonna go.” when he committed to Pitt.
It's great how the Duzz haters get to have their cake and eat it, too, with kids like this. "Recruiting sucks!" Kid with very middle of the road rating with no other P5 offers jumps to his local P5 the minute they offer, "Duzz is losing the class!"
We don’t use the position under cignetti , anyway
That has nothing to do with people wanting to cry about recruiting and then cry about losing a kid who had his only P5 offer from Pitt for all but that last three months of the cycle. They'd be running this kid down as evidence Duzz can't recruit if he signed.
It’s true. I wish it weren’t. But hips don’t lie, and neither do the utter lack of playmakers. He hated Whipple and his pass happy offense and brought in Shawn Watson Part Duh and it is an unabashed failure. The issue has been settled. It’s over, Johnny.
There probably aren't if Nebraska is "owning" the P5 recruits from Nebraska. I imagine there are some big bodies that have P5 size like Wisconsin or Iowa tends to produce.
Farmland and highly skilled football players do not go hand in hand.
He’s our best player on offense by far -
Farmers and their families work hard. Very little time for much else. Little better now than decades past, with more mechanization and such but family farms are not for the meek or metrosexuals.
I've always wondered the same but I can only think of a couple of kids from the rural wilds of PA who have even come close in recent memory.
I was going to reply but you are correct. I live in a district that is textbook rural and agricultural. Neighboring districts can make a similar claim. Just say that farming has changed significantly and you just don't see a lot of kids having that as a distraction any longer.
I excluded Johnstown and Altoona from my thinking. Kevin Givens (Altoona) was the last "big" guy from out here with P5 talent but he's probably only ever seen a farm up close on a field trip. I did see a 315 pound kid from Dubois get pushed around like he was on roller skates by a 180 pound guard a few weeks ago.
I'm very close to Williamsburg. Know some guys that played down there. They were right down there with Turkeyfoot for having one of the smallest enrollments in the state that still had football. Sadly, they had to merge football with Juniata Valley to field a team. Still the same conference as our school and they've had some very good basketball teams. Last time I was down there, got out of the car and the field next to the stadium had just been drenched in liquefied cow manure. Parked next to the chicken coop that is attached to the school. Surreal.
This is secondhand from someone who teaches in one of those rural districts, but I've heard the kids (even the big ones that have the size for football) just aren't that passionate about football. They'd rather spend their free time riding ATVs or going hunting, etc., than playing on the football team or spending everyday in the weight room in the offseason.
Tanneyhill was a QB. I think he played a Rhode Island so that doesn't really count as P5. State College doesn't count as rural by anyone's standard. It's more like Monroeville than anything else around it but they've had a few guys that could play.
