Sunday, February 17, 2008

Nebraska Football Recruiting

The Nebraska Huskers football team is a huge passion of mine. My family has had season tickets my whole life so I have been able to go to a good number of games. My first game that I went to was when I was three years old and since then I have been in love with Nebraska football. During the off season I really enjoy keeping up to date on all of the incoming class of recruits. This year according to Rivals.com, which is one of the major high school recruiting services in the country, Nebraska is ranked in the top 30 for recruiting classes. Scouts.com is another major high school recruiting service and they have Nebraska ranked as the number 21 best recruiting class in the nation. I personally think that this years recruiting class for Nebraska is going to turn out to be very solid. With a total of 28 recruits, 14 on offense and 14 on defense, that gives Nebraska great balance. Earlier in the off season Nebraska had a lot of highly touted commits who decided to decommit after the firing of Bill Callahan and the hiring of Bo Pelini. Some of the more highly touted Nebraska commits were quarterback Blaine Gabbert, running back Jonas Gray, and offensive linemen Bryce Givens, Dan Hoch, and Trevor Robinson. Even though we lost some amazing prospects , I think Nebraska still did a very fine job at picking up some late commits. I also think the Nebraska coaching staff was able to fill a couple of openings at key positions, especially on defense. Led by Nebraska's top two defensive recruits Will Compton and David Whitmore and with Bo Pelini's great defensive schemes, the Nebraska "Blackshirts" will be back to normal dominance in a couple of years.

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