Is It Time To Panic? Class of 2010 Football Recruiting Numbers Well Off Last Year’s Dismal Pace
State’s 2010 Recruiting Class Is Off To A Very Slow Start
Poll: Pick your top 3 D-1 prospects
By Will Cummings
myHitNews.com
High School football recruiting in Nebraska: is it time to panic? Well, maybe, if you stop to think about this: The Nebraska high school class of 2009 was considered by many to be one of the state’s weakest recruiting classes in memory. However, last year by this time in the recruiting cycle that “weak” class of 2009 had 6 players (Tyrone Sellers, Jon Lechner, Cole Pensick, C.J. Zimmerer, Vondrae Tostenson and Eric Koehlmoos) who received a combine total of 11 D-1 offers. Now compare those figures to the class of 2010—1 player—Aurora’s Andrew Rodriguez, a Rivals 4 star OT–with 1 D-1 Offer.
The 2009 class had three players (James Davis, Scott Criss and Daryle Hawkins) who received D-1 offers after April and two players (Vondrae Tostenson and Eric Koehlmoos) who lost their D-1 offers. So if last year’s numbers serve as any indication for total D-1 offers in the class of 2010—things do not look good!
Recruiting Cycle Continues To Accelerate
Every year the recruiting cycle accelerates, it is now to the point that many D-1 schools have their top prospect list made out by the beginning of the junior year high school football season. By the end of the junior year high school football season, most D-1 schools have their entire prospect board ranked and have already offered the top players on their boards. Players that receive D-1 offers after April of their junior year are generally players that are already on a college’s “radar” (ranked prospect board) but the college needs to evaluate the player more in camp and/or through his senior year and/or to see whether or not a prospect they have ranked higher and have already offered will commit to their school.
Any 2010 player that does not have a D-1 offer by this time in the recruiting cycle is going o have to make a hell of a statement in summer camps and through their senior year.
If you are a Class of 2010 prospect and you go to a college camp this summer and do not get an offer—guess what? You didn’t do enough to impress. You will get another chance at your next camp. Still no luck? Then you better have a whale of a senior season!
Players in the Nebraska high school class of 2010 will have to do all of the above if they are to even have a chance to better the slim D-1 numbers from the class of 2009.
Developing Trend
Is there a trend developing here? You bet there is!. The college game with its ever growing number of quick attack spread offenses has evolved to rely almost purely on quickness and speed at every position. It’s no longer good enough to be big and strong—you have to be quick and/or fast too. Just look at the teams that have won the BCS championship since its inception in 1998. Only 2 non-Southern schools, Ohio State University and USC, have been crowned champions*.
| BCS Champions |
1998 Tennessee 1999 Florida State 2000 Oklahoma 2001 Miami 2002 Ohio State 2003 LSU 2004 USC 2005 Texas 2006 Florida 2007 LSU 2008 Florida |
Colleges Seek Speed
College coaches are looking for quickness and speed on both sides of the ball—and they go South and to California to find it because that’s where it is. The schools that are winning BSC championships are almost exclusively southern schools—located in the middle of “speed alley.”That means that pospects in the Midwest and North better possess elite speed and quickness if they desire D-1 scholarships, because that’s what D-1 colleges are demanding. Even your lower tier D-1 schools are not an exception to this reality.
So Nebraskans get quicker and faster or continue to see the numbers of D-1 offers from this state stagnate at around the current pace.
*Oklahoma is considered by many to be a part of the Southern United States.
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April 28, 2009 @ 12:04 am
Im not sure the what amount of people for certain schools that are voting on here are but i find it funny that Mizaur has the most votes yet i fail to ever see him in the Top players to watch for in 2010 lists on the huskerboards or major newpapers. either its all prep people voting or the writers of these lists have no idea what they are talking about.
April 28, 2009 @ 9:58 am
You have a kid who is the leading Class A returning rusher in the state and he doesn’t get added to the lists of top players for 2010? You decide the legitimacy of the press articles and lists. Seems to me that performance doesn’t apply when you are hyping certain kids. There is at least one kid on those lists and who has never played a down of varsity football. He is named one of the top 15 players for 2010. Does that seem right? I think the people who really know who the 2010 players are don’t let politics and press hype get in the way. JMHO
April 28, 2009 @ 1:37 pm
Freddy,
The list is not a ranking–if I left someone off that you think should be on it give me the name(s).
April 28, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
Crusher,
I was responding to Rurallife’s comments about not seeing the Mizaur kid in the major newspapers or on the top player lists for 2010. The post really has nothing to do with your poll or story. It was more an opinion of the information people get from reading articles from the paper and Internet. How accurate are those lists? What do they really mean? Since you brought it up, I don’t understand why Ron Coleman is not on here as a choice. He will be a kid who will probably go D1.
April 28, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
Freddy,
Anyway–How did I leave off the obvious? Coleman has been added–not like he neeeds the help.
May 13, 2009 @ 6:55 am
Ron Coleman is a freak,I was at the gym last week ,I never seen a 16 year build up like this kid ,I seen with my own eyes Coleman bench press 225 lbs 23 times and 410lbs 1 time.I get the gut feeling if Nebraska don`t offer this kid a scholarship right away, he will commit to another school.Did I mention a Future 4x state wrestling champion as well .PLEASE NEBRASKA OFFER!!!!!
May 13, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
Sanchez,
NU wants him to play DT and they want him at about 260 his senior year. Now in the past–just because–a kid like Coleman would have an offer from NU by now–but they are not playing that game anymore. However, you have to ask “why is it that no D-1 offer has been made to him at this point?.”
Coleman is 5-11 240 at best. Sure he could get to 270 or 280 but can he play at that weight?
So he is going to have to prove in camp and over his senior year that he can be a beast on the line. Because by any stretch of the imagination he will be a very short DT. So he will have to be a very, very very, dynamic player to make up for it–hence no D-1 offers yet.
Just about all the D-1 schools have almost all their offers out right now to the players on top of their boards. Any new player that gets offered now will get it because he proved his worth at camps or during his senior year.
September 6, 2009 @ 4:29 am
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE BLOCKING BACK HES HAD AND BRAD HELT HAS HAD CODY HOBBS THREE YEAR STARTER AT CRE PREP AT FULLBACK NOT THE FASTEST NOT THE BIGGEST BUT A FOOTBALL PLAYER DOES HE HAVE CHANCE TAKE A LOOK
September 12, 2009 @ 10:56 am
Good tough player,
September 12, 2009 @ 11:13 pm
who are you calling a good tough player
September 13, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
Didn’t you ask about Hobbs?
September 15, 2009 @ 10:18 am
yes I was, you dont here much on this guy but he should be given a closer look he is a fullback & line backer for prep not sure if you have ever seen him play I was at the Millard North game this guy was on fire through out the night you heard his name called alot he had 10 plus tackles and has good hands I have heard alot of things on Miuzar but not on the guys that make the blocks or the plays that make these guys look good there is alot of good talent out there but they get over looked because of the other guys they play with or against and are not given the notice they have earned.
September 16, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
I Agree with your points: Keep shouting out his game and name!