Craig Haubert, a college football analyst at ESPN, has a nice writeup on Pelini’s recruitment progress this year. I think the most interesting part of the whole article is probably the caption under the giant photo of Pelini screaming: “Bo Pelini has secured five verbal commitments for Nebraska so far, though none are ESPN 150 Watch List prospects.”
As Haubert goes on to explain, recruiting top flight collegiate football players to Nebraska isn’t the slam dunk it probably once was. The last few years haven’t exactly been fans’ dreams come true on the field and recruits know this going in to their visits with the school. The other big problem is that the pool of local talent just isn’t as deep as other big ticket schools like Ohio State, USC or any of the major Florida colleges.
It’ll be interesting to see as the summer progresses how Nebraska finishes in the national recruitment lists.