wasn't getting P5 offers. He's not qualified academically yet. I'm sure he'll get it done this summer if not by spring but that no doubt was a factor in his offer list.
So know we know why Emmett Johnson
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So he missed out on thee 2020 "Everyone gets to go to college" act but I still think he will make it. The days of not getting "accepted" are pretty much over.
I have a student right now that somehow got accepted to a Big 12 school and honestly, I thought this student was not going to graduate. Has not done a thing in 4 years.
(jmho) higher learning has become a business model acting for profit ahead of the interests of educating its students.
to that end, institutions will accept anyone willing to pay. and when payment is backed by federal funds, anyone can go and be accepted anywhere (driving tuition rates sky-high in the process).
So know we know why Emmett Johnson Now we know why you are not academically qualified yet. 
Just kidding!
He went to a private school which typically means more rigorous academics. I hope he wasn't there just to 'play' school. Seems Frosty is quite the riverboat gambler.
Honestly what's Frost got to lose? Not much of a gamble IMO because if he doesn't qualify then Frost just has another slot later for another transfer from the portal. Little downside. Way more potential upside if they liked his football skills on the field.
Lazy, Lazy, Lazy recruiting
there are dozens upon dozens of other low 3 star RBs that aren't qualification risks, but that would take too much effort - easy to snag up players that no other power 5 school has offered rather than put in the work to recruit talent that doesn't come with off the field issues
not a single power 5 offer other than Nebr
I will say that Nebr is probably the only power 5 school that many of these athletes have any prayer in gaining acceptance and then staying eligible once there
there are dozens upon dozens of other low 3 star RBs that aren't qualification risks, but that would take too much effort - easy to snag up players that no other power 5 school has offered rather than put in the work to recruit talent that doesn't come with off the field issues
not a single power 5 offer other than Nebr
I will say that Nebr is probably the only power 5 school that many of these athletes have any prayer in gaining acceptance and then staying eligible once there
OR maybe the other teams were lazy. Maybe he was discounted because of the size of the school he played at. Last time I checked some of the schools who did offer him were putting as many guys in the NFL as Nebraska has been . The kid was an outstanding high school player. There are lots of guys playing in the NFL who entered college more under the radar than Johnson did. He could turn out being the best high schooler in this recruiting class.
That's why I added that I'm sure he'll get it done by summer if not this spring. I would guess that just about all fall enrolling recruits have classes to complete before they can enroll but he made it sound to me like he had some problem with the English class.
yes I am sure the only power 5 program to not have played in a bowl game the last 5 years has outsmarted everyone once again
I think the issue is that we're maybe not going to get the RBs that Alabama offered given our record. We're going to have to find some overlooked talent and gamble on some guys. I believe in offer lists but I also know that P5 programs completely whiffed on Trey Lantz etal. I seem to recall us passing on some other local guys who ended up in the NFL after going to some of the schools on Johnson's offer list. With the portal effect, I'm not worried about "gambling" on a kid with his kind of high school production and speed. IF he doesn't play, he'll move on. Considering that we were down to playing walk ons at RB again this last year, I'll take that risk.
If Maurice Washington was able to qualify here, literally any sentient being should be able to qualify here. Mo got kicked out of a different high school every year for not showing up to class, and still qualified here somehow.
I assume this thread is reacting to this:
Have you met all the academic requirements to enroll at Nebraska?
“No, not yet. I still have some English credits that I need because I was thinking of coming [to Nebraska] early, but I still need that English class."
All he is saying is he couldn't enroll early because he still needed an English credit, not that he was in danger of not graduating on time.
Have you met all the academic requirements to enroll at Nebraska?
“No, not yet. I still have some English credits that I need because I was thinking of coming [to Nebraska] early, but I still need that English class."
All he is saying is he couldn't enroll early because he still needed an English credit, not that he was in danger of not graduating on time.
RB is my least concern at this moment...getting Allen was a big help & Yant, Rahmir, Ervin all have at least 3 years if they want to.
I think worse case scenario Emmett could be a new prop 48 guy which wouldn’t be a bad thing at all. He still gets to practice next year and wouldn't count against the 85 scholarship count. Kid gets a full year to just learn the system and get his football & school work balance down. Yantz was basically a prop 48 dude.
This does not necessarily apply to Johnson, but I personally know/knew plenty of people who did rather poorly academically in high school - some kids just loathe the high school life, curriculum, etc. Aced their ACTs and or SATs, or at least did very well on them. And most I'm still in contact with are doing very well in life, at least financially.
Again, I'm not saying high school academic performance isn't an indicator of future performance, but to paint with a broad brush is somewhat untruthful.
If he gambled on any position I think RB was the place to do it. Granted, we didn’t have Allen and Grant on board at the time, but I truly believe, for the first time in years, we are actually loaded at RB
He's a solid B student. I think Artguy diagnosed it perfectly.
As far as the article, I am not sure if he ran a 10.8 or not. A track site said his PR 100 was 11.2, maybe the 10.8 was in practice? Regardless, I think his best asset is his vision.
I also think the 2 freshmen need the 4 game redshirt scenario as I think we have enough depth for that to happen and I think both need to get a little bigger.
so if grades weren't really an issue then it is just that all the other power 5 schools didn't feel his talent warranted an offer
I think I'd rather be in the bucket of:
very talented but limited offers due to qualifying risk versus no concerns about qualifying just not talented enough to garner other power 5 offers
Nebraska has always played in the marginal academic market. Prop 48 was our gateway to players like Rozier.
Johnson said he wanted to enroll early, but he was an English credit short of being able to do that. To me that's not taking much of a chance on Frost's part or being lazy. Admissions has looked at Johnson and determined he doesn't have enough English credits. Whether Johnson took the class and failed or didn't take the class are two different questions to be answered that we can only guess at.
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imagine being in the bucket of:
soft emotional ***** fan of rival team posting on Nebraska board before tears from a marginally hard foul dried on his fat cheese curd encrusted face
couldn't be me in a billion years
rival team ??? RollingLaugh
teams that can't even get out of the pillow fight round of the tourney can hardly be considered rivals
I'm lazy and rarely log in unless I go over to the Open Scrolls to terrorize the fruitcakes there, but this post deserves a like.
yet you're here.
nearly a week after your team lost, at home, on senior night, with a chance to win the regular season outright, to a 9-win team without their best player, you're here.
why is that, fat disgusting wisconsinite?
I'll just share my own experience with a graduating senior in the midst of the madness.
Due to COVID last year, a lot of students chose to take a gap year and are now flooding the admissions process in 2022. This adds another 25 to 30 percent more kids in the application pool and makes it more competitive than ever to get into schools. Couple this with the fact that a lot of schools aren't requiring SAT scores and you have an unprecedented number of students trying to get into top level schools because they don't need an SAT to meet the threshold.
My daughter has a 4.88 GPA and a 1480 on the SAT, which gets her into the admissions process just about anywhere, including Duke, Penn and Vanderbilt. But these schools all have acceptance rates around 5% and with more kids in the mix, it's even less than that, so your odds are literally 2-3% or so even with a good GPA and test scores.
We'll see where it all nets out. Her most realistic targets right now among top tier schools are Boston College, Georgetown and Villanova. I had a 3.3 HS GPA 45 years ago and that got me in a lot of places. Today it's trash. I don't think we could take a bunch of APs to jack up GPAs then, but it's still pretty sobering.
I will say if you're good at sports, it's a much easier ticket. My daughter has friends in swimming, field hockey and softball, and if their GPA is decent, they get into schools they'd otherwise not. If you've got younger daughters, get them into some of these marginal sports (not basketball, volleyball or soccer) and schools need to fill out their rosters and will make room for them even if they never made all conference.
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He'll respond once he gets back from emptying out Golden Corral's supply of pork rinds and cheese curds.
wowser! thank you for sharing your experience. And...you've got a lot to be proud of in your daughter.