Conference affiliation and recruiting

[NebChicago]

It’s a common opinion that moving from the XII to the B10 has lost Nebraska considerable ground for recruiting Texas. How exactly does that work ? (not doubting it’s true) Just curious.

Is it because you can’t sell to a recruit that he’ll play in front of mom and dad a couple times every year?
Or is it because you can’t recruit while visiting other TX schools on the road?
Or is it because the Texas recruits aren’t aware of your school because they don’t see local Texas U’s play them?

 

[litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671]

I think us sucking since forever has more to do with it.

 

[Redscarlet]

I think us sucking since forever has more to do with it.

It hasn’t been forever more like a decade..

 

[litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671]

It hasn’t been forever more like a decade..

Ask today's 18 y/o's the last time we were any good....bet they don't say "10 years"

 

[Redscarlet]

Ask today's 18 y/o's the last time we were any good....bet they don't say "10 years"

18 year olds wouldn’t even know who Bob Devaney was.. you did say forever…

 

[Walleye 1]

18 year olds wouldn’t even know who Bob Devaney was.. you did say forever…

Buy it is forever for the kids we are trying to recruit.

 

[Rcnut223]

It hasn’t been forever more like a decade..

Decade? When was the last time we played for and won anything ? Not this century

 

[Raptor]

18 year olds wouldn’t even know who Bob Devaney was.. you did say forever…

Bob Devaney...... These kids today would barely know who Tom Osborne is, if at all. It's just the sad truth how far this once solid program Has fallen.

 

[Redscarlet]

Decade? When was the last time we played for and won anything ? Not this century

I‘ll let you figure that one out 2000-till now..

 

[73 Red I]

It hasn’t been forever more like a decade..

Two

 

[RealTucoSalamanca]

It’s a common opinion that moving from the XII to the B10 has lost Nebraska considerable ground for recruiting Texas. How exactly does that work ? (not doubting it’s true) Just curious.

Is it because you can’t sell to a recruit that he’ll play in front of mom and dad a couple times every year?
Or is it because you can’t recruit while visiting other TX schools on the road?
Or is it because the Texas recruits aren’t aware of your school because they don’t see local Texas U’s play them?

Yes to the first.
No to the second
Yes to the third.

look at how more SEC teams are recruiting Texas since A&M joined that league. There was always some presence but it has increased lately.

 

[NorthWillRiseAgain]

Ask today's 18 y/o's the last time we were any good....bet they don't say "10 years"

Agree. It’s not forever to fans over 35, it’s forever to high schoolers who weren’t born the last time nebraska won a conference championship.

 

[WestCoastCornhusker2]

Agree. It’s not forever to fans over 35, it’s forever to high schoolers who weren’t born the last time nebraska won a conference championship.

2009 and then before that 2001.