While I am not at all advocating for Craig to be the next HC at NU, to say he is not a stellar recruiter ignores the facts. He went into the Wyoming job well aware of the recruiting challenges. He has become a certified pilot so he can travel the great distances necessary to recruit to Laramie, and his record with quarterbacks, for example, is borderline spectacular (and definitely superior to a certain red-clad program's). He has kids from California, Texas and Illinois, among many other places, on his roster. He loves recruiting Nebraska kids too -- check out his roster.
But. Does the talent he recruits to wyoming equate to the talent that he would need to recruit at nebraska for us to even be respectable? Not saying he isnt a good recruiter for wyoming, just dont know if he would be good enough at nebraska.
The answer is no, and I don't see it getting better. I actually had high hopes for Frosty on the recruiting front. Young, energetic coach that seemed to really mesh with his players..... and fail.
Other than QB I think he's recruited pretty well. He screwed the pooch at QB but you should have heard the praise for McCaffrey's arm from Rice's head coach. Shocking.
One question. Did Bob Devaney have Nebraska ties?? Don't think it was a requirement then. Sure as heck shouldn't be a requirement now!!
It doesn’t get any more homegrown than SF and look how that turned out.
The OP didn’t mention recruiting. Ha ha
I say being a former husker should count against anyone applying for a job at Nebraska. Time to get someone from outside the program, perhaps hiring former Nebraska coaches/players is part of the reason Nebraska has become so stale over the years.
