Pretty big visitor weekend and so I'm not questioning the staff's efforts. But the lack of new commits has me feeling antsy. Struggles on the trail? Waiting for things on the horizon? Help me feel a little better here. I don't follow all that closely.
Has our recruiting hit a lull?
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I'm not a Nebraska fan so I don't know the particulars of your situation...but it is slow for everyone this time of year. The kids who have not yet verballed are generally kids who have planned to take most if not all their official visits before deciding and/or plan to announce at an all star game/signing day. Generally speaking, if a kid doesn't announce prior to their senior season don't expect them to until after it...they have their own season to concentrate on and unless they are down to say a couple schools it is hard to find enough open weekends to visit all the schools they want to see.
Well I'm pretty sure we won't get pushed around this year. The prior seven years have humbled my fandom a bit. If you were to ask me the same question 8 years ago (even with sparty ranked higher) I would have have give a bit of a cocky answer. But I expect sparty to come in with all the confidence in the world and more than prepared.
With that said, I think the three keys to the game will be:
1) if we can hit a couple passes down field - we haven't really been able to do that this year despite our receivers getting open (sparty's coverage has been suspect)
2) if sparty's banged up OL plays like a healthy one. They have offensive weapons (more than Michigan) but if our DL is making plays in the backfield it negates that advantage
3) if sparty can contain our return game. Their special teams hasn't been their strength and if we win the field position battle (and at least on of the other twob points) we win
Those are my thoughts I guess
sparty hasn't looked good at all this year. they need to play their best game of the season by quite a bit to win.
