Next phase of Husker football now underway
May 1 marked the beginning of moving into the next phase in the annual cycle of Husker football. This phase marks the end of Spring practice and the beginning of pre-season recruiting work for the 2007 recruiting class. Coaches officially are allowed to call potential recruits starting May 1. During this time they will call potential recruits, travel to various locations to talk to high school coaches and watch players workout at combines and camps. The mission is to further identify the top prospects, make offers and get them to attend a Husker football camp in June and/or set up an official visit to Lincoln for the Fall.
Bill Callahan enjoys recruiting as he has said in several interviews and he personally will hit the road hard. The Husker staff is concentrating on Texas during the first week of May with about six or seven coaches making trips there. Texas, of course, is a major national hotbed of football talent and one of three states the Huskers would like to hit especially hard. California and Florida are the other two. The University of Texas, which always gets just about any recruit it wants in the state of Texas, happens to be filling up it's scholarship quota but there is a lot of talent still left in the state. So that just means the Longhorns won't be able to make a lot more offers which opens up the door for other schools. It's probably the reason why Nebraska is concentrating on Texas first this year.
In June, the recruiting focus will turn to the annual Husker football camps in Lincoln. These camps really serve two purposes. First, they allow many kids the opportunity to refine their football techniques including many who will never have any chance at a Nebraska football scholarship. Second, they also help accelerate the recruiting effort. Some kids who are on the bubble for receiving a potential scholarship can make their mark by impressing the coaches and others from around the country have a chance to see what Lincoln and the Nebraska football staff is like. The Nebraska coaches stress that players from Nebraska high schools especially need to attend one of the camps if they want to get a scholarship offer. Typically there always are a few surprises from the summer camps in terms of identifying new talent. Usually there also are a couple of commitments that happen either during camp or in the month following camp.
The coaches will probably take their vacation breaks during July and then August will mark the beginning of the next annual phase - that of Fall camp.
Go Big Red,
RedCap
Bill Callahan enjoys recruiting as he has said in several interviews and he personally will hit the road hard. The Husker staff is concentrating on Texas during the first week of May with about six or seven coaches making trips there. Texas, of course, is a major national hotbed of football talent and one of three states the Huskers would like to hit especially hard. California and Florida are the other two. The University of Texas, which always gets just about any recruit it wants in the state of Texas, happens to be filling up it's scholarship quota but there is a lot of talent still left in the state. So that just means the Longhorns won't be able to make a lot more offers which opens up the door for other schools. It's probably the reason why Nebraska is concentrating on Texas first this year.
In June, the recruiting focus will turn to the annual Husker football camps in Lincoln. These camps really serve two purposes. First, they allow many kids the opportunity to refine their football techniques including many who will never have any chance at a Nebraska football scholarship. Second, they also help accelerate the recruiting effort. Some kids who are on the bubble for receiving a potential scholarship can make their mark by impressing the coaches and others from around the country have a chance to see what Lincoln and the Nebraska football staff is like. The Nebraska coaches stress that players from Nebraska high schools especially need to attend one of the camps if they want to get a scholarship offer. Typically there always are a few surprises from the summer camps in terms of identifying new talent. Usually there also are a couple of commitments that happen either during camp or in the month following camp.
The coaches will probably take their vacation breaks during July and then August will mark the beginning of the next annual phase - that of Fall camp.
Go Big Red,
RedCap
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