concerning Tai tweet.

[FredsSlacks]

https://twitter.com/Tjawtherula/status/330485306967093248

 

 

Has he gotten the score he needs?

[TheKamdyMan]

Robin said he has a passing score but knows theres always snags with international players and the clearing house so he is retaking it over and over to bump his score to leave nothing to chance.

[TomEadesSucks]

I'd imagine both he and his name stick out. 

[cipsucks]

I'd imagine both he and his name stick out. 

There's a Standhardinger joke there somewhere......

[Silverbacked1]

 

I'd imagine both he and his name stick out. 

There's a Standhardinger joke there somewhere......

 

Only if you are in a park after dark cip.

[a0t0w0]

Robin said he has a passing score but knows theres always snags with international players and the clearing house so he is retaking it over and over to bump his score to leave nothing to chance.

 

NO. MORE. COMPLICATIONS.

 

I never want the heart break of another Roburt Sallie again. 

[49r]

 

I'd imagine both he and his name stick out. 

There's a Standhardinger joke there somewhere......

 

 

It's in there somewhere, cip...I have faith you'll be able to pull it out...

[Cell]

I don't think I have ever come across a group of more paranoid fans, haha

[tcp]

I don't think I have ever come across a group of more paranoid fans, haha

 

oh, wait until I anony-tweet that Tai's talking to Louisville. fun!

[Norm Peterson]

I don't think I have ever come across a group of more paranoid fans, haha

Cell, unfortunately, more unexpected crap has happened in our history to derail us getting prized recruits and break Husker fans' hearts than we all care to recall at the moment.  Makes us a bit gun shy.  Any time we see a headline on a thread like the above, we're all like, "Oh crap, not again."

[Norm Peterson]

OK, so I was thinking about what I posted above regarding feeling snake bit with recruiting and JUST IN THE LAST TEN YEARS ...

 

• 2005  Our top recruit -- maybe the best we'd had in a while -- is released from his signed Letter of Intent to attend a school closer to home due to ill health of his mother (Will Harris.)
• 2006  Our top recruit meets all apparent initial eligibility requirements but NCAA Clearinghouse mysteriously refuses to clear him and he has to disenroll from Nebraska to attend a junior college (Roburt Sallie.)
• 2007  One of our top recruits (said to have NBA potential) suddenly drops out of his junior college rendering him ineligible to attend Nebraska.  He ends up playing professionally overseas instead (Rishawn Norwood.)
• 2008  Our top recruit from 2006 recommits to Nebraska after graduating from his juco but an obscure and previously unheard of Big 12 rule prevents him from ever enrolling at Nebraska and he's forced to attend Memphis instead.
• 2008  One of our top big man recruits is ruled ineligible for a year because members of his German club team were paid more than expenses (Christopher Niemann.)
• 2008  Our top big man recruit checks the wrong block on his Nebraska admissions application and the Admissions Department refuses to enroll him until he passes an English language proficiency examination, which prevents him from enrolling and joining the team until second semester, thereby forcing him to redshirt (Jorge Brian Diaz.)
• 2008-2009  One of our top big man recruits transfers from his high school to a prep school but, because of some transfer issue, is ruled ineligible at his prep school, cannot return to his high school, and is forced to enroll in a juco, which means he cannot attend Nebraska for another 2 years when he would graduate from juco (and then only have 2 seasons of eligibility remaining (Vander Joaquim.))
• 2009  One of our top recruits is ruled ineligible for the first 15 games of his freshman season due to playing on a German club team in which some of the other players were paid (Christian Standhardinger.)
• 2009  After sitting out a year because of an NCAA ruling on his eligibility (during which he showed a lot of promise), one of our top big man recruits blows out a knee and has to miss another year.  Then, appears to rush his return and blows out a knee again, virtually ending his career or at least any chance of making meaningful contributions to the team (Christopher Niemann.)
• 2012  Due to a bookstore theft scandal of some sort, the juco team of our top big man recruit dismisses all but a couple of their players and forfeits the remainder of their season, placing his eligibility in doubt and (likely) causes Coach Miles to release him from his Letter of Intent (Fahro Alihodzic.)

That would be enough to make any fanbase a little paranoid when it comes to recruiting.

[49r]

Geez, Norm.

 

I think I just got polio from reading that...

[Norm Peterson]

There were some years prior to Coach Miles getting here where this place, looking back on it, seems to have been a bit of a dumpster fire as far as recruiting and player turnover are concerned.

 

I didn't even bring up all the players who were kicked off the team or who quit for various reasons -- like to get closer to home.

 

That was just a really dark time in this program's history and, as fans, it's like we keep waiting for the next shoe to drop.  Getting really close near-misses with some of these recent recruits just reinforces that feeling.  It's like the Viet Nam vet who ducks every time he hears a car backfire.

 

As a fanbase, I think we have PTSD.

[Navin R. Johnson]

Wow, when you look over that list of players that were suppose to be our top recruits you see a lot of names that really did not pan out.  Sallie was a good player, but I don't think he was nearly as good as people here in Nebraska made him out to be.  Harris was okay, but not close to a game changer.  Diaz never really had the fire to be a big time player.  Niemann had major injury issues, but I don't think many really expected him to be a game changer either.  Joaquim has been better than I thought he would be and Standhardinger did not ever seem to really fit in with the system or his teammates.  Looking back, I'm not sure how much we really missed out on with these guys.  It's more like we played the "what if" game with some of these guys and built them up to be better than they were or are.

[GATA]

Who was that Juco guard out of Kansas City who (I think it was Blair Kerkhoff) was compared to Allen Iverson? It was probably around 2001 or 2002 when he came here? I remember being really excited when he got to campus but he ended up a disappointment.

[HB]

Who was that Juco guard out of Kansas City who (I think it was Blair Kerkhoff) was compared to Allen Iverson? It was probably around 2001 or 2002 when he came here? I remember being really excited when he got to campus but he ended up a disappointment.

 

That would be Nate Johnson

[Norm Peterson]

Nate Johnson?  I don't think Nate was a disappointment.  He was much better his second year here and not as good his first, but his second year he was oustanding.

[HB]

Nate Johnson?  I don't think Nate was a disappointment.  He was much better his second year here and not as good his first, but his second year he was oustanding.

Correct, Norm, I agree.  Loved Nate. In fact, I loved him way more than Barry Collier did, who for some reason wanted to prove lots of points with Nate his Junior year, and limit his playing time, especially in the NIT game in Omaha.  I was just answering the question in terms of a Kansas City guy from the early 2000s who was compared to Iverson.

[GATA]

Nate Johnson?  I don't think Nate was a disappointment.  He was much better his second year here and not as good his first, but his second year he was oustanding.

 

Not saying he was a bad player, but when a respected reporter calls him an Allen Iverson type, it puts the expectation level higher than what he reached. Calling him a disappointment probably isn't fair. I graduated after his junior season, so I didn't get to watch him all that closely his senior year, when he had a very nice season.

[Handy Johnson]

Tis' better to have love and lost............ Joe McCray, Jamaal White. Where are they now?

[Silverbacked1]

Who was that Juco guard out of Kansas City who (I think it was Blair Kerkhoff) was compared to Allen Iverson? It was probably around 2001 or 2002 when he came here? I remember being really excited when he got to campus but he ended up a disappointment.

You weren't thinking of Marcus Walker are you?  He was from KC and only played here a year I think.

 

Didn't quiet fit into Barry's style of ball, if I remember correctly.

[Concrete]

marcus walker was a stud, we really blew that one.  He actually ended up transferring to Colorado State and playing for Tim Miles

 

http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/player/colorado-state/4-marcus-walker

[GATA]

 

Who was that Juco guard out of Kansas City who (I think it was Blair Kerkhoff) was compared to Allen Iverson? It was probably around 2001 or 2002 when he came here? I remember being really excited when he got to campus but he ended up a disappointment.

You weren't thinking of Marcus Walker are you?  He was from KC and only played here a year I think.

 

Didn't quiet fit into Barry's style of ball, if I remember correctly.

 

 

I was definitely thinking of Nate Johnson.

[colhusker]

 

 

You weren't thinking of Marcus Walker are you?  He was from KC and only played here a year I think.

 

Didn't quiet fit into Barry's style of ball, if I remember correctly.

 

He was not the only one by a long shot.

[jimmykc]

Nate Johnson was virtually unstoppable with the ball in his hands as time was expiring. We have lacked a player with this particular skill since he left, although Jeter wasn't bad in his senior year. And to cut the newspaper writer some slack, this type of hyperbole with recruits is rather common. How many "next Larry Birds" have there been over the past few decades at many institutions anyway?