(To break up this very long post, I've divided it into six parts.)
Timing.
It’s everything, right?
Nebraska basketball had some success this past season – more success than we’ve seen in a dozen years or more – and everyone around here seemed to have this intuitive sense that we needed to parlay that on-court success this past spring into recruiting success this fall. To strike while the iron is hot, so to speak. Not to lose the opportunity of timing.
The timing was good for us because just as we were ascending into a position of national relevance (carrying a pre-season ranking into the ’14-’15 season) a young kid from Chicago – a kid who just happened to have Nebraska ties – was ascending as well, into national recruiting prominence as a Rivals 4-star player.
A few years back, though, when Nebraska’s hoops fortunes weren’t so promising, another kid came along with Nebraska basketball ties, another kid with 4 stars from Rivals, and he chose to take his talents to Texas instead of following in his father’s footsteps at Nebraska. So, timing clearly matters.
Sometimes the stars have to align and the right events have to take place in the right sequence at the right moment for everything to fall in place the way you want it to, the way you hope for it to. And I submit that a lot of somethings have been falling into place in the right sequence at the right time for a number of years now, actually, to bring us to the point where we are today.