Recruiting Strategy This Weekend

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On to sports Breeve now the Husker Buzz edition with
our Big Red Insider Sean Callahan live and Lincolm here
Scott or he is n for gym rows.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well Sean as everyone's looking to see what they're going
to do over the weekend without a Husker game. Bye
week usually means weddings, family reunions, parades. For Bud Crawford,
there's lots of stuff going on there. What are the
coaches doing on this bye week?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Well, they have one more practice today and then they'll
go out on the road and recruit the next couple
of days, including head coach Matt Rule, And it is
an important period. You get a total of thirty three
days in the season, so you have eleven coaches that
are eligible to go out, and if all eleven go out,
you burn eleven of your thirty three days. So you

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only get so many days that you can utilize. And
head coach Matt Rule himself can only be out so
many days, so Coach Rule will be out, and that's
always important to kind of track his whereabouts and where
they decide to place him. I would venture to guess
he will be watching at least one of the days
out Trey Taylor, their twenty twenty seven quarterback in Chicago.

(01:04):
If I had a guess, he's a highly highly ranked recruit,
and most of the recruiting action on the road will
be for twenty twenty sevens because your twenty twenty sixth
class is essentially done right now. You're just kind of
letting things, you know, get to December and there's no
other real opportunities to go out and see those guys
you're trying to now move ahead to twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
What's the mindset of these coaches right now in recruiting,
because on one hand, you want to establish that relationship
with the young man and his family to be a
part of the program. But on the other hand, due
to nil and transfer portal, this and that, there's no
guarantee anyone well well even if they say yep, I'm
your guy, whether they'll be here for a day or

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a year or any of it.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's really similar to the NFL model now in recruiting.
You have a roster limit. You can't have more than
one hundred and five players now moving forward, so you know,
you treat your recruiting class like a draft class. You
only have so many draft picks that you can pay
that you can you know, give them higher deals, and
then you try to fill in your class with kind

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of your undrafted free agents almost essentially, you know, low
lower ranked recruits that you think have a lot of
potential that aren't going to be high signee because you
can't now necessarily go out. And this year people have
done it a little bit more because of the rules
didn't go intoffect til July, and people did what was
called front loading and they paid all their bills before

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the rules started. And that has changed now moving forward
theoretically because we know that they keeps changing. But yeah,
you can actually pay high value high school recruits that
commit to you. You can pay them before they signed,
and that doesn't count on your REP share because they're
not a part of your program. Ye haven't signed yet.
So there is some strategy to get some of these

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top recruits early because you're able to essentially front load
part of their agreement off the reps shore numbers. So yeah,
that's why these schools have hired these general managers to
try to strategize how they build these recruiting classes.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I thought I heard you say that the other day. Sean,
you can actually pay a kid while they still in
high school. Yeah, yeah, so then he commits.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Then what well they signed Usually they sign an agreement
with the collectives and if you did that, you owe
the money back and it's a pretty strong legal agreement,
I imagine it. So yeah, there are some of these
kids might not take the money. They put it into
an annuity and it just sits there. So yeah, there
is a lot of things you can do it. Everyone
does it differently, and nobody tells anyone how they do it.

(03:37):
I mean, it's really kept pretty quiet. I mean when
if kids do this, but that is the incentive. If
you're a junior and you commit early, you know, you
can enter into an agreement with a collective and you know,
if your state allows it and you're you're eligible in
your high school, you can receive payments legally. And there's
been kids in Nebraska, high school players in Nebraska that

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have had that happen over the last few years.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Wow, Hey, Shawn. Thanks Our Husker insider Sean Callahan with
Husker Online and he's on Memory every afternoon just after
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