Linebacker Prospect Pledges to Nebraska

That, along with the 4 linebackers we brought in last year, including Zaire Anderson, Rose, Santos, Afalava, gives us incredible depth at the position. Zaire is the only 4 star out of that group however, and almost pencilled in to start already, being a Juco transfer. Both Banderas and Newby are 4 star level talent.
Wow. That means we are stacked at LB now, and that’s exactly what was needed. Congrats to the recruiting team! Might turn out to be a great class after all!
We’re also stacked at O line, with 23 folks (and several 4 stars) competing there. And we’ve got a lot of 4 star talent here and coming in this class at the D line positions so that’s getting deeper too.
We’re getting to the point of being able to say we are re-loading, not rebuilding all the time, and that is huge!!! We’re gettin’ there!

Huge pick up with this kid !!, hopefully Claiborne ( who has us in the top two now with A&M ) , also picks NU and Finishes out our LB recruiting class, and what a great linebacking group that would be!! The best part is that Newby and Claiborne both could fit that Peso role of Pelinis (which means that all these kids could be potentially be playing on the field at the same time) :) And all of these guys are extremely athletic and could play other roles as well, HART and Fisher are also studs!.. Regardless what happens from here on out , there is a good chance that this will be the best LB class in the country!!! And the best part for all of these kids is that they have every chance to get on the field early in their careers, while we brought in some great kids last year , all of the guys with experience are graduating this year.. COngrats MArcus and WElcome to the family!! Darian Claiborne, if your out there , JOIN THE FAMILY ALSO!!! GO BIG RED !!

23 Olinemen with multiple 4-stars?  We are thin at Dline - can some of these switch?

We recruited 2 Defensive Tackles and 2 Defensive Ends in the last 2 classes so we should be pretty good there heading into the future, although it is probably the greatest area of need still…got young guys coming up that are showing promise, but we lack real beasts there now. They seem to be building up the lines more ad more and I for one would love to see us prominent again producing pipeline type guys…All Americans, especially the O line, like we used to. They’re good but not great…not ferocious like they need to be. Unless they come out smokin’ and surprise us all?

There’s also talk of Pelini going to more of a 3 man front with the D ends moving between that position and a new hybrid DE/Outside Linebacker position. The 2 ends are already playing that way in high school. Hopefully Darian Claiborn commits as well to REALLY make our LB class special.
But even without Claiborn, we are totally set at LB for the forseeable future. The list of who we beat out to get these guys is unreal! Best recruiting news we’ve had in a while. They needed some good news on the recruiting front. We still need a big “get” though, a top 5 - 10 at his position nationally type guy…Sua Cravens would have fit the bill nicely. Same with Andreas Peat last year. We’re close and getting some top 15 -20 guys anyway, Newby is in that catagory, and those are still really good recruits to get. He was swayed not only by the connections to Beck, but mainly the Big Red Weekend. What a success that was! 3 recruits so far from it.
Keep up the good work guys! Focus + Effort = Results.

I think you would have a hard time not being impressed by this group of LB recruits (especially when combined with those from the past few years). If we add Claiborne, the position group has a chance to be ridiculous.

I love the positivity, PE.
I haven’t read anything about the DE/LB tweener situation becoming permanent. Is there an article you can link us to for more info on that, or is it just a verbal rumor?
I can totally believe it though, given how we have seen more and more of Meredith in a 2-point stance as time goes on. We will have to make sure the middle of the lineup is plugged up well with some serious DT work, and we haven’t seen that type of play since Suh left (with all apologies to Crick).

Go Big Red!

I meant connections to Papuchis, not Beck, who went to the same high school as Newby and Jason Ahnkra.

We’re building some momentum here. High level recruits begets high level recruits. If the Huskers come out on fire this year like they did in 2010, and we DON’T have key injuries at the most inopportune times, and we DO in fact actually win a conference campionship game and/or a BCS bowl where we, again, come out on fire an really light em up and looking great along the way, along with this recruiting momentum, that will help recruiting tremendously. At that point we stand a MUCH btter chance at landing the elite recruits. Our next class after that, should all that happen, would be the best in years. Teams need to get momentum and get on an upward spiral if you will, like the ones currently being enjoyed by LSU and Alabama. It just builds on it’s self. Good things might very well be right around the corner for Husker fans!
Sorry for so many posts guys. I thrive on excitement!

Thanks. It’s nothing permanent. I read that a week or so ago, can’t remember where, but was tittled something like “Is Pelini changing schemes”? It went into detail that we’ve actually experimented with it before and the two guys we have coming on as DE’s, one being Christian LaCature, a 4 star, the other being AJ Natter, another 4 star, run it at their perspective high schools now, so the thought is maybe Pelini is brewing up another kind of Hybrid using a guy in a DE/LB type of position. And we NEED DE’s! The Peso is used mainly against passing offenses, this would be a hybrid created for the running game in the B1G. They’re innovating, or at least trying to, so that’s good. Saben also runs a 3 man front. Seems to work for him.

I wonder if Bo is thinking it’s easier to recruit unreal LBs than Dlinemen? Looking at the outrageous success he’s had with SuperD & David makes me think there “might” be something to that.

Just a blind guess though. Well, except that we’re recruiting excellent lbs everywhere the last two classes.

I don’t know but it’ll be fun seeing what he does with them.

GBR!!

bshirt,
who was SuperD and David? Lavonta David? You would think being a safety himself, and the defensive success he’s had with defensive backs…more so than with linebackers…he would be getting all these 4 star CB’s and Safeties but he’s not. Now he’s going after linebackers…suppose he’s got something up his sleeve? I think he does and I think it’s a hybrid thing he’s creating. I think he’s thought up something and they’re testing it and will further be testing it this year in games.
But he has brought in D line guys…2, 4 stars this class in fact (LaCauture and Natter). We need the big nasties up front no matter.

PE;

SuperD was Demorrio Williams, an honorable mention AA, all BigXII olb on Bo’s 2003 blackshirts. Oh boy, with the “one” exception of T. Farley he’s the best OLB we’ve ever had imo. Although D. Lavonte & J. Williams were very close and damn good too. Just an opinion my friend. Nothing more.

I too think Bo has something up his sleeve but I really don’t know what it is. As you say, he’‘s loading up on the big uglies and vicious LBs everywhere. A 3 - 4? Loading up with the hope of getting a couple of D. Lavonte, J. Williams, SuperD, etc mobile qb destroyers?

Hell, I don’t know but whatever it is I bet we’ll like it.

GBR!!

Claiborne ended up going with A&M , I kind of figured that would happen because of the amount of talent we have coming in , but you never say no to a talented kid with character like him…. This Is a damn good Linebacking group and like I said earlier very well could be the best LB group in the country.. Cant wait to see them all on the field in the future . ... GO BIG RED!!