2021 Class

[drbluejay]

Are ALL OWH Jays articles pay articles? Seems every time I follow a link...it's a subscriber article. Sheesh.

Some are some arent, but you wont need to worry about it for long. The OWH will be out of business within 10 years...

I have read the OWH for over 50 years, since I was a paperboy. I still take the daily paper but the price is ridiculous at $9.50 a week or about $500 a year. Digital OWH I believe is $9.95 a month or free if you take the daily paper. I am so mad the OWH doesn't give box scores for MLB anymore but when the day comes, I will miss getting a daily newspaper.
The OWH in the mid 60's was only 50 cents a week and it was delivered to your front door and you actually knew your paperboy.

[jays911]

I take the Sunday edition only. Free digital comes along. So sad what the OWH has become.

[Jaybird]

The WH has reduced its page content, width, even print quality. Solid writers are headed out the door in droves (two more just this week). They deep-six daily box scores, then they lie that it's because of space limitations (kind of weird, after decades of running them), when it's really just another effort to cheap out. The paper has whored itself out to its sports dept, and the sports staff happily shills for the sports machine down the road. If it's not about UNL and doesn't involve a ball, Omaha's newspaper isn't much interested.

Shatel, especially, has sold out to UNL, with never a discouraging word appearing anymore in what he laughably calls an opinion column. Today, he led with "kudos to Scott Frost". Sunday brought us a front-page sports story on--brace yourselves--Fred Hoiberg (it's about damn time), with a full color action pic, starting at the very top and extending halfway below the fold, of St. Fred of Ames shooting a free throw. (I'm hoping next Sunday we get another life-sized photo of the ball going through the basket). Yesterday, they featured a hard-hitting expose on Kent Pavelka's gardening habits. I'm not kidding. He really likes perennials, everybody! (I'm not kidding about that either). Has to be only a matter of time until we get a ten-part series on a Matt Davison's bass fishing trip.

There've been four rate increases since the fall of '16 (maybe more, I finally cut the cord on my full subscription in the spring). Back then, the full load--all seven days, delivered, and digital--was around $18/month. I told them to go to hell a few months ago after they jumped my rate to almost 45 bucks per. These cost-cutters and head-hunters Berkshire brought in are doing an absolutely fine job of turning the WH into the way over-priced Omaha edition of the Daily Nebraskan. It's a sad demise for what was once at least an honorably mediocre daily newspaper.

Now, back to recruiting!

[JacobPadilla]

Rivals updated their top 150 for 2021. Several Jays targets (might have missed some):

Moussa Diabate (12)
Kendall Brown (16)
Zion Harmon (20)
Hunter Sallis (56)
Adama Sanogo (76)
Mason Miller (84)

Shocked to not see Mors in the top 100.

Mors is a kid from South Dakota who doesn't play for a shoe circuit team. He's also a kid who developed early more so than one who is oozing with potential and upside. Pretty clear he's held in higher regard around here than he is among the national recruiting analysts.

[gtmoBlue]

We will probably stop recruiting the 3 in the top 20 anyways.

[drbluejay]

We will probably stop recruiting the 3 in the top 20 anyways.

There can be only one school that signs anyone from the top 20 so yes, you can say the same thing about Kentucky, Duke, Mich St, North Carolina, or Kansas as at least 80% and possibly 100% of those 5 schools will stop recruiting a top 20 recruit. I love the fact CU goes after some top recruits.

[bluejayfan00]

Rivals' Corey Evans did a Q and A with fans on Twitter and a question was asked about Sallis: "What do you give the chances of Hunter Sallis staying in-State? Creighton or Nebraska more likely?"

Evans response: I will round it out to 60-percent. Hunter Sallis, the top 2021 Nebraska prospect, already holds offers from Creighton and Nebraska. He told Rivals.com last week that he speaks often with Fred Hoiberg, but that he is also on Creighton’s campus ever so often for games during the college season or to play pick-up with their team. The comfort factor and relationships that are forged with Sallis seem to be fairly important whenever it comes to selecting a college, which is why each has a good chance with Nebraska the likeliest at the time being.

However, Sallis is wide open with his recruitment. Kansas State has recruited him pretty heavily and so has Iowa State, a program that might be my choice for who he would commit to today if he felt the need to end his recruitment. He is intrigued by some of the west coast schools, including Oregon, but a college decision remains some time away."

[vivid_dude]

Decent article in today's OWH about Creighton's focus on local talent for the 2021 recruiting class.

Well, it was a decent article until you got to the very unfortunate typo of the "Bluejgays."

For the sake of fairness, the next Nebraska basketball article must mention the Hfuskers.

[LJay]

Decent article in today's OWH about Creighton's focus on local talent for the 2021 recruiting class.

Well, it was a decent article until you got to the very unfortunate typo of the "Bluejgays."

For the sake of fairness, the next Nebraska basketball article must mention the Hfuskers.

Don’t read the fish wrap paper or online. Was in a doc office today and they had it there. Started reading that article and Reached the Bluejgays typo early in the article. Put down the paper and didn’t read anymore. Have no idea who they think our targets are in 2021. The g is nowhere near the j or a on a keyboard.

They can suck it.

[Chicagojayfan]

Decent article in today's OWH about Creighton's focus on local talent for the 2021 recruiting class.

Well, it was a decent article until you got to the very unfortunate typo of the "Bluejgays."

For the sake of fairness, the next Nebraska basketball article must mention the Hfuskers.

Nebraska's producing as much talent in BB as I can remember in my lifetime these days. Pretty impressive really.