Lewis Central has produced 1 or 2 FBS players a year every year for the last 10 years. In that time Nebraska has signed 1, Fidone.It's baffling. I guess he's either not good enough or big enough to play in Nebraska's 3-4, although Wisconsin disagrees. The Badgers have offered 13 NGs compared to 27 for Nebraska, and 16 DL total compared to 60 Husker offers. Hunter Deyo isn't an overlap offer for both schools? A kid who plays an hour from campus and is regarded as a four-star prospect by 247Sports, Rivals and ESPN, and has offers from 3-4 schools like Wisconsin and Oregon and no offer?
Makes zero sense to me. The staff could have been tag teaming and multitasking by touching bases with him while they full-court pressed Fidone the past 18+ months.
I disagreed with them when they ignored Logan Jones in 2020, and Deyo's exclusion is a mistake as well IMPO.
Nebraska heavily recruited Max Duggan under Riley and then Frost tried to build a relationship but it was too late.
Nebraska ignored Logan Jones until a month after he committed to Iowa and it was too late. Jones grew up a Husker fan and wanted to be a Husker. He waited for his offer, went to Junior Day and felt like a seat filler at an awards show while the staff fawned over kids who came from the coasts. He committed to Iowa and within in a month got an offer from Tuioti and Chinns along with hard sell but shut he shut it down because he was already committed.
Fidone dreamed of being a Husker his whole life. If Covid wouldn’t have happened it might have been more difficult to get his commitment but he most likely would have ended up in Lincoln. Regardless of his fandom, Frost and his staff recruited Fidone hard and went all out to get him.
Damon Deyo, gets calls and texts but no offer yet. 3 Big Ten schools have offered, schools who play pretty good defense, but for some reason he’s not big enough for Nebraska.
Last year Lewis Central hired a guy named Donnie Woods to be the o-line coach. Donnie was a scholarship player at Maryland and sniffed around the NFL before going into to coaching. He spent 8 years at Iowa Western and in that 8 years built a good relationship with a guy named Ryan Held. After 1 year of Woods being at Lewis Central Nebraska has yet to capitalize on the relationship between Held and Woods and build a relationship with the entire Lewis Central staff