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Below is one question and its answers which should be concerning to Husker fans!

8. What's the most overrated factor that some recruits consider when they're picking a college?
Winning tradition: 19 votes
Jerseys/uniforms/school colors: 9
Facilities: 7
The buzz: Surprised? So were we.

These results don't mean that winning is unimportant to the players who participated in this poll. They just have so much confidence in their own abilities that they believe they can win anywhere, not just at a school that has plenty of championship experience.

"There's only one school that can win a championship," one player said. "I don't look at it as what team's won championships. Any year, any team can win a championship."

History apparently doesn't matter all that much to many of these prospects.

"You can go off the past, but you're not the past," one player said. "You're the future."

These guys also have short memories.

When one player talked about people "living in the past" about particular schools, he didn't refer to Notre Dame, Florida State or any other renowned programs that haven't contended for a national title in more than a decade. He referred to teams that had won titles much more recently.

"People might live in the past about a school like USC because they think about the [2004] season, or LSU and Florida from [2007] or [2008],'' he said.

A couple of players specifically mentioned Oregon when they talked about prospects who might say they pick a school based primarily on its uniforms. This survey also might raise some questions about whether all those recent multi-million-dollar facility upgrades really have that much of an impact on a team's recruiting.

Plenty of other topics also came up in this category. Women, playing time and a school's name recognition received four votes each.

"Everyone says, 'The girls are here, the girls are there,' '' one player said. "You're going to find girls anywhere. That's not something you should base your college education on."

Credit one prospect for a brutally honest response that raised the question many readers also might be asking. If a school's academic strength really means so much to players, why don't the BCS rankings bear more resemblance to the U.S. News rankings?

That prospect wasn't dismissing the importance of academics. He just thought some prospects were disingenuous when they mentioned academics as their main reason for picking a school.

"When people say academics [is their main consideration], if you really cared about academics that much, you'd go to Vanderbilt or Harvard or something," he said.
 
The most important 'things' are girls and the future? Gosh, sounds like a bunch of 18 year-olds.

Am surprised that facilities were mentioned as being sort-of unimportant.
 
yeah I would say girls are important...I dont think David Oku transferred to a Lincoln HS for its woodshop program
 
Simply put: They want to see a program that can win, has some bells and whistles, and one they can see themselves being an integral part of.

The history of the program doesn't matter so much to them as it may for their parents. A kid in high school has a memory of about 4 - 5years or so. Anything longer is ancient history.
 



Since many recruits seem to be concerned with where the girls are, maybe Nebraska should offer 1000 hot chick scholarships (to add to the abundant numbers of hot checks who already attend - can never have too many). Kind of like Ladies Night.;)

We could even have a whole new recruiting board for them.
 
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