You're not entirely wrong, as a life long Omaha Native, unfortunately we do tend to have more iowa, iowa st., ND, Mich, MInn, etc. grads because we have more larger national employers and people moving in. There continues to be a subconscious rivalry between Lincoln and Omaha that goes back to when several citizens (not from Omaha), basically took all the territorial papers, etc. and moved it from Omaha to Lincoln right before Nebr. became a state. The Omaha area high schools have been dominant when it comes to football and basketball over Lincoln and the other western Class "A" schools. Elkhorn, Gretna and Skutt have been dominant in "B". Who is recruiting Omaha for Nebraska? Barrett Ruud. LSE has produced some very good players over the years, no doubt and we seem to have a great in with them. Barrett needs to work harder in Omaha because he's a Lincoln guy. I know some of you are going to throw stones at this, but the Ruud family is not well known by the existing players in Omaha and as we've discussed more than we want, Nebraska hasn't been good for quite some time. I'm hoping that will change. If it doesn't we'll lose our Lincoln strong hold as well.
As for the 2022 class, the 2 Bell west kids are very good, but they are also at the position we need to shore up the least. The Central kid and Burke kids are real needs and I've already accepted the fact that we will most likely go 0-4. It will be bad optics, but it is what it is right now. Unless we turn it around on the field, 2022 may be a very thin year for Nebraska recruiting wise and not being able to have visits hurts us with out of Nebraska kids, so it's kind of like a double whammy. I still think Nebraska can be good again and by that I mean winning the west 33% of the time and winning 8-10 games a year. I don't think we'll ever see another National Championship, but I hope I'm wrong. We are at a huge disadvantage recruiting wise, so we need to get better locally.
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