Nebraska Football: 3 key takeaways from 2019 recruiting class

Recruits are responding to coach Frost and the Huskers

When kids pick a college to play for, they are choosing the school but more than anything, they are choosing to follow a coach. The coach sells them on his vision for the program and for their individual futures and right now, recruits are buying what Frost is selling.

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Forget that Nebraska football was 4-8 last season. Frost still went out and landed a top-25 class, a class he is still looking to add to.

There were a couple of really impressive things about it. On signing day, he beat out Alabama and Clemson for a couple of players. Robinson, the defensive end from Arizona, was also wanted by USC, Stanford and the Crimson Tide, but came to Nebraska.

Sure the kid probably realized he might play sooner at Nebraska, but at least the Huskers were there to scoop him up instead of a Pac-12 team, seeing as there are two Pac-12 teams in his home state.

Jimmy Fritzsche, a three-star offensive lineman from South Carolina, who got an offer late from Clemson, also chose the Huskers, which was nice to see but not expected. It’s hard to beat in-state teams, especially when they are routinely contending for national titles.

Frost also got a bunch of kids from Nebraska, as well as kids from Kentucky, Minnesota, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Colorado, Alabama, Iowa, Georgia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Washington and Tennessee.

I would say that is raising the Huskers national profile, but when you run a system like Frost and are a proven winner like Frost, kids want to play for you and that’s one reason why the future for Nebraska football is very bright.