It should be clear by now how much Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule values camps. He’s already extended dozens of offers to kids he put eyes on last June, with several ending up in this recruiting class and others being targets in future classes. In fact, the majority of the current in-state offers are to kids that camped last summer.
Rhule wants to have a pulse on the talent that’s upcoming in-state. He wants kids coming as middle schoolers and returning every year so he can build relationships and track their development. He doesn’t want to miss on someone in his backyard.
A truncated offseason after he was hired was directly responsible for his losing Omaha Westside’s Teddy Rezac to Notre Dame after the Irish beat Nebraska to the punch on an evaluation. Rest assured that won’t happen again. If there’s someone inside the borders who is a Power Four prospect, Rhule will have him on his radar early from here on out.
Being late almost cost him another of the top players in the state, but Rhule and his staff were able to overcome being late to the party with Papillion-La Vista tight end Eric Ingwerson .