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Nebraska (and its ‘different vibe’) beats out Michigan State to land verbal commitment from Ru’Quan Buckley | Recruiting



Nothing else about the year was normal, but this worked out pretty nicely for Buckley, who hit it off with defensive line coach Tony Tuioti, Frost and the rest of the Husker staff at the beginning of the year and has been in consistent communication since.

“I feel like every coaching staff feels like a family and has that energy, but Nebraska, the coaching staff, they’ve got the family energy and all that,” Buckley said. “But I felt a different vibe from the environment surrounding it, compared to the environment I’m in now.”

In fact, Nebraska was the first school to offer the 6-foot-6, 280-pounder as a defensive lineman. He thinks he could play either way at the next level, but is excited to get to work with Tuioti on the defensive side of the ball.

“In my heart, throughout the years, I wanted to play defensive line, so I pushed myself to get bigger and faster,” Buckley said. “They saw that I’m a good O-lineman, but Coach ‘T,’ he saw that I could be a good defensive lineman and that he could coach me up to be the best.


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“Both sides can be aggressive, but on the defensive side, you get to tackle. With me, tackling and trying to get the quarterback or wherever the ball is, my mentality is I want to kill something. I want to bring the energy and compete and be the best every day.”

The rangy Buckley said he played his freshman year of football at about 200 pounds flat but grew steadily through high school. Perhaps his biggest jump, however, came between his junior and senior seasons. His tape shows a much bigger-looking player on the field. That tape, of course, nearly never came to be, considering Michigan almost didn’t have a fall football season.



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