It’s been clear since Scott Frost was hired on Dec. 2 as Nebraska’s head football coach that the program was likely to recruit Florida more heavily than it has in recent years.
Then, the first verbal commitment of Frost’s tenure here was, you guessed it, a Florida native in three-star safety C.J. Smith from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach.
Nebraska hadn't added more than four Florida players in any of the past 10 recruiting cycles, according to 247Sports.com data. The high water mark came in 2014 when Bo Pelini landed Zack Darlington, Chris Jones and Sedrick King out of the high school ranks while also securing a commitment from junior college wide receiver Robert Lockhart, though Lockhart never made it to NU.