It's another sign that we're competing with UNI for the Twin Cities recruits...which explains a part of their defensiveness about our presence in the MVFC.
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It's another sign that we're competing with UNI for the Twin Cities recruits...which explains a part of their defensiveness about our presence in the MVFC.
It's been said before, but it bears repeating that more penetration is needed in the Chicagoland area. This is a metro area that is about 4 times larger than the TC that includes some great football on the Indiana side of Lake Michigan. There high school programs produce big and hard nosed athletes that fit the mold of Bison philosophy. Clearly the biggest hurdle is distance from home making it a little harder to pull kids from here but in reality it's not that much further. The recent basketball and football program notoriety has helped tremendously and should be capitilized on. 3 or 4 athletes per year is a good start but 7 or 8 would satifsy me. A couple of excellent JUCO programs around here too.
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Originally Posted by IzzyFlexion
Some of our recent "stars" have been from ILL...
Preach on, brother!:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by EndZoneQB
My kid has varsity basketball tryouts at Steve Walker University next week.:)
I agree, I think that has always been the reason for UNI fans' instant loathing of NDSU fans.(Lakes might have something to do with it also) IMO, we offer everything they do, but with a better overall package. Better city in which to live, better facilities, better tradition, flagship school, football is king here, although that seems to be slowly changing with the success the basketball team is enjoying. Not now, because we are still recovering from the transition to DI, but in 5-10 years, NDSU and UNI will be the top choices for most second tier recruits in the Midwest. I see us winning a lot of those recruiting battles very soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaBisonFan
One third of the verbals to date are OL, I think that is a very good thing and bucks the trend in recent years where Bohl has only gotten two :p :p
I think you are absolutely correct :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by CaBisonFan
hit the nail on the head!! They deep down know we compete with them in every aspect and they will not have the gimmies from Minny anymore, and SDSU will also be in there I would thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by CaBisonFan
minnesota-scores website.
Re: NDSU D1 Recruits
by cobrasnake » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:35 pm
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heres two names for ya just found out by our AD this morning actually.
Blayne Erie-QB-6'5'' 185
Brandon Hadler-WR/KR-5'10" 160
both these kids coming out of Goodhue Minnesota. there team actually made it to there class 1 section finals game and is expected to beat blooming and go to state this year.
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Goodhue loses on heartbreaker by 1 to miss state:
The tandem of Erie and Hadler had an even better night. They connected for eight passes covering 166 yards. The biggest one of the night came at 5:45 of the second quarter when Hadler scored on a 66-yard pass play to score the first points of the game.
It was the third straight game in which Hadler totaled more than 100 receiving yards
I know he did two camps at NDSU, one at WI, one at UMD and a number of combines. He was the o-line MVP at the Minneapolis NUC event topping Tom Farniok. According to WSN, he was invited to the U100 National Top Prospects camp at University of OK after going to the regional event in Indianapolis. Only the top 15 kids in the country at each position got an invite. WSN stated that he declined the invite to come to NDSU for the top prospect camp here in July. Sounds like a kid that really wants to be here.Quote:
Originally Posted by HHS
Seems like all that college coaching and combines did him good!