ya think??
I always wanted to know why Richman couldn't just form a pipeline from NDSCS to NDSU (Andre Smith was 1 obviously)
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
NDSU has never been about bringing in JUCO transfers to build a team, they like to get their talent from high school build them up with our amazing strength & conditioning program and allow them to play in the same system for all 4 or 5 years they are here. I agree with this philosophy because unless they are supremely talented our staff can the freshman they bring in up to the playing level in our system by time they are juniors as they could get any JUCO to in one offseason. For every Andre Smith there's a Dejuan Flowers, it's the nature of the beast.
Yeah, I see your point. The only reason I brought that up is it has been referenced to me a couple of times, in fact I think one of the social media MN preps guys actually posted it on here once, can't remember who but it was a while ago. I said the same thing about our football success and players from the MPLS/St.P metro and he came back with the basketball players have a different mind set or something along those lines. Again, I believe the key is getting them on campus to see for themselves what Fargo and NDSU are really like. I'm not too worried about it though, not concerned about their zip code, more concerned if they can play.
As far as the best player from the metro, pretty hard to top Lance Berwald(sp).
What do you disagree with from that statement? Part of it was clarifying (possibly incorrectly) another poster's statement. The fact that Wisconsin and Illinois produce more collegiate athletes is fact based on numbers, not opinion. The "leftovers" idea is fact too. The Wisconsin basketball program is light years ahead of what's going on in Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota has 2 Minnesotans on the basketball team. Now I know that they missed on Tyus and Reid Travis but those national top 20 kids aren't ever going to be Gophers. The basketball in Chicago is roughly eleventy billion times better than the basketball in Minneapolis. This coaching staff needs to continue to sign the best players for the program. Yes, it sucks that JT Gibson signed elsewhere. Yes, it sucks that Dan Jech signed elsewhere. Those are failures by the coaching staff to get the kids they offer signed. Guess what? You don't get everyone that you offer.
A "man we're missing out on a lot of kids that we offer" thread would be still tedious but would be more worthwhile than this. This no Minnesotans thing is about bias. It's about bias and it's the same guy who got mad when we signed Brock Jensen because he was a "drunken sconi".
Now this is the law of the prairie
As old and as true as the sky
And the Bison that keep it will prosper
And the Bison that break it will die
As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk
This law is the final word:
For the strength of the Herd is the Bison
And the strength of the Bison is the Herd.
How dumb does this thread look now? LA, of Illinois, is going to be Summit POY. AJ Jacobson of Fargo Freaking North Dakota and Paul Miller pride of Waukesha look poised to take this program forward. The team is in first place in the league with a bunch of KIDS and is laying waste to what happened in 2009 after the last tournament run and the failures of that "Minnesota All-Star Team".
The coaching staff knows where to find BISON. It doesn't matter where they are from and we shouldn't care.
Now this is the law of the prairie
As old and as true as the sky
And the Bison that keep it will prosper
And the Bison that break it will die
As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk
This law is the final word:
For the strength of the Herd is the Bison
And the strength of the Bison is the Herd.
MN people don't like WI, ND people don't dislike either state... As long as the basketball player knows what kind of weather they are signing up for... who cares where they are from? Maybe we should build an outdoor basketball court and recruit a bunch of Alaskans. Talk about home court advantage.
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