Early Signing Day 2019

[WeAreThePride]

So who’s the big get from this class?

[HerdistheWord]

I'll be honest on a fan board. Other than Tk Marshall and a couple lineman...I'm not impressed at all with this class so far. They seem to be getting smaller and lighter, and honestly, I don't like it.

I think Stoeffel and Shaka are pretty darn inpressive. I also wpuld not underestimate Benson. I’m not sure why the expectation is to recruit protptype size guys. We have basically never done that.

[HerdBot]

I think Stoeffel and Shaka are pretty darn inpressive. I also wpuld not underestimate Benson. I’m not sure why the expectation is to recruit protptype size guys. We have basically never done that.

In recent years we have but we develop skinny guys into Thor.

But you are correct we have a history of moving fast undersized safeties to linebackers or tall fast high school DEs into DTs

[OatmealWicket92]

So who’s the big get from this class?

I would say Stoeffel, TK Marshall, and personally I really like Raja Nelson. Signing day gets me excited for the future every year, what kid is gonna be the next freshman phenom? the next Joe Haeg? all those thoughts are fun to entertain.

[El_Chapo]

Coach Entz says NDSU only offers 50 or so kids.... other schools do 150-200 , we want a NDSU offer to mean something and profile the right kids

[Tony Almeida]

Well, until this year when there was a team composed entirely of Klieman recruits I had the same feeling. The class that graduated last year was LARGELY composed of young men recruited by the previous coaching staff and saved by Klieman, but I don’t consider that his class.

The current team is composed of his recruits and I think they are pretty good. Until this year we really had no concrete idea how good Klieman and his staff were in recruiting, we only had a sprinkling of a concept. Quite frankly, your opinion of this class and mine doesn’t mean shit for about three years. So relax, nobody’s opinion of this class means shit.

Never said my opinion means shit...it's an opinion just as you stated. It's a fan board. I think some on here forget that sometimes. And in three years this may turn out to be the best class of all time, who knows, but I can make an obvious observation and tell you what I think...or can I?

We lack the next 6-4 or 6-5 Defensive end. Although Seth Anderson now says 6-5, which means he's probably 6-4 which is prototyical.

But outside of Zabel, Miller, and Anderson, it isn't loaded in size. Losing the 6-4 DE to K State makes it even less impressive.

This class is smaller when you think of the high school/recruiting sizes...and yes losing Anudike made this class less appealing.

If they were prototypical size they probably wouldn't be coming to NDSU. A lot of these DL, OL, TE, and LB commits are going to be expected to put on 30-60 lbs of good weight in order to become contributors. I don't think that's any different from past classes.

We've had prototypical sizes in the past and still do, they just come in a little lighter and then Kramer works his magic, but this class is coming in even lighter than that. And that is all I'm saying here. Nothing more. Again, take into account recruiting sizes vs actual size...I think there is a case to be made this class is a bit smaller than previous ones...in fact, the last 2 classes have been a bit smaller.

[Kujava23]

Coach Entz says NDSU only offers 50 or so kids.... other schools do 150-200 , we want a NDSU offer to mean something and profile the right kids

AMEN to that comment!! If someone flips late...have backup guys ready to go

[RonMexico]

Never said my opinion means shit...it's an opinion just as you stated. It's a fan board. I think some on here forget that sometimes. And in three years this may turn out to be the best class of all time, who knows, but I can make an obvious observation and tell you what I think...or can I?

No. You can never say anything negative about the players, coaches or the program. If you do, according to some here, you aren't a real fan. It's all sunshine and roses in Bisonville.

[HerdBot]

So who’s the big get from this class?

Mason Miller will be stud after Kramer helps turn him into Thor. Zabel has the good frame. Shaka will be undersized but quick as a cat. Anderson will be a great DT or DE. After that it's the skilled guys, who I have a tougher time judging because they can be smaller and still be studs. I look to the O and D lines first

[Kujava23]

#1 Great character guys---we recruit the "RIGHT" type of athletes

#2 TEAM GUYS---noone is more important than another guy

#3 DEVELOPMENT--we develop players all the time---it's very difficult to judge how much a recruit can improve; that's what makes "RANKINGS" in recruiting classes not important---

GO BISON

*** All players have potential----its about how much each guy wants to reach their potential