2009 Recruits

[Mr. Burgundy]

My "guess" is that the speed from Houston/Texas/South will be announced on signing day. Engel from MN is still out there as well at WR. The QB spot is unknown at this point. i do know one thing....This AJ kid is a good kid. I hope whatever happens, people aren't judging him for his attempts to play 1A football in his home state. If he choses Grand Valley, it is distance...we did our best. Coached did a great job with him....and it wasn't like we were not recruiting another qb during the time we spent with AJ. (We meaning the Bison obviously).

[lakesbison]

ran into a "TEXAS" player from NDSU the other night.

sounds like our man samuels has been in texas and hopefully the secondary FBS schools (baylor, rice..etc) leave our recruits alone and get their butts up to NDSU!!

I expect 2-3 kids from there!!!!

[jugular]

I like recruits from Texas!

ran into a "TEXAS" player from NDSU the other night.

sounds like our man samuels has been in texas and hopefully the secondary FBS schools (baylor, rice..etc) leave our recruits alone and get their butts up to NDSU!!

I expect 2-3 kids from there!!!!

[OnTheFifty]

Great News....Cooper Wahlo Jr. was in town this weekend for a visit. He also has an offer from SDSU.

He had a great visit....expect a commitment this week!

I remember seeing a cool clip of him blocking a punt and returning it to the house all in one motion without the ball hitting the ground.

[Mr. Burgundy]

well color me happy....that sounds awesome.

[BisonNolesFan77]

Great News....Cooper Wahlo Jr. was in town this weekend for a visit. He also has an offer from SDSU.

He had a great visit....expect a commitment this week!

I remember seeing a cool clip of him blocking a punt and returning it to the house all in one motion without the ball hitting the ground.

Hopefully we do get a commitment from him this week! Looks like a solid, quick reciever!

[bisongold]

That cuts both ways. Illinois State got NDSUs #1 WR recruit, Ben Erickson and there are likely others. Probably a wash.

I stated on here after the season was over that I felt we would have a more difficult time recruiting receivers with the offense we were running. The spread is just more appealing to the top WR recruits. Receivers do not invision themselves blocking 90% of the time when they go to college. Interesting that our #1 receiver (from WI the same as Heckendorf) chose somewhere else) Not a good sign in my opinion. Hopefully with a change in OC this year, this will change and the passing game will become more important. There will always be receivers to get, but don't we want the top??
Not a good sign in my opinion.


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[CaBisonFan]

I stated on here after the season was over that I felt we would have a more difficult time recruiting receivers with the offense we were running. The spread is just more appealing to the top WR recruits. Receivers do not invision themselves blocking 90% of the time when they go to college. Interesting that our #1 receiver (from WI the same as Heckendorf) chose somewhere else) Not a good sign in my opinion. Hopefully with a change in OC this year, this will change and the passing game will become more important. There will always be receivers to get, but don't we want the top??
Not a good sign in my opinion.


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Some good observations, in my opinion. The spread is spreading across the country...and is even having an effect on the NFL. I like the spread with a physical QB that is a running threat...but just a few times a game.

[CaBisonFan]

Found these pages about Garrett Bruhn from Beactrice, NE...one of our verbals. Looks like a good one. No video to look at, but still interesting. Looks like he goes to class.

http://kansasstate.rivals.com/viewpr...p?pr_key=79512

http://www.nsaahome.org/textfile/fbl/BSTATS.htm

[rutlandbison]

Some good observations, in my opinion. The spread is spreading across the country...and is even having an effect on the NFL. I like the spread with a physical QB that is a running threat...but just a few times a game.

If your going to run a spread where the QB runs, he's got to do it more than a few times to be effective. Aspread is pass alot or you use it to open up the field and create better running lanes for the option and use the speed to slash the D. Take West Virginia for and example. Bill Stewart stated that he wanted Pat White to show off his arm more and early in the season that made one less thing the defense had to worry about. They finished the season strong because he let White start running. Now i know there are spreads where they pass alot, and that is effective too, Mike Leach and Texas Tech, he is a mad scientist. They use the running backs to take the LB's out of the middle of the field so they can run the crossing routes with guys like Crabtree. But when you have that at WR, it's not hard to see why they are that good. For me though, I would say you gotta run with the QB so the defense has to worry about another thing, the RB, QB, even the TE (florida with TE Hernadez) on the option and even the WR in motion. But then again CA, you have a good point, if you run the QB every now and then you could suprise the defense with a few draws. What I think is that the option can set up the run by spreading out the D.