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Nothing too interesting on the offensive side of the ball, outside of Boltmann being listed as a starter. With no Belquist or Canady on the 2-Deep, hopefully that means Brock is a full go going into Fall camp. On the defensive side, Lennon and Kelley are new names to the 2-Deep. Nothing against him, but I really hope once the Week 1 depth chart comes out that Lickfeldt is not listed as the backup. Love Fort being moved to Safety.

Greibel, Moore would have been scholarship guys. Doing the easy math, you would have thought the coaching staff needing to find 8 scholarships out of players that could have come back, since they kept 8 guys that got an additional year w/ Covid. I love the breakdown by class, very even. I'm really impressed with their roster management.

ILB are really beefing up Larson: 245 (+10) Krzanowski: 235 (0) White: 235 (+10) Pedigo: 230 (+10) Kimball: 225 (+15) Kelley: 230 (-5) McNeal: 235 (--)

Isaac Moore (D-Line) also missing. Very interested as well about Lucas Fisher. Hope it was a situation that with Canady really heading in the right direction, they didn't feel the need to bring in a one year guy. Roster break down. 5th: 8 Seniors: 11 Juniors: 19 Sophomores: 22 RS-Freshman: 20 Freshman: 24

Look at his elite league stats from this past year. Granted his team looked terrible, but his stat line was 14 points in 17 games.

Opponents averaged 21 points per game last Spring. The D-Line weights got my fired up, with basically everyone returning, can the defense be a legitimate strength? Get down to that 15 to 17 point average.

D-Line Weights (Difference) from Spring Roster: Lennon: +15 Orlando: +15 Morrison: +15 Seguin: +10 Pierre: +10 Johnson: +10 Thorsness: +5 Beach: +5 Keech: +5 Lickfeldt: 0 That's really impressive overall. I agree, I think the D-Line is really close to getting to that ideal weight.

For reference, a screen shot of the Defensive Line.

Not only would I also add ISU, I think the first game will tell you the story of the season.

Great day by Berry and the Coaching staff! All three recruits (1 last year, 2 for this upcoming year) were tenders for their respective USHL teams. High end.

We’re definitely seeing it. Big question is will UND? I’m going to guess we’ll see two today. Need to get some momentum going on the recruiting front.

Absolutely incredible. Still a week to go before Fall camp. Talk about an X factor on defense. Still don’t know what to completely expect, but I never would have thought he would be at this point before Fall camp.

There we go! Great commit! From what I can tell 3 other FCS offers, SDSU, WIU, SEMO.

I'm going negative in an attempt to eat crow, a little reverse jinx situation. There have been two points during this recruiting cycle where I felt real momentum. (1) Teiken commit (2) Saturday night of Camp #3. Both times nothing happened following that. The last two commits have been incredibly underwhelming. It's just really hard for me to get excited over a late one offer guy. These guys have been camping with no other offers. With only 9 commits so far, 2 is an ok chunk of that. I feel like the wind was completely taken out of the sails. Here's hoping a game changer comes soon.

Being realistic, you'd think they would take a step back. The key to the offense is how much. Two things that will help, 1) Kilty getting two playoff games as a starter. Those reps going into the shortened offseason will be incredibly valuable. 2) PSU transfer. A veteran with experience who will be in the mix. Those two things instantly make the replacing 3 starters from the regular season not as daunting.

It's hard to deny that NDSU isn't ready to make the jump. If your argument is fan support / waiting lists, then you really have nothing. Let's all agree they have the talent / fan support to make the jump, that's undeniable. It all comes down to getting the invite. I'm hope I'm right here and others have said it, but it ultimately comes down to geography. You start to go down the list of MW schools and just ask your self, why would they want NDSU? Outside of Football dominance, you'd need to start over on your list @ndsutibig12 as the rest nobody cares about, truly. It's a really weird situation, they are clearly ready in almost every aspect they can control, but geography is the big one. I would say the stadium situation is an issue as well, to a lesser degree, enrollment. So it's not necessarily a one issue situation, but there's no denying they are light years ahead of UND in the conversation.

Of course they would be private. Kudos, you're definitely part of a very small, connected circle. I would keep the big information pretty close to the vest, no leaks over the past 6 months until you.

Context is important, my original post was based off of Izzo’s tweet. We all know Larsen wouldn’t be foreclosing if he was in talks, but based on the quote, I was surprised by the clip.

How so? Couldn't agree more about UND having to get its act together. I'm very jealous that NDSU has the Fargo media machine who is so engaged with this. Consistently a topic of discussion, I've never heard it once from the Herald staff.

On Dom Izzo's show today while speaking to NDSU AD Matt Larson. "NDSU is well positioned if a call came from an FBS Conference" Thoughts? I realize it's all fluid, but I've always thought the worse possible scenario for UND would be NDSU jumping to FBS and UND staying FCS. That would be devastating.

100%. They need to be aggressive if others are.

We can turn the page, but the following was Retweeted by Noriega. If indeed it was PWO to PWO he didn't try to clear up any potential confusion.

Has nobody heard anything differently on Hegerle? @siouxfan512 is definitely correct (this is just me speculating as well), but the only logical reason he hasn't committed yet is he's waiting for potential P5 offers. As his offers stand today, this is fourth hand too, so who knows, but I think UND has a better shot than anybody here is giving them. I think they are very much in the mix.