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I am also curious - sounds like there may be a good reason other schools passed on him!

It is interesting to note that Indiana State and UND each made offers to QB recruits Ryan Bartels and Robert Tonyan. Tonyan verballed to them and we got Bartels!

I don't disagree with you at all.

I have confidence in our coaching staff that they are not going to "waste" any scholarship $ if it isn't warranted!

Some young players, whose lives have revolved around BB for the last few years, can not handle the fact that they are not playing (even though they are practicing). They get themselves in trouble - inside or o/s the university. Other players use the redshirt year not only to continue to develop their game, their strength, etc. but they also use the year to adapt use to college life, going to classes (making the necessary grades in some cases), freedom from parents, being away from their GF, etc. When a coach has a concern about the first possibility, they are much more apt to agree with an athlete's request not to redshirt. There have been numerous examples of this over the last 20 years on the men's side. In some cases, it was absolutely the right decision. In other cases, it was not. I will also comment that I think the majority athletes know before they arrive on campus whether they will redshirt or not. That discussion is part of the recruiting process. Some kids are very agreeable to redshirting, others will rule you out if they think they will be redshirted their first year. My comment above was not intended to relate to Gentry and Antwi. I have no insight into their situations.

Logan Cunningham, WR from IN who we had offered, has verbaled to UNI.

You are correct that SU has offered Farnlof. UNI had offered Pierce at one point but it must have been withdrawn. I agree that it would be a major "get" if we landed either Michaelson or Pierce - not likely to happen!

See above - as you probably know, the recruits have offers from schools that are underlined. It is my understanding that each of these kids is high on our priority list. I guess that would be confirmed by the number of offers they have.

Jake Rademacher, LB who we had offered, will walk on at Wisconsin.

Wiki has been updated with a variety of info - nothing very newsworthy (kids receiving new offers, etc.). I have also started a 2013 FB Recruiting list in Wiki - three kids on it so far.

Lechler has been added to the "prospect" list as our offering him has not been confirmed. He transferred to Beach from Baker, MT this last year. Although Baker is right next to the ND line (if I remember my geography correctly), that could mean a UM or MSU offer would be attractive to him.

I agree - welcome to the board. We are very excited to be in the Big Sky!

In second place, five votes beyond Ambrose!

I agree - he is very excited about next year's recruiting class as well as the young lady from Hopkins who is only a junior. I think he will be around another 3-4 years.

Impressive win - they sucked it up well after the embarrassment in Brookings. Hopefully, they may have learned something that will assist greatly in the maturity of this team.

Sioux by 20 with 5 minutes left

I will never, ever get tired of watching that clip.

2nd team All America with nice size - 6'2", 285. From the Mesabi area. Must be a good athlete, in BB he scored 16 pts/gm while shooting 70% from the field and was second in rebounding in his conference as a senior.

I have heard that Bemidji LB Brandon Larson has verballed to us. I don't know if it is true nor do I know if he has been offered a scholarship or a preffered walk-on.

Good article - how much game time was he seeing prior to the elbow injury?

Probably right after the first of the year. The down time (no active recruiting) starts on 12/19 and I don't think to reopens until 1/3 (maybe a little later).

I just read that shortly after I posted. I am glad that it doesn't appear he will walk-on at U of M but disappointed that he apparently is no longer considering us.

Andrew Larson and Drake Michaelson, two talented kids from the Cities who we have offered, are visiting U of M this weekend. I think we really want these two - I hope they don't receive walk-on or grayshirt offers. It sounds like Larson (maybe both of them) would commit to the Gophers.

While this is the past and we need to move forward, I find it interesting and a bit alarming that in UND's four years in the Great West, we had no one on this team. Yes, it might be a popularity contest & some of these guys are in the NFL now and that may have swayed some decisions - all that debateable stuff but I can't argue with our being shut out. We had a few very good players during this time frame but I don't think any of our guys were overlooked. The concerning part is that these teams were in transition just like us. Hopefully, the talent of the last couple of recruiting classes and, of course, future classes will continue to improve.

Two votes behind Ash ......