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Feeling a little more comfortable that Riddle is coming as he changed his twitter handle to @UND_sam. Has to be a decent sign, no?

Looks like he could turn into a serviceable guard. PWO perhaps or regular walkon?

I've seen nothing other than the one tweet so I would say no. But if sfi digs a little more it might get confirmed?

So are both Labat and Allen ILB? And Rich is OLB? I feel that our ILB core needs some help. I really like Garrison Goodman, but the rest I'm still not sold on. Peters and Ratelle have some potential, but I was really unimpressed with Otto last year. Similar to Mersereau, there were too many times that I saw him completely whiff on a tackle. So, I think Labat or Allen should be able to get in on the rotation if they are what we think they are. As it relates to the DL, I don't think Henson is the answer. He didn't seem to do much last year, so I'm hoping that Edwards is the man. I think we have some pretty good DE in the pipeline with Cummings, Woodsmall and Stanchek, but hope that Carrothers can push for playing time. For DBs, I'm really hoping that Javen Butler is a stud this year. I'm not convinced Bailey Carr is a D1 safety. And I won't even touch the CB situation, as I don't believe that Mackey and Hall would start at a lot of DII schools. I still can't believe that Mackey has been starting for a couple of years. I'm hoping Dwayne Brown lives up to the potential I heard about during his true freshman year. I do have a question - is Tyhre Ivery playing safety or CB?

I wonder if Oscar Opara is still an option as a CB. He's somewhat of an intriguing prospect. I thought we were the only offer but it appears he has offers from UNI and Illinois State. Anyone have any insights as to whether he's been on campus or if we're still after him?

Bell looks like he would be a nice OLB. Get 30 pounds on him and he's good. Wharton looked decent as a DE. Wonder where we are recruiting them for position wise.

So, with Stendler decommitting, is there anyone else in the hopper at DE that UND is heavily after that you've heard of?

It's seems Logan Neitzke, a DE out of Wisco that UND was listed as offering by rivals, has committed to Mankato. What Dan is failing to understand is that it's possible UND was no longer recruiting this young man. I'm not saying that we were or were not still on him, but we really don't know so it's hard to say if "We lost a kid to Mankato". EDIT: Guess UND-1 answered my question as to whether we were still on him.

Looks legit

Too bad - wonder what we're going to bring in for DE this year.

Losing Stendler would hurt, as he is the only DE recruit (that we know of, anyway). Think we need one or two of them this class.

I think bell is fairly solid now based on some things I've seen. Things could always change but looks good now.

Couple of updates. Jester Weah committed to Pitt, Joe Kupcikevicius committed to SDSU and Garrett Guanella committed to San Jose State. Also LB Chris Weber I believe has committed to walk on at Nebraska and Chad Fahning is going to PWO at Minnesota (I think that's been confirmed). EDIT: I also believe Jake Gronholz has committed to Winona State.

Welcome to the board! Have you seen any of the other Illinois recruits play this year?

Domenik Toliver committed to Idaho State

SFI has Kurt Palandech listed as a verbal on the side of e blog - must have missed that one although we knew he was visiting

I suppose kids like stockwell and bell are targets then

I believe we did but can't be sure.

Also one of the first California chest bumps was retweeted by a Kendrick Peeples who is a WR from Reedley jc in Cali. Could he be a chest bump? If so could he be a CB which is what he was recruited out of HS? I haven't found much so I'm throwing some stuff out there just for some convo.

Love the carr get - sounds like he's running track too. He seems excited as hell!

Another Luke bump? Thurman?

Big chest bump to freund - Carr?

Nick DeLuca committed to SU

He flipped after a day or two to unlv

Aeron Carr said he may commit tonight - also noted he had a good visit to SDSU