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A good physical comparison for Ratelle would be Chris Borland, the former tackling-machine from Wisconsin, who famously retired after 1 year in the NFL due to health/concussion concerns. Borland was an under-sized ILB drafted in the 3rd round by the 49ers & played his way into a starting role his rookie year & had over 100 combined tackles in 1 NFL season. Borland was power 5/Big 10 stud vs Ratelle excelling in FCS, but Ratelle's pro day numbers are all much better than Borland's combine numbers. Not saying Ratelle should or will be a 3rd round pick (I believe he will go undrafted) but he definitely deserves a shot... http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/chris%20-borland?id=2543772

Saw this retweet from SFI this morning... Is that Cole Reyes w/ a cast on his hand? If not, who?

Objective look at the program??? Did little Jeffrey invite the dad to the annual ndsu homecoming party he hosts at his house every year???

I think both football & hockey staffs think pretty highly of each other. I remember Hakstol saying how great it was to have a great man like Bubba Schweigert back on campus at one of the Champions Club golf events the summer after Bubba was hired.

And then 3-4 more never showed up for fall camp... so much difference between staffs.

SFI chat is up & running.... http://siouxfb.areavoices.com/2016/02/03/und-signing-day-chat/

Wow, he must be a 10,000% warrior, just like Prukop

I believe they are all in. Murray & T. Hunt signed earlier being they were a Juco transfer & prep school transfer. Just waiting on PWOs in Marler & Rastas.

Devan Hunt did accept his PWO

Freund mentioned on chat that there is 4 PWOs... Did we lose one? Devan Hunt take the scholly offer from Valpo?

Ahhh, ok, just took a quick glance at it & saw "24"

Helgren is in!

Coach Gigli said in the live chat they expect 23 signees (scholly & PWO) today... That does not include Murray & T. Hunt. So, 25 total in the class. The wiki here lists 24... Could we see a surprise signee or pwo?

Saw Omaha area schools were closed today... Could be a little delay in Cloyd getting in due to that... not sure.

I can't remember from previous years.... Are PWOs announced as they come in or are they all announced together at the end of the day?

Isaiah Secrest is in

Notice it listed Jake Geier as a Safety... Thought he was projected as a LB on here & other sites?

Lots of tweets from UND coaches last week referencing an #Omahawk (presumably Cloyd) Just noticed that Alex Cloyd retweeted & favorited Jacob Matthew's de-commitment from SDSU note...

Per his twitter, Joe Markert visiting SDSU this weekend

Great to see the news on Cloyd. Although, I'll feel much better about it on Feb. 3rd. Think he'll be a great pass-catching TE in this offense. If he does sign, I'd say UND fared pretty well on the recruiting trail against SDSU (Helgren, Holm & Cloyd)

http://siouxfb.areavoices.com/2016/01/27/one-week-from-signing-day-2016/ Recruiting update from SFI. They are stating that Alex Cloyd is still deciding between UND & SDSU.

I noticed some of the recent people/accounts he's followed are Joel Schwenzfeier & Keaton Studsrud... Hopefully a good sign.

What I've read/heard is that SDSU will be offering fcoa for football starting in '17. I have no idea what was offered by either school, but perhaps SDSU sold him on that he would be getting fcoa in years 2 - 5

Funny you should ask... This article just came out this morning. Great read http://www.citypages.com/news/what-happened-to-the-university-of-minnesota-hockey-program-7960026

From Tom Miller... Craig Haley of STATS has UND ranked #12 in really, really early pre-season 2016 FCS poll... http://millersports.areavoices.com/2016/01/12/stats-network-pegs-und-fb-at-no-12-in-2016/ http://www.fcs.football/cfb/story.asp?i=20160112140359528299004