UND92,96 Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 DomIzzoWDAY Per @monkebusiness Beach standout Landon Lechler is down to #NDSU, #UND and #DickinsonState, official visit to NDSU this weekend Really? Dickinson State? Really? It's unusual, but not unprecedented. In 2003 the top player in the state was a kid named Brian Dykema from Strasburg. He ended up signing with UMary, I believe because his girlfriend was a student there. Quote
UND Fan Posted January 25, 2012 Author Posted January 25, 2012 Hambone -- So, out of what's left out there, who are some kids that you hope come to UND? I've included kids that we have offers to, kids that are on our interest lists, and kids from MN (since I've been able to see some of them). ****** There is some talent there - hopefully, we can land a couple of the better ones. I have heard but haven't been able to confirm that Brandon Larson is headed to UND. Quote
Hambone Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 It's unusual, but not unprecedented. In 2003 the top player in the state was a kid named Brian Dykema from Strasburg. He ended up signing with UMary, I believe because his girlfriend was a student there. Also - Dickinson is looking at him for both football and basketball. Don't think he could play both at either UND or NDSU. Quote
UND92,96 Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 Somebody posted on the ND Preps board that Century's Conrad Schwarzkopf will be a preferred walk-on at UND. Quote
UND-FB-FAN Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2zl0A2i7ZE Hope everything works out with this guy. He can sure hit. Quote
Hambone Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 Somebody posted on the ND Preps board that Century's Conrad Schwarzkopf will be a preferred walk-on at UND. It was also posted on ND Preps that Jake Hanson, QB for Grafton, has committed to UND. I would think that would be a PWO opportunity as well. Also, I would think it wouldn't be at the QB position. http://www.northdakotapreps.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=10561 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPiFQ2dnIY Quote
dmksioux Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 It appears that Ryan Cain does in fact now have a rivals page that popped up, and he had offers from Northern Iowa and USD. It's not showing his UND commitment yet, however. http://rivals.yahoo....ElbFhzCL0FIPZB4 According to a tweet on SFI, the Ryan Cain committment is now official.... http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=SiouxFootball Quote
SiouxDini Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 It was also posted on ND Preps that Jake Hanson, QB for Grafton, has committed to UND. I would think that would be a PWO opportunity as well. Also, I would think it wouldn't be at the QB position. http://www.northdako...hp?f=58&t=10561 Conrad Schwarzkopf and Jake Hanson are great pickups as PWO's. They are a couple very talented ND kids. I see Hanson as a DB. Quote
UND92,96 Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 It was also posted on ND Preps that Jake Hanson, QB for Grafton, has committed to UND. I would think that would be a PWO opportunity as well. Also, I would think it wouldn't be at the QB position. http://www.northdako...hp?f=58&t=10561 If I'm not mistaken, Hanson's uncle is former UND and CFL NG Scott Schultz. Quote
UND92,96 Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 SFI blog on the Cain commitment: http://siouxfb.areavoices.com/ Note also in the comments section regarding a possible fourth WR commit. Quote
mg2009 Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 just a general observation, but does it seem to anyone else that fargo schools under produce? 1/3 of the states highschool grads and noone going to a d1 program as far as I can tell. Quote
UND92,96 Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 just a general observation, but does it seem to anyone else that fargo schools under produce? 1/3 of the states highschool grads and noone going to a d1 program as far as I can tell. I would say that high school football in Fargo this year, and really in the entire east region at the AAA level, was really down. Quote
UND Fan Posted January 26, 2012 Author Posted January 26, 2012 I would say that high school football in Fargo this year, and really in the entire east region at the AAA level, was really down. I agree - there have been a ton of very good FB players come out of Fargo and WF, this is likely just a down year. Quote
geaux_sioux Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 I would say that high school football in Fargo this year, and really in the entire east region at the AAA level, was really down. It hasn't been just football. Hockey is down (other than Red River) so are basketball and soccer. Central used to have over 100 players, this year they were down to around 50 if they were lucky. And those 50 players were garbage compaired to how they used to be on an average year. I'm not sure if you put South and Davies together this year that they would have even been good. Were there any elite players in the AAA EDC this year? Quote
UND92,96 Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 It hasn't been just football. Hockey is down (other than Red River) so are basketball and soccer. Central used to have over 100 players, this year they were down to around 50 if they were lucky. And those 50 players were garbage compaired to how they used to be on an average year. I'm not sure if you put South and Davies together this year that they would have even been good. Were there any elite players in the AAA EDC this year? I don't want to get too far off-topic, but the fact that RR is doing very well in most sports, and GFC is mostly struggling, is part, albeit a fairly small part, of the reason I hope the Grand Forks school board considers doing away with the north-south delineation for determining the boundary between the GFC and RR districts. It made sense in the 1960's. I don't believe it does now. And I suspect the chasm is only going to grow over time unless something is done to make things more equitable. Sorry for the thread drift. Quote
UND92,96 Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 Here's confirmation of the Schwarzkopf and Hanson commitments: http://blogs.midcosn.com/2012/01/signing-day-approaching/ Quote
Hambone Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 Another observation on Tuilagi - I noticed that HS teammate PJ Taeao, OL 6'1" 300 pounds, has offers from Texas Southern and San Diego as well, which are the same other schools that Tuilagi has offers from (although PJ visited Texas Southern already whereas Tuilagi goes there next weekend). I wonder if PJ would be someone that UND would offer as well (maybe a package deal?). Maybe folks should be on the lookout for a large Polynesian kid with a ponytail this weekend http://rivals.yahoo....f6vQCP54PwfwOrF_ Quote
UND92,96 Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 Per an SFI tweet, TE Luke Mathewson from Libertyville, IL has committed to UND. Quote
Dagger Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 With the signing of the TE Mathewson from Illinois , does this mean we would be backing off on the Arp kid from Forman? Quote
UND Fan Posted January 27, 2012 Author Posted January 27, 2012 With the signing of the TE Mathewson from Illinois , does this mean we would be backing off on the Arp kid from Forman? It sure appears that we recruited this kid as a TE but it sounds like he was also a very good DE. In fact, I don't think he played TE until his senior year. He missed most of his junior year with an injury. Quote
Dagger Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 So far it looks like the 2 areas we haven't addressed are runningback and kicker. Does anyone know what is going on there. Quote
UNDColorado Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 It seems that we are pretty set at running back, at least for this recruiting year. WR and QB were the positions that needed the most attention and I am happy to see the results at this point. Quote
Risky Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 We sure have made some major major inroads into Illinois. That is exciting. Did we really back off on California or what. It seemed like we were really do good in our recruiting there the last couple of years. Did the person recruitng California leave or something? Quote
Dagger Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 What is the scoop on Mathewson? Was anybody else recruiting him. How good is he? Quote
darell1976 Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 So far it looks like the 2 areas we haven't addressed are runningback and kicker. Does anyone know what is going on there. If we score TD's we won't need to worry about a kicker, 1 Quote
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