F'n Hawks Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Linebacker in 2014 recruiting: Dylan Harmston Daquan Baker(started at New Mexico then eventually transferred back) Tajhe Hartley Hudson Walton Dylan Bakker Marcus Jenkins Moore 2015 Mason Bennet(originally recruited as OLB) Donnel Rodgers Jade Lawrence Tanner Palmborg Keelan Poole(we know what happened to him) Andre Steiger Sawyer Knick Brock Schaide 2016 Jake Geier Cam Hunt Dijon Murray(big miss, thought he would be good) Jaxson Turner Ray Haas Matt Marler Jake Rastas 2017 Noah Larson Leif Bungum Brysen Swenson Hayden Reynolds This list include both OLB and ILB, and signees that may have never ended up at UND. ILB has been the area of concern lately, as well as the O-line 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F'n Hawks Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 Anybody I am missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midwestern Hawk Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 43 minutes ago, F'n Hawks said: Linebacker in 2014 recruiting: Dylan Harmston Daquan Baker(started at New Mexico then eventually transferred back) Tajhe Hartley Hudson Walton Dylan Bakker Marcus Jenkins Moore 2015 Mason Bennet(originally recruited as OLB) Donnel Rodgers Jade Lawrence Tanner Palmborg Keelan Poole(we know what happened to him) Andre Steiger Sawyer Knick Brock Schaide 2016 Jake Geier Cam Hunt Dijon Murray(big miss, thought he would be good) Jaxson Turner Ray Haas Matt Marler Jake Rastas 2017 Noah Larson Leif Bungum Brysen Swenson Hayden Reynolds This list include both OLB and ILB, and signees that may have never ended up at UND. ILB has been the area of concern lately, as well as the O-line 2014 was the killer recruiting class for ILB and OLB, all would have been RJr or Sr this season. They were all busts. 2015 & 2016 look good so far. What happened with Geier & Steiger this season? They seemed to disappear off the radar with Murray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teeder11 Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 13 minutes ago, Midwestern Hawk said: 2014 was the killer recruiting class for ILB and OLB, all would have been RJr or Sr this season. They were all busts. 2015 & 2016 look good so far. What happened with Geier & Steiger this season? They seemed to disappear off the radar with Murray. Both in the coaches’ dog house ALOT for lack of effort and general don’t-give-a-rip attitude on the practice field. Big misses, especially the former, IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sioux94 Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 2 hours ago, Midwestern Hawk said: 2014 was the killer recruiting class for ILB and OLB, all would have been RJr or Sr this season. They were all busts. 2015 & 2016 look good so far. What happened with Geier & Steiger this season? They seemed to disappear off the radar with Murray. Wow that was definitely a killer at LB that recruiting class. This class was the class in limbo, we had no head coach for a month....Bubba and staff hired end of December and beginning of January. I pointed this out on a different thread that Bubba's first true recruiting class would have been Sophomores this year if redshirted. This junior class in 2017 would obviously in a normal situation play a big role as by juniors guys have the experience and are expected to step up. While there were some good players in this class, due to late coach hire and trying to fill in a class in my opinion is part of the issue. If this class is a little weaker than normal....and we experience a bunch of injuries.....that leads to a result which we saw playout this year. Somebody else posted the two deep numbers by year, more than half of the two deep were freshman and sophomore. Can't say that I know this for sure, but I'd be surprised if there are too many years where there are more freshman and sophomores in your two deep than juniors and seniors for UND or at the FCS level for Top 10 teams. It's things like this that some people don't take into account in the trickle effect of everything that happened this year that snowballed into perfect disaster. That said, it's still 1 strike against this staff as this year was horrible. Time to rebound strong next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midwestern Hawk Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 8 hours ago, Teeder11 said: Both in the coaches’ dog house ALOT for lack of effort and general don’t-give-a-rip attitude on the practice field. Big misses, especially the former, IMHO. If you were healthy and could not play ILB for us this season I would say move to a different position or move to a place you may have a chance to play. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F'n Hawks Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 O line Recruting: 2014 Colton Boas Jacob Francis(ended up a TE) Adam Stiner Brendan Slaight Demon Taylor Grant Aplin Dylan Beck 2015 Elijah Grady Patric Rooney Bryce Blair Kevin Camy Justus Merz 2016 Nathon Nguon Sean Russo Ryan Tobin Bennet Helgren Noah Mortel Devan Hunt 2017 Jeremy Jenkins Connor Kruse Wil Prine Thoughts on O-line recruiting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNDBIZ Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 2014 and 2015 most didn't pan out. Hopefully that 2016 class all hits because they're the upper classmen for the next 3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geaux_sioux Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 That 2015 group had such promise..... Rooney and Blair are all that’s left and Blair is still trying to gain weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longtime fan Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 8 hours ago, F'n Hawks said: O line Recruting: 2014 Colton Boas Jacob Francis(ended up a TE) Adam Stiner Brendan Slaight Demon Taylor Grant Aplin Dylan Beck 2015 Elijah Grady Patric Rooney Bryce Blair Kevin Camy Justus Merz 2016 Nathon Nguon Sean Russo Ryan Tobin Bennet Helgren Noah Mortel Devan Hunt 2017 Jeremy Jenkins Connor Kruse Wil Prine Thoughts on O-line recruiting? 2015: two massive losses with Grady and Merz !! The 2016 class, mainly do to attrition, has been the most impressive class of OL recruits. I was most excited with Bennett.....he has size and his hudl tape was very impressive. I know he was hobbling around most of his true fresh year with an injury ....not sure if that is still an issue or not. Tobin is the real deal but like most....needs to gain weight. Mortel and Nguon look solid as fresh. 2017: Kruse looks very capable of contributing from everything I have seen. Next years recruit , Slater , has potential to start as true fresh. Together as group ....the OL needs to work on the footwork, leverage aspect and leg strength. They were pushed back off the line way to much last year. The tackles biggest issues were hand use and footwork. They protect the edge so it's a little different in blocking style. There's definitely potential but need capable coaches to coach them up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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