2023 Off-season Recruiting

[ND1]

1 hour ago, sioux24/7 said:

I’m not sure the best thread to put this in so I’m just going to put it here…. There’s two high schoolers in Fargo that this coaching staff needs to be all over this year and next. Do whatever it takes to convince Mason Klabo (2025) and Jeremiah Sem (2024) to come north. 

I’m a bit surprised Sem hasn’t drawn more interest after the state championship run (I know it’s just North Dakota but it was still impressive) and then some of the monster dunks he’s had lately. 

 

Sem while talented has some off court issues/concerns.  That’s the only thing holding him back as he can play.  
Klabo is not staying around here.  Spoke to his sister a while back, she said he aiming for power 5 school 

 

 

[sioux24/7]

1 hour ago, sioux24/7 said:

I’m not sure the best thread to put this in so I’m just going to put it here…. There’s two high schoolers in Fargo that this coaching staff needs to be all over this year and next. Do whatever it takes to convince Mason Klabo (2025) and Jeremiah Sem (2024) to come north. 

I’m a bit surprised Sem hasn’t drawn more interest after the state championship run (I know it’s just North Dakota but it was still impressive) and then some of the monster dunks he’s had lately. 

 

Welp, ask and you shall receive. UND offers Sem. 

 

[homer]

7 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said:

Welp, ask and you shall receive. UND offers Sem. 

 

His talent is worth taking a flyer on.  Gets better every single year.  

[Oxbow6]

11 hours ago, sioux24/7 said:

Welp, ask and you shall receive. UND offers Sem. 

 

Long overdue on UND's part IMO. On upside and talent alone he has the most of both in the state of ND and it is not close. Anyone think of a player in recent history that basically flipped a switch and totally took over a state tournament like he did in March?

[StearnsUNDfan]

Way overdue - better late than never. . .

[sioux24/7]

The Sem offer may have been overdue but yet we are still the only D1 offer that I know he has. 

[NewUndFan]

15 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said:

The Sem offer may have been overdue but yet we are still the only D1 offer that I know he has. 

Texas A&M Commerce gave him a offer and he said it was his first D1 offer.  I have never heard of the school 

[McBuckets]

1 hour ago, NewUndFan said:

Texas A&M Commerce gave him a offer and he said it was his first D1 offer.  I have never heard of the school 

I would expect more offers to come in the next month or so as the AAU season is just getting started.

[McBuckets]

 

[SWSiouxMN]

1 hour ago, McBuckets said:

 

Hello, shooter!

 

[Nodak78]

1 hour ago, McBuckets said:

 

6 man of the year with the WAC.  44% from 3.  Looks like a good get.

[homer]

But we made the list……

[sioux24/7]

3 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Do we still have 1 scholarship available? 

Yes. 

[SD UND]

18 hours ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Not sure what @SiouxBoys and @SD UND have against Daniel Hong that they would downvote my post about Hong getting a scholarship..... odd behavior from "UND fans"

From everything I have heard from his teammates and other people, he is a great teammate and a great practice player. If we can't find anyone else that is scholarship worthy to come to UND then I don't see why you wouldn't reward Hong with a scholarship. 

Maybe because they can either hold that scholly for someone who can contribute, or give it to Bothun or Kraft as they were "PWO's" 

Hong, I'm sure is a great teammate and a great practice player, if he sticks it out he will get 1 or 2 years on scholarship.

 

 

(Here comes the "I haven't seen him miss in warmups all year, he's money!!")

[homer]

18 hours ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Not sure what @SiouxBoys and @SD UND have against Daniel Hong that they would downvote my post about Hong getting a scholarship..... odd behavior from "UND fans"

From everything I have heard from his teammates and other people, he is a great teammate and a great practice player. If we can't find anyone else that is scholarship worthy to come to UND then I don't see why you wouldn't reward Hong with a scholarship. 

You spent the season posting about how the coaching staff had a roster that was not D1 talent and now you just want to give up a scholarship ship to a player that is a great practice player and is not even halfway into his career.  
 

That may be the reason for the down votes

[SD UND]

26 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

What you just said makes 0 sense. Let's give our last scholarship to a walk-on who is going to redshirt instead of the walk-on that already spent a year redshirting and has been with the program, has proven to be a good teammate and a valuable practice player. How does that make any sense??

You also act like Hong wasn't a PWO either and was just a student that we pulled out of Biology class and asked if he wanted to join the team. Hong was in the exact same position as Bothun and Kraft being a PWO coming to UND. So that point is invalid. 

Ok.

If anyone on the current roster is going to get the scholarship, it would be Bothun because I'm pretty positive he was guaranteed one next year anyway.

 

More likely outcome is that they hold it through the offseason and see if they can't get in play with someone who can contribute right away.

No disrespect to Hong, I'm sure he's a nice player, good kid, great in classroom, awesome teammate, someone who is valuable to the team. If he gets a scholarship, I'm happy for him, just don't think it will be this year.

[SWSiouxMN]

I'm sure it is a holding pattern until Ihenacho has been figured out.

Me:  Get someone that can help push the team to the top of the Summit. 

[homer]

4 hours ago, HoopsFan03 said:

No one complained about last years team not having D1 talent. People were actually very happy that we finally had D1 level players on the roster. 

Now, people were complaining about the 2021-2022 team because that was MAYBE an average NSIC team trying to play D1 basketball. I think you are a little confused on your years man.

I’m not the one who is confused.  Plenty of posts during game threads and in the coaching thread about some players on the team and how our roster was made of D2 players because that is all the staff could recruit.  Guessing plenty on this board will back me on reading those comments. 

[petey23]

5 hours ago, HoopsFan03 said:

What you just said makes 0 sense. Let's give our last scholarship to a walk-on who is going to redshirt instead of the walk-on that already spent a year redshirting and has been with the program, has proven to be a good teammate and a valuable practice player. How does that make any sense??

You also act like Hong wasn't a PWO either and was just a student that we pulled out of Biology class and asked if he wanted to join the team. Hong was in the exact same position as Bothun and Kraft being a PWO coming to UND. So that point is invalid. 

Reminds me of when I was at UND and Gunther was still coaching. The joke was that he could walk through Gamble Hall and grab 8-9 guys and still beat Erv and the bison.

[NewUndFan]

56 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Here is my very first post about last season after the first exhibition game against Waldorf..... (not sure how to quote it from that thread to this one or if I even can)

@homer Again, you are dead wrong on this one. Give it a rest.

Alot of the complaints along with my own were that Sather didnt know how to figure out a rotation.   He was playing Suecker and Nero big minutes.  Started Danielson at point guard.  Reid Grant was playing alot of minutes.  When he finally figured things out half way through the year, that some of us were calling for since the beginning of the year, we started seeing some improvements.   I really liked the recruits he brought in last summer and I like the recruits he got this spring.  I think he is figuring things out and am excited again about UND basketball!  

[sioux24/7]

 

[Dustin]

2023-24 should be the most exciting year of UND MBB in at least 4 years.

[SWSiouxMN]

32 minutes ago, Dustin said:

2023-24 should be the most exciting year of UND MBB in at least 4 years.

It has the potential to be.  The question is:  How will they handle the expectations

[nodak651]

25 minutes ago, SWSiouxMN said:

It has the potential to be.  The question is:  How will they handle the expectations

Non factor.  I think they have higher expectations than us.

[McBuckets]

On 5/18/2023 at 8:34 AM, SD UND said:

Maybe because they can either hold that scholly for someone who can contribute, or give it to Bothun or Kraft as they were "PWO's" 

Hong, I'm sure is a great teammate and a great practice player, if he sticks it out he will get 1 or 2 years on scholarship.

 

 

(Here comes the "I haven't seen him miss in warmups all year, he's money!!")