forksandspoons Posted April 22 Author Posted April 22 14 minutes ago, AJS said: Only a 10-day window, but we are now over half done. Players around the country are still entering. Currently UND is sitting at 3. Is this a good sign? Stating the obvious, but you cannot lose key players during this Spring process, it puts you in a bad spot. There have been some position movements from what was reported on the Spring roster originally (ex: Rucker - edge, Bell - D-Line). Clearly still spots of need (D-Line, LB, DB, TE, RB) that they are looking at, but not a lot of offers currently. Has anyone heard if the coaching staff is feeling better than originally thought with the Spring roster? Hoping there are some DL offers out that haven’t been made public Quote
forksandspoons Posted April 22 Author Posted April 22 SDSU DT originally from Apple Valley, MN. Played a good amount of snaps last season in 11 games. 3 Quote
F'n Hawks Posted April 22 Posted April 22 14 minutes ago, forksandspoons said: SDSU DT originally from Apple Valley, MN. Played a good amount of snaps last season in 11 games. Seems like a good target considering he is from the area and would have connection to Schmidt. 2 Quote
AJS Posted April 22 Posted April 22 Excited about the Dalton offer. IMO, seems like a guy that could start Day 1. Instantly jumped to #1 on my transfer portal wish list. What a get this would be. 2 Quote
Popular Post AJS Posted April 22 Popular Post Posted April 22 Current offers with competing D1 offers. Joey VanWetzinga (Iowa) - DT: UND, CMU Henry Amposta (Saddleback College) - LB: UND Aleki Manutai (Saddleback College) - DT: Sacred Heart, Campbell, Sac State, UND, NM State Steven Mahar (Syracuse) - TE: Southern Miss, UND, EKU, Albany, Mercyhurst Peyton Wing (Portland State) - LB: Montana, UND, Kent State Jason Thome (Colorado Mesa) - Safety: UND, Robert Morris, Campbell, Indiana State, Idaho State, Louisiana Tech LJ Turner (West Virginia) - RB: UND Kai Rios (Indiana State) - TE: UND, Kent State Darrion Dalton (SDSU) - DT: UTEP, UND, NDSU, UNT, Texas State 1 4 Quote
AJS Posted April 22 Posted April 22 Few interesting notes. Turner had just committed out of the portal to West Virginia this Fall (technically 01/05/2025). Picked WVU over Costal Carolina, UTEP, YSU, ETSU. VanWetzinga was an early enrollee at Iowa. He'd be part of the 2025 class. 1 Quote
Sioux94 Posted April 22 Posted April 22 Don't we actually need a few more guys to enter the portal, to potentially free up space? Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted April 22 Posted April 22 Anyone else a little concerned about the relative silence on this thread? Quote
Popular Post homer Posted April 22 Popular Post Posted April 22 13 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: Anyone else a little concerned about the relative silence on this thread? Nope. Much less stressful opening this thread now than it was a year ago. This staff has a plan and is executing accordingly 7 Quote
sioux24/7 Posted April 22 Posted April 22 15 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: Anyone else a little concerned about the relative silence on this thread? Silence in which way? Lack of our guys entering to free up spots as @Sioux94 eluded? Or lack of commitments? Think we have some offers out to some solid guys I’d love to see us land (Wing and Dalton especially). Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted April 22 Posted April 22 43 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said: Silence in which way? Lack of our guys entering to free up spots as @Sioux94 eluded? Or lack of commitments? Think we have some offers out to some solid guys I’d love to see us land (Wing and Dalton especially). Little of both. Quote
Popular Post UND-FB-FAN Posted April 23 Popular Post Posted April 23 Anyone on this thread or website concerned should nullify that by giving the UND staff some more valuable ammunition: https://1883collective.com. There’s a plan in place, believe me, but the followers (including those on this site) need to have a positive mindset, also, and do their part. There’s a difference between dreams and goals… 5 Quote
forksandspoons Posted April 23 Author Posted April 23 32 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said: Anyone on this thread or website concerned should nullify that by giving the UND staff some more valuable ammunition: https://1883collective.com. There’s a plan in place, believe me, but the followers (including those on this site) need to have a positive mindset, also, and do their part. There’s a difference between dreams and goals… Agreed! This forum raised over $60,000 for UND football via the “Let’s Help Bubba” campaigns. I think the last time this was done was around 2022 and raised over $12K in a day or two. I wonder if there would be a way to have a public $ goal to hit that would go toward the 1883 Collective? Side note: a while back (when the 1883 Collective was still new-ish) they did a 1:1 matching $ donation campaign. That was great! Quote
AJS Posted April 23 Posted April 23 Competing offers are starting to heat up! We’ll see how these end up, but it is so fun to have a staff in place that you know can go toe to toe with these other schools! Quote
AJS Posted April 23 Posted April 23 Joey VanWetzinga (Iowa) - DT : UND, CMU Henry Amposta (Saddleback College) - LB: UND Aleki Manutai - DT: Sacred Heart, Campbell, Sac State, UND, NM State, NAU Steven Mahar (Syracuse) - TE: Southern Miss, UND, EKU, Albany, Mercyhurst Peyton Wing (Portland State) - LB: Montana, UND, Kent State Jason Thome (Colorado Mesa) - Safety: UND, Robert Morris, Campbell, Indiana State, Idaho State, Louisiana Tech, SDSU LJ Turner (West Virginia) - RB: UND Kai Rios (Indiana State) - TE: UND, Kent State Darrion Dalton (SDSU) - DT: UTEP, UND, North Texas, Texas State, SJSU, NAU, UIW Cooper Warren (Kansas State) - WR: UND, USD * VanWetzinga has a brother that currently plays for CMU. Quote
siouxfan512 Posted April 23 Posted April 23 Wasn't the staff also talking to a Wyoming RB? What happened with that? Quote
siouxfan512 Posted April 23 Posted April 23 Also, assuming if we really landed a number of these guys that we are after, the staff would cut loose a few kids. They can do that, right? Assuming you don't want to make a habit of just cutting kids late, but in a year where you are a new staff and trying to rebuild/mold the team to what you want, there should be a little flexibility. Quote
sioux24/7 Posted April 23 Posted April 23 Not sure if UND has interest or not but he’s someone I really wanted out of high school. Sun Prairie kid so was teammates with Kaminski, Alton Williams and Sam Ostrenga. 1 Quote
AJS Posted April 23 Posted April 23 48 minutes ago, siouxfan512 said: Also, assuming if we really landed a number of these guys that we are after, the staff would cut loose a few kids. They can do that, right? Assuming you don't want to make a habit of just cutting kids late, but in a year where you are a new staff and trying to rebuild/mold the team to what you want, there should be a little flexibility. I don't think there's currently a correlation. What I mean is if we land X from the portal, then we cut Y. Either the numbers must work as is, or we'll see a few more enter in the next 3 days. By the offers, I'm guessing the staff is looking for 1 RB, 1 TE, 1 WR, 2 D-Line, 1 LB, 1 DB (7 total). So far 3 have entered the portal, but you also had Teiken, Baretz (I'm sure a few others) that were, to the public unknowns that left the program prior to Spring ball. 1 Quote
UNDvince97-01 Posted April 23 Posted April 23 On 4/22/2025 at 4:13 PM, fightingsioux4life said: Anyone else a little concerned about the relative silence on this thread? No. 2 Quote
geaux_sioux Posted April 24 Posted April 24 12 minutes ago, Siouxperman8 said: Anyone concerned by the lack of silence??? 4 Quote
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