2026 Recruiting

[AJS]

Offers from Yale & Air Force

[forksandspoons]

Big time!! Killing the recruiting game!!

[Nodak78]

I think it is safe to say the 2026 class is our best recruiting class ever.  Wow

[forksandspoons]

55 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:

I think it is safe to say the 2026 class is our best recruiting class ever.  Wow

I’m impatient so I want 2022, 2023, etc to make that metric hard to beat by  proving it on the field this fall! 

[Nodak78]

13 hours ago, forksandspoons said:

I’m impatient so I want 2022, 2023, etc to make that metric hard to beat by  proving it on the field this fall! 

We are a young team and the best class will not join the team until next year.  Fall must start in about 4 weeks?

[siouxfan512]

16 hours ago, Nodak78 said:

I think it is safe to say the 2026 class is our best recruiting class ever.  Wow

We will know in a few years, but on paper .... I don't think it is even close. The competing offers alone show that we are targeting higher caliber players than in the past and landing them. There is no guarantee that will translate to the field for all of them, but I do think there is way more potential in the pool of players than what Bubba was pulling in.

[Sioux94]

1 hour ago, siouxfan512 said:

We will know in a few years, but on paper .... I don't think it is even close. The competing offers alone show that we are targeting higher caliber players than in the past and landing them. There is no guarantee that will translate to the field for all of them, but I do think there is way more potential in the pool of players than what Bubba was pulling in.

Definitely.  We've landed as many guys with other offers from the NDSU or SDSU types or FBS teams this year, as during Bubba's entire tenure.  Still need to see it and prove it on the field, but this just feels different.  

[AJS]

Complete agreement. The 2026 class is the best class UND has ever had, like others said, it's not close. I follow recruiting in the Dakota's fairly closely. NDSU / SDSU have these classes that I would consider FCS "elite". Too big to fail. Not only the top end guys, but the depth. It's a process and it takes years, but you start to stack those classes and you become an elite program. Competing offers is the name of the game. How close is this class to "elite" status? 

 

Mason Beaver (Kearney, MO): Lindenwood, SEMO, WIU, Missouri State, ISU-Red, SIU, SDSU, UNI, UND, TN-Martin	10
Isaac Beaver (Kearney, MO): Lindenwood, WIU, Missouri State, ISU-Red, SIU, SDSU, UNI, UND, TN-Martin, NDSU	10
Nate Appleget (Lincoln, NE): NIU, UND, SDSU, Lindenwood, Air Force, Navy, Penn	7
Aiden Wunderlich (Casselton, ND): UND, Montana, NDSU, Dartmouth, Washington State, UNI	6
Delvin Cook Jr (Dallas, TX): SHSU, Tulsa, Miami of Ohio, Oklahoma, UND, Sac State	6
Jackson Stein (Lake Mills, WI): CMU, NIU, Illinois State, UND	4
Ethan Headings (Iowa City, IA): UND, UNI, Army, Air Force	4
Blake Buhr (Sheboygan, WI): UND, Cornell, Central Michigan, SDSU	4
Tyler Zdon (Fox Lake, IL): SEMO, NDSU, UND, SIU	4
Tavian White (Waukee, IA): Lindenwood, UNI, UND, Western Illinois	4
Jack Vylhalek (Seward, NE): Yale, Air Force, UND	3
George Rohl (Ellsworth, WI): UNI, UND	2
Brooks Hendrickson (Mount Horeb, WI): UND	1
Brody Woods (Cold Spring, MN): UND	1
Brady Goihl (Melrose, MN): UND	1
Marial Deng : UND	1