Wow! What a comeback! Down by 17 at one point and getting a 3 point win over a good team!

I saw a post on twitter congratulating him on graduating. I don't know what he has left in terms of eligibility though.

Geez... I hope we don't have the new Barriere in conference (and he doesn't play for us :grimace: )

Massey giving NDSU 68% chance of winning. In the other match up, Massey giving SDSU a 63% chance of winning. Could be a battle of the Dakotas for the natty.

I'm not opposed to situations like Gilliam. I'm not at all against grad transfers and you are correct that there are some eligibility rules that benefit the teams like letting freshmen play limited time without burning a year.

I'm more worried about the long term ramifications of the newer rules I mentioned above. I personally feel that they are detrimental to the aspect of being a scholar athletes (although at a lot of power 5 schools that went by the wayside a long time ago). I don't want everything about college athletics to become "how can I make a quick buck".

I think the combination of the transfer portal basically becoming free agency for college football with the addition that some of the top tier athletes getting paid now has definitely changed the landscape of the game. We're seeing some players making millions (literally) before setting foot on the field.

For example, Quinn Ewers from Texas (last year's top rated high school QB) left school early to go to Ohio State. He signed an endorsement deal worth millions. Never played a snap for Ohio State and entered the portal after his freshman season to go back home to play for University of Texas. So the kid made millions off the notion of playing for Ohio State then packed his bags and high tailed it out of town. Last I checked, these kids were still supposed to be student athletes and it's trending more and more to being minor league professional ball.

I'm not totally opposed to players getting paid for their likeness, but I do think that the more money involved in the process causes more politics to be involved in the process. Kids are going to be choosing schools that monetarily benefit them the most instead of a school that might provide the best education or program fit for themselves.

A lot of recruiting information is pretty public. Athlete Twitter accounts, coach Twitter accounts, high school Twitter accounts, regional recruiting Twitter accounts, websites dedicated to nothing but collecting and compiling recruiting data. You really don't have to dig too deep to find information cause the athletes want to information public. They want the buzz of getting offers cause it attracts more.

I'm not doubting that the coaching staff has a plan going forward and you are correct that we put out way less offers this season compared to previous seasons at this stage in the game. We will just have to wait and see what happens. Covid definitely changed some things for our program and it'll be interesting to see how it impacts the final recruiting haul.

Hopefully we can get some key transfers. It's not a guaranteed thing though.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see for February. It would be nice if we found some gems in the portal even if they are just bridge players while younger guys develop.

WR Jason Thompson and DL Kaz Melzer both headed to the 'Furd

So on Twitter they announced Main and Cotton, on the website announced just Main, and Gardner gets no announcement at all. I can't remember a NLI day for us being this... strange... in recent memory at least. Something seems up, but what do I know. Maybe they are going to go heavy on recruiting between now and February.

Yep we need fast guys with size on the perimeter for both sides of the ball. A true number 1 WR and a lockdown corner especially now that Perryman is gone. Hopefully King will be healthy next season.

Looks like at the beginning of the announcement vid we snagged him to play DB. Good size for a CB at 6'3 and looks fast. I couldn't find much information on him in regards to potential other offers and whatnot.

I think that was Washington State, no?

I wish I knew haha! I'm totally with you on this one. I was expecting a relatively normal NLI day. I wasn't expecting a huge class just based on the information that was out there, but usually there's at least a couple surprise signings. I never would have guessed we've have 1 announced signing and radio silence from athletics.

Yeah BGA and I were talking about that too. Looking at the athletic website you wouldn't even know that today was NLI day. That being said, it could have been intentional because there just wasn't much to report.

And only 1 of the 2 was even announced as a signing. This signing period goes through the 17th, but typically the kids who are going to sign in this period do it day 1. JUCO kids can sign through mid January and then we have the February signing date as well. I have to agree though that this is highly unusual for Hawkins and company. They've prided themselves on recruiting in the past and that has been backed up by success in the December signing period.

Sam Houston State swooped in last minute with an offer to LB Sincere Jackson and he commits and signs