Is Zatechka a D1 player? It doesn’t look like has any D1 offers. Not even from the Dakota schools or Wyoming.
I'll be surprised if he doesn't walk on. Pops doesn't need NU to pay for his school. He may be telling schools he has no interest in going anywhere else. Offers are self reported so take offer lists with a grain of salt. Physically I think he looks like a D-1 linemen but I haven't seen him play.
If Mark Pelini can play D1 football. Anyone can. I believe he was a slot receiver at Mooney then packed on about 100lbs of flab and started at Center for us. Most egregious case of nepotism I've ever seen.
Zatechka at least looks athletic and is already I think up around 270.
I wonder if he offered him at quarterback. It would be really disappointing if an in-state recruit preferred North Dakota State to us if both offered at the same position.
I'm not sure where else he'd want him. clearly the best QB in the state, ready to play now.
I thought we expressed interest in him as a LB a while back, but he wanted to play QB. Maybe they are interested in him as a QB now too.
I wouldn’t blame him. NDSU has a good thing going on with QB’s right now.
I don’t think that’s true. Haarberg is a good prospect. The kid had D1 offers from schools like Vanderbilt, Boston College and NC State. He is very talented. I don’t think the reason he was offered was simply he played the same level of football as Scott Frost. Nothing against Payton, he may deserve an offer too, but he doesn’t have anywhere near those kind of offers and he has to get way more exposure than Haarberg, playing on one of the best teams in the Midwest.
NDSU would be favored in games against all of those schools, just like they would be against NU
OK, if you say so. But the point remains Haarberg isn’t some slug, he is a National recruit with a lot of good offers. For whatever reason Payton doesn’t have any P5 type offers. I’m not against offering the kid, but see no reason to downplay Haarberg. HH is 6’6 with a huge arm and is athletic. Granted the staff could fail to develop him and mess it up, but when is the last time we’ve had a QB recruit like that?
If I say so? Those are academic schools, with the exception of NC St, which is an ACC bottom feeder.
Multiple P5 offers is better than no P5 offers, that isn’t up for debate. Iowa was going to offer Haarberg soon too, I’m sure we would have all loved to see him go there. HH is a very good prospect and it would have been nuts not to offer him.
When your instate school calls and you tell them no thanks, perhaps it’s a clue you’re heart’s set on trying to be the next top 5 pick at a perennial powerhouse?
I don't know. Boston college is a pretty salty program. They could play with just about any team in D1
if it's between BC and NDSU, I know which I'd rather see on the schedule and it's not particularly close.
No, it wasnt! What was most egregious was all of Barney Cottons sons getting scholarships and passing or slow playing Ott, Phillip's, and Bazata to name a few. That was bullshit and beyond comprehension!
