alabamagrizzly said:Home grown talent.CDAGRIZ said:Bisonation said:yes NDSU success has elevated the young people of north dakota high school teams and their efforts, I salute them for that.
Maybe it will elevate them to move to Minnesota so they can play for NDSU someday.
Montana- 40 kids from in state
NDSU- 24 kids from ND
Mabey they only used to have like 5 kids from ND and that's why they think the gap is closing.
I am definitely not saying ND is a great high school football state, but some of the discrepency in those numbers is going to be due to overall population alone. Common sense tells us if you have more kids to choose from your chances of finding some good ones increases. Is it entirely due to that..no, but it is a factor. Overall MT has better HS football than ND, the results of the Badlands Bowl over the years proves it. NDSU gets probably 3-5 guys a year out of the state, who by the way more often than not turn into great contributors. To try and field a DI team comprised mostly of instate kids in a state with as low a population and as rural a population as ND has would be impossible. NDSU does a great job of getting the best the state has to offer and an even better job of developing these kids. Our roster last year, as most years had the most players from MN, the second most from ND and third most from WI. That has been the formula even way back in D2 days and I'm pretty you won't argue with the results of this recruiting formula. This is not smack when I say I think you guys would be better served by cutting back just a bit on instate kids...do you as a fanbase believe this as well? or are you happy with all the instate kids? Really looking forward to seeing some Griz fans in Fargo this fall.
