(02-02-2011 07:38 PM)UIHuskie Wrote:  

(02-02-2011 07:27 PM)niubrad00 Wrote:  Very interesting. We're the only non-BCS school with a strong presence in that Missouri top 20 list. That would be a nice pipeline to continue.

I posted this is a different thread, but I think it's a good area that is logical for NIU to recruit in, and I think they can be successful there. Outside of Mizzou, nobody has a heavy presence in that state. Illinois used to in St. Louis (not the rest of the state), but recently outside of the East St. Louis kids they really have moved away from there. That's really left the state wide open outside of Mizzou.

Kansas and Arkansas have always had real good holds on the state, but Wisconsin ALWAYS got a big recruit out of Missouri, and i think alot of that was because of Doeren

Was Mays recruited as a long snapper? His bio indicates he had a great all star game at linebacker.

(02-02-2011 04:08 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(02-02-2011 03:51 PM)17Huskies Wrote:  Illinois has a darn good engineering program, stinks for us, but if that's the case, so be it.

I am contacting Dean Vohra about this now.

Dean Vohra got back to me and said he was involved with the recruiting process/campus visit. I guess it just wasn't meant to be.

FYI - NIU and U of I undergraduate engineering students take the same exact test on the same day and must pass with the same minimum score to become an "engineer".

He might've wanted to go into a field of engineering not offered by NIU. NIU only has mechanical, electrical, and industrial.. U of I has a much wider selection.

When Womble was coming out of high school he was offered by Wisconsin and his recruiting contact there was the RB coach John Settle. Pretty strange that both Womble and Leighton Settle, John's son, end up at NIU 3 years later.

I would love to see a two-back backfield with Bell and Womble.