Here’s a quick rundown of our offers that have not made official visits as of yet (12).

Some have no interest in NU, while others may no longer have committable offers based upon our current commitments.

After breaking things down, there aren’t all that many potential visitors left on our board. 🤷‍♂️

Coaches have been on the road this week, so we may see a few late offers extended as we look to finalize our 2025 class.

RB
Isaiah Groves (TN)

WR
Leo Almanza Jr. (TX)
Bodpegn Miller (OH)

TE
Noah LaPorte (IL)

OL
Nolan Davenport (OH)

DL
Xavier Ukponu (TX)
Adam Shovlin (PA)

DB
Sheldon Robinson (VA)
Jayden Sanders (TX)
Donovan Starr (TN)
Micah Rice (OH)

ATH
Bradley Gompers (PA)

Groves and LaPorte would appear to be the two that have the highest likelihood of taking an OV to Evanston.

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The following players have made OVs and NU is awaiting their decisions (12) :

RB
Ryver Peppers (MO)
Javin Gordon (GA)
Kolin Wilson (AL)

WR
Gerritt Kemp (GA)
JonAnthony Hall (IN)

OL
Darrin Strey (MI)
Michael O'Connell (IL)
Brock Heath (KS)
Lucas Allgeyer (MO)

DL
Tommy Rupley (MA)
Chinedu Onyeagoro (CA)
Cameron Herron (IN)
Yvan Kemajou (MS)

DB
Coleman Patmon (TX)

I talked to three-star DB Coleman Patmon about his official visit to Northwestern. He broke down his thoughts on the program, his likely role in the defense and his relationship with the staff so far.

Probably limited, but he’s been busy.

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For whatever reason, the NBA has decided to split the draft to two days. The first round starts Wednesday at 8 eastern, and the second round on Thursday at 4.

I’d imagine we’ll see Boo on a Summer League roster. I hope he gets to abuse Bronny once or twice.

Big night Thursday: second round of the draft, then USA in Copa America, and then two weird old men wheeze at each other on CNN.

Apparently highly rated 2025 “big man” recruit Tommy Ahneman is leaving his high school team in North Dakota for a private high school in Minneapolis St Paul. The school is Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul,MN. It’s been published that the move is because a family member received a job offer in Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Bad news: recruiting lately looks like a higher level MAC or even FCS program.

Good news: the teams at the FCS level coached by Braun and Lujan would probably have handily defeated NU in 2021, 2022, and even 2023.

So if we get MAC/FCS recruits who play like SDSU and NDSU then we may finish in the middle third of the newly expanded Big Ten.

Given the NIL changes and AD/presidential leadership along with the Fitz transition, I don't think we could be surprised to see recruiting fall to this level. We'll see if the results on the field look better than the appearance on paper.

Looks like the Cats will be participating. Solid group of 4. Should be fun.

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The sophomore from Marist figures to be a big-time recruit and says he will visit NU on Jan. 28 for what he called a junior day (I'll have to find out more about the event because NU doesn't typically do standard junior days). Edgy lists him at 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds. Here's his story:

Analysts are now permitted to coach on the field. Playing field continues to tilt in favor of the wealthiest programs. I don’t see this as a good thing for NU.

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Heard from a friend who went to Wisconsin that he was just able to buy 12 tickets in North endzone section through the Wisconsin allocation. Does anyone know what the opposing team allocation is at the Lakeside field? Seems wild to me they sold in a group of 12. I suppose maybe the Badger fanbase was just not aware of when they were going on sale... a shame that our long-time season ticketholders were limited to 4 by comparison.

Northwestern

David Braun might go down as one of the best interim head coaches in the history of the game. What he was able to do to keep that locker room committed and the culture going after [Pat] Fitzgerald was really remarkable."

"Really curious how the [Zach] Lujan hire at offensive coordinator works out for them. SDSU ran a lot of motion and shift and did a good job tailoring to the roster, and that’s something that Northwestern has really struggled with over the last few seasons."

"This is a team in desperate need of a consistent offensive identity they can recruit to.”

- Seems pretty spot on...

Can't say "new" because it may be confused with Lakeside Field

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Looks like that Bruce Weber coaching tree firing up.

We speculate a lot about what NU does and doesn't do with regard to NIL offers. Seems like the general consensus is NU doesn't offer NIL dollars to freshman recruits but prefers to sell the idea that NU is a developmental program offering B1G football and a world class degree. Later, it seems that NU may use NIL money to retain and recruit experienced players who have demonstrated a certain level of production or potential.

My question then is this. If some highly regarded high school student being recruited by NU tells the coaches that he would love to come to NU but can't pass up the $25,000/yr NIL offer from Illinois or somewhere, NU would never match the offer on principle or some reason?

Only one section was available in north stands.

I was in tier 4 of the purchasing process.

Looks like a lot of the expensive tix are still available. That should send a loud message that the athletic department shouldn’t get greedy with the new stadium.

Also. For those reading. I am needing an additional ticket for the Indiana game.

Thx

I went up to Evanston today to take pictures of both sites, here are the tweets below. I'm also thinking of putting together some kind of Google Drive or shared drive that I can link and pin here on The Rock with all my pictures over the past few months, and potentially people could add their own as well. Would that be of interest?

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Anyone else having problems renewing today? Get a repeat message that the server can’t be found.

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@lou v talked to Northwestern commit Jonah Hayes about his family ties, his official visit and his decision to chart his own course to commit to the Wildcats.

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@lou v talked to Northwestern commit Jonah Hayes about his family ties, his official visit and his decision to chart his own course to commit to the Wildcats.

Posted by my Multivariate Calculus teacher 😂. Thought to re-share here:

Sure feels good to post this thread. But other than Marks and Goff, I have no clue who’s out there. Toss out your NIL-competent names!

I talked to Northwestern TE commit Robby Preckel about his visit to Northwestern, his decision to commit and his future role as a Wildcat.