This one comes as a bit of a surprise. Tyus had carved out a niche as a short-yardage back in a crowded backfield, but it appears he’s looking for more than that. Best of luck to No. 27!

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Hopefully Kips kid joins the cats

WildcatReport has heard that Northwestern will be hosting a smaller, elite Junior Day for some of their top-priority prospects at this stage of the cycle this Saturday. We will share the list of visitors once it has been finalized later in the week.

Amazing stat!

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Here are @mshelton33's takeaways from another epic night at Welsh-Ryan.

Northwestern offered a PWO spot to GBN's Landon Lauter, who played on both sides of the ball for the Spartans. He is being recruited as a DL, but that could change once he hits campus should he pick NU.

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Wisconsin has been, and overall is, the beneficiary of a favorable schedule (no games at Illinois or NU, thus far their only games against top 5 teams in conference have been Cats and UNL at home). While they beat MSU at East Lansing pretty easily, MSU has been playing much better lately. I think this is a game that’s could bring the Badgers back to the pack a little.

Daily Article on Fire at "The Locker Room"

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Best of luck to No. 27 in Athens. That’s a good landing spot for him.

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Northwestern hosted media availability for head coach Chris Collins and players Boo Buie and Matthew Nicholson ahead of their Saturday night matchup with Ohio State. Here are our takeaways from what they had to say:

Northwestern hosted media availability for head coach Chris Collins and players Boo Buie and Matthew Nicholson ahead of their Saturday night matchup with Ohio State. Here are our takeaways from what they had to say:

Northwestern offers 2025 WR Leo Almanza Jr. from Texas. He holds nine other offers, all to play DB, including Arkansas, Texas Tech and Utah.

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That’s it. That’s the whole thread.

Boo Buies college career got me thinking of a dominant college basketball player who people thought would just be a great college player and at most be a reserve/bench player in the pros of play in Europe. He did not jump the highest or was the quickest player but he knows how to use his body to make space when driving to the bucket and has become a good three point shooter and a star in New York for a team which could win the NBA title. Boo has some of these same attributes and I can certainly see him take a similar professional path. Both players are extremely well liked, somewhat poo pooed by the media and have great court vision.

I got this "thank you " portfolio from TrueNU with an autographed picture of some of the athletes that participate. There are Boo, Izzy, Ty Berry, others I don't know, and, my personal favorite, Caileigh Walsh.

Jacob and Co seem to be doing what they can to compete until the big.donors step up.

Best game of the season - by far - for Nicholson, and a lot of us have been hard on him this year. It's not just that he put some crooked numbers in the box score, it's that a light switch seemed to go on to tell him he can go up for rebounds and be active all over the place. I really can't complain about him tonight. He was fantastic.

Collins has always rode his stars but the conditioning across the board from these guys this year is just astonishing. I'll keep plugging away and eventually get national or at least P6 numbers for you guys but even just in the Big Ten, Brooks Barnhizer (36.1) and Boo Buie (36) rank second and third in minutes per game.

They're only behind Dug McDaniel from Michigan (36.2), who was suspended for six away games and I expect that'll fall off as he plays more. Not to mention Ryan Langborg who is in eighth at 33.3 minutes per game.

NU is one of two teams in conference to play four guys 30+ minutes per game: Buie, Berry, Langborg, Barnhizer. The other is Michigan, the worst team in the league right now.

There's no one in the Big Ten winning the way Northwestern is right now, this is an unparalleled level of conditioning and stamina.

Thought I’d redirect our discussion on this from some other threads and see where the group is at given the little mini-streak here. Where does everybody stand on Collins given the final season result?

I talked to Jace Borcherding about his PWO offer earlier this week, where Northwestern ranks for him and the Wildcats' recruiting pitch.

I know this has been brought up in several posts, but it’s now been two weeks since we supposedly hired Lujan as OC. Is NU simply not going to announce the coaching changes (both departures and arrivals) and we‘ll magically have new coaches appear at spring practice? The absence of communication regarding the coordinators (the most important coaches after the head coach) is bizarre at best.

Did Hunger participate in warmups last night? I didn’t know if his DNP resulted from injury or coach’s decision. Hopefully he can get back in the rotation and contribute a solid 10+ minutes per game.

Big kid from NJ.

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Article in Daily Northwestern says that demolition of Ryan Field Stadium will begin week of Jan 29. This is certainly a sad day for us old farts.

I talked to Jace Borcherding about his PWO offer earlier this week, where Northwestern ranks for him and the Wildcats' recruiting pitch.