Joe Schobert takes walk on at UND over schloarships and UW

Darell1976 · Post by **Darell1976** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:29 pm

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It isn't uncommon for a high school athlete to perform well late in their careers and garner increased recruiting attention from other schools, but for Waukesha West's Joe Schobert, "late" got a whole new meaning.

Schobert gave a verbal commitment to join the North Dakota football team as a preferred walk-on at outside linebacker back in February. However, after an outstanding week leading up to, and performance at the WFCA All-Star Game in Oshkosh in early July, he began hearing from several schools who realized they may have missed out on a quality football player.

I said all season that Schobert may be the most underrecruited player in the state. Despite rushing for nearly 3900 yards and 51 touchdowns as a running back, being a two-time All-State selection, earning All-Conference honors on defense, and posting impressive measurables, he did not receive any Division I scholarship offers.

That changed after his performance at All-Star Week though. Since he did not sign any binding Letter of Intent as a preferred walk-on, other schools remained free to contact, recruit, and offer. Both North Dakota State and Northern Illinois offered some form of scholarship money, and the University of Wisconsin extended a preferred walk-on invitation.

Schobert had built a strong relationship with the North Dakota staff over the last several months and felt a great deal of loyalty to the program. He informed the coaching staffs at North Dakota State and Northern Illinois that he appreciated the offers, but was not considering them. It was down to preferred walk-on invitations at North Dakota and Wisconsin.

Last night, he reaffirmed his commitment to North Dakota and will head to Grand Forks next week to get settled in for practices.

"I just felt like the North Dakota coaches like me and I liked the campus," Schobert told WisSports.net. "And I'm excited to play outside linebacker."

Sounds like UND got a steal from Wisconsin!!

sioux24/7 · Post by **sioux24/7** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:23 pm

Turns out he is going to Wisconsin. This is from Joe on siouxsports.com "Hey everyone,
this is Joe Schobert, Unfortunately for everyone in Grand Forks I received a call from Coach Bielema today and he assured me that I would be able to get in to Madison for the Fall semester and that was what I was waiting to hear all week long last week. But on Friday they couldn't tell me so I thought i would be heading to UND. Im sorry that this has turned out this way, I loved the coaches and people I met that worked for the University but this is an opportunity to live out my Dream and i am going to try and take it. I wish you all the best of luck in the future and the UND football team certainly looks like it will make noise in the BSC very soon.
Thanks,
Joe Schobert "

Darell1976 · Post by **Darell1976** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:47 am

sioux24/7 wrote:Turns out he is going to Wisconsin. This is from Joe on siouxsports.com "Hey everyone,
this is Joe Schobert, Unfortunately for everyone in Grand Forks I received a call from Coach Bielema today and he assured me that I would be able to get in to Madison for the Fall semester and that was what I was waiting to hear all week long last week. But on Friday they couldn't tell me so I thought i would be heading to UND. Im sorry that this has turned out this way, I loved the coaches and people I met that worked for the University but this is an opportunity to live out my Dream and i am going to try and take it. I wish you all the best of luck in the future and the UND football team certainly looks like it will make noise in the BSC very soon.
Thanks,
Joe Schobert "

UND losing a walk-on to his homestate school which is a BSC powerhouse. Very understandable and I wish him the best of luck.

bison07 · Post by **bison07** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:10 pm

Darell1976 wrote:
sioux24/7 wrote:Turns out he is going to Wisconsin. This is from Joe on siouxsports.com "Hey everyone,
this is Joe Schobert, Unfortunately for everyone in Grand Forks I received a call from Coach Bielema today and he assured me that I would be able to get in to Madison for the Fall semester and that was what I was waiting to hear all week long last week. But on Friday they couldn't tell me so I thought i would be heading to UND. Im sorry that this has turned out this way, I loved the coaches and people I met that worked for the University but this is an opportunity to live out my Dream and i am going to try and take it. I wish you all the best of luck in the future and the UND football team certainly looks like it will make noise in the BSC very soon.
Thanks,
Joe Schobert "
UND losing a walk-on to his homestate school which is a BSC powerhouse. Very understandable and I wish him the best of luck.

Hmmm.....this is quite a tone change

Post by **AZGrizFan** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:54 pm

bison07 wrote:
Darell1976 wrote:
UND losing a walk-on to his homestate school which is a BSC powerhouse. Very understandable and I wish him the best of luck.
Hmmm.....this is quite a tone change

A tone change from what?

bison07 · Post by **bison07** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:57 pm

AZGrizFan wrote:
bison07 wrote:
Hmmm.....this is quite a tone change
A tone change from what?

From the spewing his crap that he turned down NDSU all over the internet

sioux24/7 · Post by **sioux24/7** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:24 pm

bison07 wrote:
AZGrizFan wrote:
A tone change from what?
From the spewing his crap that he turned down NDSU all over the internet

Well he did turn down NDSU so I don't see where you're going.

bison07 · Post by **bison07** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:22 pm

sioux24/7 wrote:
bison07 wrote:
From the spewing his crap that he turned down NDSU all over the internet
Well he did turn down NDSU so I don't see where you're going.

What school did he end up at? Sounds like he also turned down your guys.........just saying four barrel Darrel made way more out of it than was worth

Darell1976 · Post by **Darell1976** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:44 pm

bison07 wrote:
AZGrizFan wrote:
A tone change from what?
From the spewing his crap that he turned down NDSU all over the internet

He also turned down Northern Illinois so are Husky fans going to rake me over the coals?

sioux24/7 · Post by **sioux24/7** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:30 pm

bison07 wrote:
sioux24/7 wrote:
Well he did turn down NDSU so I don't see where you're going.
What school did he end up at? Sounds like he also turned down your guys.........just saying four barrel Darrel made way more out of it than was worth

Well he originally turned down a SCHOLARSHIP at NDSU to walk-on at UND.

mgbison · Post by **mgbison** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:16 am

If Schobert would've taken the NDSU or NIU offer, it would've looked terrible for UND. We offered him late in the summer, so who cares. At least we had scholarshiop money available to offer a kid last minute.

If I were a UND fan, I'd be wondering why did we not offer the kid some money. Would he have stayed in Grand Forks?

I'm confident we will win the majority of recruiting battles vs UND. UND fans should enjoy this moment because it's probably gonna be a long season in Grand Forks this year.

Darell1976 · Post by **Darell1976** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:24 am

mgbison wrote:If Schobert would've taken the NDSU or NIU offer, it would've looked terrible for UND. We offered him late in the summer, so who cares. At least we had scholarshiop money available to offer a kid last minute.

If I were a UND fan, I'd be wondering why did we not offer the kid some money. Would he have stayed in Grand Forks?

I'm confident we will win the majority of recruiting battles vs UND. UND fans should enjoy this moment because it's probably gonna be a long season in Grand Forks this year.

Are you talking past, present or future (not ghosts either). I think UND did a lot of good recruiting in the 90's and early 2000's against NDSU, prior to the 90's easily NDSU, and from 2004-today I would say NDSU of course it helps when your team has a jump start on DI topping it off with a NC. But with UND and NDSU in AQ conferences (pretty much equal) and with UND's nickname issue in the grave I think the recruiting battle will be very close. I think it will be hard to say this team or that team has an advantage. Maybe NDSU for now until UND makes some kind of noise in the Big Sky but that could happen this season...we will wait and see. Oh and if both UND and NDSU offered Schobert a scholarship he still would have taken Wisconsin (it was his dream to play for UW).

mgbison · Post by **mgbison** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:34 am

I'm more concerned about UNI and SDSU beating us out for recruits than UND at this point. As long as Mussman (sp?) is at UND, I like the direction UND's program is going. I would put UND ahead of USD though (even with Glenn). USD would be a tough sell.

Darell1976 · Post by **Darell1976** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:55 pm

mgbison wrote:I'm more concerned about UNI and SDSU beating us out for recruits than UND at this point. As long as Mussman (sp?) is at UND, I like the direction UND's program is going. I would put UND ahead of USD though (even with Glenn). USD would be a tough sell.

I think USD is going to have a lot tougher time in the MVFC than UND in the Big Sky.

Post by **clenz** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:33 pm

Darell1976 wrote:
mgbison wrote:I'm more concerned about UNI and SDSU beating us out for recruits than UND at this point. As long as Mussman (sp?) is at UND, I like the direction UND's program is going. I would put UND ahead of USD though (even with Glenn). USD would be a tough sell.
I think USD is going to have a lot tougher time in the MVFC than UND in the Big Sky.

Usd has UNI, SDSU, NDSU, Northwest Missouri State, Augustana, and Sioux Falls to fight with.

They quint win many Iowa recruits. Iowa hand picks their 4 our 5a year, Iowa State grabs their 4 or 5a year, and UNI grabs the rest...while fighting the other two...ask while dominating the st luis market for fcs players.

Id guess ndsu, minnesota, and uni run the twin cities.

The other dakota schools erik fight for nebraska and the dakotas.

They'll struggle for quite some time.

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