2025 Recruiting List

[salemjack]

verbal from
OL Landyn Lewerke 6'3" 280lb Clear Lake, IA
flipped from NW Mo State

NW MO State has a pretty good program don’t they?

[bigticket1]

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OL Landyn Lewerke 6'3" 280lb Clear Lake, IA
flipped from NW Mo State

Looks like he also had a Winona State offer, so Bergy probably is familiar with him.

[peavy]

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OL Landyn Lewerke 6'3" 280lb Clear Lake, IA
flipped from NW Mo State

[HoboJack]

I have an easier time understanding why the 2025 recruits are following the coaching staff to WSU. The only time they have spent in Brookings are their visits and maybe a camp. Basically the only connections they have to SDSU are the coaches who they built relationships with. I don't like it, but I can see the attraction. On the other hand, it bothers me that players who have been on campus and involved with the program for years made their decisions. I do think that a number of them will eventually regret the move.

Looking at the list on JI for players heading for WSU, there are 4 listed as grad transfers, 2 seniors (Large and Angel Johnson), 0 juniors, 1 sophomore (Kirby Vorhees - Florida), and a bunch of redshirt freshman (most of which where not from the local area). There are seven total players that have been on campus for a full year. That tells me that most of our older players are bought in to the community and school.

I’ve chosen to view this as the ones that were willing to leave were not going to be the type of leaders we want for the next class of players anyway. I’ll miss some of their skills as players - leadership qualities- not so much.

The decimation of basically 2 full recruiting classes will be a hurdle for the new staff to overcome, but the culture is still good. 19 of the 27 players are on the defensive side of the ball. Depth and special teams may be a challenge until we can recover.


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[peavy]

2025 Commits (32):

Offense (15):
RB- Travon Pankey, 6'1 205, Gladstone, MO[/B]
Offers: Army, Wyoming, UNI, USD, ISUr, UT Martin

Pankey to WSU leaving just Tillford left as the final unknown

[bigticket1]

Would love to know what Stig and Sell think truly think of all of this. I don't think its so much amazing relationships that have been built between the 2025 recruits and the coaches, but rather that Washington State is flush with cash that they are distributing to these kids. I think on paper the 2024 and 2025 recruiting classes are the best we ever had do in large part to the success of the program that Stig built and all of that was done with SDSU's recruiting budget. This will have a major impact on the product we put on the field the next two years as our depth has taken a major hit. I think Jackson has assembled a superior coaching staff and they will produce, but going to lower my expectations for 2025. I also think you will some of the 30 players who have departed for WSU back in the portal soon.

I have an easier time understanding why the 2025 recruits are following the coaching staff to WSU. The only time they have spent in Brookings are their visits and maybe a camp. Basically the only connections they have to SDSU are the coaches who they built relationships with. I don't like it, but I can see the attraction. On the other hand, it bothers me that players who have been on campus and involved with the program for years made their decisions. I do think that a number of them will eventually regret the move.

[peavy]

offer on
WR Kellen Watson 6'3" 195lb Mishawaka, IN
Looks like he transitioned from WR to QB this past season. this person called him the 3rd fastest player in Indiana
on3 recruiting guy retweeted Kellen's offer and had this to say "... One of the fastest players in the Midwest"

[JACKGUYII]

it does seem a little unbelievable to me that Jimmy is telling SO MANY kids who previously were choosing to go to college relatively close to home that it is now a good thing for them to go to college half way across the country. am i wrong? or just being stupid because of my Jackrabbit upbringing?

seriously, he could not find some kids with ties to the WSU area? i understand it for kids who were coming to us from colorado or anywhere west. i could also understand for any kids who had already decided to move a significant distance
but we had a bunch of kids who were going to be playing the distance of a very easy drive from home. suddenly it is smart for all of them to play a long way from home. have Jimmy and staff given ANY thought at all to what might be best for those kids?

i know that has pretty much been said before. hard to believe that there are not some people who really believed that they knew Jimmy well who are not incredibly disappointed

Would love to know what Stig and Sell think truly think of all of this. I don't think its so much amazing relationships that have been built between the 2025 recruits and the coaches, but rather that Washington State is flush with cash that they are distributing to these kids. I think on paper the 2024 and 2025 recruiting classes are the best we ever had do in large part to the success of the program that Stig built and all of that was done with SDSU's recruiting budget. This will have a major impact on the product we put on the field the next two years as our depth has taken a major hit. I think Jackson has assembled a superior coaching staff and they will produce, but going to lower my expectations for 2025. I also think you will some of the 30 players who have departed for WSU back in the portal soon.

[goon]

Well let's be honest I will be surprised jimmy stays more then 2 years. Maybe 3 at best. He will leave for big 10 or 12 etc and probably bail on all the kids he talked into going to a school who has no home or conference to play for. Just like Otz going to unlv. It was always a stepping stone. Wsu is not a destination coaches want to stay at. Especially now.

[LetsGoRabbits]

it does seem a little unbelievable to me that Jimmy is telling SO MANY kids who previously were choosing to go to college relatively close to home that it is now a good thing for them to go to college half way across the country. am i wrong? or just being stupid because of my Jackrabbit upbringing?

seriously, he could not find some kids with ties to the WSU area? i understand it for kids who were coming to us from colorado or anywhere west. i could also understand for any kids who had already decided to move a significant distance
but we had a bunch of kids who were going to be playing the distance of a very easy drive from home. suddenly it is smart for all of them to play a long way from home. have Jimmy and staff given ANY thought at all to what might be best for those kids?

i know that has pretty much been said before. hard to believe that there are not some people who really believed that they knew Jimmy well who are not incredibly disappointed

[peavy]

[U]2025 Commits

DL- Josh Wedel, 6’5 240, Chaska, MN
Offers: Washington St., Army, Air Force, Ohio, NDSU, Cornell, Penn

Wedel to WSU leaving just two ?? names left

[Hip2daHop]

On occasion I go back and review previous classes...... the 3* players who didn't quite fit... and the underrecruited who flourish. Anyone still on our team is vital, and new additions will mesh in most cases. Highly confident.

[jbjack]

His offer list is not exactly who I'd prefer we would be competing against.

There's not exactly a lot of choice '25 guys left and the staff can't exactly go back in time and spend 2 years building relationships. At this point, the emphasis is obviously on having a class after the bulk of our '25 class went to Pullman.

[mnjackrbt]

It's tough to take into account the offer list from other schools on guys, but I do feel what you are saying and slightly question it as well. Our big time players since going FCS, a lot of them have really had no other offers besides SDSU. Certainly some exceptions though.

[peavy]

His offer list is not exactly who I'd prefer we would be competing against.

Looks like he had a PWO opportunity with the University of Illinois. Old coaching staff was interested in him. He visited Brookings May '24 and again for prospect camp June '24.