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per the Fargo Forum:
In the eyes of North Dakota State football fans, James Johannesson is the one who got away. And with four straight national championships to brag about, NDSU coaches do not lose too many recruits these days.
But Johannesson is so good, so powerful and so fast, it was hard for University of Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill to not notice. That’s unlike his predecessor, Tim Brewster, who lost a game to the Bison, who had players Brewster probably should have recruited.
For Johannesson, the 6-foot-1, 221-pound running back who amassed an amazing 6,198 yards rushing during his high school career at Fargo South, the lure of playing for a Big Ten program in front of 50,000 fans was too hard to pass up.
But he said picking between Minnesota and NDSU was still a tough decision. Last August when he verbally committed to the Gophers, he had a hard time breaking the news to Bison running backs coach Tyler Roehl and head coach Chris Klieman.
“I didn’t even want to tell them … I almost couldn’t do it,” Johannesson said Wednesday morning, moments after he signed his national letter of intent during a ceremony in the South gymnasium. “I felt like I was breaking up with my girlfriend or something.”
http://www.inforum.com/sports/high-...nepf-johannesson-cant-resist-big-tens-gophers
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In the eyes of North Dakota State football fans, James Johannesson is the one who got away. And with four straight national championships to brag about, NDSU coaches do not lose too many recruits these days.
But Johannesson is so good, so powerful and so fast, it was hard for University of Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill to not notice. That’s unlike his predecessor, Tim Brewster, who lost a game to the Bison, who had players Brewster probably should have recruited.
For Johannesson, the 6-foot-1, 221-pound running back who amassed an amazing 6,198 yards rushing during his high school career at Fargo South, the lure of playing for a Big Ten program in front of 50,000 fans was too hard to pass up.
But he said picking between Minnesota and NDSU was still a tough decision. Last August when he verbally committed to the Gophers, he had a hard time breaking the news to Bison running backs coach Tyler Roehl and head coach Chris Klieman.
“I didn’t even want to tell them … I almost couldn’t do it,” Johannesson said Wednesday morning, moments after he signed his national letter of intent during a ceremony in the South gymnasium. “I felt like I was breaking up with my girlfriend or something.”
http://www.inforum.com/sports/high-...nepf-johannesson-cant-resist-big-tens-gophers
Go Gophers