Marcus Horne

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NDSU may have hit a home run with it’s sixth recruit of the 2012 class. Marcus Horne is a 5’11, 190 pound running back from Bradley Tech High School out of Milwaukee. Horne was described by his high school coach Craig Bevilacqua as a ”freak of nature” who can bench about 390 pounds, has a 3.9 GPA, and loves the game. He has some impressive bloodlines, his cousin is Fred McAfee, who was a running back in the NFL, most notably with the New Orleans Saints.

Horne had college scouts drooling this past off-season, enough so that every school in the MAC offered him, outside of Northern Illinois and Ohio and Iowa, Michigan State and Northwestern were interested in him as a preferred walk-on. Why he decided against the Big Ten schools according to Bevilacqua was that they wanted him to play defense, and Horne wants to be a running back. He was at the Northern Iowa game this weekend, saw the environment at the Fargodome and also saw that NDSU likes to run the football. That was the biggest selling point.

Horne is the first running back of the class, but figure already with Sam Ojuri, Matt Jones and Derrick Lang coming back, and who knows the status of Mike Sigers and John Crockett, it could be an awfully crowded backfield in 2012.

For those that missed our usual Monday Night ramblings on Dizzo’s Den with Jeff and I, that’s on 970 WDAY and wday.com at 6:30 each Monday: http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/54126/group/Sports/

8 thoughts on “Marcus Horne”

  1. Crowded backfield = Good Problem. Dom I noticed on the WDAY sit, you interviewed Kolpak. Said G Sothern has a D2 in their overall record. I believe that Montana State does also, Minot State? GO BISON!

    • That division 2 game on Georgia Southern’s schedule was supposed to be when they came to Fargo on their end of the home and home contract but they backed out. You just have to respect a program that backs out of a home and home to play a division 2 school (Tuscuulm(sp?)).

  3. never get to excited or attached to new recruits, the un hyped ones usually seem to be the best, but still glad to have him on board

  4. Ah, DJ, MWILL, TURNER have been pretty good hyped recruits north side.

    Horne was #6 rated in wisconsin, UWisc only has 14 scholarships for this year, if they had 24 hed be a badger believe that, this kid is that good.

    NDSU TO REPLACE BOISE STATE??? they are gone to big east.

  6. I like how Bohl tries to put players at the positon they want to play. I heard a funny story by Bohl on the radio. He was talking about his earlly recruiting days in Nebraska, he lost out on Marshall Faulk because he wanted him as a corner and he wanted to play running back… I like how Bohl makes fun of himself and obviously doesn’t want to make the same mistake again.