'21 MN LB Jake Ratzlaff

[BobbyMac]

LB
Rosemount, MN
Rosemount HS

Measurements:
Height: 6-3
Weight: 220

Rankings:
247 Comp: .. 3* ..... #38 OLB...... #610 OA ..... .8667 rating
247: ............ 4* ..... #21 OLB .......................... 90
Rivals: ......... 3* .............................................. 5.5

Offers:

Iowa
IA St
Minn
Wiscy

Media Links:

Twitter = https://twitter.com/ratzlaff_21

Hudl - https://www.hudl.com/profile/9031837/Jake-Ratzlaff

Highlights:

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[BobbyMac]

Because you are all bored out of your skulls, I give you Jake Ratzlaff...

After Mr. Buchner, this is the first guy you'd wish for in '21 after seeing his film.

It's like watching Harrison Smith play against HS kids.

So who's got questions about The Hitman???

 

[Luckylucci]

Guys like this are how Wiscy puts together such a good defense every year.

 

[BobbyMac]

Guys like this are how Wiscy puts together such a good defense every year.

Honestly, if they had this level of player they'd beat everybody. This guy is a unicorn.

That film is the defensive Jake Smith.

 

[BobbyMac]

Funny thing is he plays for the Rosemount Fighting Irish and they wear MI uni's.

Would've loved to be there when the school board came up with this. Has to be one hell of a back story.

 

[BobbyMac]

Calabrese...

Did you watch it twice or just roll into his Soph film? lol

* I guess he had to fly. Prolly meeting his People and going out tonight to look for wrong-doers

 

[Irish YJ]

We'll recruit him as TE

 

[NDIrish88]

I think we have a Buck. Call Clarky to drive up to MN to see this kid. Covid be damned. Take him and Prince and circle back to Perry for a flip and call it a day.

 

[BobbyMac]

I think we have a Buck. Call Clarky to drive up to MN to see this kid. Covid be damned. Take him and Prince and circle back to Perry for a flip and call it a day.

He's gonna get drafted in the NHL. He's also committed to Minn for college and on Team USA. He hits like he's on skates.

 

[Calabrese's People]

Calabrese...

Did you watch it twice or just roll into his Soph film? lol

* I guess he had to fly. Prolly meeting his People and going out tonight to look for wrong-doers

Lord, my internet is dogshit.
Jumped straight into Soph film. Im now suitably qualified to confirm that his improvement year on year is significant.

 

[StPaul_Irish]

Just south of me, and #1 city on my list for my family to move to when the kids get to school age. I will see if I can get out to see him. Pretty good program. Conference is more known for hockey.

 

[StPaul_Irish]

Funny thing is he plays for the Rosemount Fighting Irish and they wear MI uni's.

Would've loved to be there when the school board came up with this. Has to be one hell of a back story.

I plan on changing that some day.

 

[dublinirish]

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Minnesota-Wisconsin battle

 

[BobbyMac]

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Minnesota-Wisconsin battle

Did he decide to play football over hockey?

 

[dublinirish]

Did he decide to play football over hockey?

he hasn't decided as of September apparently

Ratzlaff said he had narrowed it down to essentially three options: play Gophers hockey, play Gophers football or play football for the Wisconsin Badgers.

https://www.postbulletin.com/sports...es-tough-choice-blocked-shots-or-zone-blitzes

Also i presume this is Joe Alt's older brother?:

Alt faced similar choice
A decade ago, before he played defense for the Gopher hockey team, Mark Alt faced a similar tough choice. He was a hockey star at Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul, but also quarterbacked the Raiders to a state football title. Mark’s father, John, had been a football star at Iowa, then played a dozen seasons in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs. The Alt parents were not subtle about which direction they hoped Mark would choose.

“I was down in Iowa a few times. I did my official visit, I went to the spring (football) game and did pretty much every possible Iowa thing you could do before I made the call,” Mark Alt said. “It wasn’t just my dad, it was also my mom. In the month leading up to national signing day, she would wear something black or gold, or sometimes straight-up Iowa gear, every day. A little subliminal messaging there.”

But he chose the hockey rink, admitting that with his parents, things were “pretty brutal for a while” after announcing that he would skate in Dinkytown rather than call audibles in Iowa City. Alt played in the 2012 NCAA Frozen Four with the Gophers and has played seven full seasons of professional hockey — including 18 games in the NHL — over the past seven seasons.


When he was being recruited, Alt even had a few eastern colleges float the idea of playing both football (at the FCS level) and hockey.

“The Ivy League schools offered that I could do both and for some reason that seemed more do-able. When you get to the bigger programs, it’s not as viable,” Alt recalled. “The seasons overlap so much and the training overlaps so much that the only places that were open to it were the Ivies.”

 

[BobbyMac]

he hasn't decided as of September apparently



https://www.postbulletin.com/sports...es-tough-choice-blocked-shots-or-zone-blitzes

Thx. That's where I left off with him.

 

[dublinirish]

committed to Wisconsin

 

[BobbyMac]

I'm pissy. Come on Lea, get your head in the game!

I'm gonna eat that Snickers now.

 

[Luckylucci]

I'm pissy. Come on Lea, get your head in the game!

I'm gonna eat that Snickers now.

I'm not all up in arms so hopefully its not taken that way but there are a few guys this cycle that have been pretty bizarre to just pass on. Especially with the staff going to a full 25. Jake being one. We're going after another DL but they don't even contact George Wilson. They know more than I but puzzling stuff.

 

[BobbyMac]

I'm not all up in arms so hopefully its not taken that way but there are a few guys this cycle that have been pretty bizarre to just pass on. Especially with the staff going to a full 25. Jake being one. We're going after another DL but they don't even contact George Wilson. They know more than I but puzzling stuff.

Ugh. Don't get me started on Wilson.

I also don't undertand the nope on this guy who I know was a qualifier:

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[dublinirish]

Signed with Wisconsin today, sorry Crus

 

[BobbyMac]

Fire Lea!