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Vandals sign 18 players on National Signing Day

Posted at 10:47 PM, Feb 06, 2016
and last updated 2016-02-07 00:48:02-05

The Idaho vandals saw an improvement in Coach Petrino’s second year with the program finishing last season with four wins. second year with the program finishing last season with just four wins.  With national signing day in the books Idaho picked 18 players this past Wednesday.  This is the largest number of high school players Petrino has signed to the program.  Of the 18 players that signed on Wednesday 12 enter the program as defensive players,

At the Riverside hotel for the Vandals national signing day event coach Paul Petrino says getting those 13 guys was key for this coming season.

“It’s a good thing. We needed to do it, we needed to get better. A couple of defensive lineman can come in and definitely help us. A couple guys who are young guys can help us in the secondary, and then definetly a linebacker and a middle linebacker. A  couple of  linebackers will be really good for the future. said Head Coach Paul Petrino