South Dakota defensive end commits to NDSU

By Jeff Kolpack

January 15, 2007 at 11:00 PM

The town of Hurley, S.D., has 426 people. By next fall, it will have 425.

That's because of one its biggest citizens - 6-foot-5, 235-pound Coulter Boyer - will attend North Dakota State on a football scholarship. The defensive end gave his verbal commitment to the Bison over the weekend after a campus visit.

"I just like the atmosphere," Boyer said. "I felt like I fit in real well."

Boyer played 9-man football for Hurley-Marion, which advanced to the second round of the state playoffs before losing to eventual state champion Parker. Hurley is located 40 miles southwest of Sioux Falls.

He picked NDSU over South Dakota State and the University of South Dakota.

"I don't think you have to go to a real huge school to get noticed," Boyer said.

Boyer will be the second player from his neighborhood at NDSU. Offensive lineman Chris Wellenstein, who redshirted last year, is from nearby Centerville, S.D.

Boyer is also a standout in basketball, but decided last fall to concentrate on football.

"I just realized that is what I want to play," he said.

By Jeff Kolpack

Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.

South Dakota defensive end commits to NDSU

The town of Hurley, S.D., has 426 people. By next fall, it will have 425. That's because of one its biggest citizens - 6-foot-5, 235-pound Coulter Boyer - will attend North Dakota State on a football scholarship. The defensive end gave his verbal...