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BOZEMAN - It wasn't the biggest recruiting class and Montana State football coach Rob Ash admits it isn't a "flashy" class, but the theme in Bozeman seems to be "Quality over quantity."

"I really wondered if we could use a high school-oriented recruiting approach and bring the kind of athlete it takes to win to MSU," Ash said. "This class and the class or two before it really answer that question."

Ash and his staff were able to sign 12 of the 15 recruits that visited Bozeman on official recruiting trips, proving their dedication to signing athletes at key positions.

"That was really the key for us this year," Ash said. "We needed to focus on a few quality players and we were able to convert an extremely high percentage of official visits to commitments. We needed to identify the right players at the positions that were areas of needs, and we feel we did that. We're very excited about this class."

MSU also landed a player whose father played on a Bobcat National Championship team for the sixth straight year, inking Jackson Mahlum, whose father Tom played for the Bobcats in 1984.