F'n Hawks

Anybody going to make it to any spring practices? I hope to make it to the spring wrap up

First commit!

Every team in the conference has to deal with it. Fidler transferred from Omaha, Bison losing a bunch again this year, SDSU has consistently lost players, etc… I truly believe we can be successful with the right coach in place. We can cry NIL and transfer portal (which to an extent is a very real issue for mid majors) but we can’t keep repeating those excuses. It’s a loser mentality.

Are we going to be all time bad next year?

That would be my guess.

I have belief in year 7!

Great question. He’s probably going D2? Maybe a lateral move to another small mid major?

Kind of surprised by this one.

15 seed for Omaha… matched up against St John’s. Gonna be tough for them to put up points

Nor would they announce the starting QB after spring

We return a lot on offense and can build of that. I think if the defense is even average next year that’s a win for us.

I like the room for next year. Transfer from San Diego State looks to be the part and I’m also a believer in Kaminsky as well. Return Romfo as well but don’t think he will win the job.

I’m a huge believer in what the offense can do next year. Agreed on the defense, has been all time bad for 2 years and will take some time to turn around.

A couple of good write ups from Kelly. As was expected, seems like the coaching staff will be targeting some more defensive players from the spring portal with DT and LB being the main focus.

Anybody else that would transfer that would hurt? Panoam maybe?

https://x.com/tiptonedits/status/1899497963723919710?s=46&t=bguC9z3hKd_9bo7pKPxXFQ Official

The hockey forum would say otherwise… unless that’s not what you are referring to and are only talking about MBB. Chaves does have decisions to make unless he is letting all 3 of them coach on the last year of their contract.

It will be very interesting to see what happens. You can’t lame duck all of them can you? Agreed that you also can’t extend…

Let them be regular season champs, be eligible for awards etc.. But if they are ineligible to go to the NCAA tourney, why let them be in the conference tourney? Especially if the point of the conference tourney is the fact that the winner of the tournament gets to move on the NCAA tourney.

If Eaglestaff transfers: King, Panaom, Mara, Woodson, and Kraft would be the returners that got minutes this year. Thomas played a bit but fell out of the rotation. This is assuming everyone else stays. Kraft won’t be ready to start or play big minutes IMO (Sather loves him so he will, Danielson 2.0…) Like every offseason it seems, I will once again be saying that UND needs a true PG and a big.

Why let St Thomas play in the tourney? Don’t you want a championship game that matters. Look at all the publicity the tourney got for Eaglestaff’s 51 bomb

I already sense a completely different vibe…

If we are still in the mix at the end of the season and the NDSU and SDSU games still matter, then it is a 6 I think.

Agreed. Seems like the pieces are there and there is a lot of potential for the future. The key word there is potential…