AJS

Obviously winning the conference tournament and making the NCAA's is always the most important goal, but what you said has been more frustrating than any of the Big Sky tournament losses. UND has never put themselves to be anymore than one of the 4 first round games if they did make it, because of their terrible non-conference record every single year. Add that to what is always a mediocre Big Sky record and you have a team a couple games above .500 with an awful RPI entering the Big Sky tourney. They need to figure out a way to beat average mid-major teams (like North Florida and Wright State) and then get a signature win to put themselves in a decent position. That has never happened. Just once I'd like to enter the Big Sky tourney knowing that if they do pull it off, that they won't just get one of the 4 play in games.

Really excited about Gibson, he has the size, speed and hands. He'll be able to cover a lot of ground in the secondary.

Right, "____ Up" is there right alongside "Roll ____" and "____ Nation" as phrases almost every school uses. They are about as unoriginal as it gets (unless you are Alabama and actually created it).

Question for anyone who knows the ins and outs of recruiting. UND currently has 16 commitments with 28 offers still on the table. Using defensive backs as the example, the last two commitments were from players recruited as CBs. They still have offers out to 7 defensive backs. You only have a need for X amount of players for each group in each class. Are the coaches in constant contact with the other 7 who have offers, letting them know let's say they only have one scholarship left at that position? Once it's filled do they pull the scholarship offers from all the others?

Nick Deluca was granted his medical hardship waiver today, wonder when we'll hear about Georges and Arnell?

Based on SS's wiki, these appear to be the most highly sought after recruits that have offers from UND. Hoping they land one or two of them. TE Devin Wilson, 6'6“, 250, Talladega (Central), AL Has offers from Jacksonville State & NDSU (plus two others) Eric Rousemiller, 6'4“, 290, 5.3, Lakeville (South), MN (2 Star - 247) Has PWO offer from UM OT Matt Henningsen, 6'5”, 265, 5.2, Menomonee Falls (Menomonee Falls), WI Has offers from IL St, USD & WIU DE James Jackson, 6'3”, 220, 4.8, St. Paul (Cretin Hall Durham), MN (2 Star - 247 & Scout) Has offers from SDSU, Youngstown St, WIU, UNI & WY DE Boye Mafe, 6'5, 220, Minnetonka (Hopkins), MN (3 Star - Scout & 247) Has offers from SDSU, UM, UNI & WY LB Noah Harvey, 6'4”, 205, 4.5, Hartland (Arrowhead), WI Has offers from Buffalo, SDSU & WIU LB Grant McDonald, 6'3“, 225, 4.8, Delta (South), BC Has offers from Maine & Buffalo LB Zeke Vandenburgh, 6'3”, 215, LB Freeport (Freeport), IL Has offers from SDSU, SIU, NDSU, USD, IL St & WIU S Matt Anderson, 6'3', 185, 4.6, Fort Wayne (Homestead), IN (1 Star - 247) Has offers from IL St, IN St, Army, Air Force & Yale

This is turning into quite the class on paper. As mentioned above Blubaugh had offers from Wyoming and UNC, 13th best prospect by 247 in the state of Colorado. 1st team all Colorado running back after rushing for over 1900 yards (9 YPC). Listed at 6'0" 182lbs, projects at CB per SFI. The last two Colorado commits have both had offers from FBS programs. Really amazing what this coaching staff is doing.

Lame move by Baldwin, but was it really enough to walk off without shaking hands?

What happened? I looked up and the Iowa coach is storming off the court.

This is still the best team UND has had in the Jones era and should be able to put together a very good record in the Big Sky. I'm excited for league play to start.

Give me a break, how was that a foul on Crandell, these refs are awful

Really been impressed with UNDs FT shooting this year.

UND with a nice push in the 2nd half, outscoring Iowa by 4 to bring it to a 7 point game with over 9 to play.

Just can't seem to put it together this game, look good at times, but way too many possessions thrown away by turnovers.

Solid first two possessions

Yep

Crandell has been an absolute liability.

Here's my problem, I'm not saying they should go 50/50 against power conference teams, but you'd think once in program history they could pull one out. Jones could coach for 100 years and they'd never win one. Another semifinal exit in the Big Sky tourney and an RPI in the 200s, sound good?

Pathetic

*Was a competitive game

Competitive game, difference is 3 point shooting.

New details is base of $185K, plus $10K raise each year.

Using the numbers from the SFI, who had him at 150, 185 is definitely a nice little bump. Now he has a higher base than Montana's head coach and only $5,000 less than SDSU's. I would say his salary went from low to respectable when being compared to his peers. https://siouxfb.areavoices.com/2016/12/13/the-fcs-coaching-salary-market/

Great news! "The contract extension and salary increase for Schweigert also includes a salary pool increase for his assistant coaches, which is in keeping with President Mark Kennedy's statements this fall that UND would invest in championship teams."

I'm sure it's a little bit of both. It appears he was a pretty good FCS recruit given he originally was going to walk on to a P5 school and then went to EWU. *After reading Tom's article it appears the injury his Senior year hurt his recruiting. This would be my guess as well. It's important when you look at EWU's QB depth chart that it's very young. Based off reading their roster there were 3 players going for the starting job at camp, the returning starter (SR) and two Sophomores (one being Gubrud). That's a tough depth chart to crack. Can't wait for Spring Ball, we need him to be the solid #2 we haven't had the last couple of years. I did like his scrambling ability I saw on his Hudl film.