AJS

@Midwestern Hawk I stand corrected. I clearly don't understand the thought process for some of these, specifically Urwiler / Robertson. It's time to log out until the smoke settles. This program isn't very fun at this point to get into the weeds with.

If you ask me who I would be most excited for, it would be an All Conference D2 guy. Those are the ones if I was the coaches I would go after hardest.

I would think a player would want to transfer as early as possible. That would be announcing and trying to sign, so they could enroll at their new school by spring semester. The way I’m looking at it is the first wave already came. Season over, end of year discussions between Coaches / Players completed. This is an important week, I could see players talking it over w/ their parents over Thanksgiving. If we don’t hear anything this next week, I’ll feel good moving forward. Not saying it’s impossible for a player or two after that, but to answer @fightingsioux4life not talking walk ons, this wouldn’t just be the beginning.

You would think, logically, that players would be entering sooner than later, correct? Why would players be waiting to enter the portal? Or am I reading your post wrong? Of course there is always a handful of walk ons that won’t be on the roster next year, but that’s the case with every college football team, every year. If you’re implying that there will be more ‘Nelson’ type players, we’d be finding that out soon. Or at least that would make the most sense to me.

Made some corrections. Richter / Boltmann (honored Senior Day) are now bolded. Peterson is not. Other than that, it looks good.

After an extremely disappointing effort on Friday, kudos for the turn around on Saturday. Splits are fine during this stretch, but they are playing with fire losing Friday nights. Tough for Calder, but I guess the bright side is this would be the most opportune time for this injury to happen. Two series and then three weeks off without any games (not counting the exhibition against U-18). They really need Constantini / Kunz back. Forward line up without Calder / Constantini / Kunz really takes a hit. Overall, a good weekend results wise.

Agreed, but do you think he played well?

You’re only going to learn by playing. Johnson needs to be in the line up. Berry picking Johnson over Morrow looks laughable. Johnson could have used another year in the USHL clearly. What an awful decision. Berry deserves more criticism than he gets for that one.

9 Fr and two of those are goalies who have 0 combined minutes.

I’ve been told Driscoll is far from the issue and his Save% is only based on the defense.

Congrats to top six forward Portz on his first goal of the year.

Second straight Friday they have been embarrassed.

He’s one of the problems. I mean his save % for the year is bad.

Definitely more transfers, but more off the 2-Deep you're saying?

It's so disappointing after going pretty unscathed after Spring ball. Any 2022 talks now seem extremely premature. Have to wait to see the roster construction once the dust settles. Nobody else off the 2-Deep and we'll consider this off-season a success.

That is brutal.

Not taking part in Senior day was a tell, but Maag confirmed he'll be back for his "5th" year on a Twitter post. @Nodak78 about time to fire up the 2022-2023 season thread?

I think everyone is on the same page. Yes to transfers, but in only very specific situations. Honestly, given the "5th" year rule, for the next couple of years, I would really hope there wouldn't be a need outside of maybe one or two per class.

Four I know have signed their NLI. Blake (03) - Chicago: 9-17-26 (19GP) *Leads USHL in points* / +5 Spicer (04) - NTDP: 8-8-16 (18GP) / +8 Strinden (02) - Muskegon: 6-8-14 (15GP) *31st USHL in points* / +4 (Leads Team) James (03) - Sioux City: 3-11-14 (16GP) *33rd USHL in points* / +6 Others (I would think would be in consideration): Bowen (02) - Chilliwack (BCHL): 6-7-13 (12GP) Singleton (04) - Okotoks (AJHL): 12-21-33 (25GP) Three forward spots available (Ford / Senden / Hain). I don't see any other forward signing. I could see a transfer out situation. Let's call the number of four forwards that will be needed next year. Last year at this time, outside of the GB guys (Schmaltz / Kunz), the points weren't coming for the forward recruits. Appears to be a very solid group to choose from next year. Edit: I know there was discussion about Spicer the last few posts. One thing to note is that the leading scorers for the NTDP have 20 points. Three of them, another few between 16 and 20, but the point being, the guys leading the team in scoring are "A" rated players. Realizing he was hurt last year, but what a comeback year for him.

I'm good with that. Kilty (Kunz) / Ventrelli (Hagen) at the tackle positions next year. Sign me up.

Kuntz was getting a lot of praise in fall camp. Although it's not his natural position, do you leave Kilty inside if as a Sophomore Kuntz is ready to step into that LT roll?

Looking back at the O-Line against SDSU, is this correct? 1st half - Lavell, Christian, Ghadaksaz, Kilty, Ventrelli 2nd half - Kuntz, Lavell, Ghadaksaz, Kilty, Ventrelli

Devastating might be a bit aggressive, but I do think the Penn State loss does put even more emphasis on this weekend. Given the unknown health situation of this team, I'd be satisfied with a split.

Given the timing, this most likely the most logical reason for it. Lots of talent at that CB position.

@shep if the 2nd DB you mentioned was Odom, I believe they moved him to WR a few years back. @siouxfan512 it sounds harsh, but from a roster construction standpoint, the Odom transfer is very helpful. I'm with you about not only it bothering me, but I think it's an overall plus. The Robertson one from the surface level does bother me. Someone who was on the 2-Deep as a RS-Freshman. What I don't know and those in the know, I would be really interested to hear, is how real are these end of the year conversations? Could this actually be, we see X, Y, Z moving ahead of you? This one doesn't sit well with me.