Midwestern Hawk

Lay an egg at USD, let a win slip away vs NDSU and now this disaster...

It seems UND is experiencing a let down after last week? WTF?

Your screen shot was the key to the game. Unacceptable if we ever want to be more than a bubble team.

This.

Totally different game if we go up 14-3. Play calling on the red zone series was bad.

So impressed with the changes in this team. wow.

Terrible crowd.

100% with this. We are seeing in real time a change in culture for the better. I love Bubba as a guy and as a coach, but Bubba at 7-4 had reached his zenith and he never recovered from the loss to the Bison at the Alerus in 2021. Schmidt and co needs to be rewarded for their work and if he is interested in long term in Grand Forks, we need to make sure that happens.

Coach Schmidt has this team a handful of plays from being 7-0 and ranked #1.

Proud of UND football and Coach Schmidt.

Very good first game for Schmidt and the crew. What could have been... Last two O series and the last D series were a shame... Needed to keep playing to win...

Schmidt has brought excitement back to North Dakota Football!

Bubba did the right thing.

2025 - 3 wins, 5 losses, 4 toss ups ...best case 7-5, worst case 3-9, likely 5-7 @Kansas State - Loss Portland State - Toss Up @Montana - Loss Valpo - Win @Northern Iowa - Toss Up Youngstown State - Win @Southern Illinois - Toss up Indiana State - Win @South Dakota - Loss North Dakota State - Loss '@Murray State - Toss Up South Dakota State - Loss

The wheels are off the wagon.

Coaching doesn’t matter. It’s all about recruiting…;) See Indiana….

NO question. We will never have the talent to be a perennial semi finalist with Bubba as skipper. That level of talent does not exist in FCS football.

Bubba should have been replaced after '21. That season was the most frustrating I have had as a fan. The staff just plain blew it in several games. Again, IMO, the program never recovered.

I disagree. The fall of 2019, spring '21 and fall '21 season had the pieces, IMO, to make UND into a perennial top 5 FCS program. An argument can be made they were missing a QB, but terrible coaching decisions/lack of prep sunk the team during those years... IMO we were close. Now we are not. In '21, two of the final 4 teams were SDSU and eventual champion NDSU.

Its as predictable as taxes.

Bubba contract has been extended twice after his contract should have been ended. The team and program has been on a downward trend since the fateful day in the Alerus when he gave the Bison game away. I love Bubba, the man and the mentor, but the head football coach will never deliver more than an above average season and UND has the facilities and support to be a top 10 FCS school year in and year out, especially in the new, watered-down version of FCS football.

That would be true Bubba ball…

I can come up with a chunk, yeah.

If bubba loses both South Dakota games at home , he is finished. This is ridiculous.

Well said.