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    2022 Football Season

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    1 hour ago, iramurphy said:

    Don’t think the folks trying to move things forward is “ all beer, skittles and sunshine”.  Far from it. Some understand what it takes to turn programs around, resurrect businesses, and even how we can lose our edge.

    Some, and I am one of them, see no purpose in calling for coaching change publicly until the change is going to be made. Public calls for coaching change usually has an adverse effect on recruiting and creates negative vibes on the team and staff. We all have the same goal and that is championship FB as well as tourney appearances and conference championships in all sports. Obviously there are those who feel otherwise. Bringing back other sports isn’t fiscally feasible without a designated sugar daddy right now, but it would be a mistake not to listen to all stakeholders to see what they bring to the table. I think we will see improvement in MBB, WBB this year. We have made big strides in VB. We seem to be making strides in FB but need to get better each week. We have hockey where it needs to be financially. Now we need to get our other sports there too. It isn’t easy. 

    Where is the quickest, easiest place to find UND athletic budget broken down by sport?   There is a bit of a cart/horse aspect to this too.  This weekend and the game vs USD, what will the potential lost revenue be with the stadium half full and half the concessions stands operating?

    ACU @ UND 10/29/22

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    15 hours ago, Kab said:

    Hope the team isn’t buying into an easy win

    nothing comes easy

    At this point it's a must win...whether its by 40 or 1, we just need to find a way.  Definitely agree on the easy part.

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    2022 Football Season

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    9 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:

    Or including 2020 Bubba is 14-11 as a head coach......

    Can’t argue with that.  And after the 2022 season, if I was a betting man I would bet on his record being 16-13 since 2020.  And then after 2023 I would bet on his record somewhere between 22-18 and 21-19 since 2020.(Tommy too).  
     

    Don’t get me wrong,  a record a bit above .500 is not a bad record, but on the other hand it’s a long ways from a great record.

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    2022 Football Season

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    1 hour ago, Sioux94 said:

    I think most everyone would say SDSU at this point has bigger/more talented players than us. at this point.  However, we did beat them in Spring 2020 and very close on the road last fall.  Actually, to me that says our coaches must be pretty good if we have slightly inferior talent but can still win.  Hopefully that means as they continue to build the quality of that talent and when we are equal in talent we will be able to win more often than we lose when we play the SU's.  Just because I'm saying that doesn't mean I think that I think Bubba is the best coach in the world.  I actually don't think his contract should have been extended when it was, and unless we have some playoff success this year and next year, I hope it's not.  But I'm not going to rip on the coaches every single time a player makes a mistake etc..  But because some of us don't rip on the coaches and program non-stop, a few of you love claiming that the rest of us love .500 football.  Which is about as true as when we say you aren't a real fan.  Neither of those are true, we are all big fans, we all want and expect to start getting some conference titles and ultimately a National Championship. 

    Actually I think this fall you haven't been that bad.  Last year you were ripping on Tommy and his arm....3-4 times a week.  Tommy has shown he is a pretty productive FCS QB, especially this year now that he is running a little more and I think even you see he's a pretty good QB. Doesn't mean he is perfect, deep balls are still a struggle for sure and that has been frustrating.  And the thing is, it's not necessarily due to arm strength all of the time.  The first play against SDSU he over threw the ball so it wasn't that.  

    Tommy's running this season has made the difference for me.  

    On the talent, what are you basing that on?  Everyone talks about the OL and DL of NDSU and SDSU.  At FCS level, the OL and DL are built, not recruited.  

    2022 Football Season

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    4 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said:

    Outside the one decade in the D2 era when has UND been able to recruit better talent than SU. Yes SDSU wasn’t relevant back then but wasn’t drug around back then? Hard to blame coaching when UND has always struggled. 

    Always struggled?  I thought you were a self proclaimed expert on UND football and football in general?  How about you make me a list of excuses?

    2022 Football Season

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    5 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said:

    Whose OL or DL would you rather have? I’d pick SDSU in a heartbeat! Those lines will lead them deep in the playoffs. Maybe our OL will be that good in a couple years…

    It's coaching.  I'm tired of the excuses.  If we don't hand SDSU 28 points on Saturday we win with our crappy(in your words, not mine) OL and DL...

     

    A huge problem which is never addressed on this forum is our team only plays well from behind and seems to have no idea how to protect a lead.

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    2022 Football Season

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    11 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said:

    We don’t have the talent of the SU’s, some say we can’t get that top talent because of Bubba, it’s just really tough to recruit the same talent to GF over Fargo. We are getting better but this transfer portal has been brutal to UND. We don’t have an elite program so to me it’s hard to expect a national championship every year.

    Just stop with the talent thing.  We lost on Saturday because we turned the ball over 3 times and gave the game away.  Win a few of these BIG games and the portal will be your friend.  We gave the Jacks a pick 6 and they started 3 drives inside our 20 yard line. 

     

    The 2 previous games vs SDSU we won and and lost the other by a TD and had a chance late.

    Talent is just an excuse.

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    2022 Football Season

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    25 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said:

    I still can’t believe he thinks the SR is trying to signal Tommy……. FP

     

    No when they put their arm behind them or forward. Of course they signal to each other during the game but those are not the signals! Have you never played football?

    The WR on the line signals the line judge confirming he is considered on the line.  Those are not the signals I am talking about.  How about you watch the game again.

    Are those hand signals in the first photo or are they pretending to jump rope?  In the second and third photos, the initial signals to LJ are at 4:38.  #84 signals to #2, 6 seconds later.

     

     

     

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