Midwestern Hawk

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.

6-6 and the win will be vs sdsu… that is bubba ball.

Everyone you don’t want to leave…

All that is missing is a top 10 staff.

And then we get to look forward to 5-7 wins next season.

With the right coach his team has 2 losses maximum.

Exhausting. We could call the ‘25 season too…between 5 and 7 wins.

JFC this sucks.

Happens a couple times a year…it’s Bubba ball…

This is such a hard team to follow. Same !@#$ every year. We have an average coach at a program which should be elite. Hence the 5-7 wins every year.

Would that do it? Not sure.

Can I take back my 2-2 down the stretch prediction?

That play, in that situation, against that opponent, would make college football "bad moves", of every level, for all time.

True "Bubba Ball" will mean we play well at home vs USD and SDSU and win one of those games, and play horribly on the road against the two ISU's and still manage to win one of those games...2-2 down the stretch, 7-5 overall, a bubble team, who may still end up one of the 24 teams. A first round loss in Albany or somewhere like that and then we will grow hopeful for 2025...Rinse and Repeat.

That was a painful season. Potentially the best team of the Bubba era, but found a new way to piss a game away almost every week.

I think you are correct. the game should have been over, but we managed to blow it. Up 28-17, 4th and 2 at MSU 29 yard line with 5:30 left in game. We ran a reverse where second runner was going to throw to Q(in at QB) and the exchange between Otis and ? was fumbled. MSU scores , Otis fumbles at MSU 25 and they drive to win it :15 seconds left.

3rd down trick play with significant lead @ Missouri State in 2021. All downhill in that game after that...