Midwestern Hawk

After the transfer portal and Danny news, I would change Montana to a Loss and Northern Iowa to a Toss Up. 2 WINS 4 TOSS UPS 6 LOSSES Thankfully San Diego and Murray State come in the first half of the season or it could really snowball. a .500 record will be tough to accomplish. Would not be surprised to see a defection or two yet before next fall...

Probably not.

Been 5-7 wins all but 2 years...one 8 win season followed by a 3 win season... At a school like UND, that record is not good enough.

Danny and Tommy….what was their W-L record? I forget.

I was thinking that exact thing.

Bubba swan song this fall. Not going to be good. Unless possibly Pawlak has the ability to handle it. Danny got out while the getting was still good.

100% correct. The Bison were destroyed in GF and here they are a game away from Frisco. Have to respect that. Based on the rest of the season one would think the score in Gf would have been reversed...the Bison got coached up and got far better and the Hawks floundered the rest of the season and managed to find their comfort zone once again.

Pretty safe to say that FCS football is now a playoff between the MVFC and Big Sky. Albany playing in the MVFC would not have a winning record.

There have been several guys on Bubba's squad over the years that could have made the jump to P5. Not sure what your point is?

North Dakota football has compiled a very average record over the last 10 years. 61 wins 50 losses. Best record was 9-3 in Bubba's third season and that was followed up with Bubba's worst record at 3-8. The other 8 seasons have ended with somewhere between 5 and 7 wins, which IMO, a very average HC and staff could compile at a school like UND in the FCS division. Bubba has made the FCS playoffs(a baseline accomplishment at one of the heavies in FCS football) and has lost all 5 games. North Dakota football should demand excellence. The record and the 2021 extension scream the fact it does not demand excellence and that is my problem with the UND football program. Without major changes in the expectations and the current staff, we can all plan on continued underperformance and 5-7 wins per season.

We beat both NDSU and SDSU since 2018 and should have defeated both teams multiple times. I would agree with Washington, we need them to lose the game. Every other game we could have won with superior coaching. One of the losses vs NDSU had one of the worst coaching moves in MVFC history.

Tell me which game since 2018(@Washington) UND Football could not have won with better coaching? Give me a list of the games since @ Washington, which Bubba and co had no chance because the other team just had far superior talent...

BINGO

UND consistently underperforms. UND's facilties are far better than Sac State. Why did we lose ?

It is a huge selling point to the average recruit, when the next phase is comllete, UND will have as good of facilities as exist in FCS and better than most G5 schools. Those are just the facts.

UND has top 20 facilities in FCS. How many indoor practice facilities exist in FCS? When the locker room facility is complete UND will be top 5 easily. Saying our coaches overperform is silly. UND should always be a top 25 program and after new phase is complete should be top 10. How many FCS games away from the Alerus have you been too?

In S Cal, the pay will end up being less in real terms.

BINGO.

If Entz wins another natty this year he is likely offered a G5 HC position. Kleiman made the jump to P5. Bad career move. Wil never be a HC again and if USC has another floundering year will be unemployed.

Absolutely serious. A position coach?

Very strange move for a guy with a chance to win another natty as HC at FCS school.

I can't see NDSU not having the upper hand in this rivalry with the present coaching staffs in place. Not what I want to say with my heart, but my head and logic says that is the truth at this point.

UND facilities and University are heads and tails above most FCS programs. Anytime we are out of the top 25 in FCS football, it is a total coaching failure.

This is North Dakota Football in a nutshell. I'm afraid we will never have enough talent to overcome the coaching deficiencies of Bubba and Co. A baseline for the program is above .500 in FCS. A very average staff can do this. I'm afraid that is what we have. The proof is the last decade of results.

How long has Danny been the OC?