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Not a chance in hell he comes back to UND as HC. None.

Probably gives us an idea of how good some of his past defenses could have been.

100%. UND hockey is awesome, but for the health of the university, hockey is a non-starter outside of the red river valley, MN and Canada. Nobody cares. Go anywhere else in the US and mention a university in ND and 99% are going to mention the U to the south and that is for one reason.

Very well said. Go back through each of those seasons, and in each season(especially the last half of the resume)there are several games that were just pissed away strictly due to coaching deficiencies, including yesterday's game. So much of football is motivation, confidence, adjustment and momentum. Those 4 qualities are Bubba's largest deficits.

Watching the game again yesterday, the ILB's are small and getting manhandled too.

Pathetic. Re-watching the game this am(gluton for punishment), on their first drive we never got them to a third down. I guess that doesn't really matter... How many teams are even in FCS?

IMO, without major scheme and adjustment changes in the offseason, this defense isn't going to be much different. No idea why it took until halftime to make any adjustments yesterday. It would be great to pickup some good players with good attitudes in the portal, but if you think that is going to amount to more than 2-3 players across the board, IMO you are dreaming. Its as though Bubba and Co had never played a QB who could run and pass. Just flat ass weird.

it’s painfully evident we are at Bubbas ceiling. 7 wins and a first round exit. We can talk about recruiting better players, but our players were good enough to win that game yesterday, they were good enough to beat USD and you can go back over the years and find lots of games we just flat ass gave away. For whatever reason Danny feels the need to make the offense more complicated than it needs to be. Especially a tendency to go away from the run when it is working and/or to call trick plays when they are not needed. If one looks back, it’s a pattern over his tenure. My money is that our season will be over before December next year and for the foreseeable future.

I would add new OC or some serious soul searching for Danny. No idea why we can't ride the run.

@UNI - TURD ISU - TURD - Comeback in win in OT @MSU - Win but not a great game @USD - Offensive TURD ISU - Comeback win again vs non-playoff team

2024 Season: Assuming Tommy is QB, Coordinators are the same and Bubba is the head coach... 2024 North Dakota Football Schedule Aug. 31 at Iowa State -L Sept. 7 vs. Montana-TOSS UP Sept. 14 vs. Idaho State-TOSS UP Sept. 21 vs. San Diego-W Sept. 28 vs. Murray State*-W Oct. 5 at North Dakota State*-L Oct. 12 BYE Oct. 19 vs. Northern Iowa*-W Oct. 26 at Youngstown State*-L Nov. 2 at Indiana State*-TOSS UP Nov. 9 vs. South Dakota State*-L Nov. 16 vs. South Dakota*-TOSS UP Nov. 23 at Illinois State*-L 3 WINS 4 TOSS UPS 5 LOSSES Split the toss ups and we finish with 5 wins and 7 losses...

More like 15 years ago...but yes. I hadn't realized UMD won a natty the year after Bubba moved on.

I just realized that Natty factoid in the last couple of weeks...COACHING matters...

The excuses for mediocrity...

I still think with some better OC work, the 2021 team was Bubbas best team. In a couple of those losses, the coaching was squarely to blame.

I was wildly wrong on the NDSU game, but in the end was pretty damn close. This team didn't play really well for an entire game after the NDSU game and in fact played many clunkers. As Geaux Sioux said, Bubba has raised the baseline fo rNorth Dakota football but has also reached his ceiling. 5-7 wins and an first round loss is it.

This isn't the first time. Been a pattern over the years.

Bubba ball.

Unfortunately I’m afraid your correct.

WTF is going on with the D?

Need to respond with points.

7-4! A win is a win!

A win is a win and in this situation , I’ll take it! Go hawks!

When a DB never has to worry about the top part of the route tree, how much easier is coverage?

So following Stig's template, if my math is correct, Bubba will get his first (non-covid) playoff win in 2032...