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I agree with this, Bubba can turn it around. There are variables, but he needs a minimum of 6 wins next year to survive. New sheriff in town(Kennedy &newAD). If there are more substantial off field problems the end could come sooner.

You don’t understand recruiting or high school kids. Why would a prospective student athlete care what a bunch of fans, boosters, ex-players and sometimes trolls write on a blog. You give all of us and prospective student athletes way too much credit. recruiting is about the relationship between college coach and prospective athlete which many times is preceded by relationship between college coach and athletes high school coach. What is talked about in here is much the same way some of us would talk about UND football if we all had a few drinks and were hanging out.

Losing Harris and the ILB situation caused that. With a better tandem at ILB throughout the season we could have stopped the run, forced the other team to pass and blitzes when the did pass with guys who could get home. Holds the key for next season, Inproved ILB play and CB play.

I disagree. The Fargo propaganda has gotten to you.

For better or worse Bubba ball is the offense scoring 3 tds and the defense scoring 1, with an additional td or two if the D creates fantastic field position for the O more than 1 time. Bubba ball will not win many games when the D is giving up 40 plus points and that was proven this season.

17 year old high school football players would not do research when buying a car either.

I appreciate your comments, but as sikatoka pointed out, indifference would be the real enemy here. I for one am much more worried about the culture surrounding the team at this point. I started hearing disturbing things during last season and now IMO the team culture can best be described as somewhere between bad and a train wreck. The x’s and o’s will work itself out only if the culture gets squared away. I appreciate the hours the coaches put in, but I also don’t know anyone who is a high achiever in their life that has not sacrificed something.

IMO most recruits are NOT reading these boards. You really think 17 year olds are taking the time to read message boards? Not a chance,maybe a few parents but i doubt that very much either.

2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 OL Stockwell 315 315 295 290 285 OL Aplin 300 300 300 290 OL Rooney 290 295 275 OL Cox 300 300 290 250 240 TE Fiedler 255 250 235 225 OL Mortel 290 255 OL Nguon 295 285 OL Tobin 285 280 OL Blair 275 265 240 OL Stiner 285 280 280 280 OL Bell 310 310 310 275 275 LB Lawrence 200 200 195 DL Greely 250 240 250 230 DL Harris 290 300 300 275 DL Dranka 240 240 235 235 LB Palmborg 215 205 200 LB Rodgers 235 225 215 LB Disterhaupt 210 210 210 185 185 DL Cieslak 300 290 280 250 DL Wilson 230 225 225 DL Greer 285 285 285 DL Bennett 235 230 230 LB Haas 220 200 DL Schmitz 280 280 260 230 230 Some guys have made huge gains and some guys have put on less weight than I put on during the holidays.

I would have been surprised if when asked the question today, he said yes I am going to replace coaches soon. With all the other !@#$ going on right now, the staff needs to solidify commitments, get a few more guys they want and make sure they don't lose any of the current players and red-shirts they want to keep around.

I agree with your reasoning, a new coach and staff would likely set us back a year or two. The problem is do we really know where we are at right now? I am worried that some of the guys we need in the future may leave because things are such a mess internally. Bubba needs to clean house this week, reiterate the expectations and then get back to winning football games. i think the potential is there to rebound in a big way, but only if there is crystal clear focus.

Funding for championship rings should be done through additional booster fundraising IMO.

UNDFootball360‏ @UNDFootball360 Nov 12 More Hearing there was a team meeting today to address all facets of the program-on field, off field, etc. Safe to say this off season will be like any other for the players. Will find out who wants to be a Hawk.

I think it has been the degree of the problems on and off the field.

Apologies? I hope you are kidding. This situation is incredibly serious.

IMO those three have the chance to be beasts.

You are correct. It just gets worse and worse.

There were others. Against EWU we were down 6 guys off the spring ball 2-deep due to suspensions or terminations.

Leadership(players): as I stated in an earlier post is either missing, weak or leading in a way that none of us would think is good for UND football. Does anyone really think the captains on the team had no idea what was up with Poole, Taylor and Randolph? (Are there others?) Focus: we know for sure that 3 guys were not focused on school and football. How many guys on this years teams missed games because of a suspension, being sick, or for reasons that have never been defined? I follow two college football teams pretty hard and have for 25 years and I have never seen the number of missed games come even close to approaching what this season has been for UND. Culture: in every organization there is a culture. Disciplined, hardworking, focused on the goal and doing the activities to consistently move the organization towards the goal. If the team was scored between 0-10 with 0 being completely out of control and not doing the right things and 10 being obsessed with football and school, how would you score the team? I would say a 3-4 and that is really too bad, because there are lots of guys that 8- 10, but IMO way too many guys that are a 1-2.

I may be wrong, but not sure he has the frame to hang taht weight on.

There were some random drug tests recently, Am I warm?

Bubba has huge problems to solve with leadership, focus and team culture. Does anyone have any idea why the three guys were suspended today? There have been guys suspended or just missing almost every game this season. If guys are this unfocused during the season how focused on football are they during the off-season?

Either a total lack of leadership or that is where the leaders are leading. Only two choices.

Thanks for the laugh. Fist time I have smiled for at least a couple hours.

I guess Rudy just remembered Santiago is on the team.