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UND was in man a lot. At least on one side over 60% of the time. If you want to help the secondary. It starts up front with a pass rush. Our pass rush was ok when we were ahead and they could T off. It was not the rest of the time.

The front 5 were undersized this season and no true “Mason Bennet” on the rush. We have not seen that big of a differential in a few years. That extends through the whole defense

They have been in the same spot since at least Hunter Pinke’s freshman year. Right behind Champions Club.

Maag’s freshman year was Rudy’s last. Danny was WR Coach

Some of you know, through happenstance on their official visits, I got to know several families in this years senior class fairly well. Through a lack of communication, both spouses of one of the families bought significant extra tickets to this game and asked me to share: 9 on the visitor 50 (image). 2 on the home 50. They are listed on TM but if anyone is interested they would like $25 no fees to get them used and people to the game. Message me and I can give you a contact number.

Just going to point out that every corner that stepped on the field today except Siegel had played like a combined 10 snaps of D1 football. Hembry and Bishop 0. Nelson an Roberson transfers hurt bad. And, Siegel had 0 targets today in man coverage. He came off his man to break up the pass at the goal line

Completely different. Having the facts to print a story, and doing a background check as a University are two completely different things. Seriously

And these #s don't reflect FCS

Food for thought from 247 sports. The Transfer Portal has 112 Wide Receivers committed to another school already. (about the top 25 guys are lateral or up to power 5 after that mostly down a step or 2) There are 136 Wide Receivers still in the portal - Not counting FCS guys (which 247 doesn't generally track anymore) (They will track an FBS transfer to FCS or vise versa) Randomly looking at schools. Utah State is listed as a destination for 3 Jackson State and Louisiana Monroe for 4. All of those schools have starters on the roster, recruits coming in, and now the transfers. Is the grass greener? Out of those 11 guys you have to figure at least 5 don't improve their playing time?? Now thinking of FCS guys transferring up..... lots of guys who have already played some or a lot, know what college football is, can assimilate to a new team, have some talent so the FBS coach picks them up - but do they play? or do they provide depth. Is being the number 3 guy at UND worse than being the #3 or #4 guy at San Diego State (insert school here)? I may argue that a back up LB, Corner, S, etc could get more playing time at UND than on a new team.

Freund gives Tommy an RPO on a lot of plays. (3rd and short and 3rd and long probably not) His cadence or one word when its loud tells the Oline run or pass. If you re watch you will see that on the road when its loud our WRs run more routes on run plays than at home, because if they don't hear it, they have go with the pass option. South Dakota and MSU come to mind as examples.

They become "depth" players for FBS schools..... A kid with a couple years or more experience is better than many PWOs or freshman scholarship guys. Maag, Siegel, Larson, others could all go FBS - but actually "playing" is the questions. Do you want to add "depth" to a team or start and play? Look at how many guys transferred to an FBS last year just to sit watch. There is no guarantee either Sam or Quinn will play - hopefully they do.

And not to forget, many PWOs at power 5 schools never suit up for a game. There are the exceptions........

Nelson and Urweiler open late old teammates months ago they were leaving to go back home and to hopefully play with their brother. Nelson did not leave because of Dixon. Lenny is gone, home is California Unfortunately UND put a lot of time and energy into Otis but I think his "people" were convinced he needed to play at an FBS to get to the next level.

1. The Transfer Portal is already killing mid/low major D1 basketball and FCS Football. Not sure what it will look like 2 years from now, but I think really bad. There will be more losses at UND. No penalty transfer means "depth" players can go look for a chance to play and good players can try and make the jump to a top 10 FCS team or an FBS. 2. Building through transfer may be the wave of the future..... but that is still an unknown. The biggest losses will be those sitting behind starters. I heard several weeks ago that Robertson felt he was better than starters and upset about playing time. Entered the portal immediately after the season. 3. Players no longer sign 4 year NILs They are 1 year, renewable. 2. The last minute of the Nick Saban's rant is a great fan check. I think it speaks to all college athletes, not just Alabama: "Nobody wants to win worse than they do, not you not me.... and nobody feels worse when they lose than they do" Worth a listen

Every time? whatever

He played in that position late in several of the spring games

Did anyone notice: All of the Red Shirt upperclassman were reclassified to a straight class. I.E: Maag and Waletzko are true seniors (played as a freshman) Kauppinen, Jalen Johnson, Siegel, Odom (all same Class) were Rs Sophomores last year - are now listed as Juniors instead of Rs Juniors. Same with the class below. This would then account for their Covid year that didn't count and will have the option to be 5th year seniors (when in reality it will be their 6th year in the program)

Not sure how many of you watched the JMU / VMI game. VMI stacked the box. JMU took deep shots on 1st play, 4th play, 1st play of second series then 3 more before the 8 minute mark of 2nd quarter. 2 complete, 1 dropped, 1 prob should have caught, 2 over throws. Threw it wether the coverage was there or not and splt between the outside recievers and slot recievers. Hit 2 or 3 more throughout the game. Mostly from unpressured pocket, but Johnson drops them over the receivers head quite nicely.

The ringing chorus for the past few years has been: " We have to win a playoff game" They did 44 to 10 .....and it wasn't that close, instead of 30 posts about how great that is.. there are 23 out 30 picking it apart. They may very well lose to JMU but they beat the living crap out of Missouri St. Rolling right and throwing it into the ground on 3rd down up 21 points is ok. NO chance for Tommy to get hurt, NO chance of a turnover that could change momentum and repeat the 2016 game.

I came across this link on several player's social media pages from Small School Prospect Scouting. I apologize, there was no easy way to do this. There is obviously a glaring omission of Weah on the Walter Payton award when we know others have him there. Something interesting: All the categories had players spread out from across the country except Defensive Back - Their winner was from Austin Peay, but all 4 runner ups were MVFC guys. Scrutinize, ponder, complain and comment at will Thought it was worth sharing.

The school has to enter his name in the portal within 48 hours of the written request.

Welcome the NEW "No Penalty" Transfer Portal Era: Nothing but commitment to the program keeping guys from leaving. Anyone who doesn't have it will be tough to keep. Any starters, Maag, Weah, Waletzko, Siegel, Larson etc ... can choose to leave in the next several years. Apparently to transfer to FBS a player has to be transferred by the first week of May to the new school.

The FCS site says a team must play 4 games - doesn't say win, if that helps

SDSU: 170 yards passing 1st quarter - 202 for half. (75 on the one over Fort) 107 yards in second half - 46 on 2nd play of 3rd quarter. Coverage tightened but Pass rush also improved as game wore on....two totally different units but they work in tandem when defending shot plays.