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I think reason for discontent is we’re having same experience on the road as before we’re close to winning but still loosing. New coach and number of new players and promise of new way doing things right things would fall into place. Yes the team I s better than last year and yes we missed extra point but We did kick Field goal later but passed two end of second quarter with us just hitting one of these all other things on here would have been forgotten because we would come out with road win. I blame this loss on the head coach getting away from what he said would do we do continue do fundamentals until we get it right. He lost faith in his teams kicking team instead of following through on fundamental coaching take points available on the road especially when your up. This I hope was teaching moment for him as head coach confidence comes from head coach when you do this to your kicker it just gets worse. This not NFL where you go and get another kicker week to week it’s one or two believed in at beginning year you chose. Last year kicker did good job and on short sample size you can’t be going away from him and the fundamentals. This what I thought would be Schmidt’s strength just doing fundamentals and playing smart football and I still think he h as making of good coach but has to learn he is now head coach needs to make fundamental decisions and know when to take a risk like going on fourth down.

This loss is on coaching decision of not taking points in the first half. When on road always take points available especially when your up. I will like to see Schmidt come out now take responsibility for this loss it will tell me a lot on the future of this program and what he is trying to instill. He didn’t follow through on consistency of sound principals in coaching at end of first half not only did he make mistake once he repeated the same mistake for sure cost us home field if we make playoffs or worse we don’t make the playoffs with this loss if this would have been Bubba he would probably been gone for next week.

Should have have kicked two field goals in first half get points on the road. Just needed one of them.

Very difficult to get division I top tier teams to schedule away games to come to lower mid major teams they don’t want to risk loss. Even getting mid majors to get home and away scheduled is difficult to find schools that will travel and play here. The two SU’s are getting better responses because their programs are higher rated now so loss on the road by traveling team doesn’t hurt their power rankings later in the year. We just need to elevate our program more by winning and some of this will improve but it always be difficult to get away from some of smaller college games it happens all over the country. It’s even worse at men’s level look how close it came last year when Alabama came here and got out here with close victory they do not want to take risks like that from top division I programs. It would be great for basketball because would increase viewership I believe but these schools want to build this elite brand playing small midmajors doesn’t fit into that plan.

I hate to make this prediction KState 42 UND 3. Just think the offense struggles today they shut down our run game and then struggle with passing game when we’re long in yards on third down. Defense plays a little better than last year but with offense struggling they will be on field to much. I hope I am way off on this but I kind think this is going to happen.

Under theme thread and discussion has happened in last few days I think the worry about what we are going to finish at is the bottom line on quarterback choice. Jerry is choice if you’re looking at building program in future if you believe he can become quarterback that can develop into top flight quarterback in his junior and senior seasons. The problem then is we’re going to go through transition period this year where we are going experience growing pains and probably loose couple of games we should have won. If he is falling short on his development then we will see Johnson another Sophomore quarterback who by coach believes can be also quarterback of the future. Schmidt will be insulated on going this approach and if heat gets to high he will just jettison offensive coordinator from previous coach and higher his person giving time to build the program. The 6 and 6 mark is probably mid point what are season can be. We could end up anywhere from 4 and 8 to 8 and 4 this year. If you look at this team we have talent and have recruited future talent but overall we are young team with a not much proven talent in skilled positions other than running back. But our running game will be dependent on quarterback play to create passing game as well supplement the running game if we are going to be successful. With this thought we may need all three quarterbacks because I think our quarterbacks are going to take beating to create passing game. Look at last year Simon took quite pounding and we still had two good receivers in Boe and Smith out of back field. This year it going to take some time for our receivers to figure out how to be productive. We haven’t even talked about new defense and is short on depth in key areas now to implement that defense. I hate to say it but 6 and 6 maybe what will be improvement over last year and especially with our schedule this year. Not what people may want to hear and maybe I am wrong on where I think where this team is at but I think this why were picked to be seventh in conference.

I don’t like that Kstate has played and we haven’t and in they lost they can correct some of mistakes and they are motivated now to make statement. Second Schmidt probably has made mistake in that he hasn’t made decision on quarterback before week before game time. After money spent on Johnson he must have wanted new quarterback but why wait this long in naming quarterback. To me this team needed leadership and now we’re we have no true leader with leaving competition so called open. The quarterback is probably most important leader on the team and leaving this open we now have offense has to jell around quarterback in last week of practice. To me it’s okay to have competition but this should have been settled week to ten days ago even if it costs you quarterback. I may be wrong on this but when you have quarterback controversy is never good for team at what ever level your playing at becomes distraction to the team. I hope I am totally off on this but I am worried about this. Third I hope we don’t come out beat up and loose couple players on game that will not figure into us making playoffs like following games that follow which could by end of the season may mean getting playoff spot.

I think we’re seeing that reason it taking time is that each of candidates have strengths but not what they are totally looking for in quarterback. Romfo has mobility, can run and can throw adequately in scheme of the offense and has shown leadership and appears others on offense .can buy into but his size limits him in making certain pass plays because changes on how he delivers the pass, Johnson new quarterback from San Diego looks part and has ability to run footballl but has struggled in throwing accuracies and learning the offense. Probably this will get better with time but does he get time to develop I think as season goes along but Schmidt wants to win now to build this program quickly keep momentum going forward. Kamiski the board favorite that has look of traditional quarterback and has the tools throw the footballl. He has shown improvement since last year but the question can be Mobil quarterback that can run footballl create plays himself with his legs and not turn the footballl over and stay healthy. I think he gets playing time but this will determine how much time he gets. He also willl need to get offense behind him and can be leader of the offense. Sulik is in development year I believe his time to come is in the future unless we have number of injuries. I think beginning of the season we will see reps for each of top candidates but will depend on how each of these games goes and how each of quarterbacks are performing. Schmidt will need to get one or two victories to be able to make the playoffs so that will also determine quarterback playing time. The early part of schedule this team needs to win these games and can not afford to give away game on building quarterbacks for the future several of these teams should be wins but we have struggled in past with them so we may not get people in like they might like.

I have question Romfo had surgery for his throwing arm so how much it affected him last year in his throwing as the season went along. Second will offensive line be improved over last year in pass protection or are we looking at never year where quarterback have to be Mobil enough to create offense when they are in pass situations like last year. Our most proven receivers are running backs right now but we are going need receiving core where somebody steps becomes go to receiver ideally we get couple of them making this step. We also need find TE that can be part of the passing game. The best part on offensive side we have quality at running backs right now and with this should help us develop the passing game.

If that is case he should be hands down next quarterback but if that he has been best like you say there has to be reason for him not being quarterback. I don’t know I just trust our coaches put best athlete out on the field they are ones evaluating talent. I expect that what will happen this year and I believe it also happened years before even with different offensive coordinators we had our best talent on the field to run offense we are running.

I think the question should be I haven’t heard or at least put forth in great deal what kind of offense are we going to run under Schmidt. Each of quarterbacks have strengths and weaknesses as quarterbacks. Last year we had offense that required movement from quarterback and was expected to be runner which Romfo fit the most he was not drop back in the pocket quarterback. The other two leading quarterbacks are more traditional quarterback sitting in pocket or moving pocket to hit receivers running their routes. What I see we have now no proven wide receiver that will be threat to go too last year we had Bo at least to go to for the quarterback. I look to our running backs probably going to be our first choice at least starting the season. The offense this year will start from running backs and then quarterback to make play off when he doesn’t handoff trying to find open player or pull down ball create something running . The determining factor quarterback hasJerry or Jack improved enough to excel under this system. I just don’t see where we have made big changes on offense for coming year we have added few transfers but will they make impact will not know until season begins. I think also deciding quarterback who will be how they effective are in using the TE in offense with our quality running backs we have and good offensive line to exploit our running game. My expectations is will see big improvement on defensive side of team and if offense can be similar to last year we could have very successful season.

I am optimistic this is going to be Turing point for the program I see it in philosophy from coach on down to the players there is emphasis on working together as team and putting together team concept of doing fundamental efforts to bring about winning. Under Mallory she believed in star concept of dominate player with couple highly complimentary players and this was also very similar to Brewster philosophy. I also think we’re going to see much different style of basketball and team better prepared for their opponent actually using scouting report to prepare the team for their opponent. The big thing after that is can we implemented changes when other team makes adjustments can we make changes to deny them ability to beat us. This what Johnston at SDSU does so well and his ability recruit top players out of this region. I also like to see openness of what is happening in the off season for the team it is refreshing and allows fans to be part of process to in team development. This is refreshing difference and is good for creating interest in the program.

If NDSU goes to FBS that will mean going up from 63 scholarships now to 85 plus increase on title 9 to be equal when Larsen stated they were not going to increase scholarships after entering into NCAA settlement where is funding going to come from to jump to next level. The two forum sports mega minds think this slam dunk going to next level but who going pickup funding if all this goes south they already have funding issues yes they have big Endowment presently but if they don’t have success they had in FCS money will be burned up pretty quickly. It just isn’t football it’s all other sports being in power conference we have seen failure on other large universities in US when things go bad. The question will state be willing pick up mess afterwards just because it worked with FCS doesn’t mean it will work again this jump requires enormous resources and costs of geographic is going to be huge in trade and finding teams that will want to come here. They will also need SDSU to probably to follow along is that going to happen.

I agree with your assessment in loss of top talent and SDSU is still top team in the league. I think SDSU with senior graduation and loss through the portal are closer to rest of the conference this year than they have been in many years. They do have transfer from Evansville plus strong recruiting class but they will miss Page Myer at point guard will not replace her easily this year they have candidates but it’s going to take time. NDSU has Koenen returning and they number of other young players with her but they will need replace Draper to help in rebounding and free up Koenen inside. They have freshman guard highly recruited that was their early last year and then they have Schiller from us and there top Frost freshman guard that had good first season it will be interesting how playing time works out. Yes we do have two returning starters but if we’re going to move to next level it will depend if our new players can some them be top level talent in the conference. I am interested in if we see style of play we have this year and if our defense improves. I think we will see better shooting from the team Hutters teams always seemed to hit outside three before in his offenses when we played against Mayville. I am optimistic we are going see big improvement in our team but it’s going to take time to meld this together find what works best for us.

It’s been quiet on women’s basketball front on what’s happening for preparation this coming year. Do we have full team here this summer practicing and doing conditioning for this coming year. The Summit conference has such turnover in players and coaches this off season. We had coaching changes ORU, Omaha, and UND plus all these teams have had big player movement through the portal plus South Dakota, Denver, and KC have had significant to large transfer of players. NDSU has lost very few players to portal as well as ST. THomas but both have added players through the portal. But it will be interesting to see how these teams progress this year I think NDSU may have some difficulties team chemistry on who will be team leaders and if there is enough time and basketball to be shared with this group with no senior leadership. Finally SDSU did loose couple players through the portal but appear to have found help in portal but they will be missing loss senior graduation and finding new point guard. My guess one teams with big turnover may be sleeper by end of year to compete with latter three. My hope it’s us and we can finally be considered one of the top in the conference. I think that St. Thomas and SDSU are teams everyone will be chasing by end of the year with NDSU that could be there also but I have feeling expectations for this team in Fargo is going to fall short when all things are done.