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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.

I like it that Hutter is going after in state talent willing to compete against other Dakota schools and even bigger schools we haven’t done much of that recently. Hutter looks like he wants compete and win even if we don’t win this battle it show UND is back willing to compete and is becoming aggressive to win. I already seen it with football program and now with women’s basketball and now hopefully we can get support through NIL collective to help our programs compete..

I can’t imagine people will cheer for Schiller from Grand Forks if they are UND fans but I expect she will be treated with sportsmanship when she is here. Schiller ended her relationship here at UND and for many here in Grand Forks going forth she knowingly chose to move onto NDSU. She knowingly did this to her former team and community of Grand Forks because she thought it would improve her college career and received monetary compensation but it was sticking her middle finger up to the people that supporter her and gave her opportunity to show her talent to market her skills else where. If she and her family needed change then she have moved on to another school that would have given her fresh start but not insult to her local community by letting there major rival put this in the face of community. It will be interesting how this plays out but I wouldn’t have done this there is enough pressure to succeed in college sports without putting added pressure from local community and now expectations of fans from Fargo her new school.

I like that Hutter has aggressively put together roster that appears to have talent and is young yet in that they have time to develop that talent here at North Dakota. He also has added couple of veteran players that should help leadership and knowing what it takes in playing full college season.. He also at same time got his coaching staff filled so they are already to start on developing this team. Two years ago it took Mallory until late summer to put her coaching staff together and then fired all them after the year. I agree this aggressive approach is also show with the players in that getting themselves ready by using this off-season time to develop their skills and work on their fundamentals. It appears to me there is going to be competition among players fighting for playing time and each of them getting better because each of them will be pushing each other to get more playing time. Now we will see how well he did in putting right pieces together to be able to compete in the Summit but this is optimistic I have been in over 10 years we are finally have mentality that we want to win now and believe we can compete win not in couple years but right now..

Women’s basketball has been 15 scholarships where men’s were 13 scholarship but now that has increased to 15. I seen looking past rules you could have 15 scholarships and 16 players which I believe were at right now.. Demers, VanderWal, Volmer, pienky, Aumer, mathern, Flechter are seven, then Hillisheim, Harris, Ohnstad, Ava Miller, Hanna Miller, Hughes, Harvey, and Klosterbuer would be 8 giving 15 scholarships and Reardon would be walk-on getting us to 16 players. If this is the rules and women’s basketball had 15 scholarships where men had 13 never understood why difference. I haven’t seen any final rules on rosters and scholarships have read number of proposals but thought they were soon have meeting finalize whether schools were in out ncaa court settlement. The problem believe if impose any rule probably go back to court who know if it would be upheld. After going doing the numbers looks like we’re at old limits for the roster limits.

I still haven't seen the final rules on roster limits with walk-ons we had two walk-ons with Mathern and new recruit from Grand Forks Reardon as walk-on. This could mean we could have scholarships left to be filled. This could be our last scholarship available but we could be carrying 16 players or possibility as high as 17 players if rules allow this to be done if they are adding 5 years to the playing time anything may be possible.

The Summit will have 3 new coaches next year with Hutter at UND, Anderson at ORU, and now Omaha. Then we have one and two year coaches at South Dakota and KC and then we have Collins and Woods with 5 plus seasons of coaching and finally deans of coaching Johnston and Sinn. The strength in the Su’s and St Thomas lies in these teams and they have strengthened themselves both in recruiting now through the portal. The question now remains for us with our new additions and our returning players have we put together team and rooster to finish strong enough to possibly finish third in the conference. The positive that I have liked about Hutter’s approach is he constructed roster quickly to get prepared for next season. I would like to see if he replaces his position on coaching staff quickly because like to see when program is place for the summer where preparations are being done by players and coaching staff. This where everyone works on the fundamentals also down to perfecting skills to system is going to be run this team. Also gives extra time for players to bond and also coaches to bond together with players as well as other coaches. I also wonder if we can have more than 15 players by adding couple Walk-on or two that can be part of the team or are we held to hard number 15.

I see SDSU has even gone to portal signing up Maggie Hartwig from Evansville 6’1” front court player with two years remaining and has started primarily for them past two seasons. Averages 16 pts. A game adding her to Brooklyn Myer now makes this team power house again with depth at front court position. The changes in player personnel and coaches for next year is going to be hard to figure who are contenders with exception of SUs returning most talent but even these two are not locks to win the conference as it has been last several years.

Iramurphy what perfect statement this why we have coaches for and it’s not us putting a team together. Time will only tell how successful these choices on recruiting talent and I hope they are mote successful than failures on new recruits. Yes we’re moving on from our transfers but our former players are being recruited by other notable schools in division I showing we were not getting or developing this talent to play together become winning team. What impresses me is Hutter trying put together roster with enough talent size to compete for Summit to compete and win the conference with returning players. I may be optomistic but I look at the Summit the amount of turnover on most teams I think we’re going to see very even conference. SDSU will be favorite but they will not be dominate team they have been in past, NDSU has most returning but I think they will still be beatable a lot of questions on who will lead team loss of two seniors will put pressure on other players perform. St Thomas graduated quite bit but they seem find talent and are well coached. The rest of conference has big turnover so we will see who has put together competitive teams for next year. I am excited about Hutter his enthusiasm II. He has plan for this team, he cares about players on team that are committed, is constructing roster to play type of basketball he wants to play, and is communicating some of this to public create interest in women’s basketball. I think we have turned a corner but AD is going to need to step for women’s sports and Men’s basketball.i am so looking for next season.