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All those things are big had one of my cousins children they were both parents were UND alumni but chose Montana over us in volleyball plus there was more incentives than UND offers in volleyball. This is not to mention coaches did much better job of recruiting with follow up and selling their university. The incentives that can be offered is big when you come to kids today higher level the talent the more they are offered it has changed so much in last five years. Hutter inherited program that Bernhard basically ran it into the ground but on top of that we had AD who came here has let all sports decline plus especially all women sports. I don’t think his abilities lies in getting big donors to help in keeping up to other institutions in conference to where we now have seen declines in our various sports even hockey has fallen back. We need to expect higher expectations from whole athletic department and performance.

We just let something slip away from us today a chance to go semifinals as well as maybe to play in national championship game. I know everyone is on OC but it still comes down to head coach. We don’t who was making final decisions on who played quarterback but I gave gut feeling it was Schmidt fro his response since last week about Kaminski. Schmidt brought in Johnson and hoped he would become starter but he looked part but wasn’t nearly ready to play quarterback but Kaminski was next based on his physical abilities and he was chosen over Romfo not one you would choose looking at quarterback selections. Kaminski looked great for first half of the season but things started falling apart because our opponents picked up they could confuse him and saw he didn’t make audibles now did OC have right to replace him for learning moment or that was not option. My final thought Schmidt comment about Simon not leaving this was his hope not you would ever get true answer out of him on that. Yes we will need another option avatar quarterback but what does that do with quarterback room and ability to recruit for future. We need quarterback coach with experience and has confidence OC and Head coach. But this loss today was really chance to reach our optimal goal and I believe we gave it away with playing player that was not ready to play and may have been playing hurt from concussion. This makes extremely disappointed because we got rid of coach that refused to move forward on things and now I see beginnings of this again only in different way he may prove me wrong in future everyone thinks he will just have be better with his future players but opportunities lost may never appear again I ve watched this happen in sports most of life.

Put the seniors in

Still Schmidt on who plays.

Game over defense spent and no changes on offense this was wasted game kaminski was ready to play hasn’t been since last of the season no progression and Schmidt doesn’t want to play Simon not what he thinks quarterback looks like betting his future on new recruits. I am afraid we still haven’t turned corner.

The success for the offense is still in quarterback even if oc calls play quarterback also needs to read defense to audible or go to alternative. All this plays to other parts offense the line, receivers running backs, we saw last week what audible did for us in both our passing game game became blowout same thing happening now. Schmidt doesn’t want to put doubt on quarterback but he maybe giving chance to really move on. Bubba did same thing when we played Richmond gave away game never ever recovered from that. This could be future determining our tenure under Schmidt on how we respond and adjust to the game we’re in. I’m afraid Schmidt going maintaining course.

Schmidt needs to make change but won’t we will never win kaminski is reading the defense he just forcing stuff and no matter what you call can’t be successful if quarterback can’t read defense he has all physical characteristics but has developed on mental side reason he didn’t play last year.

Schmidt to stubborn to make quarterback change kaminski should have audible on that third down short offensive coordinator needs quarterback can read the defense kaminski hasn’t made progression teams are taking advantage of this.

Need kaminski out there he’s not sharp at all and I think his not practicing is showing .

I look at NDSU they kept number of better players this past year and what has been said they found NIL money to keep them for another year. Then we had number of young talented players last year we lost everyone of them. I look at this team what would we look like if we could have kept talent of Ibrahim and Horne with existing group having 6’3” post player with Demers and then add 6’1” off guard to this group now with some our new young players this team would be able to compete. We would be better rebounding offensively and Hughes and Volmer would be much better driving to basketball wouldn’t have teams being able to let there post players come off to help they would have respect our posts more. If we’re going to bring talented portal player now it’s going to take some NIL money. I don’t like it either but division I if you want to play in post season and have winning program it’s pay to play it’s not what college sports was just 5 years ago and unless corruption seeping into it forces change this is what it’s going to take to compete.

Montana would push SDSU and NDSU if not win our conference they are big athletic if they play up to their potential if they can get past Montana state they will be good representative in ncaa or WNIT tournaments. We couldn’t match up with them at all they were nearly as big at guards as the we are at center. There girls are under listed for size when you see them compared to our girls. They are mature team you see it physicallly and how they played. The score what I was afraid it would be. The trip Montana State I even fear more that will be another big team but quicker than one we played tonight. The positive we are getting better performance out Volmer and miller inside and Fletcher showed enough why they recruited her and same with Ohnstad but both are going to need a lot of work before expect big minutes from them. That is problem with this team we’re playing playrts more minutes than we should with a lot of these players instead of bringing them along giving them time to develop their talent. This is going to be tough rebuild especially the way college basketball is now facilities need to be upgraded, Finding NIL money pick up immediate help, and everyone saying how many people want this job but if your up coming coach you need program where administration is willing to invest to win I don’t see it we are now in worse position than SU was 5 years ago and with portal and NIL influencing things even building with high school recruits difficult to keep now especially if you don’t start winning right away.

I look at Big Sky challenge for women’s basketball see we get both Montana's who are picked one and two in the Big Sky. I get it don’t get better playing poorer talent but I also think we need to get few games where our girls can build some confidence before conference season builds. Playing Montana State at home is going to be loss and I hope we can keep it respectable. SDSU past few years have even lost out there by double digits this year we just don’t have talent and size to match up with them especially with this young team we have playing. My question is this scheduling done by us or by summit conference in who we get to play I see NDSU plays one of Montanas but get more even road game but SDSU both games winnable games. Like say this schedule we don’t have may cupcakes on the schedule. We have lost couple games that we had good chance to win the game but this is going to be long season my hope is we keep improving and developing number of these girls for the future. Administration needs to step up provide more resources to help build this program recruiting players and then retaining our players.

Kaminski will need to have zero symptoms to start next week and very few to play. I was looking at protocols for ncaa six stages to clear and each stage requires 24 hrs to pass big thing there are several days of no practice or restricted practice which is quite important when preparing for new opponent. Especially for quarterback to get reps in for next game and it being road game and major travel game. I suspect he will be cleared to play but will be ready to play and do they risk playing him if he is not ready to play. This is my thought but we will see how things progress this week.

Why are we not using our tight ends like they are what is it with us do we have hatred for using tight ends.

Kamiski is having never poor game his throws are off and not giving his receivers chance to catch the ball. He looks kike he has no confidence in himself and he has little touch on his throws.