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Romfo never had the receivers to throw to that kamiski has had throw too he only had Bo to throw to and he didn’t throw number of interception he has thrown ether especially going down the stretch. Just for record Kamiski is going to be good quarterback for UND but he has improved fast enough through the season as opponents have thrown new looks at him as season progressed. He is at point now he needs to make final jump where he can make defense pay when they making changes or schemes against our offense. That has been big difference in why NDSU has been so successful. I think Randy Hedberg had a lot to do with there outstanding quarterback play we need to find coach for our quarterbacks to move them to this next level

Another year shot down the drain trouble with sophomore quarterback to much pressure coming down the stretch . We haven’t made big play to win a ball game against a good football team. No matter what anybody wants to say we have enough talent to win football games but something is just missing here in this program to find ways to win big football games. This year offense wasn’t able to control games and last year it was the defense. Finally I think it comes down to we are just not deep enough as team I hope Schmidt can improve upon that in next couple of years but we will see how that develops in coming year may not be able retain him on how defense has improved in one year.

If he is not fully healed he could risk having permeant injury and I don’t know but could he get medical redshirt to come back. Also possible has chance at playing professionally would risk this playing hurt that could end all possible chance to play in future. I could be wrong but still think mind games for UND. I guess we see about 30 minutes.

If his injury is lisfranc I see healing time is six to eight weeks and can be longer depending on severity and can have lifetime issues if not properly healed continued injury can occur. My feeling they made such mistake in not just stating he was out for regular season let team move on not still be limbo with calling day to day from the beginning. SDSU football depth after Rodger’s left has shown up and I believe it going to take several years to get back to where they were. Still dangerous team still enough talent to win if things go your way.

Much better effort today better defense and better shot selection. They matched up much better with Wyoming in size today than previous matchups. Also Ava Miller gave them much more presence down low today. Hutter had Hughes play more minutes to set offense and defense for the team. The true freshmen are showing flashes of Their ability they are learning but still a lot of growth yet needed in these players. This still needed win and gives these girls some confidence going forward but they to continue to have success if they play defense, rebound, shoot good from free throw line and finally control the basketball by cutting down on turnovers. If they do that consistently they will be most ball games.

The top DI talent is in freshmen and sophomores on this team but none of these players have much playing time teams they. Have been playing all have experienced lineups so we are going to look overmatched. Hutter didn’t bring many experienced transfers which many on here think that is way to go it may be future of recruiting but I don’t think so in lower mid majors. We don’t have NIL money to bring in the talent to play here. We need to develop talent from high school level and have enough money in our NIL money to retain most of talent we develop and want to be here. The comment on being on social media to much is cheap shot and goes against what head coaches job today in college basketball coaches need to promote and have presence in area to create interest and help in recruiting. This is going to be long year for us Sutter job is to develop these young players and yes we’re going to look bad but upper class players here are just average at best players and most of them undersized each of them are here to finish careers and help teach work ethic and competitiveness playing basketball all of them have shown that in their careers. I just hope we develop enough by end of season we have beginnings of pieces to develop competitive team in next year and future years but their a lot ifs in that because we’re dealing a lot young players and nobody knows how progression of these players turnout.

The way I see it semi final games will be played in North Dakota and Montana and my hope is that we are seeded on other side of bracket I believe we’re going to play on road no matter what if we’re going reach that far in playoffs. I believe top four or 5 teams are from Valley and Big Sky right now. I think if majority of these other conferences played in either of these conferences would be sitting number of losses and would be banged up badly. Right now power of FCS is upper Dakotas and Big Sky. If we had press of other conferences now they would be talking how number of teams are capable playing FBS football of lower tier of FBS. The politics of playoffs is they are going to keep number of these other conferences guaranteeing several reach as far they can in playoffs is. That was reason for when UND outbid for home game it’s politics of balancing that keep conferences getting deeper in playoffs we are hurt because we’re close to NDSU in playoffs and my betting is this year NDSU athletics will want us out in Montana’s so only they could meet us in championship. Also other eastern and southern conference don’t want to travel to Montana and play in cold weather pretty much guaranteed playing indoors NDSU and USD.

The talent on this team is in freshmen and sophomores but they are overmatched with these teams right now. Second we are under sized at 4 and 5 positions and we’re not quick enough to play man to defense against their 4 and 5. Third Hutter must see this we are going to left by our guards 85% of time. We need to start left and finish on the right. The sad part is Pemberton, Horne and Ibrahim would have averaged near or above 18 pts a game with Hutter style of basketball and number of these girls playing now would have been better performances. I see that Hutter has recruited potential post player for next year. Finally transfers with exception miller girl and Hughes were all projects that had potential but no immediate help for this year. This is going to be long year but but give some slack he recruited longterm not immediate help but this rebuild is going to take time. This tougher schedule Mal ever tried with very few cup cakes in schedule. I just hope it pays off as the season goes along and I think he going to start settling on smaller rotation of players but with youth of this team it just mean more people in rotation but not usually recipe for success.

I didn’t get to watch last two games but what I have seen so far this is very inexperienced team I have seen . Demers has experience but what I call betweener she plays center but little undersized and from last year she plays defense and rebounds well enough but she struggles offensively when she matched larger number 5s. Aumer works hard in all phases of game and is streak shooter but she is sometimes half step slow playing defense. Hughes is quick, smart player but again little undersized. Piekny and Mathern look to develop into better players but both need to develop both are sophomores. The other two playing significant minutes are true freshmen not good scenario but show a lot of talent. Same can be said for transfer most were highly regarded recruits but don’t have significant playing time. Then there is Miller girl appears to have talent and experience it showing up in the box scores. What I am seeing now from box score we are controlling boards and playing some defense, and they are hitting there free throw.The next step is for the team to cut turnovers can’t win games giving ball like we have. Finally these players are going to need to step up find shots they can make and gain some confidence in there shooting. From last years team that competed in summit conference tournament we have only one starter back in Aumer she was not star of that starting group. Demers was injured at end of the season so she was not part of last years run of team in tournament. Bernhard lost that team last year because we heard rumblings on team chemistry and administration didn’t address so we lost those nine players and then Bernhard resigned after we lost all those players this all left to Hutter trying to keep what you have left and find players for next year. Hutter had very little input on players that were here on last years team majority were recruited or committed before he signed up last year. What I saw his impact last years team was most prepared team Berhard ever at UND had but it still Bernhard team in she had her favorites not creating team concept or team chemistry. This is going to be long season and we will see how Hutter develops these young players if we progress and he is able to recruit more talent to add to this team he deserves chance to build a program even at Mayville his first three seasons we’re not that great but after that he had very good 11 seasons. Bernhard was given better program to start with and never came close to getting us better than little better than 500 seasons. In fact her tenure her winning percentage around 35% and nothing was done about it.

This tale of opposites for UND last year offense delivered pretty consistently but defense couldn’t stop opposing teams. This year the offense has sputtered large chunks of season especially against top tier teams. Jerry as quarterback is struggling right now and I hate to say it his youth is showing through right now and good teams are taking advantage of it right now. UND offense depends on quarterback to make right reads and be able recognize what defenses are throwing at us. This is why he didn’t get much playing time last year but he is going to be successful quarterback but we’re living through his growing pains. There are very few successful young quarterbacks in FCS and especially ones that are expected to throw ball number of times to make offense go. Everyone is going to blame offensive coordinator for Jerry’s problems but this is simple knee jerk reaction but this is more need of playing time and learning curve for both to get right plays called or that will work. Deep programs usually always have junior senior at quarterback and somebody like Jerry playing number of snaps as sophomore be leader when they become junior/senior. This old school was what Bubba was doing last year but sSchmidt looked saw upgrade in physical and athletic ability but quarterback is just not athletic ability it’s also the knowledge which just going to take time with Jerry. The problem with all this is now NLI money and ability transfer all hard work finding develop players you are constantly looking for players and developing new players hoping you retain enough to win championship. It could be worse we could be SDSU now three deep on quarterback plus number of other players.

I hate how we now have stats guys giving percentage on situationally on whether to kick ball or go for it. We have this in baseball now and far as I am concerned has ruined game. There’s something to playing longterm smart play in sports that has been done for years. This year two of bigger games we have went for it against very good teams and it has cost us dearly. The first was at Montana we had kicked field goals instead of going for it we would have won. Yesterday kicking field goals would have changed game also we would have been up 4 points changing how NDSu would have looked at going for it on fourth down because they wouldn’t have been looking at only needing a field goal to go ahead but would need to drive football for touchdown. I know if we make it and score we bury them and have all momentum but if we fail like we did gives them confidence they know can beat us because we’re not confident enough we can prevent them from scoring touchdown. Also puts pressure on them they have to travel length of field to beat us and we would still then be in position to beat them with only a field goal. I just think getting points is so important and maintaining momentum that we are scoring when we have the football coming away with nothing is worst thing. Finally it takes away from special teams confidence and puts all pressure on both defense and offense because I believe special teams account for at least 20% of wins in college football. That is my opinion but I am sure there number of other opinions but right now couple more wins look where we would be and where we would be setting up for the playoffs.

I thought we showed our youth tonight making poor decisions and taking poor shots plus I can see rushing our shots. Demers also tried to much carry team offensively late in game instead of working ball in and kicking it out. Also thought refereeing called a lot of carring basketball which created several turnovers only thing calls were equally bad both ways. We need to develop more post play from one of new players can see this will priority in pre conference season. Bottom line though the loss of number of players show we are in rebuilding mode and this is going to continue with five or six seniors on the team. The loss of talent we had on last years team if they had returned we had chance to push SDSU this year but that’s over now we have to build with girls we have now. On paper we look to have added players that can again develop into quality team but it’s going to take time. I expected some better 3 point shooting but has to come from players having confidence in their shooting and getting themselves set up to take shots they know they can make. Hutter and his staff a lot of work to teach and work finding to bring out strengths in this team. My hope by end of season we can make run at some of teams in the conference.

Yesterday number of teams struggled to win or lost so what is up and I think we have reached mid season part of the season where all teams are playing banged up and opponents are taking advantage of these weaknesses. In FCS replacements we see usually fall off in number twos and threes but in number FCS teams these reserves are freshman and sophomores they get better as they play especially on top teams. We saw this couple season go with SU we beat them but they became better team by end of the season. I think we can get better and hopefully we get couple players back. I don’t think SU will not be up for us if they beat us they are assured of going undefeated for the season and will play at home for the playoffs. If we beat them like I have said before it’s going to take perfect game by us and they giving up couple plays like turnover or special teams score. The sad thing about yesterday’s loss pretty much puts us on road for the playoffs when we could have been home until semifinals.

This was team loss and team I bet you was more than focused on SU this coming everyone thought we would beat this team. I don’t care what anybody thinks but instead of taking care of business we got distracted and South DAkota came out punched in the mouth further throwing us off our game. Coaches can say and get on players but if team get distracted there’s not much you can change coaches and player almost got it back but that has been difference between us and SU they have enough talent to come back game like this. That is why they have won like they have. We have enough talent to beat them but we will need nearly perfect game. We’re far ahead of where I thought we would be in first year but I still think our time is coming in next couple of years if we can retain our players and our coaching stafff.

I see our transfer from South Dakota announced she tore her ACL so I wish her healthy recovery always devastating news for athlete. Addison Klosterbuer we will look forward to seeing you next year and again our prayers for quick and healthy recovery.

To much looking ahead thinking about SU by players thought they had this won.

What is it when we get to South Dakota we start playing stupid we’re beating our selves. Making dumb plays and taking stupid penalties getting beat on special teams. I thought we had turned corner on this but it’s back.

I have question why doesn’t grand forks ever gets high school football playoffs at alerus I see Fargo Dome has both nd and MN section playoffs this year. I would think having one of these events would be good for Grand Forks and I would think UND would like it too having good high school teams right in town to watch and recruit possible new players right here without traveling.

Are we getting some people back from injury?

I am expecting improvement this year and that would be confirming my expectations and there is just different atmosphere than in past there is more willingness to get community and team together and responses from the coach at Summit media day was more positive and spelled out what we’re program goals and what he expected from coaching staff and players. I like he having night to get fans to come out meet the team. This is such change from last few years there has been so much contact with fan base in last few months it’s breath of fresh air for the program.

Does full time practices begin this week? I thought I read some where this was beginning week practices and start of the season of basketball. Also are they having Summit kickoff for the basketball season like last year.

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.