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I agree with you on playing somebody different if they are hurt. Second when they chose Jerry it was said it was very close competition if somebody hurt and it’s effecting their performance it should be no brainer level of talent is higher may be in our backups.. Third everyone forgets that Jerry is sophomore and I think as season progressed more is required of quarterback because opposing teams are adapting to what you do. This when you need quarterback make correct reads and audible or go to alternative receiver but this wasn’t happening in second part of the season. This why I believe we came more predictable shorten playbook for Jerry to make it easier for him to make the reads but Jerry style for the big play which he had at beginning of season. My question has been how much of decision to continue to start Jerry was it OC or Schmidt. My feeling it has been Schmidt and as glowing he talked about Simon he didn’t want him at the helm. I maybe wrong on this but that is why I have been critical of Schmidt he has done number great improvements to move UND forward but I also wanted point out for what ever reasons he may have passed golden opportunity for getting to the ultimate goal. Finally if we have become predictable we need scout department that scouts are team what they do playing to inform are coaches what we have become predictable on. I like Schmidt, but I think criticism is also needed but to often the coaches we have hired that having backing of guard of UND aren’t criticized enough early to make them review what they are doing and then become stubborn to change and I have seen it pretty much in all sports over last 10 to 15 years.

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.

I watched some of the game the turnovers are problem with majority of them caused by stopping or getting them selves to deep and allowing other team to trap them or make poor pass. A lot of this to do with a team mostly made up young players and our experienced players all being undersized for their positions. This undersized players in our offense makes difficult when we’re running that weave at top key and trying to create screen roll opportunity. We have shot the ball a little better but we need to start hitting our shots better and getting better looks and we also need to rebound better offensively to many one done trips. I still think they are getting better but this as I have been saying going to be long season. We must have some injuries now with few players haven’t seen much court time lately. I don’t think we realized last year how bad team chemistry was last year and how Hutter is trying to change team chemistry this year. All this is going to take time rebuild Brewster and Berhard just ran this program right into the ground. I tired of people talking looking like DI coach what hell that means more importantly is institution supporting the program like DI program. This determines the quality of players were able to recruit and keep here.

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.