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Lots of nitpicking around the edges… but this teams is much improved. Many had us as as 3.. 4.. 5 TD underdogs are now suddenly expert play callers in a close game on the road in a packed house. * offense looks good.. love the improvement at the QB position. Siedl seems like the real deal and would like to see more of the inside run game with Z * defense looks greatly improved.. catch a couple INTs and we win this game by 2-3 TDs * ST looked solid last two minutes of the game baffled me.. should have won. First game with a new coaching staff and I expect they will improve week by week.

100% agree.. seems like there should be about 1000+ kids at UND a year with the ability to clean this up.

Elrichs is another year better and siedl returning kickoffs will be explosive.

Apples and oranges I think.. Year 1 versus long term expectations. I already said I’m expecting better than 6-6 year 1. So min 7-5 and given bubbas trajectory last year 6-6 this year would have been a pipe dream.

Yep

6-6 should be the base case.. 4 large underdog.. 4 reasonable favorites.. 4 tossups. Lots of different combinations to get to 6-6. I’m expecting the over. offense will be better.. QB is +.. Oline/RB/TE should better as good or better with 2nd year in offense.. WR tough to replace one of the greats but im optimistic. Wildcard will be turnovers ST will be as good or better D would be hard to be worse.. My biggest hope is team shows a very positive trend into the end of the year instead of the road woes and collapse of the previous regime.

I hope Jerry kills it from the first snap and there is never a reason to play more except in the end of games. I also know last year we were begging for them to play more than one.. they have two games to figure it out in my opinion. Hopefully fully locked in by Montana game.

Comparisons of Simon and Tommy are fairly ridiculous.. One was an above average to significantly above average FCS QB. If you think that comment refers to Simon there is likely a strong overlap to family/friends in the Calvin/Langdon area. All of this deserves the qualifying comment yet again that QB was about 15th on the list of the things wrong with the team last year. I expect the QB position and the management of said position to be significantly improved over last year. I believe that fruechte learned a ton last year and I have significant doubts that the narrative of bubba forcing freuchte to play an injured romfo over a healthy Jerry is anywhere close to accurate.

So an injured romfo was better than giving Jerry minutes in games that didn’t mean anything.. last years story gets worse by the minute.

The latest undfootball360 podcast with fruechte was great. It had a lot of insight into what Isaac is looking for in a QB. His number one comment was he was looking for a QB that could push the ball up the field with his legs. Based on hearing that, I’m guessing romfos relatively poor throwing has a bit higher focus on this fan board than in the coaches decision criteria. Anyways he mentioned 3 QBs running neck and neck.. romfo, JTJ and kaminski.. very specifically said sulik needed to get better running. Additionaliy said he imagined there would be significant playing time for multiple QBs. Highly recommend listening if you have some time.

Doppler and Erickson were both pretty big reaches at the time and in reality both would have been better off going to a D2 team where they could have gotten playing time and active development. With the portal nowadays coaches will also regularly be bringing in experienced players over the top of kids that have been “developing” on the roster. until the portal pendulum swings the other direction.. it’s in the kids and coaches best interest to look for a place where they can contribute rapidly versus being buried in a development role.

Could add 70.. saved for impact big guy! I love the special number idea

What was our record again this year? Not sure if I understand the tears for our guys hitting the portal outside of Eaglestaff. Until the coaching side of things is straightened out we might as roll out an all state team from North Dakota. At least their friends and family would show up to the games. I thought sather was a good hire but it hasn’t worked out for him.. 1 winning season in 6.. it’s time to go a different direction.

seems like the running back coach at ISU is a pretty significant salary upgrade over OC in the MVFC.. I was a little suprised to see it was so much.

Gotta give him a little grace.. he has been watching UND football so the definition of awesome QB play might be a little skewed..