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I love the portal and enjoy watching the NIL pearl clutching. Its really nice to see the players get paid and coaches having to deal with it. It could use a little regulation and visibility as I would like to see how much the players are actually getting paid versus all of the rumors. Im sure one of the guys on here has all of the stats as to percentages of players that go into the portal versus end up in a better situation but Im sure the answer is a pretty low percentage. There are always the outliers that are bouncing around every year.. but for the vast majority, its gotta be somebody who is trying to go somewhere for the last year or two of eligibility or somebody who ended up in a situation that just didnt work out for them and they would like to play.

This is why this conversation gets annoying.. clearly in fall camp the three were very close.. 1 was named starter.. 1 quit.. the other one was buried on the bench regardless of how poorly the starter played or how out of hand the game was. It was rediculous.

The selection of the starter is always debatable.. I would be very interested to know if that was bubba or fruechte. the lack of time/development for the backup through obvious times in a clearly underperforming major position like QB is the one thing that keeps me from jumping on the fruechte bandwagon even as OC.

If the qb situation was a bubba issue then I would be happy with fruechte.. if it was fruechte.. then I have very little interest in him even as OC.

He played basketball until his senior year.. started on the basketball team and then switched to wrestling about midway through the season and took 3rd in state (without having wrestled previously). Heck of an athlete.

So I get the part about interim coaches.. keeping the current team .. current recruits.. but offering new transfer guys when a new coach is right around the corner? Seems a little dumb to me

is it odd that we are offering portal guys without having a head coach?

Not just true freshmen.. but player development in general. Either the cupboard is bare or the bubba led teams were not great at player development. As bad as the defense was.. where were the young player minutes.. QB minutes.. WR minutes..

I like the idea of keeping Fruechte and Olson and maybe a couple from the offensive side. The one item that really keeps me from getting on the Fruechte bandwagon is the QB development this year.. My assumption is that he had at least something to do with selection of the starter.. and after that he could have gotten the backups into the game in a more regular cadence. QB is arguably the most important position on the field and you have to have a coach that develops that position.

320 lbs.. interested in playing dt/ng and our coaches didn’t switch him over? Either this kid has some struggles or our coaches are really inept..

Let’s say this slightly differently.. last game of the year.. really meaningless game at this point.. close game at half (10-14).. then 10-21.. then 10-28.. then 10-35.. then we kick a meaningless fg to make it 13-35.. never a sign of the back up qb.. romfos numbers 11/25 135yds.. 1td.. 1int.. what is the excuse for not putting in the backup at some point? Defense is clearly the biggest issue.. but why no change at qb or attempt to develop the backup? If romfo is the best we have the other two must be really bad. It’s mind blowing to not at least give the other guys a look.. this similar scenario repeated regularly thought the season.

preach! I would even be willing to acknowledge that Romfo looked better in fall camp.. Miller seemed to think it was close.. i think I recall Kelly stating something about it being close. There is still literally zero explanation for the backup QB playing so little particularly if it was close between them. I personally only recall Jerry getting in 3 different games and 1 of them was for the final kneel down. Based on the score alone he should have gotten in 7 or 8 games.. not counting the USD game which was a bit of a wild ride. Romfo literally played to the end of games that the opposing teams had gotten 3-4 QB's into the game. The reasonable part of me says that the OC (Fruechte) gets to pick the QB and also focuses on overall talent development.. the conspiracy nut part of me says that Bubba is so invested in the small town ND boy starting QB at UND that he forced this to be the case and forced it to continue throughout the year. By the way, both versions of this story are basic football team malpractice.. If Fruechte picked Romfo and also refused to give the backup any reasonable playing time in obvious situations he is an idiot.. if Bubba cut the legs out from under his OC and forced Romfo into every game he is also an idiot.. but then I would guess Fruechte would be leaving at the first chance. Both reasons are terrible.. one is just more terrible than the other.. and by the way players see this and also get it.

make sure you ignore the pertinent fact where you lost to USD in the last game of the year.. I guess it was a quality loss.

good news.. I just got the email UND/REA Ticket Office saying my playoff ticket credit will be applied towards my next years bill :).. I had forgot about that dumbass thing where we prepaid for our playoff tickets this year as season ticket holders.

I never bet against the bison at home.. best home field advantage in fcs