Brim006

okay fine Dickinson State

Pipe Dream here but how cool would an FBS conference realignment be that created - Both Montana schools, both ND schools, both SD schools, then Wyoming and Nebraska join too for a total of 8 teams. Minnesota would be too prideful to join but maybe them and Mankato could join to make it 10. Fun to dream, but man how much more exciting would every week be playing those teams instead of SIU, Indiana State, Murray state etc....aka teams I honestly never even heard of until 10 or so years ago. And with that said, the benefits of being in the MV are obvious, but I still can't get myself to be excited about playing most of the teams outside of cow college and the SD schools. The Big Sky actually had a lot more relatable teams just IMO, but I understand the move was still a good thing overall.

I can see why you added the "on the road" factor because otherwise their SU records are pretty similar too. UND vs NDSU is 1-6 in that span, and UND vs SDSU is 1-4. Which totals 2-10 for 17% win percentage. USD is 3-7 vs NDSU and 2-8 vs SDSU. Which totals 5-15 for 25% win percentage. But to your point, the on the road factor needs to be fixed badly. Especially due to the fact that deep playoff runs will almost always involve road games. But overall USD and UND are in the same boat in essentially every category and don't belong with the SUs but for whatever reason have been put with them more often than back with UND. At least recently, which might make sense due to their at least somewhat successful recent seasons.

Agreed, but in a lot of the pointless banter online, those 3 are named with UND being left out despite USD and UND being far more similar with eachother than either of the SU schools.

4 playoff wins in the past decade isn't exactly SU level of a resume. 2017: Won First Round, lost in Second Round → 1 win 2021: Lost in First Round 2023: Won Second Round, lost in Quarterfinals → 1 win 2024: Won Second Round and Quarterfinals, lost in Semifinals → 2 wins

Looks like UND is 61-50 over the past decade, and USD is 58-52. UND has made the playoffs 5 times in that span and USD 4 times. USD has 4 playoff game wins in that span and UND only has 2 (someone fact check this). Yes, UND did play half of that in the Big Sky, but overall they have very similar resumes over the past decade but USD will always get the better benefit of the doubt when it comes to rankings and playoff seeding for whatever reason.

Yeah I don't get it. I also don't understand how they often squeak into the Cow College and rabbits convos for FBS moves while UND gets left out. Given their similar results, you'd think they would be feeling the same disrespect and negative bias that UND often feels with rankings and playoff spots.

He'll have his hands full on Saturday. I'm excited to see how he does.

Yes exactly, so when realistic score predictions show to be far different than current spread, it is a likely winner. I don't sports gamble, but it seems the FCS vs FBS games often present obvious high percentage winning opportunities far more often than any other sporting events that I see. Likely due to large numbers of normie college football fans underestimating FCS teams and/or not understanding how small the gap can sometimes get between top FCS teams and FBS teams.

With that said, Oregon vs Montana state is at -27.5 and Illinois vs Wester Ill is at -45.5 LOL. Am I crazy thinking I should take all these bets as easy lay up wins.

Over/Under is currently sitting at -25.5?! Jesus. Despite a new coaching staff, new defense, and tons of new starters, I think week 1 UND will be a better team than final week UND last year due to morale, leadership and injuries. Guessing they will keep it a decent football game until the 4th and lose by 2 scores or so. Maybe 34-17 or somewhere in that ballpark. I need to find a sports betting app asap. Iowa State vs USD is at -14.5 which sounds more realistic and is what I was expecting for K state and UND. Guessing it will be closer to -20 by game time.

Who says it's not the mentality? The game hasn't even been played yet and you're already asking why we didn't do something? Also, if we're planning to just run it down their throat then why does the QB situation even matter? This is truly getting bizarre my man...what are we even talking about right now And this is coming from a pessimistic frustrated fan. But I can at least say I complain about real things that have really happened

Seems like you just want to mad about something TBH. There’s been zero qb announcement, let alone even decent evidence what they’re doing yet. Tom floated the guess of seeing more than 1 QB in game one and some Twitter anon states his guess and here you are just pissed LMAFO.

How about we just wait to see what they say Monday? Maybe they did solidify a QB1, we have no idea yet. I’m not going to get worked up about what some Twitter anon is guessing lol

Friends, coworkers and family members who have been touring both UND and cow college campuses over the past year are ALL overwhelmingly commenting how much the UND campus blows CC out of the water. And several of them are CC grads saying this. They are mad about it. Nice to see UND doing some things right and setting up for a successful future. We're already seeing it pay dividends with UND's enrollment numbers which is especially impressive given the national downward trend of college enrollment right now. Anyone have any idea on CC's numbers down south? I keep hearing not good, but no specific numbers or YOY changes to speak of.

I’m surprised Larson left when he had 2 good forwards to skate with another year, and would’ve had ample ice time, PP and PM to boot. Playing in the EDC with that much ice time seems hard to beat especially with a few good players to skate with. Oh well, what do I know lol.

This is getting weird. Having zero coverage for about a week now?

Looking like another easy 1-2 in the EDC for RR and Central? Out west I really have no idea at this point until we hear more on who has officially left or stayed.

I haven't heard of too many early departures yet this year. In fact, I can honestly only think of one that I know of for sure and I'm not quite sure where he went. Bradyn Strom from Legacy. I'm curious to hear the others as well. Someone on here at one point mentioned all of the returning starters from Century were leaving early supposedly. And obviously Mattern I guess but that goes unsaid.

Sooooooo has anyone biked over to Memorial yet to peek at who's running with team1 reps yet?

How many TDs would Romfo of had without Bo last year? Healthy or not, I'm thinking he would probably have a worse season this year than last year due to not having that rare outlier player who caught everything and got so wide open so regularly. Start one of the other 2 and see what they can do even is Romfo is the best practice player again this year.

Not to throw shade at Tom. But all I know and have heard about fall camp has come through him and him only. No other sources to lean on so far. Say Tom maybe does have a major bias toward Romfo for whatever reason and/or his insight is anecdotal due to only seeing bits and pieces of practice and scrimmages. Maybe in reality, Romfo is in a distant 3rd and is no where near in the mix at this point and we are all talking about it for no reason. I have noticed his last 4-5 daily updates have not mentioned who has been taking 1st team reps and 2nd team reps etc. The last time he did it sounded like Romfo was taking 3rd string reps, and maybe that hasnt changed. Why leave that out, because that alone should tell where they are currently stacking in the coaches minds. The limited comments from Tom in his daily updates matter far less than the team reps order IMO. So with that said, does anyone know who is taking what team reps as of this week? That might wash out all this speculation.

Not to be an armchair coach here, but Bubba had an incredible talent of playing it safe when he obviously should’ve pushed and then was aggressive at the worst possible times, when his conservative nature would’ve finally actually fit. Brutal to watch. It was like he had zero feel for momumtem. Sure, it worked out for him occasionally, but more often it just made him look out of touch and it cost them games they should’ve won. They lost a lot of games where they had better talent across the board but just got flat-out outcoached...especially late in the season.

Has anyone gone to any of their practices recently? Just curious on latest findings outside of just Miller's, although I typically enjoy his updates. Just would be nice to get a few more opinions on the situation as of recent.

what are we looking at here? Missed a wide open TD at ISU?