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Romfo had shoulder surgery in the off season. I’m not sure he got a fair shake last year on this forum. Warranted when he struggled, but there were a number of folks who were extremely critical and a number who continued criticism through the spring, summer and well into this season. I’d hate to see Jerry get the same treatment. The mistake last year wasn’t starting Simon, it was not getting meaningful reps for Jerry and, I would argue, how we lost Feeney. That’s done and it’s time to say thanks to Simon and wish him the best and good luck to Feeney who had a great year. Looking forward, Jerry has shown great promise and will have months to recover. He, Jack and our RS freshman will have an opportunity to develop and improve over the next 9 months. Our Oline (as long as we have no portal losses should be very good). We need help at receiver, Keep Farmer, and utilize Deng Deng and our TE’s. All of that should bode well for Jerry, Jack and other QB’s. Right now we have to protect our returning roster, improve it with any portal upgrades, and continue to develop our players. The recruiting class is one of the best I have seen in many years. We took a step forward this year. Defense was markedly improved. Depth is better. We are bigger, stronger and improving our speed. We will see if there will be coaching changes but no reason not to be optimistic about the program moving forward. Lastly, we as fans also need to step up to do our part to move the program forward. The markets are up, so it’s a good time to contribute an extra whatever we can afford to our NIL initiatives. We can’t make coaching changes, but we can contribute to provide resources to invest in keeping players or hiring coaches.

They wouldn’t take the salary cut.

Too much caffeine. I’d go through my depends too fast.

I don’t get angry. There was nothing serious in my post. I’ve said before, I come here for entertainment. However, if someone wants to rag on a UND FB player repeatedly for 2 years, when he can’t defend himself, then I may object. It’s only a fan forum but if fans want to dis others, then they shouldn’t be surprised when others give it back. I doubt bike guy is bothered by any of my responses to him nor am I bothered by his to me. Heck, I might be one of those fat kids in my Grandma’s basement, wearing a XXXL Sioux hockey jersey and XXL sweatpants, living on a diet of Cheetos and Fresca.

Yeah but when you get your bike shorts in a bundle, we can comment on you pissing on your bike horn, handle grip pompoms or the bike bell. Cool guys don’t need to give themselves a nickname.

It’s not even luke warm.

And you can keep bitchin’.

No one told our player to do that. His mistake was he was running toward the punter and jumped up to block the kick and landed on the blocker. That is also a penalty. It looked worse cuz blocker upended him. Still a penalty on us. You tend to assume every mistake by a player on special teams is a coaches fault. It isn’t. Just in case you want to blame Kostich for the fake punt, he doesn’t make that call, even if he thought it would work.

Who made that call? 2pt conversion does nothing for us.

Illinois State giving Bison fits. If the hadn’t thrown 3 picks they might be ahead at halftime

He is still 6’1” but up to 205 lbs. was 2nd team All-State as a senior. Gophers had him at CB initially cuz of his play at HS all-star game. Might be best at Safety/Nickel in our 4-2-5.

This kid is a very good athlete good speed. His younger brother Mason is a LB for the Gophers. 6’1” 190lbs. He and Mason had been at UND FB camp. Certainly worth close look.

Maybe the biggest mystery of this season. He came into his senior year as a proven RB and certainly not #3. If we want to continue to move this program forward, this should be a lesson learned for our OC and RB coaches.

You have no idea what Ralph wanted. I doubt you realize how stupid your comment is.

Riffle will have every opportunity to win the job. Apparently made one from 47 yds when he was a freshman.

That is typically what matters when coaches decide who starts. However, I would argue where it really matters is on the field on Saturdays.

Better facilities, more resources.

Whose asses are you wanting to sue and how did they breach the contract?

An opportunity to attend West Point is difficult to pass up. It is one of the best institutions of higher education in the world. At the time he committed, Army was nationally ranked. Jake is a very good athlete with good upside. It will be interesting to see where they will use him. Great get. It would be interesting to see if his brother would join him here for a year or two. He has lots of FBS interest so doubtful.

I will take a guess. One guys Viagra and it’s cheaper?

The protocols and an athletes ability to successfully navigate them determine whether or not the athlete is cleared to play. They may not know til Friday.

Ten belonged in the FCS playoffs. No FCS team had beaten them. I might have said that of Harvard and Yale, yet Yale beat Youngstown. MVFC and Big Sky are the strongest FCS conferences. there are other good teams around the country. Tarlton State is going to be a challenge. They have some talented players and some speed that might give us trouble. We will need to play mistake free and have another dominating performance by our defense to win. We need to get our injured guys healed up. Getting Z back is huge. If Farmer is ready to go that would be huge. It would be great to have Kaminski ready but I’m not optimistic. I think Simon will be fine if our Oline protects him and we get our running game going.

Dehydration doesn’t normally cause vomiting but it is associated with heat related injuries starting with heat exhaustion. This is clearly a concussion. Jerry had 2 blows to the head in a relatively short period of time. He appeared disoriented when they first helped him up. He vomited shortly thereafter. Regardless of his claim that he was OK, he wasn’t. All anyone had to do was look at him sitting on the bench post injury. UND medical staff have a concussion protocol that hopefully includes pre-participation testing and a post concussion protocol. We used IMPACT protocol. All athletes in our contact sports had to complete pre-participation IMPACT testing, which a computer test that takes 20-30min. Post concussion protocol/activity doesn’t start until the athlete is symptom free. (No Headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, depression, vision issues etc.). They take a post concussion computer test and compare those results with pre-participation testing results. They must be able to perform at pre-participation level. Once they can do the that, the trainers supervise their gradual return to non-contact physical activity. Once they can do that they return to non-contact team practice activities. Only then are the allowed to return to practice without restrictions. They must have one asymptomatic full practice without restriction before cleared to play. That is the protocol we used at our high school. Never once were we pressured by a coach to clear an athlete to play that hadn’t cleared our protocol. (We had a couple of Dads tell us that was all “BS cuz they returned to play without that crap”. UND will have an approved protocol (there are a number of other protocols). I would advise Schmidt to game plan with the idea that Romfo and Sulik will be the QBs. Obviously the health of the athlete are always the top priority.

I’m not sure that is accurate. Most NFL players don’t make that much.

Sather did nice work convincing him to stay.