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1 hour ago, forksandspoons said:
Shoutout to the seniors from this year! Can’t get to them all but wanted to mention a few
McNeal: one of the best leaders we’ve had in a long time; bleeds green and is an outstanding young man
Anderson: extremely reliable; played a ton of football for UND and was one of the best graded fcs tackles all season
Lewis: my personal favorite. A home run portal guy who was everywhere on the field and seemed to be the best tackler on the field.
Wiltshire: another absolute home run. He’s the definition of JYD. Will be very hard to replace a guy like him
Martin: really good addition a couple years ago, clearly was playing through pain and gutted it out
Scott: really wish his career didn’t end with an injury
Nate D : really improved this offseason, a leader, and a really good blocker as well
Z: another guy who bleeds green and should have gotten twice as many carries in every game he played this year. Averaged over 7 YPC this year only to get 5 carries in his last game
a lot of other guys not mentioned, but left a mark as hopefully the first building block team for the start of something very special!
Samuels-Parker, Keneth, Terry, Simon and Grant Romfo, Walker, and Neuberger all seniors. I think I also missed a few but all of these guys you listed, and these seniors were part of making us a better team. Some played quite a bit, others pushed the starters to get better. Neuberger, the long snapper should get some NFL tryouts. He had an outstanding career here (which is why most fans don’t know who he is).
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51 minutes ago, Long Snapper 92 said:Didn’t Romfo play with an injury last year and that’s what everyone attributed the poor play to?
Maybe Jerry was dealing with the same thing. Let’s give him a fair shake like we gave the hometown kid
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.
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11 hours ago, gfhockey said:
Do we get friend back or landry
They wouldn’t take the salary cut.
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12 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
mountain dew
Too much caffeine. I’d go through my depends too fast.
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1 hour ago, Long Snapper 92 said:
Why do you get so defensive and angry so often? It's just a fan forum where people post their opinions sir! It really isn't that serious
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.
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3 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
the bitcher...i like it better than bike guy
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.
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23 minutes ago, southpaw said:
Gotta think he's on the hot seat after this loss
It’s not even luke warm.
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1 hour ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:keep stitchin'....
And you can keep bitchin’.
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37 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
and telling a guy to jump over the punt safety guys...come on
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.
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Who made that call? 2pt conversion does nothing for us.
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Illinois State giving Bison fits. If the hadn’t thrown 3 picks they might be ahead at halftime
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1 hour ago, iramurphy said:
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.
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.
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1 hour ago, AJS said: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.
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5 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said:
I love Gaven Ziebarth, I really do. Been adamant all year he should have been getting more touches. I am really disappointed in how we used him this year. Guy’s carry numbers this year are 2, 10, 8, 6, 7, 9, 3 (injury) and then 11 last game. I think we screwed up in how we used him all year and a lot of last year too.
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.
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11 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
kem...ralph wanted und to own it....
You have no idea what Ralph wanted. I doubt you realize how stupid your comment is.
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On 12/3/2025 at 9:30 AM, siouxfan512 said:
Any chance Sawyer Riffle will be ready to take over at kicker next year? Nobody we have has proven they can own the job ... if our freshman can't unseat someone, do we look at some sort of transfer? There has to be a handful of D2 or community college kids that could outperform what we have seen this year. Given how close many of our games have been, this could be the difference in a few wins vs losses.
Riffle will have every opportunity to win the job. Apparently made one from 47 yds when he was a freshman.
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21 minutes ago, Long Snapper 92 said:
All this QB talk makes me wonder, what QB has been playing the best in practice the last couple of weeks? That's where it really matters.
That is typically what matters when coaches decide who starts. However, I would argue where it really matters is on the field on Saturdays.
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18 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
as a whole was und's athletic department doing better or worser since REA was built and the REA "agreement" was signed...?
Better facilities, more resources.
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On 12/2/2025 at 5:30 PM, SIOUXFAN97 said:
sue their asses...breach of contract!!!
Whose asses are you wanting to sue and how did they breach the contract?
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1 hour ago, Dustin said:
Offers out of HS were UND and Army. A little surprised there weren't more. And a little surprised he didn't pick UND from the start.
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.-
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47 minutes ago, JacksonW said:
Why should somebody bitch endlessly, for what purpose?
I will take a guess. One guys Viagra and it’s cheaper?
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17 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
Concussions are a serious injury and should be handled as such; however, there should be no preconceived notions here.
Let the protocol play out and see what happens. I too would suspect it will be only Romfo and Sulik (and technically Etienne as playoff games don’t count towards redshirt status) on Saturday at quarterback for UND, but we shouldn’t rule out Kaminiski already.
Concussions are a continuum (spectrum) injury, as most, and as such the protocol is important. Kaminski has an opportunity to still play next weekend, although low probability, but prematurely ruling him out at this juncture is unfair to the young man and his teammates, as well.
Let time and the protocol play itself out.
From purely a football perspective, I think Romfo deserves a chance to lead his brothers, and the 701 Moving Company and Ziebarth need to set the tone early, often, and especially late.
Protect the ball offensively, average 4 ypc at the end of the game offensively, and defensively force turnovers and prevent big plays. Play good special teams, no blocks (turnovers), no big plays (no return TDs) and make PATs! Purposely didn’t say field goals as need to finish drives and score touchdowns, not field goals. All of UND’s losses this season can be tracked back to red zone inefficiency.
UND wins as such and moves on to the quarterfinals if they accomplish most if not all of this …
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.
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1 hour ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
doesn't really matter that there were/are the 7th best...after the top 4 or 5...they all the same...mercer, wofford, se la, weber, sac state...tenn tech.....joke
5 hours ago, siouxweet said:Yesterday was a perfect example of what is wrong with the FCS and the FCS playoffs. That was the number 7 team in the country??? That team should not have even been in the playoffs. What were they 11-1 and who have they played outside of Kentucky, no one that was better than probably Northern Iowa.
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.-
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5 hours ago, Und Princess said:Is Jerry's injury a for sure concussion? Vomiting could mean dehydration too.
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.-
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One of the reasons this is getting worse is agents are contacting these players to “represent” them. They are telling kids and players families that they have contacts with coaches and teams at all college levels and can help guide them through the portal and get them money.
I have no faith in the NCAA, but if they wanted to regain some control, they would require players leaving or the schools accepting portal transfers, to reimburse the schools whose players transfer through the portal the cost of that players scholarship (not additional funds or NIL funds unless required by legal contract). Others on this forum have stated same or similar.
It can be almost intoxicating for a kid and their families to here how their son/daughter needs an agent and that agent will find them a school that will give them NIL money and better position them to get to the NFL. $50,000- $100,000 is a lot of money but usually not “life changing”. The college degree should be more life changing and few agents discuss it unless the player or parents bring it up
I’m afraid we have more than Rucker and Seidel to be concerned about. Hang on, this ride can get rocky