homer

Not saying I want everyone back but not sure bringing in 22 new players is a better solution.

This is my thought. You want to improve the secondary we need to retain the starters and being in competition. I can’t think of one transfer that has come in the last few years and made an instant impact. Hopefully retain Buchner and a healthy Fort is a starting point at safety. Any improvement is either development or finding the right fit in the portal.

Every home team wins. Home teams are 15-1 in the playoffs through two rounds.

But Western Illinois can…

IMO- Marty Rogers could be in that discussion as well both as a recruiter and a DB coach. Interesting that he appears to be coaching high school ball in Missouri now.

It’s too bad UND can’t financially support its football program……..

Off season development needs to be evaluated. Not every player on our roster only had NSIC offers or is D2 caliber. If I was to invest in anyone from either of the XDSU’s it wouldn’t be a coach. The other thing that needs to be evaluated that has nothing to do with personnel is corporate sponsorship and other ways to get money into these programs. I’m not going to pretend to know what some of these current sponsors are bringing to the table but there are a few “regional” names throwing money at the other Dakota schools right now at a time we seem to be dragging out Phase II and the off season facilities that potentially help get us to the next level.

He still is let go in 2010 if they don’t sneak into the playoffs. Honestly their success that season was due to their offseason work and player development, which should be the starting discussion tomorrow regardless of any coaching or player changes.

And he was one season away from getting canned prior to their quarterfinal appearance vs EWU.

They were wrong. Doesn’t change the fact we lost but it was 38-31 final

Disappointing effort by the defense today. Sounds crazy but I don’t think you fix it by DL, need to find a way to improve at OLB and safety. #34 had a tough game today, safety’s had a tough game today and coaching staff has had a tough season.

This team and coaching staff are better than some want to give them credit for. Yes we have some deficiencies but we also have some real strengths we can take advantage of. Despite being called soft, our OL play and running backs have proven they can be physical and set up some nice things. We just can’t get down out of the gates to make any game planning obsolete and become one dimensional.

Hopefully our roster of D2 players show up today and can even make this a competitive game with the coaching staff we have.

Play our game for 4 quarters and I like our chances to have a chance at the end. Let’s go!!

^^^what about punters and their hard nosed style??

Quality losses……..

6-5 Western Illinois getting in with “quality losses” vs a team with an FBS quality win. it’s happened before

Well stated.

The great part is the MVFC rep should be easy to get in touch with by the Herald to justify the committee reasoning…….right???

It will be interesting to see where we are placed. Hoping to be in the Alerus next Saturday.

Agreed. Need to build on those guys.

We have to develop those guys, not recruiting them here.

#24……..tough game

Guys just misfitting everywhere.

How was your original post misinterpreted??