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Have any local recruits committed elsewhere the last couple of seasons?

Legacy does not automatically equal commitment.

Are you better off raising money for coaches or raising money for NIL in today’s college sport landscape?

That would be interesting to look at. Also would be interesting to see when each of those coaches in Tom’s article were hired and where the salaries at time of hire ranked in conference. Certainly work to do but likely doesn’t change until new staff is brought in board. Going rate is much higher but facilities actually in place and not on paper should help recruiting a new coach.

No I wasn’t joking.

Facilities are equally…….possibly more important in getting/retaining the athletes that can compete for conference championships. Tom should do a fancy table comparing facilities. I bet the same two schools would be at the top but UND is positioned to be much more favorable.

Or if he wanted to accept more and didn’t redirect it to his coaching staff.

There are coaches making more that have accomplished less.

After the facilities are complete Chaves certainly has work to do regarding salaries. Would be interesting to see how the recent new hires compare to what was replaced. I’d rather have the facilities first as that is what recruits care about but an argument could be made the other way I suppose to check the boxes in the article.

Offensive coordinators play calling post NDSU deserves no blame??

It’s getting 4 gates

The UND athletic dept didn’t need to supply the media with knee pads to get fans to the games.

Looks like pre game warm ups.

while we do need every down help at DE and LB, our biggest need is getting off the field on 3rd down……specifically 3rd and 7 or more Not going to fix everything all at one time but if the staff can find a way to get one or two guys here that can rush the passer consistently, and improve a little on the back end, the defensive numbers will look better I agree though, I don’t know enough about this kid to know if he’s that guy

Randle Parker with 2 quality FCS offers and a FBS offer (for those needing to see offers) appears to be a really good signing on the late signing period. The others certainly have opportunity as safety and LB are huge areas of need.

Looks like 4 announced today. https://fightinghawks.com/news/2024/2/7/football-fighting-hawks-announce-additions-to-signing-class.aspx?fbclid=IwAR302wUDDR5MU4kPyECRWR44F1SlQDvCHsfIc6aSSXCFgFwuOfA4G67nNOQ

Any details or is this the “I told you so post” for later this year?

Ahneman from Sheyenne was there as well.

We’d all be excited because we wouldn’t be peaking too early. Apparently should have lost today.

Who says we have peaked yet and are playing our best basketball? What I saw today was far from peaking for this team but you do you

Can’t wait to see your response when he loses a couple?

Can’t say “I told you so” later on if you enjoy the positive now. Guys are playing great ball right now. Looking forward to Saturday.

He has left for the 3rd time this off-season. Busy guy. if it’s said enough times on this board eventually it will be correct.

I could see the Northern St OC based on current staff. wildcard could be David Schramm from UMary. Offense wasn’t great but the guy has a resume that is much better than the OC that just left and would have been a better hire if you take names out of it.

UND needs to throw the money at someone. Either Pawluk to get him to stay or bring someone in and Associate Head Coach. Can’t do the internal promotion if Pawluk and the RB coach leave. I wouldn’t mind taking a run at Beschorner. or, they need to go find another coach with UND ties nearing the end of his career and pay him. Thinking someone like a Randy Hedberg. I know that not ideal but this can’t be a Sam King promotion. A tank of a season next year will cost more in lost revenue dollars than paying a coach.