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Montana's offense is fun to watch but will struggle with this QB. He is killing them with poor throws.
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If Wentz plays like this the rest of the game Kiper's pants might not contain his exuberance...........
lol. It would be Welles deserved. The kid is a hell of a QB.
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Griz running backs are average-
And their QB can't throw a ball. He's left points on the board in both red zone possessions with poor throws.
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Another example of what is wrong with UND athletics is illustrated by today's Grand Forks Heraldo headline:
'No Nickname' removed: Kelley leaves 'UND/North Dakota' option off ballot for October vote.
So let me ask a very serious question right now: Which is more important to UND's present and future; this nickname business or the failure to fund FCOA for anything but hockey?
The answer, in my opinion, is obvious. But it isn't obvious to the people in charge at Twamley Hall and Hyslop. And those are the people that need to get it through their thick skulls about how important it is for our coaches and players to be on a level playing field when it comes to resources. Otherwise, this whole move to Division I was a waste of time, money and effort.
While NDSU focuses on a nationally televised game vs. Montana, we are still bickering over if we should have a new name and logo or not.
God help us, we need it.
In fairness to the people in Twamley Hall and Hyslop, our fanbase and the state of North Dakota has not allowed them to move on. They would have gladly done it 5 years ago. That argument has been brought up and labeled as fear mongering.
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I sense there are too many people in power at the university that would be totally fine seeing ndsu as Boise State to their Idaho.
Some of this responsibility is on the coaching staffs as well. They have to start spreading the message to their alumni on how important this is for the university.
NDSU's way of doing this is one example of how to do it. They choose the raise money now route to capitalize on their momentum. A solid business case can be put together for this and I think UND fans would step to the plate as well. There is no award for being the 2nd FCS team to do it. They aren't starting until 2016 so they aren't going to get recruits this year because they announced this yesterday.
However, now a bullet point for the other regional schools is its here. To be competitive, we will need to push this forward but the communication of the dollars and what it is for is the key component. Also, a big year from the basketball, football and volleyball programs wouldn't hurt.
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Announcing this on Friday is just plain chicken sh*t. Friday announcements are always about trying to hide things. Kelley placates the no nickname crowd for a month, but then back stabs them later. What a joke!
Maybe he talked to all 7 of them in the park last weekend.
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Glad to finally be reading some topics about sporting events again. Great win ladies.
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Good article on the approach from USD and SDSU. Good read with some good quotes from ADs and coaches.
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I'm curious how many anti nicknamers will vote Sundogs just because they are throwing a fit.
I don't think any. I think they either won't vote or pick a name they could handle.
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UND should only focus immediately on being able to offer COA for football, volleyball, mens and womens basketball, mens and womens hockey and which ever other women's sports to even out the Title 9 requirements. Two reasons-
- I think the baseball, tennis, golf, track and field coaches, etc. would rather have a few more scholarships for their programs. Offering a few more kids is more important than paying more to the kids your offering.
- Saying your doing it for all sports is great for the fans only. Your not going to lose a football or hockey player cause you are not doing this for tennis. You can always add to the other sports as funds become available.
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Call me crazy, but I feel like I am the only one that is inerpretting this as an announcement to move NDSU football to FBS within 5 years.
The stadium is the only thing that is holding/will hold them back.
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Makes me wonder if there's an advantage to announcing and getting the need out there first before other regional schools come knocking to some of the same donors for the same purpose. Certainly each school has their own fans/alumni but there's also a significant amount of overlap on the corporate account list.
They were smart to continue to use the momentum they have built.
That is what bothered me with Faison's comments, while the answer was not incorrect, his response didn't articulate the need or build excitement for potential recruiting opportunity.
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May be you didn't hear that coa will be fully funded for the first 3 years due to a couple of big donars.
Larsen never mentioned anything about that so I didn't hear that. I did hear him say they will have a challenges with it, he talked about a website that directed people to go if they had questions about what COA was, finally he talked about how it will be a number tracked and taken out of the scholarship fund.
Him or Jack never mentioned anything about it being fully funded for the first 3 years.
Below is the podcast:
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Just listening to an interview with Matt Larsen on KFGO, its a little deceiving as he stated NDSU does not fully have the funds to do this right now and they will admittedly have challenges in raising that money. You wouldn't get that from any of the articles or comments out on this today but it came from him on the Jack Michaels show. Now what they do have is a couple big donations and are raising awareness on what this additional cost is to help raise the rest of the money. That is where they are smart, get the need out there, paint the picture and have your fanbase step up. That is the message UND and Faison should follow this up with. "We can do it but we need a little more help."
If anything, NDSU doing it today maybe causes people to up there donations or start donating. UND just needs to push it.
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When Faison is quoted in the Heraldo that UND is planning on funding all 18 men's hockey scholarships and an equal number of women's scholarships and then hints at possible "cuts" in the future, that doesn't sound good to me.
What I meant was that I don't care if most of the other FCS schools decide not to do this, I still want UND to do it so that we become a leader and trend setter in mid-major collegiate athletics instead of being in wanna-be, catch-up mode all the time. And like it or not, what happens with NDSU has an impact on UND and vice-versa. We either accept that and rise to the challenge or we sink into permanent mediocrity. I know which path I want to take.
Here is the article you continue to reference. A couple interesting quotes in here from Faison-
“I think all of our student athletes are important and I think they serve a mission for the university,” Faison said. “Certainly when programs can advance and get on the national stage I think there are tremendous opportunities for the institution to have exposure as well."
Sounds familiar.
“We're going to have to generate more revenue or we're going to have to make some cuts,” he said.
But Faison wasn’t very worried about this initial change.
“The potential to offset this immediately is there without having to take a drastic step in terms of some kind of programmatic cuts … but we're not going to know that until we get these numbers down,” he said.
I'm guessing they looked at the numbers. Faison actually throws an idea out on how they will raise additional funds.
Faison said social media has become a large part of the Athletics Department and that, coupled with recent efforts to increase merchandise sales at games, will hopefully help fund the new amended grant-in-aid.
Where have we heard about the importance of merchandise sales before. I'd say the interlocking ND is tapped out but maybe if there was something else we could put on jerseys, t-shirts, sweatshirts, beer mugs, etc. it would create more revenue than we currently bring in due to merchandise sales. Does this play into fear mongering or is this another fact on why picking another new nickname is actually important?
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More alibis and excuses. Do you REALLY think we can't raise the money for this? Cripes, the Alumni Association raised over $300 million to establish an endowment. If they can do that, then they sure as heck can do this. But it all starts at the top and that has to start with the President and then the Athletic Director. NDSU has that leadership and we do not. Period. End of story. All the positive things you pointed out will be cancelled out if we don't rise to the occasion on FCOA.
For once, JUST ONCE, I would like this institution to be ahead of the curve instead of always playing catch-up and second-fiddle to the freaking Bison. But I suppose the Vikings have a better chance if winning the Super Bowl this year.
And I don't care what other schools do on this. I care about what UND does on this. And I would like to be a trend-setter in collegiate athletics for once. But I suppose that won't happen until we get a new President in office. And I really hope that person understands what athletics can do for a university, because I don't think Kelley gets it.
You forgot a paragraph about everyone on here either donating to Champions Club or raising their gift to Champions Club.
There are other creative ideas out there too that would help.
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Isn't UNDs "FCOA" nearly double that of NDSU?
Meaning UND could offer a star recruit $6,000 and NDSU could only offer $3,000?
"so what is the bigger draw"?
This was my thought when I read the earlier comment. Careful what you wish for.
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The following quote from the article in today's Grand Forks Herald clearly illustrates why NDSU is winning titles and getting all kinds of national exposure, while UND wallows in the quicksand of mediocrity and openly talks about budget cuts.
This is the attitude and mentality of a school and athletic department that understands what it takes to be successful on a championship level and has the leadership and guts to make it happen. The decision has been made and the alumni are already stepping up to meet the challenge:
I believe the bolded statement above to be true of UND's alumni base as well. But we are missing one important ingredient: LEADERSHIP. The first comments from Faison about FCOA focused on protecting Men's Hockey and possible budget cuts in the future. It would be nice if Faison would make the kind of bold statement that Larsen has made at NDSU, but with a lame-duck and toothless President who is counting the days until he can retire, don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen.
Here are the e-mail addresses to Kelley and Faison:
robert.kelley@und.edu; BRIAN.FAISON@und.edu It is time to get off our collective arses and do what it takes to turn UND into the premier mid-major athletic program in the entire NCAA. That means going all-out on FCOA. Our alumni can and will step up to make it happen. Otherwise, we might as well go non-scholarship in all non-hockey sports or move back down to Division II in all non-hockey sports.
Make sure you are already donating to Champions Club if you are sending an e-mail.
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LOL at the USD fan that says UND will be behind USD in facilities.
I'd put UNDs athletic facilities as a whole against any school of similar size in the region.
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I support the coaching staff's decision to go with Studsrud. I trust their judgment on this. I also know that a UND QB hasn't started every game of a season since Klosterman in 2001 so we'll likely need at least one if not both Mollberg and Bartels. To those who think they should transfer over this, I'm just going to say there would be a few less banners hanging at the Alerus if guys like Joe Wilson, Chris Belmore, Reed Manke, and Lee Groeschl had that kind of attitude.
Solid post.
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It is horsesh*t we can't watch the game on TV -
Anyone else pissed about this??
I agree. I actually don't disagree completely with Dan's comment.
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Do you really think the UND administration or NCAA are going subject themselves to the scrutiny they would get for doing something as stupid as telling fans what they can cheer? Twitter, Facebook, etc. would blow up and it would probably make national news! ..and not in a good way! How would that work for student and/or athlete recruitment? Not happening!
All this has already happened. Most people outside of UND wonder why this has drug on for 5+ years.
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The offensive and defensive lines concern me the most. Offensive line: there are two new starters and questions whether they can start off with season like they ended last season. Fullback is extension of offensive line and run blocking, and the suspension to Dustin Iverson is troublesome. Defensive line: huge unknown right in the middle at NG. Also, suspension to Tank Harris doesn't help.
Actually, the only unknown of the d-line is the backup nose guard. Woodsmall started last season until he was injured and played well even though he was a little light. From all accounts he is back to being close to 100%.
All the d-ends have logged Big Sky minutes and 3 of the 4 played pretty well last season and should be improved. Greely and Dranka could both be all conference quality guys and made big plays last season as true freshmen and Corruthers has seen time since his freshman season and I believe started a few games last season.
The big question will be can Corruthers and Greer give 20-30 solid plays at the backup NG position to give Woodsmall a break on occasion.
I agree with the questions on the o-line. That position group has performed well below expectation for too many seasons for me to have confidence going in to this year.
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Not sure what you mean? Jer was valuable to us certainly, but he averaged 71 yds/game for the 11th ranked rushing offense in the league. I think we are all expecting more than that this year.
Was that cause of Jer or the performance of the o-line?
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2015 FCS Thread
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Great game. Great way to kick off FCS. Two good teams who will get better as the year goes on.
Great win for the Big Sky.