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Even the FCS national scoreboard considers it a loss. Pay attention to the arrows.

It really was never closed as the law prescribes. The new law doesn’t mandate that we know who the six currently are at this point. In years past, airport interviews would have been conducted to conceal the identity of the 6 current candidates. But since NDUS opted for on-campus visits, the identies had to be revealed, even though by law, names don’t have to be divulged until 3 finalists are chosen. I am sure the search firm had to let potential candidates know this, and is most likely why sitting presidents such as Shirley didn’t even apply this time. I shudder to think how much worse the clown show would have been had it been completely wide open like it was in the past . Gross.

My main point, which I did a poor job of laying out, is that we seldom hear about local market factors from us fans when it comes to finding/paying our coaches.

Some would argue we are settling for what we can get at those salaries. But if we COULD pay more to get better candidates, would we stand for it?

Yet many of us sports bros would relish in the ability to pay a coach top dollar to attract the best if we could. Would $400-500 be too rich for our blood if we could get a football coach with the right stuff to get us to be a legit perennial Top 10 FCS program with a legit shot to go deep into the playoffs...or a Ben Jacobson type coach who could replicate a UNI type scenario right here at the Betty? But when it comes to the most important hire for a University, we start to hear about the need to be compensated based on the local household median income. We would never stand for this conservative philosophy coming out of Hyslop. Would we?

Yes. That would make the most sense.

http://blogs.und.edu/cobpa-faculty-research/?wysija-page=1&controller=email&action=view&email_id=124&wysijap=subscriptions&user_id=3798 Great news for UND! What a great family.

We’ve officially jumped the shark on this thread. Saturday can’t come soon enough.

At least. SMH

Fargo-Moorhead isn’t any better with America Crystal Sugar and the West Fargo landfill book ending the “metro.”

It’s embarrassing to the entire state.

I’ll just set this here. ⚠️ Graphic content warning ⚠️ https://mobile.twitter.com/bertfarlender/status/1168368001047040000

Not really. And when it comes to injuring players, look up Zach Arnell sometime.

Hate the Drake!

Serve-receive looked terrible from what I saw.

Go Fighting Hawks!

Never did.

It's not the plays... it's execution. I can call what the AC is going to run before they run it at 90 percent clip (just like many would lament about Rudy) but they just execute to perfection so it works. Predictable is fine when you have the horses. You'll kill the other team tonight, Gundy! Don't ever sleep on three yards and a cloud of dust!

There was a lot of football played out at Memorial Stadium today, and right from the get go. The team followed up warm-ups immediately with about 15-20 plays of 11-on-11. There was loud music playing on the sideline pretty much the entire practice. Some highlights from the first round of plays included: Kett hitting Wanzek on an a nice 40 yard fly pattern. Turner busted through the scrum for a sack, showing his sudden burst, power and speed... no chance. Zim continues to show good poise in the pocket, waiting just long enough to hit TE Pinke over the middle for another nice gain. He hears the footsteps but is able to maintain concentration. QB Grover threw a nice ball to TE Cloyd on a down and out pattern for medium gain. The big mit of Ray Haas made another appearance today, as he busted through the line and slapped down a pass by Schuster at close range. Kett followed up with a nice 25 yarder to Tovionen on a down and out pattern. Kett threw a nice ball over the top to Cochran who was blanketed by Hayden Galvin for a 30 yard pass and catch. QB Grover got into the act with a nice pass to Maag along the sideline for 35 yards. Next Grover was forced to double pump as he scanned the field on the run, good coverage forced him to ultimately escape the pocket and throw it away to avoid a big loss. The Play of the Day came during this initial round of plays when Kett hit Cochran for a 1st down while hand fighting with Blubaugh, who had good position and coverage. WR CC ultimately juggled the ball a few times before allowing it to settle into his arms for a good catch along the sidelines. The Band-aid brigade was more than a dozen strong today, as mostly young backups spent time on the sidelines nursing various bumps and bruises. Interestingly only 2 offensive players were among them: Mortel and Sherva. Another drill that produced some neat highlights was a red zone exercise, from about 10-15 yards out. Zim hit Cloyd for a 15 yard pass-and-catch TD with Galvin all over Cloyd. QB Schuster threw high toward the corner of the end zone to find CC for another TD. Zim then found Maag on a crossing pattern for a TD. Schuster went to the other corner with a high ball to WR Wilde, who went up high to get it for a TD. Schuster then zipped it into Greibel who had to react quickly to snatch it out of the air for a 10 yard TD. Zim showed he could zip the ball, too, when he found Toivonen in the corner for a TD. Zim followed that up with another bullet to Pedro Schmidt for a 10 yard TD. During Team Drills the Offense and Defense were relatively even, with a slight edge to the offense if I had to pick one. Kett faked to big HB Johanneson and then hit Boltmann on a 25 yard out pattern. Kett followed that up with a bad exchange to McKinney, who fumbled and allowed a defensive recovery. That ended the series for Kett. Zim came in and had to throw the ball away right away as Quintin Sequin busted through for a QB hurry. In a rare moment for Zim, he held the ball too long and got sacked. He is wearing a red jersey so "sack" means they blew the whistle and called the play dead. Next Grover took over and executed a sneaky sweep exchange to WR Maag who went around the left side for good yardage. When Kett got his next chance again, he hit Toivonen on a short route, in which the WR shed a Blubaugh tackle and ran it up field. Kett then faked McKinney and opted for a quick hitter short pass to Toivonen for a first down. Red Zone plays and short yardage passing to running backs, WRs and TEs were the overriding theme of today. During some more Red Zone drills, Zim found WR Pedro Schmidt in the back o the endzone for a TD. Next QB Grover stepped in and was picked off by promising young CB Jacob Odom. A bit of scary play took place when Grover hit his receiver in the corner of the endzone. The WR was covered well by Blubaugh. Both receiver and defender went up high for the ball, and Blubaugh came down awkwardly. He sat out the rest of the practice but was walking on the sidelines without any assistance. During field goal drills, holding duties were rotated among Cade Pederson, Greibel and Boltmann. The Kickers focused on boots outside of 40 yards. They seemed to be pushing the ball left at first but both Bradys eventually found their sweet spots and range, and they began booming them through. Alternate Play of the Day: Leach finished off the exercise with an absolute beauty from 45+ yards out that would have been good from longer. He did it with the entire offensive and defensive sqauds gathered to his front and screaming at him. Their distractions changed to cheers for the Kicker as it sailed through the uprights high and straight. Practice finished off with some more 11-on-11 plays. QB Schuster salvaged what looked to be a botched play by finding is security outlet Greibel in the shallow flats. Griebel turned on the jets and headed up field. Kett then had back to back nice pass plays. He faked a handoff before throwing a nice low ball to Toivonen for 15 yards. The crafty Toivonen scooped it up as he slide for a first down. You've seen them do it before in game situations. Kett then threw a nice ball to Maag for nice yardage. The young QBs then finished off the day, with Schuster getting his second ball of the day batted down at the line. This time it was deflected clear back to the secondary where it was nearly intercepted. Schuster made up for it with a nice 30 yard rope to Pedro Schmidt. "Dro" went up and caught the ball at a high point before bringing it in and coming down in stride. The Hawks are off tomorrow and back to it on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Beer is fine.

Not to mention Bennett on the DL and all the young ball hawks in the secondary. I suppose it won’t be long before we’ll start seeing the pro scouts at Fall camp, scoping out #55.

Looks like we got a gem in Noah Larson. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/football/4068144-Once-an-under-recruited-prospect-UND-linebacker-Noah-Larson-building-on-breakout-freshman-year#.XUiOEQK-0Ys.twitter

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/football/4054333-UND-fall-camp-Day-4-roundup-DBs-steal-the-show

Yes, he's on the team. Very athletic. Good size for DB. Still learning the playbook. He should factor in playing time somewhere on the field this fall.

The Fighting Hawks were visited today by a couple of recent good ones in former defensive stalwarts Austin Cieslak and Tanner Palmborg. Several UND players, those in high-contact positions (hogs/rams) sported the padded helmet covers today. These protective devices seemed to be all the rage a couple days ago in the Fargo media, despite the fact they have been around for years and used by many FBS and FCS programs. I will be taking a break from day-to-day Fall Camp coverage until next Saturday, as I slip back into 8-5 p.m. work mode. The Fighting Hawks Football Team will have their Media Day on Tuesday of this week. This just in: The Fighting Hawks are deep, deep, deep at WR this year. Not much separation in talent top to bottom, and that is not a slight. As we look ahead to next season, that situation will normalize a bit. Today, the offensive and defensive units continued to trade shining moments, with no clear edge. Ketteringham had his best day of camp today, hitting WR Burian, at one point, on a shallow out pattern that the receiver was able to take up field for YAC. Zimmerman, too, looked solid. The mobile QB rolled out when the pocket broke down and zipped one to WR Toivonen,who adeptly came back to the ball. However, true freshman Sammy Fort, who continues to stand out, was able to break up the pass at the last second. The screen pass and play action passes were very effective at times today for our QBs. Zim hit QB turned WR Bolt on one of these well executed screens. QB Grover executed a nice fake hand off on a jet sweep and hit Wanzek up field after a break down in the secondary. Only 3 QBs were used in the first live session of today's practice (Kett, Zim and Grover) In skelly, Zim hit DB turned WR Hietpas for 40 yards on a fly pattern in which the receiver was able to sneak behind enemy lines. Later in the 11-on-11 series, transfer HB Dalton Gee lost the ball as he busted through the DL and converging ILBs. It appeared the impact of the collisions jarred the ball loose and the defense was able to recover. SDSU transfer Wilde is proving to be a trusty target in fall camp. He was involved in a number of medium to long yardage plays again today. Young QB Schuster showed great poise in the pocket with a well executed screen pass to HB Gordon out of the backfield. Gordon turned it up in stride for big yardage. Kett then had a nice 45 yard pass and catch play to Toivonen on play action. One of the more comical plays, came when one of the backup QBs scrambled after a broken play, avoiding a sure sack by finding a TE who wasn't expecting the quick short pass.... the ball smacked the TE right off the front of the helmet and bounced up and down into the waiting arms of a DB. The names have been omitted to protect the innocent (and guilty, I guess). The co-Plays of the Day finished off today's practice: Firstly, HB McKinney conjured up his inner John Santiago, leaping over outstretched arms of would-be tacklers and breaking ankles of others as he weaved his way through the bunched up defense, including DBs who had cheated up, into the backfield where his jets kicked in and he was gone. What's amazing about this play was that it was a no-tackle drill, but even if it was full contact, I am confident McKinney wouldn't have been brought down. Practice ended on a high note for the offense, when QB Schuster hit Wilde with accurate timing on a crossing pattern. It was set up with play action that got the defense to bite hard. Wilde was off to the races! Fun day today at Memorial Union! Talk to you Saturday.