JacksonW

Absolutely true ^

And you know that how?

Tarleton having to keep safeties out of the box

It what way, now the power schools can take kids but before they had lots of talent that wasn’t playing that now can find a place to play. It concentrates the uber high end kids but disperse the next level to play. As far as I know NDak benefited from portal this year and will probably next year. Just another form of evaluation and recruitment. Rucker maybe the only player difficult to replace.

I know it’s not popular, but North Dakota isn’t for everyone for myriad reasons

I’m just saying that all things considered if the money is the same they should stay. Going to portal is finding out what is possible financially. 10-25k more matters to lots of families

I would make the claim that the main risk would be injuries that shorten or end college careers. Also practicing against better competition every day in practice will enhance their skills if they are truly talented more than playing Drake and Indiana State. Playing 3 games a year against very high end individuals vs daily interaction against the same talent in practice

Most of these players while having dreams of playing professionally, understand that any financial compensation for playing football ends soon- it might be wise to tap into it. Especially if they didn’t grow up financially comfortable

A friends son played 3 years college hockey and 5 years in NHL and for him without a doubt the highlight of his hockey career was playing in world juniors. Nothin else compared.

And how many of that 1000 made the NFL staying at UND?

After Southern Illinois, teams decided they could not let UND run for 300 yards and be able to beat them. They started crowding the box and were willing to let WR and QB try to beat them. The more it worked the more teams did it. By Tarleton they had 9-10 guys within 5 yards of LOS daring the wide receivers to beat someone and QB to complete passes in smaller windows or way down field. Didn’t have personnel to do that.

NDSU is primarily for students who plan on staying in region.UND is for students who plan on taking their talents everywhere.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for anyone to agree with this opinion

Zone defense vs man to man coverage

100 yards total offense for last 58 minutes of game