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Seems like we've always had trouble containing good running quarterbacks. Hoping the change of D alignment will help with this. If we spy him - hoping we have someone as fast as he is or it does no good.

Seeing that MN will have an NIL fund of $15M for football this year - an average of $150k+ per player to spread around. Some will get more and most less but that is a big number to try to compete with and would appeal to most kids.

My 3 teacher kids always hang the UND schedule posters in their classrooms. I brought these for them but they passed cuz didn’t want their students having an excuse to use phones in class.

If you follow the link and look at Offense and Defense you will see that all the big names are included. Just didn't make the top of ST rankings.

Here’s another defense of Kostich. Per Hero sports and PFF, UND with top rated ST in FCS.

Kickers are a strange breed - I know as I was one. It can come back pretty fast for him and he has been better the last few games. A little recency bias here because his stats last year were actually pretty good. From the MVFC web page UND was 14/19 on fg. Tied for 3rd in % at 73.7% UND was 44/45 on XPT. 97.8%

You’ve heard it loud and clear but choose to pretend not to understand. Last time for me - it’s the ad nauseam part that’s really old.

I think obvious to everyone who pays attention on here. You won’t give the kid a break and take shots at him every chance you get. Wondering if more than fb involved.

It's been reported that UM men's basketball had about $1.2M last year. $500k went to Dawson Garcia and the rest was spread around the roster. Also has been said that is why they couldn't compete - $1.2M is not enough which is crazy. I think Nico Medved was promised $5M for this year in NIL - not including the house settlement money. With the house settlement they have $20.5M extra from the school to spread among the sports. I don't think it is technically NIL but gets to the players similarly. Just under 75% of that to football, just under 25% to men's bb and a little to Volleyball, men's hockey and maybe women's bb.

Excellent.

And also - did he or someone in his family hurt you somehow?

FG was partially blocked I think. could have been a myriad of things that caused it. Did you watch the game? I was there and it was pretty obvious what they were trying to do. Ran Simon on a pass play in the left flat on first down for a short gain. Nothing to see there, he was just another WR. The next play they ran him on toss-reverse flea flicker type play hoping to catch UNI off guard for a pass. UNI sniffed it out and nobody to throw to so he ate it. Collectively we all love Schmitty and trust his judgement, at least most do compared to people on a message board. He couldn't have spoken more highly of Kostich in an interview a few weeks ago. Was on UNDFootball 360 podcast I think. Schmitty said he was special teams coordinator the last few years and knows what all goes into it and Kostich is one of the best. All the coaches he hired have some ST experience and they all work together to make ST successful They went to a coaches conference with all the big boys from P4 this summer where special teams tactics and strategies were presented and discussed. He was impressed with Kostich who stood right in there with the all of them and was as knowledgeable as anyone there.

This is true and we all need to do our part. The frustrating part is UM and other big schools are distributing $20.5M per year due to the house settlement. At UM about $15M of that is going to football. Tough to compete against that if they really want a kid.

Got us at Diamond Jo’s on way down at 14.5. The added point didn’t turn out to matter small bet but was fun to cash it on way home

Incredible throw and catch. Threw it way before the wr made his break. Let him run under it. TD

Big stop on 4th down

Did he catch it?

Yes. Was right in front of us. Underthrown

UNI OL and DL not the physical specimens they had in past.

Pass could have been better on TD attempt

You are correct on the school guesses. As much as it pains me I’d add Eden Prairie into that mix too. 😀 on a more serious note. Just arrived in Cedar Falls. Grabbing a beer and food before the game. Go Hawks

Heading out for Cedar Falls soon. Hoping to see lots of green in the stands

Sorry for the long post. I can’t sleep for some reason. Most of it falls to family involvement with their kids and their economic status. My experience is with well funded suburban schools both as a parent, coach and part time worker at sporting events. Now also the parent of 3 teachers so I’m a little biased. For sure the inner city schools are a different story. Just saying there are great opportunities in many TC schools. I grew up in NW MN and got a very good education. My kids went to SW suburban public schools and their education way outpaced mine. The downside is lack of opportunities to be in sports and other extracurriculars at the varsity level. Just too many kids for very few spots. My 3 kids all went to UND with multiple college credits already in hand through AP or IB classes and were already at sophomore level when they enrolled. (Was great for hockey ticket priority). All three were done with a year of calculus when they came to UND. None of that was even offered at my high school but probably more common today. My kids were honor students in hs but not valedictorians or anything. My daughter was told she scored the highest in Spanish placement test ever at UND and that was before our HS even offered Spanish immersion. The UND professors were sure that she had lived abroad for at least a year or two. In her 9-12 hs Spanish class nobody was allowed to speak English once they entered the room. She was blown away at UND when the prof spoke to them quite often in English cuz most of the kids needed it. At the better suburban schools it’s a race to attract and retain students and high quality teachers. More students = more funding so they are highly motivated. They continue to offer more of both high level STEM and vocational type courses. Our hs now offers an Aviation program with state of the art flight simulators and air traffic control classes. Small school kids are great but we didn’t get the opportunities offered in the big suburban schools because of the money involved. Teachers wash out quickly at our schools if they’re not good enough. My sister teaches in NW MN and they have a math job openings that’s gone unfilled for a couple of years cuz no applicants. No way they would get rid of a barely adequate teacher. Our hs puts out an annual report type booklet every couple of years comparing their students performance to the area private schools achievement and on national testing. When looking at top 200-300 in each grade they out perform the area private schools. They also show overall scores but make that distinction cuz they educate the special needs and behavior issue kids that the private schools turn away.

we talkin' politics again? Thanks for validating my post regardlng the point of this thread

Discussions of the claims of the report where all roads lead to politics, like you knew it would. It is antithetical to what you claim this site is about and you'll eventually issue warnings when it gets too bad. You say no politics - but then bait the group into political discussions based on a TV 'documentary' that clearly had an agenda to sell, bought time on TV and whose producers won't say who paid for any of it. The TV show preaches the need for transparency but .........