Siouxperman8
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10 minutes ago, Irish said:This is not a judgement on Sam King, whom I don't know much about. Just an observation about our program in general - It has to be one of the most in-bred programs in the country. Bubba has successfully resisted any change for 5 years and the result is mediocrity. Finally he is forced to make some staff changes and we immediately hire either someone who is already on staff or someone that has spent time here. God forbid we get any new blood or anyone that would bring in any new-fangled ideas. We have an incredible tolerance for a crap program because he is "one of us, one of us". The GOBC really let us down on this one - we have wasted a decade now - how much longer are we content.
I'm not sure he was forced to do anything. He made a choice.
There's no wonder we aren't hiring high end experienced coaches for these positions with a $40k salary. Need to up our salary pool if we want to attract more experienced coaches. That is on the administration - not Bubba.
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21 hours ago, UND1983 said:
They put out a release?
Tom Miller @tommillergfFollowingFollowing @tommillergfMoUND hasn't officially announced new WR coach position but rumored hire Sam King is at the Betty in Hawk gear. The GF native impressed the staff during his time as a GA, was with Duluth last season.10:57 AM - 29 Dec 2018-
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52 minutes ago, UNDColorado said:
Yup, I am still salty about the specifics of this deal. I am all for playing them but the terms are garbage. If one of my sales reps brought me a contract that looks like this I would immediately reject it and re-negotiate.
It was important to Bubba for us to play them and we had zero leverage.
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4 minutes ago, shep said:
All quiet on the western front.
Is that a good thing?
I was wondering the same thing. I hope so.
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15 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
Is Boltman that far away from not being the guy that losing Case hurts that much more?
talked to one of the offensive staff this summer and they really like Boltman. I hope he gets a shot
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3 hours ago, Big Green said:
Great kid, but we dodged a bullet there. I was told he wanted to play QB, and UND wanted him on defense so he went to NDSU.
I didn't hear that UND wanted Mertens on defense but wouldn't know for sure. I was told by someone close to him that he told Dale that the deciding factor for him was full ride vs. half scholarship
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Early signing day is a week from today. I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk about that.
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12 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
This is all correct. Spot on. NDSU’s 2009 and 2010 recruiting classes (many out of Twin Cities) really got the ball rolling for NDSU. Damn
Their recruiting success over us started back when we were DII and we haven't been able to overcome it
- During DII - we offered half rides to 72 players where they were able to offer full rides. Mertens told UND the deciding factor was the full ride at SU and Lennon wasn't willing to match that when the rest of the team was on half ride at max
- When we went DI NDSU was through their transition and we lost some kids because they didn't want to play in a limbo situation for us - Veldman said he picked them because he needed to have something to play for
- Since then they have been a juggernaut and are getting pretty much everyone they want. I don't know how we break through that
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45 minutes ago, SWSiouxMN said:
They need to stop the fight down in Brookings.
They scored 90.... by halftime.
I think they could pull 5 students from the crowd to play the 2nd half and win by 30...
They will run the table in the Summit.
Their game against Nevada and the Son of Musselman will be a fun one.
130 points with 3:30 left
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2 hours ago, gundy1124 said:
In all seriousness, SU should send him on his way, he just took another job. I heard Bohl and Klieman had to be physically seperated in the locker room, I think in Frisco, when Bohl was hired at WY but stayed on.
Recruiting and signing date......awkward!!
I know that the Bohl and SU split was not friendly and he is still bitter at the school.
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3 minutes ago, FightingSioux4 said:
having probs also. Tried phone and laptop....not working
Got Tim on for now
Same here
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36 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
No doubt winning influences the media and other voters for all-conference honors. It’s sort of a catch 22. Have a winning season, get all-conference selections. Have all-conference selections, get winning seasons. I guess we all would like more of both: winning seasons and all-conference performers. Remember individual stats also play big role, which can be real good despite not many wins.
Lastly, as Mike Ditka said, “players win the games, but coaches can lose them.” (Random bit on how good players can still end up on losing teams that are misdirected).
Can substitute 'high end recruits' for 'all-conference performers' too. Need to figure out how to win enough to be more attractive to the kids we are recruiting.
That's why 3-8 two years ago killed us.
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44 minutes ago, UND Fan said:
Where is he coaching?
http://www.pcsaints.com/article/1944.php
Presentation College in Aberdeen SD
Article is old and he is now WR coach
Travis Lueck
@Coach_Lueck
WRs Coach
@PCSaintFootball former WR/Ret. for@UNDfootball & proud@UND_Alumni Hopefully having a positive impact on someone...Aberdeen, SD -
I’m re-upping my 4 season tix.
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9 hours ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:
We had one of the most predictable offenses in the Big Sky (and as an independent), and at the same time was one with very little in game adjustments - let alone changes for the next week. We had to be easy to scout, other teams knew what we were doing. We put ourselves in a position where player talent wasn't fully utilized for a good team effort. Third quarter play kept us out of the playoffs and possibly from a bye this last weekend.
good example was the toss play we ran. By the end of the season other teams would crash the cb when they saw the pitch, we couldn't get the fb out there to chip him and the play went nowhere. Happened numerous times in the NAU game. The one time we did get a piece of the cb we had a good gain. I don't care if you have to change alignment or put the fb in motion to get him out there earlier - something needed to change. Even if they knew what was coming it would have had a better chance of being successful if we had players in the right position.
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14 hours ago, Irish said:
With the possibility of missing the tourney for the second year in a row it isn't too hard to look at our roster and see where the dead wood is. This isn't so much a "figure it out" problem" as a "do what needs to be done" problem. I seem to remember Blais cleaning house on occasion. We are a top tier hockey program, not some friendly beer league. You should need to produce to stay here.
Coaches in all sports are reluctant to do this because it could hurt future recruiting.
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23 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:
Love Wanzek and Maag but then we have a poor mans version of them about 4 times over on our roster. How does that help us win? How will that make opposing DCs stay up at night? We need more guys who can really run and are quick and can catch that are preferably around 6’.
my point was that if we had used Izzy, McKinney and Santiago (slot) for the speed guys plus Wanzek and Maag we would have been pretty good at wr this year.
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1 hour ago, geaux_sioux said:
This is my major concern about Freund. Obviously a great guy and the kids love him, but, if he is such a great recruiter and coach why does our wr group look like a church basketball league team?
Wanzek catches everything and is a stud and Maag might be too. Have a couple of speed guys in Adeoti and McKinney but need to figure out how to get them the ball in space. Santiago in the slot would have changed the complexion too. More of a usage thing in my eyes vs talent level.
ran into McKinney's dad in Flagstaff and he told me Cam runs a 4.34. Not sure how accurate that is if true it should be fast enough.
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Just now, SIOUXFAN97 said:
i think a lot of people are missing the fact that a lot of the punt rushers are 100% not blocked/ignored/free run at punter....literally a jailbreak!
not arguing with that. I just noticed that the punter sped up his delivery. It was obvious at NAU
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5 minutes ago, gundy1124 said:
Change punt formation. Quit mind boinking the players, block everyone then tackle the guy with the ball, simple. Our punter needs to speed up, too.
the snap still seemed to be getting back a little slow at the end of the year but the punter definitely sped up his delivery in the last couple of games.
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8 hours ago, Irish said:
I'm not sure what you see in Bubba that no one else does - He's the one who made the decision to stand pat last year. He couldn't even take care of the blocked punt situation. And unless you are in some alternate dimension, you sure as heck didn't see him out-coach anyone in a game situation this year.
Bubba is the kind of guy I want running my program. He is passionate about UND fb and UND in general. He is genuine and not an artificial hype machine - (see PJ Fleck).
I played for a lot of different guys and different personalities in HS and college. Coaches like Bubba got the best out of me long term. His approach reminds me of the way Dale Lennon and Rob Bollinger did things. Maybe he will prove to be over-matched in the long term but I am not ready to make that assessment now and wouldn't make a change at head coach. I do agree with the changes that were made today.
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2 minutes ago, Midwestern Hawk said:
You might be correct, but I think signaling to the team we were willing to try would have provided a spark. Put in Boltman, at least I have heard he is a actual threat to run.
In middle of 3rd qtr Boltman put his helmet on when we were about to receive punt and I thought he might go in. Nope unfortunately
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9 minutes ago, homer said:
If this comment is directed at me i will admit I had zero confidence in our offense getting more than ten yards there. I had more faith in our punter getting off a better punt and pinning them inside the 10, which he didn’t do either.
Agree. We were 3rd and 2 and I believe we got stuffed on that play. Pinning them deep with a punt is a reasonable play there. It didn’t work out so it turned out to be a bad idea. Going for it was reasonable too but not a slam dunk.
In hindsight it is clear but wasn’t 100% at the time.
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Pt #1 - conjecture or do you know it was dictated to Bubba? I don't know for sure but knowing Bubba a little I think he made the decision on his own. He gave Rudolf an extra year to right things but I believe that was a mistake.