Hawkster

I see the Portland State game is in GF the opening weekend of ND deer hunting. Nothing could be worse for attendance than having deer hunting that weekend.

Flagship

This 100%. At least USD was a legit D1 team. SF was NAIA and the game was absolutely was the lowest point of UND athletics.

If we get down that far in a hurry that means our starters need more practice. Leave them in and let them play, at that point they are playing with house money and see what needs to be corrected. Besides, why get the second and third stringers injured? We might need that depth some day

Garber verbaled to K State today. Appears he had about 12 offers.

Bubba, Oh Bubba, wherefore art thou Bubba? We are now 0-6 I believe.

Bubba sure needs to do something about his overall recruiting and soon. His big problem is a chicken and egg scenario. He can't get outstanding recruits without winning and he can''t win without outstanding recruits. It really does feel like back in the Muss days I'm sorry to say.

I wish we were P5. Ain't gonna happen but one can always dream.

Call K State whatever you like, but they are a P5 school. That IS the highest level, is it not?

Yea, so we've heard. It looks like Weertz received a lot more offers since he got the Hawk offer in March. It's being reported he got 17 offers including Kansas State and Air Force. I know it's only one player, but how does anyone at this level compete against a team like NDSU when they can out recruit high level teams like K State? We keep talking about closing the gap with NDSU but really they are pulling away from us and fast. There is no use kidding ourselves about being out recruited. Obviously they are out recruiting a lot of teams and not just us. There are no easy answers though, if there were, everyone would be doing it. The reality is that they are getting monster recruits for 2019 and Bubba is still bringing in players for this year trying to plug some holes. Just take this for what it's worth, 1 man's opinion and nothing more. Carry on.

Looks like the voters are getting us confused with NDSU again.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. As painful as it is, we need to remember or it'll happen again...........and again...........and again.

Sure seemed like it, especially against South Dakota.

We had a very easy schedule in 2016 and took full advantage of it. No Montana or Eastern Washington, plus we had Stoney Brook and South Dakota. Regarding injuries, if we can't learn to deal with them then we will never be much of a football team.

Now Darell, if Bubba can't win at least one playoff game this year, then I think we are headed for disaster in our first few years in the Mo Valley FC. Another thing, our first year in the MVFC is in 2020, so if we give him until the end of 2020 that's one season. As to the assistants, I don't think it's fair to fire them and not hold Bubba responsible.

If Bubba doesn't have a good year this year I think he should be gone. The minimum should be 1 playoff victory. In the event that he is gone, you can bet we need to seriously up coaches salaries to attract the right guys, and even if Bubba stays the pay checks need to reflect real world FCS salaries. This is the first place I would start and then build from there. You get what you pay for when it comes to coaches.

Not really. Look at the seasonal numbers hockey vs football and you'll see who brings in the most. I'll grant you, hockey has a built in advantage due to the number of games, but that's just way it is. Hockey pays the bills.

So did Champions Club pay for the rings?

Bubba needs to learn how to recruit in the US and leave Canada to Berry. I just shake my head and wonder about stuff like this, surely we can find enough talented players without going out of the country.

The sad thing is, we didn't even beat Bowling Green when we played them, and we had a playoff caliber team in 2016.

So no locker rooms were put in HPC phase 1 or are we redoing something that was just built?

Looks like even the NDSU guys think they get free rent.

Ahh, OK, thanks.

The thing is, we need other things a lot more than we need new locker rooms. The HPC needs phase 2, and coaches salaries need to be drastically increased, so that doesn't leave much for locker rooms. Obvious solution is renegotiate the deal with KEM but as a major donor she holds the high cards so not much we can do. I think you are wrong on NDSU paying rent too. It seems to me there was a post here earlier that said they get free rent for the Fargodome since NDSU gave the land to build on. That's their cash cow.

Should we offer to gold plate his jock too right away? Come on, yes locker rooms need to be nice but don't need to some exotic looking place to inspire the players. Besides, we aren't USD. We don't trash the locker room when we lose.