Hawkster

If a player can't win because he wants a nicer place to hang his jock, then he's not committed to the sport.

The game against Sammy will be very telling for this team. If we intend to do anything this year, this is a must win. Sammy is the type of team we will be up against all through the playoffs, so need win here and keep winning the majority of games after that.

Ralph also announced in the papers that if the Sioux name was changed while the REA was still under construction he would cut the utilities and just let the place let empty and half finished. That should have been enough of a lesson for anyone at UND to remember not to alienate anyone named Englestad.

So none of this is tied to the original donation agreement 20+ years ago?

The premise was for the benefit of UND but that still doesn't make a legal case to change what UND willing agreed to over 20 years ago. It's a lousy agreement, don't get me wrong, but can't really be changed IMO without full agreement from the Englestad family. Maybe they should have asked for advice from the law school before agreeing to the terms.

Apparently in the rush to get the donation a lot of things were overlooked and I'm sure Kupchella wanted to keep Ralph content. The thing is, the contracts were signed to get the REA and no amount of litigation is going to change this. All Kennedy is doing is alienating our biggest donor. As bad as this deal is, we can't win by trying to change it now. Seriously, if you were the Englestad's, would you let UND out of this deal? I'd say you wouldn't.

Five years ago we said the same thing about Bubba being our savior. It's not just about the people you hire, it's more about the program, but I don't have the answers either. Remember NDSU lost most of their coaches and they still kept on winning.

Equally as bad is the fact that Kenny Golladay was only here one year. I just cringe when I think about what could have been.

It will be if a bunch of them are commits in 6 months. The work is far from over, in fact it's just beginning.

Looks like he gets a $50,000 bonus just for staying there. Looks like a huge raise to me.

According to this, it's a lot more than $300,000 total package. His base salary is $300,000 then bonuses for winning conference and National Title. Plus a $50,000 longevity bonus, what ever that is. Says close to half a million and that doesn't include income from summer camps, etc http://www.inforum.com/sports/football/4433939-ndsu-extends-contract-chris-klieman-two-more-years

This calls for an emergency meeting of the GOBC.

I was dead set against FCOA when it was started being no one else was doing it in the Sky. Now that we are going to the MVFC it's going to be hard to justify cutting it. What bugs me most about our doing FCOA so far is that IMO it hasn't helped recruiting one bit. These cuts are going to be painful no matter where they come. And how does NDSU find the money to give their FB coach a huge raise?

Muss couldn't coach and everyone knew it, but he did find the talent somehow.

+1. Bubba just doesn't seem to get the right guys out of HS. Muss offered everyone who came along and yet made it work. Bubba's problem mystifies me.

Actually the MIP bothers me more than the pissing in the wind. If you're on the team, at least follow the rules or be discrete and drink at home. It just shows a total lack of discipline.

Sorry. I had thought for some reason the game was Saturday. Still, this sort of thing doesn't help the program any. Give an inch and pretty soon they want a mile.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/football/4432012-two-und-football-players-cited-disorderly-conduct Two of our football players were picked up at 12:30 AM Saturday. So the night before the big spring game they are out drinking and partying and causing trouble. Did these two even play in the game? I sure hope Bubba does a lot more than monitor the situation or this crap will just keep happening.

Well the injuries for 2018 have already started. WTF

Realism no matter how much it hurts should never be criticized as being negative. There is plenty to complain about around here even if some people don't like it. UND FB Fan just lays it out there for everyone to see.

If Bubba has another bad season like last year, well then in 2019 we can say we are 1 year removed from the Bubba era. I just pray that Bubba shows me some reason to be really confident about what lies ahead.

Hopefully we are ready for them by 2019. It would be embarrassing to get blown out again like last time. Things need to change

Gotcha.

I don't think it's ever been officially announced that NDSU is playing in GF in 2020. It's going to come down to who is dropped from NDSU's conference schedule and where that game was to be played. For example if we are replacing say Youngstown State and they would have played at Fargo in 2020, they will plug us in instead. The fact that we play in Fargo in 2019 isn't going to have any bearing on where the MFVC starts the series. We can only hope we get them in GF first. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get them at GF until 2021

No, that's the GOBC. Fandom can find it's own first rule