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Not a rhetorical question here. If it isn’t an upgrade, what is your explanation for why the USC job would come with significantly higher compensation?

I know you meant that as a shot at NDSU, but it’s absolutely true. A linebackers coach at a good P5 program in todays game is a significant upgrade over any head coaching job in the FCS

What are you guys even talking about here? You think this is a demotion? What world are you all living in? USC is a blue blood powerhouse and is moving into a top 2 college league, they have access to 4 and 5 star recruits every year. Coaches revel in coaching at the highest level of ball they can. On top of that he’ll be making at least double what he does at ndsu. Where’s the downside for him? I haven’t been a fan of Entz and honestly I’m happy he’s moving on, but to call this a demotion is absolutely bonkers.

Really? Because the post I responded to asked if a coach would be criticized for not delivering an impassioned pregame speech. So kinda feels like the point was being argued.

I’ve been in plenty of pregame speeches and almost none of them were Herb Brooks or Vince Lombardi style fire and brimstone. If you play division I football and need to be motivated by a pregame speech then you’re doing it wrong. The magic is in the weekly preparation.

A mixture of both. Working from memory, players have gone to LSU, Kansas St, Colorado State, Coastal Carolina, James Madison, South Florida. edit to add after looking up a couple: Virginia, West Virginia

I may not be phrasing my question well here, but what I’m asking is UND positioned well to compete with its peers for NIL money in ncaa hockey? The dynamic with the NHL money hasn’t changed, to your point, but UND hockey competes against schools that have some incredibly wealthy and enormous alumni bases. Do you anticipate NIL money becoming the factor in hockey that it’s become in football? I know UND loves and supports its hockey and maybe I’m naive to the level at which UND has alumni financial support, but I don’t believe if Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State or even Minnesota decided to pull together significant NIL support that UND could pull together similar money. I could be way off base here.

I was asking specifically about hockey, but I disagree that NIL won’t be a major influence at FCS or G5. The best players at those levels will continue to be poached every year from the big boys with even minimal amounts. FCS will be significantly diminished in its talent level in my view as a result.

If it becomes a major influence will UND be positioned well to stay as competitive as they’ve been?

Don’t mean to move the conversation in a different direction, but genuinely curious if the NIL “world” has been a major influence in hockey yet.

I hear those words “next year” from UND fans a lot.

I’ve been searching for articles slamming former UND QB’s in the NFL, having trouble finding one for some reason.

Philly mortgaged the farm and got exactly what they paid for, a Super Bowl. They don’t win the Super Bowl that year without the regular season that Wentz lead them through. Foles was in the right place at the right time, with the right opportunity and the right coaches around him. Good for him, he maximized the opportunity he was given, but would have never been in that position without Wentz. So I’ll say again, Philly got exactly what they paid for.

Haha, I thought the same thing as I pulled it together. Ridiculous money when you put it in the frame.

Jamarcus Russell 40 million in career earnings 7 wins, 18 career touchdowns $5.7 million/win , $2.2 million/touchdown Carson Wentz 128 million in career earnings 46 wins, 151 career touchdowns $2.7 million/win, $864k/touchdown Verifiably false information, embarrassing for a professional sports writer to be this bad at math.

But that’s my point, you bring up other Bison players. If you didn’t care that Carson was an ndsu guy and you are strictly criticizing him as someone who is just overrated, why no comments from you or others about the many other overrated players in the nfl? I’m just pointing out that your criticism must have at least something Carson being an NDSU guy, otherwise there would be other threads for the other overrated players.

If your criticism of him has nothing to do with him being an NDSU guy, where are the threads on this site devoted to the hundreds of other players in the nfl who are overrated, over paid and were drafted higher than their talent?

Carson wouldn’t even be mentioned in this conversation. Do a quick google search of all time busts, none of them had half the success that Carson had. Did he have the career he or others maybe expected, no. But, he played some really good football at times in a league that has chewed up and spit out countless stars at the QB position. Jamarcus Russel, Ryan Leaf, Akili Smith, Heath Shuler, Rick Mirer, Andre Ware, Tim Couch, Joey Harrington, David Carr, Vince Young. All much less productive than Carson.

It looked like the wrong call to me, but football games are full of questionable calls that change the final score, so I try not to play the what if game. All we have is reality, referees and outcomes are imperfect. NDSU did enough to play for a championship in two weeks. Wasn’t pretty, but at this time of the year a win is a win.

You seem like a fun guy

Mix in a water this afternoon

Again, you have no reason to believe that ndsu has an easier chance to win at sac st than at brookings. They both would be tough matchups and you thinking otherwise is simply bias toward making this “conspiracy” and “preferential treatment” argument. I think if we play sdsu 10 times this year we win 6 or 7. I’m not scared of them in the slightest. If that penalty doesn’t happen at the end of the first half, I think we possibly beat them by two scores. Sac St at home is exactly the type of game Ndsu struggles with. Especially with what I consider to be a weak back half of our defense.

You’re spinning yourself in circles trying to make this losing argument. What happens to your argument if sac state wins? Ndsu is on the road the way the bracket was set up. No conspiracy, no advantage, just good old fashioned upsets. You want ndsu on the road in the playoffs? You need to win games that’s it.

I guess we’ll never know. And if sdsu doesn’t get it together here, your argument falls apart even further.

Watched every snap and every snap of ndsu football for the last 20 years. I know what type of team gives us trouble and that’s it. Incarnate word will give us trouble too. QB who can scramble to throw and extend plays has been our kryptonite for decades.