Devils

If we see Seidl between the tackles instead of Ziebarth on this drive...

The receiver was less than a yard off the LOS...I'm guessing it was the right call, but often ignored.

Definitely was a sloppy last 10 minutes by the offense. Jerry really wasn't great on the whole. Defense looks great, worried we can't keep that up but so far so good.

100% what I was thinking. Good to see the WR getting open downfield, haven't seen that much the last few years. Fleming, Tai, Deng is a nice group.

Boy, you guys are something. UND has played a nearly perfect first 12 minutes on the road in a packed house other than shanking an extra point and 75% of the posts are negative.

Always thought our defense lacked speed big-time, and size up front. Offensively hopefully the WR add an ability to stretch the field we haven't seen much of other than Bo.

This thread reminds me of the time I saw Phil Martelli speak in 2004 or so. He was the longtime basketball coach at St. Joseph's in Philadelphia and they were a #1 seed that year and made the elite 8. He won many coach of the year honors that year and he said in the talk I saw "do you think I just figured out how to coach this year, that this was the best job I've ever done as a coach, that's bs." His point was he had great players (mostly Jameer Nelson and Delonte West who both had successful NBA careers) that year and it all came together. Coaching is important, but put any coach somewhere with little talent on the team and it will be a struggle.

Seems it's been several years since I've seen a 'wow' play from a WR, outside of Bo.

Wouldn't the Higgins kid be taking Feeney's scholly? Aside from Erkmann, Rucker, McNeal, and maybe Sutton I don't think there's many departures from the defense that would be harmful. Hopefully don't lose any more OL.

Who are FBS drop downs that have helped us the past, say, 5 years? I can't hardly think of any.

There's risk with any hire of course. Wonder what percentage of fbs head coaches are fired within 4 years (some quick Googling put it around 30%).

Have a hard time seeing Schmidt, at ~46 years old, going from FBS coordinator to FCS.

Langama from Maple Grove had 243 and 2 TD in their 6A title game win last night, hope he makes it to campus.

I've been lukewarm on blaming it all on Bubba the last couple years. But with him being a defensive coach and the complete deterioration of the defense over the last few years, it's pretty obvious we need to try something new. The lack of talent on that side of the ball is striking and has been for a while now. Side question - how often do FCS head coaches get canned? I don't claim to follow a ton outside of UND but it doesn't seem like it's real common. Imagine buyouts at the FCS level are tough to swallow, can't imagine many programs have a million bucks to throw away. Can hope Bubba just hangs it up and maybe they come to a settlement where he takes on another role in the athletic dept for a few years as I'm sure it's hard for him to walk away from 750k.

Can't be surprising with being uncompetitive against ndsu and then embarrassing losses to 2 bad teams.