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Seemed like a nice change from the continous ripping on our own staff and players...

Heard your new DC was the guy in charge of both the unit that gave up a 100 yard TD to start the game and the crew that got bowled over and missed tackles the other 59:50 of the game. And he got a babysitter to watch over him. Big fan of TP already!

Could you imagine how embarrassing it would be to manhandled in every facet of the game by a team like that?

OK boss guess I misinterpreted you literally using point differential between UND and Denver to infer UND would have lost to Ottawa as well. Like I said, you keep saying it happens often and then state it as 1-2 times per year like somehow that is common.

And we both know using score differentials to prove a point is laughable. You also left out that UND blew an almost 20 point lead against the same Denver team before losing in overtime. You keep saying often and I'm questioning if you actually know what that means. That would require it to happen frequently, which I have a hard time buying. Maybe you can actually quantify what the W-L record in those scenarios actually is because you're pulling examples out (which no one argues that they happen!) without giving the actual sample size you're pulling from. Is "often" 1 or 2 out 10? 1 or 2 out of 20? Or something completely different.

So 1-2 times per year is often? I'll leave the rest of the joke for you to make.

Top kids are going to get picked over by the P5 real quick and then down the pecking order. Literally thousands of kids in the transfer portal. Plenty of time to weed through that and find some new talent. Would seem most of the ones offered right away were ones you could connect a few dots to see some sort of connection. No one disagrees that there is a need to bring in some talent, but adding bodies just to add bodies that can't help isn't going to do any good.

Not saying he's going to be good or bad but zero HC'ing experience and his offenses did exactly light it up at Iowa (where he coached OL) and Wyoming.

Why don't you just say you saw one of the bison guys put it on twitter: Would be interesting to see if the new head coach comes in and starts cleaning house. Guessing he'll wait until after signing day to try to not lose any more recruits than they already have. Still chuckling over Entz begging their fans for money to keep players around and speaking about loyalty while he's in the middle of interviewing for a job in SoCal.

I was told at least one of them was ready this year?

Congrats to Schmidt. Thought he'd stay connected to DeBoer but having Co-Defensive Coordinators in front of him would have been a tough hurdle to overcome to jump into that spot. A little surprising since the previous DC made $125,000 less that ES was making at Washington. Guessing the position will a bump in pay and adding FBS coordinator to his resume. And unless I'm missing it, I haven't actually seen anything that says Kurt Mattix, current SDSU DC, was let go or has taken a different job.

Can't understand how or why someone can spend some much time and negative energy on something that they clearly don't enjoy. Just me though. I assume you actually can't feel as negative as you come off here but the repetitiveness of the same criticisms over and over again while comparatively offering minimal positive outlooks is grinding. In the end, we all want to see better results.

Yep, you're right. Oversight on my part. Those are still light years ahead of whatever it is that Oak Hills is.

He has your back by explaining why NDSU ended up playing not even a non-D1 team but took it a step further and played a non-NCAA team? At least UND hasn't dropped that far in scheduling some home games. Challenges against other conferences are a great idea. Unfortunately the other conferences have to agree to it. Fenton is already on record saying he's trying to help the conference improve their non-conference schedule, so it would seem he's on board. Can't force other conferences to do something they don't want to though.

So nothing in the realistic realm because the head coach isn't getting 2 years of his contract bought out. Which is exactly what my point was.

No doubt, those are absolutely reasonable and should be attainable. We haven't hit it yet, hence the understandable collective disappointment. But I also guarantee that when that happens, there will still be complaining. Happy to be proven wrong. So directly recruiting against 3 of the top 5 teams in the nation, in an area that is "in the middle on nowhereville with populations of next to nothing", somehow makes it easier? Not sure I follow that math. We absolutely can consistently be in the top 5-10 and we've gotten close to the edge of that. A long way from where we were.

It's all coach-speak either way but I think it is also pretty fair to assume you would have also jumped all over a "business as usual" type of response. What actual type of (realistic) reaction/commentary would have passed muster?

But the coaches are paid at a median level and the results, while disappointing for everyone's expectations, definitely exceed that.

I'd be curious on some actual examples of this. Spoke to a few of them in the last week and got a different vibe. They are just as or more frustrated than any fan (outside of a few who's expectations that I'm not even sure NDSU meets).

At minimum he had interviews about it. Interesting given some of the commentary he made.

Lol. Yes, never. Good on Deboer, happy for him.

Always had great service and good food there. Appreciate they try to go outside the box on things you aren't going to find on other menus in town. Absolutely. List was "fancy" not best food.

Harry's, Helix, Toasted Frog, Ely's and Skies are likely the top 5 fancier places in town. Order is debatable depending on preferences and the night.

FBS team and 4 of the 8 final teams this season. Isn't going to be a cakewalk by any means.