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I quit reading after this sentence. UND has administration that is going out of its way to support athletics. Such as the new facilities, Public/Private Partnerships for Memorial Village, FCOA, Alston Awards among others. EWU has administration that was actively campaigning against their athletic department. They are a directional commuter school that has an endowment that is literally less than 1/10 of UND's. It is impressive they have had the spurts of success they have on the field and should be commended on it. But their trajectory, on and off the field, is a huge cause for concern. Since his first contract, he has taken a lower salary to direct more funds to the assistant's pay pool. And part of his extension was to increase it even more.

Epstein? Wow. To your other point, the overwhelming large majority of people I have spoke with have had no issues talking and sharing opinions with the current AD. That includes donor events, sporting events, university functions and just in general. I think all stakeholders should be more than welcome to give their opinion, understanding that their voice is just one of thousands, but I'd also be curious the whole story on why you, or maybe just others you are speaking for, aren't getting the attention or responses you feel you deserve. Jason Eck made $94,000 his last year as OC at SDSU after 1 final and 1 semifinal appearance his first two years as OC. Lujan made $83,000 two years ago before he got a raise after he won a national championship.

Why are we comparing an AD to a President? I know its an unpopular opinion, but UND's AD is one of the more highly respected one's at UND's level and in peer groups. There's a reason he's on multiple committees for different sports. However, there is no argument that the W&L's need to get back to following the rest of the positive things going on though. A lot of sports were left in some pretty bad spots and turning things around isn't always as simple as we all wish it was. Just out of curiosity, when's the last time UND has an AD that everyone universally loved? I can think of a issues going back quite a few decades. Faison? Buning? RT? Wanless? Gino?

Barring something huge changing since last year, that is incorrect. Only 2 of the 6 that didn't have a coordinator designation did a season or two ago

He's venting because the coach who convinced his kid to stay took an opportunity that he saw as a better stepping stone for himself for the opportunity after this one. Tough to argue his point. Has absolutely nothing to do with UND. To clarify further, he put the #1 bison troll in his place letting him know that he also understands the decision.

Guess the powers that be should have tried a gofundme instead of actually putting a plan together to (unfortunately unsuccessfully) keep a good coach here today. It's one thing to be frustrated, because I know I am today. But to continuously make asinine comments like this shows how little you actually look at or understand the bigger world of college athletics. UND is nowhere near the top of the food chain but there are an absolute ton of low and mid major programs (FCS and more than a few G5) that would trade places with their overall position (academics, facilities, support from admin, etc) in a heartbeat. And before you make things up again, not a single person is satisfied. It's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems.

This is actually hilarious. Albany a top 5 program? The team with 2 winning seasons in the last 5 years who has a record of 50-61 over the last 10 years? Take out an very solid, above average season in a second-tier conference (where they still lost to SDSU 59-0) and they had 39 wins the previous 8.5 years (adjusting to 1/2 season for covid). The other thing that is ironically funny is that the team someone proclaimed a top 5 program has had the same coach since 2014. They haven't fired the coach who has won 4 games or less in 5 of 9 seasons (6 of 10 if you count their 1-3 showing during the spring covid season). This has to be some sort of bit.

I'd be curious which 5 those are. And then how recently a sinking ship has beaten each of those.

At least you're finally admitting no one is saying it out loud, it's just the voices in your head telling you it's happening....

I already posted how much SDSU is dedicating to their assistant pool. It's significant. The staff is getting paid, the coordinators well above what anyone in the FCS is paying.

And I keep seeing you say there's a bunch of people ok with it, yet not a single person actually has said that...

Polasek did take a small base pay cut to move from OL coach at Iowa to OC at Wyoming, but a 13% haircut to get OC in the FBS on your resume is likely worth it, particularly with a head coach you know and expectations that aren't sky high. What he was making at Wyoming is in line with what he is likely getting at NDSU. Schmidt made significantly coaching ST and Edge rushers than Polasek did as a OC for Wyoming. Like 65% more. Will be interesting to see what his salary as new DC of SDSU is announced at. Sean Lewis was given a $3.7 million salary pool for his 10 assistants. Safe to say he's needed to keep Schmidt in the same ballpark on compensation to get him to leave UW, which is significantly more than anyone in the FCS is getting as a head coach.

And a few extra stops for both of them.....

Here we go making arguments up again. No clue in regards to the actual facts and circumstances are but still tossing out strawman arguments and accusations. A large part of why it hasn't been done (yet) is because UND's Champions Club is set up differently than NDSU's TeamMakers meaning there are different hurdles to overcome. On top of that, the optics of taking an existing opportunity/site away from a local non-profit is a bad look regardless how you spin it. That's why @nodak651's commentary about reserving a new opportunity for UND is much more palatable and a much more likely scenario. I can assure you "ideas like this" have been studied for their feasibility. But it is a lot more complicated than you're making it out to be. As an aside, showing how fickle the non-profit gaming world is, NDSU is likely to lose a large chunk of their revenue in the coming year's if EPIC is able to get its own non-profit to pass the smell test and can "award" itself the Holiday Inn site (or whatever ends up replacing it). And NDSU can't do anything about it.

He took one for the team. At some point, the team that gave Nebraska a run, need to look in the mirror and show up. Could have thrown everyone under the bus and blamed himself. If you think a coach needs to let the players know he importance of the conference opener, not sure what to tell you. Either way, embarrassing performance from the head coach down through the bottom of the bench. Seems like he often makes shots by your definition....

Show me literally a single person who's stated this or even believes it, externally or internally. There's a group of squeaky wheels chasing ghosts with some made up narrative. It's not where anyone wants or expects it to be but it's nowhere near what some keep pretending it is. Progress has absolutely been made from where the program was but there isn't a single person who's satisfied with where it is.

No one said that or even implied it. And the team, staff and fans all agree that it needs to go beyond just getting there. However below average or average staffs aren't accomplishing that, particularly ones that apparently can't recruit or develop players. Especially in the toughest conference in the subdivision.

Amazing they are one of the few teams that have made the playoffs 4 of the last 5 years.

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.