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Crazy what you can do with a $90 million football budget.

Make up your mind. I can tell you firsthand with 100% certainty that this was not the message he conveyed when he interviewed. Or even close.

You may not, but there are still people not happy with the previous coach who never bought into the community. Probably not a coincidence that the cupboard was left pretty bare when he unexpectedly took off. In order to recruit, particularly to somewhere like Grand Forks, you need to buy into the community to be able to sell it. Not a coincidence that a lot of UND coach's have ties to the University. Now if a coach wants to come in and use the job as a stepping stone, and be wildly successful while doing that, I'm all for it. But you aren't going to accomplish it without buying into to the University and community.

There are also minimum standards for a Tier 1 program and from the sounds of it, they were not being met. That's on the league to step in and they didn't. And firing a coach and then having to ask him come back and coach while saying you'll "rethink the decision" and then not. Plus lying about him stepping down? There's a big mess here and I think it is a pretty far stretch to blame the players for trying to hold ownership accountable to at least meet required, bare minimum standards.

Didn't you hear? If we were still the Fighting Sioux, we'd be getting more blue chippaz!

The Fighting Sioux nickname was retired in 2012. Fighting Haws was chose in 2015. You really think 2 more years would have made a difference? What's actually really amusing is cross section of the people who are the loudest critics/lease accepting of the Fighting Hawks nickname were overlaps quite a bit with those that chose it because here are just a few reasons people voted for the Fighting Hawks nickname because they thought they were being sneaky and sticking it to the NCAA: How About We Keep Sioux Fighting "Anything" Methed out, crooked beaked bird with a headdress people thought would be the new logo I mentioned this years ago, when you allow a large group to make a decision, you are going to end up with the most generic choice of the bunch. Why do you think parties always end up with pepperoni pizza?

The overlap between these two groups is much, much smaller than you think. Those that wanted the name changed have zero vested interest in what happened beyond that.

Because we have literally spent all season setting up that play-fake? The odds of Quincy coming in on short yardage have to be about equal to the odds of Tommy taking off and running. One thing that seems to be ignored is Tommy's ability to avoid sacks. UND has taken 5 for 40 yards this year. That's tied with Kennesaw St for 1st. There are only 8 teams with single digit sacks allowed and 6 allowing less than 1/game. As has been mentioned, I don't think anyone would say OL play has been significantly above average this fall, though they definitely deserve some credit on this. Plenty to be critical but when an offense needs high completion percentages and has to avoid negative plays to work, the current starter fits that bill. He absolutely needs to get better at knowing when to tuck the ball and take off but that's a lot more teachable than some of the other deficincies people are ignoring with the other options

This is some galaxy brain thinking right here.

Can't sell what you can't get. They were ordered in plenty of time but ended up stuck overseas.

At least UND took him to a basketball game instead of a football game...

Roster limits are 125 in season and 105 in the off-season. Guessing some of that was waived this year but if they have 25 seniors and as right now, only 10-12 are expected to move in with another 13-15 staying for an extra year it will be interesting to see how they navigate that. Those humber could change a bit but their roster management will be interesting to watch.

Not that it matters but Norman played two years of JuCo at Snow College before coming here. But your point stands, both he and Bruns don't look as young as they are.

Don't remember what SCSU had on the scoreboard but SCSU was definitely the first game UND played after the new name was announced.

A couple people have mentioned some similarities to a western ND kid that played in Fargo a few years back. A bit unorthodox but effective.

None of the last 3 volleyball coaches have been "homer hires" as it is a pretty big stretch to consider Tiffin's handful of months as an assistant during the offseason as any sort of ties to UND.

I miss that set shot from 3. Webb was so fun to watch. Another Q might be a bit too much to ask for?

SDSU is on line one...

Probably safe to assume there will be some Southland teams looking for games.

It was scheduled as a home/home. Dixie State still shows UND traveling down there 11/9/24 while UND shows that date as open, though I would assume its off since it was home/home. 2024 is also a 12 game year, which I hope UND takes full advantage of. But overall, not sure what is going on with that. Preference would obviously be to find either a "buy" game or front end of a home/home on 10/15. Alternative would be to collect a paycheck to go somewhere on 10/15 or 10/29 but 4 home games next year isn't ideal either. Though as I mentioned, a not insignificant portion of the fan base would have missed the 10/29 game as scheduled (or if a new one was scheduled in its place).

That's definitely a change within the last couple weeks. But depending on how they handle it, it could be a positive. If they can find a game on 10/15 instead, they aren't dealing with thousands of people in Vegas for the Hall of Fame game.

So basically the same as pretty much every other football coach in the nation? Frankly, I think he's normally pretty candid and does a good job protecting his players and putting blame on the staff vs. throwing them under the bus (on par with some interesting comments coming from a head coach 70 miles south of UND)

It appeared we struggled with their length and athleticism, which contributed to the shooting issues. Heard footsteps before they were there. Not a fan of some of Milwaukee's antics. Some of the stuff coming from the bench but particularly the guard that would stand next to the free throw shooter and start waving his arms during the shot. If Bruns, Norman and T can adjust early in their UND careers, this team has a chance. Those three young guys have the potential to be big contributors quickly.

Tough to raise funds when the college president is openly advocating for the entire athletic department to be cut or moved to a lower division. And while it isn't funds directly raised, do you think the Memorial Village project happens without the athletic department and University getting creative in their "fundraising"?

Turns out offenses work better when the playbook expands beyond QB scramble, long lob deep and RB up the middle.