siouxfan512
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5 hours ago, sioux24/7 said:
Many of you may know, I put far too much stock in what happens on Twitter. Having said that, nearly all of Otis’s interactions lately have been Gophers related so I’m wondering if there’s something there.
Good luck to him, he will be buried on that depth chart. Then again, behind a better O Line maybe he would look even better.
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2 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said:
Let’s not just assume Dixon is out.
Agreed, I think it depends what Otis is lookin at. If he thinks he is going to do a Hergel and go FBS, I think Dixon stays, if he think he is going to transfer to another top FCS program, then I could see Dixon potentially following. Only time will tell, but I hope he is ready to go when he gets here.
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I would expected to see Vaughn hit the portal before Weah. The part the makes me nervous is how many more will we lose, and how many will be key contributors ... and once again, where do these guys think they are going to go?
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Transfers like Weah make even less sense to me than Nelson. At least Nelson was from the west coast and may want to play closer to home (still strange to me but whatever). Where does Otis think he is going to go? FBS? Otherwise why go elsewhere? I'm just curious what the thought process is here, though it doesn't sound like there is always a great deal of though with this one.
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Maybe Weah leaving will help us land the Emmet Johnson. He wouldn't have to wait so long for playing time.
Sucks to lose Weah, but there seems to be some other promising RBs in the stable, and Mitchel should be back, right?
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2 hours ago, sioux24/7 said:
What is happening here! This team has to know how close they were to a great season, coming off of a great performance last spring. Have a lot of these guys just lost faith in Bubba?
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13 hours ago, burd said:
A classmate of mine froze a badger flattened out in spread eagle position and duck taped it to his back under his winter parka. Got in but got caught throwing it.
I remember that one. Wasn’t it like Halloween and he threw it right a the beginning of the national anthem.
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5 hours ago, Old School Guy said:
I'm sorry you feel this way. All the things mentioned, are intended to recognize the student athletes as young men who are being empowered to make critical life decisions, while building leadership skills on an off the filed while embracing the whole person concept that is both aware of self and community responsibility. Recognizing the need for community and player safety is a good thing. A player transferring creates an opportunity for someone that wants to be in Grand Forks. If we get kids with all the attributes mentioned and he helps win games. Its a win-win.
I don’t think I could disagree with you more. this has nothing to do with community, safety, awareness, or anything else. Generally when the NCAA makes rules it comes down to money in some fashion.
Making it so easy for kids to transfer does certainly doesn’t empower critical life decisions, it means they don’t really need to have any responsibility or accountability for the decisions they make. This has been especially true for basketball, where you see kids transferring multiple times. Rather than taking an opportunity and trying to make the best of it; learning, developing, growing ... they can throw that opportunity away because they think they deserve more .... a big problem with these kids anyway entitlement. It’s not doing them any favors in the long run, and certainly not preparing them for real life. It is wrecking college sports in the process.only thing I can agree with you on, is that it opens up an opportunity for someone else, and hopefully someone else that appreciates it a little more. Not saying there are circumstances where transferring makes sense and should happen, but it has become the all to common route for entitled children who haven’t gotten exactly what they want.
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Unless Nelson goes FBS, I don’t understand the move.
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41 minutes ago, F'n Hawks said:
No, I’m saying that Siegel is the #1 corner now with transfers and people graduating. I was asking who would be next up to contribute next year after him.
How does holm not have any eligibility left. He should have at least another 5-8 years.
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1 hour ago, Dustin said:
Agreed, but they are a good way to round out a team.
absolutely
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1 hour ago, JohnboyND7 said:
You want a team of transfers?
I don't want a team of transfers, but I would like the coaches to target specific areas of need with the right players. Transfers are not the way to build a team, but there are definitely some good ones out there.
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On 11/8/2021 at 7:59 PM, Midwestern Hawk said:
With a handful of different play calls & game management decisions this team could be 8-1. Better facilities will improve the team personnel to some degree, but this team is good enough to win the MVFC right now. Better facilities will have no bearing on those decisions.
Agreed, we were not that far off from being a highly seeded team this season, which sounds far fetched looking at the record, but not if you break down the games. Coaches and players win those games and maintain interest, we have chances to get additional revenue. NDSU has had how many more home games over the past decade because of the playoffs. More games, more interest, more money.
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On 11/20/2021 at 8:13 PM, UND-FB-FAN said:
Can’t afford football coach buyouts …
Can’t afford better football coaches …
Can’t afford to complete phase II of Fritz Pollard Jr. Athletic Center …
A lot of financial constraints for a University that has a $100 million hockey arena and pumps $ into hockey updates every season…
Point is, the issue remains that UND treats all non-hockey sports as a red-headed stepchild.
UND football will continue to have up and down seasons until this changes to a degree.
You don’t need a UND business degree to know you invest in your money maker, and hockey brings in the bacon. Also, the Ralph is a poor example to use as one of the most unique donation scenarios in college. I soooo wish we had a big time donor to come in and put Ralph style cash in for football. HPC, on campus stadium, staffing, the works.
All that being said, I do think football could be a money maker, with some perennial success. Need more funding, needs consistent winning. Which has to come first? Probably a little of both.
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26 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
Robertson. He actually saw the field.
Right, just checking. This would have been a much bigger loss a few years back. Nice to see the depth we have built here.
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1 minute ago, geaux_sioux said:
The guys who redshirted are likely better than him. Writing on the wall. Good luck to him.
You referring to Odom, Robertson or both?
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57 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
They can't afford us.
Before you misunderstand, I mean UND would need to make some stern demands, and get them all, before becoming a BTHC affiliate, namely:
- full autonomy on home game start times
- full rights to television on home games (for Midco contract)
- full share of hockey BTN television revenues (as if not affiliate but as full B1G member, but just for hockey TV revenues; no partial shares because "affiliate")
- full share of other B1G Hockey generated revenues
- guarantee that for first five seasons as affiliate, UND Hockey revenues (inflation adjusted) at par or exceed last non-BTHC season (B1G to make whole if shortfall)
- guaranteed scheduling agreements in other sports (MBB, WBB, FB, etc) meaning X games every Y seasons against someone in the B1G, including 20% of X being in Grand ForksOtherwise, let Mariucci and Kohl sit empty and collect dust.
PS - The day that happens my office will be 300 Twamley and @PCMwill be my press secretary.
Can you just negotiate full membership while you are at it? Then we can beat the gopher, pound the badgers, take their money, and laugh at the Bison playing football at their little FCS level
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5 minutes ago, shep said:
I put this in the game thread and it should be here.
Sam Robertson entered the Transfer Portal. 2nd DB in a week.
Odom transferring doesn't bother me, as he never quite found a spot. I would have expected Robertson to get more opportunities than Odom; Maybe he just didn't care for the school or Grand Forks. Corner is deep so maybe that was a factor?
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17 hours ago, tjbison said:
how do you figure this?
10-1, 1 loss by 7 in the road, went 3-1 vs the playoff teams, beat 7 ranked teams. Outright champ of the strongest FCS conference
their resume equals the seed. JMU was 0-1 vs Playoff teams, didnt even with their conference, Nova did.
Ignore the haters. Can't really argue with the resume. It is what it is.
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10 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
money
money and maybe some Thursday 4 pm games, and we would get to play Ohio St instead of Denver. Intriguing .....
Unless you got a full invite, which would never happen, I'm not interested.
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1 minute ago, stoneySIOUX said:
Ditto and it's honestly not that close. I'll never understand anyone who says the rivalry is gone. They clearly haven't watched/listened to/felt the crowd energy around these games recently.
Just like the whiny NDSU fans that want to pretend we don't have a rivalry anymore.
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16 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
holy crap....wtf
they really really need to add THE UND to their conference.......
Even bringing back the old WCHA wouldn't fix the issues they have at the U, and it isn't lack of talent. I still don't get how they recruit high end kids to play in front of empty seats like that.
There are too many other events in town, and the ticket prices are way overpriced. If they lowered the prices they might actually sell more. Though people definitely don't care as much about Big Ten matchups as they did about the old WCHA rivalries.
Growing up as a huge huge gopher fan when I was a kid, and going to the games when it was just packed and rowdy (all the way back to Williams Arena), its pretty sad to see how bad it has gotten.
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Just wanted to share some pre-covid Thankgiving weekend memories. Anything less than a sweep is unacceptable!
This could be be a big pairwise helper for us by the end of the season.
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6 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
This is the disappointment. At this point in the program with Bubba in charge, we should be hearing UND’s name every Sunday FCS Playoff Selection Show, but we’re still racking up losing seasons, letdowns and blatant playoff misses. Beyond frustrating.
The mindset of this team/program and overall leadership of it has tons of room to improve.
The hard part for me is if you move on from bubba, how many players do you lose and how long does it take for that new coach to get their system going? Could be another 3-4 years, who knows?
Transfer Portal 2021: It giveth, it taketh away.
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Would have been nicer if we could have just got his brother here.