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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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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?

I remember that one. Wasn’t it like Halloween and he threw it right a the beginning of the national anthem.

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.

Unless Nelson goes FBS, I don’t understand the move.

How does holm not have any eligibility left. He should have at least another 5-8 years.

absolutely

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.

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.

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.

Right, just checking. This would have been a much bigger loss a few years back. Nice to see the depth we have built here.

You referring to Odom, Robertson or both?

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

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?

Ignore the haters. Can't really argue with the resume. It is what it is.

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.

Just like the whiny NDSU fans that want to pretend we don't have a rivalry anymore.

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.

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.

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?

I don’t understand the draw for kids to go play there anymore. Nothing like playing in an empty barn.