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Agreed, though the Gonzaga game a few years ago was pretty solid, and UND almost had that one too!

I would love to get back into it, but haven't been able to watch consistently since the Hooker/Crandall days. I'm not a big basketball person in general, but I'd love to watch UND get competitive again.

Only got to watch a chunk of the first half as I had beer league hockey, but wow! Thought it would have been the typical us getting down early and never recovering. I hate more victories, but this is a little different. Love that the Bama fans in the twittersphere are begging for Bama to get Eaglestaff to Tuscaloosa. Don't care if that happens or not ... obviously prefer if he sticks around, but great exposure for the school, the program and the kid. Hell of a showing by this team. If they could just parlay this performance into their upcoming games, they might have something.

Always! There are still some Bison fans complaining about Cam Miller, and he has been nothing but solid for them.

Question to those with more football knowledge than myself. - Do we have enough talent within the defense to get better results next year with a coach or scheme change? -Do we need to push some of these kids towards the portal and look to back fill through our recruits and portal additions? -It seems like it has been so long since we have had a really strong defense, does this just need to be blown up and re-started? Seemed like we have something with a few of our LBs, D-Line just always seems too small. Safeties seemed to be inexperienced, and while I was pumped for some of the guys we had at CB, we always seem to give guys wayyyy too much cushion (maybe that is a scheme or coaching problem).

Right! Can we just get some players who want to win?!? I'm not saying go find scumbags or guys that can't make it through school, but I don't care if they get A's or C's ... that's on them. Just get it done on the field!

Will Schmidt emphasize team GPA and volunteer hours? Hoping that was what pushed him over the edge to get hired.

When do we think we will hear about coordinators?

at UNI? I'm not going to bank on that as a win, I don't care how bad they were this year. We sucked. We will be on the road. They will have a new coach in. Things could get ugly.

Now I wasn't a fan of absolutely loading up through the portal (Petrino style), but I think some of these teams have proved it can be effective when done correctly. At this point, a new coach and some fresh talent is needed. There are definitely some solid players on this roster, but not enough of them (certainly not on defense). And thinking we will become competitive only through recruiting at this point isn't going to happen. You're not going to get enough talent to come to GF when you have NDSU, SDSU and now USD all surrounding us. If the coaching staff thinks they can truly out recruit all three of those schools at the same time to make us relevant, they are kidding themselves. I've watched UND through a lot of ups and downs, but this way it all fell apart this season was absolutely pathetic.

Bubba and Co. has done far more than Muss and Rudy for this program. That being said, Bubba should have been gone a few years back. As for Chaves, I'm not expert, but hasn't he been a big part of the facilities upgrade? Seems like the biggest strike he has against him is not getting rid of Bubba. So cut Bubba loose and make a good hire. Best part of the last 5 games has been not having to see Bubba almost fall over trying to do a griddy. But c'mon, I can't even handle listing to the guy talk. I'm sure he is a nice guy, but there is zero personality when he speaks ... prototypical ho hum kind of chatter. There is zero substance to anything he says and he always seems to be struggling to find his words, even though he regurgitates the same nonsense week in and week out. Any chance we can get Kalen Deboer now? Not sure how long he will be lasting at Bama.

Yeah right! We aren't that lucky.

Blow it up! This was unwatchable for the bulk of the season.

Good to know, that's what I was originally asking on here, and had heard something different. It has been way too many years since I've had it but I loved the stir fry back in college. Would be nice to try to recreate it.

Right, but I'm not talking about that buffalo sauce or shark sauce, I was asking about the Cay sauce that they use in their stir fry.

really? Just Franks and Cayenne?

Does anyone know if Shark Sauce and Cay Sauce are the same thing? If so, does anyone have a recipe for Cay Sauce? Haven't been there in years, but loved their stir fry back in college and want to try to replicate it.

I think we need to order about 20lbs of wings from the Cherry Cricket to be delivered to Grand Forks. That and a Josh Rieger pep talk and we have this in the bag! SWEEP!

I would probably focus on defense here. The offense has been a doing a pretty solid job, though could use improvement. There are plenty of players I would not want to see hit the portal.

I'm a fan! I don't know Aleksi but his brother is one of the coaches for my son's AAA team, and seems like a great guy. Shakopee (not our association) is doing some great things and I can't speak highly enough about their head coach (Calvin Simon) and his approach to the game and players. Not sure if Huson can work his way into playing time or will be strictly slotted as the 3rd man, but I guess we will see.

I've never considered SCSU to be a huge rival. Always a good weekend of hockey and generally two really good teams but there isn't that hate like with some other teams. Denver, absolutely! So many crazy games going back to the Paukovich hit on Bina, the brawl at the Ralph, the dasher dance, and some big time hockey games too. Biggest rivalry we kept coming out of the conference realignment. I would even put Duluth over SCSU, there were some pretty big and intense games over the past 10 years; and heated moment (paging Mr. Pionk). MN is not the same as when it was WCHA, but its still a rivalry, with some bragging rights. Just not the same when you don't play twice a year (at least). Back in the WCHA days I would have put Wisconsin up there too, but that has certainly dissipated. Omaha doesn't seem like a big rivalry to me as a UND guy, but I think it is a pretty big one for them.

I don't know of recruiting someone specifically for this, but it seems like it would make sense to take someone with Q's strength and frame ... maybe another TE and work with them specifically for 4th and 1 situations. Q has been absolutely amazing at embracing that role. No trickery needed ... everyone knows what we are doing, but we do it anyway. Would be nice to have a situational replacement for when he is gone.

Now lets get some speedy receivers!

Listening to the podcast, and there is quite a bit of talk about facilities. Hoping that means we will get to see the team in a sweet room on ESPN during the selection show getting announced as a high seed. Would be nice to see some pictures of the offices and team rooms if they are online anywhere. If anyone has a link, please share it.

Really looking forward to seeing the boys back on the ice, but loving that my 10 year old son is absolutely pumped for the season to start. Sharing that makes it even better! That being said .... its a football weekend .... Friday night will just get my sport appetite started for the weekend .... Saturday is the big game! Then hopefully the Vikes can wrap it up for me. Am I really asking for too much here?