UND-FB-FAN

Gotta win that recruiting battle, and we will …

I think this “spin” actually is an accurate one… need all of those things you mentioned or else UND is in fact a 0.39 winning percentage basketball program …

Cruel reality, also, and needs to change or will continue be regional and in-state laughing stock. Other than hockey, there are a few non-hockey (also non-athletics) options / programs that keep things afloat…

Being a competitor, if you are one, never leaves you…

Certainly these mediocre expectations are on par with what the insider perspective and philosophy on UND basketball has been and is, also. Cruel reality, until a major donor steps forward.

A lot of very good points, but honestly, before getting paralysis by analysis, I’d say the above quoted section is the main issue …

Absolutely. If nothing else get this dude back on campus with Jimmy K. and other notable fb alums with pro success as much as possible Chad Mustard could also teach the current tight-ends a thing or two … … such an unbelievable era of und football … Schmidt is bringing that back to UND … big-time future ahead

I couldn’t care less … they're bozos for affiliating themselves with the fargo ag corruptive cooperative, I mean “college”

Good luck danny boy Bubba 2.0 is a horrible comeback (and falsehood) by the way Gonna be a fun show the next few seasons

School and program are an illusion and a disgrace … should be asterisks by most if not all of their FCS championships

It’s not a perfect science, and the opportunities provided after transfer aren’t always fair. “If they can’t cut it in the BIG they probably can’t make it in the NFL anyway” Not true, considering depth charts can be stacked at certain positions and some players develop at different rates, not to mention all of the players that have succeeded in the NFL historically that have not come from P4 conferences like the Big 10. And players that have failed in the NFL despite coming from P4 conferences. Quite revealing to see so many folks on an absolute irrational obsession with the Big 10 … UND football will be taking huge steps in professional development over the next couple of years … and the fact remains that some players who transfer from UND football looking for greener pastures will be making a mistake.

Goes beyond the sport … learn commitment early, will benefit you in the long run. Getting off topic here a bit but jumping ship and always hoping the grass is greener on the other side isn’t a great lifelong philosophy only counter argument is money of which a flash in the pan payday isn’t always life changing for someone in their early 20s if the right discipline isn’t in place

Correct. so don’t think these kids transferring to Big 10 schools are going to be instant starters that is the fallacy that most lauding P4 destinations fail to recognize (including many on here)

Long-term development over shot-term glory

not ENTIRELY relevant otherwise, once again, we just bow down to the status quo get off the ag college bandwagon we were very competitive last fall and very close to winning the MVFC, but it didn’t happen last fall as you said … still, most didn’t even think UND would be that competitive. I’m saying it over and over again because IT IS TRUE, and a stance of infinite reality based on historical precedent is a farce in this instance