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UND’s current football facilities are top-tier, better than several FBS facilities, and the UND facility master plan will only continue to further improve UND and UND football. In contrast, ndsu’s campus is a sh*thole…

Let me know when you find that Time Machine! Moving forward, exciting times ahead for UND football …

Okay big boy. ndsu football is a fad right now but you keep padding up your fragile ego to convince yourself of all those secret fans out there. Doesn’t help either that everything to do with ndsu that isn’t football is a complete joke right now …

The University of North Dakota has significantly better name recognition/appeal and programs than both ndsu and sdsu but those universities do in fact have better recent football success. It will all even out here quite soon. Everyone should have their tickets and travel plans set for 2026 UND football season, will be a very fun season.

Most all of the guys who show up and perform at camp and commit to UND turn out to be very good players, whether it’s their first offer or 10th offer, don’t matter. The three commits UND got last week will be very good players for UND despite their offer status- they were under the radar but balled out in person at camp this week on Thursday there will be some more top-tier guys that will join the squad and be key performers in the future for UND its nice to have guys with several offers but the ones with minimal to no offers that come through the camps in-person are still very good

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Go to the game. Will be a lot of green there

Correct. Need a new athletic director.

If 10-20 other FCS schools (plus nearly all the FBS schools) are doing the same thing BUT not reporting it, then is UND compliance / athletics exceptionally candid or exceptionally stupid (or both)? Can you confidently state other schools’ compliance departments are not reporting these type of “accidents”? Based on the numbers, it’s fair to say other schools’ compliance departments are in fact quite mute on this (contacting players not yet in the transfer portal). I won’t overlook the role the coach had, though, to your point. If the transcripts don’t reach compliance then this is almost certainly a non-issue. UND compliance has historically been exceptional in “rule following”, I’m told, but it is also probably not a coincidence that UND’s “wonderfully compliant” athletic department could be much better (in terms of $ and wins ) with new leadership.

First sentence - I agree. We desperately need to be pushing the envelope. Second sentence - this is the unfortunate fallout of the UND institutional fail.

An ex-Montana football player gives their two cents for what it’s worth:

This is one way to look at it but I don’t agree with it in its entirety. This issue is a matter of perspective, and how UND and UND athletics views football is still an ongoing issue. it can improve with new leadership, which UND needs. Thank you Bill Chaves for your efforts, but nothing lasts forever; time to move on to the next step so UND athletics can take the next step COMPETITIVELY compared to other programs

Correct. everyone should be vocal we need new leadership there

Does it? When you incidentally speed, do you pull over and call 911 on yourself? Or just slow down and don’t do it again? In this context, UND screwed up. Debating about this on a forum is pointless, though, since this subject is basically the “unwritten rules” of competition …

Or don’t report it, don’t go any further with it, no one finds out, and no penalties or negative publicity at all. That’s the right move based on probability. Without probability, and only integrity, you end up with losing (see ‘UND Athletics’ the last several years). Once again, nice guys finish last. Need to learn from this on several levels, including UND Athletics Department. We all know the NCAA isn’t going to learn anything from this joke example of enforcement…

No. Frost was fired the next week after Nebraska lost at home to Georgia Southern. Frost would’ve been fired one week earlier after the UND vs. Nebraska game (2022) if UND had hung on and won. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34571132/nebraska-cornhuskers-fire-coach-scott-frost-starting-season-1-2

Bill Chaves has built and condoned a subpar overall athletic department. We need new leadership at the athletic director role. Pure and simple. “Doing the right thing” is actually the wrong thing, in this case, when you consider athletics is competitive and everyone else is doing it (in this case having contact with a student-athlete prior to them entering the transfer portal).

It’s 2026. Time to close this thread and start a 2026 non-UND college football thread.

Nashville > >

Dude, where’ve you been?! Ha! Been feeling different since December 8, 2024…. https://fightinghawks.com/news/2024/12/8/football-eric-schmidt-named-head-coach-of-north-dakota-football-program.aspx

Like stealing candy from a … Enjoy the ride.

Going with at least 4. More the merrier. Head to Lincoln. Gonna be a spectacle…

There will be a very large contingent of UND fans traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska for this game. I highly encourage all UND fans to make plans to attend the game on September 19, 2026, at Memorial Stadium. Great experience to behold …

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/college/who-saw-stock-rise-during-und-footballs-spring-season Schmidt’s program is paying dividends. Depth is building. Facilities, nutrition, and strength/conditioning program all coming together …here are some likely future standouts as a result.