UND-FB-FAN

He just gets it. It’s about confidence, mojo, and swagger - like he said in press conference - more than anything, and the injection of that that this program and fan base is getting and will get is quite incredible.

Much like the coaching search, this all comes back to who’s interested. It’s all relative to the field. There will be some retention, but there also inevitably needs to be an infusion of some new talent that knows the way, the DeBoer way, and to recruit the west coast.

It was a good one. He’s our guy. https://www.inforum.com/sports/hot-mic-interview-new-und-football-coach-eric-schmidt-on-taking-over-in-grand-forks

The way I understand it is schools and conferences in the FCS can opt out of the new model if they choose not to share revenue with athletes. If sharing revenue, then 105 limit also applies to FCS school.

There are a ton of complexities now with recruiting, as you can consider high school student-athletes, JUCO, and portal transfers. A lot goes into who to offer, when to offer, how to offer, and how to coordinate and execute the official visits in an efficient manner. The programs that do this the best have a leg up in recruiting. One of the ways to do it the best is to have a dedicated recruiting coordinator, not just a position coach that spends part-time coaching current players and part-time organizing recruiting. Recruiting is the lifeblood of your program, so emphasizing all avenues for recruiting excellence is incredibly important.

I drove down University Ave. and Columbia Rd this morning and I smelt a new aroma of excellence coming from the Hyslop at Memorial Village! Big things are comin’ !!! Expect new coaches that know a winning culture and attitude. Some retention will be there.

Get ready for the ride everyone. Buy your tickets. Contribute to the NIL collective and the University. Lots of fun about to happen …

As said, best time EVER to be a football player at THE University of North Dakota. Flagship.

Well, it is different now than the 1970s, correct? I agree. It’s what DeBoer and Schmidt did at Washington when they got there in 2022, and look how that went. Relative to other FCS schools, UND can offer elite opportunities for transfer candidates. Attack the portal. Everyone help our prospects and contact 1883 NIL collective, give what you can.

<Running through wall> Let’s ******* Go!

Expect to win championships.

New coaches. New players. An attack culture and the confidence to win over the Dakotas.

Need to attack the transfer portal with an intensity unknown to mankind! This ain’t the 1970s anymore … transfers win games.

Correct, although no reason Schmidt can’t do big things at UND in year one with transfer portal and watered-down FCS. With all that, I agree with you - big things typically take until year 2.

Nah, didn’t even have the candidate pool right. There was more than 1 FBS coordinator that applied. Full-steam ahead with Schmidty - let’s do this thing.

Working on it, boys. $ talks (and in this case, gets the job done) It’s natty time at UND more the merrier, lets get it done

I don’t, respectfully, of course.

Yeah, it was the concern here too. As defensive coordinator, success was limited. Only time will tell how he is as a head coach. Will he be Bubba 2.0 or DeBoer 2.0? Or something in between?

“Should his mentor, Fighting Hawks coach Bubba Schweigert, now 60, ever decide he'd rather be ice fishing in Fargo or running with bison in Bismarck, the FCS school would probably offer Schmidt nothing short of his own Mount Rushmore-like profile across the Dakota state line in the North Dakota Badlands.” They predicted this one … good stuff.

Excellent point. I certainly hope he has thought this all out, and I’m sure he has, and we can see it rolled out sooner rather than later and pay dividends early. Need to enhance a lot of things, from recruiting against rivals (NDSU and SDSU) to developing players; even transfer portal and NIL utilization. I think we all as UND supporters are hoping and praying those five years at the FBS level for Eric will make all the difference.

Would consider keeping Fruechte, but if Schmidt can hire a capable coach from the DeBoer offensive coaching tree to be OC, you take it; Fruechte could be WR coach or co-OC. DeBoer does a lot of co-coordinator titles, maybe Schmidt will do that here.

Have to have good players, number one, but development via strength/conditioning and coaching the fundamentals of pass coverage and tackling matters. Need to call a good game. Lots of pieces to come together but don’t take much to be better than the mess of a defense we had in 2024…

4-2-5

Time to go to work. Build the staff the right way and crush the portal. Time to ACTUALLY end the monopoly in the Dakotas. Get it done. Go Hawks.

Hope not … they haven’t performed. Performance grades matter.