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No question. We hopefully have learned from the early 2000s. Can’t be left behind again. Cut some salary from Dane Jackson and give it to Schmidty and his staff. The arms race in division I collegiate athletics ain’t with hockey, I’m afraid, and UND is primed to potentially screw up a second time in the past quarter century if leadership and boosters don’t step up and use their brain …

UND football (not Chaves) won the 7 division one games needed to enter the playoffs. UND football and Coach Schmidt need to do better versus the Dakotas and Montana schools, no doubt, but give credit where credit is due. This is year one. And a new season for major accomplishment has presented itself … Chaves did appropriately focus attention on strength of schedule, and this situation is not mutually exclusive … Both the wins (UND football) and the appropriate focus on strength of schedule and the quality losses (Chaves) deserve credit ..

Bingo … need more $ … need to brainstorm on this and not continually criticize a major donor who favors ice hockey

Coach Schmidt in his first season as head coach at UND gets the 2025 Fighting Hawks into the postseason! UND plays Tennessee Tech (11-1) at noon (CT) on Saturday, November 29, 2025. Tough matchup as Tennessee Tech’s only loss was at Kentucky. Tennessee Tech went undefeated in conference play and in FCS play. Great opportunity for UND football. Let’s Go Hawks!

Well they get to host a home playoff game versus New Hampshire and we get no more home games which is bad for team (historically do well at home) and fans… so let’s not completely forget the disaster yesterday and the missed opportunity

Honestly this could lead up to NDSU vs UND in Fargo in the semi-finals …. We’ll see

Offense needs to regroup…Defensive turnaround a mastery in 2025

Typical. Ya’ll better thanks Chaves for pounding on strength of schedule all year … without him the announcers and the corrupt Fargo propaganda would’ve got their way .. LETS GO HAWKS beat Tennessee state and Tarleton (or whatever) state … we got this

We’ll beat both …

We in! Excellent draw… no one on that side of the bracket we can’t go out and beat! Including ag college …!!! let’s go!

Should be in the playoffs every season given how sh*tty the FCS field is … for example, we’re ranked #6 per Massey … should be a shoe-in every season yet here we are … once again putting it in the committee’s hands need to beat the Dakota and Montana schools head-to-head, major ramifications for not only playoffs but also recruiting need to win but yes need playoffs every year due to the extra practices for player development and yet, here we are, uncertain

This is a critically important post because it is pure truth and encompasses the landscape entirely, as well as focusing in on UND’s goals: beat the Dakota schools and the Montana schools and you’ll get to where we want to go. This year we went 0-4….

Or just rise up to the competition and beat the f’n Dakota schools … everything we want is on the other side of them

11 AM Torn on whether or not to watch going 0-4 versus Dakota schools and Montana will do that but 2025 squad might get another a chance to play a game and subsequently wreak havoc on the tournament bracket… we’ll see either way, 2026 is the revenge tour as far as I’m concerned … f ndsu, f South Dakota, f South Dakota st

You’re a troll wanting to keep und football always in a rebuild if you’re actually advocating for this… or just brain dead… only two possibilities

Agree

Technically the program went from 5-7 to 7-5. That is an improvement but it is not the standard. UND football needs to be competing with ag college every year, so #1 and nattys is the standard now. **I expect a big jump from year 1 to year 2 with at least 9 wins. LGH

This is my thought as the next step needed for the program to take the next step.

Bubba was worse … but 7-5 is not acceptable. Can’t go 0-3 vs other Dakota Schools. Can’t lose more than 1 FCS game per year … this is sh*t need better players and better coaches … surprise, surprise

F ‘em cocky bastards

Good f*cking God !@#$ This team don’t deserve playoffs Not on the players, they should be in playoffs offensive coaching staff fucked us give me changes or same ol same ol I’ll be back for recruiting and 2026 f*ck

UND will get it done. Gonna be fun

Have you seen 3rd and 4th tier wild card tie-breakers in NFL? ADs in a Smokey room doesn’t supersede the AQ bids… if you win, it all works out. CFB playoff system has its own similar issues. Difficult to objectively assess all teams when there’s well over 100 programs per subdivision. that god damn pairwise with college hockey (far less teams, a completely different sport to compare, with different scheduling complexities ) is not apples to apples comparison … but don’t get me wrong, college football playoffs could be improved; seeding the top 16 has been a good start.

Yeah, just need to not be on the bubble. College football playoff system (FBS) has the same issue if you’re on the bubble … Technically high school football and NFL have similar concerns for teams that are on the fringe also… All in all, the response is simply win and leave no doubt.

Honestly, I would anticipate 100% that he plays and only be surprised if he’s not playing come game time. The playoffs start on November 22nd…. Big boy football upcoming in the Alerus Center. LFG LGH JYDs