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Bubba is a good guy, it’s just that [apparently] being a good guy doesn’t entitle you to being a good to great head football coach in 2024/25. Sometimes you have to make your own luck which involves hard decisions. The best way ain’t the easiest way. Onward. Schmidty is a guy to admire and respect in his own right, which everyone knows, and here’s to hoping his way is the right way for UND.

Yep, my point exactly.

Local guy. Starter for FCS playoff team the past few seasons. Would solidify the UND offensive line amongst all five starting spots and offensive line is the most important position group in all of football. Would be a major step towards giving UND a consistent offensive effort that raises the floor of the 2025 season and helps out Schmidty’s defense in year one of the 4-2-5 transition. I also excuse the guys who left following 2023 as the program was headed in a horrible direction (and hence a 5-game losing streak and a losing season in 2024). You don’t extend a lame duck coach, lose the current offensive coordinator of Washington State and head coach heir apparent to a rival in a lateral move, and lose your newly hired replacement offensive coordinator alum to your rival within one week without some guys rightfully saying what the f*ck? Anything else?

So I didn’t realize UNO is better than Alabama MBB this year?!?

If improved tight end play leads to more wins, I’m all for it. Ultimately, need better play at all positions. Hopefully the tight end position sees a boost along with most every other position, especially quarterback and nearly all defensive spots.

I’ve always enjoyed watching games at University of Phoenix / State Farm Stadium. Natural grass indoors is always a nice touch. What you’re mentioning is the difference between what BIG 10 and Mountain West money can buy. Enjoy the ball game.

Must be a und hockey / ag school football banger … gotta love that type. You keep doing you, in your fantasy world, and I’ll continue with facts.

Saban didn’t like them either, and “retired” - similar theme. Bottomline is adapt or die….

Yeah not doing that on this medium. Nice try “hockey”

Not acceptable. Needs to be addressed.

You laughing at yourself? All factual, just not public knowledge or published. Keep crying you corrupt ag school bumpkin… plenty of questionable activity that “prestigious” Fargo works overtime on to keep covered up.

There definitely are very few rules anymore, which I personally don’t think is good for the game of college football. And don’t just take my word for it-there’s a lot of others in high regard that agree with me; for example, Nick Saban. There needs to be more regulation. NIL and transfer portal are fine, but there needs to be some regulation within it. There were numerous programs that weren’t following the rules to begin with, but now there’s no rules for them to even have to attempt to adhere to. Don’t have to look much further than Fargo for example… Anyways, on a more positive note, the retention that UND Football has put together under Schmitdy and Fruechte has been quite remarkable, all things considered. 2025 shaping up to be a special year… Recruit. Develop. Retain.

That said school and program (North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences football program) is also used to ignoring other unspecified guidelines and then asking for forgiveness later; a complete embarrassment and waste of tax payer dollars. Onward.

Winning and development will trump all. Can’t go out of your way to emphasize a certain position group if it jeopardizes the overall goals of the team and program. And many are going to have to come to grips that you may lose student-athletes even if you “utilize their position group” - it’s the current world of college football. With all that said, we should want to see all position groups succeed more than they have been, and I’m hopeful we will see that moving forward. Let’s start by awaiting the official announcement of the new TE coach ……

I agree we should definitely be open to welcoming back any good player from ND, in this case specifically Fordville, ND, but there’s definitely many other ways to use the roster spot if need be. It may in fact be water under the bridge at this point, and if so, there’s always a lesson; such as don’t extend failing coaches with the stamina for retirement, not championships. Onward.

A lot.

This overall is a situation that UND and Schmidt need to take advantage of: opportunity to move up the MVFC pecking order quickly.

Yes

If you hate to say it, then don’t say it. You can turnaround a program in 1-2 seasons nowadays. NDSU has an advantage with just high school recruiting and development, as they’ve been winning championships for so dang long. Now, though, you have to be able to do both - recruit and develop, but also utilize the portal. It’s because the good ones will leave. Nothing wrong with recruiting pure talent, even if it is not directly from high school. Winners win. The work works. Get it done. Stop crying and just do it. Time to start winning here at UND, and bout damn time to put football on a pedestal (been a thing coming the past few years with the new facilities pending). Let’s go

Huge. Literally and figuratively.

The essence of competition.

Competition at the most important positions in football is a great thing. Schmidty and Fruechte can bring in all the quarterbacks and offensive and defensive linemen they want as far as I’m concerned.

Recruit. Recruit. Recruit. Develop. Sustain. We can all agree it’s important, and that it was not nearly good enough the last couple years with an aging Bubba, and here’s to hoping Schmidty knocks it out of the park. Ya’ll do your part and support the program and the collective.

I agree. And I’ll (again) mention quarterback is important too. But I agree that the lines on both sides (offensive and defensive) are by far the two most important groups in football.

Just because a fire was already started doesn’t mean it’s right to throw gasoline on it. Some regulation is needed in everything to a certain agree, and NIL and the transfer portal is no different.