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I’d argue the best thing you can do for your staff is not handouts like Bubba is doing, but rather actually winning and then moving to a bigger program. See Craig Bohl to Wyoming and Chris Klieman to Kansas State. Now those resulting promotions are what helps the assistants … As someone else mentioned on here, UND football should *not* be the final destination for head coaches. It clearly is right now for Bubba, and that breeds the program’s staleness.

His contract situation is perpetuated by UND AD, Chaves. It’s intentional, not an accident. Questions should be [rightfully] directed to him on what the true goals and expectations for UND FB are. They don’t seem too high based on timing of contract extensions. That is disappointing, and partial source of the impatience and frustration you cite.

After a decade, he has failed at these goals. Perhaps he can self-scout and improve, but it is skeptical.

Status quo under Bubba is always a safe bet. Vegas agrees. Boring (Bubba ball) football out of the Grand Forks as per usual. Change is overdue. Now, if you and I are wrong and UND is better than 3-3 after 6, then things are looking not so bad with old man Bubba’s program.

Bingo

Bonus? Next HC at UND? Bubba to AD or AA?

The athletics priorities in GF and at UND are messed up. Been that way for a couple decades, at least. Culture change any other direction will take another couple decades.

Wow, super clean. If only … Get on it, Coach Freund and Adidas.

I agree with the last paragraph. Reach out and actuate. But, ultimately, the current UND efforts you outlined above aren’t enough on their own, as all of UND’s peer institutions - namely NDSU as well as SDSU - are doing the exact same functions as UND, and then some. Difference being those institutions don’t need to fund DI hockey …

Agree with the majority of this. In short, to get UND football better as soon as possible: -complete state-of-the-art facilities for coaches and student-athletes ASAP to try compensate for the geography challenges - pay coaches better; but ultimately, need more funding for football specifically - agree with recruiting Winnipeg, but also all of Canada, better - lastly, Bubba is a great guy, many are friends of his, but ultimately, nice guys don’t always finish first in the race. Decision-making in critical moments and leadership of men matters in D1 college football.

Very true, at least personally that is the case. Overall direction of UND athletics with its current leadership structure is a concern. What are the expectations and priorities for UND athletics and UND football with the current leadership? Furthermore, personality type matters when it comes to person-to-person interactions.

Incredibly

Correct. Last night I roofied myself, woke up in a hotel room alongside a fully grown bengal tiger, found out I was newly married and missing a tooth, and had put a small Asian man in my trunk … … actually, wait, that may just be the plot of a film I recently watched.

I’m not the only one, but I’m glad you’re so adept at reading between the lines.

A championship-caliber winning football program that supporters and fans can be proud of. NDSU has completely sucked the region dry of such other than the occasional diehards, like those on this site.

Oh … is that right? You can stop glamorizing over graph trends and trajectories. No upward trajectory for UND, at least based on recent trends. UND athletics have been behind the 8-ball ever since going up to DI. I don’t expect the hockey first model to change, but I don’t agree with it. If there’s a model program out there in FCS with a hockey-first mindset, let me know. UNH and Maine aren’t exactly top tier …

Not commonplace for a division I college football QB … good for Schuster

^ Case in point …

Not sure it’s worth it, but perhaps …

UND football has become polarized amongst its biggest fans (people on a frickin’ UND message board in March!) … that’s not a good thing. We have blind faith (ignorance) in one corner and apathy in the other. UND going the way of the hockey stick and Chaves playing along has partially contributed to this, but having an incredibly boring average meat and potatoes head coach for nearly a decade doesn’t help either.

Guy got a chance to play a lot of games for UND. Good for him.

I mean, they can give him more than 5 carries per game, but that doesn’t mean he’s a top MVFC back. Let’s see if miracles do indeed happen and he develops into Goliath …

I’d just prefer UND wins, but whatever floats your boat and peaks your interest I guess…

let’s not ignore the ball carrier position because the offensive line is the most important unit to the run game … Beyond Smith, the RB room is subpar right now. Red has the next most talent, but he’s split out and not a pure RB. he definitely needs to get the ball a ton though. need two transfers, not just one. Ziebarth has some potential, but not likely to be more than a 5 carry/game back for his career.

Portal helps the most in the fall/winter. By this summer, the portal will be dry. That’s my point. Those gems you speak of aren’t likely to be found by UND. UND S&C is going to actually have to do their job and develop what they’ve got to work with. The ol’ portal will come in handy again for UND come fall/winter 2023. Hopefully the transfer players they got on roster this spring from UNM, NIU, USD, etc will work out for UND this fall.