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… gotta fight grass isn’t always greener on the other side

I can. They can get to the big leagues (NFL, CFL) via UND with what we now got. “Portal-ing” just to ride the bench at a mid-FBS school falters away pro chances and is potentially foolish. They’ll get some quick “life-changing money” as people call it, but spend it all in a few years and it will ultimately mean nothing. Making it to the NFL should be the real goal, and if you transfer and end up 3rd or 4th on the depth chart, good luck with that. Where do you think you are more valued? The place you’re recruited to and developed or the place that values you as a potential quick fix on the depth chart? I’m not gonna be all happy go lucky about players entering the portal to leave UND as apparently some others will be …

UND plays Nebraska next season (2026) on September 19, 2026 in Lincoln. UND owes them one after 2022… Coach Schmidt will be quite familiar with the defensive scheme they’ll be running ……

Cause it’s ran by the biased crybabies out of Fargo … ridiculous UND/Grand Forks needs to reignite its media presence

Reasonable and logical as always. We should all be excited to carry forward the momentum. 2026 has the potential to be a record setting season for UND football in the Division I era. Let’s do it.

Could be better, for sure. Defensive IQ certainly received a boost over the past 12 months.

Can you get a new offensive coordinator in the portal? All kidding aside, it seems like what Schmidt is saying is UND couldn’t run because teams loaded the box and UND needs to be able to sting those teams on the outside and couldn’t do that. So that’s an OC, QB, WR problem. Could also be offensive line depending on how you want to look at. Even tight end. Multifactorial for sure. The regression is what stings. UND had offensive production the first half of the season, then teams adjusted and/or UND played better teams, and UND then couldn’t readjust themselves. They lost the chess match. Certainly shines the spotlight on our OC more than our players …

Sure, but just in case: As for what he meant, I think it is pretty clear what he meant. No secret interpretation needed. Running game failed. Unpredictability failed. Ability to consistently distribute the ball failed. The offense failed.

No development. No progression. Pure regression. And Coach said it best; the offense lost its mojo and unpredictability; it become way too predictable and couldn’t consistently distribute the ball to all eligibles on the field in the pass game (including TEs and RBs). Offensive coaching is the reason the opportunity was missed …

Team regressed in 2024 as well. There’s really only one common denominator between 2024 and 2025 from a coaching perspective. This season, the defense obviously improved as the year went on. Excellent defensive coaching. Can’t be said about the offense however.

This comes to mind… good ol’ UND basketball. To be fair, the below incident happened under different athletic leadership but this unfortunate loss to Montana just reminded me of it …

Choke job regression for the agricultural college of North Dakota Have fun little brotha in the off-season ha ha ha

You have mentioned one of about 10 deficiencies that this year’s offensive direction for UND entailed …. need adjustment/change on offense in order to take the next step.

Either would be a reasonable improvement, but there’s likely a wild card candidate in there you haven’t mentioned based on Schmidt’s connections from past stops (San Diego State, Washington, Fresno State). Kalen DeBoer runs a juggernaut of an offense so someone from that background has to be (or should be) the favorite. It’s just hard to outbid a lot of those programs - especially Bama - unless Chaves and Armacost have a “Eureka moment” and open up the damn checkbook. Again, this is just speculation and may have no basis, but at this time of year, much is. Also, this isn’t college football like it was 25 years ago; hell, it isn’t like it was 5 years ago. A lot of cycling with coaches and players. UND opted into revenue sharing. They want to be contemporary and compete (or at least I hope so). They need to play “the game”.

This is controversial and folks will argue about this but my gut feeling is you’re correct. It was based on them just being hired less than a year earlier and Chaves didn’t want them one and done. It was a “UND nice” gesture that really was inappropriate for Chaves to do considering Coach Schmidt’s FBS connections; it also would disrespect the autonomy usually handed out to a deserving head coach hire. Bubba’s residual salary also a factor perhaps as well (and/or part of the deal that Bubba cut with his “reassignment”). Anyways, it’s controversial for sure and won’t be fully disclosed (ever), but there’s something to this given the entire “behind the scene” circumstances that played out a year ago in November/December 2024 that still hasn’t completely come out. Ultimately, it’s time to stop the political correctness and back off, Chaves, and let the man do his job. Fund this thing appropriately also. We got the funds just need to liberate them.

I agree, and both problems (QB play, offensive game planning and play calling) are bundled up into the responsibilities of one person …

HC fires inept OC. HC hires more competent replacement OC. Problem (somewhat) solved. Still need to keep recruiting and improving the talent, especially outside (receiver) and always always quarterback. Transfer portal time …

There’s always work to do, never stops. Some decisions are easy, some decisions are hard. Good teams/leaders make the hard decisions look easy. We’ll get there … soon. Head up.

This is typically the indication it is time for a change.

Good luck, but margin wasn’t that wide. UND played awful. Tarleton is a good squad, but certainly not much better than UND this season. Once again, good luck.

That’s a foolish hill to die on. It was good because the competition was lesser the first half of the season. And this is a “what have you done for me lately” business. Always has been, always will be.

Well it should. The OC was “good” when UND was playing poorer competition to start the season. That’s clear. There was then signifiant regression after that against the competition that UND needs to be good against to get to where they ultimately want to go. For example, today, UND gave the ball only 5 times to Gaven Ziebarth despite him averaging 9.4 yards per carry! On the flip side, they let Kaminski (coming off a concussion) run 11 times as their leading ball carrier. He was awful in the passing game. It’s time for a change (or at least open competition) at quarterback. There needs to be a different direction at offensive coordinator if we can secure someone that Schmidt has more faith in. The idea that they need a championship QB first and then see what OC does is really quite controversial … the QB play is largely a product of the work arranged by the OC/QB coach (same person here). The OC shares the blame 50/50 as far as I’m concerned. And having a better QB won’t address the critical play-calling concerns and personnel misuse…

Nah… not really. Don’t have to keep putting that sh*t up on a pedestal.

We can all get off the Simon train now … Great kid and person, but let’s all move on. Bright future to look forward to.

Hope so bury those MF’s in fargo UND will have the better squad next year