JohnboyND7

Anyone tailgating will be in tents. Will be too cold to spend much time outside.

Eh, fans haven't earned anything lol. But I get the point.

There is a thread over there, a few posters from UND as well chime in fairly often. Some weirdo keyboard warriors who pitch a fit about anything UND? For sure. Just ignore them and life goes on. I see you have a fascination with small dicks. Something you wanna tell us about?

The Colts are doing so well they fired their coach in the middle of the season.

What

Shanley would own Jamestown. Doesn't take away from the Jays. Fun team. Not great on the line though. Relied on the skill guys. Jamestown has been having a little Renaissance for athletics the past several years. Not sure if they started putting something in the water, but we were pretty bad at basically everything when I was growing up here ('02-'10).

Bring back the old ND logo on the helmet. Quit wearing black. Its unbecoming in the year of our Lord, 2022.

In HS wrestling, seeds are determined by coaches. Can't recall a time where I or any of my buddies got shafted. People in those meetings generally wanna do a good job. Frankly, I can't imagine a better advocate for UND than the NDSU guy who is gonna wanna advocate for the strength of the conference. All that said, he can't be in the room when NDSU is being seeded, IIRC.

IQ, of course.

I was 10 i think the last time you guys won lol

I'm curious how much of it is a generational thing in addition to that

Basically. I got no idea on his skill level or ego or any of that. I haven't followed closely enough. But its becoming a trend for guys now to quit after 4 games to save their season of eligibility to transfer.

Yeah, that's kinda where I'm at. There were valid reasons those teams weren't playing at home.

They bring in the backup for a run package probably 3-5 plays a game. He runs the ball every time. This time they did not run.

Yes lol. Not a good hill to die on.

The MWC champ absolutely gets a sniff at the playoffs. They will probably get it often now that the best AAC schools are heading to the Big 12.

They were nothing special. Some solid playmaker. QB's were not good.

Wow!

Look forward! Not backward silly

Maybe. Maybe not. I just don't know why a football program with 15 years of mediocrity would want to keep inbreeding with coaching hires. Find the best guy for the job. If he happens to have spent time in Grand Forks, great. But how likely is that? There are hundreds of college football teams. Thousands of coaches. Many of whom would love to an opportunity to build their resume at this level. Coordinators, big time position coaches take these types of jobs. Lower division head coaches like moving up.. Just need some imagination.

I think the best bet for UND would be to get new blood entirely.

Im confused, when did Pittsburgh join FCS?

It wouldn't be political suicide if the voters support it.

The fact we felt the need for two "big" schools was a huge oversight for the state. We should have done the Wyoming model and had one "flagship" or whatever. Yeah, we'd lose an annual football game but other than that... would be good for academics. Think of all the overhead we are dealing with now.

On a more serious note, I just don't see NIL being very big for NDSU/UND very often. Especially with collective action like promising it to incoming recruits or for nearly any G5. How much money are boosters willing to stuff in low level recruits pockets annually? What benefit will come of it? The amount of money boosters would need to pledge annually doesn't seem very feasible. I've seen Texas Tech and BYU are doing nice things that should basically give the kids $10-15K/year or something. That makes sense. They have a lot of alum, some of them have a lot of money. They are trying to put together a team to compete against the best teams in the country. NDSU/UND/regional recruiting rivals don't have that well of money available. Nor do the boosters have that incentive kf competing with something larger. For our schools, NIL is nice because it allows kids to make a few bucks. Get a sponsorship or something. I'm sure some of the high end hockey guys have been marketable for the hockey world. Tiktok and all that, I don't mind kids making some cash. I just don't see boosters at our level spending meaningful decision-changing money on a scale that's makes a big difference. Its one thing for A&M or Tennessee to drop millions of dollars to lure kids away from Alabama and compete for SEC championships. Its another for already small fanbases to dump money trying to out-do each other. Most G5 and probably all FCS schools don't have enough serious fans* to do that. *caveat: barring some superdonors like Ralph.