JohnboyND7

I dont think there was an issue of UIW not being animated that they recovered the football.

Not sure why the whistle blowing would matter. Officials regularly blow a whistle and then sort out who recovered the ball. I'm not sure how you can take this very definite position. Earlier you shared a screenshot saying it was the precise moment the whistle blew and 49 is 100% not in possession of the ball.

SDSU would be favored

At this point the advantage seems limited to sleeping in their own beds and what not. 2012 Georgia Southern dome energy has been gone for a very long time.

Can only sign if the school lets you. Think a lot of people forget that many offers are not actionable. But I think schools are usually pretty good about not putting a kid on blast "we told him months ago we didn't have room for him" or whatever.

I guess my thinking is that the sort of money a Mattress v. Red Pepper type battle isn't going to have such a substantial delta between the offers to make it a deciding factor for kids. It seems like one thing when Oregon promises a kid "hey we will hook you up with $200K just to pick our school" and then Texas A&M comes in and says "we can get you double that!" $200,000 is a substantial sum of money to leave on the table. It makes sense they'd go to TAMU. Those schools are also fighting over prized high 4 and 5 star recruits, not 2-3 star kids. Lots of the latter, few of the former. But with NDSU and UND - I just don't see the hunger developing between much more modest sized fanbases fighting over the types of recruits that exist all over the place. If a kid wants to go to NDSU or UND - I don't see some small modest sum of money changing their mind to go elsewhere. I see the bigger thing being "hey if you come here and are a star on the team, local businesses in the community/state will throw some money at you for advertisements/billboards/corny mattress commercials." Hockey I could see more of the big school NIL stuff happening, considering UND's place in the hockey world and some of the schools they go up against there.

This ain't going to be meaningful at this level of football. For a 5-star guy dealing with huge fanbases? Sure. He can do something hokey and novel like this. At the FCS level, whats he gonna get? A couple dozen people paying a few bucks?

I don't know how exactly they go about phrasing it. But the Notre Dame podcasts I listen to say stuff like "this guy was asked to return" or "this guy was encouraged to check the portal", stuff like that.

USC brought in 20 transfers/8 high school kids for this season. Their fans were loving life this year other than on two occasions against Utah.

1. You think the guys on the committee care at all that UND sued the NCAA years ago? They don't. They are athletic directors from auto-bid conferences. They don't even work for the NCAA lmao. 2. If the AD is acting exclusively in his school's best interest, he shouldn't be on the committee. At that point he'd be hurting the conference. 3. You harp about professional conduct while claiming that every party EXCEPT UND is actually acting without professionalism.

I have zero idea what voters consider. I saw your post and figured I'd go look at the numbers on the MVFC website. The conference stat comparison was pretty funny to see though

two of the guys in front of him had more yards and touchdowns in fewer games. The third guy played two fewer games, but their stats/game were nearly identical. Maybe voters were giving him credit for doing it on a trash team in Terre Haute. Who knows. I'm guessing Bo will sleep just fine. Total Stats: Conference Only Stats (pretty neat lol):

Why did you highlight the inbreeding comment lol. UND's football coaching has been very incestuous. Bubba - 15 years as an assistant at UND. Another six or seven with Lennon at SIU? Mussman - 8 years as an assistant at UND before getting the head job. Lennon - Played at UND, 8 years assisting at UND, then head coach. Roger Thomas was the last HC at UND without spending a long period of time at UND as an assistant. You can argue whether its good or bad, you can't really argue its been pretty heavy on the inbreeding.

I'm guessing the service academies have ran for 300+ and lost. But that is a strange deal.

I don't mind trolling. But that is sorta asking for a taunting flag. Pretty fun though to see linemen show a little personality though.

Desperation leads to some simple yet creative solutions to problems

Huh? Shouldn't you be busy still trying to make "THE HAWKS NEST!!!!" catch on?

Judge I interned for during law school once told me, "If you ever see someone write 'clearly', it almost certainly isn't clear." Happy Thanksgiving!

You and the average bear have very different definitions of what is "cheap" apparently.

A 4 second clip is a bit short.

I think there was confusion whether the guy was down or the play was over.

Helena?

Oh it almost certainly matters. Agreed though that it shouldn't matter.

I don't think its probably very hard to get the committee on board with Montana. - Nice stadium. Looks good on TV. Probably a decent number of fans will be there. Big Sky is a prime conference to set up with non-bus games, there are basically none available. Isn't everyone west of Grand Forks (other than some TX schools) in the Big Sky? No opportunity for bus games in the west.

Kids might be thinking if they are good enough to play regularly at NDSU, they should have no problem getting playing time somewhere closer to home, warmer, etc. Seems as likely as any other reason lol