JohnboyND7

The wall came down decades ago!

You don't draft a guy #1 overall to win a wild card game though. Dude didn't get a second contract.

Idk, tough to be a bust when you play well enough to get paid. Every year there seem to be high draft picks at the QB position that flat out flop. Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Zach Wilson come to mind. Wilson, could still turn it around I guess. Young guy. Dwayne Haskins (RIP), Mitch Trubisky, and so on. Kinda hard to figure out how to classify Wentz's career. Sorta strange.

The head coach is going to take a demotion?

Jamestown would not be allowed to play anyone in anything during the week lol

I dont think UND measures themselves in conference titles with hockey. But that's fair. Good teams lose in a elimination fans all the time.

Curious how you folks are handling this year. Pretty strange to see how down things have been the last few years up North

SDSU is also (moreso even) ag college football. Lmao. Was expecting a L today. Figured the game would be competitive. Obviously not what happened.

Agreed. The rivalry games should occur when school is in session. Very annoying that the biggest draw on a home schedule occurs when all but the hardest core folks are traveling and/or enjoying time with family. Think it could be solved with a couple "protected" teams for each school. Meaning NDSU doesn't play UND/SDSU over break. Ditto for UND or whatever. Oh well. I'm not the boss.

Skunberg very well might be a top ten ND high school player. Not like we pump a ton of great players out. Both these teams are horrid. Hope its a fun game. Might not get many of those this year lmao

Spent five years on campus and had no idea we had an equestrian team

Messi is better than him and its not close. Better peak, and significantly longer period of dominance too.

SDSU has had teams that were good enough to beat NDSU. This year, it is the reverse. NDSU can beat SDSU, but I wouldn't put money on it. Most of NDSU's football team have either not beat SDSU or have been young underclassmen when NDSU did. Bohl is gone. Klieman is gone. Stig (like him or not) has put better teams on the field against Entz. NDSU may win. I'll be rooting for them. This is the first (maybe only) time they've set foot in a championship game where the other team is objectively better than them.

Happy Argentina won. Messi didn't need a world cup to be called "the best" but it helps him with his home nation....especially considering how good he was as an old man today. Legend.

SDSU spotted NDSU a big lead... in the Fargodome. And still won. I am gonna guess SDSU by 10. Just a flat out better team right now

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.