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Not having a conference ‘mate’ in the room may still leave UND as one of the first 4 out. Unless Chaves has some pull with either the Big Sky of MVFC rep, or hopefully both, I don’t expect that there will be much lobbying to include the Hawks.

New Yorkers think anything on the other side of the Hudson is western

Depends on where the “west” begins. But, yeah, I don’t expect the selection committee to do anything to get UND in. The Hawks have to show they belong with their on-field performance tomorrow.

Whew! On the other hand, UND is #27 in both the Coach’s poll and Stats and dropped a spot last week after a narrow win over UNC. SUU probably still hovering around 100. My premise still stands. A long way to climb against a lowly ranked team

Have you checked the FCS SRS rankings? UND is #38 It’s a long climb to the top 20 against #106, even if you step on their throat. https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs/simple-ratings-system

Play the best players available. Go as deep into the playoffs as they can. Who knows, this staff may not be around when these freshmen and sophomores are seniors if they don’t play the players that give the Hawks the best chance to win.

Hate to admit he’s right. Pedigree matters in subjective selections. EWU and MSU have the history. UND doesn’t. i just have no trust in the selection committee.

UND would be in 6th place if the Big Sky Conference standings included UND. If Montana State beats Montana, they would be 6 - 2 in the conference (including the loss to UND) and 9 - 3 overall. Their non-conference loss is to FCS Texas Tech. Meanwhile, UND with a win next weekend would be the equivalent of 5 - 3 in the ‘conference’ and 7 - 4 overall. And most likely, the equivalent of 6th in the Big Sky. Will the selection committee will look at UND as a quasi-BSC team? If they do, that would be 6 of 24 teams (1/4 of the field) coming from the Big Sky. There will be 5 from the MVFC and the automatic qualifiers. Is there room for a 7 - 4 UND? Not having a 12th game may come in to play and cost UND in the end. 8 - 4 would certainly look better to the committee.

Prophetic!

Kinda like the football threads the past 24 hours must be hockey season

If the Big Sky rep is still the d-bag from Idaho State, UND has never had the Big Sky in its corner.

Speaking of 3... how often will Bubba’s Hawks finish in the top 3 of the MVFC?

Ok. Not a gopher or Fleck fan, so haven’t been following closely. But impressed by their current record. How many years has Bubba had? More than 3... oh yeah... Bubba went to the playoffs in his third year. My bad...

Oh. I get it. My apologies

You forgot 3 - 7 Idaho State

For those who don’t think coaching makes the difference... who’d’a thought Minnesota would be 9 - 0 and on the brink of winning the B1G West in Fleck’s second year?

What I meant was that the Idaho State loss is what kept UND out of the playoffs. Bubba has to stop losing to them. 2 non conference games coming up against ISU. They (and EWU) are the one that Bubba can’t seem to overcome.

You may not like it, but he is right

When you consider that Montana has just over 1 million people and yet have so many players between Montana and Montana State (too lazy to go back in the previous posts, but didn’t someone count the numbers and it totals over 100 players between the 2 teams?) These are mostly small town players who are recruited and developed in state. ND and SD have not quite as many people, but there are many of these small town kids who are D-I caliber. NDSU finds them. SDSU finds them. UND is starting to find them... now the onus is on Bubba and crew to develop the ones they are able to recruit so that more of them are willing to join the Hawks like it was when Roger Thomas and Dale Lennon turned the program around. It can be done!

A cupcake before the “conference” schedule and leave the Nov 2 bye. There had to be someone out there that was available early on.

#askbubba

When does Brewster’s contract conclude? Is Mallory Bernhard ready to take the helm? 50 - 4, even at the high school level, sounds pretty impressive.

Today’s students do not see historic rivalries with the Dakota schools. Maybe South Dakota, but they have not been conference mates since before this group of students started at UND. Yes NDSU will resume the rivalry immediately, but the Coyotes and Jackrabbits, as well as UNI have not been conference rivals during the last 5 or more years. Rivals for us old-timers, yes. Current students -has to have time to develop again.

Interesting computer rating... UND is ranked 11th (14th before Montana State win)

And UND will not have anyone advocating for them on the selection committee. The Hawks have to leave it all on the field the next 3 games and finish with 5 straight to overcome the loss at Pokie.