Elite hands, very good blocking and route running, mediocre speed. Very solid receiver. Just need a speedster to complement him.
They also seemed to iron out whatever issues Toivonen was having catching the ball early in the season.
Watford City had an estimated population of 6,500 in 2017. I'd say they could hope for maybe 15-20,000 in 15 years, putting it more in line with present day Dickinson.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's increased everywhere due to grad transfer rules and improvements in high school weight training. But UND has also had poor depth at certain positions contributing to it.
The committee this year didn't give much/any credit for non-D1 wins. So it'd likely lose money and increase risk of injury to play a non-counter with minimal/no benefit.
Home/home would be nice, but maybe they don't have the extra $100k to travel in the 2019 budget.
Article is 16 months old, but relevant. One other thing noted in the article I found pretty crazy was this:
Now we seem to burn a few redshirts every year.
You mean like this one https://omavs.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9086
Or this one https://bgsufalcons.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7304
Or this one https://umdbulldogs.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3397
Or this one https://scsuhuskies.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=4046
Or this one https://scsuhuskies.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=4036