Sioux94

I could be wrong, but my guess is NDSU won't want a single thing to do with UND football moving forward, including scheduling a joint practice. I doubt we will ever be on the same field again.

That is an impressive list to be on! Yes, let's hope Jerry Ball is back this Fall!

Recruiting has been way better under Schmidt. Our facilities are great, but you still have to win more on the field. NDSU and SDSU still have bigger name appeal than UND at this point. This takes a while, it's only Schmidt's 2nd year. Need start beating SDSU on the field and going deeper in the playoffs and that will come. Hoping this year we take another big step in the right direction!

Always looking for improvement, but I just hope our defense remains at the same level as last year, they were tough. I hope our offense can be like our offense was the first half of 2025, but all year. And on top of that, I hope we improve in the red zone and in those critical spots, like the horrible play call on 4th down against NDSU were the entire building knew what we were going to run and it was obvious the defense did too. K State, Montana, and NDSU could have been wins last year with just a few better play calls and execution. I think Danny will help Jerry get back to his 2025 early season form. That's what Im hoping for, but not really answering your question of what I think will happen

There isn't a webcast of any kind I take it. Guess I'll just have to read comment updates about how it went.

He definitely brings the energy!

Ya no doubt, he didnt crap on us. Danny saw Bubba getting extension after extension and saw HC promotion wasn't coming anytime soon. So he bet on himself and made a change. Which he is surely a better OC than when he left, as Im sure he has learned some things under the other staff. While a player or two ended up going to SDSU, I don't think Danny was actively trying to take guys with him but I dont know If Danny would have stayed, when Bubba was let go they still might have hired Schmidt, rightfully so. Danny has a little more experience now, all the way around its a good thing.

True, that is just the window where they have to declare to enter the portal, but can be signed/commit anytime after that I guess right. I wasn't thinking lol.

As much as I hate to see another window for guys go leave, curious to see how things go with no spring portal. If you dont get what you need in the winter portal, you are kind of stuck with what you've got. Hopefully we can fill most all the holes we needed to fill.

Hope he's not getting that much next year.

I agree with you, but everyone seems to want a so called 'hot and upcoming' young coach these days. Michigan taking Utah's coach though was the exact opposite of that. He seems like a good guy and I'll be rooting for him to do well, even though I'm not necessarily a Michigan fan.

Agree, but never know and will hope for the best. Flemming wasn't the top WR and NAU and the UNI RB was like 4th on their depth chart and both were really good at UND.

So we shouldn't hire any good young coaches that don't want to spend the next 20 years living and coaching in Grand Forks? Yes Danny will be looking eventually, but my guess is he would likely want to stick around at least 2-3 years to hopefully ride out this upswing in UND football under Schmidt for a little while. If Schmidt is really successful, Schmidt might move up and maybe Danny gets shot at head coach. The red zone TD stats don't lie, and Danny didn't have a QB that could actually run like Jerry can.

Who says he won't have a job this next upcoming season. He was only making like 100k at UND. So he could take an entire year off this next year and have netted the same or more financially. But getting FBS experience and learning from a different coaching tree is a good thing. Schmidt wouldn't be who he is today if he hadn't left and gained that experience. My guess is Danny will land a decent job somewhere.

Nobody will care about that a year from now except for SU fans. They don't give trophies for losing to the champion in like the quarter finals. Im good with ISU winning.