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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.

I think we can maybe back off just a bit for ripping whomever our OC is for doing shotgun inside the 3 yard line. ISU just did it and ive seen like like 4 other teams do it in the past month, as I started watching and paying attention to that. Not saying I wouldn't like to see us under center in those situations. But teams that run this type off offense seem to stay in shotgun even when close, it's not just us.

He's probably got 100-200k more in his bank account, plus learned from a winning culture and coaches, got FBS experience. I'd say its worked out pretty well. Worked out ok for us too, if he would have stayed he might have been named HC instead of Schmidt, and it sure appears Schmidt was a great choice.

I would sure hope we aren't after coaches that want UND to be their last stop. I would hope all of our coaches are all in on UND while they are here. But it's pretty safe to say that most all be gone in 5 years, including Schmidt if he's done what we hope he does.

Didn't realize he had that many attempts in those games, that is a lot! Seems like if the defense is tough and shuts down our RB's then it forces more QB runs. OL needs to get better and better WR's so cant stack the box. 5-8 attempts a game on average seems like a decent number. Run QB enough to keep them honest, and when you need it.

Do we know how much he was offered? I'm assuming the 500k comment was just thrown out there as an example.

So now its a quadruple reverse? Man these fish stories just keep getting bigger lol. I do agree there was some angst with Danny sometimes though. If I recall there was a game at USD where we're moving it on the ground and then he gave up on that. I think Danny would have had a much better call on 4th and 1 against SU that got blown up. That one huge 4th down play...I think it was against Cap Poly was a thing of beauty. Danny's offense definitely had to overcome having a subpar defense.

Didn't a lot of them complain about Rhoel too? My reply was also going to be....thr only team that doesn't hate their OC is the one who wins the Championship. I do remember NDSU complaining about theirs at different times in the past few years and they won titles with those OC's, and they were still complaining. If you can run the ball down their throats too, that sure makes life easier as the OC. I remember an SU playoff game with the game on the line and they were either 3rd or 4th and goal from the 5 with less than a minute to play, QB in shotgun.....and I think half the stadium new they were going to run the QB draw....and they did.....and of course he runs it in for a TD and won the game.

Fruend or Fruechte, would be an interesting poll. The most recent frustration has been with Fruechte though, so Danny would probably win in that poll. If the poll was taken halfway through the season though, might have been Fruechte leading the poll?

Right, Davis from SDSU got drafted didnt he, and made a roster. NDSU and SDSU have had a fair amount of guys drafted recently, which helps UND and USD get eyes on them as well as the MVFC. Guys like Rucker and others that really show out will get plenty of eyes on them, and lots of playing time.

Yep. I know there was one game for sure where he drilled a 47 harder or more for the win or tie with only a few seconds on the clock. He definitely made some clutch kicks. I do agree though that we often remember things or players maybe being better than they were sometimes. But in this case the distance of the kicks does plays into it. Turns out Elrichs had the best percentage on XP's of them all. Sometimes it's when those misses occur though, if its not a close game people dont remember the miss because it didnt matter.

Bobcats got TD on their first two drives. Up 13-0.

He's definitely got that link saved in his favorites so he can bust it out on a moments notice.

Two huge games to end the season. Unless they lose a lot, YSU will definitely be tough on the road with Beau coming back. It's nice to not have to automatically chalk this up as a loss like we did before. Will be a good game.

USD lost an impact RB

Yeah WAY too early for them to do 2026 season predictions, especially in today's age with the portal and us not even knowing who will be on the roster yet. They usually do that in an August podcast.

Every year when a couple good UND players enter the portal, we all often freak out, which is probably normal. But its never really been a huge landslide of important players leaving, even under Bubba. I could be wrong, but I think most if not every year.....in the end we came out as a net positive in the portal, or at least even. I'm sure it will eventually happen where we end up in a worse spot, but thinking more times than not it will be a net positive...especially under Schmidt, and now with all of the nice facilities. Some guys over the years will probably jump to FBS, it'll happen. Just dont want really good players to go to another FCS team.

Never want to lose any prime time players, but if we limit it to just those three.....I think our net transfer portal influx will be a net positive for the year in the end. As has been mentioned, Siedl was likely gone before the year started. Blueiett graduated. My guess is wherever Flemming goes his numbers will be less next year, a lot less if he goes FBS IMO. Although would rather him do that than an FCS competitor. Some of the guys leaving was probably needed and just gives us more room for the right additions.

Once season is over, and/or we lose in the playoffs they typically dont do one to recap the last game.

Agree, Schmidt will own the crappy offensive calls or crappy red zone performance next year if its like this year.

I totally agree with that first paragraph. Was going to root for Tarleton until how cocky they seem to be this past week. I definitely do not want USD to win it. I think Illinois State probably has the best shot to knock off some of the other big names, so I'll be rooting for them. Keep it in the MVFC and I dont have any strong dislike for them at this point. If its a Montana school, definitely Bobcats over Griz. Griz fans are annoying enough the way it is.

Ouch, that sucks. We targeted him a lot and he had a great year, I guess that wasn't good enough for him. Lame.

Just saw this.

Wasn't there some grumbling of SS not being happy about something right before the season even started? I remember posting back around August....something along the lines that I think SS should start over Z as he is the most talented back we've got, and ride him as much as we feel we need to because he's probably gone after this year. I would agree that I can't see him being a starting RB at an FCS school because of his size. Although for his size he really ran tough, definitely a talented kid. Definitely will be a huge kick in the ass if he goes to any of the Dakota or Montana schools.