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16 hours ago, UND69er said:
Thought here was that a regional D2 power would bring 500-1000 fans to GF for some game revenue. Risk is a loss hurts like Sioux Falls. But it fills in the schedule like MBB.
Schmidt isn't going to lose at home to a D2 school. But the win wont count as a D1 win when they look at D1 wins for playoffs, that's the problem with that, so no.
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On 6/30/2026 at 5:40 AM, UND69er said:
maybe play a regional D2 power and get some fan interest. Risky though.
Ummm no, that doesn't even count as a win when they look at records for the playoffs.
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On 6/27/2026 at 1:56 PM, SIOUXFAN97 said:dying to know if it was mr nfl and his reptitive plays that caused jerry's downturn or something else...but let's hope jerry ball is back this fall
That is an impressive list to be on! Yes, let's hope Jerry Ball is back this Fall!
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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!
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1 hour ago, 108498 said:
How do fans feel about those returning and the talent? What are the chances UND takes a step back/foward/ remains the same?
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
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There isn't a webcast of any kind I take it. Guess I'll just have to read comment updates about how it went.
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On 3/31/2026 at 1:57 PM, F'n Hawks said:
Super pumped that Danny is back.
He definitely brings the energy!
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9 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:Crapped how exactly?
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.
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2 hours ago, homer said:
You will just have to revisit the remaining 5,000 players in the portal that won’t find an home and/or Jucos.
I think the one window will help the smaller schools.
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.
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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.
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59 minutes ago, GoodGood said:
What kind of NIL deal did JTJ sign? Is he getting 50k again next year? Shocked he’s not in portal
Hope he's not getting that much next year.
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5 hours ago, UND69er said:
I am a long ways from a coaching expert, but Rogers ascent has seemed a bit odd and overzealous to me. Took over for a legend at SDSU, only 2 years of great success, moved to WSU for 2 years with marginal success. Now moving to ISU and 50 players there hit the portal. Seems like some or all of this is premature. Also odd that he could not find a way to fit Danny into his plans somewhere after Danny made the move to Brookings. FWIW.
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.
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1 hour ago, geaux_sioux said:
I know. Not what gets me excited for a transfer. Hopefully he’s amazing but he couldn’t crack the lineup at a !@#$ program
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.
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8 minutes ago, UND69er said:Can't get excited about either one. Guy from Alabama will be looking to get out of GF and Danny will be looking for the next oppty to move up.
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.
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4 hours ago, UND69er said:
100-200K these days is a mere pittance, especially if you don't have a job.
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.
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13 minutes ago, Dustin said:
The only downside is that means the Bison lost to the eventual champion.
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.
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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.
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52 minutes ago, gfhockey said:Yeah, how did that work out for him? He’s now unemployed plus he moved to a conference arrival and took players with him.
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.
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3 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
This is debatable. He was always holding out for Minnesota Gophers, Big 10, or NFL, as his comments indicated. But, to his defense, many would be.
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.
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23 minutes ago, F'n Hawks said:
To add to this, as someone on here had previously mentioned, the games where he had lots of rushing attempts were games we lost.
- 13 attempts against USD (this is when the season turned for him and his play declined) Schedule got much better so that factors in too
- 17 attempts against NDSU
- 14 attempts against SDSU
The season is long and grueling already, putting this much on him at the end certainly didn’t help.
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.
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Do we know how much he was offered? I'm assuming the 500k comment was just thrown out there as an example.
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3 hours ago, UND69er said:What? With a quadruple reverse flea flicker? I recall a lot of angst with him here too. Send Fruechte to every OC seminar available or give him some funny mushrooms to gain some imagination.
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.
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50 minutes ago, F'n Hawks said:
Bison fans hated Polasek as OC if I remember correctly.
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.
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1 hour ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
God it would be f*cken awesome if he came back to be the OC for Schmidt and his protege Kaminski….
A guy can dream can’t he?
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?
2026 UND Football Season Thread
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We are definitely due to win down there, I'm usually skeptical heading into that week. But I think this is the year we finally get a W down there. Hoping Jerry exercises his demons down there from last year.