Sioux94

I agree with those that feel this doesn't necessarily mean the kid has questionable character. Most of us by Wednesday this week will have forgotten about him for the most part and we will get somebody else. However for this kid, this is a HUGE decision for the next 5 years and the rest of his life. We all still have ties to UND years later....even if we didn't play a sport.......where you go play college football is something you will have for life. From what I gathered he had kind of wanted to go to SDSU, yes he did verbally commit to us......but then when he did actually get an offer from where he really wanted to go you can't totally judge him on that. Well you can judge him if you want, but I think it's unfair. There are a lot of things that go into the decision, many personal things which we no almost none of. And sounds like he may have gotten more scholarship. Also if we are going to question his character, we better judge the character of any other player than changes over to us in the future. Some here are now saying if a kid doesn't produce on the field we should pull their scholarship. That is big time hypocritical that we could pull our commitment to a kid once it's written, but a kid gets bad mouthed if he changes on a verbal well before the signing period. Given all of that I sure hope we make him regret the decision football wise, and that UND is more successful than SDSU the next 5 years.

You give NDSU a free 7 points on a kick off return.......you're not going to win. Thought UNI might have a chance....not that they still don't......but NDSU will pull this one out as usual.

Not sure if I totally agree with that. Or maybe it's just that with green helmets, when I turn on the game.....can't even tell it is NDSU on the field......not use to the dark helmets for them.

Bubba wouldn't leave for SIU.....unless he got a 500k raise (just picked a huge number). That is one great thing about Bubba being here......he WANTS to be here.....this is not a stepping stone for him to some other position. As long as he continues to be successful I think he'll stay until he's ready to retire.

Forever would have been much better.

Sticking up for your beloved MVFC huh, can't believe some on here have cozied up to you......when you are just a troll.

We were up 28-0 at half, let off the gas and got complacent since we had a huge rivalry game the following week. Plus that was at the beginning of the year, we were a different team at the end of the year.

But you are one of the sometimes rational NDSU fans that comes on here

But you are forgetting something.....Big Sky teams can't play defense.....and MVFC are all about the Big D.........hence the 24-0 score lol

It won't help the Big Sky by having SUU lost.....but Montana pummeling SDSU will help. I bet Missouri Valley fans weren't expecting that.

Saw the Dayton thread...sounds like they are all online on ESPN....I'll check there....

Is the Montana - SDSU game going to be on anywhere? I haven't been on for a few days.....so if it was posted somewhere already I missed it.

No doubt! I know after 3 games or so into the year when Studs was still struggling, I was so afraid that we'd end up going through another year and at the end we still wouldn't really be 110% sure which guy would be the guy in 2016. Great job Studs on the improvement, and hope it continues even further into next year!

The fact that he said they actually do take into account injuries, to me makes it even more puzzling. We only had 1 loss when our starting QB played the whole game, and if you look at how well we were playing when he came back since he said they look at EVERYTHING, he said we'd be surprised at everything they look at, it makes less sense. However I don't know if EIU had a key injury. We had several injuries, like most do, but we had significant drop off when our backup QB was in. I would still like them to answer the question as to what EIU's quality win is, as that is supposedly part of what they look at.

I can't remember....but didn't Drake beat one of the teams that made the playoffs? Seems like I remember somebody saying that....but could be wrong.

You guys.....it is pointless to argue with Gothmog, he is enjoying needling us here. Don't think had seen him on this site much the last three weeks of the season, but he sure seems to be following the thread closely today. Just stop replying directly to his comments, trust me you'll never get a point across to him that he will accept.

Oh I agree with you there! You can have great players, but if you don't have good coaching you are definitely going to fall short. But if you have great players, it makes it easier....or you have a better chance of looking like a great coach. In my opinion football is the sport where coaching makes the most difference, but it matters in all sports. Amazing that the first year under Schmidt that basically the same players went from one of the worst defenses to one of the best.

I think the point Cratter was trying to make is that almost any coach looks real good when you have Tom Brady on your team, or the old Peyton Manning, or John Santiago for that matter. I don't think he was implying that the coaches don't need to coach them to continue to try and make them better, but if you recruit some great players/athlete's you'll look like a genius opposed to if you recruited average players (and worked just as hard coaching each group up). Better players technically don't make you a better coach, but better players give the perception that you are a better coach because you'll win more games, given everything else is equal.

However, that said I'll definitely be rooting for Dayton!!

How a 6-5 bubble team lands Dayton in the first round is ridiculous. They covered their butts well by giving WIU an easy match up and a likely win, to justify their selection of WIU.

I think 24 is ok right now too. It gives more teams a chance to make the playoffs and makes for a lot of interesting games down the stretch. I'm hoping by next year already we are not one the bubble teams and it wouldn't have mattered if it was 16 or 24, but even so I'm ok with the 24 and the first round bye. And totally agree with everybody else that the regionalization of bracketing like they did this year is crap. Let's hope they get enough heat for this fiasco they caused this year so that some changes are made, but I doubt it.

All I can say is......when a majority of NDSU fans say we got screwed.......that means there is no doubt we got screwed!

At least the committee was smart enough to cover their asses by putting 6-5 WIU up against Dayton, a team that only received 44 votes in the final poll. That way WIU can win and they can justify selecting them. What a freaking joke.

So does the committee generally meet on Saturday evenings? If so that sucks that we had a late game. They apparently said well even if UND wins Saturday night, we are still taking EIU at 7-4 over them. It would have been nice for them to see us go up on Poly 35-0 (a team that beat Montana) on the road before penciling in EIU over us. The fact that EIU got in over us with the same record, and from what it sounds no quality wins......is ridiculous! And you would think if things are close you would factor how teams are looking, or the "eye" test at the end of the year. 40 plus points in our last three games, with a score of 45-0 at one point against UNC, (a team that just ONE week earlier beat the #6 seed), and 35-0 at Poly. If we barely would have beaten UNC and Poly I could have accepted this more easily, but when I look at the way we were playing at the end of the year (which should count for something)......this totally blows!!!

Here will be our plan for next year, we will just rest all of our starters against our toughest 3 opponents next year so we can get in a number of good quality losses, and keep our starters fresh so we can beat everybody else. Might also prevent our players from getting their leg broken by a cheap shot.