Sioux94

Well we saw what Bartels did this past year in a couple of games when he did have a line and a running game....and it wasn't that pretty.

I dunno.....personally I think hearing something on the radio is a little different than proactively going on another teams message board to talk s**t.

Definitely have to understand him for going back for those reasons. Maybe after things settle down he could return to UND to get a degree, and if he continued to develop have a shot at the NFL and really set himself up to provide long term for his family. That is a difficult situation for a young kid that age, and I agree with the post about most of us were trying to decide where the next party was in college. Best of luck to him and his family in the future!

Tomorrow is my Birthday......so all verbals signing would be a good birthday present....and maybe even have an unexpected signing as a surprise or something! Am out of town at a customer site this week which sucks......won't be able to be online and check things throughout the day which is always a fun day doing that......Ugh. Will be excited to check things out tomorrow night!!

Wasn't it NDSU's JohnBoy that was saying Wentz is......"meh....average" or was that the entire graduating Bison class of 2011 that was always saying that?

I was thinking this the other day and agree with you. Yes the publicity benefits NDSU a lot, but in this case it can help make kids, and not just ND kids, realize that we can play some pretty good football and I think this actually can be a positive thing for UND. Mid year when they started talking about Wentz being drafted, I was kind of hoping maybe he and the Bison would fizzle a little this year because I'm so sick of hearing about NDSU and wasn't looking forward to hearing about all of that. Now that it's here and he is looking at going so high, growing up and living in western ND my whole life I do think it is kind of cool a kid from Bismarck may be a top 5 pick. I let go of my total dislike for NDSU in this instance. I'm certainly not going to tell others though that they have to love him or like him even, just throwing my two cents in. It took me a little while to get past the NDSU thing though when the draft talk really started heating up lately. As a Cowboys fan.....if Dallas takes him at #4 I'll have to like him. If he turns into a flop.......well then just one more reason to dislike NDSU

Well....that would have given us a good quality loss

Are we sure we would want this kid....I mean he is decommitting and changing his mind and going from one school and now looking to go somewhere else..... I am being sarcastic here and joking....but I do find it funny sometimes when a kid decommits from us to go somewhere else some people question the kids integrity, but if a kid changes their mind to come here we are all loving it. Hope he ends up here.

There are many great things I like about having Bubba as our coach, on top of being humble, respectful he is a North Dakota guy who truly wants to be at UND and is his dream job. This isn't a stepping stone for him on to other things, I truly believe he will be at UND until he retires. And with that being the case he is going to do things the right way and not cut corners. Those are great things, but you still have to have success......and based on what he has already done in two years I'm looking forward to years of great football coming out of Grand Forks again.

I think a good example of why NDSU wins and some of these high flying teams don't win are the little things. Like on that punt early in the game where the ball hit around the 25 yard line or so and bounced towards the goal line.......the Jacksonville guy half assed downing the ball before going in the end zone and it rolled into the end zone. Instead of NDSU getting the ball on the 3 they got it at the 20. If NDSU was covering that punt (or hopefully UND for that matter) they would have made a better effort to down the ball and they would have. Some of these high flying teams think they have the natural talent to just win. You do have to have good talent, but if you have to have a good defense and play sound fundamental football across the board, and nobody does it better than NDSU right now.

Just voted.....Santiago has 245 votes and is in second place (third has 188). Leader from Sam Houston has 318.

I would agree that for NDSU posters on here, 73 is usually reasonable and doesn't seem to have a primary purpose to come here and condemn and stir stuff up.

Oh no wait....you must mean the crappy team that's QB is now going to Oregon to play....who also had Nick Saban at Alabama wanting him to go there....that must be the team you were talking about. Yeah talk about three completely crappy teams UND beat at the end of the year, two of which we had 35-0 leads on. (Yes I agree MSU has a crappy defense)

Or maybe you are talking about Northern Colorado.....who UND also pummeled.....who the week before beat the #6 seed in the playoffs....that team?

You must be talking about that Cal Poly team that UND pummeled......the Cal Poly team that beat Montana the week after Montana beat NDSU.

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.