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Only 2 upper classmen in the two deep on the OL. Welcome to the world of the Portal. I think, well and hope, last year was an anomaly in losing 3 starters. But wouldn't be surprised if one OL a year leaves, good OL are in such high demand. However if the program can continue to build......need to get like the SU's where they have really good lineman and they usually stick around as it's been proven they can still get drafted.

Who had Romfo as the starter on their 2024 Calendar year weird sh*t UND football bingo card?

7 wins is very doable with this 12 game situation schedule. 9 games is actually doable but doubt that will happen. Iowa State, SDSU and NDSU are three games that we won't win. Montana and USD we could pull off the upset and if we did that could be 9 wins, however I don't see 9 wins happening as we will lose one or two of those 50/50 games if not both, we know we will crap the bed on at least one of our road games. I haven't watched the UNDfootball360 podcast yet but I'll go with 7-5 and possibly squeek into the playoffs. So basically the same thing as we've been doing If the OL takes a big step back and it turns out we miss Tommy at QB.....then we are in for a rough year and might end up 5-7.

If I take off my Kelly Green glasses I move Montana to a 3 and USD to a 4. I think we are capable of winning those games at home though. Will need some Alerus Center love on those games. I think our fan base will be pretty pumped for those two games, especially the Montana game.

I would think the OC would be the primary and tell head coach who he thinks it should be but HC makes final decision. Saying that in this case because Bubba was defensive coach. If Fruend became head coach, I'm thinking he would be the main one, but OC would still of course give their input. In the end the HC always makes final decisions on who starts.

Hagen is #3 on this list https://www.si.com/college/fcs/projecting-top-25-most-impactful-fcs-football-transfers-in-2024?fbclid=IwY2xjawEtwwVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQOW-ktKXJZq-ZzUfjM-o1rtzN5FbQkfLL8IHF7URXcnlXiWSrd5xMLLUA_aem_1T_LNhDlJgkjK2ieOZJupA

The article does give me some optimism too about the Defensive. Man if we still had those 3 OL I think we could been cooking this year. Interesting take on thr QB, but I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing. Jerry is still relatively young, Trey has had some time in the program and when we first recruited him many thought he would be 'the guy'. Romfo just seems to be a winner and does what it takes to be successful. A good guy to have in the mix and I hope he sees more live action this year where he is running the full offense to see what he can do in a game situation....even if it's in mop up duty. Good questions and great article by Tom!

These new green tops.....with white pants and our green helmet....that's what I'm looking forward to seeing......that's ND football. I still like the all black look and the Grey helmet combination with things sometimes, but I miss seeing the traditional look of a nice clean green top with white pants.

Best looking green tops we've had in a while IMO. I'm guessing we will be breaking these out for the Montana game.

It moved but looked to me like he had his hand unde the ball and it didn't touch the ground. Would need a better slowmo angle to be sure either way. Agree though good chance may hsve gotten ruled incomplete though initially.

Unless Romfo is head and shoulders above the other two, I don't think he gets named as the starter and I do think him being a PWO vs what are thought of as more highly touted guys, does subconsciously play a factor in that even though it may not be fair. Since the new OC wasn't involved in recruiting any of them though he may be more open to it. If Romfo doesn't end up being the starter, at least if he gets in the could run the regular offense and have him throw some so the defenses couldn't just stack the box against him running only. If his passing is pretty close to on par with they other two, and he is a much better runner....might be hard to keep him off the field. If we are down by 20 at half in the first game and not looking great on offense I hope they give the next guy, or the next two guys a shot to see what they can do in a game.

So does this mean Montana doesn't have a QB?

I would probably agree with this. If Romfo is #2 you can say goodbye in the portal to whomever is #3. Which if Jerry ends up #1 and Trey #2, I'd say most likely Trey hits the portal anyway. I'm sure he'd like to play somewhere than just be a backup his entire college career.

Who in the MVFC do you see finishing ahead of them other than SDSU? I'd be pretty surprised if they don't finish at least #2 in the MVFC.

Sounds about right. Thinking we will be lucky if we keep them under 24 by halftime.

Sounds like he has been connecting on some passes. Will be interesting if they put him in for some run packages at all this year. If they do end up doing that, seems like would be primed to maybe throw a deep ball and catch them off guard. So anxious to see how our offense is going to look with a new QB....whomever it is.

Agree. I think they will be good....just not as good as they are being touted right now though. They got throttled by NDSU at home once NDSU was on a roll. They also got beat at home by 34 against SDSU. Think need to pump the breaks just a little on USD.

If a guy who started many games last year is #8 this year, to me that means have some pretty good depth.You definitely can argue the quality of that depth though. Sounds to me like 8 pretty reliable guys, however no proven playmaker other than Bo. I recall that from last year too about Nate, he started the first half of the year but I don't think he had a catch until like game 6 or something. We need some playmakers....I'm totally good with letting some of the younger guys get in there to see what they can do. Dennis was supposed to be our speed guy, but we haven't actually seen that much out of him. Maybe QB with stronger arm this year will change things a bit....we'll see.It would be nice if Deng is finally the guy with size, speed, and athletic ability that we've been looking for....and the type of WR's we've hated to play against in the past.

Miller did say there were two badly thrown balls that were picked off, but he didn't say who threw them. Hopefully neither Trey or Jerry.

Our WR room is sounding very very deep. Lots of good options for either Jerry or Trey. Awesome news about the Defensive transfers looking good. I'm definitely starting to get excited for the season and to see how some of these new guys perform, particularly QB. It's sounding like they are both looking good, and even Romfo. If it's pretty even, man would be a tough choice. They might both need to see some live action to really be able to tell which one stands out.

Don't think I've heard Kliens name in Any of Miller's write ups. Hopefully he is fully healthy, seems like he was always dinged up. With a year under his belt at TE Q might turn into a solid recieving threat for us this year, sounds like he's had some red zone TD's.

If we hadnt lost 3 OL to the portal, my realistic expectation for an upset would be higher than it is. We have 8 returning starters on the entire team, a QB who has never started and/or never played a snap of college football and 4 OL making their first start against a pretty good FBS team. I'm hoping for a shock the world type of game and a win. But also looking to see if it looks like we have the players/athlete's and team that can compete at a high level. Also, can they make plays and overcome adversity when get put into a tough spot.

Klien over/under 15 receptions for the season this year? Last year he had 6, maybe should put the over/under at 10.