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Agree on all of those as well. Feeney should be capable enough if Tommy goes down, so yes Tommy needs to run at least 3-6 times a game. Obviously Quincy is there too. It will be interesting to see who will be listed #2, Quincy or Feeney. Even if they list Quincy #2 and give him 5-6 snaps a game like they've done in the past when Tommy is healthy, I wonder if Tommy went down and was going to be out for 2-3 weeks or something......if they would then elevate Feeney as the starter as he is maybe more well rounded as a thrower. Hopefully a healthy Maag can help us stretch the field more this year, and maybe that true freshman who is supposed to be pretty fast.

For the last two seasons.....Weah seemed to somewhat be the emotional heartbeat of the team during the game. When he was rolling.....we were rolling. Will that shift to one of the other RB's......or who else might end up being that spark plug type of person for 2022?

We all know that each off season the younger guys have the potential to get better. However, honestly right after the end of last year....knowing Matt was leaving, I didn't think the other guys would improve enough to overcompensate for the loss of Waletzko to the point where we would be greatly improved as a whole on the OL. And I was thinking 2022 was going to be a lot of the same, struggling to run the ball when we really need to. However after getting a few transfers on the OL, and the other guys hopefully improving in the off season, I do at least have kelly green tinted glasses kind of hope....... and have some optimism that overall the OL will be improved this fall. If they are no better than last year, it will likely be a frustrating season once again.

We couldn't get a push and we seemed horrible at running the ball once we got in the red zone, which I think led Danny to use more of those types of plays than even he would normally want to do.

Yes, and we won't average -1 yard when we get 2nd and 2.

I'm always a little afraid when I see there are new posts on this thread, but this one is definitely great news!

Agree. Would have liked if he stayed however.

So it's not even being streamed anywhere then right?

Think I saw almost a little bit of an option play where Feeney pitched it out to the RB on the Facebook UND football story.

Can't imagine any school, even the UND hockey program gets to dictate the date of the Hall of Fame game, so that was already set. We had an open date on the football schedule that weekend that needed to be filled, should we have scheduled an away game that weekend instead of a home game and had one less home game?

The relationship with the coaching staff certainly is important. Bubba has been here 8 years....Fruend has been here since they were probably in diapers.....it has been stable. I have a hard time believing any recruit we get in this class would have chosen a different school if Bubba wouldn't have gotten a two year extension. Especially now with the transfer portal.

I hope so. I don't think Otis started starting until 5-6 games in his first full year playing. Will be curious to see what Ziebarth can do with some more carries this year.

It will be interesting to see if Smith is the starting RB for the first game. He seems to be the most dynamic back. Skokna is solid but from the little action we saw from Smith last year he looks like more of a playmaker than Skokna at RB. Wouldn't be surprised if they do what they normally do.....be safe an start Skokna. Then 5 games into the season...realize Smith is more dynamic and make him the starter. Either way I think a lot of RB's will rotate in and get carries. Hopefully Smith can stay healthy most of the year. That is the one thing about Otis, the kid was a rock in there.

Yeah I drove up for that game, was so damn ugly. But yeah glad it was as it finally got Rudolph fired. Never seen such a pathetic offense that had upper class men. Sad to see Brady and Santiago go out in that complete sh*t show of a game. If I recall, amazingly enough even after that pathetic performance it sounds like we were one of the last teams out. No matter if Freund doesn't call a perfect game, he is light years ahead of Rudolph and adapting.

If both Holinka and Freund are still there, I'm sure they would both want to move up to the head coach spot. Holinka has done a great job so far. Danny has had ups and downs, although I think a lot of the downs last fall were due to not being able to run the ball when we needed to, particularly in the red zone due to no push by the OL. If Bubba retired today, I think Freund would be the front runner but 4 years from now Holinka will have been our DC for 6 years. Let's hope by then they have both done so well that it would be a difficult decision.

Chaves apparently just has things on cruise control. He will make his 1 Million dollars over four years at UND and probably be gone by the time these contracts run out and moved on to the next school for his next paycheck. Would he have given an EWU football coach a 2 year extension after winning 1 playoff game in 8 years.......when there is still 2 years left on their existing contract?

A better solution to me was pretty easy, wait and see how the fall season goes before giving him extension. I am not a Bubba hater as there is enough of that already, I've defended him on the board a few times. However the facts are he has 1 playoff win in 8 years, and made one of the dumbest coaching decisions I've ever seen by going for it on 4th down against NDSU last year. I don't think he earned another contract extension when he still has two years left on his existing contract. What if we go 5-6 again this year, then we have 3 more years of that? If we make a playoff run this fall, give him the extension. This extension was premature in my opinion. It's my opinion and it's a fan board, I don't have to donate 750k to give my opinion, not referring to you on that one. For those saying for recruiting purposes, I could be wrong but I find it EXTREMELY unlikely a kid coming out of high school who wanted to come to UND and liked Bubba, would have decided not to come to UND just because Bubba was only under contract through the 2023 season.

Don't see why they couldn't have waited until we see how this fall season goes. I guess 1 playoff win in 8 years is enough.

Going into the fall I was hoping he'd come back next year. He is looking good though and it looks like he made the right choice, it's still a win for UND. Good luck to him.....we'll be watching. Been a while since we got to watch a UND guy in the NFL, need more of that.

No it's not 100% certain he would have done better, but I would absolutely bet we would have more than 1 playoff win in 9 years under Deboer. Bubba completely wasted 5 years with Rudy. We didn't have the 1983 Washington Redskins OL to run Rudy ball and make it work. At a minumum he kept Rudy 1-2 years too long. I can also pretty much guarantee Deboer wouldn't have run a fake punt QB sneak with 2 yards to go.....with the lead.....from his own 20 in a defensive battle...when the opponent was in a goaline defense. Deboer likely wouldn't be at where he is at if he came to UND. He would have spent at least probably 5 years or so at UND, then taken an FBS position somewhere. Fortunately for him he didn't get the job, pretty amazing how his career path ended up turning out after that. I agree though, you never know on the younger coaches......but in his case....we definitely missed out. I honestly don't know how it could be argued otherwise, and I'm not a Bubba hater.

Ok that's what I thought. But when he said.....would DeBoer accept the salary Bubba got....it made me question myself lol. Yes he would have accepted.....or why apply and keep yourself in the running down to the final 2.

I would think he wouldn't have applied if he wouldn't have accepted it, that would have looked dumb on his part. I'm sure it was quite a bit more than he was making at Sioux Falls. He might have already moved up to a better job by now though, but that also means we probably already had several deep playoff runs. Or did he not even apply? There is always so much talk about him, did people just want him but he never actually applied?

I believe it said minimum requirements was two years experience as an NCAA football coach. Pay was 45-48k

Is that the only NDSU player that entered the portal? Or is it less likely players would enter the portal right now because they would need to be enrolled in spring semester and it is kind of too late to get picked up so they would wait until end of semester?

In my opinion I think FBS should go to an 8 team playoff. There have been a couple of years there was quite a bit of debate about one or two teams that did not get in the top 4 and probably should have had a shot. The 8th seed is very unlikely to win but if a 5th seed plays a 4th seed I'd say that is almost 50/50 in most years as to who would win. If they were to go to 12 teams, I think they'd have to give the top 4 a buy so that there would be 8 teams in second round. I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to something like that, would make for some good first round games. I could see a #12 upsetting a #5 in the first round in that scenario. I wouldn't want it to get too watered down, but the nice thing about FCS and bigger playoff field is that it makes things a lot more interesting for a lot more teams right up until the final week of the season.