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A few categories to consider on the path to 6-6. 3 - Win or shoot yourself in the head games - Idaho St at Home, San Diego at Home, Murray St. at Home. 1 - Tossup game - Indiana State on the Road 4 - Not likely but need 2 games - Griz at Home, UNI at Home, Coyotes at Home, Ill St. on the Road. 4 - No past indicators of a Victory games - Iowa St on the Road, NDSU on the Road, Youngstown on the Road, Jacks at Home.

I guess man-crush is a trigger and some here need a coloring book and safe space. I think most can see my posts are laced with humor and sarcasm. On a completely serious note, I am saddened with the direction of college FB and UND being one of the have-nots that can't compete in this environment.

Apparently young men that are left behind by their man-crush coach now have the right to do whatever they want. Newsflash, successful bosses and CEOs (most times) are not your friend. I don't think these man crushes are healthy. Man-crush Pawlak but fall into Danny's arms, got it.

I think this ages well. Unless you are a major player, maybe 10-15% of programs are, it's an awfully rough journey ahead and more athletes will be hurt than helped by the Wild West footings college football is on.

Imagine UND pulling a starting O-lineman from the Jacks or Montana.........it's not even on my list of possibilities. Imagine being on a team for a few years, being a starter, then abandoning that team for another in conference team........wasn't on my list of possibilities, but is now I guess. Sad thing is UND players probably had a going away party for him and they hugged and cried it out, 25 years ago probably throwing fists.

That would be in the plus category for me.......

Welcome aboard the UND Football Titanic, iceberg ahead.

That's the only one I was thinking.........

No rules NIL and the Portal has made a mockery of college football.

Mostly the NCAA. We can't babysit every single player 8 days a week to make sure they feel appreciated enough and compensated enough to stay at UND.

I haven't tapped any of my sources but I would bet on SDSU or $50,000 NLI from an FBS school. edit: I didn't think Pawlek was O-line coach at Griz, thought it was TE and Tackles, something hybrid with another coach that was Center/Guards. It appears now he is full O-line coach so Griz makes more sense to me now.

We can't keep a kid from Fordville, ND on the roster, holy crap.

If UND Football was a movie it would be Ground Hog's Day, some ups and downs and nuances throughout but we are stuck, over and over again we enter another off season with underwhelming talent, development, and coaching. On top of that when UND does develop a player that is recognized nationally the new normal is another school gives him $150,000 to transfer, edging out his next offer of $50,000 and pick of any truck on the lot. College football is lawless and declining. Big name Coaches are leaving. Soon FCS will be a pure development league for FBS. I understand the frustration with UND and with college football in general, hanging by a thread myself.

It's true, have heard this, and the numbers show it. As hard as some have been on Bubba, would all of you do the same?? Our coordinators are better paid than Bubba. The average of the top 3 HC's made $368,046. Bubba made 69.3% of this amount. The average of the top 3 OC's made $120,381. Danny made 86.4% of this amount. (If Bubba was at 86.4% like Danny, that would be another $63,000) The average of the top 3 DC's made $117,402. Joel made 75.3% of this amount. (not unreasonable for a 1st year DC) Is it a good long-term strategy to expect the HC to take less money AND pass all increases onto assistants?? Nope!! This is MVFC.

Good observation that I agree with but I think this is a shot we take, agree with the attempt.

Close!! I am skinnier and my strength coach resume is not good and my beard has some red, but not the shaved head. 3 out of 4 isn't bad!!

I have $20.00 that says he has a shaved head, is a little skinnier than Baukol, mostly red beard, and his resume is not impressive.

Heading into last season there was a false narrative that our Jets (uncoverable) along with 5th year gun Slinger Tommy Gun along with the O-line whisperer Pawlak were going to be impossible to stop. (except for big games on the road of course, Boise, UNI, USD, SDSU) The O-line couldn't pass protect that well and maybe it was lack of talent but I tend to believe it was more on the OC's system, Danny 'new Jack hustler' Freund where if it wasn't a dink-n-dunk you needed a 5 second pocket. Center snaps sucked all season too, didn't help. So all the hype wasn't lived up to. The 2024 narrative is currently the Titanic hit by a Nuke. If, and it's an (IMPORTANT IF) all the current players stick around and pull together it probably isn't as bad as it seems. With an administration lacking it's up to the new OC and players sticking together to give this thing we call 2024-25 UND football a chance.

I pretty much announced this a week ago.........(on the 24th)

College FB F'n sucks now. 1 year left to follow for family reasons then I am not wasting my time with this crap. Player and coach carousels is all it is. The FBS 12 team tournament will be interesting but besides that, CFB can burn itself down to the ground then only have themselves to blame.

Taking Rob Phenicie's position(most likely), who left for Bucknell to be OC. Griz position historically has been TE and Tackles.

I researched. Pronounced "Fricktee" (Fruechte) Everyone is Welcome!!

To take this job right now means the guy has a ton of confidence and that's a good thing. Not to pile on Jake........on 2nd thought why not. I was concerned with Jake because my sources also said he was a real dumb dumb in school, barely eligible type dumb dumb. I wonder about his confidence level in his home town, his alma mater, the fear of everything imploding on him and lots people saying, ya, we knew he was a dumb dumb.(6 dumbs in a post, might be a record)

Don't forget the team GPA!!

Chaves. I recall him pretty much burying the EWU Athletic Department and UND overlooked that little detail. Lots told me he is really impressive in person.....never saw nor felt that from him. And now this pissante is setting UND Football back atleast 3-4 years, likely longer.