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EWU also has a horrible defense that couldn’t even stop Western Illinois…… embarrassing day for the MVFC! i would be just as disappointed as am I now (or even more) if we would have lost in the first round this year like USD, MoSt, or UNI……

What if we finish the season 7-4 next year and lose in the second round of the playoffs ? Clean house and fire everyone or extend Bubba? Seriously ????? USD and Missouri St both lost their first round matchups today. That easily could have been us and you still would whine…… and those fan bases better call for a coaching change too! Championships or bust!!!!!

Wow what an embarrassment. I should have spend my time and money supporting the football team because this hockey team is awful. We cannot be blown out by a crappy team at home especially when it’s a rivalry game.

Lingering hamstring injuries are the worst, really easy to re aggravate those injuries and then you are back to square one. Players also do a balancing act when trying to play with it because you want that quick pop off the line but that’s when the hamstring is the most prone to injury/pain. Maag was not his true self and I’m sure this is not the way he wanted his last season to go. He got snubbed in preseason picks this year and he has some legit talent. Hopefully he can have a comeback year and show the Valley what he is made of!

The Dakota teams (except for NDSU) are the Vikings of the FCS……. But the Big Sky also chokes when playing big games against the MVFC so we will see what happens!

It’s complete BS, FCS schools should demand a change. The MVFC schools have absolutely been screwed with the bracket. I don’t care about regionalism, it should be the best teams playing the worst so that the best teams can make it as far as possible . SDSU, Cal Davis, UNI, EWU, NDSU, USD, SIU all were completely screwed over and each should have had a cupcake FCS team to play in the first round. The playoffs are so lowly rating because of this poor bracketing. I’m glad UND didn’t get in and have to play an EWU first round. Not fair for any Big Sky or MVFC team because they don’t play powder puff football all year! The FCS needs to get away from this D2 mentality!

Well someone talked to him after last season about being too conservative on 4th downs. I don’t recall one 4th down in the 2019 or 2020 season where we went for it on an optional 4th down play and we always punted. this season we finally saw Bubba grow a pair and go for it on more 4th downs than we probably should have. He risked it in the wrong situations and that bite us. I also think there was still some we punted that were more ideal situations than others so the decision making needs to get better. I don’t think Bubba is unwilling to change and I also doubt that people close to the program are having their concerns ignored by Bubba.

NDSU’s second round matchup will be much tougher than their quarterfinal. I see Montana or JMU going to thE dome for the semis

Our punter!

NDSU got screwed with their guaranteed MVFC match up in the second round. This NCAA preference to regionalize match ups does not recognize how garbage the FCS is outside of the Big Sky and MVFC. USD and SIU also go screwed because they would wipe half of the playoff field

Although I wanted to win this game and make the playoffs this season I don’t think we had a championship caliber team that could have went all the way. Yeah I wanted to make a deep playoff run but this team could lose in the couple first rounds. Dumping this coaching staff would dump everything this program has built up. We have really good players and recruits that we are on the cusp of building a championship team with. We CANT afford to start over from scratch! We learned many lessons this season and developed depth that will help us tremendously in the next season. Thank you seniors for bringing excitement to my life again this fall. It’s truly been an honor to watch you guys play the past seasons and I wouldn’t trade anything else other than to be a UND football fan!

I accept that we needed to retire the Sioux logo but it’s replacement sucks! Just because we don’t like the new logo doesn’t mean we all don’t want to move on from the old one. This transition would have gone over better if we had a cool, catchy, unique logo. Instead we got another dumb bird logo and one of the worst ones to boot!

When I wore Sioux logos when traveling everyone knew what the logo was and got shout outs from lots of people. Now when traveling with a Fighting Hawks logo I get more comments about the logo being the Philadelphia Eagles than it being UND……. It’s a shame we went from something recognizable and unmistaken to something non memorable, not noticeable, not unique . Seriously our name and logo sucks

Maybe you should complain about the other teams that don’t have that ugly logo displayed front and center of their uniforms? BB has the Hawks logo where on their jersey? the Fighting Hawks logo is embarrassing so I can see why programs don’t want it anywhere in their uni. Maybe the Hawks logo and name is not a good seller when compared to apparel with just North Dakota on it. Nodaks is a throwback name our university once used in the past so I see no reason why it can’t be on an alternate Jersey. The only reason the fighting Hawks was chosen was because of the word “fighting”, there is nothing special about Hawks and we no longer have a unique brand. maybe our new president should right the ship!

I didn’t think that about Utah State after they lost to Boise. They have been on a roll since losing their two games. They have a talented squad that should roll the Cowboys easily this weekend

Lease of the Betty is probably why our budget is so high

Well their program is pretty inferior……. Also I thought they are a football school and not a basketball school? They need to step up their spending on basketball instead of FB if they want to move up to a mid major conference!

Brian Shawn with the call on Midco? If so good to see him calling game back at his alma mater!

UND needs to switch conferences…… jk

SDSU is still ranked higher than USD after losing to them. I still have a hard time believing that SDSU gets left out of the playoffs if they lose to UND next week. They are not going to drop 12 spots…….

How is this the best offensive personnel that we have seen? Good athletes but definitely not elite. We may have one of the best defenses ever this year I will agree. As for special teams this has to be an below average squad. Not sure I can take your posts seriously anymore if you really think is is one of the most talented UND squads ever……

Since when is Massey and Sagarin ratings not a worthy ranking system? The team to the south uses it all the time to justify how good their team is so if it is good enough for them then it’s good enough for me! UND is 119 in the Sagarin above many teams in the FCS poll

Have you seen their Sagarin rating? 69 SDSU f…….s they look better than the bottom half of the top 25! FCS is a soft PUD league

It would be a shame if SDSU doesn’t make the playoffs even with a loss next week. They are literally one of the top teams in the country and if the playoff field doesn’t include them why play in such a tough conference if that isn’t considered. I’m my opinion the MVFC deserves at least 5 teams if not 6. The bottom half of the top 25 are not impressive at all.

The FCS as a whole is pretty soft. A 6-5 record in the MVFC is comparable to a 8-3 record in a soft conference. There is still a chance but I agree it isn’t very big.