Sioux>Bison

This is why SDSU is not moving up to the FBS, no desire in that fan base…… Honestly sad for a playoff team during the most important time of the season. most years I don’t desire to watch Sioux hockey until the games that truly matter like the playoff games because there is one thing that matters…… championships, regular season record means nothing to be if we are playing good hockey at the time of making the tournament.

I’m sure that if they were actually reported there would be no way UND would cover it up for a football player. Something will come out if this was actually reported

What if no G5 or P5 school offers him a scholarship? Will a desperate team pick him up? Will he try and walk on somewhere? Will he enjoy riding the bench if he can’t get a starting job? What if all he can get is other FCS offers? I hope it works out for him but nothing is guaranteed!

Spencer Rattler

Man hard to turn down a Nebraska scholarship offer if it was me !

Eric Schmidt should do Nelson a favor before he leaves for Washington and shoot him an offer to Fresno St. Wouldn’t be a bad idea really.

As long as he maintains his speed. Didn’t hurt Santiago being lighter!

Nice good luck to him, hard to knock a guy that wants to play in the FBS! sounds like from his post he wanted to get closer to home. Also looks like former UND coach Gigli recruited him

It’s a good thing that Weah is leaving if he is truly a distraction. If he didn’t want to play by the rules he won’t be missed. He has no reason to be unhappy with UND. His ego is blinding him right now. Smith showed what he can do behind this year’s “struggling” OL. Honestly we have a stacked backfield with plenty of depth

When do we worry about Holinka getting poached? Another good year?

Is he going with? Or staying ? Either way gonna get a nice bump!

Weah- if you look at his social media you can see what his attitude is……me, me, me. Maybe he is leaving because he sees less playing time in his future with a stacked backfield. Ziebarth and Smith make weah leaving much more tolerable and these guys are as good in different ways. I do see him leaving as a lack of character because of all the work UND put into him to help get him where he is at. He needs a slice of humble pie and maybe he can get that going to Minnesota. A team will have to consider his baggage; ball security, catching the ball (better in 2021), potential legal issues, potential work ethic issues, etc…… How far does Weah want to move from his home? I do see Nelson and Robertson leaving because of Dixon coming in. We will gladly take them back if Dixon goes elsewhere. Dixon is coming to UND because of his playing time prospects and because of our top defensive play. He could go to a better team but have the potential to sit longer. I would love to see any of our transfers play FBS but are they good enough to get a scholarship offer? Guys that didn’t play much are not transferring because of Bubba and the coaching staff. They want to play! Most end up transferring down but some do transfers laterally or up so anything can happen. Starters that leave want bigger and better things. They want to play in the top FBS league to prove themselves or they want to transfer to a winning program that has the potential to contend for championships if they are stuck at a school they don’t see getting there. I would say not many starters leave just because they don’t get along with the coaching staff or don’t respect them.

What about that Rattler kid?

Gawd I would hope so, that team plays in the Sunbelt so it’s not like it is a much higher level of football…… is he a draft prospect?

It’s all your fault! Way to lose us players! Your negative attitude is toxic!

Are these guys disappointed they didn’t play much this season because of the super seniors that returned ? How much does this extra year of eligibility hurt us?

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!