Parkers Pros

Unfortunately sometimes scorched earth is a good way to get rid of blight. Turning over the roster, even a good one, if not totally bought in to your system, means it’s time to move on. New coach has been successful at each level. Let him bring in his team. Next couple yrs might be tough. But let’s see what he can do. Change usually brings energy..

Anybody make it to the practice today?

Anyone else having trouble with the Defensive Preview on UND360? Coming up with an error 404 on the page?

Offensively we need a ton of help….. We scare nobody..

It’s funny to hear Looker trying to be diplomatic. But the tone and Hennessey’s voice, you can’t mistake that. He is not hiding his disdain..

Nice size at the safety position on the team now. Like it so far?

I think he was Danny’s neighbor growing up. Would be tough to pry away but who knows.

I think both coach and player driven. If you are good, fit the scheme, fit the culture and consistently perform, have drive and have an upward trajectory, meet or exceed expectations, I am guessing you will be staying. If you do not check most or all of those boxes, on the fringe at all, you know it as a player and you should probably start looking. Speed kills. But I am not only saying it in a running sense. Making the right decisions quickly and deliberately is just as important. And not quickly making difficult decisions quickly can be just as deadly to leaders, coaches and programs as a whole! New coaches, new approaches, new culture, and yes, some new players.

It won’t surprise me to see a dozen or more hit the portal. If we retain our current OC, he is going to continue to bring in “his type of guys”! We need a lot on defense so could get really busy.

Coach is going at it like he is not leaving regardless and needs to get “his” guys when they are available. I am pretty sure that is what we want any of our coaches to do. I’d like to see some offers for a 300 lb nose and a couple 280lb defensive ends..

I think the admin likes him. I think they are looking for a defensive coach and they retain him. Offense was really not our issue especially once he gets his own players in place he may have a chance here along with Olson…

We have some key recruits and some key people we do not want to lose. I see the OC as an interim an endorsement of him keeping his job and getting an upgrade at DC since Schwenzie was the more tenured coach regardless of who is hired. It shows me also they are hopefully looking for a defensive minded coaching staff as the current staff’s defense was just not good enough. I like proven culture guys. The SDSU / NDSU people in the chat here are all on my list. We talk culture here, those places live it. We need people that know it & bring that here up to and including recruiting. I heard that the visit experience at UND is exactly where we stand in regards to current standings with other DKota schools. 4th best at best. This direct from a recruit parent who had a kid make visits to several. Positives here were the facilities and school was nice. The biggest negative was the amount of care by the staff to the visitors. Involvement, or lack there of, by coaches. They felt more wanted and they had more activities and the programs just seemed more organized and next level. We want to win, we need to win there first.

We got out worked, out hustled. Look like we ate too much turkey and still half asleep. O’Mac, Jadon, Kunz, I think were still sleeping. That 5 min was a terrible penalty to take. Jake Liv’s penalty was a terrible penalty. We look so un-disciplined and that is a coaching issue. We need our upper classman to step up. We need to stop talking about our culture and start showing it!

Too bad. Good guy. I’m sure he wants to play. Lots of talent around him. Olson will be bringing in his guys now too so if the writing is on the wall, may as well pull stakes and get started! Good luck to him!

These are not the OC’s QB’s. This is a RPO offense. Romfo showed the best control in the offense early. . Jerry is young. He will get the opportunity to beat Simon out. This year the OC can recruit his guys both through the portal and new coming in. Actually he has his QB coming in as a true freshman. I agree on the Moorhead connection. Mixed bag. We need defense. Defense at all levels. Front 7 mostly we need guys to develop and hit some in the portal. Control the line of scrimmage and get to the QB.

We are doing it to ourselves. TJ needs to aggressively cover there. Also seemed slow getting to the post on the 2nd goal, Stupid penalties are killing us. We are definitely missing Zmolek. Dane is doing his best but.Our defense is not where we need it right now.

Was that the worst video intro or what..

Anyone here anything on why Gavin has been used so little the past several weeks?

Well the one perk about UND is we need everything so instant PT would be a perk..

Are they reviewing something for after the end of the period with Emery

I was personally excited for Trey. However, you gotta win the job. There is competition, that’s great. That’s what we want, best man wins, not best potential wins.

We do not have great energy right now. We look slow.

Is this game on any non-pay sites tonight?

Any Recruits at the game today?

Offensively I think Simon has to have his best game. Need Sawyer to make big plays both on kick offs to shorten the field and some long runs. And just get a meat and potatoes day out of our other two running backs. They do and we control the time of possession. Would also be a good time to see our tight ends get more involved in the offense. It seems like they were trying a little bit more last week. Lastly need to see Caden Dennis or Nate D get loose after Bo opens some space for them as a decoy to run under one. How about a Kory Tai, don’t know how to spell his name, package for this game. Defensively we need to stay disciplined. We need to tackle in space. We cannot allow Cam Miller to take the game over with his legs. Stopping them will be difficult at home. But if we can hold them to some field goals that keeps us in the game, waiting for those opportunities to make a big play either with a turnover or two or with a special teams play. We need a big day out of our defense line. If they help control the line of scrimmage, we have a legit shot. I think it’s gonna be a tall task to win in Fargo, but I feel better about this team doing it than any other since they’ve gone division one.