2017 Season

[Sioux_FF]

FWIW, I received this email this morning and did the survey.   Lot of questions on how to improve tailgating and the game experience. 

[ChrisUND1]

Great to see UND picked to win it.  Bubba and staff will keep them grounded.  This has the potential to be a very special team.

[homer]

1 hour ago, the green team said:

A 31 person committee? Really?   I honestly am very skeptical of any committee larger than 6 to 10 people.  Anything larger just shouts to me that it will get bogged down in never ending discussion.   Also, what I see here is most likely a lot of people who will have some big ideas.  That's excellent! Big ideas are great and some of these people are successful because of their ideas, however, ideas are one thing and implementation is another and often tied to having the dollars to do it.  Last time I checked we have very few dollars to implement things with the new budget UND and Athletics have.  Hopefully, they can be super creative or those on the committee who have the where-with-all can aid with the dollars necessary when it comes to implementing.  Because often is the case you have to spend money to make money, but the sad reality right now from my understanding is that there is little or no money to spend.  Not sure how they get around that one at this point in time.

Super pumped to see the pre-season polls.  It's great to see that this program has arrived to the point that it has the target on it's back.  Now let's take the next step and handle being the team that is being the hunted.

 

Some of the changes they could make would require more effort than they would money. 

[Siouxperfan7]

2 hours ago, Teeder11 said:

For what it's worth:

UND Today is out with a new story about the Game Day Experience Committee, which met yesterday.

http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2017/07/fan-tastic-experience/

Long overdue, but very glad they are taking it seriously.  Football is a big time college sport and needs to be treated as such.  Including UND.  Looking forward to the improvements.  #bubbabrand

[Longtime fan]

5 hours ago, Teeder11 said:

Wayne Nelson reports UND picked to win conference by both coaches and media polls.  Now let's prove them right!

 Being a life long UND football fan, it's great to have the off season anticipation and excitement around the program again.  It is now up to the young men and their coaches to keep progressing. Thank you thank you thank you Bubba!!!  Job well done. 

 

I was looking through the top predicted teams and their conference games.   This year could be a real mess with the unbalanced schedules.  Five teams could potentially go 7-1 in the big sky. Here is each teams predicted one loss:

1. Und : @ Montana 

2. e wash: @ UND 

3. n zona: @ Montana 

4. cal poly: n zona

5. Montana: e wash. 

Not going to say it will happen but it is very plausible.  

Make it easy UND.  8-0!!  

[Sioux94]

Man I really, really, REALLY want to beat EWU and Montana this year to shut those fan bases up a little bit. 

[TBR]

22 minutes ago, Sioux94 said:

Man I really, really, REALLY want to beat EWU and Montana this year to shut those fan bases up a little bit. 

Amen.

 

[UNDColorado]

26 minutes ago, Sioux94 said:

Man I really, really, REALLY want to beat EWU and Montana this year to shut those fan bases up a little bit. 

100%

[GoHawks]

25 minutes ago, Sioux94 said:

Man I really, really, REALLY want to beat EWU and Montana this year to shut those fan bases up a little bit.

They're really bad mouthing UND on Facebook (FCS Football Fans Nation). Hope the boys can shut them up this season.

[Sioux94]

1 minute ago, GoHawks said:

They're really bad mouthing UND on Facebook (FCS Football Fans Nation). Hope the boys can shut them up this season.

Yep, I'm on that FB group.....and all of them are squawking about how we aren't the real deal and avoided them last year blah blah blah.  Then of course a few NDSU fans have to jump in and comment too.  

[gundy1124]

 

3 hours ago, the green team said:

A 31 person committee? Really?   I honestly am very skeptical of any committee larger than 6 to 10 people.  Anything larger just shouts to me that it will get bogged down in never ending discussion.   Also, what I see here is most likely a lot of people who will have some big ideas.  That's excellent! Big ideas are great and some of these people are successful because of their ideas, however, ideas are one thing and implementation is another and often tied to having the dollars to do it.  Last time I checked we have very few dollars to implement things with the new budget UND and Athletics have.  Hopefully, they can be super creative or those on the committee who have the where-with-all can aid with the dollars necessary when it comes to implementing.  Because often is the case you have to spend money to make money, but the sad reality right now from my understanding is that there is little or no money to spend.  Not sure how they get around that one at this point in time.

Super pumped to see the pre-season polls.  It's great to see that this program has arrived to the point that it has the target on it's back.  Now let's take the next step and handle being the team that is being the hunted.

 

The break out between tailgating, in game experience, and the Alerus center itself brings each sub committee to around 10 persons, that's my understanding.

I hope they do well.

[Nodak78]

Another broadcast sports besides Root TV

 

http://bigskyconf.com/news/2017/7/18/general-eleven-sports-sports-to-broadcast-big-sky-conference-sports.aspx

 

[Big Green]

18 minutes ago, GoHawks said:

They're really bad mouthing UND on Facebook (FCS Football Fans Nation). Hope the boys can shut them up this season.

It's almost like they think UND put there comference schedule together themselves.  The whole avoiding Montana thing is laughable. I had respect for E. Washington until resently, now I hope they kick there ass mostly to shut them up.

 

[UNDColorado]

35 minutes ago, Sioux94 said:

Yep, I'm on that FB group.....and all of them are squawking about how we aren't the real deal and avoided them last year blah blah blah.  Then of course a few NDSU fans have to jump in and comment too.  

Montana avoided us last year. We only missed Eastern.

[UNDColorado]

9 minutes ago, Big Green said:

It's almost like they think UND put there comference schedule together themselves.  The whole avoiding Montana thing is laughable. I had respect for E. Washington until resently, now I hope they kick there ass mostly to shut them up.

 

Agree 100%

[homer]

My opinion is EWU is in for a long year.  You don't replace he three WR they did and two OCs.  They could surprise me but I predict 6-5

[Sioux94]

51 minutes ago, homer said:

My opinion is EWU is in for a long year.  You don't replace he three WR they did and two OCs.  They could surprise me but I predict 6-5

I am hoping EWU beats NDSU, but with all of the changes they may have some growing pains early in the year where as NDSU will come out of the gate fast to start the year like they always seem to do.  As much as that last regular season game of the year against EWU will be extra exciting because it will likely have a lot riding on it, it might have been nicer to catch them earlier in the year when they are still figuring some things out.  Regardless, we still have to win that EWU game.  I hope our OL is rolling by then and we are putting up a lot of points and chewing lots of clock. 

[Longtime fan]

1 hour ago, homer said:

My opinion is EWU is in for a long year.  You don't replace he three WR they did and two OCs.  They could surprise me but I predict 6-5

They will have the exact offensive system. OC is head coach and they had two 3 star wr recruits this year plus two very talented WRs  waiting ther turn to shine. I see very small drop in wr production. Simply reload.  I think they lose only one OL too.  UND will pressure the !@#$ out of gubrud and make him beat them with his legs. UNDs backers are extremely fast and hopefully own the outside with aggressive play calling by Schmitty and house full of crazies.  

[AJS]

Anyone know when Bubba is going to release the pre-fall depth chart? It was released right before the Big Sky kickoff last year. 

[darell1976]

6 hours ago, Sioux94 said:

Yep, I'm on that FB group.....and all of them are squawking about how we aren't the real deal and avoided them last year blah blah blah.  Then of course a few NDSU fans have to jump in and comment too.  

Good, let them bash us. They don't like newbies coming in and rise to the top so quick. They saw us as a laughing stock early on and last year Bubba shut them up. This year coaches are showing our program respect with the polls, they see us as the real deal while their fan base still see us as the 3-8, blowout team of 2013. As for Bison fans, that's just normal for them.

[Irish]

I'd love to get season tickets this year, but the later starts don't work for me - why is it still impossible to get start times from the Athletic Dept?  Other schools (Bison for ex) don't seem to have this trouble.  What gives?

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

41 minutes ago, Irish said:

I'd love to get season tickets this year, but the later starts don't work for me - why is it still impossible to get start times from the Athletic Dept?  Other schools (Bison for ex) don't seem to have this trouble.  What gives?

Do the opposing teams know what time they play at the Hawk's Nest this season?

[Sioux04]

8 hours ago, Sioux94 said:

Yep, I'm on that FB group.....and all of them are squawking about how we aren't the real deal and avoided them last year blah blah blah.  Then of course a few NDSU fans have to jump in and comment too.  

An EWU fan commented that she couldn't wait for them to pound us into the ground.  Haha.  Their fans are starting to creep to the level of Griz fans.

[UND-FB-FAN]

Frisco or bust.

NOTHING wrong with confidence and high expectations. That should be/now is the standard for UND football.

Bubba, his staff, and the student-athletes have done a tremendous job over the past three plus years. 

Make 2017 a special, special year. Work hard and get it done. The respect for UND football observed today from the Big Sky Conference was earned the right way, as we all remember the Conference thinking the exact opposite of UND only a year or two ago. UND now needs to earn national respect, and Bubba and his program need to go about that the same way. I have confidence that UND football under Bubba will reach the pinnacle sooner rather than later.

Go UND Fighting Hawks

[Sioux94]

7 minutes ago, Sioux04 said:

An EWU fan commented that she couldn't wait for them to pound us into the ground.  Haha.  Their fans are starting to creep to the level of Griz fans.

Yeah a I think a handful of those loudmouth Griz fans posting all of the time, is starting to rub off on them.  I hope if we get and stay in the upper echelon of FCS we don't also end up with a handful of dbag fans like Montana and NDSU that think their sh*t doesn't stink and like to rip on/post on social media about other programs without even being provoked.