2024 UND Football

[geaux_sioux]

Once again a bubba led team is not ready to go for a road game. It’s truly remarkable.

[fightingsioux4life]

36 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

Once again a bubba led team is not ready to go for a road game. It’s truly remarkable.

And yet, we keep giving him contract extensions. 

How long are we supposed to wait for this program to "turn the corner"?

[geaux_sioux]

Just to keep things balanced are we going to blame getting physically destroyed on the strength coach? Not against the new guy in any way fwiw.

[Irish]

33 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

And yet, we keep giving him contract extensions. 

How long are we supposed to wait for this program to "turn the corner"?

Bubba will always be Bubba - he is incapable of change - this is squarely on Chaves.

[gfhockey]

There goes all the excitement for und football especially with hockey starting

[fightingsioux4life]

37 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

There goes all the excitement for und football especially with hockey starting

And hockey didn't exactly light the world on fire last night either.

[UND1983]

1 hour ago, geaux_sioux said:

Just to keep things balanced are we going to blame getting physically destroyed on the strength coach? Not against the new guy in any way fwiw.

No, but if we tail off at the end of season and look like the living dead then yes we will

[CMSioux]

2 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:

Just to keep things balanced are we going to blame getting physically destroyed on the strength coach? Not against the new guy in any way fwiw.

Asking for a friend, can a strength coach turn things around in six months? 

[Longtime fan]

Let’s be honest.  It doesn’t  matter what und has for facilities or strength coach or player personal….etc.   Bubba is going to bubba.  11 years of proof.  Can’t win meaningful games on the road and can’t win playoff games.  Yay!!???  Let’s go beat the Idaho states and Murray states of the world…end up with 6-7 wins and call it a moral victory season.

 

 With how weak the fcs is…being in the top 20 means squat.  Only 4 teams have a yearly chance of the championship.  As I mentioned after the Ndsu game …Ndsu is not much this year ….nothing special but the fcs is a joke so they are an automatic semi team.  Fcs would be wise to have a top 10 ranking system only and a 16 team playoff field.  The rest is a complete waste of time.  
 

With bubba…Und is as average at it gets.  There should be no way !!!!!! ….that und isnt competing for a title every year.  Ndsu sdsu Montana st and Montana get it.  Und promotes and extends average.  Winning a playoff game should be a requirement for an extension imo. But Und just extends for reasons unkown 

 

[geaux_sioux]

2 hours ago, CMSioux said:

Asking for a friend, can a strength coach turn things around in six months? 

They can have an effect but I’ve already said it takes 3 years min to see the true effects of the new guy and really more like 8 so you have a full roster of guys that had only him as a strength coach in college.

[The Sicatoka]

Massey: 8 (down 2)
Sagarin: 5 (up 2?) <- Dak4 are 1-2-3-5

[UND1983]

So……we staring right down the barrel of yet another 7-5 season?

[Siouxperfan7]

History tells me that we win out next 3 games and lose the next 3 after that.  Hope I am proved wrong and we can knock off at least one of the Sodak schools at home. 8-4 is the low bar set now for the rest of the year.  Anything short of that would be a major disappointment.

[UND1983]

That was exhausting from a standpoint of our "hopes" were so high but reality kicked in, again.  The thing is our die-hard fanbase is big enough that it doesn't matter to the AD. Attendance is up (due to the 4 wins) and that is all that matters because it means things must be going alright. Which is the state of the program for the last 17 years - alright.  

[fightingsioux4life]

1 hour ago, UND1983 said:

That was exhausting from a standpoint of our "hopes" were so high but reality kicked in, again.  The thing is our die-hard fanbase is big enough that it doesn't matter to the AD. Attendance is up (due to the 4 wins) and that is all that matters because it means things must be going alright. Which is the state of the program for the last 17 years - alright.  

I get what you are saying, but that means in order to induce change at the top of the FB program, the die-hard and loyal supporters need to stop going to games?

I am all for making sacrifices that will pay off in the future, but it is insane that it comes to that.

[nd1sufan]

1 hour ago, Siouxperfan7 said:

History tells me that we win out next 3 games and lose the next 3 after that.  Hope I am proved wrong and we can knock off at least one of the Sodak schools at home. 8-4 is the low bar set now for the rest of the year.  Anything short of that would be a major disappointment.

Haven’t looked at your schedule but I don’t foresee beating either SD school. 

[fightingsioux4life]

Just now, nd1sufan said:

Haven’t looked at your schedule but I don’t foresee beating either SD school. 

I could say the same thing about your team and SDSU.

[SIOUXFAN97]

2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

Massey: 8 (down 2)
Sagarin: 5 (up 2?) <- Dak4 are 1-2-3-5

send this to fenton so he can send to the people over in the "valley"

[F'n Hawks]

3 minutes ago, nd1sufan said:

Haven’t looked at your schedule but I don’t foresee beating either SD school. 

Only thing is that they are both at home, with likely big crowds. Prior history suggests on the road we would have no chance, but you never know in the Alerus Center.

[GoodGood]

Somehow stay in the top 10 after that performance. The FCS is hotdog water 

[Dustin]

Maybe the reverse of last year will happen.  Instead of a blowout victory over NDSU leading to a collapse, the blowout defeat will be a turnaround.  Lots of things in UND's favor yet: a bye week at a strategic time, weak road opponents, high profile home games.  Still hoping for 9-3 (or better).

[F'n Hawks]

5 minutes ago, GoodGood said:

Somehow stay in the top 10 after that performance. The FCS is hotdog water 

After the top 5 it is a crapshoot

[nd1sufan]

27 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

I could say the same thing about your team and SDSU.

I don’t disagree. I don’t think NDSU will win at USD either.

[UND1983]

34 minutes ago, nd1sufan said:

Haven’t looked at your schedule but I don’t foresee beating either SD school. 

have you seen our team in the Alerus Center?  There is ALWAYS a chance

[UND1983]

39 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

I get what you are saying, but that means in order to induce change at the top of the FB program, the die-hard and loyal supporters need to stop going to games?

I am all for making sacrifices that will pay off in the future, but it is insane that it comes to that.

Lets think for a sec - how does change come about in college athletics?  Apathy, losing, loss of revenue, declining interest, donors checking out......

I am not saying they NEED to stop going to games, it just happens. And right now it isn't happening.