not me

Transfer portal with the new coach is going to make for an eventful winter.

So, North Dakota ball?

Frost is a bottom 5 power 5 coach, an average coach will have better results and have us bowling every year if we can maintain top 25 recruiting, which I think we can with "NIL"

Thank god Frost is terrible and not just mediocre. We'd be doomed to him for a decade plus.

The easier schedule this year was one of the main reasons I wanted a Frost gone last year. Would have been a good opportunity for a new coach to reach a bowl game and start building success. Too bad we wasted it and another year of our lives.

Concerns on both lines were accurate

Thanks for working it out. I figured it was possible, but hadn't done the work to draw up a possible schedule. I like getting a repeatable schedule like this because it lets us play everyone regularly and have opportunities to go to away games against all the teams in the conference as a fan. You can rework the groupings for the 8 alternative teams every 4 years after you get a full set of Home-Away as well.

Interesting, I'd think they'd still rather have 9 games than 8 though. Also those non permanent teams you still see every other year or 2 out of 4, so they'd get the less common match ups just as often still.

I saw a lot of talk about the 3-5-5 model, wouldn't a 5-4-4 model also be possible if they want to keep 9 conference games? You'd get a lot more permanent match ups and the TV contracts would still be happy with the 9 games.

The boosters wanting to keep Frost more than win also struck a big blow to my hopes that we will ever be relevant again. They definitely want the gold old days back more than they want to do what it takes to compete now.

It'd be tied for the best season in the last 5 years.

I feel pretty decent about the off season additions, so I'm feeling a little more optimistic. Thinking 5-7 at this point.

Iowa is terrible at running the ball as well. This is us sucking more than it being a strength for them.

I think people in general are more delusional than dishonest. Also, 3 isn't exactly right though for how a lot of people feel. They care about winning, they just care more about the good old boy being coach.

BOGO season tickets

Booing the refs was the peak crowd involvement. Says a lot about how things are going.

I was there Saturday as well and you are crazy. That was the worst crowd I've seen when the game wasn't a blowout. It didn't get loud until the 4th quarter, because no one was willing to believe they would be able to pull it off.

Michigan St has the worst pass defense in the country...

78 trying to pull down Stille.

Martinez with the reach the wrong direction lol

Why is the clock stopped so long there? Whatever, lets get another field goal at least.

Yeah, pretty crazy they didn't call it when he's pulling our guy to the ground from behind.

Yes, it shows the run blocking being completely average, not terrible. Our RB production isn't good though. Maybe points some of that problem towards the RB and not all on the O-Line. The s#!t pass protection though definitely gives some props to Adrian for producing at all.

This looks like a pretty big indictment of the running back room as well.

Nullifying his contract and not paying Frost is how we destroy our chances of hiring a good coach. Simply firing him because he's been s#!t won't really hurt our chances. He's had time, but didn't get the job done. Easier schedule also sounds good for a new coach like others have mentioned. Chance for them to get off to a strong start.