3 home games in November kinda blows, also no back to back weekends in Boone for games until the end of November also sucks. Positives are the bye week placements. Bye before Boise, bye before GaSo (Thurs), then because of GaSo being on a Thurs we have extra rest/prep for JMU. If we go 4-0 in games ...

Arkansas St and @ Southern Miss are our cross division matchups this year.

Arky has games Sept 13/20, Southern Miss is off the 13th. I wouldnt be surprised to see us @ Southern Miss on like a Thursday night the week of the 13th.

Offense has always been the Achilles heal for kerns’ teams

was hoping to see an upgrade at the safety position this off season

Wake will be a school that will struggle in football in this portal/NIL era but with Mitt Shah their hoops program should be better than what they have done so far under Forbes.

NIT every year shouldn't cut it

Oklahoma St had Gundy restructure his for the same reason

I believe we will see more and more schools over time divide their budget up. Instead of allocating 10 million dollars for a head coach salary, that number will go down to 6 with the remaining 4 million going to NIL for roster construction

What a home run hire at DC, the most important assistant position in my opinion too

I’d be willing to bet some of us would have been excited if Zach Arnett was announced as our next HC, and we have him as a coordinator!

Rekdiver wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 16, 2024 11:55 am

FYI HPU paid #1.0mm in NIL to the basketball team last year. dont know how much the "budget" was this year

Odds are, significantly more

AppSt94 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 16, 2024 12:57 pm

A five year contract calls for patience.

5 year contracts are pretty standard for head coaching hires

HPU does have a strong team, basically returned most key guys from their 27 win team last year + made some quality portal additions. On paper they should easily win big south, could sneak a win in March

Wonder how much the Coliseum charged for parking. They change the price based on the event. $5 to park Apparently HPU season ticket holders got tickets for free. This game was a home game for HPU but appears on schedule as a neutral. Pep band, cheer and dance teams there, home PA announcer, HPU gra...

Speaking of season tickets I miss the days of having a physical ticket.

I’d be willing to pay an extra -$25-50 to get physical tickets to keep as a collectible and not use at the gate. Use the proceeds towards NIL

I'm pretty sure one of our two west opponents is Arkansas State. Don't know if home or away. Yeah I’m thinking we get Arky and Texas St (assuming they’re still in SBC) next year I’m hoping Arky at home, since they’ve never had a real Saturday game in boone during our time in the conference (2015 Th...

Schedule at the moment Week 1 - Aug 28 (Thurs) v. UNCC (@ Bank of America in CLT) Week 2 - Sept 6 v. Lindenwood Week 3 - Sept 13 TBD Week 4 - Sept 20 TBD Week 5 - Sept 27 @ Boise St Week 6 - Oct 4 v. Oregon St Week 7 - Oct 11 TBD Week 8 - Oct 18 TBD Week 9 - Oct 25 TBD Week 10 - Nov 1 TBD Week 11 - ...

Many positives from the presser

Looking forward to seeing the staff he assembles and then also what portal additions we get over the next few weeks

Another ugly truth is we played extremely undisciplined football. We were highly penalized and a lot of those penalties came at the worst times. We developed a bad habit of turning the ball over a lot. We seemed to be unprepared very often, leading to poor starts and constant bad angles (which made...

I think another ugly truth is our peers have “caught up” and adapted to the new era of CFB We have not adapted, and have regressed Gone are the days of sleep walking to a 7-1/6-2 conference record Gone are the days of playing UNCC and hoping we’re up enough at halftime to give some backups a look in...

Linebacker play used to be elite every year, consistently has gone down hill since the Satt/Drink years, and went down even more post Dale Jones Need the middle of the defense making routine tackles and playing at a high level again. Hoping our DC / new defensive staff has a strong history of develo...

My initial disappointment in the hire has cooled off now. Still have some skepticism of the hire but will be giving my full support to coach and the team

Looking forward to seeing the staff he assembles and what talent he’s able to pull in the portal these upcoming weeks

Explains why he keeps getting hired after being fired for performance

Interviews well

We all know a guy like this