UND has hired two football coaches to complete their staff for the 2013 season. Mike Cunningham was hired as the offensive line coach, a position that was being filled by Head Coach Chris Mussman. Jason Thier was hired as the outside linebackers coach. Cunningham comes to UND from Mankato State, a former rival of UND’s…
Now we will give our impressions of the UND defense, both from the spring game and from an overall spring ball prespective. Tackling appeared to be much better than we remember it from last fall when it was atrocious. There were still a few missed tackles and some bad angles taken – on a bubble screen…
The White Team, led by Defensive Coordinator Josh Kotelnicki and alumni captain Bill Reviere came out of Saturday’s spring game with a 24-14 victory over the Green Team Offensive Coordinator Luke Schleusner and alumni captain Erik Gunderson in front of an Alerus crowd of approximately 2,000 in attendance. After watching the spring game and getting…
With the annual spring game coming up tomorrow at 2pm at the Alerus Center, we thought we would share what we are watching for. One nice feature that we assume will be available again this year is the ability to watch the spring game via UNDSports.com. This allows us to verify what we thought we…
The UND Football Team has only gotten in one scrimmage so far this spring. Normally, they have at least two, if not three, scrimmages in the books by now. Poor weather has been the reason why and with all the youth on their roster we hope it does not severely affect the development of those…
After some un-seasonal winter weather dropped down in late March, the UND football team was finally able to start practice on April 5th and have now completed six practices. We are waiting for the first scrimmage to try and report what we have seen and heard. UNDSports.com and the Grand Forks Herald have both been providing second-to-none…
UND’s spring football practice was originally set to begin on March 25th but was delayed due to the massive amount of snow that was still covering the turf at Memorial Stadium. The new date became Monday, April 1st but the weather had not warmed up enough to melt the snow so now the newest ‘new’…
UND is scheduled to begin spring football practice on this coming Monday, March 25th. Considering there is a foot of snow on the turf at Memorial Stadium, we are a little skeptical they will be able to open up practice at outdoors. They could move everything into the Alerus, but we aren’t sure about scheduling and availability. …
It’s been quiet around the UND Football world as of late but as we get closer to spring ball, things should start to heat up. Here’s what we have for our random thoughts on the program as of late: The program recently held their winter testing, which comes after the winter workouts to gauge how…
The UND Football program announced yesterday that Defensive Coordinator Mike Mannausau would be leaving to take on a position with the UND Foundation as Champions Club Director, effective immediately. Mannausau has has 16 years invested in UND Football, with 5 of them being as a player from 1994-98 and 11 of them as a member…
