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Thunder & Lightning To Strike Again

Posted on May 20, 2019 by

We all knew John Santiago was going to get his chance to play professionally. We just didn’t know where. After attending back-to-back rookie camps over the past couple weeks (Minnesota and Atlanta) but not being able to secure a contract, Santiago decided to try a different route. In a mild surprise, Santiago signed with the

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Hawks Offer Local Standout

Posted on May 10, 2019 by

Even though we are currently in the football abyss, it seems there are always things going on. This day and age of college athletics has turned into a year round effort for coaches with recruiting being the biggest change. The UND staff has been out on the road doing spring recruiting for soon-to-be seniors and

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UND Releases 2020 Schedule

Posted on April 24, 2019 by

The inaugural Missouri Valley Football Conference season is getting closer, Hawk fans. UND Football officially released their 2020 MVFC schedule yesterday via a schnazzy little video on their Twitter page yesterday. (Note: UND will announce the 2021 schedule this afternoon) UND 2020 Football Schedule SEP 3 (THUR) VS VALPARAISO ALERUS CENTER SEP 12 (SAT) AT KANSAS

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Hawks 2019 Roster Released

Posted on April 18, 2019 by 3 Comments

In what I would term a pleasant surprise, UND has uploaded their 2019 roster to the Fighting Hawks website. Before we dig into the subtractions and omissions we need to clarify a few things. UND signed a large 2019 class (we predicted a much smaller class). With the latest addition of WR Hayden Overby (Thompson,

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2019 Post-Spring Ball Live Chat

Posted on April 16, 2019 by 3 Comments

The UND Football 2019 Spring season is officially completed so why not chat about it? Kelly Howe is joined by Shannon Schweigert in this edition of the UND Football 360 Live Chat – meaning you will get a couple varying viewpoints on things, no doubt. Plenty of topics to discuss – new-look offense, offensive line

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“Spring Wrap-Up” – What To Look For

Posted on April 11, 2019 by

The 2019 UND spring football session officially concludes this Friday with the “Spring Wrap-Up” practice/scrimmage. It’s been a fairly uneventful spring session for the Hawks. No major injuries (a huge positive), quiet battles going on that will undoubtedly go on into late-August, etc. With that being said it doesn’t mean there aren’t things to look

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UND Pro Day Results & Videos

Posted on March 29, 2019 by 4 Comments

It appeared to be a pretty good day overall for the five pro hopeful’s that represented UND today. Their were five Hawks present yesterday and all five performed the full range of tests. We have compiled as many results as we have access to (the results are often word of mouth and not formally presented).

Posted in News Austin Cieslak, Big Sky Conference, Big Sky Football, Brady Oliveira, Deion Harris, fcs, fcs football, John Santiago, Pro Day, Tank Harris, UND football, University of North Dakota

UND Future Schedule Updates

Posted on March 26, 2019 by 5 Comments

The folks over at the UND Athletic department have been hard at work laying out the future of UND football scheduling. In the latest Bill Chaves Podcast, External AD Kyle Doperalski and Chaves lay out three new home & home FCS games along with the future FBS games that have been speculated at over the

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Interview with OL Coach Joe Pawlak

Posted on March 22, 2019 by 3 Comments

After practice on Wednesday I was able to catch up with new OL Coach Joe Pawlak. Pawlak’s passion and intensity for offensive line play is apparent at all times. In fitting in with the rest of the offense, Pawlak always hustles everywhere he goes. Including running away from me as I was trying to catch

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Spring Practice Report

Posted on March 21, 2019 by 4 Comments

The UND Football team resumed spring practices yesterday after taking off a week for spring break. As one would expect, it was a bit sloppy at times but wasn’t short on big plays and enthusiasm. First off, when walking into the HPC it’s a totally different atmosphere now with the west side bleachers installed. Besides

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UND Spring Ball Begins & Junior Day

Posted on March 1, 2019 by

March 1st is proving to be a big day in the world of UND Fighting Hawks Football. The team begins spring practice today at 4:15pm in the beautiful HPC. One difference that fans will notice is the elevated seating has been installed on the west side of the building making it easy to swing in

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Signing Day Party 2019

Posted on February 5, 2019 by

UND Football will once again be hosting their annual Signing Day Party tomorrow night at 5:30pm – only this time with a little twist. The event has been moved the the Ralph Engelstad Arena lobby this year. The reason being is there’s also a game going on immediately afterwards that people may want to attend.

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Hawks Closing Strong With Pair of Commits

Posted on January 29, 2019 by 7 Comments

It might be -22 degrees in Grand Forks today but things are definitely heating up as signing day approaches. Bubba Schweigert was able to snag a couple of big-time commitments yesterday from teammates Chandon Pierre and Caleb Nelson. Pierre and Nelson recently helped lead Folsom High School to the California 1-AA state championship over Catholic

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An Early Look – 2019 Fighting Hawks Defense

Posted on January 27, 2019 by 6 Comments

The UND defense is coming off a 2018 season where they were dominant at times and dominated at times. Overall, their effort & results were playoff worthy, but we are sure ‘consistency’ will be the focus as they cast their gaze to the 2019 season. UND allowed 22.6 points/game in 2018, which was good for

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Defensive Line Coach Candidates

Posted on January 24, 2019 by

Well, lets take another shot at this. We gathered up some names of potential candidates for the defensive line job that was recently vacated by Jordan Gigli. Gigli took a similar position at Northern Illinois. Some of these are corroborated names, while others have been researched on our own. Let’s take a look at some

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360 Podcast: 2019 Recruiting, Hires, Roster & More

Posted on January 24, 2019 by

Welcome to the latest UND Football 360 podcast brought to you by Development Homes and Rumors Sports Bar & Grill. Rumors and DHI have you covered for all your food, beverage and gaming needs! Topics in this podcast include coaching changes at UND, former Sioux great Chris Kuper hired by Broncos, Class of 2019 recruiting

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An Early Look – 2019 Fighting Hawks Offense

Posted on January 21, 2019 by 2 Comments

Now that semester break is over and any attrition that would happen has happened (hint: not much at all) we figured it would be a good time to take a look at what UND has coming back for the 2019 season. Offensively, the big story is the removal of Paul Rudolph as offensive coordinator and

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UND Hires Their Offensive Line Coach

Posted on January 9, 2019 by 1 Comment

This past weekend we predicted that Joe Pawlak would be named the new offensive line coach at UND. Today, Bubba Schweigert made it official. Pawlak comes to UND from the University of Iowa where he spent the past three seasons (2016-2018) as an assistant offensive line coach under OC Brian Ferentz. At Iowa, Pawlak helped

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UND Promotes Freund To Offensive Coordinator

Posted on November 26, 2018 by 1 Comment

Head Coach Bubba Schweigert wasted no time in naming his new offensive coordinator. On Sunday night it was announced that UND has promoted current wide receiver coach Danny Freund to offensive coordinator after interviewing and presenting his plan for the UND offense over the weekend. Freund will replace Paul Rudolph, whose contract wasn’t renewed. Before we

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Schweigert Makes Changes To UND Offense

Posted on November 20, 2018 by 6 Comments

What many had speculated could be happening – happened. UND head coach Bubba Schweigert announced Monday that OC Paul Rudolph will not return next season. OL coach Luke Knauf will also not be returning. It does appear however, that TE/ST coach Shawn Kostich, RB coach Malcolm Agnew and WR coach Danny Freund are staying on

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Podcast: FCS Playoff Breakdown With Sam Herder

Posted on November 12, 2018 by 2 Comments

If you want to know exactly what will happen (or could happen) this coming weekend and how it will affect the FCS playoff field we got you covered. Welcome to another edition of the 360 Rumors Bar Grill and Casino podcast. This week we are happy to be joined by Shannon Schweigert of the UND Football Tailgate

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Hawks Sink The Vikings

Posted on November 12, 2018 by 6 Comments

In a pregame tweet on Saturday we ended our thoughts with “Just Win Baby”. UND did just that – beating the Portland State Vikings on Senior Day by a score of 17-10 to improve their record to 6-4. The Vikings dropped to 4-6 on the season. With the win UND kept their playoff hopes alive

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UND Senior Day: Class of 2018

Posted on November 8, 2018 by 1 Comment

It’s the final home game of the season this Saturday vs. Portland State. Game time is 2pm. The Hawks are in do-or-die mode as they need to win these last two games to finish 7-4 and have a shot at the FCS Playoffs. This final home game also doubles as the annual Senior Day, where

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November 2018

Posted on November 2, 2018 by 12 Comments

November 26th UND has received a commitment from RB Luke Skokna of Hinsdale, IL. Skokna is the 22nd commitment to the Class of 2019. November 15th A good chance that UND gets WR Garrett Maag back from injury this weekend. TE Luke Fiedler is more than likely done for the season with a wrist/hand injury.

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Podcast: 360 Preview of UND vs Idaho

Posted on November 2, 2018 by

Welcome to another addition of the Rumors Sports Bar Grill & Casino 360 Podcast! Rumors and Development Homes, Inc (gaming) are your one-stop shop for all food, drink and gaming desires! In this podcast we are joined by Colton Clark of the Lewiston Tribune. Colton covers the Vandals like no other and provides great insight into the

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