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Spring Practice Report

Posted on March 21, 2019 by

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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OC Danny Freund – Fighting Hawks Tailgate Show Podcast

Posted on March 8, 2019 by

Shannon Schweigert is joined by UND offensive coordinator Danny Freund in the latest Fighting Hawks Tailgate Show Podcast. Freund discusses his new offense, gives a Spring Ball update, and shares the announcement of a new addition coming to the Freund Family this summer in this special podcast from the Fighting Hawks Tailgate Show.

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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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Hawks Name Their Wide Receiver Coach

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

In what wasn’t much of a surprise to us, UND Fighting Hawks Head Coach Bubba Schweigert has named Sam King as his new wide receiver coach. King, 26, was formerly a graduate assistant at UND from 2015-2016 where he helped on the offensive side of the ball alongside new OC Danny Freund. The past two

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360 Reaction: 2019 Recruiting Class

Posted on December 21, 2018 by 10 Comments

The ink has dried and their are 23 new Hawks in the nest. Head coach Bubba Schweigert had a pretty uneventful day yesterday as all the NLI’s came in on time and no drama was to be had. As we had stated in a previous post UND closed strong in the past month and added

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UND Football Updates

Posted on December 14, 2018 by 1 Comment

UND will not be holding a recruiting weekend tomorrow. They are currently at 21 commits and we believe they just added one more PWO commit to make 22. Signing Day is Wednesday, December 19th. Luke Herzog, 6’2″-200, of St. Thomas Academy in MN has recently committed to UND. We project Herzog as an OLB cut

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UND Recruiting Weekend #1

Posted on December 7, 2018 by 4 Comments

The Class of 2019 is almost complete. At least the early version, that is. Bubba Schweigert and staff will be hosting their first official recruiting weekend starting today. They expect to have around 19 kids on visit, which is fairly large. The reason for the large class, however, is that it’s mostly made up of

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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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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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Hawks Come Up Short Against Wildcats

Posted on October 29, 2018 by 7 Comments

In what turned out to be a drama-filled football game, the UND Fighting Hawks came up short in their comeback bid losing 35-30 to Weber State on Saturday. UND dug themselves out of several holes, including a 14-0 deficit to start the game. But, ultimately it was the Wildcats that made a few more plays

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A Glance At The Wildcats

Posted on October 25, 2018 by 2 Comments

Buckle up folks, we got a good one on tap this weekend. The #4 Weber State Wildcats and their smothering defense are coming into the Alerus Center for a knockdown, dragout tilt with the #22 North Dakota Fighting Hawks. Game time is set for 2pm at the Alerus Center. Weber State is 5-2 on the

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Hawks Raid The Hornets Nest

Posted on October 22, 2018 by 9 Comments

It wasn’t pretty. It certainly wasn’t clean. But it was a victory. The UND Fighting Hawks headed out west to Sacramento on Saturday night and left town with a 41-15 victory, upping their record to 5-2 on the season. The loss dropped the Hornets to 2-5. The Hawks did what they absolutely needed to do

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Podcast: 360 Preview of UND vs Sacramento State

Posted on October 19, 2018 by

Welcome to the inaugural Rumors Sports Bar Grill & Casino 360 Podcast! We are excited to welcome Rumors and Development Homes, Inc (gaming) as the new sponsor of our podcasts. We could not be more excited to work with them and keep bringing you high-end UND Football-related content. Being the media coverage out in Sacramento is

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UND Defense Loses Their Captain

Posted on October 17, 2018 by 4 Comments

Even though it hasn’t been officially confirmed by UND, the word is that UND captain Tanner Palmborg is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury. The injury was sustained last week vs. Montana. QB Dalton Sneed was flushed out of the pocket to his right and Palmborg was rushing up field

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Podcast: Montana vs North Dakota with Colter Nuanez

Posted on October 10, 2018 by 1 Comment

This week we are joined by the foremost authority on Big Sky Football, Colter Nuanez of Skyline Sports. Colter gives us a full breakdown of the Montana Grizzlies season thus far, the matchup with UND and his prediction on who wins the game.

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A Glance At Da Griz

Posted on October 9, 2018 by 1 Comment

The prodigal son has returned home to lead the proud Montana football program. Bobby Hauck is back in Missoula, looking to once again take the Griz back to the national championship game like he did twice before (2008-2009). The grand plan has been a roller coaster affair thus far in 2018, however. After beginning the

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Podcast: UND Mid-Season Review & More

Posted on October 5, 2018 by 3 Comments in News, Podcasts Big Sky Conference, fcs, fcs football, Fighting Hawks, North Dakota, UND, UND football