October 28, 2025 • 8 mins
UND Head Football Coach Eric Schmidt looked ahead to the team’s upcoming games against South Dakota. With Halloween right around the corner, the conversation turned to favorite candy bars and some lighthearted Halloween memories including one story about an unfortunate kid who ended up with a walnut.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And we Woncome you back here to another segment of
hot Talk Downtown Grand Fords of the five oh six
Pub And guess who just ran into the building here
on his way to you and he women's basketball practice.
The Voice of North to go to football on the
Fighting Hawks Radio Network, Jack Michaels.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Everybody touchdown North Dakota.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I just got sucked into the.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Stud You just got in your car and drove.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You're like, hey, I gotta get you.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I was walking down here to get some cheese at
Hugos and I heard Urick and talking football, and I said,
let's go. Let's all beet Vermillion and then we'll see
I guess there's a game after that.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're at crossover season, Jack. We both have football on Saturday,
and I had to Alabama. You had the Minnesota right
with the you Indie women. It's the It's both the
most wonderful time of the year and the most confusing time.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Of the year. Love it when these seasons planned.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We like it even better when the football team is
just rocking and rolling by the way, so no pressure spredding.
But it's it's uh. It is a great time of
the season for North Fighting Hawks. Athletics because you know
we're having we not only have our cross country.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Girl up je Keeler, like an Olympic.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Type runner going on, and we've got exciting and as
you know, football is what Schmid and this crew is
doing right now. And the best thing about it, Paul
and Hut you know at for North go to women.
I think that the foundation is good. But I love
the fact and and Schmid and I were just talking
off air. I love the fact that that this team
and I've been doing now football for what fourteen fifteen
(01:29):
years and it's so palpable that this team doesn't look
past like the next minute of practice. And you know this, Paul,
you can feel that. And people ask me all the time,
what do you think good success is?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You know? It?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Kaminski? Is it? That good offensive line? Is it? I
just think it's.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
A businesslike cultural junkyard dog broach.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Schmidty coaches these like I look at sour cream and
onion chips. I just attack them.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, by the way, Jack, there are sour kreaman onions.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah. I think I'll put together a whole Look, we
can do some damage in this place.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So Coach Schmidt Segman two. I'm just gonna ask him
this in regards to the first thing that stands out,
I think is the first running back in the Missouri
Valley Football Conference this season to reach a thousand yards
is South Dakota's running back L J. Phillips. And I
think it's a multi faceted thing here because they've got
a great quarterback that kind of leads the charge, that's
been through the battles, and that also helps the running game. Basically,
(02:27):
it's it's multifaceted. That offense well, I think he does
a really good job too as well. That you know,
he's been in the offense.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
He's been in the league for so long, Like you're
not going to show him anything that he hasn't already.
You know, had to had to attack, and I think
he gets some you know, at the line of scrimmage
into the right play and then they take advantage of
the three step game. They're very efficient when they throw
the football and then they throw it over your head.
You know, he's a strong arm kid. He's a pro
style guy that wants to sit in the pocket, and
(02:55):
you know they'll run the ball, run the ball, run
the ball, and then look for an explosive play. And
like you said, they've you know, they have the number
one running back as far as rushing totals you know,
in the conference.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And he really fits who they are.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Like. Those guys are big upfront, they're physical, they want
to lean on you, you know, much like we talk
about with you know, making body blows on defense. If
you get enough carries and and have the football long enough,
those runs that are you know, maybe three and four
five yards in the first half turn into you know,
eight nine tens and explosive runs in the second half.
So I think it all starts there at the line
of scrimmage. It always does, but especially you know, when
(03:27):
you get to the coda games, you better be you
better be really good at the line of scrimmage if
you're going to have success.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And you know, to that point, Aidan Bauman is still
he has like what seven eight thousand yards passing in
his career, So it's not like you're facing I'm curious
with this Shmitti coacha. You know now that, yeah, the
team is doing what it's doing. Do you feel that
North Dakota now has a little target on your back
as opposed to being the the Hunter, all right, do
you think this valley is going watch we'll knock this
(03:52):
team off.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It's off its bearing zoom. We we don't. We We
think we're still a desperate football team. That's what we
talk about with our guys. K that's where people live
different than prosperous people do, and we're gonna be that
way every single day. And I think that's our guys
love that part of it. You know, they they've really
embraced that type of mindset that you know, it's it's, uh,
you know, us against the world, and we got to
(04:14):
do a great job every single day of going out
there and proving people wrong. And you know, we haven't
won down in that place and an awful long time.
So I definitely feel like, you know, there's a lot
of motivation for us to go down there and play well.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I think to that point, they haven't won until hopefully
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Maybe some of your point now I think it's seven.
I think it's two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh yep, and uh, this gentleman right here, Vic was
there in attendance and.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You, Vick, are you coming this weekend? Yeah? Can we
put them in car?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I was gonna say, well, lo of Vic with me exactly,
You're gonna play a lot of kino on the way
down jes Vic.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Might you know that cribbage, peannuckle and everything else?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Before we let you go, I've already asked you earlier
this week about your last time you put on a costume,
So I'm gonna ask you this question. I think favorite
Halloween candy? Oh, by fun easy, kit cat bars, kit cat,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I literally cats.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
There's so much don't like kit cats man like you
have so much word and the worst is all them
enjoys by far, like who gives out those?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Man after Eric Schmid if you open my car right now,
literally one hundred and seventeen steps from this, But.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I just finished a kit cat before.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
There's always that one person your neighborhood that has caramel apples,
like how good were those? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Like those are those were?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And then there was the guy that just handed one
walnut out to each kid?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What you know?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
North Dakota part of the bis bang, you know, were
you like growing up in woolse to North Dakota and
Paul for you as well? Now, Eric, did you have
that specific row of houses that was you had to go.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
To for Halloween because they were giving out.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
The no question, Yeah that was get there early before
they ran out.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Man, are the important people that you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
To before we let you go? Because it is a
Halloween night and I don't know, like kids ages now,
do you remember when your kids first did trick or treating?
Do you remember some of their first costumes? Was that
that must have been pretty special as a family, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
No doubt, man, we you know, we obviously, uh, our
kids are getting older now, they're starting to get a
little bit out of that.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Hey do I still go trick or treating or not yet?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
When you're kind of fifteen twelve, that age, you know,
is it's still.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The right thing to do.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
But but yeah, I was a lot of fun to
be able to take them around. We actually, you know,
lived in some places where we were kind of on
the block when it came to that, so we we
definitely had to experience a lot of people coming to
the door and stuff like that. But a lot of
fun and a lot of memories for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, the only treats I want is a win on Saturday.
We'll take that one. I don't know if that fits
in my pillowcase that I used to take out to
fill up for you know, because.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
People have the pill you're a pillow case.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It was a pillowcase because you got so much more,
you know.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But so the jackal leutter bucket was good. It never
held it up.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, well you got the walnuts over there.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
John, guys must have been grown up on the country club.
We had like grow with you goes bags.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's what rich kids. Well, Hugo, thanks you for that.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
By that way, every every house and grand for is
gonnas to give away Schmid.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
He's gonna have his kids just in fil trading.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, we just we appreciate the messaging yet again this week,
and we know that it's the same message you talked
to you with your players and coaches and everybody in
the sports staff each and every week. Going into a
big game like this, I know the fans are excited
for it, even though it's on the road. We'll be
down there with you on Saturday. Good luck here this
week sounds good, all right? North Dakota Football Jack Michaels, everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'll go to KitKat.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I'm gonna dress up as a junkyard dog and go
to football play.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, tell you what, I'd almost keep Jack here to
talk hockey because Dane Jackson's next, and he's a great
hockey mind.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So I'll tell you I could ask a question. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
We're gonna keep him here then, So when we return,
we go from the gridiron, we go to the ice.
Huge weekend ahead. North's gonna walks out with a huge,
huge shut out for their freshman goaltender on Saturday night.
So we'll talk about you and d hockey with Dane Jackson,
the head coach who joins us next. As you're listening
to Hawk Talk at the five zero six Pub downtown
Grand Forks on the Fighting Hawks Radio Network,
And we Woncome you back here to another segment of
hot Talk Downtown Grand Fords of the five oh six
Pub And guess who just ran into the building here
on his way to you and he women's basketball practice.
The Voice of North to go to football on the
Fighting Hawks Radio Network, Jack Michaels.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Everybody touchdown North Dakota.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I just got sucked into the.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Stud You just got in your car and drove.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You're like, hey, I gotta get you.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I was walking down here to get some cheese at
Hugos and I heard Urick and talking football, and I said,
let's go. Let's all beet Vermillion and then we'll see
I guess there's a game after that.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're at crossover season, Jack. We both have football on Saturday,
and I had to Alabama. You had the Minnesota right
with the you Indie women. It's the It's both the
most wonderful time of the year and the most confusing time.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Of the year. Love it when these seasons planned.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We like it even better when the football team is
just rocking and rolling by the way, so no pressure spredding.
But it's it's uh. It is a great time of
the season for North Fighting Hawks. Athletics because you know
we're having we not only have our cross country.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Girl up je Keeler, like an Olympic.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Type runner going on, and we've got exciting and as
you know, football is what Schmid and this crew is
doing right now. And the best thing about it, Paul
and Hut you know at for North go to women.
I think that the foundation is good. But I love
the fact and and Schmid and I were just talking
off air. I love the fact that that this team
and I've been doing now football for what fourteen fifteen
(01:29):
years and it's so palpable that this team doesn't look
past like the next minute of practice. And you know this, Paul,
you can feel that. And people ask me all the time,
what do you think good success is?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
You know? It?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Kaminski? Is it? That good offensive line? Is it? I
just think it's.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
A businesslike cultural junkyard dog broach.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Schmidty coaches these like I look at sour cream and
onion chips. I just attack them.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, by the way, Jack, there are sour kreaman onions.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah. I think I'll put together a whole Look, we
can do some damage in this place.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So Coach Schmidt Segman two. I'm just gonna ask him
this in regards to the first thing that stands out,
I think is the first running back in the Missouri
Valley Football Conference this season to reach a thousand yards
is South Dakota's running back L J. Phillips. And I
think it's a multi faceted thing here because they've got
a great quarterback that kind of leads the charge, that's
been through the battles, and that also helps the running game. Basically,
(02:27):
it's it's multifaceted. That offense well, I think he does
a really good job too as well. That you know,
he's been in the offense.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
He's been in the league for so long, Like you're
not going to show him anything that he hasn't already.
You know, had to had to attack, and I think
he gets some you know, at the line of scrimmage
into the right play and then they take advantage of
the three step game. They're very efficient when they throw
the football and then they throw it over your head.
You know, he's a strong arm kid. He's a pro
style guy that wants to sit in the pocket, and
(02:55):
you know they'll run the ball, run the ball, run
the ball, and then look for an explosive play. And
like you said, they've you know, they have the number
one running back as far as rushing totals you know,
in the conference.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And he really fits who they are.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Like. Those guys are big upfront, they're physical, they want
to lean on you, you know, much like we talk
about with you know, making body blows on defense. If
you get enough carries and and have the football long enough,
those runs that are you know, maybe three and four
five yards in the first half turn into you know,
eight nine tens and explosive runs in the second half.
So I think it all starts there at the line
of scrimmage. It always does, but especially you know, when
(03:27):
you get to the coda games, you better be you
better be really good at the line of scrimmage if
you're going to have success.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And you know, to that point, Aidan Bauman is still
he has like what seven eight thousand yards passing in
his career, So it's not like you're facing I'm curious
with this Shmitti coacha. You know now that, yeah, the
team is doing what it's doing. Do you feel that
North Dakota now has a little target on your back
as opposed to being the the Hunter, all right, do
you think this valley is going watch we'll knock this
(03:52):
team off.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
It's off its bearing zoom. We we don't. We We
think we're still a desperate football team. That's what we
talk about with our guys. K that's where people live
different than prosperous people do, and we're gonna be that
way every single day. And I think that's our guys
love that part of it. You know, they they've really
embraced that type of mindset that you know, it's it's, uh,
you know, us against the world, and we got to
(04:14):
do a great job every single day of going out
there and proving people wrong. And you know, we haven't
won down in that place and an awful long time.
So I definitely feel like, you know, there's a lot
of motivation for us to go down there and play well.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I think to that point, they haven't won until hopefully
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Maybe some of your point now I think it's seven.
I think it's two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh yep, and uh, this gentleman right here, Vic was
there in attendance and.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
You, Vick, are you coming this weekend? Yeah? Can we
put them in car?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I was gonna say, well, lo of Vic with me exactly,
You're gonna play a lot of kino on the way
down jes Vic.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Might you know that cribbage, peannuckle and everything else?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Before we let you go, I've already asked you earlier
this week about your last time you put on a costume,
So I'm gonna ask you this question. I think favorite
Halloween candy? Oh, by fun easy, kit cat bars, kit cat,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I literally cats.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
There's so much don't like kit cats man like you
have so much word and the worst is all them
enjoys by far, like who gives out those?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Man after Eric Schmid if you open my car right now,
literally one hundred and seventeen steps from this, But.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I just finished a kit cat before.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
There's always that one person your neighborhood that has caramel apples,
like how good were those? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Like those are those were?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And then there was the guy that just handed one
walnut out to each kid?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What you know?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
North Dakota part of the bis bang, you know, were
you like growing up in woolse to North Dakota and
Paul for you as well? Now, Eric, did you have
that specific row of houses that was you had to go.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
To for Halloween because they were giving out.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
The no question, Yeah that was get there early before
they ran out.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Man, are the important people that you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
To before we let you go? Because it is a
Halloween night and I don't know, like kids ages now,
do you remember when your kids first did trick or treating?
Do you remember some of their first costumes? Was that
that must have been pretty special as a family, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
No doubt, man, we you know, we obviously, uh, our
kids are getting older now, they're starting to get a
little bit out of that.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Hey do I still go trick or treating or not yet?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
When you're kind of fifteen twelve, that age, you know,
is it's still.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The right thing to do.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
But but yeah, I was a lot of fun to
be able to take them around. We actually, you know,
lived in some places where we were kind of on
the block when it came to that, so we we
definitely had to experience a lot of people coming to
the door and stuff like that. But a lot of
fun and a lot of memories for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, the only treats I want is a win on Saturday.
We'll take that one. I don't know if that fits
in my pillowcase that I used to take out to
fill up for you know, because.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
People have the pill you're a pillow case.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It was a pillowcase because you got so much more,
you know.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But so the jackal leutter bucket was good. It never
held it up.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, well you got the walnuts over there.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
John, guys must have been grown up on the country club.
We had like grow with you goes bags.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's what rich kids. Well, Hugo, thanks you for that.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
By that way, every every house and grand for is
gonnas to give away Schmid.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
He's gonna have his kids just in fil trading.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, we just we appreciate the messaging yet again this week,
and we know that it's the same message you talked
to you with your players and coaches and everybody in
the sports staff each and every week. Going into a
big game like this, I know the fans are excited
for it, even though it's on the road. We'll be
down there with you on Saturday. Good luck here this
week sounds good, all right? North Dakota Football Jack Michaels, everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'll go to KitKat.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I'm gonna dress up as a junkyard dog and go
to football play.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, tell you what, I'd almost keep Jack here to
talk hockey because Dane Jackson's next, and he's a great
hockey mind.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So I'll tell you I could ask a question. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
We're gonna keep him here then, So when we return,
we go from the gridiron, we go to the ice.
Huge weekend ahead. North's gonna walks out with a huge,
huge shut out for their freshman goaltender on Saturday night.
So we'll talk about you and d hockey with Dane Jackson,
the head coach who joins us next. As you're listening
to Hawk Talk at the five zero six Pub downtown
Grand Forks on the Fighting Hawks Radio Network,
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