September 30, 2025 • 13 mins
UND Head Coach Eric Schmidt discusses the team's progress, highlighting both the strengths and areas needing improvement across the roster. He emphasizes that experience is the best teacher, and that players must be able to think on their feet in high-pressure situations. Coach Schmidt also underscores the importance of proper nutrition in keeping athletes healthy, maintaining their weight, and supporting overall performance.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Of inside Hugos Peer Market. It is time for another
edition of Hot Talk and Happy Tuesday everybody. It's a beautiful,
beautiful evening downtown Grand Forks. Of course, many of our
fans are already either making their way to U Indie
Hockey fan Fest and that's okay. Some are going to
be making a pit stop here making their way over
to the Ralph. But we've got a fun show for you.
(00:23):
We're going to be talking with a U Indie football
head coach, Eric Schmidt. We're gonna be talking with Undie
volleyball coach Jesse Tupac Goods Split over the weekend. And
we're also going to be talking with U ANDDI men's
golf coach Todd Shaffer. They just won a tournament last week.
Got a big duel coming up this Wednesday and Thursday.
One day in Fargo, one day in Grand Forks at
the country Club on Thursday, in a rivalry duel against NDSU.
(00:48):
Speaking of golf, Unity women's golf just finished up all
in the Pacific Northwest at the Seattle You Pat Lesser,
and it was Sophie Cook, the freshman from Halley that
led the way for the Fighting Hawks going seventy five,
seventy three, seventy three, and she finishes in the top twenty.
So congratulations to the Frenchman from Holly, Minnesota, Sophie Cook
leading the Fighting Hawks in women's golf. Time now to
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turn our attention to und football as the Fighting Hawks
are about ready to get back into action. Head coach
Eric Schmidt has joined us here downtown Grand Forks, and
we're glad to have him join us here on this
Tuesday night. Coach, I tell you what the open week
and this as a head coach, you get to really
set the calendar, I mean, and then and you've obviously
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seen it from different perspectives with the people that you've
worked with and been able to take away about how
to best keep everybody engaged, how to get them either
healthy or are detailed into some things that they have
some time to work on. Did you find time for
maybe there wasn't enough time basically to do all of it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I don't know if we get necessarily set the
schedule off it the bye we kind of comes when
it comes, yeah, I mean at certain times based off
of you know, just schedules and availability and and.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Those types of things.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I do think you know, for us, there's there's always
you know, when you have four non conference games and
then to be able to have a natural break in
there and then go into conference season, I think is
you know, I mean a good point in the season
where you can really sit back now and have a
big enough sample on your team and be able to
to really look within and and see what you feel
like you're doing well, what you need to work on,
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you know, all those things as far as self scout goes.
And I think we spent a lot of time early
in the week being able to do that, and then
really wanted to do a good job once again of
being able to build some depth. I think, you know,
in some of our games, we've been able to play
a number of players, and I think we've been able
to see some things as far as you.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Know, glimpses of those guys in.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
The calls and and gaining experience in the calls and
making mistakes and all those things. And like I said,
I think, you know, that's the best teacher that you
can have, is being able to go out there and
experience it and line up and and and play football.
If you want to be a good football player, you
got to play football. I mean, that's just how it works.
And so I thought that part was good. And then
you know, as we got later on into the week,
obviously to be able to go out and be able
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to do some recruiting too and make sure that that
we do a good job with you know, a number
of our guys that we have recruited right now are
highly sought after guys, and you know, it's awesome the
relationships that we built with them earlier for the most part,
are you know, I mean standing the test of time
here off of it and just feel really good as
far as you know those guys and what they're doing
this fall and be able to reconnect with them to
us as well was good.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You mentioned a couple of things in yesterday's press conference
in some of the details that you would work with
safer running backs, like aim points, making sure that that's
really where you want to be as you hit the
next half of the season, so to speak, depth of
routes basically for receivers and I'm sure basically all that's
identifiable on film, and then to actually work on it
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practice it really try to hone in on those little
things because they can really make a difference.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
No question. I think, you know, this is still about fundamentals.
It's still about you know, being able to block, being
able to tackle, being able to get off blocks. I mean,
you know, everybody's you know, teaching the same schemes and
those types of things. For the most part, I do think,
you know, you could help yourself with having an elite
scheme and making sure that you're putting your guys in
the right spots. But as you go throughout a year,
you know, you only have so much time to be
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able to watch your team. You know, you come back
from a Saturday afternoon or a Saturday night Sunday morning,
you watch the game, and then you move on, you know,
I mean, to the next opponent. It's just the nature
of how the schedule works in college football. So now
to be able to take four weeks and be able
to watch those all those plays back to back to back,
and then watch the players executing those plays, you can
start to pick up, you know, some tendencies as far
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as like who's doing what well, who needs work on this.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And those types of things.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And I think that's the benefit of the bye week,
is being able to really dig in and be able
to you know, help some of our guys with their
strengths in with their weaknesses so that they can get
better here as we go into conference play.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know, one of the things and I when I
have an opportunity to stand on the sidelines, the biggest
thing sometimes that I would struggle with just by standing
there and looking is defensively, when certain teams offensively show
a certain four, I'm not sure I would get lined
up correctly. Just at the very start of the snap,
you want to get lined up and getting lined up
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correctly can be the bit, you know, such a big
factor as far as winning the player losing the play.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No doubt, you hit it right on the head. We
call it cycle of the snap.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
On defense, there's a there's a process that you have
to go through and I really believe that, you know, miscommunications,
misalignments get you beat way more than mismatches do at
the end of the day. And if you can start
right being the right leverage, you know, playing with the
right eye, discipline, playing the right technique, that you're going
to have a great opportunity in or to be successful.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And that's a big piece of it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, you look at you know, the touchdown that
we gave up against val Praiser. That was an alignment
issue off of it, and it was a communication issue.
And you have, you know, like any other sport, you
have people that are on the field, you know, that
are the communicators, and you have other people that need
to be able to take communication and listen and if
those two people are not on the same page, off
of it, and you got to be able to do
it in a in a short amount of time. I've
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said that all the time, Like you know, football, you
always got to be thinking out there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You got to be able to think on your feet.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You got to be able to do it in a
short amount of time because you know, we don't have
their signals, We don't know what plays are going to
come up with, and we're trying to give these guys
as many answers to the test as we can every
single Saturday, but they have to be problem solvers. And
I think that's the art of coaching at times, is
we're not training robots, you know what I mean out there,
like we want those guys to be able to be
able to, you know, work some things out when when
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we haven't covered all the single you know, every single
formation or situation or things like that. They got to
be able to use their instincts and use their intelligence
in order to be able to get us, you know,
out of a down or out of a series.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Then we can come back and talk about it after that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So I think that's the thing that that really is
important to all championship teams. And I don't care if
that's offensively or defensively. Offensively, it's you know, we talk
about winning the pre snap, you know, every single play
is hey, there's a there's a way that you can
win even before the play starts.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And I think that's something that we've really emphasized with
our team.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
No, one week with the sport of football is gonna
heal everyone up, and having an additional week can certainly
help you. Did you feel like your health took a
step in the right direction just having those few extra days.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I think mentally maybe even as much as physically
too as well. I think as you know, you're grinding
on guys, and you really you go from training camp
right into the season, you know there might be a
day there where you really give the guys a day off,
and it's just kind of that natural you know, in
our business off of it, it's four days on, one
day off and then it's game day, you know, type
of deal. So it's really five I guess if you
look at it. But you know, for our guys to
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be able to mentally take a step away, you know,
focus on some other things, whether that might be school
or you know, whatever is in their life that they
got to make sure that they can take care of,
you know, to be able to have a little extra
time to be able to do that, be able to
catch up maybe on some conversations with families and and
family members and those types of things I think was good.
And then physically, I think, you know, our performance team,
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whether that's athletic trainers, pets, you know, our strength conditioning
people too as well.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
To be able to really.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sit down with them and work on some things I
think is really important. And you know we've we've went
back even there and we talk about you know, looking
within and self scouting ourselves. Like we went back and
looked at, hey, where were we as far as what
was the.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Average weight of our team?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And we came in July thirtieth off it, I think
we were two hundred and twenty eight pounds a right,
that might be off a pound or two. Yeah, and
then where were we, you know, leaving the field. We're
coming into the building the Sunday after playing Valpo and
we were two hundred and twenty seven pounds on average.
And there's always going to be you know, maybe a
little bit of a you know, I mean a metric
there that that.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You wouldn't want to see huge gains or huge drops
in your weight. You want to be at your optimum
basically as you enter the season, righteah.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean we don't want guys all of a sudden,
you know, going through fall camp. Now you're burning up
all this energy and all these counties and you start losing,
especially as a big guy. Yeah, at times you could
see three hundred pounders go down to two seventy five
in a matter of a couple of weeks, you know,
And I don't think, you know, we don't want that.
We want guys that have some mass to them they
can go out there and play physical. So I think
that's something that you know, we've been able to do here.
And it's not only that it's tracking body comp's tracking
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lean muscle mass, it's tracking body fat.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You know, all those types of things.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So I just think it's they're good indicators to be
able to make sure that, hey, you're giving these guys
the best opportunity or to be successful.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
One of the things that you brought with you when
you came in was nutrition. And for big guys. You
know sometimes that you talk to some of these big
guys that played at some of these big institutions that
had everything available to them. You were at a big
ten institution there for a while, and they'll tell you,
I'm sorry, PAC twelve now Big ten. Let's not forget
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about the Pac twelve. It's still there. But I was
gonna say that, see the peanut galleries live in here.
That's awesome, all right, But here we go go, Cubs go,
May I.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Say there we go?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Anyway? So anyway, I will just say that, they'll tell
you these big guys after their careers are like, man,
I seem to be always eating, you know, but and
it's not junk food either.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
They're like meal.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They're just a lot of meals, a lot of you know,
meals throughout the day. Maybe not as many for like
a running back or receiver, but those big guys, they're
really regiments and they've got to constantly be putting down food,
and it's kind of a shock to the system when
everything comes to an end.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I think there's, you know, so much that goes into
being a college athlete, and the physical development is probably
as as important as anything else. Like when you go
at at any level of football and you continue to
move up, you know, throughout those levels, the body type
of a person, I mean NFL scout comes in and
they're going to rate what you look like on you
know what I mean, on the UF and be like, hey,
are you an A one body type?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Are you a B two?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And they're going to look at, you know, the thickness
of your joints, how much muscle they think that they
can put on you, how much weight, you know, all
those types of things. So I think that's the thing
that you know, we really chalk to talk, try to
talk to our guys with and as we compare them
to people that you know, every year are in the
combine and going into the NFL, is like, hey, you
need to look like this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Like there's obviously outliers out there.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Smaller people that get into the league and stuff like that,
but ninety five percent of the people at each position
are probably very very close as far as height, weight, strength,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
In those types of.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Things, we're talking about the best of the best, you know,
in every position. So I think for us to be
able to you know, really pour into our guys that way,
not just like you're talking about, like, you know, suggesting things,
you know what I mean, being able to sit in
a meeting and be like, hey, you should do this
or you should do that. Now, being able to require
it and have experts in front of them every single
day saying hey, you're gonna eat, this is when you're
gonna eat, this is how much you're gonna eat, and
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be able to really you know, be regimented it and
and do it that way, to be able to help
these guys become the best versions of the of themselves
is really important.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think in the developmental.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Piece, I think you you mentioned, Yeah, it's not necessarily suggestion,
it's basically laid out a program that and I think
for young people it makes it so much easier if
you can kind of get into a routine of being
in a program that's set out and you can start
to see the results of the I mean, excellent point there, coach, Yeah,
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exactly for sure. Not even I'm afraid of what my
program would look like. That's a that's a that's a
concern from the get go. I'm not sure how long
I'd last on Saturday's arm farm days basically, so I
think I'd be tapping out pretty quick. But Northern I
was the opponent. We're into Missouri Valley Football Conference. It's
you know what, I love conference play. We're just getting
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rolling with it for North Dakota. A couple teams got
underway here this past weekend, but it's now it's go time.
We'll talk to you about this upcoming game and a
great venue. It's gonna be a lot of fun, it's
gonna be testing, and it's gonna be just a great
way to launch this new Missouri Valley Football Conference season.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We'll do that.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
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Of inside Hugos Peer Market. It is time for another
edition of Hot Talk and Happy Tuesday everybody. It's a beautiful,
beautiful evening downtown Grand Forks. Of course, many of our
fans are already either making their way to U Indie
Hockey fan Fest and that's okay. Some are going to
be making a pit stop here making their way over
to the Ralph. But we've got a fun show for you.
(00:23):
We're going to be talking with a U Indie football
head coach, Eric Schmidt. We're gonna be talking with Undie
volleyball coach Jesse Tupac Goods Split over the weekend. And
we're also going to be talking with U ANDDI men's
golf coach Todd Shaffer. They just won a tournament last week.
Got a big duel coming up this Wednesday and Thursday.
One day in Fargo, one day in Grand Forks at
the country Club on Thursday, in a rivalry duel against NDSU.
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Speaking of golf, Unity women's golf just finished up all
in the Pacific Northwest at the Seattle You Pat Lesser,
and it was Sophie Cook, the freshman from Halley that
led the way for the Fighting Hawks going seventy five,
seventy three, seventy three, and she finishes in the top twenty.
So congratulations to the Frenchman from Holly, Minnesota, Sophie Cook
leading the Fighting Hawks in women's golf. Time now to
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turn our attention to und football as the Fighting Hawks
are about ready to get back into action. Head coach
Eric Schmidt has joined us here downtown Grand Forks, and
we're glad to have him join us here on this
Tuesday night. Coach, I tell you what the open week
and this as a head coach, you get to really
set the calendar, I mean, and then and you've obviously
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seen it from different perspectives with the people that you've
worked with and been able to take away about how
to best keep everybody engaged, how to get them either
healthy or are detailed into some things that they have
some time to work on. Did you find time for
maybe there wasn't enough time basically to do all of it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I don't know if we get necessarily set the
schedule off it the bye we kind of comes when
it comes, yeah, I mean at certain times based off
of you know, just schedules and availability and and.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Those types of things.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I do think you know, for us, there's there's always
you know, when you have four non conference games and
then to be able to have a natural break in
there and then go into conference season, I think is
you know, I mean a good point in the season
where you can really sit back now and have a
big enough sample on your team and be able to
to really look within and and see what you feel
like you're doing well, what you need to work on,
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you know, all those things as far as self scout goes.
And I think we spent a lot of time early
in the week being able to do that, and then
really wanted to do a good job once again of
being able to build some depth. I think, you know,
in some of our games, we've been able to play
a number of players, and I think we've been able
to see some things as far as you.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Know, glimpses of those guys in.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
The calls and and gaining experience in the calls and
making mistakes and all those things. And like I said,
I think, you know, that's the best teacher that you
can have, is being able to go out there and
experience it and line up and and and play football.
If you want to be a good football player, you
got to play football. I mean, that's just how it works.
And so I thought that part was good. And then
you know, as we got later on into the week,
obviously to be able to go out and be able
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to do some recruiting too and make sure that that
we do a good job with you know, a number
of our guys that we have recruited right now are
highly sought after guys, and you know, it's awesome the
relationships that we built with them earlier for the most part,
are you know, I mean standing the test of time
here off of it and just feel really good as
far as you know those guys and what they're doing
this fall and be able to reconnect with them to
us as well was good.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You mentioned a couple of things in yesterday's press conference
in some of the details that you would work with
safer running backs, like aim points, making sure that that's
really where you want to be as you hit the
next half of the season, so to speak, depth of
routes basically for receivers and I'm sure basically all that's
identifiable on film, and then to actually work on it
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practice it really try to hone in on those little
things because they can really make a difference.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
No question. I think, you know, this is still about fundamentals.
It's still about you know, being able to block, being
able to tackle, being able to get off blocks. I mean,
you know, everybody's you know, teaching the same schemes and
those types of things. For the most part, I do think,
you know, you could help yourself with having an elite
scheme and making sure that you're putting your guys in
the right spots. But as you go throughout a year,
you know, you only have so much time to be
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able to watch your team. You know, you come back
from a Saturday afternoon or a Saturday night Sunday morning,
you watch the game, and then you move on, you know,
I mean, to the next opponent. It's just the nature
of how the schedule works in college football. So now
to be able to take four weeks and be able
to watch those all those plays back to back to back,
and then watch the players executing those plays, you can
start to pick up, you know, some tendencies as far
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as like who's doing what well, who needs work on this.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And those types of things.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And I think that's the benefit of the bye week,
is being able to really dig in and be able
to you know, help some of our guys with their
strengths in with their weaknesses so that they can get
better here as we go into conference play.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know, one of the things and I when I
have an opportunity to stand on the sidelines, the biggest
thing sometimes that I would struggle with just by standing
there and looking is defensively, when certain teams offensively show
a certain four, I'm not sure I would get lined
up correctly. Just at the very start of the snap,
you want to get lined up and getting lined up
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correctly can be the bit, you know, such a big
factor as far as winning the player losing the play.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No doubt, you hit it right on the head. We
call it cycle of the snap.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
On defense, there's a there's a process that you have
to go through and I really believe that, you know, miscommunications,
misalignments get you beat way more than mismatches do at
the end of the day. And if you can start
right being the right leverage, you know, playing with the
right eye, discipline, playing the right technique, that you're going
to have a great opportunity in or to be successful.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
And that's a big piece of it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, you look at you know, the touchdown that
we gave up against val Praiser. That was an alignment
issue off of it, and it was a communication issue.
And you have, you know, like any other sport, you
have people that are on the field, you know, that
are the communicators, and you have other people that need
to be able to take communication and listen and if
those two people are not on the same page, off
of it, and you got to be able to do
it in a in a short amount of time. I've
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said that all the time, Like you know, football, you
always got to be thinking out there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You got to be able to think on your feet.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You got to be able to do it in a
short amount of time because you know, we don't have
their signals, We don't know what plays are going to
come up with, and we're trying to give these guys
as many answers to the test as we can every
single Saturday, but they have to be problem solvers. And
I think that's the art of coaching at times, is
we're not training robots, you know what I mean out there,
like we want those guys to be able to be
able to, you know, work some things out when when
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we haven't covered all the single you know, every single
formation or situation or things like that. They got to
be able to use their instincts and use their intelligence
in order to be able to get us, you know,
out of a down or out of a series.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Then we can come back and talk about it after that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So I think that's the thing that that really is
important to all championship teams. And I don't care if
that's offensively or defensively. Offensively, it's you know, we talk
about winning the pre snap, you know, every single play
is hey, there's a there's a way that you can
win even before the play starts.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And I think that's something that we've really emphasized with
our team.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
No, one week with the sport of football is gonna
heal everyone up, and having an additional week can certainly
help you. Did you feel like your health took a
step in the right direction just having those few extra days.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I think mentally maybe even as much as physically
too as well. I think as you know, you're grinding
on guys, and you really you go from training camp
right into the season, you know there might be a
day there where you really give the guys a day off,
and it's just kind of that natural you know, in
our business off of it, it's four days on, one
day off and then it's game day, you know, type
of deal. So it's really five I guess if you
look at it. But you know, for our guys to
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be able to mentally take a step away, you know,
focus on some other things, whether that might be school
or you know, whatever is in their life that they
got to make sure that they can take care of,
you know, to be able to have a little extra
time to be able to do that, be able to
catch up maybe on some conversations with families and and
family members and those types of things I think was good.
And then physically, I think, you know, our performance team,
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whether that's athletic trainers, pets, you know, our strength conditioning
people too as well.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
To be able to really.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sit down with them and work on some things I
think is really important. And you know we've we've went
back even there and we talk about you know, looking
within and self scouting ourselves. Like we went back and
looked at, hey, where were we as far as what
was the.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Average weight of our team?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And we came in July thirtieth off it, I think
we were two hundred and twenty eight pounds a right,
that might be off a pound or two. Yeah, and
then where were we, you know, leaving the field. We're
coming into the building the Sunday after playing Valpo and
we were two hundred and twenty seven pounds on average.
And there's always going to be you know, maybe a
little bit of a you know, I mean a metric
there that that.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You wouldn't want to see huge gains or huge drops
in your weight. You want to be at your optimum
basically as you enter the season, righteah.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean we don't want guys all of a sudden,
you know, going through fall camp. Now you're burning up
all this energy and all these counties and you start losing,
especially as a big guy. Yeah, at times you could
see three hundred pounders go down to two seventy five
in a matter of a couple of weeks, you know,
And I don't think, you know, we don't want that.
We want guys that have some mass to them they
can go out there and play physical. So I think
that's something that you know, we've been able to do here.
And it's not only that it's tracking body comp's tracking
(08:55):
lean muscle mass, it's tracking body fat.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You know, all those types of things.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So I just think it's they're good indicators to be
able to make sure that, hey, you're giving these guys
the best opportunity or to be successful.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
One of the things that you brought with you when
you came in was nutrition. And for big guys. You
know sometimes that you talk to some of these big
guys that played at some of these big institutions that
had everything available to them. You were at a big
ten institution there for a while, and they'll tell you,
I'm sorry, PAC twelve now Big ten. Let's not forget
(09:27):
about the Pac twelve. It's still there. But I was
gonna say that, see the peanut galleries live in here.
That's awesome, all right, But here we go go, Cubs go,
May I.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Say there we go?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Anyway? So anyway, I will just say that, they'll tell
you these big guys after their careers are like, man,
I seem to be always eating, you know, but and
it's not junk food either.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
They're like meal.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They're just a lot of meals, a lot of you know,
meals throughout the day. Maybe not as many for like
a running back or receiver, but those big guys, they're
really regiments and they've got to constantly be putting down food,
and it's kind of a shock to the system when
everything comes to an end.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I think there's, you know, so much that goes into
being a college athlete, and the physical development is probably
as as important as anything else. Like when you go
at at any level of football and you continue to
move up, you know, throughout those levels, the body type
of a person, I mean NFL scout comes in and
they're going to rate what you look like on you
know what I mean, on the UF and be like, hey,
are you an A one body type?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Are you a B two?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And they're going to look at, you know, the thickness
of your joints, how much muscle they think that they
can put on you, how much weight, you know, all
those types of things. So I think that's the thing
that you know, we really chalk to talk, try to
talk to our guys with and as we compare them
to people that you know, every year are in the
combine and going into the NFL, is like, hey, you
need to look like this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Like there's obviously outliers out there.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Smaller people that get into the league and stuff like that,
but ninety five percent of the people at each position
are probably very very close as far as height, weight, strength,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
In those types of.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Things, we're talking about the best of the best, you know,
in every position. So I think for us to be
able to you know, really pour into our guys that way,
not just like you're talking about, like, you know, suggesting things,
you know what I mean, being able to sit in
a meeting and be like, hey, you should do this
or you should do that. Now, being able to require
it and have experts in front of them every single
day saying hey, you're gonna eat, this is when you're
gonna eat, this is how much you're gonna eat, and
(11:21):
be able to really you know, be regimented it and
and do it that way, to be able to help
these guys become the best versions of the of themselves
is really important.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think in the developmental.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Piece, I think you you mentioned, Yeah, it's not necessarily suggestion,
it's basically laid out a program that and I think
for young people it makes it so much easier if
you can kind of get into a routine of being
in a program that's set out and you can start
to see the results of the I mean, excellent point there, coach, Yeah,
(11:51):
exactly for sure. Not even I'm afraid of what my
program would look like. That's a that's a that's a
concern from the get go. I'm not sure how long
I'd last on Saturday's arm farm days basically, so I
think I'd be tapping out pretty quick. But Northern I
was the opponent. We're into Missouri Valley Football Conference. It's
you know what, I love conference play. We're just getting
(12:12):
rolling with it for North Dakota. A couple teams got
underway here this past weekend, but it's now it's go time.
We'll talk to you about this upcoming game and a
great venue. It's gonna be a lot of fun, it's
gonna be testing, and it's gonna be just a great
way to launch this new Missouri Valley Football Conference season.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We'll do that.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
We're at the five oh six Pub downtown Grand Forks.
Come on out and join us, Join us. We got
a nice little cozy atmosphere. We've got great food that
you can enjoy, great beverages. Take two dollars off the
nacho platter. Tell you it's actually the loaded nachos here
are excellent of course they've got other great things like
the panini that you can check out as well. So
make sure when you come on in, you grab a bite,
(12:51):
you grab your favorite beverage, and you'd come out and
join us live. Yeah, well, yes, thank you mel. Yes
you can your favorite waitress and she's the great one.
We out here making sure it goes. So that's why
you come out and join us, So you can come
join this great crowd and when we return, will continue
to talk about North Dakota football as you're listening to
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