NorthoftheBorder

It is like the "dweeb" in high school who gets invited to hang out with the "cool kids". He thinks he is now somebody but they still see him as a dweeb!

We are going to continue to see movement as schools jockey for position. I do not see either the PAC12 (with SWT.....haha Tx State) or the Mountain West ever really making noise and having success in the CFP, even if expanded to 16 teams. But, I have been wrong before, many times.

I saw where Texas run ruled LU last night. Surprised that I beat someone to posting this I am hearing that Texas is going to be really good, so I am not reading much into this for LU and their season, at least not at this point.

I heard that yesterday as well, and wondering if that will put pressure on Montana/Montana State to also make a FBS move.

Thanks Coach

Thanks Coach. I searched the lists multiple times and did not see Peyton Christian listed as transferring.

Does anyone know, and have a copy if they did, of a list that LU put together of who left in the portal and who came in?

The beat goes on, and the beat goes on! (Imagine Sonny Bono's voice)

Coach, I went to Athlinkd but they have a pay wall. Is there a FCS top 25 portal list. I see LU was ranked 3rd.

I was going to post something about this yesterday. Looks like a change in OC. What are you guys thinking about this? Especially you Puddin.

Not seeing they are going to pay him enough to go up there and freeze his arse off.

I would like to see Peyton Christian come back for sure.

IMHO, This is by far the toughest non-conference schedule since football came back. A 9-3 record would be fantastic. Rossomando will have to do a fantastic job next year after the graduation and portal losses this year.

Trying to leverage a payday! As fans, we want them to be loyal to LU, but if you are their family, you want them to maximize their earning potential now. It is the crazy world of NIL that we live in these days.

Happy New Years to the Lamar Cardinal faithful!

Merry Christmas to all the Lamar Cardinal faithful!!

Didn’t see it, but I ain’t unhappy about it. I could give a rats arse about T-State. On another note, how did Illinois State, with 4 losses catch fire and make it to the semi’s. Someone in Beaumont needs to take note of how this happened!

Tarleton surprisingly lost to Villanova!

When I was watching the end of the SFA game on TV, and the after game interview with Carthel, he made the comment that a lot the players off of their 2024 team turned down paydays to stay for a chance to win the conference. I guess it turned out well for Carthel and the Jacks, and, I guess I hope it turns out well for the players who stayed! Looks like we will not have that kind of luck. We can fully expect that after every good year by one of the LU players, they will be moving on. Not exactly the same, but LU is somewhat like the line that Brad Pitt said in Moneyball, that the Oakland A's were just a farm team for the Yankees and Red Sox!

I guess we can expect most of our all conference players to jump in and shop for a payday.

https://lamarcardinals.com/news/2025/12/9/football-mcdowell-named-freshman-all-american.aspx Hopefully he doesn't jump in the portal.

From what I know, Winslow would be the biggest loss, followed by Simpson. If in fact they leave. Hope they don’t. The biggest thing I noticed was Winslow and Simpson have reps. Nothing more scum sucking and bottom feeding than agents, whether repping a 9 figure pro athlete or a small school FCS player. This has to be a nightmare for FCS coaches, hell college coaches in general.

That means the FCS championship is wide open this year

Defense improving each year, offense staying basically the same, in the lower half of the FCS

After reviewing the bio's, I wouldn't say the kids that we signed were highly recruited. I noticed that UIW and NW State were the only two conference schools that were listed as offering any of the kids we signed. Surprises me that we are not bumping up against SFA or McNeese on the kids we recruit. That said, I would like to see who else recruits the kids that NDSU signs, since they seem to win the FCS championship year in and year out. Are they continually recruiting against Group of 5 schools, or do they just do a significantly better job of developing kids than the rest of FCS.