jdub27

Losing to 4 playoff teams and an FBS team all by one score? (It will be 3 but for discussion sake...) Leaving no doubt in your 7 wins, including doing the best job of any team outside of Michigan St in neutralizing the front runner for the Payton Award. Glad UND has someone in the room to make the case on why some other teams might not have as good of a resume. Preference is to just end the Bunnies season. As mentioned, Mason is an athlete playing QB. I can't believe that he was close to coming back in any of the last few games and didn't suit up because their season has been headed off the rails. If he's playing tomorrow, he's not going to be near 100% and his legs are his biggest weapons. Even if he is close, UND has done an impressive job in forcing mobile QB's to try and beat them with their arms.

I think you're right, but it is pretty close. Not an amount that should be an issue if he's the right candidate.

Kind of surprised and disappointed this hire didn't work out. Credentials looked good coming in. On to the search...

Pretty sure that was his replacement, Pryor.

If you are going to use "bad losses" (which luckily UND has zero of this year), then "best losses" are going to be viewed as well. A team who takes care of business they should against lower teams and hangs (and has a chance) to beat 2 or 3 of the top 8 teams deserves a seat. It'd be a different thing if you got absolutely boat raced and weren't competitive. UND could have scheduled a couple cream puffs instead of Kansas State and Montana and had two more wins. There should be a reward for playing tough games. The committee obviously has taken some of this into account in their early ranking releases. In the end, it would be easier just to take care of business Saturday and then argue about not getting a first round bye...

That might make sense if they didn't put "Through games played on Nov 15". But they did and it doesn't make sense either way regardless.

Thing is, it has been on-going for 4 weeks now...

Part of this is on the QB for not making the right reads on RPO's and either throwing the ball or making the incorrect decision on handing it off or keeping it.

I think UND is in regardless but would prefer to just take care of business and guarantee a home game at minimum. Wouldn't be opposed to dismantling SDSU, getting a little help and sneaking into the 7 seed for a first round bye, but that might be asking for a lot.

He definitely checked into some of those plays in the ndsu game, particularly at the goal line. I doubt you know their checks, so this is just an assumption on your part. Maybe they need to limit that for a game or two and see if that helps slows things down again.

I believe the head coach said postgame that in hindsight that they should have called a timeout there for that exact reason. They got a look that was going to make a conversion tough.

The question I was responding to is why the Alerus Center entrance is light years behind the REA for intros. I'm sure they could do some sort of tunnel walk, no clue why they have chose to do it the way the do.

It was a general comment. People are still bringing up Rudy. Hutter was also on staff for a season prior. The roster was going to have to be rebuilt by someone regardless of who the head coach was. Half of them were. Hutter brought in the rest. Don't envy the position he was put in but this team was going to struggle regardless of who the coach was after half the roster graduated or transferred. Hopefully it is a quick rebuild, UND should be an attractive place to play. Based on your logic, do Bubba and Berry get credit for how football and hockey are doing since those are "their recruits"? I'm guessing I know your answer, which is why the constant bringing up coaches who has moved on (in multiple sports) is pointless. Or is it just a one-way street on it?

The short answer is technical capabilities of the Alerus facility. It can no doubt be better, but there is way more limitations than there should be. I believe the current scoreboard and some of the other related items are getting close to the end of their useful life, hopefully whatever replaces it will be a big step forward in that department.

Because he weighs 45lbs less? Gotta be a tight end who played QB in high school or something that they could find to fill that role though... Z being hurt is part of the issue. Assuming a few other guys were dinged up that also could have filled that role.