The Sicatoka

If Maag still has "next level" aspirations, he needs to put something better than this season on film. Too many drops and miscues. But he needs to stay somewhere where he'll still get a lot of targets.

So you're saying UCD (BSC) at SDSU (MVFC) and UNI (MVFC) at EWU (BSC) is matter and anti-matter colliding, twice. Great. End of the universe. Poof.

Would Richter have come out of the cut harder after a TO? Would Tommy have not thrown to a guy with four bunnies around him but instead checked to Otis in the flat after a TO? All are things we'll never know. Something I'm 99.9% sure of but admit I don't know: Even a win in that game would not get a 6-5 UND in over 6-5 UNI. They had more wins over ranked teams.

You're not wrong, but a deep breath and a "you've got this" for the LT (and QB) wouldn't have been a bad thing either. I get your "OK to run the clock" idea, but running the clock then or running the clock after a catch at the six is net same. (I'm on the assumption that if catch, not pick, it would've been a TO.)

Correct. Tommy had been sacked two of the last four plays (sack, to Maag, to Richter, sack) before the pick. The TO would've been to get everyone a deep breath and a "here's how were going to win this" huddle with the coaches.

I had the radio broadcast in my ear at that moment. I'm paraphrasing, but Jack Michael's comments before and after the play were that that play could change the direction of a game and a season. It did. Even the former NDSU first baseman wondered why that call by Bubba. PS - I know some of you love Jack's style, but to me it's hard to track what's going on on the field with him on the call. If I could I'd take Alex Heinert TV audio on radio even without the video.

It is amazing what all can be ported down the bell of a sousaphone ... or so I've been told.

< cough > badger < cough > noose < cough cough > rafters < cough cough cough >

Parroting a chant and believing it I don't choose to correlate without further data.

Can I get the over on 9? They'd have redefined "single" high safety. Yup. Just one, out there, all alone.

Spoilsport.

Having slept on it ... Richmond 16 <--> MoiSt 21 is something that should not happen. Richmond 16 cost an OC a job. But the same HC letting Richmond 16 happen again ... is just mindboggling.

Then how in the world do they go on 4th and 1 on the minus 20? A down and distance chart has to account for field position and score and time remaining.

Would it be wrong of me to admit I'm picking "visitor" in both games?

You ever looked in the NDSU press box at their stacks of stuff? They've thought through scenarios and have it written down. Meh. Just go out there and wing it.

They have a two minute drill plan. They have a plan for contingencies within that. When they call a play, they'd better have a plan in mind for what's next (X and longer, X and same, X and shorter) given what's about to happen. Heck, didn't the 49ers used to script their first 20 plays? <-- OK, that's a bit overboard in planning.

That is a key here: Some of these folks may find the grass isn't always greener.

We (meaning the coaching staff) can discuss chart contents between games. And I agree not everyone's chart will be the same. But having a chart, having the decision pre-made, so you don't make a bad decision under pressure, is what I'm looking for: game management. ... words here about failing to plan is planning to fail ...

That is accurate, but neither do you kill a golden goose when you have one. And yes, I still think UND should have lax as a spring mens sport if we had resources for it. Yes, even over baseball.

My best ever game time smuggle in old REA? Two full turkey and taco meat grinders, one down each forearm of my jacket. The pros in my era pre-staged their items during Gopher or Badgers week. (I'm pure and innocent; I only served as technical advisor. )

You've narrowed it down to ... all of Walsh.

Straight up icy. < slow clap >

Why'd I hear banjo music in the background when I read that?

He's 15 right now! He'd be just 18 in fall of 2024.

If you checked female would you be from Venus?