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He was going for "Vaht?" as made famous by Watzisnaem "Perky" Sparko.

No help on any of those. Sorry. I'm just wondering why the question didn't include colors for the Page Panthers and Hope Hustlers and Finley-Sharon Raiders. @bincitysiouxmay have some insights to add.

Note to DC Schmidt: The focus now turns to you and the defense. Why? Any new OC gets a little first-year margin to get their stuff implemented which puts the magnifying glass on the defense.

Well, we're here. And here is off-season and looking for an OC and a O line coach (so far). Do I expect other responsibility shuffles? Yes. That said, here's what I see as homework for the off-season heading into 2019. 1. Relook at strength and conditioning. I'm tired of the injuries; that is S&C related. 2. The offensive line needs to be rebuilt. If you're not sure why the O line is important just look at the NAU game where the NAU D line spent the afternoon in the UND backfield. I don't put that game on Ketteringham or the RBs: You can't be effective when you have no O line blocking. 3. A simplified, effective offense needs to be implemented. It's true so I'll say it: the model is 80 miles south. 4. Ketteringham needs someone new in his ear. At the start of the year he went through receiver progressions and had some designed runs for him. By season end he was locking on and never taking off even when he should've. What changed? I'd say not the QB but what he was being told. 5. Next season's schedule is ugly (@NDSU, @EWU, @Weber, host UCDavis). That said, if those teams don't drop off and UND picks off one or two of them and finishes 6-5 they'll be considered playoff worthy under the "UNI" (tough schedule) rule.

Selection criteria: - statistically speaking - quality losses

Didn't WMU lose a guy similarly the week before they went to Grand Forks?

Mentioning "skate" ... one more thing. If I see another guy lolly-gag coast-skating to the bench for a change I'm going to explode. A few guys need their "Dean Blais" moment. Control what's yours to control and how hard you skate every minute you're on the ice is yours to control no matter what else is happening.

My pre-season fears are exactly here: I just didn't see where the offense was going to come from. At this point I'd put in one rule on the team: Shoot wide, skate later. Yes, even if it's a weak shot, get it on net and play for the greasy stuff. Go fancy or send it wide and you skate next practice. This team can't fire like Boeser or pick corners like Ryan Duncan. So don't waste any opportunity; get the puck on net and make their goalie work.

What were consistently our two biggest problems? Offensive line play and play-calling.

All this has to do with is the state of UND football and nothing else so leave all the rest out of it so we can focus on the problem at hand .

Whose were they?

Make change quickly and it gives time either way.

He looked thoroughly resigned and defeated.

Down 8 under 7 to play and 4th down and short on the NAU side of the 50 and punting was surrender. And gross resignation by the coaching staff.

My email to Chaves has been sent.

My email to Chaves was sent pregame from my seat at REA.

74 points in just 18 minutes of TOP. That's offensive efficiency that basketball teams would desire.

On your computer there's this little button marked with a kind-of "1/0" icon. Press that.

I don't think he's saying "down" as much as admit G5 isn't P5 and create a "middle" with the G5 and the top 30-50 FCS teams. ... (I've heard that somewhere before ... )

Last night is exactly why I worried about offense this season. One bad bounce and the game was lost. There was no one there to generate any counter punch offense, much less anything to make that bad bounce of no consequence to the outcome by having a lead built before that event. As I've said, in the 1980s when the average game had 9 goals scored total (per Schlossman), one bad goal was 11% of the scoring. Last night, one bad goal was 100% of the scoring*. I don't want bad luck deciding games, I want talent deciding games. I don't want hockey to become soccer with 1-0 games considered spellbindingly fabulous events, but it is. Even if it means changing something like net sizes or goalie gear I'd like a bad bounce to go back to being a small percentage of scoring in a game. I want to see talent decide games.** *Ignore the ENG. **Some of you will say what about goalie talent. I'd say sure. Show me. But where is it? Today's goaltending is about wearing grandma's couch cushions (compared to earlier gear), a glove that is the size of a dart board, and a blocker that is measured in square feet. The talent is mere positioning with the cushions and sundries all stacked orderly.

WMU (to steal a phrase from "The Greatest", Mr. Mohammed Ali) gave UND the rope-a-dope last night. 12-4 shots after one; 28-8 after two. WMU just sat back and did enough to not get down. Then came the third; UND was frustrated and was out of punches; all WMU had to do is land one punch. And they did.

I always supposed it'd be the P5 parting ways. This author really is advocating the G5 initiate the split.

Who has to say anything? The location says it all. Yes, it sits on incorporated city of Fargo dirt however, ... Look at the map: - the north property border is West Fargo (I-94 is the city line) - the west edge of the Sanford property is <1000 feet to Veterans Blvd which is West Fargo

This from a football thread, but it fits here. It's discussing the NCAA's criteria for picking FCS football game sites.

From roughly the 12:50 mark of the NCAA video: So many ways to choke on this; let us begin ... So A, B, and C matter for FCS football, but not for hockey regionals? Note that E comes in, well, last -- but the NCAA is all about the student athlete. And money (B and C) beats D (performance) and E (students) -- again the NCAA exposes what it's really about.