The Sicatoka

Friday: Jonny Tychonick (not to be confused with ...) Saturday: Mismash

So ... at concessions ... did they battle and battle and show a high compete level? Did they go to dirty areas ... like by the ketchup and relish?

I'm going to make a statement I never thought I'd make: I miss Chris Mussman. Not head coach Mussman, offensive coordinator Mussman. And now I itch.

Has anyone else seen NDSU's "delta" formation? I've seen that out of UND (with three comparable, or dare I say better, backs) maybe twice.

May I change your "DL" to "rushers". I don't care if it's 3 DL and a LB, or 3 DL and a safety, or 2 DL* an LB and a CB. But you have to get pressure with 4. *Drop the NG into coverage!

As a pure spy: Flash Gordon.

ST has been an issue since the (lone, sole, only) playoff game. Offensive play calling has been an issue since the (lone, sole, only) playoff game. And we don't have that "Lennon era" defense that you could just put the game into the hands of like Dale could with Bubba as his DC. That level of dominating defense does not exist in FCS. Not even NDSU has that level of defense (sorry Bison fans). I can back that up with this statement to prove it: When NDSU is up a score late do they play field position and trust the defense? No. They run the offense looking to stick in the dagger; they do not play field position and just hope the defense finishes it. Now go back and read my post yesterday about winning, defeating, or humiliating. NDSU plays to defeat their opponents. Full marks to them for stopping there because they really could humiliate some opponents if they willed it. My eyes tells me Bubba and his staff plays hoping to win. And that's no longer good enough. Adjustments, game level, staff level, philosophy level, need to happen.

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So the top 2 receivers are out and the 3rd and 4th go down during the game. Given that Idaho's going to sell out to stop the run: run blitzes. How does one counter? Throw to the backs and TEs (unders or screens). First half: 2 attempts to TEs. Second half: 2 attempts to TEs, 2 attempts to backs Just 6 attempts to RB/TEs in the but at least that many to just Stanley in the second half: Keep chucking it to the 5-8 WRs on the chart?

Yup. A bunch of teams would’ve had to stumble badly down the stretch.

Most boards of directors only have one employee: the CEO. They get what they want by explaining that to the CEO. In this case Chaves is the board of directors.

That we care. The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. I’d be more concerned if we stopped caring.

Dean Blais was a Gopher. Two UND titles later we all overlook that.

In this case the ‘boy ain’t wrong.

Chaves needs to use that FCS pedigree to fix the glaring issues.

If you look for NSIC coaches you start at MSUM or UMD, not Minot or Mary.

Chaves has seen what it takes to win an FCS title within the last decade. He'd better have a list, a list with phone numbers.

I wanted DeBoer over Muss.

Special teams has cost us dearly at least twice this season. And again we're facing injuries which I believe is strength and conditioning related. At a minimum those must be addressed. But there's a deeper issue and it's been mentioned here: There's no will to defeat an opponent. I see three levels: winning, defeating someone, and humiliating someone. It's like the coaches are afraid to win, much less defeat someone. And I'm not saying humiliate, I'm saying defeat. Defeating someone is going out and scoring one more time to put a game out of reach. It is not sitting back and relying on your defense to run out a clock, and that is just trying to get the win. And just trying to win means you're accepting the real possibility you'll lose. Bubba's a nice guy and he's fixed a lot of what was wrong with the program, but I believe he's at the "Duluth" point again. He and his staff won't take the program any further. The personnel are there; the foundations are restored; but whatever "it" is to get the program to the championship level "it" just isn't there with this staff.

I said it then.

I'm sure it came to you as you woke up bleary-eyed one morning and saw ... Sad thing is that's probably the best thing you've ever woken up bleary-eyed to.

1A. Think: Fort Wayne or WIU. Either of them go and the BB autobid goes. 2A. Yes. * 3A. Greed and egos are involved so sooner than later. *OK, OK, my assessment is Chaves left EWU for Grand Forks so "not" for EWU. Weber I don't know much about.

I was still in, didn't realize it, and didn't pick Round 3 ... < facepalm > ...

Anyone know where I can send a few bucks so they can have appropriate models around the new building model?

I stand by the following statements: 1. The Summit is one school away from being in trouble with its BB autobids, and that one school is any one of about four schools. 2. The split between haves and have nots in the Big Sky is bad and will only get worse and will probably contribute to fracture (see: WCHA realignment as example). 3. Something will give, or break, or change, and western conference realignments will occur, primarily affecting football.