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This very well could have been a Shaugabay situation. What that would be is UND is interested, but would like to see more before an offer is extended. I don't know if they offered Zellers or not, I'm guessing not, but they didn't offer Shaugabay when he committed to Duluth. Obviously there are select players that will get offered before they play Juniors (Boisvert / McInnis / McMorrow). Those all will be playing Juniors this year though. Time will tell with Shaugabay and potentially Zellers if that was a mistake to take the wait and see approach.

Well that’s enough for today. Good news is realistically it can’t get any worse than this defensively. We are watching the absolute worst of something. 2017 was worse or no?

This defense is 2017 level bad.

No injury report this week from them.

Is state funding strictly tied to total enrollment? That would be UND: 13,876 / NDSU 12,242? The number that really stuck out to me was first time freshman. NDSU: 2,513 UND: 1,753 On Campus Full Time NDSU: 9,608 UND: 7,664 (or 8,457) Clearly with all the improvements made around campus that there is still very much an emphasis on on campus learning. Hoping to see those numbers tighten between the two.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/und-enrollment-up-for-fall-2022

Yes. I'll update stats about once a month.

BCHL Hedquist - G - ('03) - Alberni Valley: Wiebe - D - ('03) - Chilliwack: USHL Benoit - D - ('02) - Omaha: Croal - F - ('03) - Muskegon: Dunbar - D - ('03) - Muskegon: Panzer - F - ('04) - Sioux Falls: Singleton - F - ('04) - Green Bay: Livanavage - D - ('04) - Chicago: Ausmus - D - ('04) - Madison: Perron - F - ('05) - Chicago: Strathmann - D - ('05) - Youngstown: Slipec - F - ('05) - Chicago: Klee - F - ('05) - Waterloo: McInnis - D - ('06) - Waterloo: Boisvert - F - ('06) - Muskegon:

What I would consider the biggest unknown current recruit David Klee (May '05) is on the Waterloo opening day roster. He is the 2nd youngest player on the roster, with defensive recruit Keith McInnis being the youngest. Klee is going to be an interesting one to watch. He's listed at 6'3". USHL season starts tomorrow.

To SIU's defense, Incarnate Word looks like a legitimate Top 5 FCS team. The SEMO game would be the head big head scratcher for them.

This game has a different feel then the first three to me. I had UND going 7-4 on the year, starting 2-1. UNI / NAU I had as "must wins". One of the four loses I predicted was @ SIU. This game feels like "the opportunity game" to me. What I mean by that is this week, a win and you'll see an energized fan base. I don't want to understate how important that opportunity is. Reasons why I feel this is a winnable game. Lost a 50/50 game @ SIU just last year. Sticking to last years game, that was one of three games (Utah State / Missouri State being the other two) where UND's defense was awful. Very familiar place for this team. Rare going on the road to the same place in back to back years If UND's offense plays clean (which it did not against NAU), they can be tough to stop. UND's defense has struggled overall, but I genuinely believe that is mostly inexperience. Why not this week to really see improvement? UND's defense although it has struggled, has played pretty good red zone defense. As bad as some of the stats look, their points given up hasn't really followed that trend.

Miller mentioned four guys. Coley and Krzanowski returned. Schultz / Ball was on the 2nd to last drive. “UND safeties Ethan Ball and Jayson Coley, linebacker Devon Krzanowski and defensive end Casey Schultz each needed extra time to get off the field”

UND 27 NAU 13

Yes, usually about 24 hours before the game.

They only gave up 193 passing yards, which isn’t terrible. Or are they most to blame for the 244 yards on the ground? Or are you really fixated on that 3rd and long completion that Nebraska had?

From where I'm at, what we're seeing is an overreaction based on the UNI game. UND's secondary is not "scary bad", they'll be just fine. Defensively as a whole they were not great against UNI. Like I said originally in this topic, I think what we'll see is that more had to do with UNI's offense (which is really good) and their O-Line (which is really good). Guess we'll see this weekend. If UND defensively looks anywhere near what they did against NAU, then I'll start to worry.

I'm feeling good about this week and I think the betting line is pretty good. I think it's a closer Idaho State game from last year. I'm really excited to see this D-Line go to work against what appears to be a fairly average FCS O-Line.

So, you think UND is going to lose by 21 points to a team that's scored 13 points combined in two games? Or am I reading this incorrectly.

Only change to the Depth Chart this week is Bryant is back on it and listed backing up Anderson at Left Guard.

I would set the ticket prices for the end zone sections at 1/2 of the others, which I think would be $12.50.

It does appear that Northern Arizona has a solid FCS team. When you have a decent amount of turnover, we're still in question answering mode for UND. Honestly, this match up should give us a much better outlook what to expect the rest of the season. You have UND's offense, which looked really good in the 2nd half against UNI against NAU's defense which appears to be a really solid unit. UND's defense which looked very average / below average against UNI's offense, vs NAU's offense which has seemed to struggle early on. How good is SHSU? How good is UNI? I do want to point out, is although UND's home vs road record is fact, last year UND although they didn't win on the road, outside of USD didn't play that poorly. They played pretty well against Southern Illinois and Missouri State and I thought one of their best games at SDSU. I like this UND team, I think they are a legitimate Top 15 team. If that proves out, they win this game by 10 to 14 points. This is me putting a lot of eggs into the thinking UNI's offense is legitimately really good, and their O-Line is a Top 3 to 5 FCS O-line. If that is fact, then we'll magically see a much better performance on the defensive side this weekend.

Looks like seats have been added. Will be interesting what the total is today. Miller mentioned it as well when on Izzo’s show, that UND usually gets a good walk up crowd.

24 hours out and Ticketmaster shows about 2200 available tickets. About 1/2 of those being in the 3 end zone (non-student) sections. A nice walk up crowd should fill in everything between the end zones.

The #1 seed guarantee is based on a few things. Defensively they'll be elite. Goaltending above average. Offensively, an average / slightly above average NCHC Top 6, but where I really think this team will shine offensively is the bottom 6 / depth. I was thinking what forward group this team reminds me of and I thought 2019 had a lot of similarities. Coming off a very down year, they would come at you in waves. This is going to be a fun year.

This team is going to be really good this year. They will be a #1 seed in March.