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This is my thought as well, what are the big fears about the transition from DIII to D1? I'm honestly interested, to me if someone can coach, they can coach.

Appears Kleven is starting for the U18’s today, great opportunity.

I have no compassion for the defense after what happened tonight, stop them once and things would change. This was the worst defensive performance of the year against the (SEE NCAA STATS) 120th (?) offensive team in the country. To argue anything when looking at the body of work the opponent has is insane.

I can compromise, won't agree that the offense was horrid (given WS defense), but can you land on 80/20 defense? I mean make a 3rd down stop once!

Coming into the game wasn't Weber State's defense overall #4 in FCS and the offense was in the hundreds? To put what happened today on an even playing board is kind of ridiculous. Given the starting position overall the offense was ok. The defense given how Weber State has played over the first 7 games was embarrassing. Pretty simple. Good news is, this was truly the only game we've seen this out of the defense. When we are talking about a loss, there are a lot of positives to come out of this game.

Can you at least admit that Weber State came into this game with one of the top defenses in college football and one of the worst offenses? If you can't look at the stats. Now take a step back and reevaluate.

Come on, look at the opponents strengths / weaknesses. While you're at it, look at where the UND offense started the entire game.

This should be the only take away from the game.

Couple things in the big picture, before breaking it down, the final score is big. The playoff committee (pure guess) will look at records and score, I doubt many of them were actually watching this game (safe bet). The loss is tough, but the final score was 35-30 against the #4 team in the country. UND still controls their destiny. To the game itself, this game is 100% on the UND defense. Forget field position (which was bad), ST scored 14 points. The offense who didn't have decent field position the entire day held their own against a great Weber State defense. If you look at the Weber offense heading into the game (20% 3rd down, QB pulled twice for poor play), this is all on them. I can honestly say I've never been more surprised. This is all on the defense, they were pathetic as a group. A lot of this has to go on coaching. To go from 20% to over 50% on first downs is insane. I'm truly shocked by this. Importance of a football season is not to get too low, the reason they lost were on a unit we know is solid. This is an important learning lesson. Sucks that his was another truly big opportunity they failed at (again). Beat Idaho and everything this team has worked for is still in front of them. This isn't a bad team, just didn't perform today (defense ).

USHL Pinto - '00 (F): 4-6-10 (8GP) Halliday - '02 (F): 1-4-5 (7GP) Frisch - '00 (D): 2-2-4 (7GP) Mancinelli - '01 (F): 1-2-3 (8GP) Randklev - '99 (F): 1-2-3 (8GP) Costello - 00' (F): 1-0-1 (7GP) Reid - 01' (D): 0-1-1 (7GP) Miller - 01' (D): 1-0-1 (6GP) Schmaltz - 01' (F): 0-0-0 (6GP) NTDP U18 Caulfield - 01' (F): 4-3-7 (9GP) Rowe - 01' (G): 4.58 GAA / .837 SV% NTDP U17 Sanderson -02' (D): 0-6-6 (9GP) Kleven -02' (D): 0-2-2 (7GP) AJHL Bast - 00' (D): 3-5-8 (9GP) BCHL Blaisdell - 01' (F): 10-9-19 (17GP) Stratton - 99' (F): 2-10-12 (14GP) Bowen -02' (F) 5-5-10 (17GP) Rizzo - 01' (F): Injured, sounds like it'll still be a couple weeks Still very early, that's why I haven't updated until this point. Besides Rizzo, who's a lock to come in next year, Blaisdell, Pinto and Caulfield have had really nice starts to their seasons and based strictly on that should be the next three coming in next year. Frisch has been receiving rave reviews in Green Bay and Bast seems to have picked off where he left off last season. Surprised by the slow starts from Mancinelli and Randklev. Bowen & Halliday seem to be acclimating well in their first years of juniors as '02s.

UND hasn’t been winless through 4 games since 1994, that’s what’s on the line tomorrow. Berry is really doubling down after missing the tournament last year.

This. Aplin has played very well this year, along with the entire O-Line, not only is there no reason to disrupt the chemistry, but keeping Waletzko's redshirt would be huge.

Yes, great info. With Odom not dressing against Montana, my guess is they are indeed trying to keep his shirt intact. If the CB position stays mostly healthy, I like now using Siegel for 4 and then give Odom another game. Would be huge to not use Odom's. Edit: I thought Waletzko's was going to be pulled for sure, but appears he didn't play against Montana. That would be another one that would be huge if kept his intact.

Just win. After the Idaho State game, I looked at the next three games as a group where if they can go 3-0, they will be back to where they were before the Idaho State game. This team has a lot of momentum right now, play a smart, sound game and they should come out with a win.

The general consensus before the year started was 8-3 UND is in, 7-4 they are out, so none of that has changed. They just need to keep winning and the rest will take care of itself. I would think the team will be able to use this as a little extra motivation as well.

Was anybody surprised by this result? If you wanted to sum up the state of UND hockey, just show them this game, it had everything: (1) Inability to score (2) Awful PP (3) Mediocre Penalty Kill (4) Making the other goalie look like an All-American. Just picking up where they left off last year.

Correct, only tomorrows.

I'm sure they did the research to figure out this was more profitable than offering a single game option along with a weekly / monthly pass, but they are going to be leaving a lot of money on the table tonight by not offering a single night option.

I wish there was a week that everyone would agree on that he pollsters would take a deep dive into their rankings. Let's say Week 6, toss out the rankings before and truly look into them (as if they were the playoff committee) and really reset.

Can anyone remember how full those sections usually get for Family Weekend? UND probably would only need to sell 500 tickets throughout the stadium from now until kickoff to get the place to look really full with the remaining seats that show up on Ticketmaster.

What's going on in sections 210 / 211? It is Family Weekend, I'm guessing that's where the tickets usually are? If you go on Ticketmaster right now, it's probably a little deceiving unless there's something going on where all those seats are actually all spoken for. If that's the case, there will be a lot of people at that game. Still plenty of seats of course, but it makes such a big difference showing nothing in 210 / 211.

Started last week against UNC, but each week is like a playoff game, JUST WIN.

I've been shocked with the run defense the last two games, especially after what they showed, basically shutting down Washington who's a legitimate Top 10 team in the country and also playing very well against Sam Houston. The first half against Idaho State was like watching last years bunch and the UNC game they were able to run as well. It's puzzling for sure. If they get that fixed, with the way the secondary is playing, this defense could be pretty close to lights out.

I think this is probably a common theme among UND Football fans, I'm in the same boat. That ISU loss really stung and took all the momentum from the Sam Houston win. I was thinking about this as well, I'm in neutral right now, cautiously optimistic. Montana is a must win for the program, at home after a bye week. If they can get that done, you'll start to feel the enthusiasm again, going into the Sac State game, IF they win that one, I think this fan base will be back to where they were after Sam Houston going into Weber State. One week at a time, but they need to be in playoff mode right now.

Full list: B: Donovan ('19), Rizzo ('19) C: Bast ('19), Blaisdell ('20), Caulfield ('19), Frisch ('19), Pinto ('20) Did I miss anyone? I think the only one who I would have expected on there is Mancinelli. The CSS Preliminary Rankings had the year expected next to the player, did they talk to each player before coming up with those?