F'nHawks

It's interesting that Tennessee State plays NDSU in Fargo second game of next season

Why isn’t Hurst playing tonight?

Nice! Hope they have a uniform set to match. Not sure any current set would like quite right...

Not a great photoshop job, but happy to see him in a NORTH Dakota uniform, and I will say I think I kinda like that white facemask...

If the argument is that 5.25 yards per rush attempt is good, then wouldn't it need to be acknowledged that the "quirks" to our offense that you mentioned would be a contributing factor to that average? I don't disagree that there may have been times when a more straightforward playcall might have produced a better result. But, I don't know that we can completely oversimplify and expect to average 5.25 yards per attempt if we made dramatic changes to the offensive scheme (i.e. completely eliminate the "quirks" and "trick" plays). I think the plays within Danny's offense are good. But, probably room for improvement on the timing of certain playcalls and making sure the personnel involved are the right guys to execute the play being called. Of course, we're all frustrated with the record right now. But, I don't think things are as bad as it may seem at the moment...

How is a hamstring pull reflective of leadership? I can maybe hear what you're saying with Weah's situation, but we still don't have all the details, and one could also argue that holding him out of games is at least an attempt to teach...just my thoughts

And Team 6 beat Team 2 Everything points to the "quality" of your losses as being more important than your victories and the strength/quality of those victories. Is Team 6's win over Team 2 helping Team 2 more than it is Team 6??? It's a quality loss for Team 2, but "just" a win for Team 6...

Looking at STATS FCS poll and it appears losses must be analyzed as the differentiating factor, or at least carry more weight than wins. I removed team names, but kept them in order (#11, #12, #17, #18, #21, #22). Team 1 - 3 losses, 6 wins against teams with combined record 17-37 Team 2 - 3 losses, 6 wins against teams with combined record 18-37, beat Team 3 Team 3 - 3 losses, 5 wins (FCS) against teams with combined record 23-22 Team 4 - 3 losses, 6 wins against teams with combined record 19-34 Team 5 - 4 losses, 5 wins against teams with combined record 19-26 Team 6 - 3 losses, 5 wins against teams with combined record 21-23, beat Team 2 Seems UND has recently been a team that carries a couple quality wins to go along with a couple ugly losses so that probably impacts my opinion, but am wondering why it isn't a team's wins that are given more weight. To me, a team that has one or two bad performances but has beaten a handful of higher quality opponents deserves a higher ranking than one who can only seem to beat the lower quality teams.

Probably true. But I think a bigger concern could be EWU winning out to finish 7-5 with a win over us. Of course the ball is in our court to finish 8-3 and remove all concerns......

Heard it's a hamstring - not completely sure on the details (strain, tear, etc.)

I’m not nearly as qualified to comment on that as others on this board. But, we went from 2-2 to 3-2. To me that is the right direction, and for that I am happy.

Are you as disappointed with the win as your posts seems to indicate? Don’t want to jump to conclusions as I know what one reads isn’t always what the writer intended. But, you seem to be down after a win that has us headed in the right direction...

Not a true freshman - he was on the team last year

Has it been mentioned here that Clemson players tested positive for ostarine? https://www.usada.org/substance-profile-ostarine/

To Keep Avants out of foul trouble, I'm hoping we throw a combination of Rebraca, Walter, and maybe even Coudreau at Daum and make him earn all his points. Flatten and Jenkins are very good players too, so will take a good defensive effort on them as well. I wouldn't be surprised to see a fair amount of Igbanugo to help with that. I've been impressed with how different combinations of guys have given good minutes throughout this year. Stewart will need to play another solid game - make good decisions on scoring when it's there and setting guys up like he's been doing. Moody and/or Brown will need to get it going from outside to keep things open inside for Avants to do his thing and give Marlon some space to create. I agree with SW on it ending up at about a 15 point spread. But, maybe we can keep it lower scoring and be in it down the stretch.

Is win-loss record or conference championships and postseason appearances a more indicative measurement at this level of basketballl? It's a big deal to make the NCAA tournament for any team in a one-bid conference. Obviously it would be ideal to play for that spot year in and year out, but that's not realistic. I'm open to coaching change, but I'm also understanding of the ups and downs that I think inevitably come with playing at this level. Maybe my expectations are too low...

I dont like to play the fire the coach game. Here's a quick look at the recent performance of MBB. I know it doesn't cover the entire tenure of Jones, but I didn't want to go back further than 2010. Some good mixed with some bad. We've been in 4 conference championship games over the past 8 seasons, winning 3 of them. I know 2 of them were Great West, but those are conference titles nonetheless. 2010-11 19-15 Won GWC Championship 2011-12 18-15 Won GWC Championship 2012-13 16-17 Lost BSC Semis 2013-14 17-17 Lost BSC Championship 2014-15 8-22 2015-16 17-16 Lost BSC Semis 2016-17 22-10 Won BSC Championship 2017-18 12-20 Lost BSC 2nd Round

Limit turnovers, rebound, and of course make some shots (FTs included)! Looking for a breakout game from behind the arc for Moody and a bounce-back game from Seales. Hopefully Avants and Rebraca can keep the forwards highlighted by SWSioux in check and off the boards.

Right now it almost feels like we are using too many guys in the regular rotation. You can see that there might be some potential with each of the new guys, so I get that it's tough because how do you allocate minutes for each to thrive. It's too bad a we didn't redshirt a couple of them like we did with Moody last year. The rotation could get even murkier when Stewart returns. I'd like to see a core group of players emerge (preferably Stewart, Panoam, Billy, Moody, Seales, Rebraca, Conner) and then mix in Atelbauers and Walter as needed. That's already 9-deep and it doesnt even include Jal or Hazekamp or Marko. I'm hoping the bench shortens up as the season progresses and that Jones leans towards the meaningful minutes going to guys like Rebraca, Panoam, and Moody.

Even if Freund isn't promoted to OC, would it make sense for him to take on QB coaching responsibilities as part of re-shuffling positions on the coaching staff?

McNeese probably saying the same about us and our loss to Idaho

Apparently they'll be here in January...

Kentucky has not been up to Kentucky-like standards so far this season. Hopefully they don't decide that tonight's game is the time to change that. Will take a good rebounding effort and outside shooting to keep things respectable for the Hawks. 75 - 58 Kentucky As mentioned by SWSioux - no injuries and hopefully some growth for the inexperienced players on our team.

Definitely hoping the grey uniforms are not what we will be wearing at home all season - they are bad Moody can shoot it Jal has the raw athleticism, hopefully the feel for the college game develops quickly for him Atelbauers seemed to do a lot of the right things - a different style point guard than we've had the past couple years I was also impressed with Hazekamp I know they're not newcomers, but Cortez looked good (seems to have the midrange game in midseason form) and Avants had a solid 9 & 9 in 12 minutes

C’mon - can’t be punting on that 4th and 1.