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Also, Hopefully the students don't flood the exits in a tighter game (or any fans for that matter, except maybe the opponents ) after they announce the winner of Bubba's bucks. It was a little disappointing to see, but I can definitely see why they would, game was already in hand and an 8 am tailgate start for a 4 pm game makes for a long day. Overall, I'd say hands down a better student section than anything we saw in 2016, including the playoffs. Keep it up Students!!

what's frustrating with Rudolph is there are times when he is just brilliant and times when he's so predictable and blah. Maybe he's got split personality disorder???

Disterhaupt can hold his own at ILB, and I thought Rastas looked pretty good in his debut. If Larson is back next week and is as good as advertised, we will be alright there. Also saw Nevermann playing some but didn't really notice how he did, anyone notice how he looked?

With this Larson injury, hopefully it just means other guys will step up and we'll have a healthy Larson as a stud SR ILB in 2021. Also interesting to hear Shannon's redshirt pulled, wonder if this will have any effect on blubaugh's being pulled or not

Main problem for tailgating is to get more people doing it. we can debate the perfect way to set it up now, but unless we pack the lot full of people, its kind of a failure any way you do it. I know we'll get there tho. I'm kind of intrigued by the tailgate pass for every game and pass exchange concept. Maybe there is a way to track your groups passes/spots so that if your spot doesn't get used for X amount of games, say more than 2 reg season games, that your spot gets moved to the back of the lot for the first offense (meaning for the following season) then lose your priority for a spot all together the second offense??

Of course things can change, teams have ups and downs, but you schedule games years out. My point mainly being that as of now has there been a tougher non conference FCS schedule, on paper, than 2019? I'm hoping for a FBS game for that year, a BIG conference opponent would be nice. The FBS game money is really nice for the program and athletics in general, plus you have to have confidence in your team to compete against whoever you schedule.

With the 2019 non conference schedule already including tough games @NDSU and vs Sam Houston St, any chance we are looking at trying to get a FBS game? or are we probably just filling it with a home game of the mediocre opponent variety?

What a stable of RB's we have. Past two years we've averaged around 45 rushing attempts a game. Would like to see something like 15 carries to Santiago (plus touches in the pass game), 10-15 for the Manitoba Moose, 10 to JJ or Gordon, hot hand or whoever earns them in practice, leaving 5-10 for Keaton and the jets. And I've forgotten Captain America, might as well let him pound the rock a few times.

Some season stats like Pts per game, pts allowed per game, rush yards per game, pass yards per game, total yards per game, same for yards allowed....just some common ones

Nice start so far to the 2018 class, but what/who are you guys hoping to add to complete it? For me, 1. Ron Audette (probably wishful thinking, but he'd look damn good paving holes for guys) 2. a QB - firm believer you should get at least a decent one in every class, if they don't pan out they are usually the best athletes on their HS teams and can move to other positions. 3. a RB - I know I know we're loaded, but optimally you can redshirt them and have them not even play until sophmore year, so by then you're looking at 2020. when JJ and Gordon are gone. 4. DB's - I like the additions of Kauppinen and Siegel, but always nice to get some DB depth 5. OL HOGS, HOGS, HOGS......can't have enough of them if we are gonna dominate the line and run the rock.

I'm hoping one of the young guys at Safety takes the job and runs with it (E.g. Randolph or Canady). we've got some depth back there in terms of guys that we feel have talent, but they just haven't been tested to know exactly what we have back there just yet. 1. Jaxson Turner 2. McKinney 3. Randolph 4. Haas 5. Larson Also, not freshman, but a couple guys who were limited last year that I'm hoping have big years are Cloyd and Engwall.....

Let's get it done tonight Hawks!!!! Play a full 40 minutes and we got this. Nervous, but excited, I guess this is exactly how a basketball fan should feel in March!

Wish Coach Maurice the best wherever he is headed. Hopefully he's moving for a logical reason (more money/responsibility, closer to family, etc.) and not because their was an issue.

One positive for the game is the fact we still had a chance to win at the end despite shooting so badly. Hate to even bring it up, but anyone else feel like we got out gameplanned/out coached some? We really let them set the pace for most of the game and just took us out of our rhythm, can't let that happen at home. Here's to hopefully "Seales"-ing the deal Saturday and next week

SHHHHHH, don't give away the secret sauce.... As of right now all of last year's season tickets are shown as unavailable right? I'm assuming most people will be renewing their tickets for next year, but will there be any shuffling of seats going on after people get their invoices? I wish you could see an available seat map for all the sections at once without having to go to the box office.