SkoHawks

Noticed we had 3 guys on the next punt after the block...Montana only brought one guy up the middle, only one guy attempted to block him and looked like he almost blocked the punt. Why do we let these rushers come completely untouched up the middle, the closest route to the punter? I've always hated this punt formation, but it's probably because we don't seem to run the blocking all that effectively.

38-17 Hawks....setting us up perfectly for a huge letdown game at Sac St the following week.

How far will the Grizz shoot up the polls this week with a quality loss this Saturday? That's what I wanna know!!

Always interesting to see different polls and UND in them, but I'm kind of confused how Missouri St would jump 34 spots to #9 with a loss to South Dakota and Elon drops 5 spots after beating JMU.

were they actually 30 point underdogs? They were 9/10 in the polls, I thought I saw the line was around 10?

With Mortel only playing in 3 games (I believe) and already using a redshirt, would he be in line for a medical redshirt if he applies?

Status?? Also why didn't they set up both at the same time? Seems like that would've made sense to me, but just curious.

Our offense always seems to find a period of time where they can't move the ball which in turn tends to wear out our defense which leads to us not really blowing teams away that often. Let's hope we can change that, no better time to start than this week.

Montana hangs on late and beats UNI 26-23. UNI loves stacking up those quality losses.

I have NDTC for cable and they have a free preview of PAC 12 network that is going on. If you have any type of cable I'd check and see if that's going on for your provider as well. Also, maybe that means it'll be on the PAC 12 app.

I would say if you had to compare our team right now to any game last year, it would be the Missouri State game. If you use that game as a reference, it shows that we should be able to handle this team easily. We were able to beat a team by 34 that went in on the road and beat a team that beat MVSU by 52 points. Granted it is only a few games, but on paper this one shouldn't be close. I know they are hoping to be an improved team, but so are we. Now let's just show up and play a clean game. Scores from 2017 (home team bold) UND 34 Missouri St 0 NDSU 38 Missouri St 11 Missouri St 36 Southern Illinois 28 NDSU 72 MVSU 7 Southern Illinois 55 MVSU 3

If I even learn the name of any of their players, I'm going to be disappointed. We shouldn't even notice them on the field if we are hoping to be a playoff team or contender.

Anyone know if there's gonna be different/more/better in game music?

I do feel like we will go 9-2 or 8-3 and put ourselves back on the map in the regular season. I'm just hoping it was a combination of extremely bad luck on injuries and being too early in the upcoming to have enough depth. The depth chart having young OL in it hopefully says more about the strength of the 2016 class, as well as the potential of the 2017-18 classes more so than our OL being weak. DL should be back after somewhat of a disappointing 2017. ILB is worlds better, OLB has enough athletes to be good. More experience at CB. RB as good as it ever has been, QB competition should lead to better QB play. WR has the provens in Toivonen/Wanzek/Stanley(hopefully) plus Maag ( who I thought was a huge get since he committed and I watched his tape.....hopefully Kenny Golladay 2.0, but stays 4 years. And we've added the speedsters in Izzy/Greibel/McKinney, now's the time for them to produce. TE's.......potentially the best kept secret in FCS since we don't use them enough in the passing game.

true, technically 2nd round.......doesn't make me feel any better.....

2018 Prediction: 11-0, #1 seed, get upset in the first round of the playoffs.............Just trying to find out a more demoralizing way of ending this season than 2016 and 2017 combined..

As sad as it will be watching John and Brady graduate, it could be quite consoling to watch JJ hammer out 15-20 carries a game in 2019. Also nice to see Weah has looked good, and hopefully they can still add a quality RB recruit to this upcoming class.

This happens......but only after two weeks??? If you were serious enough to commit, I'd hope that you seriously thought about it and it meant something and if you were to change your mind it'd take more thinking than two weeks.......

If we went 7-4 and beat Sam Houston, they'd probably be lobbying for us as it'd make them look better.

If this truly is the case, I almost hope we don't see it until Sam Houston....should piss pound MVSU no matter what we do and don't have a chance against Washington so maybe hold that close to the vest until we have a game we could really benefit from throwing in some surprises.

The Sam Houston game has the feel of the South Dakota game. We win or are in a close game, we should have a decent/good season. We get the !@#$ kicked out of us and we're in for a long season.

I've also wondered if he could be a situational blocking TE or hell maybe even FB. Seems like he'd be able to excel in that role, although maybe not as much playing.

1. Cam Hunt- showed flashes last year, stays healthy this year and has a big year. 2. Alex Cloyd- big time recruit/athlete finally puts it together along with Rudolph learning what a TE is and Ketteringham finding him. 3. Ketteringham- whoever wins the QB battle is hopefully gonna break out, and I'm thinking Nate's the guy. 4. Sequin- hopefully all 4 of him, Ott, Morrison, and Honerlaw become studs, but I'm gonna pick Sequin here as the guy who breaks out first. 5. Blubaugh/Nelson- I'm gonna cheat here and pick 2, neither of these guys are expected to start, but Nelson just seems like a straight up bulldog who makes plays and will find the field. I still think Blubaugh was a real good recruit who just got thrown into the fire too early. I think he's a guy who lives football and improves drastically in year 2. It just seems too easy for holm and harris to be good enough and healthy to lock down the position all year.

Fair points above....but at least someone in the coaching staff has to have realized how bad it is for our program to not recruit QBs regularly...had to waste Studrud's first year, and then didn't seem to have any depth behind him when he got injured. The school to the south seems to recruit highly touted QB's in every class, knowing the value of quality depth at the position. I realize we probably aren't going to land a highly touted QB every year with our system, but I haven't even seen many offers for some either, at least this year. Can't get any if you don't try. Disclaimer: I will give credit to the staff for getting more transfer QBs in, our depth at QB is probably the best it's been with this coaching staff, but still we should be recruiting one quality QB and one RB every year, then we really only need to hit on them every 2-4 years.

So......Are we even going to try for a QB in this class or just pick up one last minute again? Doesn't seem like I've read about much interest or offers for one. Other than that and the fact I wish we had more commits at this point, I'm liking how the class is shaping up. Always nice to get some local/in-state kids, grab a couple hogs for the OL, and Riviere was a really big get for us, and if I recall correctly was one of the first players we offered.