Midwestern Hawk

If you are correct and either of the other two guys are that much better than Tommy, doesn't that bring up a myriad of other problems? I have gotten really excited about this program a few times over the last half decade only to have some very poor coaching usually bring my excitement to an abrupt halt.

I'll fall into line again, will likely be dazzled in a game or two and get my hopes up only to be home dreaming of what could have been...

So that is our choices? Two yards and a cloud of dust through the air or on the ground? Is that what you are saying? No designed QB runs?, no TE routes? rare deep throws? Just swing passes, WR screens and running the ball until we start to dominate on the ground and then mysteriously decide to throw?

Am I conversing with Danny's dad? How did it go vs Boise St? @SDSU? @UNI? @USD? even Sac St when it mattered? Let me know will you? It's not like this is the first year of this "2 yards and a cloud of dust offense"... How many times over the years has Danny out thought himself and done some ridiculous trick play(which fails badly) when we could have just run the ball? I'm not saying that the offense was worse than the defense this year, but often the biggest problem with a bad defense is the offense can't dominate TOP and/or gets behind a TD or two before it starts moving the ball.

Why are you so enthralled with Danny’s "2 yard pass and a cloud of dust" offense? It was poor in almost every big game we had this season.

I think after the 1st quarter, I will move my line to 35.

My mistake.

SDSU wearing them down. Long run to the house.

I've got NDSU by 10+ this afternoon. What does everyone else think?

Did you actually watch the offense this fall when it mattered(sans NDSU game)?

Complimentary football. Offense and defense can compliment each other or they can do the opposite. Look at UND game vs Sac St and then compare to USD game a week later. USD controlled the flow of the game, the clock and thereby helped neutralize the QB as a major factor in the game. There is a huge difference in a football game playing with the lead and playing from behind. I have already mentioned this, but when our D shut down Sac St in the 3rd qtr and the offense had the chance to take the game over, Danny and his offense failed miserably. Our offense was better overall this season than our D, but football is a team game and a game of momentum. UND failed in far too many games this season and the last few seasons to seize the momentum and the game against better competition.

The very top G5 & FCS guys will be poached by P5, but I think eventually the portal will settle down and certainly the significant NIL $ will only be available to very few FCS and G5 transfers. I don't think FCS and G5 will ever have significant NIL budgets.

I would think guys who start as FROSH and SOPH at FCS level will be very tough to keep in programs at least for awhile til the transfer portal shakes out a bit.

It’s not going to be a major influence at FCS or even G5. It will be a factor, but not a factor like the very top.

Yep. A game which should have been a spring board in so many ways, now looks like a tease, a distant mirage. The most troubling part for me is we can always have better players, but FCS football is about developing what you have and putting them in a position to thrive, making a bunch of guys who equal 6(on a scale of 1-10) and make them play like they are 8. This staff does the opposite. The talent on the UND football team has been good enough to make deep playoff runs for awhile now. The problem is coaching and lack of confidence. Most games they make the 6 into a 5 or less at least for enough of the game to lose, or barely beat an woeful opponent. If you are coached up you play fast, if you play fast you win the play, the more plays you win the more you believe and it builds on itself. This staff gets some momentum and calls a trick play which looks like it has barely been practiced, a series of passes when they are running for 5+ a carry or calls for a fake punt on its own 20 yard line when the defense is waiting for it. I'm afraid we will be stuck with 5-7 wins and a first round playoff exit(when we qualify) as long as this staff is intact. Go back through the Hawks results since the 2018 season. Every game since we lost in Seattle in 2018 was winnable with the same talent. Every single one, some would have been easier than others, I get it, but they were all winnable.

I guess next season we get to find out who is a the larger problem on offense, Tommy or Danny. I used to be really down on Tommy, but as time wore on I think more of the offensive woes can be traced to Danny. Tommy was never going to be more than a game manager, but maybe that is the way Danny wants it. Again, time will tell.

I hate to say it, but they are going to beat USD. F*CK.

Makes me sick.

After the NDSU-UND game earlier this season, which team was coached up and has gotten much better and which team got worse? I hate those guys, but how can you not be impressed? Jesus.

This is what scares me...

A different game with the lead...

SAC ST and USD announcers referring to SAC St not being able to stop UND run game last week... Coaching.... USD controlling TOP and the ball and keeping it away from The SAC ST QB... Hmmm....

We haven't seen the best of Danny and the offense yet? Wasn't this his 5th season as OC? What am I missing here? What is Danny waiting for?

In that situation? Then the head coach should have been replaced the next day.

OC from SDSU(passing coordinator there).