Midwestern Hawk
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41 minutes ago, Shawn-O said:
And yet I’ll be here next August for all of it. What a weird little addiction, and I think I speak for a lot of us.
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...
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7 minutes ago, Goose15 said:
Or maybe you would prefer to hire back Paul Rudolph?
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?
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Just now, Goose15 said:
The same offense that scored more points against NDSU than South Dakota did in two games? The same offense that works around the strengths of its QB? We certainly didn't push the ball down field every play, but that's not the strength of our offense. I am glad that "dust" allowed us to be a top scoring offense again this year. (24th in the FCS)
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.
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1 hour ago, Goose15 said:
I am glad South Dakota's great offense after 1 year showed up to play today... Oh wait it is against NDSU though and apparently we can't count games against them according to some on here.
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.
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1 hour ago, Midwestern Hawk said:
I've got NDSU by 10+ this afternoon. What does everyone else think?
I think after the 1st quarter, I will move my line to 35.
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1 minute ago, Shawn-O said:
Yep here comes the soul crushing drive. Idaho-Albany winner goes to Brookings.
My mistake.
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SDSU wearing them down. Long run to the house.
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I've got NDSU by 10+ this afternoon. What does everyone else think?
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9 hours ago, Goose15 said:
He has spent 5 years building up a good offense. Now recruits are starting to take notice and if you look at this last years and next year's class on offense we have some serious talent coming in. This talent will take our offense to another level.
Did you actually watch the offense this fall when it mattered(sans NDSU game)?
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43 minutes ago, wheelsup said:
Im on this page as well.
- Barring continued attrition in the portal it seems like we should have a very strong offense returning.
- At some point the defense has to show up so that the offense doesnt have to be perfect.
- I think the defense struggling so much put a microscope on the offense
- If either Tommy had played better or Danny had called better plays we all would still be laughing. Tommy had some really bad turnovers and missed plays.. If he makes those Danny looks like a pretty smart guy. Danny had some games that if he would have called runs the game was over and Tommy wouldnt have looked so bad.
Ive always been a Tommy supporter.. He was a big step up from Kett.. This year he took a pretty big step back IMO and Im not sure if it was more of a Danny or Tommy issue. I know we have spent a lot of time talking about Tommy and Danny but the biggest issue by far was the defense.. and its not even close.
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.
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13 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
I was asking specifically about hockey, but I disagree that NIL won’t be a major influence at FCS or G5. The best players at those levels will continue to be poached every year from the big boys with even minimal amounts. FCS will be significantly diminished in its talent level in my view as a result.
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.
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10 minutes ago, Kab said:
The top ones will enter the portal if and when they become that good
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.
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2 minutes ago, Bison06 said:
If it becomes a major influence will UND be positioned well to stay as competitive as they’ve been?
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.
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2 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
Unreal. One of the biggest collapses and coaching failures in recent memory. How everyone still has a job on UND’s staff after the post-Oct.14 letdown is even more pathetic.
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.
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41 minutes ago, Parkers Pros said:
Hard to disagree and truth be told I am a Tommy guy. There are several games we lose without him.
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.
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Just now, Sioux>Bison said:
The NDSU mean little when we are sitting at home while NDSU advances. The dynasty is far from over.
their game at USD will be much easier next week. Bison in the semis once again and in one of their worst seasons
I hate to say it, but they are going to beat USD. F*CK.
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Just now, Shawn-O said:
Man has October 14 ever lost its shine.
Makes me sick.
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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.
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18 minutes ago, Parkers Pros said:
I think a reality we need to embrace is nobody really knows what we have at QB including the coaches till the bullets start flying next fall. If either Trey or Jerry were better than Tommy in the coaches eyes, I’d think they would have played.
The bigger question I have is do the quarterbacks we have fit Danny’s system. I assume that’s why they were recruited. But Am I crazy to think that a more mobile QB like Romfro fits the system better and somehow sneaks through in the coming year or two? Because this offense doesn’t really push the ball down field. it should, but it doesn’t seem to, and I don’t know if that was a byproduct of Danny, or of Tommy. If it’s the offense, then what’s keeping a guy like Romo from competing? And let me say I’m not advocating for this kid, but I have a little PTSD from that QB from last week who ran all over us and athletically reminded me of Romfro.
This is what scares me...
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4 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:
Sac State already have two penalties, an interception thrown and they fumbled returned for a td early in 2nd quarter
NONE of these vs us
ugh
A different game with the lead...
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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....
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9 hours ago, Goose15 said:
Can't argue with the offensive outputs in the games you mentioned, but Tommy had terrible turnovers in two of those games. And against Indiana State we had a terrible start and still managed to get 30 points in regulation. We haven't seen the best of Danny and his offense yet. With a new QB and plenty of weapons next year, I expect us to see more than we did this year!!
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?
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2 hours ago, homer said:
Guessing the special teams coordinator called it.
In that situation? Then the head coach should have been replaced the next day.
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3 minutes ago, siouxfan512 said:
What coaching change? Nielson is still the guy. Did they change a coordinator?
OC from SDSU(passing coordinator there).
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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.