Midwestern Hawk

If Shuster relieves in the 2nd quarter in Cheney, we likely win the game. Not sure how Bubba and co stuck with Kett after it was getting painful to watch last Saturday.

We will find out this weekend, but my hunch is there is NDSU talent, JMU talent and then about 20-40 teams at the next level including UND. If UND keeps the TO to 3 and Kett does not play like he is a guy from San Diego playing in the snow UND wins. I think out strength and development stinks and personnel decisions at QB especially have been bad to pitiful over the last few years. We need to coach and develop our way to the top of that group of 20-40 teams and then we can set our sights on the Bison(unless they falter).

It’s not talent. It’s development, personnel evaluation and in some cases coaching. Last Saturday we had a qb who was at least partially responsible for 6 turnovers. We lost by 2 tds. If your personnel evaluation was correct EWU would have beat us by 50 with 6 TOS. Kett should have been pulled in the 2nd qtr.

Scary

You play the best player for the team always. So many variables 4 yers from now. School, injuries, etc. Play Shuster now. With average QB play we win today by a couple of scores....that’s with average QB play.

It is bad. He just falls to the ground.

Again, not sure how they stuck with Kett in this game. He is a turnover machine that is scared to death with someone in his face.

I can’t imagine Kett has not lost the team. C’mon Danny and/or Bubba, gonwith shuster.

Defense was not good in first half. Offense was pathetic the whole game.. Turnover machine.

Eligibility? Who cares.

Kett was awful today. No idea why he was not pulled much earlier.

Why is Kett still the QB?

Kett looks like a deer in the headlights.

How a team from North Dakota that looks like it can’t play in weather?

JJ looks like he has zero lateral movement.

Ugly mess so far. No offense or defense.

Correct. Student apathy is a problem just about everywhere.

Is that a problem in the current athletic program and especially football? When was the last time a 6'5 270 lb frosh became a 6'5" 310 beast by the time he was a jr/sr. Maybe my expectations are too high but I question our S/C development.

Who was strength and conditioning coach at that time? IMO with very few exceptions, great OL's are made in the offseason.

Completely agree with comments on JJ. He does well when he is running downhill(2-3 yards beyond LOS) and north and south. Lateral runs are not working with him at all. The same thought crossed my mind on that last 4th and 1. Would Donnell or Noah give us a better shot of getting the first down.

Defense was on the field too much. Need to find a running game to run clock with the lead. Looked like some guys on defense were playing angry at the end, loved that.

Great win today under the circumstances! Big stop by d at end!

The NDSU drive before the half to make it 21-7 was huge. Not sure why Schmidt went with backups in the front 7 on that drive. 14-7 at half is a much different game than 21-7. Also the Zimmerman throw on UND first drive of 2nd half and the subsequent NDSU FG changed the dynamic of the game even further. Hopefully Zimmerman learns from that, I understand trying to “make a play” but that was throwing it up for grabs.

At some point NDSU will falter and. that will be UND opportunity. The team we lined up against last Saturday is at the pinnacle of college football(and it pains me greatly to say that). 7 out of the last 8 FCS nattys, 6 FBS wins in a row. Which FBS teams would be favored vs NDSU at the moment? 20? 25? We need to focus on ourselves, win 8-10 games consistently, win playoff games, get HPC II constructed and be ready to pounce on the opportunity to bypass the Bison when it comes.

A team which was pummeled by Montana last Saturday.