Midwestern Hawk

Bubba and the staff are fighting for their collective coaching lives.

The locker room has been in disarray for awhile, going back towards the end of the 2016 season. You guys obviously know how i feel about what is going on. There has been a cancer growing in what is UND football for too long.

I am hopeful that you are correct, but Bubba and staff needs to get everyone on the same page and get them so that 95% of their focus at UND is school and football.

You did not tell me when UND will beat NDSU?

Why are you here?

I am not defending Bubba, the season was a train wreck for a lot of reasons which had nothing to do with x's and o's. It is very easy for you to come on here at this point and say "I thought UND was going to have a great season, blah, blah, blah, but now UND is in the tank and Bubba will be gone." Do you spend this much time on Bisonville?

No you didn’t. Show me where you made that prediction. Oh wait, now you grace us with the post season unveiling of your preseason 2017 prediction and give us your 2018 prediction. Thanks for your insight.

UND will get back on top of the rivalry as they always do and then i doubt you will hang out here much. 2019? 2020? 2021? Maybe playoffs next year? What is your prediction Bison06?

It will be interesting to see how much Bison06 is on here after they lose their first D1 game to UND. Its coming.

The Utah team that UND faced was playing better than the Iowa team was that NDSU defeated. I'll stand by my comment.

I meant their personnel.

I said Utah had some incredible players, not that they were and incredible team.

No I was responding to some trolls on here(you?) at the time and agreeing with Gundy. I stand by my original post, Utah has far more players on its roster that will make a living on Sundays than Iowa does. The big Ten West minus Wisconsin is awful. Utah lost to Washington.

And Iowa is 6-5 this season after finishing 8-5 last season. Those comparisons are meaningless.

Lost all 4 LB starters to graduation and retirement and after Rodgers(maybe Larson earlier too) went down, we never found suitable answers. Probably could have made due, but then when it was safeties and corners too, it was goodnight.

No question Rasta's gets an A for effort. Just not sure he can be the kind of full-time player UND needs to run the style of defense we run.

Coaching in football is always supreme. Did any of you see Wisconsin's 2-3 star players pound Michigan's 4-5 star players? As Gundy said, this terrible season is on the coaches.

The ILB, S, and CB is where the defensive injuries took a huge toll and its where Blubaugh(F), Shannon(F), Rastas(RF) were called into service long before i think anyone thought they would be ready to contribute at a high level. I also think that all three of them would have looked substantially better if they were the only one of the 3 on the field at one time. So much of football is about confidence and momentum. IMO Blubaugh will be a player when the guys around him are all solid, the defense is stopping the run and also able to get pressure on the QB. Shannon looked the best of all three of them IMO, but the nature of his position is much different than CB or ILB. I don't think Rastas will ever be able to be the guy at ILB, I think if he can put on 20-30 lbs of good weight he can be a solid spot duty guy as long as the other ILB is very solid. In UND 3-4 scheme the ILB and S play huge roles in bringing pressure and the CB in being able to cover for 3-5 seconds.

So were the go ahead points vs NAU.

Yes. I am just going off what I have heard this fall. First 3 will be major contributors.

Adeotti(should not have been pulled as little as he was used), Blubaugh and Shannon.

If we can get everyone back, have a great offseason, find a qb, I think we can have a great season in 2018. I have heard that Kruse, Ott, Larson will all be standout contributors next season for us.

Illinois and Wisconsin loaded with talent, Bubba needs to recruit these areas harder.

63 players listed on the depth chart in the Spring Prospectus, 5 were not suited up due to search warrants being executed by the drug task force, and 1 was not suited up due to failing a drug test in fall of 2016.....10% of the players on that depth chart. I hope you are not arguing about there being a culture problem on the team. 10%.