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    Gameday vs USD

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    On 9/17/2017 at 9:43 AM, UND-FB-FAN said:

    Beyond disappointing. I'm still in utter shock. This is the kind of performance where someone - either player or coach - loses a job, if you want UND football to be taken seriously. To justify yesterday's loss is completely pointless. UND didn't show up (to the point of the coaches and/or players giving up and not caring) and something MUST BE CHANGED. Figure it out Bubba. This was South Dakota - we handled a PAC-12 Utah far better ... 

    Lets get to the Montana State game and get this bad taste out of our mouth. This is a desperate must-win and Bubba needs to get his squad right, fast. 

    Sounds like a totally flat performance... maybe overconfidence??  Either way that's on the coaches.  I've said you guy gave us a good game.  Your O-line did decent against 3 future NFL draftees.  And though Studs wasn't able to stay in the pocket he extended every passing play and was only sacked once.  No way you guys should have had that bad a game as you had against USD if you played with the same intensity as you did at Utah.  

    Lines win games at every level.  Maybe you should be playing a 4-3 defense.  Might have to get creative recruiting.  I know you fans do all you can financially.  Maybe, start a program volunteer tutoring high school kids while wearing UND gear.  i mean you can't actively recruit them, but you can build some loyalty and in the mean time help some kids get into college.

    Honestly, North Dakota is a hard state to recruit... same with Montana and Wyoming... harsh winters make it hard to get out of state students. 750,000 for the whole state population and you are competing with NDSU for in state commits.  Trust me,  Utah is probably the third hardest school to recruit to in the Pac-12... only Oregon State and Washington State have it worse.

    UND at USD

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    7 minutes ago, CMSioux said:

    How can they leave out the only game between ranked opponents in the FCS Game of the Week voting? 

    You won last week... might be a rule you have to sit out a week.

    Non-UND FCS Thread

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    8 hours ago, homer said:

    I see you guys beat BYU.  How did the team look?  

    Very sloppy... we left like 4 touchdowns on the field and settled for FGs due to stupid penalties.  Statwise we dominated them but gave them 6 easy points with a fumble on our 20.

    LET'S HELP BUBBA

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    8 hours ago, cberkas said:

    Power 5 schools pay other FBS schools from the G5 to play them,  you don't see Alabama paying Ohio State to play them.

    The point of the matter is if you need the money why pay someone who is from your division to play you. 

    Actually when p-5 schools have to cancel their side of a home and home the pay out is in the millions.

    Same if a team wants to schedule a 2 for 1...

    UND at USD

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    3 hours ago, MoSiouxFan said:

    Good post.  Team game, team effort, for sure.  Nothing wrong with constructive criticism, but ragging on one or two people ad nauseum when everyone is giving it their all striving for one goal--winning the National Title--gets old fast. 

    Have really been impressed with Keaton thus far.  He's  playing like a senior--he's playing with poise and confidence and his passing has been on the money; night and day improvement just from last season.  I think his staying healthy will play a big part in how far we go this season.  BTW, I had the pleasure of sitting next to his (proud) grandparents at the game yesterday.

    Been telling you guys Keaton is a stud... Some people just don't listen.  :p

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    UND at USD

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    7 hours ago, Teeder11 said:

     Just spit balling here, but Rudy is the most "outsider" of the three top coaches and has the fewest good ol' boy connections in town and has absolutely no connection to UND's glory years of the 1990s and early 2000s.  So when things click, it's Bubba's doing, when things don't it's Rudy's fault...or the players' talents covered up for any ineptness. My hunch is their are hundreds of programs across the nation where this very same dynamic is playing out on fan message boards.

    So my question is what is the deciding factor for coordinators on good teams?  Are they inherently good, or is it their players' talents that make them good coordinators or cover up for them if they are deemed "clueless"? Or is it an arm-chair-you-know-it when-you-see-it-gut-feel kind of thing?  

    Actually it's kind of the filpside here at Utah.  Whittingham has been here forever and it's Troy Taylor's first year as OC.  But fans are calling for Whitt to keep his paws off the offense and let us see what Taylor can do.  Whitt is brilliant at defense and special teams, but offense isn't his forte and he should just stay out.  And we can tell when he doesn't, because something will pop up on the offense that is uncharacteristic of Taylor and familiar, so we know its Whitt.

    Good coordinators are a combination of good recruiters, good developers, good schemers and good X's and O's coaches.  Its pretty rare to find all 4 in a coordinator.  Harder to keep them (even at the highest FBS levels, because someone is going to offer them an HC position).  So generally want a head coach that is good at recruiting and hiring talented coordinators and coaches.  You want your coordinators to be good at schemes and adapting to schemes in game (X's and O's) and good at recruiting, evaluating the talent at hand and coordinating the coaches.  At the coaching level you want good teaching of fundamentals, developing players and teaching schemes (and recruiting).  Simple, neh? Add on to that you can only have  10 coaches total per NCAA. So if you can find a coordinator that doubles as a position coach like Troy Taylor who is OC and QB coach, bonus.

    I guess what I am trying to say is enjoy the good, tolerate the bad, if you can, (like having a good recruiter, developer and schemer who is bad at X's and O's in game)  and focus on how you can keep the good things you do have.  

    The most popular saying I see across every fan forum/blog/message board is "This is why we can't have nice things."  There is no pleasing all the fans all the time.

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    2017 Season

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    14 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

    wonder if they are going to hang it right in front of the big screens?

    Wouldn't that block the view if it was "right in front" of them?

    Da Bears

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    3 minutes ago, Bison06 said:

    One of the greatest offensive minds in the NFL is wrong? If you say so.

    Yeah, Arians best two seasons in the NFL were with Andrew Luck and Matt Barkley at QB two spread offense QBs in college.  You are talking an outdated concept by an outdated coach.

    Da Bears

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    1 minute ago, Bison06 said:

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000472366/article/bruce-arians-criticizes-colleges-spread-offenses%3fnetworkId=4595&site=.news&zone=story&zoneUrl=url%3Dstory&zoneKeys=s1%3Dstory&env=&pageKeyValues=prtnr%3Daround-the-league%3Bteam%3Darz%3Bconf%3Dnfc%3Bdvsn%3Dncw%3Bplyr%3Dcolin_kaepernick&p.ct=Around+the+NFL&p.adsm=false&p.tcm=%23fff&p.bgc1m=%230964bf&p.bgc2m=%23053a74&sr=amp

    Don't take my word for it.

    Sorry for the long link.

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    Arians' point is that spread quarterbacks haven't developed that feel for the game because they aren't asked to calls plays, master the opponent's changing personnel and nuanced tendencies and, perhaps most importantly, use field intelligence to perceive exactly where each defensive back and wide receiver is on every play.

    See Arians is wrong.   If you watched even the Utah-UND game our quarterback was constantly reading the defense and making decisions "using field intelligence" to keep the ball or dump it off.  

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