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Blake’s last rush was incredible. Diced through everyone like they were standing still. Nice work. Good outcome and felt like we deserved this one.

This team looks like it could make some noise in the summit. Lots of skill and lots of length. Still missing a true big, but 1 through 4 are solid. Long and very athletic with better shooting than we have had for a while. King is a legitimate playmaker who can find the open man. I am looking forward to this season. May need to get hotel rooms in Sioux Falls. As to the freshman, Bothun and Kraft were clearly the two that stood out and looked like they belong sooner rather than later. Bothun could be ready to contribute after a redshirt year. Kraft needs to take a year to learn how to play defense at this level and get in the weight room, but Zach may be one of the best shooters we have had in a long time and he gets the ball out of his hands quick. With an offense that moves and finds the open look, Kraft will be able to knock those down. Erickson clearly needs to improve or he will not make it at this level. Doppler showed glimpses of talent, but may be an inbetween size at this level. There is at least some potential there though. Add in Tyree next year and we have a nice looking team for several years to come. Bring on the Summit!!!

NIce job extending the play and finding the end zone by Tommy there. Finally a sign of life.

Third and long and yet another pass behind the line of scrimmage for 4 yards. You can’t make this up any more. 71 yards is what we will likely have for the half against a god awful winless team. But hey we will jeep Tommy’s pass completion percentage over 70.

We are now scoreless in 6 quarters against 2 teams with a combined record of 3 and 11 at the time we played them. Maybe need to think about some adjustments in game plan or personnel???? And we have 65 total yards against the 0 and 7 team half way through the 2nd quarter…. We will be lucky to have 3k in the seats by the next home game…

3rd and 15 and guess what? We throw a pass behind the line of scrimmage for 5 yards. Who would have guessed??? After a gimmick play against a team we are 28 point favorites. Seriously Danny???

There is a lot of season left. We can still make playoffs, if we learn from the South Dakota state and northern Iowa losses. As we have all year, I expect we will play well at home, and I hope we have our full compliment of fans tailgating to support them. We will certainly be there. We do, however, need to learn from these very very bad road losses. One, the coaches need to have the team prepared and ready to play on the road. That has clearly not happened. 2, if something isn’t working, adjustments have to be made. Teams stack the line of scrimmage , as every team should do if they watch film on us, there has to be adjustment to stretch the field. If Tommy can’t do that, we have the deepest quarterback roster we’ve had in years. We have a very good stable of wide receivers, including a proven Transfer portal deep threat. Use them. If we are struggling with pass protection on the line, don’t go with an empty backfield, and not provide any protection for the quarterback. Adapt To the situation and don’t just play the game plan that you thought you were going to play whether it works or not. Recognize and adjust. Clinging to a game plan stubbornly when it is clearly, not being successful is not a Sign of coaching, prowess. Recognition and adaptation, are what separates poor coaches from the great ones. That to me has been our biggest failure from a coaching staff. If it works, great. If it doesn’t work, do something different. Make a change.

Last week we controlled the trenches and our linebackers and secondary came up hard to meet the play. I thought we turned the corner and went back to hard nosed UND defense of old. Then we go back to this. Compliment that with a passing scheme that is entirely behind the line of scrimmage and here we are. I was thinking about driving down to vermillion but having visions of the 40 point blowout I witnessed the last time I went down there thinking we could compete on the road…

Bubba is a wonderful human being but his ability to motivate a team on the road may be the worst in UND history. We look like a different team altogether on the road - scared, no aggression, manhandled in the trenches, and not assignment sharp. Not at all how we look at home. Tommy looks like he doesn’t know what to do when the opposing team reads film and protects against passes less than 5 yards deep. It’s one thing to get beat on the road. It’s another to not show up any time you leave the comforts of home…

If we play like we did in the first period and sustain that for an entire game, I like our chances. Minnesota is a very good team. They are fast and skilled. We matched that and maybe surpassed it in the first period but looked sluggish the second and third. Too many turnovers and odd man rushes given up after the first and just lacked the intensity and team play we saw in the first. Our goalie looks legit and we do have some high level talent. Maybe I’m overly optimistic but I expect we will be a much better team this year and hope by the second half we will find our consistency and our chemistry. There were glimpses in the first of how good we can be.

Jackrabbits are very good. Manhandling our defensive line and showing why we had concerns with linebackers and secondary going into this year. We give too much room, don’t come up hard to meet the play, and have some tackling deficits. That results in giving them 5 to 10 yards almost every play. They are really good, but scares me for the next several weeks with how weak we have been defensively. We also have to get our receivers PAST the line of scrimmage for a pass. They are absolutely daring us to beat them more than 5 yards downfield and we won’t do it.

Just once I would love to see us throw past the first down marker on 3rd down rather than always 3 to 5 yards short of it.

Still befuddles me to see CJ and Bo taking kick returns in a 28 point game with 6 minutes left…

Eliodor absolutely pancakes his defender after driving him back 15 yards to give Skokna room to run. He deserved the td pass after that block…

Three god awful calls in a row all against us in the last 30 seconds. Terrible charge call on Gordon after 5 for Omaha has knocked down players continually without a single charge all game long.

Found a little life here. Have to get Davis out of there through. Too small and can’t shoot outside to save her soul. They will just give her the shot…. would really like these officials to make one three second call and one travel call sometime today. That has been horrible. 00 for Omaha walks and Carrie’s it every time she touches the ball…

Kacie is heating up but the turnovers are killing us. Just dumb turnovers that are unforced. We have to have someone hit the wide open 3 on omahas big girl. She barely leaves the lane and we won’t take the shot.

If we get over our turnover fest, we will be fine. Haven’t shot well at all, have had way too many turnovers and are still right in this.

One other game that really should be in the top 5 was the win over Emporia in the Elite 8 in Pine Bluff Arkansas - which is kind of a misnomer saying anything is elite in Pine Bluff. Despite being number 1 in the polls literally all year long, the announcers were giving us no chance whatsoever. The Kurscaite twins were twin towers destined for the WNBA and would eat us alive. Jenny Crouse ended that story and Jamie Pudenz and Katie Richards were incredible. Emporia brought a nice crowd to the game as did UND and the place was electric, unlike the other games where each team brought 20 people to the game. The game was the semifinal but truly was the championship. I remember doing the Conga with Gene Roebuck in the hotel bar attached to the arena afterwards. Truly one of the best UND women’s games I have ever seen.

Sather and crew made major strides forward at the end of the year. Hope we can build on that and keep our young players for next year. Would love to see Norman back. He developed into a serious 3 point threat at the end of the year.

Trey has done a nice job today. Made a couple of perfect back door feeds which are there all day with their overplay on the outside. We seriously need to learn to talk on picks though. Can’t figure out switching or not switching and someone is left wide open. Half the reason that everyone shoots 50 to 60 percent against us…

I can’t remember if he was last year but he was not out with the rest of the seniors this year. Just Brady, Nero, and Norman…

Still listed as a junior but was one recognized as a senior and Seuker was not…

Congratulations and thank you to the seniors and Mal. They have been a big part of turning around a program where we were praying for a win - any win - a couple of years ago to a culture where we expect to win again every night. It’s great to see the program as a contender again. Now let’s finish this out and get into the post season.

Is there a benefit to dumping the puck out of the defensive zone to let DU bring it back in while down 4 goals that I am not understanding? Would it be possible for us at least try and connect a pass to one of our own players for a change???