UND Football Fan

Bagnell would be a good get if it is for running back coach. He has been a winner all his life and considering how crappy Mary was prior to his hire and how competitive they were the last two years.

Translation: If a women’s team plays defense like any other men’s team they (women’s team) will be called for more fouls.

Or keep them honest haha, seriously NDSU struggles the most where they cannot get the run game going. Also every quarterback they (NDSU) starts is a dual threat and against the good teams the qb runs are called more.

Old school football, why pass when you can run.

Besides it is difficult for a team to beat a team twice. NDSU peed down their leg and made some crappy play calls last time. I don’t see that happening this time. SU should win by two scores. If Mt State wins they will not stand up to the physicality of SU’s run game.

Winning is a habit and great players make plays when they need to.

To be honest if we would have beaten Western Illinois and not played Northern Iowa (if UNI still 6-5). I could see them getting the 3rd spot for the Valley and we be slighted.

Preferably not the Safety Dance…

When I was young…NFL Strategy!

Last 3 playoff losses gave up over 300 to Nicholls over 200 against James Madison over 300 against Weber Cannot go deeper without being better against run. Either scheme or recruit or position coach change. 3rd down defense was poor all year. Not sure if it was talent, scheme or position coach. I am certain or at least expect that there will be some type of changes for the next year. Offense controlling the ball was huge this year for helping our D.

What do you guys think? Defense in the same place as our offense was in Rudolph’s last year when we laid an egg to Northern Arizona as our o-coordinator? Do we get a new D coordinator with new ideas. Offense did fine, and we have several pieces returning. Defense was almost like it was under Mussman this season. Sometimes it looks like scheme, other times poor fundamentals. Hopefully transfer portal and in-coming freshman can add depth and talent to our defense.

If I dare to predict, which is the optimistic aggressive (Youngstown) and with confidence (Northern Iowa) games … we can win 38-34. If we play conservative, which most FCS teams do in the playoffs…. 28-41 loss. I’m banking our staff and players are hungry to redeem themselves and win this!

As a former college lineman decades ago, I personally saw nothing wrong. Magg’s movement initially looked running and the player grabbed longer because of movement and momentum made it looked worse in my opinion. This come from a guy who hates DB’s because they talk crap or annoy by kneeing your head as you try to get off the ground from a cut block. They knew we linemen rarely can get revenge in a game. Linebackers and defensive line to me had more respect for each other during a game, because during the course of the game there are opportunities to settle feuds. As to that Happy Thanks Giving and beat Weber on Saturday!

That’s why (in my opinion) offenses and defenses need to play guys (especially with up ceilings) in games even if it is to burn a redshirt. The 40 plus carry days of Phillip Moore are gone. Hard for athletes to stay 2-3 years and play scout team and hope to see the field in jr or sr year. Coaching success is no longer recruiting but also maintaining rosters and building relationships with kids who may go elsewhere (so if they enter the portal they may want to go to the school that showed genuine interest). It will be interesting which coaches adapt and those who do not.

Win this game, it will be a small step into getting respect and great exposure to recruit the athletes we need to take this program to a higher level.

Idaho or Idaho State, don’t know if it is altitude or what, but we have not played well in the state Idaho.

Maybe we need to think outside the box, get some those guys to run track to get them faster. Some of the FBS teams have athletes that do both.

It’s going to be a long 17 hours to see our fate.

Or disciplined on D

Or is punting telling Entz we surrender?

Maybe Fargo’s AD will want us in, so if we can win in the first round we play them again.

Hopefully, we do recruit or we can get some through the transfer portal. Consistent winning seasons should help with recruitment.

I’m not referring to the 80’s Bizun, yes they can run spread but it all starts with the run. We are not recruiting/scheming dealing with the physicality and size of their line. Fargo can go I run and QB zone run read. We may have to go with 4 man line or a 4-2. With how our defense been over the past few years against a physical run team has been slow death with run (Nichols, and Spring playoff game) The last few years we have had a decent secondary, however this year it has been uncharacteristically horrid.

I said this a long time ago, we need to do what we did in the 80’s. Develope an offense and Defense that can beat NDSU and recruit players for that scheme to beat them.

I did, turned the channel. Watching SS to get updates.