UND Football Fan

My guess if he is Vern would let Bubba know. Wish Red River stayed at the higher level of football in North Dakota.

Coach to your personality, back in the D2 days Fire (Rocky) Ice (Thomas). Viking fans Zimmer or O’Connell. I remember back in 1992 Sioux driving for the go ahead score and Wahl gambled on a sideline pass for a pick, UND lost 20-19) Bench him for the bad pass, or chew him out on the sidelines like former NFL coach Ditka. Good coaches find ways to motivate players to get better, some players you can rip on and they respond others you teach them what to do. If they cannot perform next man up.

When we had 7 wins and left out, it was said the Idaho State home loss that was the excuse. We beat play-off , first round by Portland on the road, blown out by playoff Montana, loss to SU and 1 point loss at Weber.

Reason for loss is mainly turnovers in my opinion. When you’re an underdog you cannot lose in the turnover battle and especially cannot give up or lose points from them Fist pick 6, second denied a fg, and third short field TD Jacks.

My guess either we did not anticipate that coverage or someone missed a block. I agree Tommy shouldn’t have thrown it. They were aggressive to the pass to wr in the flats and with a four man rush and 7 in coverage, a team can do that. A dominant front 4 can win many games. Especially if a team is forced to throw.

Need to play well for sure. 7-4 we are in. 6-5 I doubt it.

I still feel we are a playoff team, not a top 10. Take away the turnovers it would have been a one score game. My ‘83 Raiders could win that way but not us.

I agree Turnover 1: pick 6 Turnover 2: denied 3 Turnover 3: set up SDSU TD

Looking how small our defensive front is compared to NDSU and SDSU. I wonder if we need to adjust how we either recruit or go with a 4-2 type scheme. Maybe it’s our poor secondary and we need max coverage, but we have not pressured teams into making mistakes like we have in the past.

Part of that is Tommy, another part is 4!man pressure with maximum pass coverage

One thing about SDSU, they big, strong and fast on both offense and defensive side of ball. Only team that can beat them is themselves.

If he would have hit Tommy targeting, he missed him. So I’m not sure what rule is.

To be honest if you lose the turnover battle to the top team in the nation, the odds on winning is very slim.

USD wins 27-24

Without balance their front 4 will continue to abuse our young line with their pass rush.

Not looking good at all, need something to change this momentum. Their playmakers are taking over.

108498 comments reminds me of a Cleveland fan.

If the coaches and players believe that you are right. But, if we are a playoff team, we focus on the next 30 minutes and not the last 30 we can pull this out.

Frustrating, I thought Tommy did the right thing on running because we did have two lineman down field, then he took he under threw the fade. Need to regroup and win the last 30 minutes of this game.

Damn

I’m thinking 42 to be safe

That drive is why I like Tommy, bad pass for defensive TD, continued to be calm and be able to play well.

This game will be very interesting: Spring Season we looked as though we were to be run out of the place down 14-0 and we run a fake punt got a first and scored and momentum changed we won the game. 2021 a game I thought we would lose by 2 scores because at SDSU and they needed win for seeding, we were driving for the winning score but with lack of time forced costly pick ended the game. This is a winnable game. As said before offensively we need to continue to what we do. And keep their offense off the field, if we can control the clock we can wear on their front 7. Defense will probably need to bend and not break and take chances with blitzes as they get inside the 40. This offense will be the best since SIU, hopefully crowd brings noise so we can generate a pass rush with 4. Defensive success will be dependent on the offense, if behind early SDSU can dictate tempo, if we have lead it may limit what they want and thus we can put guys in way better position to make plays. Special teams need to win this. That’s is a big reason why we won against Youngstown and SDSU in the Spring Season. If we are a playoff or top 8 seed contender we should win, it’s difficult for a great team to win back to back tough road games against quality opponents.

Found this the other day (January 1917), Orange and Black for football….I think not.

I wouldn’t be surprised not ranked and below Missouri State in Coaches Pole.