UND Football Fan

If Covid related and quarantine, yes

I know for a fact Brayden Thomas of NDSU was offered a PWO to both schools. He went to Mary and then Mankato and worked his his butt off. These kids can play, however many want to play within a few years and may not want to wait.

This loss stings. USD loss was the NDSU hangover that should not have happened. No Weah this game, I thought that would deflate the team. It may have but they rallied and had their chance to win. This league is tough, I may be an optimist but our season still has a pulse. Though it is faint. If those in the locker room won’t quit on each other and then anything can happen. Crazy things happen in college football. (Like a crappy 6-5 Western Illinois getting in over a solid 7-4 UND team) My brief take aways are: Defense is playing better then I expected except 1st quarter last two weeks. Holinka has grown as a defensive coordinator. Offensively I think UND is lacking an identity. Thus the inconsistency which is frustrating. As Forest Gump would say, “That’s all I have to say about that.”

He placed in shot and disc last year at state. He has been playing varsity I think since freshman year. He has decent feet. He is a great instate get. He could be a solid nose guard as he gets more size in my opinion.

Unless our defense gets it going, this has the feeling of the Idaho State blowout loss.

If defense performs well, we will win. If defense is average we may lose by two scores.

4th down call, instead of offense, I would have preferred fake punt because of the element of surprise. We did have the gutsy fake last year against SDSU I believe and that got the team going last Spring.

I agree with those who talk about stopping NDSU’s run game. Last year’s game, JMU loss and prior playoff loss to Nichols State shows we need to do a better job at this. UND needs to do what they did in the late 80’s and early 90’s which they schemed and recruited to beat NDSU. I think we are on the right track, hopefully this week we close the gap more or move ahead.

I don’t mind playing Drake, there will be plenty of physical Missouri Valley games. Need to develop depth.

I’m liking Isaiah Smith’s vision.

Disappointing

I agree, defense seems fine, offense lackadaisical for sure for the first part of the quarter.

UND 48-Drake 17

Conservative UND play we lose 20-38 Aggressive UND play we pull off the upset 41-38 on a gutsy 4th down call late in the game similar to Cal Poly a few years ago.

41-37 UND

I think attendance will be near normal unless hospitalizations go nuts like last November when we had to send patients out of state/ and bring in nurses from out of state to help.

This team is a tough match up double tight with wing, man on man blocking. Not able to get off blocks and their backs are shifty enough to make the first man miss.

D need tackle for loss, get them in 2nd and longs....

Need to help the defense, need to move the ball or it will be a long Sunday evening.

My pessimism 26-31 chasing a missed extra point and needing a TD late to win...., however if we can limit their run game and not get hurt by play action pass. We could pull off the upset.

I would like a UND blowout win but my gut tells me we may may give up some big plays early. Prediction is 34-28 UND win.

Their defense will be tough. They will probably have more QB run reads with the young QB, which we’ll need to adapt. We need no mistakes with turnovers and penalties. I am hoping for Danny to keep their defense off balanced. 23-21 UND.

First road game and this is their chance to beat a higher ranked team and may take some chances. 27-23 UND, if those chances turn up snake eyes, 40-16 UND.

I am still upset Western Illinois getting in and not us in 2015. The selection committee felt our 34-9 loss to NDSU with Wentz was worse then Western Illinois’s 59-7 loss to NDSU without Wentz......though over 5 years ago, I always wanted UND to play them and physically beat them and get the W!

I like how we are making 2nd half adjustments. Considering how good SDSU is up front we ran it well enough to have keep the defense honest, and have success in throwing the ball. Special teams were great minus the FG. I am excited on how things are going. South Dakota will be tough, cannot overlook them. They beat the Jacks at the end of 2019, they can be dangerous. However, as teams in the Valley are realizing we are also dangerous.