UND Football Fan

I remember both playoff games. 1995 UND team was depleted at corner had a short corner compared to Cheatham on the other side. That was the year Rob Berthiaume passed prior to start of season. 1994 playoff game was a defensive battle.

We come flat, SIU last year all over again. We start slow and play decent D, NAU road game of last year. We play well early, I do see a one to two score win like Youngstown last year. It will be a physical game. If we expect to make playoffs and go beyond first round, we must win this game!

I do find it funny when some of their fans complained that our fans rushed the field. Don’t they (fans that complained) watch college football, when teams beat a higher ranked team or have not beaten a team in a long while fans do that. Coach Prime’s win over TCU, or yesterday Oregon missed FG and Washington fans rushed the field. That’s the excitement of college football! Only complaint I would agree with is flashing horns down in front of their player would be unsportsmanlike and 15 yards, but did not affect the outcome of the game. Less than two hours and focus on UNI. Coaches will be focused, players need be focus and realize UNI season is on the line this week and they will not quit especially at home.

I thought it would be tight because of our run defense in the past and play action that they could run from that. 49-17 in the 4th, I was like this is a historical victory. The coaches definitely got them prepared for this one.

Only one noticeable bad snap and a sack on miscommunication (that is what it looked like) they out physical them today! Hopefully that confidence spells over next week!

Rocky’s excuse was scholarship reduction that the ended D2 dynasty, this FCS dynasty ending will be blamed on the transfer portal.

Saw this on TV, when I saw this, I felt the energy and team is ready….air was ripe for opening of a case of &ss!

Great on all phases, as an o-line guy it was awesome to see us run and win the battle of the trenches and defense playing fast and getting off blocks. When we blocked the punt, it reminded me a little when KJ Coughlin blocking a punt and got us rolling in the Fargo Dome. Seniors wanted this and, it showed!

1993 we got over the hump, I’m hoping History repeats 30 years later and we do it again in 2023!

Good team win, nice to blow out teams that we should. Red’s injury concerns me along with Bo. Snaps we clean we did not run lots of trickery on Offense. Skokna looked fast on his TD run, which was great to see. Back-ups played well in mop up duty. I expected a 4 score wind and we exceeded that. We were able to get them off the field (7-20 on 3rd/4th down I think). Defense played with confidence (albeit Western Illinois is bad). I hoped to see a different QB to run wildcat then Q (I thought Trey, but Romfo looked good running it). Next week, Need to continue to get SU off the field on third down again. My guess they will try to be like SDSU and out physical us on the defensive front the run. Offense we need to run effectively, our offense gets decent chunk yards when we run play/pass or misdirection with a good run game. Wanting to see History repeat itself and we get a 1993 moment that ends the streak and gets UND over the hump!

If he led him it could have been picked, he probably could have ran for the first. Unless you were not talking of the boot.

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My hope for this game is dominating the trenches both sides of the ball. But most importantly having defense stop them at least 2/3’s of the time on 3rd down. We are a ball control team and if we cannot get them off the field it will be closer than it should be. Being home again I’m expecting a 4 TD win.

I would respectfully disagree, as I said, I recall our d-line was a MASH unit. We got slaughtered by Eastern Washington and with the decimation in the trenches we rebounded and won some big games at home, but bubbles burst at Nichols in the playoffs. I am fairly certain we were putting red shirts in for 4 game shots so not to lose their illegibility. Maybe my memory is poor but, I don’t recall Schmidt leaving; people saying problem solved. I did recall people nervous about Holinka’s hire.

He was with the DeBoer at Southern Illinois and then went with home to Fresno. Eric I thought did a fine job especially the last year where injuries depleted the D-Line and yet the defense was respectable. If I recall they played redshirted freshman to fill in on the since it was a MASH unit of a defensive line.

I don’t know, if it’s Feeney or Jerry (toward end of year not to burn red shirt) I like an idea of a running athletic QB that can give defenses fits or at least off balanced with QB run and still have our regular offensive schemes. Hopefully Feeney has some shiftiness like his dad did at SU. I am not advocating a platoon system, just packages to utilize our talents (we do this with wr and rb’s, I was just thinking if our staff can do this at QB.

I am envisioning what we did with Brock a few years back.

I said earlier, let’s give Feeney a go for a series or so and have more design QB runs for him (or our most dynamic running/passing qb). From that teams will not be certain if it will be run or pass. Pretty safe to say when Q is in thought is inside run or over thrown pass. Danny uses the talents of our other skill guys, do it for QB. Some said Tommy plans on coming back. If so Feeney may go or more at that position. I am off the ledge from yesterday, the next few weeks will see (to me) how we can coach up and adjust what we do for the rest of the season. Need to beat NDSU or 7-4 may not be enough depending on how conference plays out.

I wouldn’t mind seeing us rotate Feeney in for a series or two or more. (During meaningful-times) We heavily rotate all other skilled positions except for Bo. I’d rather see Feeney doing QB runs then Q. We need our best talent on the field. I need to stop typing or I will be rambling incoherently. It is another frustrating Saturday.

I hope we can make better adjustments unlike last year. In games with elite teams. This Bum Phillips quote comes to me.

We look similar to last year against them. We look smaller on defensive front and their O-line is big and athletic. They go double tight or big we are way undersized. Watched a little of USD and NDSU and USD has the defensive bigs to cause trouble. Hopefully defensive leverage gets better or it can be the ugly to Medusa quick.

As some has said it it’s culture etc., Going into these games (and title contenders) fans and team do need to expect to win the games. I’m fairly old but I remember NDSU would have wider margins if victory than UND. But, UND played tough and won a fair amount. Is it a big game (every game played is a Big Game) yes, but if you play an opponent you think you’re out matched than players play like they need to do more than they can physically or skill wise do. We as fans wish we know a fix, just as I am certain the coaching staff does. Hopefully the week off gets the team in the right mindset and play a solid 4 quarters which it takes to win against a good/great team. Good teams and play like poorly for most of a game and turn it on to beat inferior teams. Great teams can play solidly for nearly all 4 quarters. That is probably why this loss stings for many of us, it’s not that we lost but how we lost.

Forgot that, hopefully experience will slow the game down for him. Overall I do like this o-line

As an O-line guy. Our snaps to the QB needs to get better. (No clue if nerves or what but way more inconsistent this game than other two) Don’t matter who our QB is (never played QB) it’s tough to make your progression or throw a timing route when snaps are low and then high. Even Feeney had a crappy snaps. We had this issue with this till Peyton stepped in. This is a must fix, don’t mater qb or scheme if it is In consistent. This loss sucks, because if we were tied at 14 (missed exp hurt) before half we would have momentum and with a lead can run the ball and utilize our misdirection and play action which appears to be our strength.

We have to score, if we are as good as I think this team can be. We can make a game of this. We have the offense to do it. Defense has shown to me we are better than last. The drop picks is frustrating but I don’t recall last year we had games where we had we had multiple chances for picks.