UND Football Fan

Maybe Butler had lots of Seniors and Grad students….(my attempt at sarcasm)

For the present need to play much better today!!!

The crowd helped on stopping that series.

This may be the new philosophy for both teams today.

Looks like offense came ready to play. Defense let’s settle down and get the ball back!

Crowd should get us doing…. expecting - 3 score win Hoping - plenty of backups get quality reps Demanding - keep attacking with backups in

My hope (it is a hope) we see more QB runs in the bigger games. NDSU typically in the past did not run the QB unless it was against a better team. There was a few times during the few games where it looked if he kept the handoff he could hit the edge and get some yards.

Any Simon is better than over thinking and hesitant Simon.

I will try not be too critical, but if we cannot be more effective with the pass. Good teams will load the box and not worry about the pass game, because their corners will be more athletic than what we have seen so far this year. Danny with Tommy was effective enough with the pass that kept teams from loading up the box because even on 3rd and 3 teams knew we could still pass the the first. On the positive, I like the twisting we are doing in defense, San Diego has beef and bull rushing beef is not a good recipe. Lastly the players (or coaches) have to play to win the game. We look like we are and playing not to lose.

If we don’t get our crap together we will be like the 2017 N Arizona team that lost to San Diego 41-10 in the first round of the playoffs!

I was trying to be more optimistic then last week….know I think

From watching on TV, the energy remind me of the ISU Blue game last year. Offense needs do do something, so defense can get their crap together!

My guess is we may end the first quarter up 14-7 because the clock will move fast with us establishing the running game. We then break some big plays and win 51-17.

I know Simon had some (some will say several) one hopped throws, maybe the coaches will try what Cleveland did for Rube Baker to get him to throw back to the pitcher. I thought to add some humor on a Monday.

I believe so

I also am perplexed on this not putting back up QB in, I remember Roger Thomas keeping the starting O-Line with the back up QB and go a least a series before subbing more O-Line. Great opportunity for live reps with starting o-line.

SDSU had 3 TO and scored 11 points more than UMary did against Augustana today. Our win is over all way better SDSU’s IMO.

Since 2006 (UND site has no data of older that I saw) Bubba 11 - 3 and 26-7 in other home games Muss 5-2 and 18-10 in other games (note early days we had several poor teams for home games D1 Eea 16-5 and 44-17 D2 games since 2006 5-1 in 10,000 plus games so since 2006 UND is 21-6 in games of 10,000 plus crowd.

Other teams make their luck, confidence and effort is good recipe with a sprinkle of the opposition playing not to lose.

The pass that was INT on the tunnel screen, wasn’t totally on him because of the quick timing of it, that pick the OC could also be blamed because earlier ISU blew that play up. I still feel Jerry will get his time either packaged in or if Simon gets dinged up, we are running more things through Simon and having him run more. Coaches would not do that if there is not a quality backup. SDSU has two JR QB’s on roster I believe and they did not leave last year. (SDSU’s success helps), if we make playoffs and make a deep run, Jerry and others will likely stay IMO especially if we have blowout games where he can get meaningful reps.

Tommy got in as Michigan State is up by 30.

I have cleaned public bathrooms…I have a strong stomach.

I have to rewatch the game, he threw several one hoppers but some was where there was tight coverage. As I said need to watch again to see how much was coverage and how much was unforced.

For Jerry fans, What I see is, Simon is running more on designed runs, maybe staff’s confidence is higher for Jerry, knowing Jerry can jump in and offense won’t skip a beat. I doubt we would have had Simon run if there is no confidence in our QB depth. Season is 3 games in, overall the game went better than expected exceptions being the disruption with inside run and their mobile QB made our D look like last years.

After inc 14-17 for that QB and 3 TD