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If only there was an example of where it took a head coach that long to turn around a program.. Let me think.. maybe even something in the Missouri Valley.. maybe one of our regional historic rivals.. SDSU? Im not saying Bubba is Coach S.. but FFS lets roll and be a little optimistic on the 2023 Football thread not the fire bubba thread.

The difference between 2-2 and 3-3 is that at 3-3 we prob lost to NDSU at home. Losing to NDSU at home versus SDSU and Boise state on the road are significantly different with respect to the overall direction of the team. All I’m saying is give this years team a chance before you jump off the bandwagon. They look to be significantly improved over last year to me and so I have high expectations and even if they start 2-2 they still have a great path to a great season.

This is one of those terrible takes.. as if we lose to the near unanimous preseason best team in the FCS.. and a legit FBS team both on the road early in the season it is somehow over and the team is destined for mediocrity. Not to mention if you somehow accept anything less than 3-1 or 4-0 that you have accepted mediocrity personally. That is quite a nuanced view . Now if we are 3-3 after 6 games Ill start lining up a little closer to your negative view, but will be counting on a strong finish and multiple playoff wins. By the way.. Ill still be at every home game this year wearing my kelly green colored glasses expecting Bubba and the crew to get the job done. Im beyond excited about the offense this year and think the defense is going to improve enough for us to have an incredible year.

If we are doing new jerseys please use a readable number font!

#MakeUNDnumbersreadableagain

Have there been any decent spring ball updates this year? I always thought Miller had a couple Herald articles and some other folks regularly posted on here. I haven’t seen much of anything but wondering if I missed it.

Agreed.. Erickson looked solid last night. Doppler was very underwhelming. Jeremiah looked better as well as the two kids from red River. Hopefully it was just a bad game for Doppler.

In general I agree with this post.. I’m not exactly sure what portion of the safety play this last year gave the confidence to Bubba to elevate our safety’s coach to the defensive coordinator spot. What would have been the harm in posting the position and doing more of a national search while potentially bringing in some outside ideas. His most important qualification seems to be that he has spent all of his time at North Dakota football. that negativity aside.. I hope he is a great coordinator and brings some continued youth and excitement to the defensive side of the ball much like Danny has done for the offensive side of the ball. Let’s go hawks!

Does Tommy still have 1 or 2 years of eligibility left? Im pretty optimistic about our QB room in general Tommy/Quincy for the next year or 2.. Feeney/Romfo in the wings Kaminsky pushing them both. This of course could change overnight with transfers etc..

It looked like the wrong call to everyone except slowhand .. in reality ICW still stopped the bison after that crap call with plenty of time to win/tie and if the QB hadn’t made a really poor decision on that throw they still had plenty of time and were easily moving the ball. the bison always seem to do enough even on a day where they could have easily lost ICW was just overcompensating tonight and if not for a few bad decisions/mistakes could have won the game going away. blaming the refs is stupid.. they made plenty of crap calls on both sides.. they were consistently terrible for both teams

The refs made a lot of crappy calls tnigjt.. the worst was in the bison favor with what should have been a clear turnover. But overall the refs were complete trash on both sides. ICW beat themselves with 4 turnovers and unwillingness to kick a couple obvious field goals.. they won a lot of games with their aggressive play calling and they are a blast to watch.. but they could have easily won with a little common sense tnigjt.

I was actually making a different point.. I dont think there was anywhere close to 8355 people at the ACU game. I would be surprised if there were more than 6000. I was at the game and it was empty.

Im still amazed that the Abilene Chr attendance was so high.. there was nobody there (im guessing that 2-3k seaons ticket holders had tickets that didnt show up that must still count).. additionally Im surprised the SD attendance wasnt higher... I really thought we would have 10-11k in attendance at that game.

Yes it was... but not reviewed for targeting or anything like that I dont believe, If you want to watch it and you have ESPN+... you can watch all of the games its at about 2:48 in the 3hr recording.

This is an interesting debate to me.. I watched multiple games where we had zero push up front and the QB could sit back there and pick apart the secondary. Also particularly the last two games it seemed like our d-line was getting pushed about 5 yds deep on every play and the opposing teams had zero reason to actually even try to throw the ball. A couple of surprises for me this last year.. I was really surprised our d-line wasnt better.. I really thought this would be the strength of our defense. I wasnt surprised the secondary struggled early due to the attrition last year. I think we have some talent in this group both transfer and youth and I was surprised that they didnt improve more as the year went on.. scheme?? I wonder if the primary issues werent our LB's and the turnover from 21 to 22.. seemed poor in coverage and not generating the pressure up front. Also.. I love KK.. he brings great energy and heart.. but man did he struggle in coverage. The cupboard must have been really bare to keep rolling him out there week after week. You could make quite a video montage of him chasing the person he was supposed to be covering across the field in big situations this year. My biggest hope is a cole reyes type .. and who is our Ratelle.. Turner.. Bennett type for 23.

They threw a flag.. but also ended the game after the hit with 1:07 still remaining after about a 10 min delay. It wasn’t helmet to helmet or anything.. but it was a late hit while the qb was sliding and the qbs head bounced off the turf a couple times. It did not look good. I hope the kid is ok and at least the latest reports online say he is moving all of his extremities. The way the kid reacted it Reminded me of the Tua hit.

It was a late hit while the qb was sliding/ giving himself up. The game was over. Not good.

Until the backup QB came in.. a different game in the 2nd half

I get your point.. that being said.. YSU wasn’t a cupcake.

Would any of your opinions change if we had hosted the playoff game yesterday and won? Take a look at the record of the home teams yesterday. I believe we win that game at home.. better than 75%. I still don’t understand how our run defense became so !@#!$.. 350+ on the ground two weeks in a row.. and they didn’t even run the triple option .. they just bashed it right up the middle.

The argument that the big sky sucks or just that Idaho and Montana and even us were just in the bottom quarter of the playoff pool is a little different.

I agree.. I also knew going into the game in order to win that the offense had to maintain possession and help out the defense.. clearly we didn’t do that

The offense in the first half was just as bad as the defense.. we were running the ball well and we kept trying to throw it. the defense might play a bit better if the offense didn’t keep giving the ball right back. We know the offense has been the better unit this year but they kept throwing the defense right back out on the field. A couple of nice long drives by the offense on the first half would have helped those guys out as well.

If you are watching any of the otjer games today.. all of the attendance sucks.. it’s like watching any hockey regional except for the ones UND is in I guarantee we would have had better attendance at the alerus than the majority of these games.

I think a lot of people were thinking holinka was awesome last year.. he didn’t all of the sudden go to !@#$.. I personally thought the d-line was going to be good.. they seemed terrible this year. I really wonder what happened.. scheme.. transfer portal.. what? Our defense played with zero confidence or aggression