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I really hope the bids are made public.. it will be incredibly disappointing if we didn’t have a very competitive bid

yah.. its not my thing particularly when its North Dakota kids (I even still cheer for Wentz to do well in the Pros.. although I hated him at NDSU).. I should have stayed off this thread completely.. My apologies.. pass the vapors.

Ill add that I really dont enjoy the shots at the players.. take a shot at Entz if you want.. (Ive met him.. he is no Klieman) and also NDSU in general.. but the shots at the players are generally in poor taste in my opinion. Many area kids want to go to NDSU and UND.. anyways.. pass me the vapors.. Ill stay off this thread.

My hopes for tomorrow Make the bison throw the ball.. put as many in the box as needed and trust our d-backs to step up. I cant stand another bison game where one of their RB's has a breakout game and bludgeons us to death. There is nothing more demoralizing than multiple 10min series where the defense gets beaten to death while the offense falls asleep on the sidelines. Im ok forcing Cam to win the game on his arm and then letting our offense respond. I want to see Tommy and the gang rolling.. He has been an absolute difference maker this year with his willingness to scramble and I think tomorrow will be no different. I think our offense can keep up as long as they dont fall asleep on the sidelines.. see comment 1.. We need to survive the first quarter.. we cant do what SDSU did in the first half with about 5 or 6 false starts by the offensive line. The fargodome will be rocking right away but they get pretty quiet when the game starts turning against them. Im looking forward to a couple of icecold tailgaiting beers followed by a couple of high priced beers in the Fargodome. Im hoping for an Fn Hawks victory and I think this year we can do it. It will be a good game and Bubba and the gang should be fired up. Any bison fan that says this game doesn't matter is fooling themselves.. Maybe the really young kids dont feel it yet.. but these are the games that focus the programs.. meaningful games in November against a regional rival.. nothing better in my opinion.

so ive read two things that I can't understand or agree with somehow Youngstown jumps us?? that makes zero sense. Even if we lose to NDSU we would have the same record as them and a win against them on the road.. That seems like a 0% chance If we somehow beat the bison this weekend that they would still be ranked ahead of us. Again.. we would have the same record and a victory against them on the road. Neither of those make any sense to me.. I give them both 0%..

I would recommend not spending anytime on that site.. I checked it out a couple of years ago and then the other day to see if it had changed. I was hoping for a little insight on their team and maybe some interesting discussions. Instead I felt like I needed a shower after wading through that cesspool. That site is totally ruined by a couple of posters who spam the threads and make them unreadable. Its not representative of most of the bison fans I know and I know a few that are pretty insufferable. It would actually be nice if there was a different version of that site where the admins banned a couple of their posters..

So I think this year the polls are emphasizing the importance of being ranked early in the year. Im sure somebody can dig up the first couple weeks of the polls.. but it seems very hard to climb from the bottom and similarly very hard to drop when you start out high. It would be interesting to look at 4 teams that are currently ahead of us in the polls. #13- Montana (7-3), #14 - Elon (8-3), #15 - Chatanooga (7-3) and of course our friends to the south - #4 - NDSU (8-2).. Montana lost 3 games in a row and is still ranked ahead of us.. NDSU deserves a high ranking but I bet they wouldnt be #4 if they started the year unranked. Im excited for the game this weekend.. I believe regardless of the outcome we will be in the playoffs. We will be at a minimum the 3rd best team in the MVFC. I also dont buy the argument/conspiracy that Fargo is somehow talking UND down.. they need us.. if they beat us (and thats not a done deal).. we would be their signature win for the year. Its pretty hard to advocate for a higher seed when you havent won against any ranked teams.. if we beat them (dear sweet lord baby jesus).. they also need us as losing to a crap team doesnt do anything for the resume either.. This is what makes November exciting.. playing meaningful games. Man this is fun

I think #3 just means that a higher seed cant be outbid in the seeded rounds. The first round is all unseeded teams and after that as long as the higher seeded teams at least submit a qualifying bid they get to host the home games. Otherwise the school with more money would always host regardless of their seed. I think this happened quite a few years back to NDSU's benefit.. the higher seeded team didnt submit a bid or something and the bison were able to host a playoff game that they werent supposed to have

agree 100%.. 9500 was a very generous number. Im going to blame it on the weather shutting down the western half of the state, but I was disappointed by the showing. Very few students.. lots of empty season ticket holder seats and very empty otherwise as well. I truly expected more on such a meaningful game.. senior day.. veterans weekend.. playing a South Dakota team(seemed like there was about zero USD fans) and basically the playoffs.

Seems like it helps to me.. The Bison need us in their argument for higher seeding.. If they beat us this weekend we would be their best win and only ranked win of the year (think about that).. If we beat them this weekend they need to talk about how good we were to improve their argument for seeding. They only screw themselves by talking us down.

I wish they would make the pre 4th quarter hype videos available on the North Dakota football Facebook page or the football app. They are awesome! whoever is doing those needs to put together more content.

I was surprised by the relatively poor attendance today. Very few Students.. but also a lot of empty seats in my section which is usually quite full. I thought it would be easily over 10k.. but the announced 9.5k was a very generous estimation of how many people were actually there. I guess it was more than the Abilene Christian game? Need to keep winning these games and building the fanbase.

Another nice win.. The fellas did not stub their toe when there were multiple opportunities to do so. couple of thoughts. When we were 3rd down on the 2.. Im really surprised we didnt bring in Quincy.. There is zero chance that Quincy doesnt get a touchdown with two tries from the 2 yard line. Sometimes Danny gets a little too cute. The 4th down call was particularly terrible.. if you knew you were going for it on 4th down it makes it even more of a no brainer not to bring in quincy. The Special teams, punt and punt coverage were a huge part of this victory. That blocked punt was awesome.. Probably the play of the game. Huge momentum swing into halftime. kickoffs are still questionable.. that out of bounds kickoff with 1:30 to go in the 3rd quarter.. uffdah. better than a big return I guess.. all of that said.. extra points seem automatic now. Its been a long time since I havent really paid attention during our extra points. Our offense is legit.. just about no complaints.. We didnt score in the 4th quarter.. but we didnt really try to score either.. we were running clock and using about 25% of the playbook with a 2 score lead. Its a great balance.. QB.. RB.. WR.. OL.. the fellas are rolling. The defense continues to be a challenge.. but I think it looked better again today. Still some real gaps in pass coverage.. and not great pressure on the QB. ONce they became one dimensional and had to pass our pressure was solid. Im looking forward to next weekend.. Im hopeful we made the playoffs with the win today, but I would love to go in with a win against that school down south.

I wish they would make the bid information public. I for one was super disappointed that year that we didnt have a home playoff game. UND (and most other teams) has been a completely different team at home, although this year we are doing well on the road. As a secondary note.. If having a certain number of hotel rooms for the visiting team is a requirement, Im not sure not having hotel rooms reserved in advance shines any better on our athletic department? Or at least is representative of their lack of faith in UND football. Hopefully they have sorted that out.

Time to enjoy a great road win! A dominating road win.. a win UND can and should have won!

So I saw that.. I was wondering if anyone knows how the MVFC goes about selecting our rep.. does it rotate amongst AD's.. is there some type of election process or the term? Just curious how it works. I did a quick google search and couldnt figure it out.

This is interesting.. thanks for posting this? Does anyone know how often this changes or the process for selecting the MVFC rep? Does it just rotate through all of the different AD's?

It was as full as the rest of the alerus

A lot of angst and gnashing of teeth in our chat about Indiana State this upcoming weekend.. Not bad for a team that is currently 5-3 facing a team thats 1-7. Apparently, we are so worried about Indiana State that we are even concerned about the backup QB situation.. when we have one of the best QB's in UND history currently playing with 2 years of eligibility currently remaining. . I happen to think we will be just fine in that area in the short term with Q.. Feeney and even Romfo. That room seems just fine and about 7th on our list of priorities although the transfer portal and a decommit could change that... still a topic for another time or at least one of the other channels . This seems like a game where our team can continue to get better. Their team is not as bad as the record indicates but if you want to be a playoff team you have to win it. They have been torched by 3 teams, Purdue, SDSU & Montana.. (all good teams, Montana is debatable.. but I think they are solid). They have lost 4 close ones (less than a TD).. NDSU, UNI, YSU, ISU... all decent to very good teams. Of all of those games.. the only one I have seen in the NDSU game. NDSU did everything they could to lose that game and still won. Im looking forward to a victory for our squad as well. I would love to hear from some of the great football minds on this board as to some of the matchups that we have to watch out for. Otherwise I have to wait for Kelly and the fellas at 360 to drop some knowledge on me when I get around to their podcast sometime Thursday. Also, I know people rip on the #daybyday.. but I love those midco #daybyday videos.. I wish we got a couple of them a week. (am i hashtagging?)

I refuse to believe UND cant recruit a kicker that can regularly kick it 5+ yds deep into the endzone in a dome environment. There are multiple high school kickers every year in the state of North Dakota not to mention the rest of the USA/World that can do this. Therefore I assume that Brady can do this and he seems to have plenty of leg on long field goals so I assume its not a physical limitation. This to me means its a scheme by Kostich/coaching staff which seems absolutely inexplicable given our struggle to cover the kickoffs in a productive manner or at a minimum is just getting cute and outsmarting ourself. I dont really understand the idea of not kicking it reasonably deep into the endzone.. Most teams at the D1 level have a returner capable of breaking a long one or at least relatively easily getting it past the 25 yd line. If people want to kick to CJ or Red at the 1 yd line every time I guarantee UND has a better average starting position then the 25 and at least once a game will be past the 50.. Hopefully they will have it sorted out this weekend

My son was wondering where the sack city sign was.. it doesnt get a lot of use this year but its always nice to see.

A couple of thoughts.. probably all beaten to death. The attendance was a bad as I have seen it outside of covid. Obviously they didnt intend to schedule this as the same time as a destination hockey game but wow.. If there were actually 6500 fans in attendance I would be surprised. hopefully that doesnt happen again. Very few students, I assumed they might show up as they probably werent all in Vegas but very few showed up. Easiest halftime walk around the concourse that I have had. The defense is hard to watch. I know we pick on the d-backs a bit.. but the complete lack of pressure on the QB cant help them. I think our lack of pressure up front is worse than the defensive coverage. KK had a great interception. I am really surprised at our inability to get any pressure up front. Their QB can take a nap back there most plays. ST's.. when did the kickoff coverage fall apart like this. Can we really not kick it through the end zone on kickoffs?? Punt coverage was solid.. I was happy to see Red returning kicks instead of CJ. Offense is what is holding the team together right now... the Offense is fun to watch except for the times when Danny seems to lose his mind and get inexplicably cute. Our offense is good.. The o-line is continuing to improve.. hoose is awesome.. People badmouth our WR's.. i think they are super fun to watch. Bo, Maag and the young guys... At some point i hope Danny takes the obvious.. maybe hand the ball to hoose.. maybe bring in Quincy in short yardage.. its great. I thought the officiating was terrible.. The complete miss on pass interference and then overturning that sack/fumble.. really some terrible officiating. Maybe it will look different when I rewatch the game.. but in the alerus the officiating looked terrible. I liked the 4Q hype video.. nicely done.. give us more of that.. The alerus also seems like its figuring out the replays.. We are finally getting some at the right times. The only nice thing about the lack of fans was that I could get from my seat to the beer stand and back without missing a play. Overall.. another win.. Ill take it! Need to keep it rolling.

Coaches recruit players.. Coaches Coach and Players Play There is a kernel of truth to the point that players screw up and its on the player and also the point that if they were better prepared by the coaches they probably wouldn’t screw up. This specific pick 6 play.. looks like it was on the player. I hope the kid learns from it and goes on to have a great year/career. I tend to look at it more of an aggregate.. Bubba has a 54% winning percentage at UND over 9 years, 51% at UMD and 53% overall so he is actually getting marginally better at UND. Great teams tend to have less screw ups and so whether that is better players through recruiting or better coaches because of coaching preparation you can argue that both lead back to the coaches.. so blaming the coaches in aggregate is not stupid. Im optimistic that the squad will figure it out and that we will be 8-3 heading into the playoffs at worse 7-4.. Based on history.. we will likely be 6-5 and miss the playoffs as there will be an inexplicable egg laid in one of the winnable games. This is another opportunity for Bubba to change the Narrative around UND football and finish the year strong instead of with a whimper… my guess is everyone on this forum, outside of a few NDSU fans, would be ecstatic if that is the case. Also.. Ill be at the two remaining home games and the NDSU game cheering as loud as anyone else for the old F’n Hawks.. hoping we make the playoffs and start rolling. I also know that not too many people jump on the bandwagon for a team that hovers around .500 and doesn’t win the really big games. How do we pack the Alerus? Doesn’t have anything to do with the sound system or the price of beer or the walkout video (although those are all easily fixable things and should be fixed).. win some big games.. have some home playoff games and win them and people will start showing up.

I have had my current season tickets for 10+ years. The Alerus sound system has always sucked, the coordination of the video/audio during the entrance has nearly always been terrible. The coordination of mic's during the game.. refs mic's etc has always been terrible. When you compare what we do to the operation down south and many other competent FCS level organizations its a mickey mouse operation at the Alerus. If I was that bad at my job I would get fired.. I really dont understand how they cant fix it year after year. As a venue.. I generally like the Alerus and dont have many of the complaints that I have heard others voice.. I think our video boards are good.. and our section has a great time. I think its a good place to watch the game.. the beers are $9 but you can get one quickly and its a pretty rare place that they arent $9 anymore. The rest of the problems are very fixable and I dont know if its an Alerus problem or a UND Sports problem but its really a bad look.

Lots of good points all around.. The ability of SDSU to get pressure on Tommy while only rushing four. Our o-line is young and Im super optimistic for their future but this one was a challenge. Our inability to get pressure... and zero turnovers by the defense.. this is a trend of the last couple of games.. makes it very hard to win games. 3 turnovers on our offense.. I would call them uncharacteristic. That pick 6 was terrible terrible.. the pick to end the first half was a deflator.. the fumble was part of a 3rd quarter that we all need to forget. Nearly impossible to win a game when you lose the turnover battle by so much. I dont understand our first onside kick with nearly 7 minutes to go.. obviously SDSU wasnt ready.. called a timeout to get ready.. we still did it/turned out poorly. It actually reminded me of the Bison game last year 4th down fake punt.. They were ready.. we still did it.. Both seem like we should have been able to react to that. I was surprised by the lack of Quincy in the 2nd half. Could have used him on the 3rd and 4th and short plays. As much as we/I keep complaining about the defense.. the offense/special teams put them in some really challenging positions.. The good part of special teams.. zero missed extra points.. Im almost starting to relax during an extra point. Great pressure during their punts.. We were close to blocking a couple more. I hope #29 from SDSU ends up with explosive diarrhea for a month.. seemed totally classless.. I dont understand why he wasnt removed from the sideline as I thought that was the rule.. but it must not be anymore. Im still optimistic for the rest of the year.. 3 very winnable games and finish the year with NDSU hopefully for our signature win running into the playoffs.. I love playing NDSU on the last game of the year in a game that hopefully means something for both teams! that Southern Ilinois loss to USD did not help the Valley. Im a bit concerned that 7-4 wont be good enough to get us into the playoffs and in reality.. If you lose to NDSU, SDSU and Southern Illinois Im not sure that we would deserve to be in the playoffs. My biggest disappointment is that it is incredibly difficult to build fan support with such an up and down team.. next weekend will likely be very poor attendance due to the hockey game in Vegas but.. Ill still be there as will some other die hard fans). The team is consistently inconsistent. People expecting a sellout yesterday need to realize that the casual fan wont jump on the bandwagon until we start consistently winning. It would also really help if they could get the Alerus sound system figured out.. it was really terrible.. Our team entrance/song/video has about the worst organization/timing possible.. I think a 10th grade theatre intern could do a better job.. And the constant bleed through of various mikes during the game is really terrible.. I question the competency of whomever is running the show with respect the Alerus. Its annoying and embarrassing when compared to many other places. UND football and fans deserve better than that mediocre effort from the Alerus. Finally to confirm... I hope #29 from SDSU ends up with explosive diarrhea for a month.. seemed totally classless.. I dont understand why he wasnt removed from the sideline as I thought that was the rule.. but it must not be anymore.