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Which given his history of kicking.. a lot of blame goes to the coaches.. should have gone for it. Poor coaching.

This would be a fun game to watch with synced up volume and down and distance.. thanks espn+

How about that defense!

Our jersey numbers suck.. even jack can’t figure out if it’s maag or zavalney.. every time.. it’s comical

Great answer by the defense! Let’s get rolling!

The espn+ subscription is really paying off

Also has there been any news on skokna? Would be nice to see him back returning.

The Big10 channel has replays of the games in 60 mins. It’s a fun way to watch the game without all of the dead time. I watched it again last night.. we were in the game until that stupid duck jump ball 3rd and 15 and then the air seemed to go out of the defense and they killed us on the ground. Even though it lead to another TD for Nebraska and made the differential worse than it was.. I’m happy we went for it on 4th. If our WR comes up with that catch maybe it’s a different ending. I still have nightmares about bubba punting late in the game when we are down. im excited for the rest of the season.. let’s have a great game next week!

Go back to bisonville buddy.. you missed the point completely. Nobody said the bison aren’t good and won’t make the playoffs and aren’t favorites to win another natty. Beating up on drake and whatever high school team you play next week sure is fun for the fan base.. even the poor FN hawks beat up on those guys.

Reading through this message board reminds me roughly of the picture below. I happen to believe you can be happy with the game yesterday and yet disappointed that we fell apart/ran out of gas in the 4th quarter. The most worrisome part of the game to me was our lack of willingness/ability to throw the ball down the field. Other than the 1 attempt to Belquist (who was very open) early in the game I dont remember another attempt to throw the ball over 10 yards. Every so often you have to at least attempt a longer pass and trust our WR's to come up with the ball even if they arent wide open (hello Nebraska 3rd and 15). Our running game looks solid.. the O-line should continue to improve.. the defense showed some promise.. our kicker didnt miss any extra points or FG's.. the Punting needs to improve and for goodness sake Danny/Tommy.. chuck that pigskin further than 10 yards down the field. I am super excited for the game next weekend against UNI and believe and expect we should win that game. I will have a strongly different opinion if the Fn Hawks get beat next weekend. By the way.. everyone in Bisonville would have rather been playing the game we played in rather than playing the vaunted nonscholarship Drake Bulldogs. I, for one, am surprised that Drake scored 14 points.. Fn Hawks played them twice and Drake scored 7 points total between both games.. Next up on their schedule.. Horace High School. Im sure we will continue to hear.... "but nobody will pick up the phone.. Alabama wont schedule a home and home with us.. blah blah blah.."

I think u are thinking of legendary coaches with great records.. ours has been here for 8 years.. is 47-40 and coming off a losing record 5-6.. I don’t think most programs lose too much sleep over that kind of record.. career 69-61. This is the definition of mediocre. again.. I like bubba.. I want him to have this next year and I HOPE he does great. There was still zero reason to extend him.

There seems to be this disconnect where people think you cant support Bubba this year and yet be really annoyed that they extended him based on his Current performance/Current Record. I know Im not a "football coach at this level" , although I am a mediocre armchair QB.. but it still seems like a reasonable argument to me. Ive heard some pretty interesting arguments lately The idea that the 2 years remaining isn't enough of an opportunity for Bubba to prove himself and recruit.. If he is kicking ass halfway through the upcoming season extend him.. otherwise we are in a doom loop where no head coach at UND will ever be held accountable for on field performance The idea that there is some back room agreement for bubba to retire without finishing his upcoming contract. If that is the case and its not written down Chaves should be fired immediately.

I would really like to hear Chaves answer the question of why Bubba was extended. What in gods name are we doing extending a coach who has just come off a 5-6 season and has a 47-40 career record and has 2 YEARS REMAINING ON HIS CURRENT CONTRACT! By the way I like Bubba and think we should keep him this year. I just have no idea what the rush was to extend him. Whomever is Bubbas agent must be a heck of a salesman.

I know we like to complain about Bubbas play calling/decisions.. but the Bobcats punted from the NDSU 28 when it was a 0-0 game on a 4th&2.. in the national championship game and just kicked a FG down 35.

Fellas.. this seems like a circular argument to me. If the QBs were told not to audible.. they wouldn’t put audibles in the offense. This would be an OC/HC problem. I can’t imagine an OC putting audibles in and then telling the QB not to audible.. I would also be very surprised that a QB with as much experience as Tommy has had in high school and college doesn’t know how to recognize a defense by now and change the play if required.

YouTube tv doesn’t have the deal with Disney sorted out so we lose the espn networks until they do

It was an entertaining and yet frustrating game to watch today. We missed most of the first half due to EDC VB and made it just in time to watch our kicker doink it off the upright to close out the half. Im not one to blame all of the missed kicks by a backup kicker on Kostich but a more accurate kicker would have won at least one more game for us this year and there are multiple times where we didnt attempt a FG where we probably should have. For me some of the head scratchers Tommy's inability to run.. early in the 3rd quarter he could have easily run for 10-20 yards and instead threw a ball into double coverage. Later that 3rd down run.. should have been an easy first down.. but that half slide came up short. He just doesnt look like a natural runner... if he was the offense would be a lot more dangerous. punts from the opponents 35 yd line.. Im sorry.. I dont get those. turnovers.. yowza.. takes two TD's off the board. Lack of targeting Maag and Zalvaney.. seems like two significant size mismatches. The o-line did not look great today.. probably had something to do with Waletzko being out of there.. Entertaining parts How about that defense.. I know the redbirds arent exactly good on offense.. but except for that one long play for a TD they could not move the ball. We have some very good young players and have been developing some depth. We have had significant defensive injuries this year and still are fielding a very competitive defense. I love watching #44 out there.. glad he is coming back. His family sits in our section and they are the most active cheerleaders in the stands. Tommy was throwing a nice ball out there today.. although the brockstar bailed him out on that catch into double coverage. The brockstar is looking good. Otis.. Otis.. Otis.. Man, his last big run when he dragged that poor little d-back about 15 yards.. He also had a big catch and run. Our RB room is deep but it sure is fun to watch Otis. Im looking forward to watching "the Gavel" (credit Jack) Gavin Ziebarth over the upcoming years as well. If we are going to keep going with the dual QB approach.. I want to see more of the Quincy package around the endzone. The apposing team clearly focuses on him running the ball (hello QB as a running threat) and it leads to wide open receivers that can adjust even on a significantly underthrown ball. This team has clearly not quit this year.. so hopefully all of the bozos that were predicting that they would fold and quit after the losses shuts up. They are clearly still playing with pride and energy. The biggest frustration I have with this team this year is unmet expectations. They are close.. I dont see a path to the playoffs even if they win next week and so this is a woulda coulda shoulda type year. Of their 5 losses 4 were very winnable

Hey.. when the kids are playing VB in the EDC tournament sometimes you have to travel in bad weather. The roads were not good today, but they werent all that bad as long as you werent going 70 mph. We "enjoyed" the 2nd half of the football game after VB was over. I agree with Oxbow.. would be more fun if they had a legit playoff chance.

I’m looking forward to a win next week which will keep SDSU game interesting. The team found a way to win this game.. when they have found a way to lose the last couple!

I would love to see a lot of Quincy in the second half.. I’m not sure if his lack of playing time is indicative of his talent level or Danny. It doesn’t seem to me that Tommy has played well enough to keep a talented Backup on the sideline. Danny gets to see them both everyday on practice so what do we know. At some point it would be great to see what Quincy can do in actual real games with a full playbook.

Doesn’t look like the defense made the flight back. let’s hope the offense can roll and the defense makes some adjustments.

This is how I feel 100%!

This is exactly what I said.. the early decision to punt from the 36 was a bubba call. the trick play on 4th was a Danny call.. the last fumble was on Otis.. the defense combusting in the 4th quarter was on? I didn’t get to see it due to espn+ garbage but it sounded like a lot of different issues. so it seems there is plenty of coach blame to go around.. seems like bubba.. Danny and holinka all have some thinking to do.. might as well throw in kostich as we continue to kick off out of bounds and don’t have faith in ability to kick FG

anyone have any idea if there is a way to watch the 2nd half? I would be interested in doing so.. although i might be a glutton for punishment. I would really like to see the 3rd quarter as it sounded like we had quite a good quarter and then played about as bad as possible the last 10 minutes of the game. I would like to see the trick play on 4th down, the Otis fumble, and the defense fall apart and see if it was as bad as we are all making it out to be. I checked the ESPN app and the on demand coverage drops at the end of the 1st half as well.

Players Play and Coaches coach.. or at least that is what I have heard. Having a young man make a mistake while going all out or or something similar is one thing Having a coach with 30+ years of coaching experience regularly make questionable game decisions at critical moments is a different thing. They get paid decent amounts to do better then that.