wheelsup

D is a big improvement over last year so far.. particularly the tackling. Pretty impressive. For all the math whiz’s out there.. the reason you kick the fg on 4th and 3 is because the next fg puts us up 15 pts.. should be up 15.. except for some very curios play calling/execution.. (although not a done deal with CJ accuracy) Jerry certainly makes the team more exciting.. needs to clean up some inaccuracy’s.. he will get better let’s have a great 2nd half

Uffdah..

Tackling this year is night and day!

Bad call.. take the points..

Deng deng is going to be a handful.. looking great

I thought CJ turned the corner last year.. guess I was wrong.. someday it would be nice to regularly make xtra pts and field goals.. at a minimum at a higher rate than the local high schools.. sickening

The CJ era should probably be over

Nice to have speed and a person that can make the throw

Bluitt looking good early

Any news on ss from last weekend

I actually believe the most important step is to hire some people that give a crap about the fact that the intro sucks and make it their job to fix it.

The recipe isn’t all that complicated 1) cool intro video 2) Schmidty leading out the boys from the locker room to the field with a cool song 3) lean into the 701 with the ND flags running out on the field with some lights/pyro.. 4) national anthem 5) win game

I’m sure the Fargodome runs the audio for the bison games.. they seem to be able to figure it out every week. it might be interesting to see the contract.. I’ve been a season ticket holder for 12+ years and it’s not a new complaint. It would be nice to have some attention to detail type folks take over for a while.

Does anyone happen to know if this is one of the assistant AD jobs? I would think that somebody would have football as their primary focus and that would include the game day experience? Might be nice to correspond with them directly.

Pretty much every school that knows what they are doing figures this out.. NDSu clearly has. This would be unacceptable at UND hockey.. I’m not sure why we mail it in for UND football and allow this significantly below average audio and intro. It’s really pretty embarrassing.

I’m always amazed by how bad the sound system at the alerus sucks.. total bush league. Davies high school has a better sound system. if only the alerus admin had a few months to prepare for the season opener 😀

Lots of nitpicking around the edges… but this teams is much improved. Many had us as as 3.. 4.. 5 TD underdogs are now suddenly expert play callers in a close game on the road in a packed house. * offense looks good.. love the improvement at the QB position. Siedl seems like the real deal and would like to see more of the inside run game with Z * defense looks greatly improved.. catch a couple INTs and we win this game by 2-3 TDs * ST looked solid last two minutes of the game baffled me.. should have won. First game with a new coaching staff and I expect they will improve week by week.

100% agree.. seems like there should be about 1000+ kids at UND a year with the ability to clean this up.

Elrichs is another year better and siedl returning kickoffs will be explosive.

Apples and oranges I think.. Year 1 versus long term expectations. I already said I’m expecting better than 6-6 year 1. So min 7-5 and given bubbas trajectory last year 6-6 this year would have been a pipe dream.

Yep

6-6 should be the base case.. 4 large underdog.. 4 reasonable favorites.. 4 tossups. Lots of different combinations to get to 6-6. I’m expecting the over. offense will be better.. QB is +.. Oline/RB/TE should better as good or better with 2nd year in offense.. WR tough to replace one of the greats but im optimistic. Wildcard will be turnovers ST will be as good or better D would be hard to be worse.. My biggest hope is team shows a very positive trend into the end of the year instead of the road woes and collapse of the previous regime.

I hope Jerry kills it from the first snap and there is never a reason to play more except in the end of games. I also know last year we were begging for them to play more than one.. they have two games to figure it out in my opinion. Hopefully fully locked in by Montana game.

Comparisons of Simon and Tommy are fairly ridiculous.. One was an above average to significantly above average FCS QB. If you think that comment refers to Simon there is likely a strong overlap to family/friends in the Calvin/Langdon area. All of this deserves the qualifying comment yet again that QB was about 15th on the list of the things wrong with the team last year. I expect the QB position and the management of said position to be significantly improved over last year. I believe that fruechte learned a ton last year and I have significant doubts that the narrative of bubba forcing freuchte to play an injured romfo over a healthy Jerry is anywhere close to accurate.

So an injured romfo was better than giving Jerry minutes in games that didn’t mean anything.. last years story gets worse by the minute.