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Again, what the Alerus needs is competent production team in the control room. They continually botch the intro/run-out. And if we are going to enter to a Metallica song, I say we ditch For Whom the Bell Tolls, rip off Virginia Tech, and get Enter Sandman thumping through the sound system........

Who are his other offers from?

What ever happened to Sammy Fort? He was supposedly our best recruit this off-season, but I haven't noticed him once yet?

Hard for me to believe. Coaching/culture change should be worth a top half finish ar minimum IMO....

They've also been a playoff team forever. Look, we are getting into "quality loss" territory here, which is something I don't want to do. EWU beat us, and that is how it is. I think they are a good team, and you apparently do not. Same goes for Sam Houston and UC Davis. We really won't know until November.....

I don't like the fact that UND has to be in the Summit League. But I like the idea of St. Thomas being in the same conference WAY more than thought of Augustana. I believe St Thomas and UMKC would make 10. Please stop there!!!!!

I have followed FCS football long enough to believe that EWU is likely a Top 25 team every single year. I would consider them an FCS "Blue Blood" if there is such a thing. UC Davis is coming off a great season in 2018, and to date they gave the defending National Champions their best test this season. They are a quality program right now. They looked pretty good against UND, but I am guilty of thinking that that UND can be pretty good!

I am pretty confident that your expectations and my expectations of the UND football program are quite similar.............

I sense a double standard here. UND was in danger of being blown out by halftime a week ago, yet they had the game within one possession during the fourth quarter despite some terrible play by the same players you credit for today's victory. If the players won the game "despite" the coaching today, who lost it for us last week? The players that turned it over 6 times? The players that gave up nearly 300 yards rushing to EWU? Or the coaches that allowed all that to happen? I am just trying to clarify who I should "blame" for the win today!

We can't control who we play, or how they are ranked when we play them. But we came out with the win today, not sure what other result would be better.....

So just to confirm...... Your are saying that Bubba and company "outcoached" the EWU staff last week. If we had better players, we could have won in Cheney.

Announced crowd was around 9,000 today. East side was packed as usual. First Saturday of October and terrible weather. I for one was thankful for the Alerus today. I would guess maybe 3,500 die hards today if we had an outdoor stadium?

So because there were 400 yards of offense in the first half, did you expect another 400 in the 2nd half? It rarely pans out that way ya know. For instance............ Can you tell me why a week ago EWU had 28 points in the first half and only 7 in the second half? Was that coaching or players? Because the same players played the entire game.

That is where I am at. I feel like on any given Saturday, this team is either on the cusp of greatness, or threshold of falling apart. Today's game was frustrating at times, but at the end of the day, I got to attend a very entertaining football game today and see my favorite team defeat a highly ranked DI opponent and defending Big Sky Conference champion. It was a good day....,.

3-2 right now. Two wins against Top 25 teams, only losses are to last year's National Championship game participants. Not a bad spot to be in. Always room for improvement!

To offense showed what it is capable of today, and it was pretty damn impressive overall, save for a couple couple of series. No question by my eyes that Brock Boltman is the best offensive player on the team. At minimum, he should be in the game as a WR for nearly every snap. His TD catch was pretty darn impressive on a ball that I was say was sort of poorly thrown. From what I've seen from him so far this year, I'd like to see him behind center for 10-20% of the plays in the Wildcat. Nobody has shown they can defend it thus far.

The offensive line continues to be so disappointing to me. As far as run blocking goes, they have been outmatched in every game including against Drake. Our defense on 3rd and long situations has been so frustrating all year. They allowed several conversions again today on 3rd and 8+, and a 4th and 10 as well. Multiple conversions per game in those situations are demoralizing. Special teams.......woof. Kudos to Leach for hitting the game winner in a pressure situation. But he missed a shorter one prior to that. Stevens' kickoffs are bad. The punts aren't good. Allowing the successful fake punt on 4th and LONG was a real pisser.

Wow, Canaday could have just as well sat that series out......

Boltman should be on the field for nearly every play. Hands down the best offensive player on the team. Defense needs to figure out 3rd and long. It's been kryptonite for them two straight weeks.......

From my view on TV, there were few students at the game, and the bleachers behind the UND bench was pretty sparse. No way was there 8,700 I'm the stands I'm Cheney. They must have a nice season ticket base......

Sorry, but I am confident you are in the minority. If anybody thinks attendance is weak now, it would be absolutely brutal if we had an outdoor stadium. Third home game of the year is coming up and it is going to be 55 degrees with wind and rain outside. Probably wouldn't crack 5,000 in this day and age IMO, homecoming or not. I also think the on-campus argument is overblown. Under the very best circumstances, student attendance would make up for about 15% of total attendance in a sold out Alerus Center. According to Google Maps, it takes 27 minutes to walk to the Alerus versus 15 minutes to walk to Memorial Stadium. If these kids don't have an extra 12 minutes to spare in their busy day, I give up! The majority of fans that attend UND football games are adults, and it is easier to get to and to park at the Alerus than it would be at Memorial stadium. GF isn't a huge place, and the Alerus isn't hard to get to for anyone whether you are driving, walking, or riding a bus............

I sit on the East side, and in general I am usually quite impressed with the turnout of the fans that fill in that side of the stadium, whether there is 7,000 people in attendance or 11,000. Obviously the explanation is that the bulk of the season ticket holders land on the East side. It pains me to look at the gaping hole that forms in the middle on the West side as the season progresses. I am confident that there are few, if any, other DI schools across the country that places their students directly behind the opposing bench. Hell, as far as I know, the NCAA forbids it in the case of NCAA playoff games. Most student sections are located in the end zones or corners. We don't have endzone seating, but there is plenty of corner seating to the north of the band that would accommodate the UND students that actually attend the game. Some may question the significance of the "optics" of the empty West side on TV. But if I was a high schoold kid, or had a high school kid being recruited by UND, I would come away unimpressed with the fan support after watching a game on TV, since that is the area the cameras are pointed at all game long. There are lots of season ticket holders outside the 20 yard lines on the East side that could be interested in sitting in between the 40's on the West side. Hell, the atmosphere is so important to me personally, that I wouldn't mind if the field was completely flipped so that the entire West side became the Champions Club side, just so it looks better on TV. And I don't want to hear any BS about student fees. They agreed to the fees that they pay. And the fees that they pay are far less than the fees that most Champions Club members pay. If anyone really feels that students would be "punished" by moving them 100 feet to the North, has really been living a charmed life.........

They gave up 28 points in the first 26 minutes of the game. That's terrible against anybody. The run D was especially brutal. People need to stop acting like the defense has been a mirror image of the '85 Bears since Schmidt returned to campus. Look at the numbers, it has been just as inconsistent as the offense since this staff took over. Way better than what it was under the previous regime, but not where it needs to be. They really need to look at scrapping the 3-4. It was installed 25 years ago to stop the veer. How many veer teams are still out there? How many teams still implement a 3-4? Less than 5?

Defense dug itself a big hole in the first half, they deserve just as much criticism as anybody on the offense...

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