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Agreed. I expect to see the stingy D that we've seen at the Alerus earlier this season. Offense just needs NOT to turn it over against Weber and we will be fine.....

Miller just confirmed via twitter that Shaugaby and Ferguson will be out.

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You can certainly tell by how active the NDSU posters have been on this site this week that they have their big rivalry game with SDSU tomorrow............

He said they are preparing as if Bartels won't be available, but that can change by Saturday. Said Hanson knows the offense and is a good leader. Said Studsrud can make all the throws.

This thread is obviously horribly off topic. I would normally be inclined to close it, but since for the most part it is a decent discussion, we will let it play out a while longer. Keep it clean though, please.

Kramer seems to be doing a nice job with the Bengals. Most UND fans probably don't realize it, but ISU won a national title in the 80's. I would like to see Idaho St. return and maintain some relevance. Having another state-named school be a consistent player in the Big Sky would be good for the conference........

Every time I'm at a game, I spend a good chunk of the time looking around trying to figure out how to improve the Sioux Center. The best I have come up with is to put permanent seating in at the North end, that goes all the way to the top like the seats do on the East and West. I think you could also make 4 luxury suites above each restroom entrance. The portable risers would have to stay on the South end to access the overhead doors. By my math, this would get little over 4,000 seats in there. I really like watching games at the Sioux Center, but I agree that the lack of a video board and the sound system in there are bush league. The fact that these two things haven't been upgraded in 10 years tells me that a new arena or updated Hyslop is at minimum 100 years away. The basketball programs are pretty low on the totem pole for UND athletics and especially REA.........

Just to be clear, it is Keaton Studsrud, not Stensrud......... And my opinion is you keep his shirt on and roll with Bartels and Hanson.

I liked the fake punt call going into the wind at that point. Bolduc really struggled in the wind at Bozeman. If the O-line were capable of creating a hole, we would all be saying what a great call that was.....

That was really disappointing. SUU is not very good. The D was really weak today. Dropped passes killed us.

Idaho St. seems much improved.

Sort of a different topic, and kind of sad that it needs to be examined at all, but I often try think of how to make the Alerus look better on TV. It would really be pretty simple. Move the team, the Champions Club members, and all the season ticket holders to the west side of the arena. That would look way better on TV. Of course, hopefully the place will be full in 3 or 4 years so it won't matter. Regarding where the students sit, when we were DII they had to move from directly behind the opposing bench during playoffs to outside the 35 yard lines per NCAA rules. So when we start hosting playoff games in a year or two, they will have to move for the last 3 games each year. Might as well move them now so they are used to it. I remember they used to really whine about it during the DII playoffs.

I think you are hitting the nail on the head here. Molberg was arguably the most hyped recruit to come to UND in probably more than a decade. And he chose North Dakota over NDSU at a time when NDSU was hand picking whatever regional recruits it wanted. Then add the fact that he had interest from a Big 10 team, and the fans of this once proud program figured he was going to be the savior. It just hasn't translated to on the field success to this point. I will clarify that I have been a Bartels guy going back to last season, but honestly there is not a huge degree of separation between the two. If there were, we all wouldn't still be arguing who should be the starter between them for the second consecutive season. In my opinion there is less risk with Bartels. In Molberg's defense as far as not living up to expectations, people have to remember that it has been a long time since a freshman QB led North Dakota's football program. Heck, and correct me if I am wrong, but you have to go back 12 years to find even a sophomore that was starting for this program when Bowenkamp took the reigns only because of injury to Klosterman. Furthermore, despite an excellent receiving corps last season, Molberg (and Bartels) is enduring a second consecutive season with little help from the offensive line and little help from any other offensive skill position players. In the end, I predict that nobody is going to be happy until neither one of the these guys is starting at QB, and that could be a couple years down the road.......

Idowu, Tillman Earn ROOT SPORTS Player of the Week Honors That makes four Player of the Week honors already this season for UND players (Tillman twice). I don't recall any last season, unless maybe Hardin got it once or twice.

Regardless of who the QB is, the most glaring hole on this team is still the offensive line, particularly their run blocking. If they can't start opening some holes consistently to establish a run game, the opposing defense is going to be able to pin their ears back and harrass either QB all game long making whoever it is back there look pretty bad...........

Bow season starts August 29 and goes into January. Muzzle loader starts late November and goes into mid December. Rifle in the heart of November. Plus you can use your vehicle year round. Lots of opportunities to kill deer during the year.......

Unfortunately, the trend for several years now is for attendance to decline as the season progresses and regardless of how the team plays it's next two games, I see the attendance ceiling to be about 8,000-ish for the last two games. Grand Forks is a tough crowd to win over and even a win over EWU would not be impressive to the casual fans that we need to draw in. I think beating Montana and Montana St. would have probably caught the attention of those fans, but SUU & EWU won't do that. I know EWU is the #2 team in the nation, but most casual observers don't. I think to see a real growth in attendance, this program is going to have to start winning 8+ games a year, make the playoffs and be ranked in the Top 10. Until then, I think crowds of 7,000-9,000 are going to be the norm, with the occaisonal season opener or Potato Bowl cracking 10,000. I was very disheartened by the homecoming crowd this weekend. Bubba and Schmidt must be bewildered with what the environment is like in the Alerus now compared to what it was like when they left. And don't get me started on the deer hunting thing. A deer in North Dakota can be killed on any one of 125 consecutive days. North Dakota football can be watched 6 days.

I vote Bartels because that is how I felt last year, and that is how I felt this year. I don't think the coaching staff is going to see it that way, though.

I keep hearing that Molberg is so much more mobile than Bartels, that Rudolph wants a QB that can run it, and that is a big reason Molberg won the job out of fall camp. I haven't seen anything from Joe in a season and a half that would indicate that he is all that fleet of foot.........

I thought Bartels played better than Molberg all last season, and I think in the one half yesterday, he played better than Molberg has at any point this season. Having said that, Molberg has played pretty well 3 straight weeks now, and given how I have seen this coaching staff operate thus far, I'd be surprised if Molberg is not the starter coming off the bye week, unless he is still having concussion symptoms. Even though I preferred Bartels last year, and coming into this season, if Molberg's play in the first 3 games didn't warrant him losing the starting job then, his play in the last 3 games certainly doesn't warrant a benching right now IMO. Right now, his leash gets shortened, now that Bartels has shown he can produce in a game situation. Honestly, I think a QB controversy is the last thing this team needs right now.

You can find historical attendance numbers in the Wiki.......

8 teams will make it this year.........

Just WIN alot of games and tailgating and attendance as a whole will take care of itself.........