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Izzo is the original Bison lickspittle - can't stand to see his face.

1953-1964

The big factor in the heartburn is the pathetic execution - even after we knew they smelled it out we fumbled around a bit then ran it.

Some absolute snipes in this game. I hope this continues because when things weren't going well it seemed all of our shots in some games were center mass on the goalie. If we can shoot like this it will be a good year.

Actually, I think it is more if the administration demands excellence - fans had nothing to do with renewing a 5-6 coach before his contract was up.

And "culture"

Exactly this - and this is after 6 years of Muss. At this point Bubba's gonna Bubba. We are recruiting better but the same old deer in the headlights look in big games. He is not changing. By contrast, the school to the south got rid of Bob Babich when he was 46-22 after a bad year and because of a poor playoff record and the inability to beat their biggest rival (sound familiar?). Not only did we hire a 22-21 coach, we extended him after a 5-6 season. Absolutely no commitment to a winning program from the administration. - And before I get jumped on, I am not saying they don't want to win - we all do from admin on down. I am saying they are not willing to do what it takes for the next step - instead it's just "I hope this year things will be better". Change is glacial here.

But without the 3-4 how will we be able to stop the Bison option play.

Not just Tommy - seems like the glow is fading from Danny too - his play calling lately has been less than stellar.

But it stopped the Bison option back in the day.

And we were who we worried we were.

We'd rather have a coach who was 22-21 because he is "one of us". Heavy lobbying by the old school won the day. And here we are 10 years later. One playoff win and we extended him after a 5-6 season. Absolutely no demand for excellence from the administration.

Exactly - and if this was a rare problem for us we could be frustrated and move on after 24 hours. However, this seems to happen a lot under Bubba. In big games, especially on the road, we seem to make rookie mistakes - and this affects everyone from Senior leaders to rookies. Kicking and special teams, muffed opportunities, turnovers, poor play selection (which I thought we had corrected) - you name it. Bubba and Co. have increased our talent - but we need to be able to play crisp assignment sharp football if we are going to take the next step. How many times has this happened in big games? I know that individual players are responsible for how they perform but this looks more and more like a program problem. Top programs usually have their best efforts in big games. We are not there yet - and it has been 10 years. We have 2 more big games coming up and I hope the team proves me wrong.

You would think - but there is no demand for excellence for UND football.

If Bubba can get us to 5-6 this year he'll get another extension.

This is the 10th year of Bubba Ball. At some point he just plain needs to get it done.

Game experience was markedly better - music was loud but not too loud and the selection seemed to get the crowd into it. Halftime was great. I talked to a few friends after last week and all said the blaring music last week was very annoying. Nice to see some adjustments. A great game experience yesterday.

But they're not out during halftime when it is most annoying.

Why yes there are. Anything to get away from that loud rap/technopop crap they play - it doesn't fire anyone up and is super annoying. Give me the bagpipes or anything else.

We need to wait until we have a 5-6 season.

Grey Hair here - I found the very loud blasting technopop/rap during the entire half time (and other times too) extremely annoying. Impossible to visit and ruins the live atmosphere of an event. Does nothing to fire up a crowd. And at this point many of the young people have left or are leaving.

Could not agree more - we need to be able to land these guys again. I know we have some nice players coming in but it is impossible to overestimate the effect having a player like Brock Boeser had on our championship run.

I really hope we can get off of the "always the Bridesmade" situation we have been in with recruiting top end talent.

We have some nice players coming in but these are the type of recruiting battles we need to start winning again - we need to get back to being a national power.

Not quite sure how.