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Great interview that shows an outstanding personality of that young man. Glad he came to UND to finish his college career.

Not if the DL makes plays. There were times the Cal Poly oline was too quick to try and get second level and the d line made plays. Watch the tape and some of Tank and Greely's plays were made with them being untouched and in standard fronts.

Studs and his young WR's will have to win games for us here on out. They won't have to throw for 300+ but need to make enough plays so we don't see the defenses we saw vs Mont. St. I agree with others that the last wrinkle to add to the offense is a play action, TE seam route. Maybe we don't see it until SUU.

I am hoping Taubs can shake his inconsistency of kicking outdoors this week. I'm with you though and think he misses a couple.

I'd love to see a blowout, not 100% confident it will happen. UND- 27 Sac. St- 17

Any buyout money??

They will never know unless they order. I was there last week and stopped in before leaving town. I would have scooped up a couple for the kids if they had them.

That last series wasn't on Rudolph. That swing pass was open for a huge gain with a better ball. Yeah, I think everyone would have like to seen more more time run off but that was a first down and a field turning play. Missed execution.

I thought he looked good. Quicker than I thought. Hopefully the injury to Santiago isn't serious. Gordon could fill in for a couple of weeks nicely.

Great game by the offense today. Worst enemy was themselves with some bad turnovers but they moved with tempo and the line played outstanding. Getting nicked up but this was a huge win. No let down next week.

tough news on injuries. Not a ton of depth at CB and OL.

Picking UND because games like this are ones they have to win. Still not 100% sold on the offense but think they do enough. Defense needs to stay out of 3rd and less than 3. Taubs is a different kicker in the Al. UND- 23 Poly- 21 Must win game for UND

Agreed

Couldn't or chose not to?

If there is a position that is the most difficult to make an impact at immediately it is o line. Very few 18-19 year old men can come in and complete right away.

Why is this in the recruiting thread?

Studsrud needs to play the game he did in Bozeman and we need to eliminate the penalties and make field goals Im going to assume the obvious PI calls that should have been called in Bozeman get called this week. Those were brutal and don't understand how an official misses three calls when a DB is hanging on a receivers arm.

I think Poly's rush defense statistics are inflated due to playing games against SDSU and Montana. Both are pass first teams who are more effective moving the ball that way. Teams (Nevada and San Diego) that have tried to establish a running game have averaged near 5 ypc against them.

We will win more games this year with what we have than when we had that combo on offense.

As always vs Poly keeping them out of 3rd and 2 or 3 will be key. Also crowd noise needs to be a factor. As Oxbow said yesterday, the remaining schedule after this one is favorable but this is a huge game. Need to find a way to win.

One of the all conference guys did transfer in when the staff got here and the other two were the two best olinemen that staff recruited while they were here. Really broke out their senior years. You make a backhanded statement about the oline depth not being the old staffs fault right away and than state how terrible the pass protection was a few years ago. It's not a stretch to state that Muss' staff did either not recruit or develop quality olinemen. Our QB didn't play bad yesterday. Some untimely drops (I believe it was Toinivan early) and missed PI calls (Stanley, Toinivan and #34 I believe on 2nd last drive) hurt some drives he was leading.

Maybe a marketing person.

Shame on the marketing department for trying to build excitement in the offseason.

Truth is somewhere in between where you think they are and some (including me) thought they would be. I still think they will get better and continue to shoot themselves in the foot. I wasn't as disappointed today by the play or play calling as I was in the discipline and execution (special teams). Not sure on what expectations were for the oline. They replaced 4 out of 5 starters. Will they get better, maybe but the running backs need to help them out. Olivera fits them better right now as he hits the hole right away. Santiago needs to do the same. If they can't physically get push they at least need to get hat on hat.

Best of luck the rest of the way out.