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Did you watch the game today? Every team has players hurt right now. It's football. We only make fun of FUs fan base saying they are everyone's football in every sport.

It's the one defense that our offense might play well against from start to finish. If we stay healthy and stop killing ourselves, it's not unrealistic to think this team can't run the table.

Thanks for the update. Saw a lot of different letter men jackets today. Hope everyone enjoyed themselves.

Trim the fat. Guys are getting their chance and making the most if it.

Tough loss. I'm glad the team is back at home next week. Get out and support these guys.

There was nothing cheap about that. Late and stupid but Ratelle plays hard.

So at what point do they live up to the "hype"? How long do they need to have the number 2 ranked defense in FCS? How good does an FBS offense have to be in order for a performance to mean a damn thing? I have yet to read any hype, only people saying they were a good defense. If you watched the game, they were big, fast and athletic. If their offense could throw the ball consistently to anyone but that huge TE/WR, they could as easily have a winning record.

Unfortunate indeed. Walker played pretty well against Stoney Brook. Jenkins-Moore looked the part physically but being away from the game for two years, he never really seemed to look comfortable in the limited reps he had.

Based on statistics so far this season, no they are not.

If Calcaterra and Solomonson can box out and rebound this season and wisely use their 10 fouls, I am ok with them as an option. Last year we got killed on the boards. Need more from that spot. Mitch Wilmer like numbers and effort would work.

Glad to hear. That is good news. I'm not sure what our back court will look like this year but it sounds like there will be options and it should be competitive for playing time.

I just want to get the casual fan back to the Alerus for games. During the last few seasons, we lost the fan who will buy the walk up ticket. Bubba has reached out to the community to try and get that fan back. Roger Thomas getting inducted to the HOF is a chance for UND Marketing to use a familiar name to try and draw a few of those fans back as well. If they show up and see the quality of football and the effort of the players and coaching staff is changing for the better, they are likely to return.

Coach Roger Thomas' induction into the UND Hall of Fame would be another good marketing point to the average fan in Grand Forks to get out to the game on Saturday. Haven't seen to much of that printed or covered this week. It would make for a nice front page story from the Herald.

On the UND Recruiting twitter page, Josh Collins had a picture of himself, the UND coaches and I assume his family. The kid looks physically ready to play now. Welcome to all three committed players from last week.

The UND fumble on the long pass play was a terrible call right before that. MSU should have never had possession.

Montana will bring a better front 7 defensively than what MSU had on the field last weekend. The o-line will be in for a challenge. Offensively, the passing game needs to be what was on the field for the 2nd half on Saturday and the field needs to be spread side to side and vertically to open up the running game. Defensively, I hope they have watched the game film from last year. Special teams, it would be fitting if we were somehow up enough in the 4th quarter to have the luxery to score and go for two. Same bush league play UM did last year. Looking forward to this weekend and seeing the team back up in GF at the Al.

Haven't the kids at FSU suffered enough?

What would have been the ideal temp?

Don't think anyone sees this as a positive. Offense struggled in the first half, defense have up some big lays and special teams had a six yard punt and blocked fg.

Defense with a stop on 3rd and short. Offense gets the ball back.

We have botched 4 snaps.

Nice stop by the defense.

Fourth botched snap today

So far they have spread the offense sideline to sideline as well. The last few weeks have been up the middle all day.

So far, defense is playing well. Coverage teams are playing well. Need the offense to get on board.