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Pretty excited to see the into next week. Missed it getting the family rounded up in the parking lot. Heard a lot of good things about it.
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This article from the FU student paper may turn some students heads. How dare they question Bohl? Gene Taylor- Haven't these guys already suffered enough?
http://www.ndsuspectrum.com/sports/bohl-lacks-confidence-1.3053055#.UiCbP9KG2Sp
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Fun game tonight.
1) Good to see the student turnout. They were loud and into the game. Mass exodus after the kick return in the 2nd half. We will need them next weekend vs. SDSU.
2) Both QBs looked good. As others have mentioned Bartels looks more comfortable in the pocket and makes solid, early reads. Molberg makes all the throws look real easy and is more athletic, just doesn't seem as comfortable in the pocket or as quick to make reads. Both bring a lot to the table.
3) WRs looked good on offense. I think Sparks needs more touches. 2nd year in a row he has been real good in the opener. O-line needs to sharpen up next week or we won't have a run game. Looking forward to Jackson getting back on the field next week. Our short passing game may be our run game next week and he's a huge part of that. He'll be in the lineup next week.
4) Defense needs to improve. They better play with a chip on their shoulders next week cause I don't know if anyone left impressed.
5) I can't wait until next Saturday. I heard some real good things about the ticket sales for the next couple weeks. Its going to be full and a lot of fun next week. A lot to prove next week vs. an old NCC foe.
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I can't wait for the season to start.
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I'm going with simple handoff off tackle on the first play. Our first pass will be a bubble screen. Within the first 5 plays though we go for the endzone on a deep pass to Golloday and he gets the first TD of the season.
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Tom Miller did a pretty cool special section in today's paper, here's the online version: http://legacy.grandf...cal section.pdf
Thats a nice writeup. I enjoyed the read.
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Excited for tonight. Looking forward to seeing all the new faces on the field for the first time tonight.
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You're smacking about fan support? Our away fb games get as many fans than your home fb games. (specially counting the MN years)
#buttFootball....I knew that response was coming.
I thought you wanted to argue about the womens sports you listed. Two of our women's homes basketball games get as many fans as the entire seasons of the women's sports you listed.
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Remember - LAST PLACE in the BSC.......... "NDSU - North Dakota State University claimed The Summit League's Dr. Helen Smiley Women's All-Sports Award for the fourth consecutive year, the league office announced Tuesday, June 4.
The Bison won their fourth straight Dr. Helen Smiley Award after placing first in women's cross country, women's indoor track & field, women's golf, softball and women's outdoor track & field. NDSU also won the men's outdoor track & field title and placed in the top-two in seven of its 14 eligible championships."
Yeah that's a mess you'd love to have.
Well, if your happy with the direction of your women's volleyball and basketball programs.......who am I to argue? I'm not going to lie, UND doesn't put much money into the sports above. I mean you have the Summit's leagues best and how many fans do you figure came out last season to support those sports?
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Offenseive MVPs- Golloday, Garmen
Leading rusher- Garmen
Leading passer- Bartels
Leading receiver- Golloday
Breakout star- Bartels
Defensive MVPs- Goodman, Mackey
Leading tackler- Goodman
Leading Sacker- Idowu
Breakout star- Idowu
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Scheduling Manitoba in hockey is a recruiting tool for young players who might actually wind up playing college hockey. What is the benefit of playing a team like Valpo in football? This is an honest question, BTW.
Its a win that counts towards the end of the year playoff total and that is the goal.
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I'm admittedly not much of a football poster but is this what UND signed up for with the D1 'push' a few years ago? This is the big dream coming true? An expected 40-65 point thumping of a school with no scholarships?
UND will learn as much about its football players from this game as LSU would from playing Minot State.
Yeah, having 3 teams ranked in the top 10 in the country come to the Alerus and another couple ranked in the top 25 either at home or on the road the rest of the year is about what every other program in FCS college football hopes to have their schedule look like.
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As usual your logic is flawless! Fact is Womens sports at NDSU are light years more sucessful (NCAA appearances) than yours.
And the fans are waiting in line to see those teams in action. At least you'll have your past success to fall back on when you WBB and VB teams are struggling through this year. Have you filled the rosters of those teams yet? When are open tryouts? Face the facts Dan, besides Women's T&F and a softball team who choked last season your women's athletic department is a hot mess.
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You can't really compare a situation at one school to another, they are all very different.
I would agree that schools each hold their student athletes to different standards. Hell, even players from different teams from the same school get treated different. For example- a softball player may get suspended right away, 10-11 football players get their day in court or get 3-4 strikes.
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You might want to look into Price's history at App State and just what exactly he did recently to receive this suspension.
So prior incidents should be taken into account for suspensions/dismissals?
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I'm torn on playing time for Thursday. On one hand, Bartels earned the job and I would like to see him get some game time to develop rhythm with the offense. On the other hand I would like to see Molberg get equal reps and run a different type of offense to get something else on tape for SDSU to prepare for. A coach like Stig has seen everything but forcing their defense to prepare for two different types of QBs can only help us the following week.
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UND- 62
Valpo- 10
I want to see the offense have no turnovers and play a clean football game. Have to control the ball this year.
On defense I want to see us get pressure only sending 4 guys and create some turnovers. Coach Kotelnicki has said that has been the focus since spring and it needs to start on Thursday night. I don't remember any turnovers last season against SD Mines and that carried out throughout the season. Also, the tackling this week will hopefully be improved from what we saw last year.
Special teams- A couple blocked kicks.
Attendance 9800 (1,000 more than last years season opener)
My attendance prediction for the game will be
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That's the attitude that has UND is last place in the BSC all sports standings.
Your women's programs are certainly something to brag about. Our last place teams in the big sky are still much better than yours, minus softball. Add to that a women's swimming team in a new conference and a national tournament hockey team and you can have you middle of the road summit league women's programs.
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With as much talk as there has been about us having the #1 receiving core in the country, I just assumed that we did and didn't actually know. I don't really think that we can compare to what App State has. Don't get me wrong we have a very talented group of receivers but theirs is great. I guess I hope our guys can change my mind on this.
We return an All American and a freshman All American and neither of those two may be the most talented WR on the team. Like someone mentioned above its hard to compare across conferences but to me, our group has proven themselves on the field.
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Yet, NDSU plays you in Volleyball and basketball, vs. you ducking NDSU in softball the past 4 years. A new arena and coaching change is basketball will turn it around. Volleyball had been dominant and higher ranked than your squad save last year, so pound your chest while you can in 1 or 2 sports.
UND volleyball has been better than FU for a couple years now. Our basketball team isn't great but is much, much better than FU right now.
I don't know if I'd hang my hat on a new facility. All the money at FU right now is being pumped into football and men's hoops right now. It will take years for the women's programs to get back on track.
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Its been a couple seasons since we have had only one QB take meaningful snaps during a season. I feel its a little premature to talk about transferring already.
All eyes have been focusing on the QB battle all last spring and this fall. One thing that has impressed me over that time is the maturity of both guys. Both were pretty passionate about running the offense and making themselves better, which made the other better. I'm confident in both going into the season.
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Go darell go! How was the pizza last night? I heard there was a lot left over.....
You must be delivering a lot with the students moving back to town. It's nice if you to follow up with you customers. At least they teach you FU grads that.
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Thursday 8/29
Southern Utah @ S. Alabama
Valparaiso @ North Dakota
Monmouth @ Montana State
Sac State @ San Jose State
E. Oregon @ Portland St
Friday 8/30
NAU @ Arizona
Saturday 8/31
UC Davis @ South Dakota
Langston @ Northern Colorado
Eastern Washington @ Oregon St.
San Diego at Cal Poly
SFA @ Weber Stat
App St. @ Montana
Same as most above except I'll take EWU with the upset and Montana over App St. at home.
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Didn't Bohl say suspensions are only needed if it involved alcohol, fighting or drugs? Hasn't the kid suffered enough?
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I'm going to side with the students on this one. They started out pretty into the game but lets face it, it turned into a game of Madden after a while. I do agree with the post above though, next week the crowd has to be Alerus Center of old type of loud.