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Southern Utah comes into Grand Forks fresh off a win vs. #1 Eastern Washington. Offensive rankings: Total offense- 363 yds/gm (67th) Passing offense- 283 yds/gm (16th) Rushing offense- 80 yds/gm (115th) Defensive rankings: Total defense- 443 yds/gm (103rd) Passing defense- 264 yds/gm- (108th) Rushing defense- 178 yds/gm- (86th)

I agree, lets bounce back and send these guys out the right way. Anyone who puts the time in deserves to go out on top. I'll be very disappointed if we play flat this week. Not a better day than senior day for these guys to lead and every one else to follow and make some plays. No excuses this week.

Familiar opponent this week who wil be looking for some revenge after us beating them on their home field last year. We need to win our last two.

This defense is terrible. Only way we win the next two is if the offense shows up. I'd really, really like to hear some emotion out of this coaching staff one time.

In my opinion no. When the fans get into a game in that building you will be hard pressed to find anything louder. I am also a big fan of the skywalks in the endzone. I can bring the kid to a game and when he starts to get restless I can take him up there, let him run and still have a great view of the game. The view from up there is actually probably better than from most of the seats.

You have been on this board telling UND fans who have attended every game this season what is wrong with every game this season. It gets old. I know student turnout at FU isn't perfect. I know they face the same challenges for your own schools main sport so the finger pointing at UND from you followed by the "I wasn't trying to start anything act" gets old.

I think Molberg will be more similar to Hendrickson than to Hanson in the fact that he'll bring some mobility to the position. I watched two of his games last year at Detroit Lakes and he also has some touch on the short to intermediate routes and is pretty accurate so maybe he'll be a combination of the two. I'm also kind of excited about Bartels. He had some offers from MVFC schools and was pretty highly rated within IL. We already had Molberg signed when he committed so the coaching staff must have seen something in him as well. I'm hoping those two push each other as only good can come out of that. Next year its wide open and the best man will win.

McGill is too valuable at WR. He is probably my favorite to watch because he is as hard nosed as they come and really does everything at WR you could ask even with him being on the small side. He is the perfect slot WR and I can't wait until he gets back.

Thank you for clarifying what my coworkers were complaining about. I appreciate you clearing up a conversation you had no part of.

This years team has done a much better job of engaging the students from the very start of the school year. From helping freshmen move into the dorms to the high fives after games. I can't really blame students for not showing up in years past during the early part of the transition. I've been a season ticket holder since than and we can't kid ourselves, our team wasn't very good and games were boring to watch. The steps that the team and program are taking to engage the student body off the field and put faces to names, along with a much improved product on the field that is winning and much more exciting to watch, I think are going to go a long ways. Student turnout this year, while not great, is so much better than the last couple years its not even funny. The students who are attending are much more engaged and the athletic dept. (Jason Hajdu) a few changes can/will be made to further improve the experience. I think a big one would be to not dress true freshmen for home games and have them sit in the student section. Let them lead or join in on the cheers and let the students see how much the games mean to these guys.

I'm going to throw the bull$%!# flag on this one. Not going to get into why but I know the student attendance in Fargo hasn't always been great and students have not always stuck around. I believe it was around the USD game 2 or 3 years ago that things began to change for the better but you still get some emptying out at half. I have co-workers bitching about it after Indiana St a coupe weeks ago.

I'm sure Gene Taylor and Coach Bohl look at it and say- "at least it was only a minor in possession this time."

Per the Summit league's new branding strategy they are calling their schools by the city location they are in. Its a similar branding strategy that is used by the leagues the Fargo RedHawks, Fargo Force and Bismarck Bobcats play in. FU=Fargo University

I know it gets chilly in Bozeman and you get a lot of snow but have you ever been to Grand Forks in the winter? I'm not concerned about the snow or cold weather affecting our mindset going into the game. All the guys making the trip have seen snow before and have experinced a negative sign in front of the temperature it will be on Saturday. It could be 75 and sunny and I'd still be worried about our defense however.

1. At the FCS level there are not many programs more well known than Montana. 2 & 3- You could mark it down, an outdoor on campus stadium would do nothing for attendance. 4. Fans around the tailgating area are more than willing to chat with anyone and share anything they have. While I don't disagree that selling food and drink may help, if you felt that tailgating was a GF only club it was your own fault. I'm not from GF and have shown up every week for tailgating and never had a problem finding someone to tailgate with. 5. I don't disagree. I don't think anyone is trying to compete with hockey.

This leads to something I was thinking on the drive back from Grand Forks after the game. UND returns 5 WR's next season and has 2 talented RFr. that will be getting playing time. If I'm an FBS QB who is looking to transfer this year for whatever reason, with the HUGE numbers Hanson has put up this season, knowing that you have all these WR coming back and pretty much an entire starting Oline returning, UND has to be a school you look at right? I know we have Molberg and Bartels who I think one of the two is going to be a stud but if another Braden Hanson comes knocking and we need to add an older QB, we take a look right. Also, I agree, I think 3 positions se a JUCO this year. Running back, DB and LB. I have no problem trying to plug a hole going that route as a temperary fix but we didn't put to much focus on the secondary recruiting last season and we need to start to develop some players there.

NDSU recuits all the way from AZ to Florida this year. That is Coach Cooper's new area so don't pretend like NDSU is recruiting ND, MN and SD. They are still recruiting the same areas that UND is recruiting. Second, you and Dan need to keep telling fans whose programs have been affected by time zones how terrible they are. I personally have loved the road games. I go about my Saturday, get all my !@#$ done and come home and either put the game on the radio or use my HDMI cable and hook it up to my tv. And yes Johnnyboy, I am your average joe and learned how to do that all by myself.

Thats what I thought. Than my dad calls me on my drive home, I read the board here and now I see the writer for the Grizz said it was a TD as well. I need to see a replay cause I don't know how he did it.

So everything I have seen or read says that Golloday got his toe down on what would have been a TD catch late in the 4th (about 2:30 left I believe). I didn't think there was anyway he got a foot down. How rediculous of a catch was that if he did? If I'm picturing this correctly he had a defender draped all over him and a ball that was thrown well over his head and he was pushed right up against the sidelines. The kid so far to me has even exceeded where I thought he would be at.

Last year the Great West was the highest ranked FCS conference and the reasoning out of Fargo was less teams= higher ranking. As usual that reasoning dies when if favors FU.

Well said. Students were disappointing on Saturday but have been outstanding all season. My tickets are right next to the section 214 and the students there have been loud all season. Note: A quick google search can show that student attendance is disappointing at schools all across the country and a lot of schools would love to have had 1500-3000 students in attendance every game.

Crap, here it goes. I'd say NDSU would fair well against that schedule. They are one of the top teams in FCS right now darell. Best part with FCS is every team has a chance t prove exactly how good by making the playoffs. This thread is going to blow up.

John Bloomfield, who is a player for Sac. St. has been in a coma for two wees and his parents are now getting ready to take him off life support. My thoughts and prayers go to John, his family and the Sac. St. football program. Truely a sad story. http://www.news10.net/news/article/212372/2/Family-prepares-to-take-football-player-off-life-support

Have any of you guys noticed we haven't run any sort of screen to the rb all season. Plenty of bubble screens but nothing to the rb's? I would think with all the pass protection we ask our rb's to do that may set itself up nicely.

At the time, with the way our defense was playing I had no problem with Muss going for it on 4th. The call I had the most trouble with was running it between the tackles on 3rd and 3. If I would have ran it, it would not have been with Sutton.