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Ok....So how many strikes does a starting RB get at NDSU?

Your coach ruled that one out today? No suspensions will come. Question for you and other Bison fans- How many strikes does a starting running back get at NDSU?

This is the kind of stuf Gene Taylor brought upon his athletic department with his comments on Saturday. I know it was bad before but after the comments KFGO and the Forum are going to be huddled around the police scanners waiting for the next NDSU athlete to get arrested. And now it doesn't matter if its a member of the dance team, everyone is going to be compared to these guys and it starts with Travis Beck. No one would have known any different about Beck's summer arrest, but now the questions begin- Why did he already play two games and why will he be allowed to be on strike 4 if drinking and running from the law(resisting arrest) are taken so seriously? This isn't going away anytime soon and although the players may not deserve it, it couldn't happen to a better guy than Gene Taylor.

The biggest thing we need to come around right now is our depth with the 2nd unit defense. When Daryl Brown came out our 2nd unit dbacks gave up some big plays and when we tried to rotate in our 2nd and some 3rd unit d-line and LB's we got beat on the option read play they ran time and time again. These guys need to get their feet under them and make some plays. Hopefully the experience helps with that. We are going to see some pretty good rb's and some outstanding wr's in the next few months and our first unit will not be able to be on the field all game. Right now I am more concerned about our lack of pressure on the qb than anything else. I am confident our tackling will improve and we have guys that can run but we're asking a lot of our db's and our offense if we can't find a way to get some pressure.

I'm sure he had to do some extra conditioning as well. Maybe a couple extra sprints or something to really teach him a lesson.

Mods, can we clean up some of these posts? We are here trying to have a discussion on a topic that has affected the entire state of North Dakota and these guys are obviously trying to change the subject or get the thread closed down.

Take it to PMs or start a new thread of your obsession of Dave. This thread is to discuss 13 of the 15 charged in the petition fraud with ties to NDSU's football team.

You said earlier he suspended Jemison cause he knew about it and had a conversation with BJ and that is why he got suspended so quickly. If he knew about this for weeks before, and the players obviously admitted their guilt. Why no suspension?

I can tell you what I wouldn't do. I wouldn't make the comments that Gene made last night trying to make the kids seem like the victims and I wouldn't have told the media that you believe the court process should play out, even though you didn't let the process play out a couple weeks prior with another player on the team who has yet to go to court. I know you have the Green and Gold glasses on but take them off for one second and take a look at how this looks from the outside. Its winning above all else.

Thats what I was thinking. It was 6 years ago. Do you really want to compare the last 6 years of Bison football off the field incidents? Some Bison fans trying to justify that this is all ok is worth the read. Your AD and coach have put winning in front of everything else. Admit it and move on.

If it's Mannausa it must be another Wisconsin kid?? Hopefully we hear a name.

Look guys, the attendance isn't going to change overnight. The fans who have gone to the games can see we have a damn good football team that has improved tremendously since last year. But we lost a lot of casual fans during an average transition which was below average at the beginning. From the team standpoint, they are doing everything correct right now to get interest back in the program. A blowout over SD School of Mines was not going to catch anyones attention. This win vs. Portland St will. I'm expecting attendance to continue to improve as the season goes along.

Well, someone has to watch them. Their coach and AD do a pretty good job at looking the other direction.

The didn't even try to get signitures so whether they were wearing their jersey's is a pretty mute point.

Great post. If the team keeps playing offense like last night, it will give fans a reason to stick around. Just my opinion. It will take fans a little time to realize this is not the offense from the transition and it is so much fun to watch.

Any word on Daryl Brown's injury. Portland St. got very aggressive in the passing department when he went out. I'm not saying they would have had less than 300 yards passing if he played the entire game, but his absense was very noticeable.

There are more than a few with Ducks Unlimited that are not very impressed with the Bison athletic dept.and NDSU in general right now. Just caue Gene said "this is over", the stink isn't leaving Fargo anytime soon. Like I said, good to know its ok to enter NDSU as a boy and its perfectly acceptable to leave as a criminal as long as you win football games.

Is this kid serious? Its good to know that in the NDSU program it is ok for players to come in as kids and leave as charged criminals and it is perfectly ok according to their coaches and their AD.

Great win tonight by the team. Our offense has a lot of weapons on a night our O-line play was average. Marcus was the man tonight. His play was great and our WR shook the early jitters and just made plays. I was glad to see Golloday play tonight as much as he did. On defense, we have some work to do. I haven't heard was D. Brown's injury was. Hopefully nothing serious. We need our front seven to get pressure to help out our dbacks. PSU's qb had some time back there. Still, the D made plays when they had to and man they can be physical. The bogus personal foul call on the hit to the qb was about as loud of a hit as I have heard. Special teams- Coach Kotelnicki has these guys rolling. 3 blocked kicks tonight and none against us vs. about as good of a special teams unit we'll see in the conference. We were so close to breaking a huge kickoff return as well. Minus the missed FG, these guys all get an A+. Another great turnout by the students and they were loud in the first half. Thanks to all of you who read this board and who showed up and set the tone. Hopefully the players let everyone know how much they appreciate it and it continues when the team returns in a few weeks. This team has a ton of potential. Didn't play great tonight and beat an above average Big Sky team. I agree with the earlier poster who said we'll see more running backs like this in the future and that is a concern.

Funniest part of the night was when I was driving back from Grand Forks after the game listening to a national college football radio show. They are announcing some scores and they announce Sac. St over Colorado and mention Sac. St is an FCS program. Next they announce NDSU over CSU and follow the score up with "North Dakota St. playing this game using 9 players who were charged in a voter fraud case in North Dakota earlier this week." I about spit Mountain Dew all over my windshield. This is going to follow that program nationally for a long time.

Must be tough when you need to be told what to do when your job is to get signitures on petitions.

Well, going off the article todayl, either Bohl didn't have that same conversation with these guys or more than likely he just overlooked it to have them elgible for this week. Article today made it pretty clear that all of them admitted the two stars of the team forged more or the same amount of signitures that they went out and got. I bet the punishment will be harsh- next week when the team is playing Pravie View A&M junior high.

I wanted to post a picture but the Bison are getting more national attention. Front page of ESPN.com- http://espn.go.com/c...tion-signatures

This was my thought. All we heard all week was that Bohl had to have known about the case that is why he was holding off. Well, doesn't sound like guilt is a question.

And also why Bohl wants to wait to let the legal process play out fo find out for sure if his players are truely "guilty".