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I don’t think that true. That may be your assumption but I truly believe the team expects to win.

Run game was our best defense today as well.

Fair point.

This teams lacks an identity. Offensively- everyone can see we are at our best when we pound the ball but we have an OC that can’t commit to it and gets impatient. I made mention to my brother today at the game the worst thing that could have happened to us was the 4th quarter break when we had the ball at the 50. Gave Danny too much time to think instead of sticking with what was working and sure enough the next two plays we take two sacks on the same simple pressure from the defense. Defensively- what are we. We aren’t “bend but don’t break”, we aren’t “physical”, we don’t get there when “we bring pressure”. I don’t know what we are supposed to be. The staff needs to figure it out and go find the talent through the portal if it’s not on the roster. I think one side of the ball has a lot of pieces in place already but they need to determine how they get better.

Not sure why we seemed to not want to commit to that as our offensive identity. Most frustrating part of the season.

Not sure why we throw on first down there. Frustrating.

Don’t need to tear the whole program apart but the defense needs to be torn down, evaluated. Have some very good players but schematically the same !@#$ happened all year long.

Good thing it’s a home game today so we can dump the road woe !@#$ until next week. try enjoying the day once without bringing up everything negative.

I agree with this. We also don’t hide it well pre snap

I guess you can look at it however you’d like but in my opinion an early kickoff benefits UND much more than Sac St. Keeping a schedule when traveling west to east is a tough adjustment

For all the reasons mentioned above. Solid choice by the admin on the early kickoff.

Not unless its other teams wins.

The 10 were from a friend and the season tickets around them but no interest in going. Had family coming to town Friday night with NDSU ties and just asked around. For him to act like people are lining up to get in the dome is funny at best. Their student section rivaled ours as far as attendance so it’s not just a UND problem.

I actually went to that game on Saturday. Whoever bought yours for $55 certainly didn’t look very hard. We bought 2 at the gate and were given 10 for no charge. Apparently lots of people wearing blue and red if you think there is a demand for tickets.

Wins vs non scholly and D2 and lower are much more meaningful by your standards.

I read it when you posted it. His post was about not breaking 5 wins…..so your rebuttal is a year we beat a non scholly and 3 D2 teams or lower. You are the one not comprehending. Yesterday you say this years team doesn’t have a quality win this year, now those 4 wins are your bar for a 8 win team and no progress has been made under this staff.

You for some reason picked that season to prove 8 wins was attainable before Bubba got here. It’s your bar.

No one is playing the poor man game but there are certainly guys injured that affect play calling. I think it’s showing depth is an issue.

4 wins vs non scholly or D2 and lower. Yet that’s your bar. Nice

Look who they played. If this years team and staff played that schedule with the exact same results you would be crapping all over them worse than you do now.

!@#$, 2011 is your bar now…..lol

There is no way to really know how a game between 2023 and 2014 would go but the product on the field is better. If you are going to write off every win we have in 2023, certainly you are not going to lift every win in 2014. My opinion is the last few games the lack of depth/experience is starting to show. That is going to be a challenging thing to build at the FCS level for any team but is a spot this staff needs to figure out. I don’t have the answers but it is certainly a challenge.

Are they as healthy as they were vs NDSU?

Meh, we were terrible when Bubba took over and that wasn’t changing over night. I don’t disagree we need to be a lot better in the road but using the first years against him is digging to make your argument hold water.

Offensively we seem to play better when we play with tempo vs huddling and substituting between every play. Maybe something to consider. I know it to shorten the game a bit but if we can’t score, we aren’t consistently good enough defensively to win a low scoring game. Defense created some turnovers yesterday but agreed, need to get home on pressure.