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Alright, so maybe we're a longshot to get to Florence, BUT AT LEAST THEIR STREAK IS DEAD AND WE'RE 9-1!

NEVER MIND!

If they get another first down, maybe we should just let them score so at least we'll have enough time to respond?

Thank you Weston!

I'm so sick of our crappy kickoff team.

The big difference between the two teams is that we can't seem to run when they know it's coming. They can.

Chappell's back in.

Now USD's run defense is looking as inept as ours.

Seriously, is this the worst UND run defense in about 20 years? This is almost like when I was a kid watching a bad UND team try to tackle Johnnie Bailey from Texas A & I.

We may still win this game, but I don't have much faith right now in hanging with UNO or GVSU on the road with our defense...

Another big run to the USD 29.

2nd and 6 from 5. 3rd and 1.

Sioux down punt at the 1. C'mon safety!

Chappell has really been bottled up this quarter. 3rd and 6. Crap. Punt coming up.

Freund for about 7 on the run.

3rd and 23 coming up...punt upcoming.

13 yard loss!

TD Dressler!

You've got to be kidding me. What happened to our run defense? Second time this year we've allowed a 200 yard rusher.

My understanding is that USD has had a problem with stupid penalties all year.

Hats off to UNO--unbelievable season so far.

Weird/surprising stat of the day--UND and USD combined have just two wins against teams with a winning record (UND over CWU, and USD over Winona State).

Unfortunately, besides regular viewers of this board a lot of people didn't recognize some pretty obvious red flags with regard to Buning's performance, such as Bollinger's quick departure from his associate a.d. position, the rather tacky (in terms of timing) handling of the Rivard situation, the insult of UND basketball fans who wanted consideration given to some local candidates ("they don't have UND's best interests at heart"), the offer of the men's basketball job to Herbst (followed by a quick retraction), the near-loss of Lennon, the long delay in the previously promised field turf at Memorial (not coincidentally done right after Lennon decided to stay), the jerking around of Steve Johnson (why was he encouraged to apply if he supposedly wasn't qualified?) and the Hakstol contract saga, among others. The writing was on the wall for some time. Maybe the handling of Buning's departure was less than perfect, but the departure in and of itself should not have come as a big surprise and was justified, IMO.

Congrats to a league-high eight UND football players (Braeglemann, Dressler, Freund, Trenbeath, Miller, Tescher, Manke and Alexander) who made the academic all-NCC team! link

Bob Eblen (RD17) from d2football.com has picked USD to win 31-28.