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It was mentioned in a Herald article last week that he's redshirting this year.

The UND defense gave up about 37 points and 512 yards per game vs. FCS competition this year. Obviously it's very difficult to win many games giving up that many points. And while I'm sure some transfers will be brought in prior to next season, that's never really worked very well, at least not at UND. So ultimately the question is: is there enough talent in the program right now to assemble a competent defense next year?

It wouldn't surprise me if Breitbach moves on after this season. He was a finalist for the head coaching job at Southwest State two years ago. It would seem his stock is higher now than it was then given UND's offensive output this year. He could possibly get a head coaching job at the NAIA or dII/dIII level.

34 UND 73 Iowa St. final Ouch.

Without looking too closely at it, I'm guessing that as it pertains to football, this is Meierkort's doing. I'm pretty sure all the current or former football players implicated were recruited under his watch. With that said, I think that a good argument could be made that it would have made more sense for USD to hire a football coach who will potentially be around long enough to build the program. At his age, I highly doubt Glenn is going to coach much longer. He is getting paid quite well by USD standards, so a 1-9 record (soon to be 1-10) can't be sitting well with anybody there.

Looks like USD is having quite a scandal of its own: http://www.arguslead...b|topnews|text|

Today is the first day of the early signing period. I assume Hooker may be signing today, but are any others expected?

UND at 36 in the latest GPI: http://www.collegesp...20121112GPI.htm

One rather interesting name has been thrown around already as the next Augie head coach--Kalen DeBoer. It would be somewhat shocking given the rivalry between Augie and USF, but it may not be all that far-fetched, either.

I agree. I would also dare say that had you told anybody prior to the season that UND's offense would score 33 or more points vs. six of nine division I opponents thus far (even with a fairly minimal contribution from the running game), most would have thought that would mean no worse than a 7-3 record heading into the UNC game, and quite possibly better.

Augie just fired their head coach after three seasons, despite a 22-13 record. Mike Aldrich went 9-2, 6-5 and 5-6 the past three years. Seems a little harsh unless there were other factors at play besides wins and losses.

65 Harvard 52 UND final Kind of a disappointment considering the Bison beat Harvard by nine on Friday. Also a little disappointing considering UND won at Harvard last year.

29 Harvard 19 UND halftime Ugly, ugly game.

Early forecast for Saturday in Greeley is a high of 54 and minimal wind.

Weber St. is not known as a strong offense, but put up 34 points and 473 yards today against UNC. That's hopefully a good sign for next Saturday. Could be another shootout.

SUU beat N. Arizona 35-29 in 3 OT's.

78-45. About 3 minutes left.

Somebody needs to do a little more research. Check out the Wichita newspaper's projected UND starting lineup : http://www.kansas.com/2012/11/08/2561103/weber-set-for-his-real-kansas.html

I remember three years ago when Sutton was practically UND's only offensive weapon. Injuries took their toll over the years, but it was nice that he was able to finish so well with 11 rushing td's as a senior. I have enjoyed watching him play.

I think 99 is now Hoerchner. Not sure why he changed his number.

This is just my opinion, and not based on any purported "inside info", but my guess is that had the staff really thought the defense was going to struggle as badly as it has, you likely would have seen several red shirts pulled early in fall camp. At a minimum, I think Edwards and Konowalski could have played immediately. But when UND started 3-1, perhaps it was just hoped that the defense would come around, and that it was wiser to retain the extra year of eligibility for all the freshmen besides Golladay? Whether that was the right decision or not, I don't know. I just can't believe it was ever contemplated that 35 points and 500 yards allowed per game was going to be the norm. By the time it became clear that it was, it was too late to justify pulling any red shirts.

I believe there's a pretty good corner red shirting--Dan Konowalski (sp?). Also, Ryan Cain was a fairly heralded safety prospect coming out of high school.

As you probably noticed from the first sentence of my post, I acknowledged that statistics don't tell the whole story. But clearly the won-loss record and the statistics are somewhat at odds with each other. The offense is probably better than the statistics suggest, particularly due to the terrible performances in the EWU and MSU games, not to mention the fact that Portland St. was a non-conference game. As for the defense, there's not a lot of mitigating circumstances there. The defense is what the numbers say it is.

I was a bit surprised too, but here's the link: http://bigskyconf.com/custompages/football/2012/stats/confonly.htm