Lefty - UNO Fan

Not too bad for two teams picked at the bottom of the pre-season ratings. Good job Sioux.

Congrats on the fine season Sioux fans. After reading through some of this, I know a lot of you are frustrated. Take it from a UNO fan, things could be even more disappointing. UND probably lost to the eventual national champion on the road by 7 points despite playing poorly. I will miss the NCC and the wars with the Sioux. Good luck.

Good luck to the Sioux today. In UND's honor I'm wearing some green clothing, but it won't be visible of course in case somebody sees me.

I guess I missed the part where stats were the defining criteria when I was playing in the NCC. Ben King was robbed and so was Ted Schlafke. I mean don't the coaches know they should be voting for whoever has the best numbers and not who is the best player or who is the most likely to beat you? I know they spend every week breaking down film of every team in the conference versus us fans who follow our teams and see the opponents once every two years. Why bother with film study when the stats are available?

Are the Lakers willing to travel? That's a big part of the equation. A home-and-home would be necessary and then maybe even that's not enough. I know UNO went to Tiffin and Western Washington with no return trip from them in 2004 just to fill out a schedule. USD went to Colorado School of Mines without a return trip. GVSU could probably get a better game than St. Joseph's but it migh mean some taking less than optimal terms.

Why can't Sorbo get some carries?

Didn't UND go through the 2003 season unbeaten in the NCC? If UNO had a decent kicker, they would have won that year in Grand Forks. However, Superman (Jeff Glas) wouldn't let UNO steal that game.

If Chappell is out next week, will UND run a shotgun with Dressler standing next to Freund? I saw that formation a couple times last year and I think he even took a few handoffs.

How bad is Murray's injury? Very unfortunate injuries with Grand Valley looming. I hope they are not serious.

I agree that UND does not have as good of players this year. At some point late last year is when the defense started faltering. The Sioux defense in the playoff game was much worse than the one I saw earlier in the season. I said that UND actually looked soft last year, which is something I have not seen for quite some time. UNO's pass defense got worse last year too. UNO's rushing defense has never been the problem, it's been the pass defense the last 5 years. UNO is probably less talented this year on the front 7. They graduated two 3-year starters and one 4-year starter at LB. The defensive line is the same starting 3 from last year. Those guys are just playing with much more intensity this year.

I thought Winona might jump Ashland because they got a win over a team with a winning record and had 2 more victories. I was hoping the Sioux would host Ashland.

According to D2football.com, CWU is #4 and will host #5 Ashland. Winona St fans do not want to play North Dakota again.

Thanks. I would not mind seeing the Sioux either. I think UND will get to play two GLIAC teams. I will be wearing some piece of green clothing for those games.

UNO 24 CWU 0 3:00 left in 1st half. If USD sports information folks are coniving, they would announce the score to take a little wind out of the Sioux sails.

Congrats on the big win Sioux fans. That offense is just plain scary, especially if the Sioux just ran over the Huskies. I will watch Coach Lennon's show, but right now I'm picking the Sioux to win in Vermillion and snap that 20-something game win streak.

Looks like the Sioux offense is taking it to the Husky defense. That's pretty impressive.

When you say backed out, do you mean that NCC teams signed contracts with NDSU and then backed out? Otherwise, it seems to me that the Bison were the ones who did not want to play those games any longer.

Here is the stat of the year for UNO. Three of the top 10 offenses in D2 (NW Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota) have scored a combined 3 points on UNO in the second half of their games. That is amazing to me and a credit to the coaches and players making adjustments and then implementing them at halftime. I respect all those offenses tremendously as each beat UNO last year by scoring over 30 points on them.

On offense and special teams, the Sioux are more talented, but not on defense. The Huskies are the best defense in the NCC though.

Good game for the Sioux, especially the defense. That's impressive to go to Duluth and shut down that offense. The Sioux offense will be challenged next week. The Husky defense is the best in the NCC, but their offense is not very good. The Sioux should be in good shape. However, USD in Vermillion is going to be tough. Somebody earlier posted about where the old power football has gone. It's in Vermillion besides Omaha. If I were a Sioux fan, I'd be plenty worred about that game. The Coyotes have an outstanding offensive line. Regarding a top 2 seed for UND, unless Grand Valley loses I don't see how that can happen given what happened last year with UNO having two losses and still getting the #2 seed over a 1-loss UND. Head-to-head is given a lot of weight. I think UNO could lose out and still get the #2 seed. I do not think they would deserve it though. I think UND is playing to protect the #3 seed.

That's an interesting barter there. I don't know if that kind of deal is done much or not. UNO shouldn't have any trouble getting football games, but the hockey schedule is the question. I think the hockey coach Kemp would be all for that, but I doubt Behrns would be. It would be a case of the D2 sport sacrificing for the D1 sport at UNO. Here's another question, would the Sioux even want Omaha up there again? It seems like a lot of risk and not much reward.

After defending boorish behavior towards UNO's band, it figures you would root for a team whose fans chanted obscenities at Navy. It makes sense now.

Even if UNO loses twice, I don't know that UND gets a higher seed. Just look at last year for an indicator. If these two teams meet again, it will be in Omaha.

UNO usually drops a game it shouldn't...generally on the road. I don't think the St Cloud game is a concern so it would be the Central Washington game if it were to happen. UNO beat Pitt State in 2000 in the playoffs and then lost to NDSU in the 2nd round after having beat them in the regular season. Kind of like what happened last year with the Sioux and the Mavs. If the Sioux and Mavs play again this year it will be in Omaha even if UNO loses twice. UNO's troubles in the playoffs is certainly an issue with us fans. Other than choking, here's a couple reasons why I think UNO has not done well. 1) UNO has not played great defense with the exception of the 2000 team. That 2000 team has outstanding defense, but Lamar Gordon abused them in the playoff game after not doing much in the regular season game. UND has traditionally played strong defense and thus had better success in the POs. 2) UNO has played really good teams in the POs. Here are there losses under Behrns: NW Missouri State (twice), Pitt State (once), NDSU (once), Saginaw Valley St (once), and UND (once). It's not as if UNO has drew an NSIC or RMAC team. The last two years UNO did not deserve the #2 seed over SVSU and UND and would have pounded Winona State or Northwood in the early rounds and the playoff futility would not be topic.

All the defenses in the NCC are down lately. I have not seen a dominant defense in a couple years. By the way, my definition of being dominated is getting pushed around and having another team imposing it's will on your team. UNO threw 8 passes in the game. Getting receivers open deep does not fit my definition of domination. Some of those passes missed because Freund was under pressure.