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Seems like Aeron Carr has been leaving the program since the day he got here last year. It's the point that he may as well go as this constant babbling is a distraction. To paraphrase Yodi, go or don't go, but make up your mind. Carr leaving will hurt, the question is how much and how steps in?

Huh, some people are expecting a blowout? I'm thinking that we will probably lose by 7 or less and maybe with a couple of breaks pull off the win. No way should this be a huge loss for us and I'm going to be pissed if we lose by more than 10. SJSU isn't a real powerhouse and we had better be able to stick with them. If we should get run off the field then we need to regroup immediately or it's going to be a long, long season.

We have nowhere to go but up. I won't really consider us improved though until we get that FBS win and make the playoffs. Really, 6-6 doesn't cut it for me, and I'm afraid that the best we can be this year. I don't get the total hatred towards NDSU either. I'd say their success has helped our recruiting by bringing attention to the whole region.

I just hope getting beat 66-0 won't be an issue either. I'm betting we have a good team but after last year you always steel yourself for the worst.

No matter how many show up, the real test comes when we see how many are left at the end of the third quarter. If fans are heading for the exits in droves, this isn't going to end well. People need to understand that football is a four quarter game having a half empty stadium just looks bad all the way around.

I think it will all depend on how the team does out at San Jose. If they lay an egg big time, I doubt attendance tops 8000, but if they make a good showing and especially if they pull out a win, then attendance will exceed 10,000 hopefully. First off though, we need to focus on SJSU and show up there. One game at a time and no blow outs. That's my philosophy.

I honestly feel we are in line to expect this team to go 6-6 with no blowouts. We need to hang with SDSU simply because they aren't a top dog team.

This actually worries me when people start thinking we can only win a conference title or make the playoffs by avoiding the big guys. If we aren't good enough to knock off teams like EWU and UM, we are going to get pounded in the playoffs and probably don't deserve to be there. I'd like to think we can take on all who come. I know you meant well, but we can't be ducking the competition and thinking this will help us.

I really thought Bartles was able to do more with the line he had to work with last year. I'm pulling for him to be our man.

I sorta skimmed the article rather quickly so it's possible I missed it, but I didn't see anything about oil, just natural gas production. I'd have a hard time believing they could find oil that far from the other producing areas, let alone find it at 1600 feet. It does look like there is a good potential for NG, but considering ND is already flaring 1/3 of the gas it produces, why would anyone go looking for more?

Doesn't even make sense. The last I heard, Future Schedules really had nothing to do grammatical structure and spelling. Let's stick to football.

UND gave him an offer, but I've heard he dissed us on Twitter when someone asked him about it.

You Bison don't even know your own smack? If you're going to poke fun at someone, you should at least understand the joke. According the the Bison faithful, it's NOT _nd, it's un_. According to some, we have no D (defense). Unbelievable, I gotta educate the trolls.

I still had hope Sparks would improve. He certainly had the potential.

I wasn't happy with the recruiting early on because of the lack of commits, however I had been posting since Bubba took over that I thought were capable of 6-6. That was until 9 more players left the program for what ever reason. Like I said, I'm just not sold on transfers, some work, some don't.

I've never been excited about bringing in Juco's or transfers. In our case now, we have no other choice, but we are throwing together a bunch of kids who nothing about each other or our program and doing it in a very short period of time. I had high expectations for us for this year, but I am now scaling back. It's really disappointing that so many of these guys didn't work out. These were mostly younger guys who should have been the heart and soul of the team in another year or two. There's really no other choice but limp through a few bad years. I just don't see a magic pill in transfers, sorry.

Something like 4-8 will be every bit as frustrating as last year. I'm just hoping it doesn't come to that.

I didn't watch the game unfortunately but I've talked a few that did and both agreed there was no flash to our play. This is disappointing as I really thought a change in attitude would be very obvious. If we are as bad as last year, or even worse, then it's going to be a very long road to improvement. I still have little faith in this last recruiting class so I'm not looking for any help from them in the near future and it sounded like Mollberg didn't show any improvement over last year. All I know is if we don't get something going soon, the death spiral will continue and we will be completely eclipsed by the other Dakota programs. Anything less than 6-6 would totally suck.

Unfortunately EWU was able to win games with their receivers. Now we don't even have that receiver corps any more.

Still, the change at the top should be generating a lot of buzz, and that's where this program needs to start. The team needs to show the fans this is different UND football and that attitude should come right now. It really worries me that we are being told not to expect anything this year. I really felt that we needed to 6-6 and no blow outs this year to be respectable and now everyone acts like the season is doomed to failure. I'd say once the team starts believing that, we truly are doomed.

Trust me, he isn't dating her for her brains.

Two more years of Jones will kill this program. Jones will never get us to the dance, let alone win a game. We need to step things up now rather than having NDSU continually pulling away. Unfortunately Jones will be back next year but it shouild be win big or be gone

This had better not be the case. I would think new coach, new system, new attitude. We need to improve. Geeze, so, it's OK to keep going down hill for another year? I don't think so. We need to see some uptick in this program and anything less then 6 wins isn't showing enough. Sorry, but the tail dragging has to stop.

I much prefer games starting at 1 or 2, but I can see why they are pushed back to the evening early in the season

Drake