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Payton committed to SIU in August, but since has received about 4 more offers. So, not sure if there's other info out there that he's not a firm commit or what....... I think Petersen ends up at Illinois.

Re: the QB situation for next year, my understanding is the best QB on our roster this year was ineligible due to transfer rules, so I do have hope that we will have a very good QB next year, depending on what he's allowed to do in the offense. He also has some Big Sky game experience, which is helpful. Also, as it relates to Boltmann, I had heard that he is very similar to Studsrud, but is a better passer by a little bit. Not sure on the accuracy of any of that, just what I'd heard from a few people.

What hurts is losing John Chenal to a walk on with the Badgers. Even though he'd only be a true freshman next year, based on what I've seen of him he could have made a difference next year at MLB - similar to the difference that I think Noah Larson could have made this year. You're absolutely correct that we can't really afford to swing and miss from the JUCO ranks like with Dijon Murray. There was one that I thought would be a great fit, but he's starting to get offers from some of the bigger boys now, so not sure if he's a possibility or not.

Perfect way to save face for Rudolph, and get the result that a lot of fans want at UND. I like it.......

Speaking of size, I saw Rain Slater at the hockey game with (I believe) Tobin, and he made Tobin look tiny in comparison. He is HUGE.

Umm, what? Am I reading this that NDSU Teammakers gets money from charitable gambling?

I'll be there with my son, hoping for a good game with the Hawks coming out victorious.

I tend to agree with most on Blubaugh in that I'm not ready to give up on him. He just started playing CB in August of this year, so I'm willing to give him some more time. I like the comparison to Harris, in that I thought Harris was not a very good CB when he first started either. I'm willing to let it play out longer, as he's getting a lot of valuable experience this year. He'll have the offseason/spring ball to really start pulling everything together. I will say that I'm no expert on things like technique and everything, but there's a reason that he got his shirt pulled before we lost anyone else other than Harris. It's a lost year so I'm okay with him taking his lumps. I'm a little more disappointed with Ty Carter, but my understanding is that he's been knicked up pretty good so it's been tough from that perspective. All in all this year has been a !@#$ storm.......and hopefully we can regroup in the offseason and get back to making next year what we thought this year could have been......

Halftime. Enjoy the second half gentlemen, I'm off to the Tsingtao brewery. Woo hoo for beer at 9:30 on a Sunday morning......

Nice return by Santiago. And Studsrud with his first incompletion.

Thought you knew bro.......still be back in time for EWU.......

I was about to say the same thing......

Luckily the video doesn't come in well from China so I've shut it off - don't think I'd want to see those last two plays......

over 7 minutes left in the second and Tyler is 20-24 and 237 yards. Unacceptable.

27-14.

We cannot stop the pass at all. Rough......

TD pass to Wanzek. 20-14.

2nd and goal from the 8. 3rd and goal from the 7.

We were offsides twice to get it to the half yard line and they went for two, which we stopped.

No pressure by the DL on the passing game. Need to dial up some pressure........

Gonna be a long day I think......

The depth chart is from August, around the beginning of fall camp (hence the term pre-fall). Some of the information isn't updated (most of it is height and weight, but looks like Fiedler didn't get his year updated either). I'm guessing if you were to look at Fiedler on the roster last year he would be listed as 6'5" and 235 pounds. Same with most everyone - the height and weight would have been from last years roster. Does that make more sense?

It's the pre-fall depth chart. They were hit and miss as to what they had updated for this......

I believe UND is the only place recruiting as a DB. I think in an earlier reply it was noted the MV teams were looking at him as a receiver.

Heffernan committed to Dartmouth.