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If Joe is your guy this week, he needs to get all the 1st team reps...period. How about putting Joe in the best possible position to succeed and not concerning yourself if Bartels might play or not because may struggle.

In this day and age, not surprised. "Offends one..." People have taken the fact that they have "rights" to an illogical extreme as to basically trash this country from using any common sense. On side note, my kids are in the midst of homecoming week at school. Yesterday was costume day. According to my daughter, one boy came to school as a knight in shining armor and quickly had his plastic sword taken away as it was deemed a weapon. By the way, I'm offended by PC zealots and idiots in general...

If UND has any aspirations of making the playoffs, it has to start vs. Griz....34-30 Sioux.

Sounds about right to me. My original guess in another thread was -7. Big difference though laying down real coin at -7 vs -8. If I were to bet I'd definitely take UND +8 at home. Bet enough games back in the day to know a home dog getting a TD+ is the proper bet...most of the time. I could see a very similar final score from last Saturday or of course a UND win.

Now you are just talking "cray cray"...what the kids are now calling "crazy"...per my teenage daughter. I'm agreement with all of it...even as a hockey fan. The bar for this FB program should be at a minimum a playoff appearence. Hockey...it's a Natty. Muss has to get a win...at home...vs. the Griz, Cats or EWU IMO. The Cats game looks like a better possiblilty due to their QB situation so if he can get this game vs. the Griz, then a win vs. a delepted Cats squad...one never knows about a possible playoff spot then! "Keep calm and beat Montana"!

You don't get torcherd for a BSC record 660 yards thru the air without having some doubts/concerns about stopping the same group of WRs. Anything else is reckless chest thumping. If UND can run the ball a little bit and slow down the Griz running game...now you got something.

Arguably their best defensive player didn't play ALL last year and their D was still the best in FCS. No reason UND shouldn't be able to replace Goodman Saturday with something other than a warm body IMO. If the bolded statement happens, this is an easy win for the Griz.

To quote you from above..."One would think..."

With the quick strike WRs we have our running game needs to be just above marginal. 3 yards here, 5 there... Just enough to keep the opposing front 7 honest. Miller is a quick strike, break a long one type of back. He isn't going to get you the dirty 3 or 4 an offense needs to keep things going on occasion.

See the post below your's #75...that's a pretty good start. Not dodging anything...you and your ilk would come up with excuses no matter what would be brought up.

Seriously? You of all people who has followed this program over the past few years intently shouldn't even need me to elaborate. I'll leave it at that. Heagle...one of the best all around FCS DBs I've seen in years missed almost all of last year. That D didn't miss a beat.

Best case scenario: UND win coin flip and hits Hardin on a TD bomb in first series to go up 7-0. Worst case scenario: Griz win flip and pound it on the ground for a 7-8 minute drive to go up 7-0.

I think that statement could be debated from past in-game decisions made.

That is not good. He is very undersized but has a nose for the ball.

He got hurt early on and came back with an ankle heavily retaped and played thru it the rest of the game. No QB named yet...Muss is pulling a Belichick!

And that was arguably the worst or one of the worst defenses UND has put on the field in 30+ years.

Exactly!

Yup. Penalties hurt...TOs kill. A repeat of both categories from last Saturday and I think this one won't be as close.

One of my best friends lives just outside Missoula and is a big Griz fan. He said this squad is nothing like last year's team. Much better in all 3 phases. Probably a "homer's" take but he did play college FB so I respect his opinion.

My guess is on a neutral field the line would be Griz 10 point favorite at a minimum so with the game at UND I'll say the spread will be Griz -7 give or take a point.

Agree...and if that was the #6 team in FCS?? QB...average. Defense...not as good as advertised. Zenner...best RB to hit Alerus possibly ever. He was flat out the difference by himself. I expect the Griz to be every bit as good as SDSU if not better this Saturday.

Big loss. Like SDSU losing Zenner for a month.

I read a week or 2...that's alot different than October. Not good for the Cats.

Correct. I guess we do have a couple "signature" wins in our D1 era then...