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That should do it. Hopefully the right decision will be made by the AD to change coaches. A new coach may or may not lead to better success, but we know based on history that Bubba is just barely above the .500 level as a head coach. If you keep Bubba on then you are basically saying that we can’t do better and we should be happy with the status of the football program.

Punt on 4th and 2 from near mid field. With a solid defense ok. With this defense you got to go for it. Should have run on 3rd down with the intention of going for it on 4th. The 3rd down pass had a low probability of success.

None of what is happening should be a surprise. The defense has been poor to abysmal the whole season. One way or another that is on the coaches, either poor recruiting or poor coaching. Or both.

Yep. Same the the loser gets, 50% of a win.

Screw it, going with a UND sweep. No better time than right now to start climbing out of the hole.

Just checked the app, it’s there. Be sure to select all games.

Might as well bring back the Fighting Sioux nickname.

Don’t have a problem with giving the “better” team home field advantage. My problem is the process used. You have a number of very experienced people that are saying that the high bid always wins. If this has never been the case then the NC$$ should be transparent enough to give numerous examples from the past 5 or 10 years where the high bid did not get the home game. You don’t even need to give us the teams involved, just an aggregate number. Surely, this isn’t the first case in the last 5 or 10 years where this happened. The committee basically has no leg to stand on in their argument when they gave Montana a home game. Extremely corrupt organization. The reason that UND was able to sue the NC$$ over the nickname was the simple fact that the NC$$ did not follow their own bylaws in implementing the nickname ban. They will do whatever they want to do and ignore whatever rules there are. Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt.

Somehow I think the line would be the same regardless of who we got matched up with: ”if we hadn’t been matched up against insert team we’d have a home playoff game.” I would love to see some transparency in the bids. I certainly don’t trust the NC$$ at all.

Did UND reinstate the Fighting SIoux nickname? If we kept the Sioux name we wouldn’t be allowed to host playoff games, that was the big selling point. Looks like we still can’t get home games for some reason.

If you’re Miami.

Dueling Bubba’s today.

Early in the game, yes. Late in a game that’s decided it is pretty dumb. Why risk an injury? While I wouldn’t wish an injury to any player it hard to be sympathetic if it happened. Just plain stupid.

Bubba is hoping a 21 point loss is enough to make the playoffs.

This is the kind of game that gives the voters a reason to say no.

That makes too much sense.

Special team don’t suck, it’s much worse than that.

Six touchdowns allowed on basically seven possessions.

Pathetic

What fumble ?

Need a turnover. Don’t think the defense can force a punt.

Need to score and onside kick. Try to keep the defense off the field.

Bubba’s head coaching record is 76-64 over 13 seasons before today. Works out to an average season of 6-5. No reason to think things won’t continue along this path in the future with him as the coach. At some point shouldn’t you accept that Bubba is an average coach? Do you want an average football program or do you strive for better? If you want the football program to matter it’s time to upgrade at the coaching level.

Predictions If UND wins: They make the playoffs, don’t get a seed. NDSU doesn’t get seeded. If NDSU wins: NDSU gets a 3 seed. UND makes the playoffs if a 1 score game. They don’t make the playoffs if a 3 score or more game. On the bubble with a 2 score result. Final score 28-20 NDSU. UND’s defense still doesn’t give me enough confidence to predict a win today. Also, the offense has not shown they can score enough points against NDSU in previous matchups. I hope I am wrong. I do believe UND has done enough to make the playoff field.

The problem is not necessarily a win/loss thing. It is the way the team is playing. They look slow and lack quickness. The passing has been nothing short of awful and we seem to panic with the puck in our end. The defense has been a huge disappointment so far. We have been completely outplayed by Minnesota, Denver and Quinnipiac. It’s one thing to lose a game due to a bad break or just having a bad night. It’s another thing to be completely outplayed in almost every game when you face the better teams. Can they turn this around? Maybe playing teams a notch lower than Denver, Minnesota, and Quinnipiac will help them build some confidence and develop better chemistry. I hope so, but it needs to happen pretty soon or we’ll need to win the conference playoffs to make the NC$$ tourney.