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While I don't disagree that a playoff appearance would have been nice, UND has only been eligible for the playoffs for 3 years. Of the Dakota schools, the XDSU's each made it once in their first 3 years of being eligible and USD is tied with UND with no appearances. USD had a two year headstart on their reboot and oddly enough the final nail in the coffin was likely UND's comeback in the final game of the 2011 season, which probably saved Muss's job (or earned him at least 1 extra year) and cost Meierkort his job.

I have no clue what Haakenson was trying to do or go about it and from reading the article, I'm not sure if he did either. That is probably where the issue lies but I'm not sure, nor do I think it really matters.

Other than the bolded, I can assure you that everything you wrote is completely baseless and inaccurate. Faison stated months ago that they were paying attention to the landscape and monitoring what peers were doing, which is why hockey was announced at the time. It had nothing to do with it being specifically NDSU, but I'm sure whatever complex that continues to exists at FargoU won't allow you to accept that. Plans were in place and are fluid, which is no different than what is going on in Fargo right now (here's a hint: 50% of FCOA covered for 3 years is not a sustainable plan).

My mistake. Don't even recall that one so clearly wasn't real bad.

He tried but was denied for Sundogs as well. Not sure what people are concerned about this for, it will have literally no impact on what UND does. The guy is going through a lot of paperwork for no reason. He's not even coming close to accomplishing what he thinks he is.

Who claimed Deluca's hit was dirty? All I said is that UND's hit on the UM QB last year was no worse than that, you added the rest. The Reyes play happened right in front of me, it looked like a borderline penalty and I'm not sure he gets anything if it isn't the QB but I didn't have a problem with the call. However penalty =/= dirty.

Didn't see it mentioned: Studsrud was named Big Sky's offensive player of the week with 260 yards passing and 3 TD's. 213 of those yards and all 3 TD's came in the first half. Zero attempted rushes the whole game. Don't necessarily agree with it, especially with how it almost turned out, but you think that the playbook might have been left in the locker room at halftime? Doesn't excuse the fumbles or mean UND shouldn't have still been able to move the ball, but seems pretty telling.

If UND's linebackers have the time to decide to go low on Wentz instead of tackling him however they can, then I think you're probably going to have bigger issues to worry about.

You clearly didn't see the play you're trying to use as an example. The LB chased Johnson out of the pocket and pushed him after he threw the ball.

That's complete garbage. It was no worse than NDSU's linebacker launching himself headfirst at Montana's QB after he had startd sliding, putting his helmet/should pad into Montana's QB's helmet.

Hilarious and sad if true. Since they are so concerned, I'm sure they will be all over people who will be continously screaming vulgar chants that include the Sioux name as well. I won't hold my breath since they haven't done anything about them the last decade plus and it happens at every game.

No, I'm saying that they didn't show even close to all their cards for next week (or conference play for that matter) nor did they need to. I don't recall a single designed run for the QB nor anything that more or less wasn't some variation of a power run after UND got up. Base formations pretty much across the board. UND got a comfortable lead and then quit throwing the ball, which they were doing with little issue. Seemed anytime the defense wanted to ramp it up and get pressure, they were able to do it and were successful. Why reach deep when you don't have to? That being said, UND should have been able to continue to control the game even playing vanilla and struggled, not to mention the fumbling issue, the coaches have plenty of material to work on this weekend.

Defense shored very well after the first drive. Stayed pretty basic unless they needed a sack and then proceeded to blitz and get one. Dropped INT's were a little disappointing. Offense clearly didn't show anything more than they had to. Drake sold out to stop the run, UND responded by throwing the ball pretty well until they were up 3 scores (should have been 4), Rudolph clearly put the playbook away in the second half. The fumbles are definitely a huge concern and the O-Line blocking wasn't anywhere what I thought it would be and those are issues that need to be fixed. That being said, I also think it was incredibly obvious that UND showed absolutely nothing more than they had to yesterday. They could have kept their foot on the gas but opted not to. Leaves questions for the fans but it also doesn't give the FargoU staff anything extra to work with.

If the coaching strategy and execution by the team is at the level it was against Wyoming and UND still gets blown out, then my I will definitely tip my hat to NDSU and congratulate their fans on my way out of the FargoLoaf on their likely upcoming 5th straight title because it would be a pretty significant and surprising improvement from game 1 if that happens. If UND gets blown out because of poor coaching and poor execution, I'll be disappointed on UND laying an egg after looking like things had turned the corner last week against Wyoming (which they definitely still left a lot of room for improvement despite the fairly dominant victory). What I don't want to see is something similar to Missouri St. last year where a game that was relatively close snowballs into a complete disaster because of untimely, self-inflicted mistakes. I think our defense is significantly better than last year and has the capability of making some game changing plays and our offense is nowhere near where it was at the beginning of last year, and that is a good thing.

Zero surprise. At this point, they don't need to as long as none of the other Big Sky schools do it. Unless one of the Dakota schools starts drifting out of their traditional recruiting grounds moreso than normal, then they are going against PAC12 and MWC teams they weren't going to beat in recruiting anyway. Much different scenario than UND was in.

Who did you contact? I've never had an issue when e-mailing or calling Mike or Val to get something taken care of. Guessing they will both be at the Champions Club tent tomorrow as well.

Same here.

I think the news has been out there a while, though I admit this is the first I've seen it in print. Also probably a fair assumption that despite what most of us think (myself included), a couple of video boards isn't exactly "breaking" type news.

Correct. I believe the current ribbon boards are coming down in conjunction with two video boards going up.

I heard this a while back but it was confirmed in Faison's interview in Bison Illustrated, the BESC will be getting video boards next year.

Don't know but Tom Miller indicated he doesn't think he back to 100% after his ACL injury last year.

Weekly 2 deep changes: Offense WRZ - Stanley replaces Georges (injured) at #1 and Reed slides into Bridges spot at the #2 WRB - Bridges replaces Stanley at #2 Defense Noah Johnson replaces Carrothers as #2 LDE Carrothers moves up to #1 NG, replacing Woodsmall. Tank Harris moves into #2 NG position

He was already doing that exact same thing before the season started. Informed a large group of boosters that the game wasn't going to be the cupcake that was being assumed. Thought the NDSU booster that was telling me about it was joking but they were adamant that Klieman was very clear about it.

I bet Ratelle could do it.

A week later and it still stings I guess.