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Its like F%&$ the Gophers. No imagination whatsoever. I yelled it when I was a student, and now realize just how embarrassing it is that you can actually hear it on TV. Pretty classless. I'm not saying student and chants needs to be saintly, a little crude humor is fine, but could we please get a little more creative. Isn't that was Sioux Crew/Nodak Nation is supposed to be doing. Come up with something new, and get the student section to follow.

Exactly, that has been the case going back to the Wyoming game. If you don't remember it, look back at those highlights. He had the one short TD, where immediately after taking the hand off, he just made a slight side step enough to make the defense completely whiff. Then walked in untouched. The kid's vision is something you just can't teach. Glad he is on our team.

Agreed, I think he is built more for WR. Regardless, they just need to make sure he is getting on the field with that speed. Hope Santiago is ready to put up a career game on Saturday. Anything less than 300 yards and 4 TDs for Santiago is simply unacceptable

On paper, very good. Passing game should only get better, with Dulin, a health Clive, and Toivenen (If the pull the redshirt), maybe Iwarri to WR. Keaton will have another year under his belt. Defense will only improve, especially in the secondary, and we should get Arnell back. Running game, we know how good that should be. We'll need to be good. We start the season with a much tougher opponent that Wyoming. Bowling Green has had a tremendous year. They will lose their Sr QB, but have Jr right behind him that played most of last season. I believe they also lose some SR receivers and running backs. But if I have learned anything in watching UND this year, it is that I can believe in the team to compete. Go Sioux!

I expect UND to give up more yards than normal, but I still think our defense will be able to limit them. Field position is going to be huge in this game, as Cal-Poly is not afraid to go for it on 4th. Fortunately, we have a punter who is capable of switching the field position quickly.

Really good to see Iwarri Smith have a nice game. We'll likely need him quite a bit going forward. I think his biggest issue early in the season was confidence. I hope to see him at WR next year, but he still has plenty of time to make a big running impact this year. Same for Norberg, it was nice to see him pound the rock, and he will likely play more of an Oliveira type role.

Seriously, what is the story on that guy. I understand supporting your team; but he seems more anti-UND than pro-bison. I've heard some sketchy stuff about him too on different forums. Seems like Wyonation and the Montana forums are pretty sick of him too. Pre-UND games he'll go tell them how soft UND is, then he'll tell them how bad they must be after UND beats them. It doesn't make a lot of sense.

Personally, I wouldn't be able to make it up to GF for a game anyway, but I would love to see them host. Especially the way we have been playing at home. This has been the most fun I've had watching UND football since I was at UND around 10 years ago. Honestly, I'm about as pumped to watch football this Saturday (with playoff hopes), as I am with the hockey team heading into the Frozen Four. Really hope this kind of excitement is contagious among other fans. Especially those who live in the GF region. Need to fill those seats up.

I believe we are @ Michigan St. on Friday and Sunday of that weekend. any chances BTN picks up one or both of these games? Would be nice to have some TV options.

Are the bids made public? Otherwise we won't really know if his bid was reasonable or not.

Here are some statistical rankings between UND and Cal-Poly (Not sure if the Big Sky website was already updated from this past weekend or not, but you get the idea). Ultimately, we have the Top Rushing Offense (Cal-Poly) against the Top Rushing Defense (UND). On the flip side, we also have an excellent run game, and Cal-Poly is middle of the pack for Run D. Neither team has much of a passing game (worst two in the big sky), though UND seems to have been a little more effective with the pass over the past two games. Maybe there will be a few opportunities for a deep ball to Clive this week. UND should definitely win the special teams battle this weekend, especially since we just played the best return team in the Big Sky, and we are now moving on to the worst. Ultimately, I think this should be played a lot like our game against Wyoming. Wyoming was supposed to be a heavy run team, with two star RBs. UND was able to completely eliminate them (granted it will be different defending the triple option). This will probably be a quicker game, with so much running, but UND really needs to focus on ball security. They have done a nice job with that since the bye, and it needs to continue now. Win and in? There is no guarantee, but I think we will be in good position. I think we are ahead of N. Arizona (if they lose). Hoping Portland St keeps rolling and knocks E Washington out. Wildcard game will be Mt State hosting Montana, Go Cats! Scoring Offense: UND (9th) – Though UND has had a huge uptick in the last two weeks Cal-Poly (6th) Scoring Defense: UND (4th) Cal-Poly (12th) Total Defense UND (3rd) Cal-Poly (9th) Rushing Offense UND (3rd) Cal Poly (1st) Rushing Defense UND (1st) Cal-Poly (6th) Pass Offense UND (12th) Cal-Poly (13th) Pass Defense UND (11th) Cal-Poly (12th) Kickoff Returns North Dakota (4th) Cal-Poly (13th) Punt Return North Dakota (7th) Cal-Poly (13th)

I think I just threw up a bit

It takes time. Winning a few games won't turn attendance around overnight. Disappointing, Yes ... but that's what happens when you have years of crap football.

well they wont consider it a negative. At the same time, it's not the boost that a kand as state or Iowa state would provide.

i think it is generally considered a positive thing. Though I'm assuming the teams played are in that conversation. So a win against ndsu would have looked more impressive than a win against Wyoming. In our case we have an FBS win while some of the other bubble teams have a D2 win. In that scenario we should get the edge. At this point we just need to beat Cal poly, and wait.

Finally! Nice run for smith! Good to see

Studrud looking really good today

Well that sucks, tough for brady

That kid is ridiculous!

completely agree!

maybe I'll see if I can watch the feed at a more delayed pace after the period. I've had great feed all season until tonight

yeah, feed is definitely seeming slower tonight. I'm not even getting HD right now.

good to know. Thanks for the follow up!

I'll just throw this out there as a suggestion, for anyone who may be listening. Regardless of what happens with the name of the site, it would be cool to have the top of the website have all of the UND logos, from anything relating to flickertails, to the ND, to the Sioux logos, to Hawk/Roughriders. Just a though.

Yeah, but I have typed siouxsports.com into my web browser so many time, that their is no changing my muscle memory. I'm just not sure I could overcome the change.