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I fully agree, comparative scoring is less than ideal....but in this case they played at the same venue literally 2 weeks later....and the outcome was night and day different. Kinda hard to ignore that.. While I think UND did look uninspired, I think USF coming down and punching them in the mouth at the opening bell kinda had something to do with that. Sometimes when a team doesn't play well, the opposition has a lot to do with that. USF put the Sioux on their back early in this one. Maybe USF was just better prepared, better coached, and more inspired, than your Yotes....? Yotes....I know you don't wanna think about this, but maybe USF has a pretty good football team....not because they have the best athletes in the area out of high school...but because the coaching staff develops good (not exceptional) athletes into very good football players, and uses better schemes than just about any other team in the region. UND watched film of USF, yet they looked like they didn't have a clue when they got out their in the first half....that was because USF has so many different looks and variations. How about you start to give USF some credit for what they've created, instead of trying to find reasons to knock them down, despite their success..

Yote, are you done hatin on Sioux Falls yet? You have been for the past week or so....hows the crow fella? After the way the Sioux handled the Yotes..and the way the Coo handled the Sioux....you should probably just stop talkin, cuz you have no angle here. This just in....and what USF fans already knew coming into this game....Lorenzo Brown is harder to stop than yer fella.....just ask all the Sioux fans who kept telling us that this weekend....not to mention the USF defense knows how to bull their neck a bit and come up and make a tackle. I know your peeps (Yotes fans) and the Augie people were gonna love to see the Coo get "put in their place"....but now ya kinda look foolish huh. It just kills ya that USF came into UND and lowered the boom on the Sioux....you can't make all your little "they don't play anybody" jokes anymore. What are you gonna say now..? USF got lucky....for an entire 60 minutes.. Later

mksioux, I fully agree about the 2011 game. I was saying to other USF people to enjoy the visit cuz we wont be making a return trip. I see UND buying the game out or something..even though USF will be in their first year of D2 at that point....it seems like the risk isn't worth the reward. ....after watching the replay of the game after I returned home....your announcers are much appreciated....the color guy knows football like a coach and the pbp guy knew all our players and how to say their names right away. Trust me, after dealing with horrible NAIA National Championship TV broadcasts, it was nice to have 2 guys who took preparation seriously. Petey23, thanks again for giving us directions virtually the entire weekend and being a good host.

Few things. Other than a few prick UND fans, the visit was very pleasant in terms of conduct. In the lobby a guy came up and asked me about USF..spoke for a second..and I shook his hand and said, "good luck", like you would any opponent you just met....to which he replied, "yer gonna need it..haha" Other than the occasional moment like that, the UND fans seemed a bit humbled in the dome. Several Sioux fans come up and shook hands and said nice things about USF and such..and while I realize USD fans and Augie people have said that UND folks are the worst, I have to say that I didn't see that. First off, I'm very proud to be a Coo fan from Sioux Falls..our young men came into a tough place to win and frankly broke the spirit of the Sioux..physically. I'm gonna be real straight with you folks here....I thought the Sioux would be athletic and more physical..and that the athletic difference at this level would be the hardest thing for USF to overcome. After watching USF drive down the field after the opening kickoff, I could see USF every bit as athletic as the Sioux..which suprised me. Having watched 2 Sioux games coming into this, and then watching virtually all the Coo games over the last few years....I feel very comfortable saying that USF is FAR better coached than the Sioux..not even close. The adjustments and gameplanning from USF, versus the inability to adjust by UND was almost funny to Coo fans. "Looks like they fell for the screen again" USF doing the short kicks and UND making no adjustment to that..just poor special teams coaching there. The continual undisciplined penalties and such..it will never put a team in a good position to succeed. USF kept the UND defense off balance pretty much the entire game....and if USF didn't take their foot off the gas in the 4th, frankly it would have been worse than it was. Believe it. USF's scheme and preparation was an A for this game, while the UND coaches were about a D+. I went into the game being scared to death of Bamba....and he hit the deep ball early and I thought, "here we go", but the next time they went there USF tricked UND and got an easy pick. After Bamba realized they weren't trying the homerun ball anymore, he seemed to lose motivation..and didn't seem to care to sell out for any of the short passes..dropping nearly everything thrown his way. As I hoped/figured, Holleman (2 INT) and Zo Brown (4 tds) would have to make plays for USF..and they did. Zo is a fantastic talent, and USF only turns him loose when they need to. USF tackled well (Cody Cavender, #23) and had few mistakes. I fully realize that the brunt of the Sioux fans think it's all about UND having a horrible showing to an NAIA team....but if USF dominates the NAIA level how do we really know how good they are? USF needs to take games like this to test themselves. I think they passed the test yesterday..and became legit to all the haters such as USD and Augie people. Impressive stadium and UND folks seemed like good people. Later.