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Just saw a replay of the Saturday game and holy crap are the Duluth color guys just complete homers. On the Wolff hit, that was blatant contact to the head, he launches into the hit, and he leads shoulder to head, and the color guys are defending that? Had that hit been given by a UND player, they would have been screaming for the cops to get involved due to assault.

*Gives an average round of applause*

Can we bring Hak back yet?

Thome was laying on the puck, clearly under him, UMD guy pulls up his arm with a stick to get the puck loose. At what point is the ref supposed to blow the whistle?

Just so you know, it's now ok to hack away at the goalie while he's laying on the puck

Weston was one of the best route runners UND has ever had and he knew how to find and sit in a defensive zone. I have a feeling he'd be an exceptional coach if he decided to make the switch.

Nothing but shotgun spread with 4 verticals, every play.

I also think it will be a good game for Danny to get his toes wet calling plays. Obviously we should be superior with athletes alone, but we've seen how the offense has performed against these non-scholly teams in the past under Rudy.

How hard do you think it was for Danny the last couple years to bite his tongue with playcalling and scheme?

I really like the spread offense that retains the power run. Look at the Oklahoma offense, they run this about as well as it can be run.

In modern football, the quarterback is the linchpin of the offense, one of only two players guaranteed to touch the ball on each offensive play (barring unusual formations/trick plays), so they should be the focus of the offensive scheme. It really doesn't matter what kind of offense you run, you need competence behind center. Danny really said all the right things on being promoted and I think was intended to distance himself from Rudy's philosophy and give some confidence to all the fans whose morale has been destroyed. A plus is that he has seen a scheme and playcalling philosophy that was terrible. He knows what he should not do. He's also seen some of what a dynamic passing attack can do in his time with Mussman. I have confidence in him that he'll be much more flexible and dynamic with offensive scheme, hopefully he can also bring better playcalling and ability to make adjustments in game. As for why Danny wasn't given the shot towards the end of the season, that rests solely on Bubba. Bubba is loyal, quite literally to a fault. He stuck with Rudy when he should have been gone last year. When the offense nose-dived towards the end of the season Rudy should have been dismissed during the season and Danny given a test run. But Bubba's loyalty to the staff is solely to blame. I don't know if it's an old-school philosophy of sticking with a guy the whole season, or if he just kept thinking Rudy might suddenly change, I really don't know but it's without doubt that not making the change hurt the whole program.

At this point, for this team, just win. Doesn't matter if it's ugly or barely beating an inferior opponent, just win.

Something that doesn't help our receivers is the defense knowing that the routes UND runs are between 5-20 yards in general. There's very little deep threat that we posed late in the season. When Adeoti went down, the deep passing game mostly died out. Maag gave a bit of that and then hurt himself going deep. We never tried pushing downfield with McKinney, he was mostly utilized on jet sweeps.

This is what gets me. How could you sell Rudy's offense to WR's or QB's? You're behind the grain. Then the scheme further hurts our ability. We pass on obvious passing downs, we pass into double and triple coverage, and we don't use schemes to put coverage into disadvantage.

By gum! Someone that gets the joke! Oh blessed day <goes home to cry tears of joy>

Y'all gonna make me loose my mind.

I'd say he's going to fill out as he spends time in the S&C program but that hasn't exactly been the case over the past couple years.

NAU probably looked better because of who they were playing. Tough to say, but UND looked like they gave up.

Missed that, so hopefully we get good news on Monday.

Someone needs to inform Bubba that a strong defense and a high scoring offense are not mutually exclusive. Read the comments saying UND & NDSU run similar offenses and it's not really accurate. UND runs a middle school offense that is completely straight forward. They win when they have superior athletic talent and that's it. The UND offense does nothing to put the defense at a disadvantage, with personnel, formation, or play calling. The moment we are officially out of the playoffs, Bubba needs to announce that Rudy is gone. If he hesitates, Chaves needs to start looking at Bubba buyout options and new HC

This. It starts at the top. Bubba decided to bring Rudy in who had shown no ability to have success in prior coaching positions. He stuck with both Rudy and Kostich when it was shown both of them were inept in their coordinator positions. He constantly mismanages 4th quarters, he goes for it when he should kick, he punts when he should go for it. Questionable is the best way to describe his decision-making.

There will always be recruits waiting, but honestly I'm not sure how this staff is selling things to incoming recruits when they just have to look at the games to see how disgusting this offense is.

Go out, find some youth in coaching, some young blood that will bring energy and creativity to this program.

Yeah, the complete whiff today against an depleted NAU offense is mystifying. Has he mailed it in? Is he already looking at moving on?

Rudy needs to be gone. Kostich needs to be gone. Gotta evaluate Schmidt. Bubba needs to look at early retirement.