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I think two of the major differences between this team and last years team are: 1. Pioske... she is the other do everything person we needed to match with Robinson. Just gives us much more flexibility in both our attack and defense. 2. Resilience. Last year's team just didn't seem to pull out the wins in tough matches. They'd give up a few points and then break down mentally. This year's team has that resilience to fight back and turn a set around. They also have learned how to just turn it on and dominate an opponent (like what we saw with NDSU).

Is Robinson injured or just getting the night off? I started watching at the end of the second set and haven't seen her on the court.

Hey, you guys remember that Rod Carey guy? You know, the one that used to coach at UND. Seems he's not doing too shabby as a head coach. Talk about a missed opportunity there.

This is what happens when you have an anemic offense and take bad penalties

This hurts to watch. This coaching staff needs to go. coaches are being out-coached and team is being out-played

The team actually looks a bit better as a whole this year. Missing the obvious talent of Joc and Mo, but the passing is better, the team runs 3 lines consistently and works in the 4th, and has scoring potential on the 3 lines. Also better defensively. Hirschy and Krzyzaniak are the real deal and don't play like freshmen.

Awesome! Sorry I have to miss one

Any update on today's game?

If they can get consistent guard play it's possible, but there is a big jump the team has to take from last year.

I really think Muss has to win out to save his job. Therefore, a win against EWU helps him, but doesn't immediately save his job.

The no huddle offense does not equal a hurry up offense. It can, yes. Tradition has it that you only go no huddle if you want to hurry the pace. But look at the trend in college football over the last 5-10 years and you'll see a good number of teams going to the no huddle offense, line up and then look over to the sideline to get the playcall. It takes some of the presnap read pressure off of the quarterback and puts it in the hands of the OC. I have no problem with this type of offense and to be quite honest, Mollberg actually looks better running it that way.

I had a thought as I was looking through scores around the various leagues today. We are to the Big Sky, what Minnesota is (currently) to the Big 10. Not exactly the worst, but a 30-50 point blowout to top 25 teams.

Funny what good coaching can do.

This is an embarrassment. Plain and simple. Our offense is stagnant and our defense is a sieve with the bottom cut out. The team had regressed.

It was easy to see that Pursuit of Excellence was outmatched last night, being the high school kids that they were. UND had more goals than POE had shots on goal, but it was still interesting to see all the new names and how the team might look post-Lamoureux. Also fun fact, for the exhibition, they ran a full 5 minute 4v4 overtime and a shootout.

What I can't understand, correct me if you all saw something that I didn't, is why we started out the game by moving the pocket and then stopped doing it after one bad throw. On the first drive (successful drive I might add) we moved the pocket, rolled Mollberg out, and helped relieve some of the pressure on the linemen. But after that, we only rolled out one other time, and then settled into a regular passing game where we tried creating a pocket. We all saw how well that worked out. So why?

Didn't UND change coaches either this last off-season or the one before? Thought I heard something about that but not sure.

SDSU points off of turnovers = 14 (plus icing the game) UND points off of turnovers = 0 There is the difference in the ball game. Bartels' two turnovers really killed us in this. His interception was just brutal, throwing into the strongest part of the SDSU zone (4 defenders around the 1 receiver) on a drive in which we were marching down the field and needed to score to keep up the early momentum. Then the fumble which he just needed to get down, he wasn't going to gain another yard against 2-3 defenders. Terrible mistakes. I think they stuck with him for too long before inserting Molberg. Molberg = mobility, escapability. Which we needed against a 4 man rush that was just pushing our linemen around. Against any other quality d-line, I think Molberg should get more action.

This volleyball team has amazing potential. They've shown for stretches that they can stick with quality teams from major conferences, they just lose focus at times and have a tendency to tighten up and force things when they lose a couple points. When that happens they give up points in bunches and that's the turning point of the matches they lost this weekend. Reduce and play through those and this team could make some noise come end of the year.

Very well played by UND, and I think a smart move by Hardee to play some of the 2's/3's in that third set after building a lead. They still finished it off nicely and showed we have some depth and some good younger players. Really interested to see how they do against A&M tonight. A&M played ISU tough this morning, but they were also hitting some unreal shots as well.

Service errors killed or momentum in the first set. Were up by 5 at one point. Would have been nice to have that first one

SDSU does not have a good volleyball team. It's one thing to lose to better opponents but their first game against A&M, they must have had 10 or 12 errors.

Gonna go crazy, 4 WR set but run draw with Miller.

Two deep with RB's is always fluid and never really a true indicator of playing time. Jake and Jer are similar players, so third and short I doubt you see either of them in there. Look at last year, even with Miller and Sutton the 1/2, Garman still received playing time. At RB I consider it more of a 3 deep position the way UND has played it.

Looking at the two deep, I'm a bit disappointed to not see Butler in the two-deep at safety. He has all the physical tools you could want, just must not have the mental down yet.