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Last night was really fun to watch, I was only able to see the first half but the score could have been even more lopsided. We were getting a lot of open looks from beyond the arc that were just rattling out. As for Schuler, I've gotta think something is up. He hasn't been playing as well the last couple of games, and has been short on most every shot I've seen him take. Might not even be an injury but a confidence thing, although that would be weird at this point in the year considering how well he's played.

At this point we don't know what we have going into next season at quarterback. Some of our questions will be answered after spring ball, but we've got two redshirt freshmen that sound like they had some promise coming in, plus a young JUCO transfer that has collegiate level experience and a live arm. I'm interested to see what they can do before I say we don't have a real QB. Remember Landry was drafted as a D2 guy and was playing against primarily D1 competition, our problem was we had no competent depth behind him last year when he went down. I think we improve on offense (even without Murray) if we can establish more than 1 receiver as a threat. Last year it was Hardin and that was about it, teams would rotate their coverage to stop him and no one really stepped up to take the pressure off. Where Landry was more successful than either of his backups was checking down to other receivers, but then there would be drops or there was no real advantage gained by those receivers, either by not getting separation, or like I said, dropping the ball.

The men need to learn how to close out games like this. This usually means being able to make your free throws and running an efficient offense. Too many times it looked like they became disjointed and just forced up a shot after running some clock. They need to stay in the offense and try to set up something better than chucking up a shot.

Ouch... Not a good sequence. Gotta know your timeouts, and I don't like that foul all the way down the court.

Free throws are killing us, but they've been hitting some really clutch 3 pointers!

Not really a good foul by Mitchell. Would have been good to have him in for the rest of this.

They need to keep pounding Brekke. You can see he has a mismatch on almost anyone they can throw at him now.

Gotta think double OT favors us with two of their big guys fouled out. Hopefully we can actually hit a free throw...

I think the coaches should start raiding the intramural leagues and the pickup games at the Wellness Center, there are people there that could shoot way better than what UND is. Ugh.

A couple things about this game after going to it... UND really needs to work on free throws, that was one of the differences in this game. They missed several that would have made this game much closer. IPFW was on fire from the three through most of the first half. That was another difference in the game, combine that with the missed free throws and you get the gap, otherwise it was pretty even. Overall I liked the defensive effort, but I have a hard time figuring out UND's offense. Seemed to be the high screen almost every time. I thought Denter was able to do some good work on IPFW's 6'10" center and would've liked to see some more inside/out offense as that produced some good looks. After hearing some of the good talk about Huff on here, I was expecting to see a bit more from him. Overall I thought he made some poor decisions with the ball and was looking to try and make something that just wasn't there. Although the halfcourt shot at the end of the half was definitely an excellent shot and looked almost effortless. My final note on the game, effort was there, but some of the fundamentals were just lacking. P.S. The crowd for the most part was dead... the student section was tiny, which was disappointing to see.

Right now I'd rather see Hendrickson throw incompletes than Goska. Hendrickson just has the feeling like something's going to connect and things will happen. Goska just feels like we don't even have a threat of a pass.

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I think Cameron has player of the game for UND so far. His punting so far has been very impressive.

It's actually on channel 27 broadcast by Midco. They picked up the Montana broadcast so I'm not watching online.

I don't think the Montana broadcasters realize that we can still hear them... haha

How many more mistakes can this team make? Blown tackles, stupid penalties, horrible turnovers. I've been a Sioux football fan all my life, but this is hard to watch.

Thanks for finding this! Awesome job

Neither am I. Looked it up, and only people with Midcontinent digital receivers get channel 597. Don't know why it's not being shown on channel 27 in GF. Lame!!

Here's something I've heard about this, not sure if it's true or if this is just a rumor. My source claims to have heard it from a sub-contractor involved in building the new football stadium. So my sources says that the announcement is about a very large donation from a former UND football player that apparently played some Canadian football and owned several gold and diamond mines. He apparently sold his mining company and is donating money to UND. Again this is a bit of scuttlebutt but you never know, it might be true. I suppose we'll all know after tomorrow afternoon.

I still find it funny when people associate UND sports only with hockey. They do realize there are other things, football, basketball (well, maybe not this year), baseball, softball, track and field, swimming and diving, soccer, etc.

I've seen him at the Wellness Center, so assuming he's still in school. Have no idea about if he's on the sideline or going to be eligible.

I'm pretty sure Murray is still in school. I've seen him playing basketball at the Wellness Center as of late. Not sure if he's going to play football again or if he'll be eligible.

Why is it exactly that you dislike Landry so much? This isn't the first time I've heard you speaking terribly about him.

That's the outcome I'm hoping for as well. The team needs the same fire/intensity brought to every game like they did against Cal-Poly

The season ticket holders haven't exactly been showing up either, so the blame for small crowds isn't all on the student section. That being said, the student sections have been horrible for really all but 1 game this year. Really the students aren't getting much incentive to go to these games. Grand Forks is not a football town, and despite it being the second biggest sport on the campus (as far as support), football doesn't naturally draw the students in unless the team is winning or they are playing against a "rival." Marketing/PR has to do something to draw the students to the football games and make it a social event like the hockey games. Ask students why they go to hockey games, it isn't because they think hockey is the best sport, they go because it's socially expected and is "the place to be" in Grand Forks on Friday/Saturday nights (prior to the bars that is).