UND-FB-FAN

Agree, that’s where I see him. Staple in middle of defense. Big get, NDSU wanted him

I honestly was not that impressed with USD. They held UND to only 13 points, so one could say that they played solid defense, but it was moreso UND being unable to get out of their own way offensively, in my opinion. Too many procedural penalties from UND and the passing game has not been explosive for UND this season. Lastly, UND has struggled getting their running game going all season due to offensive line issues (change in lineup as opposed to the spring). If I had to pick one thing that USD did well, it would be their inside running game. USD #5 Travis Theis ran hard and was a good physical runner. Otherwise, not too impressed with USD's passing game. UND's pass rush has been pretty solid this year, like most years, and against USD they were able to keep #18 Carson Camp uncomfortable and pick up some sacks. Unfortunately, UND's offense was far too dysfunctional to win the game for UND.

And UND fans have only been saying that for a decade it seems like … Hard to recruit to Grand Forks apparently because everyone knows the more speed the better

UND started as a top 10 team. That usually means playoffs and a couple wins, so, unless UND wins a couple playoff games, this season is a failure.

UND with a lot of positions that don’t scare anyone, but perhaps on the cusp

College football is significantly impacted by coaching. You pose excellent questions, but the reason coaching is always the bottom line is because the coaching staff chooses (recruits) the players. They also formulate the schedule, the scheme, and ultimately the entire environment and direction of the program is dictated by the coaching staff. Sure, sometimes the players don't listen or don't have the ability to do better, but the coaches had thousands of options and ultimately chose the particular student-athletes they wanted to represent their program. In bigtime college sports, wins/loses dictates so much. It is important to not split and be overly critical; sometimes, a different voice and different direction is needed and that does not necessarily mean the replaced staff was incompetent.

Watch the bizons come out in droves now. Go back to bozoville and thump your chest there.

That’s not what I meant and it was pretty obvious. Contemporary college football is all about including the QB running game and/or emphasizing the QB position. But if you really want to nitpick, just look at last year’s FCS champion. SHSU in the semifinals and final barely ran for over 150 yards total, outside of QB Schmid’s running production, but they spread teams out and we’re smart with both vertical/horizontal passing game. Again, I am NOT advocating for abandoning the running game. And to make it sound like I’m against running football is asinine and juvenile reading interpretation. The top teams need to be able to run the ball, but they oftentimes have a QB that significantly contributes to the running game and/or QB can elevate the team with his arm and leadership, not just be a game manager and be “adequate”

So all the NFL scouts and local sports writers failed and they and I don’t know what we’re talking about? Right … I’ll take the odds here and say you don’t know what you’re taking about

Idiocy

Yeah, and I think NDSU starts losing more when more of Entz’ recruits hit the field. Horrible coach with a very very good program around him

But they play UND next … upset? probably, this is type of game Bubba wins when all the pressure is off now with 0-2 start

Quite a few awards? How many years in the league? Damn, he was an amazing all-conference type guy for UND… alright, alright, I shouldn’t be so harsh; but really? Hendrickson? That mini-2012 run was a fluke, not the norm, or else he would’ve been a 4 year starter. Heck, he couldn’t even finish out the 2012 season as the starter Next question/answer …

I see a ton of QBs that ARE the running game. Offensive line always a factor, but don’t act like offenses around the country don’t rely some or a lot on the QB running game, which is absent at UND currently

disagree to a degree; even in the spring, when the running game was shutdown (NDSU, JMU), Schuster couldn’t carry the team. Offensive line must improve, but good QBs cover up offensive line deficiencies. To ask for the OL to improve while tolerating mediocre QB play is backwards. See my previous post on settling for “adequate” quarterbacks. That’s not the way the game is played currently; QB is too important to team’s success or lack thereof. nonetheless, both areas (OL,QB) need to improve

As they say, you are what your record says you are. UND is a losing football team, 2-3 overall, 0-2 in conference. Great people within coaching staff, for sure, but need to produce as per record. I attended game. Lackluster performance, no motivation or leadership. Perhaps letdown after NDSU game? Talked about all week, and looked to become reality. The last two games were conference games; the way the line looks and the mental fortitude of the team during these games should be weighed the most. On to Southern Illinois; improvements must be made schematically and mentally. Close consideration to personnel change (e.g., QB) as well.

I will say, nice call on the prediction. Funny how that works, hence, the “law”. 0.500 coach in DII. 0.500 coach in DI. It’s how it goes.

UND needs to improve at both QB and offensive line. Discouraging since most recent changes to offense per Bubba was hiring new offensive coordinator (Freund) and offensive line coach (Pawlak) in 2018. Results thus far have been only average.

We all must believe that, and hopefully see it become reality, or else … 2021 true freshman season would be asking a lot from him, and he would lose his redshirt, so 2022 would be the target season to see what he can do. 2021 it is either Schuster or Quincy Vaughn.

Quarterback, arguably most important position in sports, and UND is going with “adequate”. Ya’ll need to just sit down and let that sit in before typing something. Meanwhile, UND’s major rival in recruiting 80 miles south has back-to-back-to-back NFL quarterbacks and now a former 4 star FBS transfer at QB. I don’t want to oversimplify here, but UND has to get way more out of the QB position if they want to be a national title contender. Appreciate Tommy Schuster, but he’s not able to get UND to the level we as UND supporters should desire.

UND lost but you were still wrong

Attended the game. Nothing special to watch. Unmotivated. Sloppy with procedural penalties. Offense is very poor this season with this year’s offensive line. Also, I know people love Tommy, but I’m very skeptical. Too small, can’t run, doesn’t rise up to lead the team in tough moments vocally … Damn, this season is not turning out at all …

Engelstad funding model for UND athletics is less than ideal but it is the reality for UND DI athletics. The REA “gift” will allow the Engelstads to have UND by the throat until they dissociate … like ~ 2030 or so if that really ever happens. Hopefully when one of you on this board strikes millions/billions, you remember to right the ship and donate it to UND athletics with more of a fair share model …

Of course they are mental mistakes, all penalties are, but there is no way you can completely dismiss the impact home crowd noise had on influencing those mistakes … good football crowds keep it quiet when the home team is on offense. To say the und crowd in the Alerus cant accomplish this is pretty damn insulting … even if they only know hockey

This is simple: QUIET WHILE ON OFFENSE and the ADVANTAGE is what we all want. STAND UP AND BE CRAZY all you want while UND is on defense. The BAND can play their as* off all they want during TV timeouts and when UND is on defense, but should be strict no play rule when UND has the ball. As the UND-NDSU game evidenced, UND has the potential for a heck of a homefield advantage, but it does take people using their head a bit (I know, I know ... that is hard for some). From my experience, being at the game and from my vantage point, at least one or two of the false starts UND had vs NDSU was due to "friendly fire" crowd noise