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The numbers cannot be ignored. Football is where the real potential is. GO UND FIGHTING HAWKS FOOTBALL!

I appreciate quality sports, not niche ones, but I do understand reality has to be embraced sometimes. Hockey, REA, and Grand Forks dynamic is what it is.

Montana just lost to Portland State at home. UND is coming off a open week with both rest and preparation for the Griz. UND now plays Montana at home in Grand Forks, ND, at the Alerus Center. It should be damn obvious to anyone with a football brain that UND needs to win this home game. A UND loss can only be followed with discussion on who for UND should lose their job. Prepare, Work, Play, Win. Get it done, Hawks.

I don’t care how world class the facility or scoreboard is if the sport played in the facility isn’t world class itself. Upper Upper Northern Hemisphere class maybe? But hey, priorities ...

Great excuse for UND fans if UND plays like sh*t on October 13th? UND better go 6-0 to finish the season if they’re worth a damn. This Big Sky Conference is horsesh*t. UND needs to win out. Thank God for the move to the Missouri Valley. UND needs to play with the big boys to toughen up. Nice to see Idaho State look like the real deal though.

One must drink excessively to watch and tolerate the “sport” of ice and a puck (aka hockey). Hooray for alcohol in the REA!

Taking away players from an offense that already is anemic as can be would not be a good idea. If anything, the UND offense should gain players from the defensive side of the ball.

Oh I’m sure UND hockey will have a specific show because, well, Grand Forks and this region is screwed up when to comes to priorities.

The point made is still fair. Oliveira and Johannesson have the body types and running styles to be more “traditional” backs which obviously fits better with Rudolph’s “traditional” offense. Santiago is awesome when breaking big runs out in the open but leaves much more to be desired when running up the gut in a crowd (which Rudolph calls often). This is why everyone on here has called for Santiago to be used out wide some with #5 or #33 in the backfield. Santiago’s body type and ability could be better utilized with this.

RT and UND f’d up in 2003. No protective argument from me.

If UND loses to both Montana and Weber State at home at the Alerus Center then UND doesn’t deserve to be in the playoffs. Period. If UND somehow got in after that, UND would just get blown out in the first round. You know, these records are meant to show you deserve to be in the postseason. At 7-4 UND wouldn’t deserve to be in the postseason in my opinion. The 2015 7-4 situation was different as it had “quality wins” but also had “bad loses”. So far UND’s only potential “bad loss” is Idaho State, but so far so good.

7-4 ain’t sh*t win ‘em all Hawks

If UND really wants to jump up in the polls, Weber State in the Alerus Center would be the game to win. Win out I say ... 9-2 would look nice. Montana next up though. One game at a time.

Amen!!!

It appears we can't win at the Alerus Center. So much for home field advantage. Maybe UND should just schedule every game on the road?

What’s funny is NDSU (when Bohl was HC) had losing seasons before finally striking it big in 2011. Point being a single big recruiting class can make the difference. Now, after years of winning, NDSU simply has better players than their opponents. Their coaches aren’t slouches though. UND has some deficiency at both coaching and player levels. Just like NDSU in 2011, though, a single talented recruiting class at UND could change the trajectory for years to come.

I like the Fighting Hawks. I like the logo. I like the mascot. I think Grand Forks hockey is overrated. Go UND

At the end of a UND running play, he threw an unnecessary dead ball block on a UNC defender that was called a personal foul.

#1 Why not just crown UND now for handling the formidable 0-4 (now 0-5) Northern Colorado Bears?

I echo this.

Second Half Summary: UND scores 14 points in 2nd half; Northern Colorado scores 6 points. UND won the second half, but as has been the trend this season, the second half was far uglier than the first half. Positives: - Defense did their job to start 3rd quarter. They continually got stops. Good job with second half adjustments and coming out ready to play. - Runningbacks Oliviera and James Johannesson both ran hard and with good vision in the second half. Nice job by those two running the ball. - Nice to see receiver Cam McKinney get involved some in the running game with jet sweeps; he has the speed to make it work well and compliment the inside the running game. - Defense applied good pressure throughout second half. Nice to see interception from safety Jordan Canady. - Only one completion in the second half but it was a nice throw by Ketteringham and nice catch by Toivonen on third down to keep drive alive. - Very nice punt and punt coverage in 4th quarter to down ball inside the 10 yard line to back up UNC (ball downed at 8 yard line). - Nice to see good effort from true freshman runningback Otis Weah; he scored a touchdown on a nice physical run today. Negatives: - PENALTIES ALL GAME! In second half, false start on OL Nathan Nguon on second and short is not acceptable. - I don't like the toss play on third and short; use James Johannesson downhill, not out wide with toss. - Poor throw by Ketteringham on quick out route on 3rd and 1; also interception that was batted by defensive lineman was poor. Can't have turnovers when trying to put the other team away! Same thing happened last week against Idaho State. This UND team needs to develop better killer instinct. - Defense did not play well following the second half UND turnover (interception). The defense has been particularly susceptible on the ground following turnovers. UND needs to not turn ball over but defense also needs to be ready to go and be more stout against inside running game. - Scoreless 3rd quarter was not ideal. - Poor defensive effort by UND with backups in during final UNC drive; they gave up a TD to UNC. Nice to see UND 2nd stringers stop the 2 point conversion though.

Dumb penalty by Mason Bennett. This team has made so many dumb mistakes/penalties today it’s scary. Need way better discipline from Bubba and his staff.

The discipline of the team has been bad today. I’m disappointed in this. Bubba and his players need to step it up in that department.

1 touchdown in the second half now ... I’ll take it ... better than 0

Yeah it’s a bad one ... offense tends to go to sleep in the second half