UND-FB-FAN

First Half Summary: Obviously, given halftime score of UND 24 UNC 7, UND has far more positives than negatives in first half. UND needs to continue their effort into the second half of this game. They have had poor second halves this season thus far. Positives: - Quarterback Ketteringham has played very well. 8/12 for 111 yards passing and two rushing touchdowns. To start game had nice play-action pass to Wanzek on 1st down and real beautiful throw to Toivonen over the middle for 22 yards. Ketteringham had smart 12 yard run on 3rd and long to get what he could and not force it. In goal line situation, Ketteringham is 2/2 for 2 TDs on inside QB runs. He has a nose for the end zone in those situations (4 rushing TDs on season thus far). - Runningback James Johannesson is running very well. He needs more carries. I understand Santiago is out, but JJ #33 just adds so much physicality to the offense and better aids the vanilla style of Rudolph's offense. On first drive he had nice runs between the tackles. He also subsequently even ran well on toss plays out of I formation. He blocked really well for McKinney on jet sweep as well. - WRs Toivonen and Wanzek have been reliable as receivers on short and intermediate routes. Keep it up. - Happy to see kicker Brady Leach make his field goal attempt on first drive. Very good confidence builder for him and gave UND 3-0 lead to start game. - Nice coverage by corner Evan Holm on deep throw by UNC - Defensive End Mason Bennett is playing unbelievably well. He can't be blocked. He has continually rushed the QB and has got a sack. - Safety Jordan Canady made nice play on short throw in first half; almost intercepted by him - Linebacker Tanner Palmborg did real nice job recognizing WR screen play and blowing it up - good awareness by him - Good job by UND special teams on muffed punt play - they were alert and jumped on the ball for key recovery - Brady Oliveria is doing well also running the ball; I've just been more impressed with James Johannesson - Offensive line doing nice job on counters with pulling guards getting out in front Negatives: - TOO MANY PENALTIES; need to clean it up and be more disciplined - c'mon Bubba and staff, get these guys ready to play clean - can't hold on first kick return of game; need better discipline on special teams #50 - HORRIBLE SNAPS by the center (Patric Rooney) on first drive; it has been cleaned up now it appears. It led to UND needing to settle for FG on first drive, though. - Poor tackling at times; on UNC's lone TD drive, the defense did awful job in positioning and tackling as UNC ran right down the field. It was subsequently cleaned up. Good job on that. - Offensive PI by James Johannesson on 3rd offensive drive hurt; need to be smart; he'd be better if got more playing time - c'mon Rudolph and Bubba play the talented kid more - Pass Interference by #20 Lenny Nelson took away interception by #12 Blublaugh; need to clean that up - DUMB DUMB penalty by Ketteringham on Johannesson run attempt. He needs to play smart and not hurt team with dead ball personal foul like that. Only mistake he made the entire first half, so, all in all, anyone hating on Ketteringham needs to use their head and wise up. He's a good QB for UND.

Cool story Go Fighting Hawks

All comes down to running game. If UND runs the ball well - UND wins If Northern Colorado stops the run, UND throws ugly incompletions and interceptions, UNC wins and UND needs new football leadership

Yep ... the reality of UND’s loss to Idaho State

The Idaho State game was that game. Maybe 10% of the 11,000+ that were in the Alerus Center on 9/22/18 will be aware of UND’s score against Northern Colorado, but they all are aware that UND choked one away at home against Idaho State (again).

UND wins this game or else playoff hopes are gone. I think UND wins the game. Northern Colorado shouldn’t be able to stop the run. If Fighting Hawks can’t run the ball consistently, Northern Colorado will hang around in the game and have a chance to win late. I am very concerned with how the running game disappeared in the second half of UND’s game against Idaho State.

This has my vote. Classic!

26-24 (52%) in 5 seasons isn’t exactly exhilarating. Can’t imagine your average fan would get too excited about that.

Wrong Try Again

UND football certainly could use more money for facilities and coaching salaries, no question. But big wins need to come first to support enthusiasm, and I have doubts that the current coaching staff can deliver on that. UND football under Bubba has been anything but consistent. Furthermore, only 1 playoff season in 4 seasons is not good enough. It likely will be 1 in 5 (20%) after this season; that’s just not good enough at a hockey dominated University and community, especially when trying to build and enhance support for football. UND needs to build enthusiasm via wins before the financial changes we all want for football will happen.

The blinders are always on for some. All major change comes with some positives and negatives; one just has to hope the positives outweigh the negatives. The $100 million gift from Engelstad for the REA was obviously a net positive, but to blatantly ignore the inherent negatives that also came with that is tremendously naive and irresponsible. That’s what I see from most; they try too hard to ignore some of the negative trickle down effects.

Okay, 9 years.

Looks like even UNDfootball360 may end up eventually agreeing with some of the “idiots” on this website.

This will end up a limbo year pushing UND on towards extended mediocrity. 6-5, no playoffs some happy because UND improved from 2017 and had a winning record some upset and angry because UND missed playoffs all depends what your expectations are, and those are all over the place on this website

Whoa, take it easy. You’re using logic. That kind of thought doesn’t belong with the UND offense.

3 yards and a cloud of dust is a style. I guess the phrasing you’re looking for is Bubba is enamored with a lack of style.

Bubba and his crew get so caught up in style that they often forget about the most important thing: WINNING! I could care less what style UND plays if they win. The people around UND are so enamored by 3 yards and a cloud of dust that they fail to realize that style may be the reason UND is losing ...

So give Frost 3 to 4 years to prove it but give Bubba 10 or 11 years? C'mon man, your double standards are killing me.

What the hell kind of a hypothetical scenario is this? So you're eliminating record, academics, coaching, and facilities ... I guess I would say tradition and location would be the next in line then; still plenty to offer from both school in that case.

Don't say this too often or too loud; you might get the irrational isolationists of North Dakota angry at you.

Or clean house and hire some qualified EWU coaches that know how to win?

I actually agree with you.

Horrible analogy. Those NFL issues were exceptions, not the norm. Plus they're playoff teams. UND has 1 playoff appearance in 4 full seasons under Bubba and they have a pattern of continual blowing games. What happened on 9/22/18 was similar to what happened in 2015, 2016 playoffs, etc. At some point in time you are what you are and you can’t put lipstick on a pig.

I don’t agree with your primary argument. I agree that Grand Forks in general supports hockey more than football, but this is for several reasons rather than the generic arguement that GF likes hockey more than football, it is a hockey town, blah blah blah ... 1) The Ralph Engelstad Arena - nicest venue to watch a game of any kind in all of ND; just happens that hockey is the sport played in there. 2) Hockey consistently wins, at both high school and college level, in Grand Forks. GF doesn’t expect nor want a UND football program that continually chokes in front of them on Homecoming. They want a winner plus consistency. They get that with UND hockey. UND football needs to win and Bubba can’t consistently do that.