fightingsioux4life

Very good analysis and comparison. I think one of the silver linings of having so many injuries is that your younger guys get a lot of valuable game experience, which is something you cannot replicate in practice. That could bode well for us in the next couple of years. Not that I am giving up on this season yet.

Cripes, at this rate we will have to pull a bunch of redshirts just to have a two-deep lineup at every position! This will test our coaching staff as they try to put a competitive team on the field this Saturday.

The good thing is that freshmen forwards are more likely to adjust to this level quickly than freshman defensemen. Our defensive zone coverage should be better and I think our young forwards can make some noise early. So that is why I am more optimistic about 2017-18 than I was 2016-17.

In other words: RUN THE EFFING TABLE!!!

Look John Boy Walton, you are wearing out your welcome here. If your entire purpose is to jab people, then please get lost and stay lost. After yesterday, I have ZERO patience for bullcrap today. Z-E-R-O.

True. But it is common for a team to come out flat after an emotional win.

And we'll have to see if there is a letdown for them in their next game.

Well, we don't join the MVFC for another three years, so we have time to right the ship.

Beat it troll. You are not welcome here. Go back to Bisonville or whatever hole you crawled out of.

When are we going to have an experienced O-Line? When are recruits going to stop leaving the team and/or never making it to campus at all? Bubba has been snakebitten when it comes to O-Linemen.

When did I ever defend Mussman's record? I wasn't the first person to call for his firing, but I certainly wasn't happy about what happened to the program under his rule. I even called him out in an epic rant I posted a little over four years ago. That was two weeks before Montana came into Grand Forks and embarrassed us at home. You are really full of crap today.

You are lumping Bubba in with Mussman and calling it an apples to apples comparison. Totally absurd. Nice try, but no dice. Please play again.

I wouldn't call the Mussman regime "building". More like "decaying".

So one bad road loss and you are calling for regime change? You also are calling the year a failure? There are eight games left on the schedule. I am not sugarcoating today, but I am also not going to jump off the ledge over it either.

You make an asinine comment about rebuilding for 10-ish years and you think you won't get push back?

Has Bubba been in charge for the last 10-ish years? No? Then take your ignorant comments elsewhere! I am not in the mood for nonsense today.

No, don't you understand? We have to run it up the middle over and over again! Anything else is too risky! (sarcasm)

Shhhhh, those are just "excuses"! (sarcasm)

I will argue that USD was in much better shape as a program than UND was. With all due respect, it IS the "major difference" I am making it out to be.

But not every coach who is hired is inheriting a college expansion team. That is what Bubba took over less than four years ago. The rest of this season will tell us a lot about this team and the coaching staff.

And as geaux_sioux pointed out, they have huge football budgets. And they are big name FB schools with lots of name recognition and historical resumes that help attract the best kids. Bubba essentially took over the college equivalent of an NFL expansion team. Started from square one. Not easy to do.

Are you suggesting that Alabama, Ohio State and Notre Dame were in as bad of shape as UND was when Bubba took over? Because if you are, I would like some of the stuff you are smoking. It must be good.

You said Bubba's cupboard wasn't bare, gave examples of why, and then noted that those players left the team once Bubba was hired. So yes, the cupboard was bare. You also are not discussing how much house cleaning he had to do when he took over. There were players with bad attitudes who weren't going to work out in Bubba's system and either quit or were kicked off the team. I didn't expect this team to do what they did last year, so I think Bubba is ahead of schedule despite what happened today.

That was a shot at Gophers FB, not him.