geaux_sioux

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Football

Some of the quotes from defensive players and coaches are rather alarming to me. It suggests that under Mannausau (great player and great guy all around) was not up to par as a defensive coordinator and didn't demand the level of excellence that is needed to be successful especially against such potent offenses as the teams in the Big Sky. It also speaks to the quality of Kotelnicki. This guy is a stud. He is intesnse. He does not sleep on his laurels. He's not afraid to call people out and push them towards greatness. He is the real deal and I hope we can keep him around for a while because I think he is going to be a special coach.

I'm officially going through football withdrawals. Hopefully I'll be able to make it to a practice or two or maybe Teeder will be able to provide us with some analysis. I can't wait 4 more weeks for a game.... another Opening Drive season would be awesome.

Sitting out for academics and being academically ineligible are two different things. I would bet that they didn't do well enough last spring in class and needed to make it up in the summer and may be waiting in grades to be cleared. If they were academically ineligible it would have been specified.

My point isn't that full D1 championships aren't harder or a bigger deal. My point is that fcs football championships are a big deal too. I know that bcs football is the highest level but UND probably won't be a big enough school to ever sustain a bcs level football program so dogging fcs is just plain silly.

Are you saying we should use their junk argument and belittle our #2 sport?

Anyone able to make it to practices?

People making the argument that NDSU's FCS championships don't matter are fools. It's the level we play at also.

I thought you guys only had two FCS championships? And when did we win our FCS championship?

The most recent ten years of head to head?

You weren't born in 2003? That would explain some of your insight.

Heard it from a very good source. His physical gifts didn't exactly translate to the football field.

I wonder if there are still shot glass rings on it from shots being taking off of it down town.

From what i heard he would've been burried on the depth chart either way.

Lets just play for a Giant keg of beer. Keep your hands off our coin.

Mussman had hinted that he could step in right away outside the tackles and block and even catch passes. Long term he's a LT. I feel like that number of his is a dead give away of their intentions to pull his shirt. Also Meindel is obviously already getting his shirt pulled.

The loss of Taylor Grant is going to have a huge impact on special teams of someone else can't fill his role in snapping. He was excellent last season.

Cole Reyes, Brandon Miller, AJ Stockwell, Marcus Cheatom, Mitch Meindel, and Kyle Norberg, are my candidates without seeing a practice or hearing anything.

Same thing with the MetroDome. It's amazing what a splash of natural light will do.

I really hope they won't consider a retractable roof. In this part of the country it makes no sense. A setup with alot of natural lighting on the other hand would be awesome. One major issue with the Alerus is that there is no natural light which makes the atmosphere a little flat. They could use the money that would have been spent on a retractable roof to make the whole place alot nicer which I think would be better overall.

I'm hoping Tyhre will be an impact player in the secondary this year.

I think people are forgetting how good McGill is. He was our #2 WR going into last season and was a first down machine before he tore his ACL. He's an all conference type of player at least.

Are there newer pictures?

I'm sure ndsu ladies have plenty of storage space in their folds.