geaux_sioux

Lets get Fred Beaugard signed

It's either sign a guy a year or two every other. You just need to find the guys that are confident enough to compete. Also the quality of depth will affect how many and how often you sign qbs. Right now we need another body not another cornerstone so maybe pick up a pow guy again.

alright fine, you wanna be a prick, Michigan Michigan state Ohio state Purdue Texas Oklahoma Oklahoma state Florida Florida state North Carolina wake forest Tennessee. Done being a prick or do you want the list to grow?

Some of you guys have some messed up expectations for the football program. What exactly do you propose they do with recruits? The hockey game is the hottest ticket in town during prime recruiting time so why wouldn't they take them to the event that best shows what this school is capable of. Every school does this whether it be Kentucky with basketball or us with hockey you do what you can to give you an edge in recruiting.

We could use a player like him in the secondary

Remember how much things can change year to year. 2011 had a great run defense and a horrible offense. 2012 saw a high flying offense and the worst defense ever. I'm sure next year the team will look very different in a good way on defense and in the trenches in general.

Yea I forgot to put beaugard on my list. He has that look in his eye and is already an enormous young man

Hardin if he's a monster next year. I dont think Hanson will be drafted but he'll get signed. Brenneman will get a look. There are others with enough talent but it remains to be seen if they'll put up the right kind of numbers.

I was hoping Santa would deliver a commintment this Christmas

Sure it sucked that he bailed, especially since he could have been an oshie type player, but you guys sound like gopher/bison fans with how bitter you guys are that they jumped ship. Move on, they're young kids.

Just watching him as an 8th grader absolutly schooling players that were up to 5 years older than him was special. Hes got awesome hands and vision which always make for a good playmaker. Throw in some speed and hard nosed defensive mentality and he could develope into a special player. Also can't understate how important it is to have grand forks kids (when they're good enough) on the team.

Every scheme is successful with the right guys. It's not like football is so different all of a sudden and the 3-4 only works in d2. It's successful in all levels of football. And yes we know you aren't a fan of und's coaches, I'm not sure that will ever change. What will change is the product on the field will be more talented next year and won't get abused by teams like msu and ewu. I think the best way to look at the coaches is that this was their first year and should be expected to improve every year for the next 4 years where they will then reach relatively even footing with other FCS teams.

I'm not real big on all conference teams since its a lot about a resume and a lot of people don't like to nominate freshman, kinda like the heisman with only one fr winner and one fr runner up in history. I actually think it is a good thing for fr to start. This new crop will have a chip on their shoulder to fix things at und. I look at a guy like Edwards and he was by far the best nt in camp last year and manhandled senior olinemen with ease. Young guys playing will also light a fire under the asses of those underachieving seniors and juniors and make them better by the competition. No ones job is safe and everyone including the coaches will improve because of it. There will be growing pains with some players, but as long as they learn from them and play fast they will be an upgrade. I fully expect to see some shirts pulled next fall.

Your foot was in your mouth because you claimed that I had been defending how the d played last year which was not the case. Mike Edwards was the best nt in fall camp by far, he will start day one next year if he doesn't digress. Im hopful that Will Rattelle or even Labatt will develop into the other inside lb with Goodman. The dline just plain sucked last year. A few plays here and there were nice but they were manhandled at times and didn't make enough plays or eat enough blocks with consistency. There will be some fr starting next year and they will be ready and will be better than the starters last year.

Make no mistake, never once did I defend the level of play by the team and the defense in particular. Now as you start to dislodge your foot from your mouth I'll explain what I saw that was wrong with the defense this year. Blame the entire defense as a unit. The Dline didn't eat up blockers in the run game like they're supposed to consistently, and when they did the LBs didn't make the plays they should have. The LB's didn't make plays at all this year and that includes a hobbled Goodman. The secondary is still a messy ball of class that will improve again next year but still sucked. What was more alarming than the level of play was the obvious lack of an alpha male on defense. Hopefully next year Goodman can become a guy like Grant Olson who will accept nothing less than perfect and will get in someones face or put a boot up their ass without hesitation if they aren't up to snuff. The defense wasn't nasty. Dan Hendrickson wasn't strutting around after knocking someone unconscious on a kickoff. He was the identity of the defense and they fed off of his swagger and his grit. Someone needs to step up in that regard and it isn't a coach. My main critique of the defensive coaches was why didn't they blitz as much as normal? They weren't bringing the same kind of pressure that we're used to with the 3-4 we run. Was that a result of the offenses we faced this year and their 5 WR sets? I don't know, the coaches are the ones watching the film and they know what they're doing. It obviously didn't work this year for a variety of reasons and you can bet your ass they will make adjustments (like cutting players with bad attitudes) because two years like this past one in a row and then we've got a problem. The main problem with the defense was depth. There weren't enough studs even with a full compliment of players and they were not even close to being able to handle the injury situation which was ridiculous to say the least this year. Next year I guarantee major improvements on defense to the tune of a top 25 defense nationally. If not feel free to call me a moron. As for the 3-4, it will be dominant again when we get the horses. They're coming, some are already here. Mike Edwards will be the cornerstone of the defensive revival at UND.

I don't disagree that the defense was god awful this year but that comment was blindly stupid to say the least.

Good point

Wait whats this? Another former football player saying it comes down to the players executing what the coach put them in position to do? Blasphemy! Mussman and Mannausau were the ones missing tackles in the backfield not the players. The coaches told them to get into good position and then not make it, otherwise the plays would have been made but that wasn't what the coaches wanted so the players did what they were coached to do and missed tackles left and right. The reason Hardin dropped so many passes this year is because Schleusner lost focus from time to time not Hardin.

They also bring actual insight instead of armchair speculation.

Don't mistake talent for experience.

Preach!

Defenses that can tackle don't struggle. Also what don't you get about how handcuffed mussman and the staff was in recruiting during the transition? They had no future home conference and thanks to the nickname Crap had a dark cloud following them everywhere that couldn't be ignored and was keeping them out of a future conference. These are facts and its a miracle that they were able to recruit as well as they were and find guys like Hardin during the transition. Blind is not realizing how well the coaches have done in building a talented team under their set of circumstances.

How worried should we be about Dan Bell actually signing with us?

no, I was just being a smartass