geaux_sioux

Must be nice to have really high reading comprehension and realize that they were the #1 team in the country coming off of a win against a big ten team. Or understanding that them getting a crowd of 16000 is the same as having 10200 at the Alerus.

A little perspective from a place where all they have is football as far as attendance concerns go http://www.bisonville.com/forum/showthread.php?11323-Quietdome-Where-s-the-support

Which makes this years sieve they call a defense all the more disappointing. I'm expecting a win this weekend, by about 14.

Perhaps the expectations were to win. The team was plenty good enough to make the playoffs this year, they failed. Execution of small things at critical times in important winnable games was unacceptable. Finishing 6-5 if we win this week will be ok, 3 of our losses were given to the opponent which makes 6-5 seem not so good. Expectations need to be sky high every year, if they aren't, don't expect the team to attain any great success. There's a reason NDSU is successful.

Being near the top in the offensive stats is not nearly as important as being the top defense. Hopefully they can improve like SDSU did from last year. Defense always travels well in any weather, the same can't be said about offense.

That's nothing to brag about. Those are teams we should beat with regularity. Beating ranked teams is something to actually feel good about, maybe next year we can feel good about that.

MSU EWU NDSU and possibly SDSU all have chances to go deep.

Paper says a shootout, my brain says probably not.

They're a pretty good team, they just haven't done what it takes to win the close games, much like UND....................s defense

Me neither, Hardin McGill Jackson Golladay Fletcher Townsend and Bridges, that's a totally different animal than Vraa and Smith. Our D will improve next year, hopefully as much as SDSU's did. If they do, with that favorable schedule, we'll see you in the playoffs.

The way SDSU finished that game with mental mistake after mental mistake kind of tainted a really hard hitting defensive battle.... that illegal substitution penalty left me dumbfounded.

That explains why its taking so long...... I assume he drives a red convertable too.

Perhaps I should have used pink font for the bus faire comment? I'm not desperate, just tired of waiting for gt to finish measuring his Dick.

You guys cover buss faire and it a done deal. How much is westerns buyout?

Better than playing a D2 team.

Lets make the game happen, in the dome, once North Dakota gets another taste of that game they will demand more. Doesn't even matter who wins or by how much, the publicity would be insane and the atmosphere at and leading up to the game would be like no other. Nobody cares about Western Carolina anyway, buy them out and get an instant classic on the schedule.

We could chip in on a buy out of their Western Carolina game and schedule a game for the 14th in the Fargo Dome. I'm sure their fans no matter how arrogant and stubborn they may be would much rather watch the Bizun pound UND instead of pound Western Carolina. Hopefully Montana pulls the trigger and we can make a deal.

Why not just a giant barrel half msu colors and half und colors? Simple and hard to break like those weird B1G trophies.

That bye will be crucial to the success of next years team. It would be nice if it was a week or two later but it is defiantly better than not having one till november.

Good thing is that UND found out how good a winless UNC team was last year and know that they've improved so there should be no underestimating by UNDs team.

Northern Colorado is much improved this year and contrary to popular belief they were a pretty talented team last year. Last year they obviously didn't win, losing can set in like a virus and it must have in a big way for them last year. This year they are better and have been a tough team to play recently. It should be a good game for sure.

Lots of recruiting going on this week hopefully we grab a stud or two, the recruiting class so far looks pretty good.

They're bigger than he was but certainly not nearly as powerful. I understand that Weston holds the all time power index record at UND by a very wide margin. Also I know none of the current guys have sub 10.5 100m speed like Weston and Chappell both had. They all have areas to improve that would make them better. Jake needs to get alot bigger. If he were at 190 he'd be a beast. Jer doesn't seem to have a whole lot of room left on his frame but could get leaner and faster, he's ridiculously quick but doesn't have the ability to pull away from guys for a long run yet. PJ needs to keep getting bigger and needs to get a step faster, he's plenty quick and could be a load with another 10 lean pounds. Maybe if Shaugabay can get up around 220 he can be a legit power back, he certainly runs violently already. Pack on some more good weight on him and he could be a beast. I'm also excited to see Varner develop, he seems kinda like a bigger Miller and runs really smooth. Hopefully the run game picks back up next year and these guys all have a big impact.

I'm not sure where the negativity was in my posts other than it sucking that Sutton is hurt.

The only time Jake and Jer are successful between the tackles is when they reach the second level untouched. That is why they were successful last year when the blocking was better. This year Sutton has had to carry more of the load because neither small backs can be expected to make yards through contact. They will each get more carries against unc but there will be someone else getting carries to provide size. They've always used 3 backs and like a power back speed back combo so someone else will be in the rotation.