geaux_sioux

So I'm assuming you're old enough to have known our friend Abe .... “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

looking at Portlands vs what we saw with ours we have a ways to go although obviously you don't have as much to work with in a spring game vs a real one. I just think that darker lighting on the Portland one makes it seem more edgy like a movie.

It's cowardice. Put a chip on your shoulder and improve and be the best player on the team the next year. Taking the easy way out is becoming too common with football and hockey players and it's pathetic.

For some reason I can't picture the lineup without Pattyn. He plays with too much grit to not be out there. Every time he was on the ice he made a physical impact on the opposing team and cycles really well along the boards.

wellllll back when I played we had to drive the ball up hill both ways into a 95mph wind on a gravel field with lead based paint lines while smoking cigarettes without pads or shoes in a blizzard 76 below zero and we had to sew our jerseys ourselves from potato sacks and the ball was really a boulder and there were no fans in there because there were no stands but we didn't want fans there because we played for the love of the game and there was no halftime because we refused a halftime and it was pouring rain and 100 degrees and there were no coaches because we didn't need one because back then we had true leaders on the field wellll it really wasn't so much a field as it was an old land mine training course for tank drivers and we all had polio and the forward pass was illegal because nobody can throw a greased pig very far anyway which is what we used for a ball and wellllll what was I talking about again?

I'm not sure if our pass defense has ever been outstanding. I can remember good individual corners and solid safeties but it's always been about the front seven from what I've seen. This next year will be the first time since Digger was playing that the front 7 will be up to snuff. This new version is the most athletic by far and the D-line is shaping up very well. The starters are monsters and hopefully the youngsters can turn into the same. I'm not sure if any team can stomach the type of smash mouth D we used to play and seem to be getting back to. They'll be able to assert themselves next year with an actual offense to give them rest and leads to work with. SACK CITY is coming back.

For the record I thought Clausen was over rated and had bad mechanics and too weak of an arm. I also thought Mertens and Goska would suck. Goska wasn't good but he got the job done some games and was a man possessed for 1.75 quarters against USD and in all 4th quarters last year. I've seen enough of this guy to know he's legit, since you haven't seen him in person maybe you should take my word for it

I've seen enough good quarterback play to know a good one when I see one. I said the same thing about Brock Jensen when I saw him play in his first spring game. He should've started the first game, he didn't. When he did play you guys were able to make your run and actually score points and not turn it over. Hansen will probably throw for over 3000 yards this year, he is that good.

Lack of quarterback depth and Business grad school

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I've seen Hansen throw enough throws and watch his make correct reads and throw people open to know he's the real deal. I'm confident in my opinion from watching quality qb play and UND and even occasionally at NDSU (Mertens and Mohler not so much). Hansen has an ease about his throws that reminds me of Freund except Hansen is fully 6'5" and has a stronger arm than Freund did.

I'm hoping/thinking our team will take a different stance then some of us fans seem to take. We don't have to play up to them, they have to play up to us. We need to look at it as the Big Sky is our conference now and they need to play at our level to have a chance. We need to be more like Rorschach the black guy is the Montanas by the way

I'm wondering why alot of UND fans are looking up at the Montanas like they're FBS teams. We've shown that we can play with anybody. Don't forget what that comeback against South Dakota may have done to the psyche of the players and coaches. And add to that the fact that the entire playbook will be at the disposal of the OC with a capable QB and depth everywhere and I think you'll see a nightmare offense to defend.

Big year, new team, new conference, new expectations. Where will UND finish in the first crack at tha Big Sky? Will we hang a new banner next to the Great West co champs banner? I feel alot of positive energy around the program so I'm thinking miniumum top 3.

I can guarantee they'll have at least one loss on their schedule. Revenge is a dish best served cold on some new turf.

hopefully it's alot like what Portland St had for their football team. it made a team with zero fan following look legit, just imagine what it would look like for us

Slap in the face. We deserve to be nationally ranked going into the season and better than 6th in the big sky.

Taking classes like yoga and ping pong is not very stressful. A one year guy is not going to enroll in chemistry or anything hard if he knows he wont be getting a degree.

That kid looks faaast

I know Bradley had over 200 yards and 2 tds but I was still impressed with what Hansen was able to do on only 6 passes considering his protection was terrible for the most part. With all day to throw Bradley was still only 50% which isn't very good for a scrimmage, although he did have some dimes.

remember with the db's dwayne brown is out from shoulder surgery and he was far and away the best freshman db which would have made a huge difference. The depth for one team in the real season should be fine, just not enough dbs with experience to field 2 teams for the spring game. O, and the recievers are outstanding.

I was excited going into the spring game yesterday and left ecstatic. Braden Hanson had zero time for most of the game thanks to patchy OL but was still 5 of 6 with very nice catchable throws. Bradley has improved a bunch and has gotten stronger although you'd like to see higher completion percentage than 12 of 24 in a spring game. Hendrickson made some serious plays, he had some lazers and some nice deeper throws and showed his speed. The receivers made our poor DBs look terrible. Townsend looks like his ankle is coming around which is great since last year you could tell he wasn't 100% explosive on his cuts and running ability. Hardin was Hardin. McGill looked quicker. Jackson didn't get much oportunity but did have that nice catch where he made 3 people miss and then ran over a safety for extra yards. At 240 what DB will want to cover and/or tackle him? I would have liked to have seen more PJ Sparks, 1 carry was a bit of a slap to the face. Im very pumped to see the D next year. With two big time LBs not playing the D still looked good for the most part. Holes in the secandary were more apparent with the units split between teams. Next year I'm expecting a playoff run and contention for a Big Sky crown. And I'd love to meet up with NDSU in the playoffs I refresh their memories a bit of what we're all about.

With that said, we need to get on those facilities to be above NDSU in more than just character and atmosphere.

FAIL. FACEPALM. EPIC FAIL. With all of the good new progressive things going on for the football team they go ahead and do this to us? This was their oportunity to make yet another statement about how this program is comitted to being a top teir program. The only way they could make this worse would be to either put a bison logo at the 50 or make it brown. A 4 million dollar investment and they let a blind man design it? I assume that is the only excuse. Maybe there is a interlocking ND logo in braille at the 50. This is a CMON MAN moment if there ever has been one. What a failure, new locker room, new all blacks, and a new 4 million dollar rug. They could've done better to say the least.

percentage of a sellout would be a possibility though. 8731/25203= 34.6% of a sellout .346X12283 = 4249. That is doable on a nice day with how the hype machine has been rolling this spring for the football program. 8731 is an impossibility they would need to open up both sides for that to even be possible. How bout we shoot for more people than NDSU for starters.