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I agree for the most part, but completely disagree the he's brick footed. He does an amazing job of moving around in the pocket. No matter the offensive scheme, taking as few sacks as he has while throwing the ball as often as we do is impressive.

Oral Roberts broke ground a couple of days ago on a new athletic center and basketball practice facilities. "The Mike Carter Athletic Center is estimated to cost more than $15 million and will be built debt free. The building will be located on the southeast side of the Mabee Center and construction will take approximately 18 months to complete. The facility will house a 10,000-square-foot sports performance area with turf and a fueling station allowing multiple teams to train at the same time. A new Eli Academic Center will have open study space as well as individual and group study rooms and a team room large enough for 100 people. In addition, two, full size practice courts are being built for the men's and women's basketball teams along with administrative and coaches offices."

If we're got to choose the one spot the team could get better at, I'd still say the O Line is more important. A mobile QB doesn't help much on 3rd/4th and short if our O-line can't get enough push for a 1-3 yard gain when the D stacks the box and is expecting a run. Do you think Tommy has the ability to become as good of enough runner as you would like? As in, do you think it's only decision making or do you think he isn't athletic enough or both? My worry is that I think it's unlikely that we find a QB that is both a better runner AND has as as good of a pocket presence and accuracy as Tommy. I hope he stays QB, but with him being very young still, I think he can learn and improve his running game. If he can do that, and the o line improves, UND could be really damn good on offense.

He's no Quinton Patterson. I agree with siouxfan512 - looks like average QB speed with but with above average toughness/effort. Wasn't Joe Mollberg supposed to be a mobile qb as well? I remember him being way slower than I expected as well, given the hype. Given that Vaugn is supposed to have a stronger arm, has he had the chance to throw ANY deep balls? I don't recall any, which is crazy considering the d usually expects a running play.

Yeah I guess he is starting for JV until the middle brother graduates. Coach had high praises for all three, and the article implied that there was little doubt about him being the starter for the next couple years.

We didn't want him anyway.

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but in a couple years Tommy has a second brother who is also a QB, who will be starting next year as a junior. The middle brother committed to lafyette earlier this year.

I completely agree. I don't know what the situation is, so I was referring to something legitimate. With UND being a public university, that line would be much easer to cross than if it was my own private business, however.

Loss Leader was the word that came to my head and then I read your post. Spot on. It's a quality of life thing... and to be honest, a factor as small as this could be a difference maker for me if I was considering two similar schools to attend. It always baffled me why Gamble Hall never had a coffee shop or even a coffee vending machine with the amount of foot traffic that place got.

The whole site could have been laid out bettter. If the whole property was built today, rather than 20 years ago, ya gotta think that they would build some type of mixed-use "main street" with the arena in the middle. Almost like Nashville and the Predators arena. Kinda annoying that with how big the property is, they didn't at least save more space for apartments or this type of mixed use area on the south side of the property closest to campus - along 6th ave n I think. The apartments near the med school could have gone there, maybe shorter buildings but more spread out along that street with some college bars on the ground level - incorporate the book store into those buildings, etc.

Holy cow. Glad I watched the reply all the way through! With how nearly all UND teams have performed this year, wasn't expecting that come back!!!! Heck yeahhhh!!!!!!!!!

I was curious so I looked up Tommy's bio... says he ran for 1,033 yards and 14 touchdowns in 3 seasons as a starter. He has done it in the past, so what has changed? Do the coaches really want him to run as much as they say otherwise in public?

How many yards do you think he can throw it and how many yards do you think he should be able to throw it (an acceptable number for you)?

We have 7 red zone turnovers... crazy.

Makes sense if they have just cause that allows them to not have to pay anything in buying out his contract.

Was he on Scholly?

I would agree with that (you sure you want to complement the coaching staff?). But the original point was that receivers cant get open downfield for Tommy (due to athletic ability). Which is partly why I think we see so many bubble screens, etc. I do think that for a TE, that TE does have legit athleticism, but I don't think he did anything special to create separation here, because it looks like the DB's were anticipating the dump off pass to our running back.

For OL, you are counting the Portland State transfer as a starter, correct? On the bright side, Lotysz should finally be healthy, and I think they were originally planning to play him as the starter before he got banged up before the season started. I think the Portland State transfer could potentially come back as well, correct? There's a possibility that Waletzko decides to come back even, depending on how bad he injured his hand/wrist, and if it would affect his NFL prep/scrimmage/combine? Losing Holm and Canady will be huge, but I think we have some legit depth at CB, and Coley showed some legit potential at safety. Vaugn-Jones has made some eye opening plays as well. Part of the reason I want to keep Bubba is that it seems that our young talent is as good as ever, and partly due to covid, they haven't been needed to play much. If we can keep the team together, might we finally be able to reload at all of our positions? It would be nice if Hinders could come back... it will be interesting to see who stays/leaves out of the senior class. It says a lot about the coaching staff that so many seniors decided to come back for this fall season IMO.

We agree on something! As for next year, despite losing our LT (most likely) I think both of the lines will be stronger and more experienced overall. That will make a huge difference. We have some young studs at inside linebacker and #44 already said that he will be coming back. Maag would be a big loss on offense but he has had a bad hamstring all year and hasn't done much. I think we will be better. And who knows, maybe Trey can be good enough to beat out Tommy! If he can do that, we would have one of the best QB's in the country I'd think. I'd be fine with Boltman taking Quincy's spot at QB though, but with less usage, IF Danny will insist on playing two QB's. Quincy is just not fast enough to use consistently as a runner, and Danny hasn't had him throw enough to make defenses back off from completely stacking the box when he is in, which is way too often. With how few times Quincy has thrown the ball, I'm not sure why they ever take Tommy out of the game to have Quincy hand the ball off to a running back - why tip off the defense if you are going to hand the ball off? If Danny is going to insist on playing a second QB, Boltman has at least shown that he can consistently gain huge chunk plays on the ground when he was in for designed QB runs - run the option with him and one of the speedy back up running backs maybe - with our big receivers, I think this could be an awesome change of pace package.

I kind of think this is more of an inditement on the offensive line, but also partly because it's Danny's style - to throw as many looks out there as possible. Our offense has good yards per carry numbers, but our third down % and red zone offense is terrible, and I think that's because our offense routinely gets stuffed when we try to run the ball between the tackles when the defense is expecting it. I think that's why Danny ran the play where Quincy flipped the ball over to Otis on that 3rd down vs ISU, where Otis nearly made an amazing play after breaking the tackle way behind the line of scrimmage. Danny needs a big QB for short yardage situations because the offense can't make any holes. How many times has our offense been stuffed when we try to run up the middle in the red zone or on 3rd or 4th and short? We have a terrible 3rd down conversion percentage because we can't run the ball in short yardage situations. The offense is routinely in short yardage situations on third down, but we can't convert, and it's often when Quincy is in. We would probably be better off just leaving Tommy in and throwing the ball, as he's completing 2/3rds of his passes. With a good O-line, UND converts that 4th down vs NDSU.

This is the type of reception some of you don't give Tommy enough credit for.

I can agree that Tommy can improve the running aspect of his game. I think he is really good and has a higher ceiling than where he currently is, and I think he can learn from this season and run more. Are you in agreement there, or do you think one of the backups is a better option at this point? I just don't think Tommy is getting enough credit for his accuracy, and even though so many of the passes are short yardage throws, I don't think a guy like Quincy can both complete those throws at that high of a completion percentage while taking as few sacks as Tommy. Quincy hasn't shown that he has much ability at all to make the short throws consistently, imo. Is this the TD you're referring to?

Yes, sit our starting QB because he isn't projected to be an NFL draft pick during his Sophmore year.

He threw a perfect ball. NOT HIS FAULT GUYS CANT GET OPEN... Our receivers are never "open" except for blown coverage or short bubble screens. Changing the QB won't fix that.

OK bud.