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27 minutes ago, Big Green said:
There have been 5 times this year that Jerry has had double digit rushing attempts. They have lost all 5 times. Seems like he is keeping the ball more, need to let the running backs handle the running. Should help with Gavin back and Chuck not needing to worry about the 4 game limit to keep his red shirt.
Feel like if he takes the RPO and doesn't hand it off, he is going to qb counter it, rarely seems that he goes with a rollout to set up a pass out of that. At some point now you think that most teams would bite on him trying to run for the stick out of the fake handoff, and open up a pass opportunity outside the hashes.
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13 minutes ago, Brim006 said:
To be Frank, Jerry has been playing like dog sheet for like 5 weeks straight now. He went from 22TDs and 2INTs in his first 8, to 4TDs and 8INTs in the past 5. That is a brutal swing for the worse, and I didn't foresee it magically swinging back again anytime soon anyways, so this change is actually welcomed IMO. I see the silver lining --- having a fresh guy, motivated by a 2nd chance in his final season, who has tons of experience running the offense as a decent upgrade right at this moment despite clearly being a downgrade in general as an overall QB. Maybe Jerry has already been playing hurt? Hurt something in the USD game? Seems like the only reasonable explanation, but unfortunately we have often seen studs at UND regress as the season goes on and as their careers go on...both miserable trends to notice. But maybe it was an injury he's been playing through in this case.
More importantly about this QB change, during the 360 interview, the OC did mention both QBs have their own mix of favorite plays, which is going to push the OC to mix things up a bit now with Romfo at the helm. And we all know a play calling shake up is long overdue so I think that is the biggest plus here if Romfo plays. Additionally, it seemed very clear that other teams have figured out UND's offense, and it was finally showing up on the scoreboard. New QB (even as a downgrade), new plays, hopefully new life and new burst of offense when it matters most.
Additionally it appears Tar State's D kind of sucks, so I have hope the O can punch several through, and the D can do their thing.
Timing of the turn-around stat wise also aligned with Javance going down with injury it seemed. Could be feeling less competition at practice, or just trying to force too much and being put in situations that the earlier games he was not, such as short yardage when Javance was coming in for some of those in a Quincy type setup (less successful than Quincy but similar setup).
You could kinda see it progress in loss of confidence when we may end up in 3rd or 4th and short and not have the under center short yardage setup, and Jerry would either opt to try to force a home run ball, or the QB counter play from shotgun. Operating on 1st or 2nd down more often gives a little more freedom feeling of not having to force it and let the play develop, as if it got to 3rd down they had been confident the first half the year they could convert it and have the new set of downs.
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On 10/31/2025 at 5:09 PM, nodak651 said:
Big enough for the MVFC? Pioneer an option?
MN State Makes sense for a ton of reasons even before the DU move. I really don't like the idea of another D1 school in MN recruiting FB players though, so hopefully Pioneer. I don't think Mankato moves though.
I was under the impression that Minnesota BOR or legislature or somebody atleast had a restriction on public universities in MN having D1 football. Same with Nebraska and why Omaha cut their FB program as they wanted the Huskers to be the star and not have in-state competition which could've affected attendance as well. That or purely financial as they do not want to fund additional D1 Football at the state level, even when they potentially could've been in a conference that isn't much different in geographical size than their current D2 conference.
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YSU had a epic collapse to lose 43-42...
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1 minute ago, Sioux90 said:
He’s 180 lbs and zebairth is 200 plus. That makes a difference.
Would've been nice the 2nd half the year to have both as a 1-2 combo. D gets worried about brute strength run game, and then beat them with speed where they opened up.
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2 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
This is the #13 team in FCS. Shows how broken it is.
TT and ESPN thought there ranked way too low at selection show time, they thought they should be a top 8 seed
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On 11/6/2025 at 7:09 PM, Tbone said:
Looks like their women’s team.
Wonder if the men also have stairs to their locker room.
It would appear so. The article said it damaged the GCU Locker RoomS upstairs. Also this FB post from when they were built look like both Men and Womens are upstairs through that door and separated by a hallway inside that door: https://www.facebook.com/share/178ovZYPHZ/
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8 hours ago, Dustin said:
I've long thought this would be a great idea. Several hockey schools in the northeast are FCS: Maine, New Hampshire, Ivies, to name a few. But, is it too late to schedule non-conference football once hockey season starts?
NDSU played Non-Conference St. Thomas the last week of the year.
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5 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:
Since the playoffs don't count towards the red shirt rule is their anyone that could get some snaps this week?
They get 4 games anyway in regular season don't they? So most likely would only be guys we have seen in a few games already this year.
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12 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
he was available agsint sdac?
Pretty sure he only dressed because it was senior day, not sure if he even went through warmups. I know some guys will go through warmups as a extra practice than change if not playing.
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Also a factor could be that UND was T-3rd in MVFC play, with a H2H when against Youngstown and did not play ISU. SDSU was 6th in Valley standings.
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Just now, cowboys5xsbs said:
We were solidly in HAHA
Being ranked all year also probably help that. Not often would you see a #13/16 lose to another top 25 and drop all the way out? But polls and committee don't always line up
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Just now, Wildfan said:
I was watching the FCS Fan Nation panel stream the coverage. They agree with this and they seem to only be surprised by Monmouth out and UNH in. But they say they don't disagree with that and think committee got it right.
They also backhand congratulated Sac State for being so successful against the JV league this year haha
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I was watching the FCS Fan Nation panel stream the coverage. They agree with this and they seem to only be surprised by Monmouth out and UNH in. But they say they don't disagree with that and think committee got it right.
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2 minutes ago, SuhakiYeahYeah said:
Lamar isn't out either, so who is?
Monmouth
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38 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:
Last 4 In
21. Monmouth
22. Illinois State
23. Lamar
24. North DakotaBubble Teams Left Out
Ordered from the best chance to make the bracket out of this group to the worst chance.25. New Hampshire
26. Austin Peay
27. Lafayette
28. Northern Arizona
29. Southern Utah
30. Southern IllinoisSam Herd ranked UND consistently higher all season than the polls. He also was stunned by UND getting left out a few times in the past.
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32 minutes ago, UNDDOM said:
And Bill Chaves in on the playoff committee now
That actually hurts us. Believe he has to excuse himself from that conversation when it comes to discussion between them being in or out if it came down to 2 teams. No MVFC opinion on the matter.
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2 minutes ago, Dustin said:
So based on this, we are (safely) in, with 3 teams in after us.
Not sure if I believe Lamar and Harvard behind us.
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3 minutes ago, GDPritch said:
Utilized fullbacks and tight ends are a rare breed at UND.
The TEs were shining at the start of the season when they were actually utilized and targeted. Know there were some injuries during the year but didn't matter as we weren't calling them.
We did have a good FB for a couple years in the Bubba era, think he may have been around the Santiago/Olivera era and would lead block for John, but also was removed to allow both John and Brady to be on the field at the same time, but Brady was a FB build and John hit hard for how small he was.
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1 minute ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
the stitcher and ike
Until the last year or couple years the Defense wasn't typically the problem, the offense was, and they kept the Bubba 2nd choice option hire, But Bubba held onto his OC for too long.
The Defense overall felt improved this year, and kept the team in games to give the offense more opportunities, which shows when we weren't blown out by anyone or even outscored by more than 6 all year. Still loses but the Defense was not our worry for most of the year. They came in with low expectations including a scheme change and outperformed what anyone expected.
Now the same things that has won us games under Schmidt defence in his DC stint also lost some games at that point but was also evident today was the house blitz when we failed to get to the QB all day. That last regulation and the OT series felt like the first backfield pressure all game, but 5 guys coming up the gut with no contain guy gave him all day and left 1 on 1 matchups that SDSU exposed on earlier big plays with such pressure. Keep 2 more guys in coverage there and may still have 3 guys persuing the QB instead of 5 and then could've had a spy. That TD pass was not a good ball, just our coverage guy looked back at the play allowing the WR to sink into the gap uncovered. Most teams would've had a safety coming over to help as the only options were the 2 WRs at the goal line and Henry eyed them down and floated that ball.
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Just now, homer said:
I don’t see us getting that final spot. Personally don’t think they know he’s Ivy League should be a two bid league but also am not sure 6 from one conference should get in either.
Frustrating day today
Harvard is going to be in for sure, Yale would've been the bigger question if they would've lost.
UND still gives me the feeling they will be 1st team out, expecially with no MVFC rep to advocate when UND is up since Chaves has to abstain. SDSU would've been 100% in if UND would've won today with this bubble. But UND with a better resume then what SDSU would've had if they lost probably won't make it. And it's understandable knowing that they were questionable coming in and still did the same thing they did against KState, Montana, and NDSU. Only good 3rs quarter the team played all year was at Murray state....
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20 minutes ago, shep said:
Yet somewhere an OC is being blamed
Did the OC make this same call repeatedly even though the QB has indicated he is incapable of making it?
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There is a part of my mind that keeps wondering why only JTJ was only option for any short yardage plays on 3rd or 4th down, and when he went down we just went to normal package that didn't seem to work. Also once he went down Jerry play dropped off considerably like he got comfortable that he wasn't going to lose his job.
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Just now, Wilbur said:
So we are all in agreement that nobody gets super edgy if they don't put us in tomorrow?
Even Kelly has come to terms with it.
Obituary on the season to come tomorrow post selection show I'm guessing.
Thanks to the seniors who put their health on the line for the flagship. Best of luck in your future's young men.
It would be no surprise to anyone. Also while we can say we performed better than many teams ahead of us, didn't win the games on the schedule. Any other normal SDSU team we would feel different too as then committee could say OT lost to a great team. But the talk league wide was SDSU is on 4 game losing streak. So won't get any of the close lost to a top team help.
Also Chaves is MVFC rep and I believe he has to excuse himself when UND is discussed. So while still better than having the NDSU rep that would advocate against UND just bc, we won't have any supportive voice in the conversation.
All 4 FCS teams we lost to will make the field and 1 or 2 teams we beat also will.
Playoffs Second Round 12/6/25: UND @ Tarleton State
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hopefully we keep capturing some exciting players that chose UND over the other regional offers like we have a few of in the last couple years. Also need to retain what we can from productive players.
Good sign that this team showed us in the first half that they can play with and have a chance to beat anyone. Which has risen our expectations from a rebuilding year to wanting more, and with the regular season losses to the other Dakota's now want to see this team get back to first half play, and continue and see how far they can go. I would love for a 2nd upset, and get to the 3rd round (quarterfinals?)