Sioux95

In theory, it's still possible for 6 teams from the Valley to get to 7-4 or better, correct? If ISU-R ends up at 6-5, then I don't see a scenario where UND finishes any worse than the 4th team in from the valley if they win one of their next two. I would think that would get them into the playoffs, but no guarantee. That said, I think we've got a decent shot at ending up at 8 and 3 with a lock on a playoff spot! Beat USD next week and go from there.

When Tommy's done playing at und, it might be a long time before we find a quarterback with his combination of good decision-making, completion percentage, and elusiveness.

+1 for mentioning Anamoose.

Was that the play that took Davis out of the game?

We've had a lot of highlight reel TDs this year for sure.

Not giving up sacks has a lot to do with having Tommy back there. You can't find too many QBs who are as good at avoiding pressure as he is.

I usually think jack Michaels does a pretty good job calling the games but it wasn't easy to get a feel for what was going on in this game. Maybe it takes a game or two to transition from baseball to football? I'm hoping the rest of the season is called a little better.

Are you the poster formally known as Midwestern Hawk?

If shuster plays all five years, he'll shatter a lot of records. I think he's already number three in a few key stats.

We haven't had a receiver we should be throwing to deep over the middle for years.

If everyone would just add the two morons who continually bitch about Schuster to their ignored users list, we wouldn't have to waste our time defending a guy that has put us in a position to win almost every game he's been in. Instead we could be discussing important things like whether or not Bubba should wear his pants pulled up past his belly button.

It wasn't at all uncommon for Studs to go 10 of 17 for 170 yards. Some of that can be put on rudy, but not all of it. Schuster has stretches where he completes 8 or 9 out of 10 passes. You never saw that with studs.

You told them you knew GFHockey and they found a room for you?

After the last two years It's pretty easy to say that UND can play with any team in the country, so I'm not too frustrated about the decision. But still think it would have been a much better decision to wait and see how the fall goes. The only thing that would change my mind is if the new contract allows bubba do something to retain his assistant coaches. I'm much more frustrated with chaves extension.

Looked like some serious holding going on there.

More than a few guys weren't wearing sleeveless shirts, they likely won't be strong enough to play at the FCS level next fall. Some of the guys who play offensive positions weren't clean shaven and will need to get moved to the defensive side of the ball if we expect them to amount to anything. There was also an interesting choice in footwear by some of players... I'll provide a break down of what that means in a future post.

Good Lord.

From my limited contacts with insiders in college football programs, it appears there are a lot of programs that encourage players to do whatever it takes to make strength and weight gains, whether they do it legally or otherwise. NCAA testing is notoriously poor at identifying cheaters, to the point where you have to be stupid to get caught. Those are nice comments about Kramer, but do we really believe there isn't something else NDSU is doing "better" than most other schools? History almost always shows long runs of dominating performance to be tainted.

Romfro is the twin brother of the scout team QB that everyone thought did a great job!

NDSU was a combined 10-14 in it's first 3 years in the MVFC. we shared a conference championship in our first year in the valley. This year we proved the gap between UND and any other team in the valley is razor thin. If people want to be swayed otherwise by SU fans, including SU fans pretending to be UND fans, then so be it. For me, it's pretty easy to find a lot to be optimistic about with this football team.

I hope posts like this don't scare GFHockey away.

I think it's more accurate to say Choate elevated the program and left Vigen in a very good spot. We won't know how good Vigen is for a couple years.

I think we have a winner for "Most Useless Thread of the Year". Depending on how quickly the tread dies, I see a lot of potential for a multiple year winner.

Are you confusing Seguin with Siegel, or are they both gone?

If Feeney beats out Tommy, that means we'll have a rock solid 1-2 in that position. If he doesn't, I'm more than happy to see Tommy playing the next 2-3 years. Curious about what people think Feeney will do better than Tommy? Take less sacks? Higher completion percentage? Make longer throws to our receivers who can't separate? Make better reads? Be more mobile? I'm not sure I see Feeney being better in any of these areas, but I don't know he won't be better either.