Sioux94

Exactly. Now if USD got chosen or something that is another thing, but as of right now USD would get chosen over us as we haven't done squat. I think that will be changing soon however. If we surprise Montana at their place that would be huge. We have the SU's at home this year, and we know anything is possibly in the Alerus! If USD ends up living up to their hype, that one will be tough at their place. We have the toughest schedule in the FCS, let's go make some noise!

Zbarth and Seidl will the like thunder and lightning this year. Im guessing Zbarth gets the start. However, part of me thinks might not be bad to have Seidl start and then Z come in on 2nd or 3rd series and pound. Kinda like how Santiago would start and then Brady would come in. Zbarth is the senior though and Im sure will start, and has earned it. Either way.....nice 1-2 punch those guys. The nice thing about Seidl, he could take it to the house on any play. Thoughts?

Oh ya. I don’t have X, have so much other social media never created a Twitter account. May have to just for that as I do know they post a few things on there during the year. Trying to avoid another app or thing I gotta check, but oh well.

Was just going to ask if the 360 guys were going to do a fall camp podcast, just checked and they just posted on today. Will listen tonight.

The first 30 seconds of this would be cool for the hallway walk....might have to be mashed into something else then when they run out onto the field as the apex. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wxm0POHBE&si=ZhHipTPrMPn_niRs&feature=xapp_share

I haven't gone back and looked at Jerry’s hudl or anything recently, but for some reason everyone thinks he isn't mobile and can't run. He has got to be one of the fastest guys on the team watching him run down the sidelines last year alongside Smith Now I know speed doesn't always equate to a good or great runner. But I'm not sold on the thought that Jerry can't run and scramble when he needs to. Him on a fake hand off and doing a QB keeper around the end....with his speed....sounds pretty good to me. We just haven't gotten to see him enough to know. Im a couple days behind on Tom's write ups...so maybe im missing something recently in there. I picked Jerry in the poll since JTJ struggled in spring camp and is still picking up the offense. Jerry was pretty highly thought of when we brought him in here, I just think he needs a chance. Im saying 0 percent chance Simon starts. Another guy needs a shot, Simon was about at his ceiling last year. Glad he is still here though if injuries pile up, he can still go in and manage a game and make some plays and has experience.

If they name a starter this weekend, still two weeks of practice before the first game. I dont think starter will be named until at least this weekend. Could go out another week though like last year...we'll see.

I think one of the biggest improvements we will have this year is our mental toughness/grit. Just didn't seem to be enough fight in our team at times last year, particularly on the road.

Utah State we were up 21-7 and moving the ball again and think we had just crossed midfield into their territory. Think it was 3rd and 1, we handed off to RB (think it was Weah) he was about to run through a big hole the OL opened up....right up the middle. However the WR coming motion from left to right was late....and RB ran right into our own WR in the backfield and we didn't convert and had to punt. It was all downhill after that play. Seems like we always had something like that happen in one for thise FBS games that just killed the momentum and we never fully recovered. Over throwing Bo at Nebraska. Fumble by Schuster right before half at Boise St. etc. Hoping going forward we are the team that starts making those big plays when needed, just like the school to our south does on a regular basis when they need to.

I'm hoping our starter plays really well and we are still in the game at end of 3rd quarter....so I kinda hope we don't. Going to be fun to hear how things go in fall camp and see who the starter is. Sounds like the summer player practices have helped and they all looked pretty good on day 1. That was definitely good to hear, even if it was only for a day. We are in a better position at QB this year than last year. I think most likely 2 QB's get into the game at some point though.

I agree with your statement that it is very unusual for a starter to drop to 4th string. However it sounds like things were pretty close last fall. I think it's a case of Romfo having a higher floor but a lower ceiling than the others. He had a higher floor so they went with him to start the year. Romfo was about at his ceiling last year, 2 other younger guys behind him have now progressed and then we got an FBS transfer. I don't think Bubba forced Romfo as the starter last year. However I think it's totally on Bubba that nobody else got to play meaningful minutes so we could see what the other guys could do. If Jerry ends up being named the starter, more minutes last year would have been good for him.

Returned home from my almost 4 week stint in ND...enjoying green grass, thunderstorms, good weather, and just enjoying summer. Now that Im back home, I start thinking about fall camp and start getting excited for football. By the way, I did eat lunch in Newtown but I didn’t actually see Grady as I posted in Former players thread. But it did make me wonder what he is up to these days. Fresh hope this fall....and am excited about it!

If Jerry doesn't beat out Simon, Jerry was never the real deal. I don’t agree with starting Simon in Kansas and then Jerry at home, just to give Jerry an easier first game. Either he is better or he's not. How would that look, hey Jerry we are going to start you in week 2, but we dont trust you in week 1. Whomever they feel is the number 1 needs to start week 1. Now if they perform poorly, then change it up. I dont think Schmidt is going to keep the ridiculous philosophy of never getting backup QB's in games that are already over. Hopefully JTJ progresses dramatically in fall camp. Would definitely be ok with Simon having some packages...similar to Boltmann. But they would be able to trust Simon to actually throw so it wasn't 100% guaranteed run all the time.

Jerry’s top end speed looked pretty impressive in that run down the sidelines alongside Smith last year.