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I’m hoping somebody can post some updates on here today

A Fire Bubba thread will have been started by the time the clock hits 00:00 if that score happens!

I'm glad SU has a cake walk week 1, let their new QB and other first time starters hopefully get a little over confident.

They have one of the biggest and best OL, and our DL is smaller than we'd usually like it to be....and inexperienced. They might be able to run it down our throats. Lets hope our DL steps up.

41-17 UND

I hope we are up comfortably in the second half against Drake and I'd like to see Griebel returning punts in the 2nd half to see how he does.

No doubt, with all of the options we have I thought we'd have somebody a little more explosive back there.

I saved this for my Friday night entertainment tonight So excited for this season I can hardly stand it. To I think it was Bison06 who was questioning why we are excited about having a first time OC and why we think it will be better and we are excited about it. Listen at the 58 minute mark where Kelly Howe talks about how the defense sent a safety on a blitz on our audible because they knew exactly what we were going to do, and they snuffed us for a two yard loss. Even our audibles were so predictable. That pretty much sums up the last few games of the year, well and a lot of Rudy's tenure as OC.

Shouldn't an updated 2 deep likely be released pretty soon?

I was there too, it was horrible. With the odd scheduling I had been waiting about four years to drive up for that game. Happen to run into my next door neighbors from Dickinson growing up though at the tailgating that I hadn’t seen in over 30 years though so at least that was good

That NAU game definitely felt like the threshold of football hell. We hit rock bottom that day.

I think Schmidt would probably feel slighted if Danny got promoted to OC, and then Head Coach one year later....while Schmidt has been DC for six years. I think either Schmidt or Danny could make good head coaches someday. Let's hope we make a nice playoff run this year though and coaching is the least of our worries in the off season.

I agree, too much talk about explaining how tough seals are.....we all know that, and he isn't one yet and may never be one. I think the original comment was meant in a way that if somebody who is his age is seriously considering wanting to be a Navy Seal, he probably isn't the type of person who is weak mentally etc.. Does that mean he is or isn't....no. As for football, I don't think he was so broke last year he can't rebound. Hell we all felt miserable watching our offense the end of last year. You can't tell me many of the offensive players felt like they were trying to run up hill last year and just completely frustrated. This year in addition to better X's and O's and a lot of returning Jimmy and Joe's, I just think the overall mentality of the offense is going to be so much better this year and all players think they are going into battle with a fully loaded weapon. Last year it was like the offense was going into a gun fight with a knife and a sling shot.

I'm definitely glad Kett was voted a captain, if your returning starting QB who is a senior wasn't voted a captain that would probably say something.

Sorry got kind of lost on what thread I was on, this is Drake thread and I kind of went off about the NDSU game

I totally agree with that. If we don't win by 30 because we played it close to the vest to keep some stuff for the following week, I'm ok with that.....and would prefer that. Beat them with the basics and get the W. Figure out some things that need improving from week 1 to week 2. There is no reason the NDSU game can't be a competitive down to the wire type game, we are capable of winning. I don't think the USD team that beat them in Fargo a few years ago is any better than we should be this year. More times than not NDSU wins this years game if we played 10 times, but doesn't mean we can't beat them and the team shouldn't expect to beat them. I don't want a moral victory in Fargo this year....I want a win! If we don't win, not the end of the season.....but I still want to win that game not just compete.

Ditto. Who is going to organize a pool where we can bet which game we get a punt blocked?

Makes me nervous too....if Bennett goes down and we have an injury at NG......we may be in trouble. Here is praying we don't have any injuries at either of those positions!

In my mind I'd like to score at least 40 points and win pretty handily. However I guess what really matters is that we pass the eye test and just look better than them and still win, it doesn't necessarily have to be by 25 plus points. Last time we played in Fargo it was 35-9, which is not close but yet it's not 52-6 either, but yet the game felt more like 52-6. You never know if fluky weird things are going to happen where a tipped pass gets returned for a TD or whatever which could make the score look better or worse in one direction. But I sure as heck hope we are not sitting mid third quarter wondering what the heck is going on like last time we played them.

Seems like I had heard or read somewhere that Drake is returning quite a few starters, but I can't remember if I'm dreaming that or not. Either way we better put up 40 points or I will likely be disappointed.

The below was from the North Dakota Facebook page. I think our completion % will almost automatically increase this year with the type of offense are running. Percentage completion on 3rd and 7 usually isn't very high. UND Moments: 2008 was a strong year for Danny Freund, as he completed a school record 71.9 percent of his passes, throwing for 2,379 yards and 23 TDs on 217 completions.‬

Definitely not good news. However lets remember that Greely and Dranka both played a lot of minutes as true freshman and were pretty successful, and I don't think they thought of as being impact players right away that would normally play as true freshman but they had to out of necessity. The young guys are going to have to step up!

I think it helped they were already running the new offense in spring ball, I think they will feel pretty comfortable going into the first game. There will still likely be some kinks with new offense and first timeoffensive coordinator that they will be adjusting throughout the year. From reports it sounds like the offense is having success against the defense already early in camp, to me that is a good sign! Our more diverse offense actually will probably help the defense as well, they are now practicing against a legit offensive scheme, the type they will see during the season. It won't be a shock to the system now when they practice all week against a boring offense and then have to play Eastern Washingtons offense. Although I guess scout team is supposed to run opponents offense or similar to help prepare each week? Either way I think our new offense also helps our defense practice. An offense that can hopefully be more productive, and ability to kick FG's longer than 30 yards this year......thank god!!

Our defense should be good, so I like the fact that our offense is able to produce against them......and sounds like they had a slight edge.

Hopefully Canady has a big year this year. Lots of football articles this fall camp...it's been great! https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/football/4603308-UND-searching-for-the-next-Cole-Reyes-at-safety