Sioux94

I thought Keaton was playing inspired and trying to get the team going, he had a couple of nice runs that got the crowd excited and got us some momentum....we just couldn't seem to keep it. He did miss a few throws on Saturday, although a couple of them could have been on the WR not being in the right place....not sure. We haven't used Keaton in the run game much this year. At this point I'd say open it up and use him a little more, he's a senior....I'm sure he wants to make any play that he can. He has been able to break some big runs the last couple of years right up the middle. Also I don't think I've seen the fullback get the ball recently, I'm guessing that is because Norberg is out. We often did pretty well on that fullback plunge when they weren't expecting it.

Exactly this. I know we want out identity to be pound the rock, but the only thing we've done to start each game with this year in the first half is to prove that we can NOT run the ball!! Then we start airing it out a little and then all of the sudden we start to get some success on the ground....imagine that. We had 47 yards of offense in the first half before that long pass play to Mercer. Coaches need to figure out we don't have the OL to come out of the gate and just try and pound the rock against good teams.

Not getting that TD was huge, not saying we for sure win the game or something if we do but if we get a TD there........mentally I think we are feeling good and moving on from the USD game. But after that, and then getting the field goal blocked.......that was a huge blow in momentum, especially since they came down and scored right after. It just felt like a continuation from the USD game after we got that field goal blocked. That one sack that we had their QB for a 7-8 yard loss and he totally got out of it and then they later scored a TD on the drive was also big.

Yep, gotta get a win next week to at least get some kind of confidence back so that we can win at least a few games this year and make it respectable.

He already redshirted one year right......would he even be eligible? Sure hope that is not his last game played, more for his sake so he can at least finish the year strong.

Right, and if he was able to redshirt them like you would normally want to do......his first true recruiting class would be Sophomores and his second true recruiting class would be redshirt freshman.

Well....might as well start the 2018 Season thread......can put a fork in the 2017 season.

At least we are leading the conference in something......dropped passes.

Well on the bright side, between last week and this week.....two games, I've only had to be pissed of for 4 quarters, because was no need to even care in the second half because the game was out of hand. Hoping we can get back into this the second half but I'm not holding my breath.

I agree, Studs has been good at times and this is not all on him. However it seems so many times we play a team with an amazing QB that is making plays all over the place, why can't we ever get a difference makers as a QB instead of a game manager. If we just swapped QB's in this game alone.....we might be ahead or at least tied. Their QB has single handedly beat us with his great runs and has had some nice passes. Our D has made a little of that easy for him though, but he is quick and not easy to tackle.

I've defended Rudy at times in the past........but 47 yards of offense so far...and almost to halftime. Yeah think it may be time for him to go.

Silver lining.....thank goodness Harris was injured before the season started so that hopefully will have him next year. Would have been a waste to have him playing this year. Well might as well redshirt Larson now too.....we aren't going anywhere and doing anything this year.

Rudy will probably throw on 1st down now......now that we are down 21 and they are expecting it.

big time

Season over........

Have we EVER run a play action fake pass.......geezes.

God they need to key on the QB keeping the ball....can't all go after the RB......that long QB run on s and 14 was a killer......ugh.

No it's not....we've got like 7 starters out.

Could see on the TD run that the left side of the field was wide open.....we hardly had any defenders over there...that was easy pickings for them.

Man from being up 7-0 to now down 7-0......&$&#^$^$^%*%

Nope....not at all....was just hoping it wouldn't happen today.

Reyes hurt now.......f'ing perfect

We had the perfect drive going....should have had 7, what a let down.

Don't think I've ever seen a PI called on somebody who didn't even touch the other guy.....wow the refs blew that one!

I might need to take back the bet where I said I'd bet my left nut we'd score more than 10 points, so we are down three OL today, not good. Hope we can still get some push and open a few holes.