Sioux94

Played WR and DE in high school...seems like a little bit of an odd combination, also long snapped. Guess he could also maybe make for backup emergency long snapper too.

I like the sound of those two numbers....4.5....and 3.9.

We will see, wouldn't mind making one other game other than road trip to NAU. Wish rental cars at Denver airport weren't so expensive, the UNC tailgate would be fun!

Wow didn't realize he could have returned. That would have been nice to have both Reyes and Harris back this year. And would have been better for Reyes too. Not sure he would have been able to go a full year without getting injured but who knows.

You completely missed my point. I agree the defense was the problem that game and all year. My point is that our offensive averages look better than they probably really were because we always seem to be in shootout type of games because our defense was horrible.

And what were the scouts saying?

I had good luck with using watchbigsky.com last year.

I'm going to the NAU game for sure. Been waiting for 4 years for this game, with the odd scheduling this is the first game with Bubba as the coach with us playing at NAU. That is the bad part for me about us leaving to Big Sky, would have had an easy road trip almost every other year to go to. Still think moving to the MVFC will be better for the program overall though.

I'm not blaming the offense at all on that one, our defense got shredded. But it makes the point that we were in massive shootout type of games throughout the year because our defense was so poor. When we are in shootout type of games and we average 23 points a game....yeah to me that is not impressive. I actually remember our offense scoring some points and somewhat keeping us in it for a little while. But as soon as we'd score, they'd make a big offensive play and score on us. That was so ugly defensively for us, perhaps one of the worst in UND's history given that they weren't even a playoff team.

Facts don't count things like going 3 and out 3-4 series in a row to start a few games, then when we are down by 20 points we get a 100 junk yards in the second half because teams are playing prevent with their cushy lead. Hell didn't UC Davis have almost like 40 points on us by halftime? Nor does it account for having our 3rd string QB being way better than the 2nd string and the 2nd string being so inept in the first half against MT that he has now changed positions. I remember seeing our yards per carry once last year, and it was a good average. Well I'd like to see our average YPC in the 1st half compared to the 2nd half of games. I haven't been as hard as some others on Rudy over the past couple of years, but we need to see something more this year. Scoring 21 points a game will likely lose you a lot of games in the Big Sky, sorry. Rudy has had his moments, we just need to see more. And more of finding ways to get the best out of the players we have, not base plays on the players we wish we had (OL).

If we have another pathetic offensive season, Rudy at a minimum absolutely has to go. Most of our games are against Big Sky Teams.....who aren't known for their defenses.

I'm hoping we only see these guys in their 4 games they are now allotted. Hopefully we don't have to burn their shirts, but we'll see. Nice thing about that rule is if there is an injury for a week or two, one of these guys could play out of necessity but not burn their redshirt.

I remember last year about this time the Big Sky conference kickoff thing was going on and I was so pumped for the 2017 season. I think it was only a couple days after the Big Sky conference kickoff thing we got the news about Harris and I remember that being a little deflating. Then it was just a snowball from hell after that for the rest of the season. Keeping my fingers crossed for no bad news the rest of the off season!

The best thing I like about reading this is people are listing different guys, which means there are more than just one or two guys that people think really have some potential. Some of the guys listed were transfers and not freshman, but still. In a complete turd of a year, 2017, we still got some pretty good recruits and transfers. Still have a LOT to prove this year, but we also have a fair amount to be excited about with some of the new guys and injured guys that are hopefully returning to a full strength.

I totally agree, but it kind of sucks if we win 42-7 that it's looked at almost as a disappointment.

That is a pretty crazy spread. I wonder if a team coming off a 3 win season has ever been favored by 40 points in the opener the next year playing a team at the same level.

Well at least we have one on this list now. Keep em coming! https://herosports.com/fcs/football-2019-recruiting-top-50-player-list-ajaj

Exactly. The USD's and Northern Iowa's are also losing out to these two. Last year really sucked for us, need to have a winning season and get some strong momentum going again. Looking forward to getting into the MVFC to go up against NDSU, SDSU, USD, Northern Iowa etc. if that is who we are recruiting against, at least our name will be out there more for some of those kids and if they can see us beating some of those schools I think that will help. Obviously we have work to do to improve so we can beat them. Let's recall that we beat a Cal Poly team that beat SDSU at home not too long ago. Jacks had a great year last year though and having Goedert go so high in draft helps them, but they may drop off a little this year......we'll see...maybe not. Prior to last year SDSU had like 3 playoff wins in their existence, we can catch and surpass them. Other than last year their claim to fame was playing NDSU tough.

And thank, you for your daily faithfulness, to UND football threads in the off season.

First I think we need to start with stealing a couple kids from the top FCS schools in the midwest.....like NDSU, SDSU, Northern Iowa etc.. Sure would be great to steal a few from FBS schools but that isn't likely to happen quite yet.

Not sure if anybody had posted this yet. https://herosports.com/fcs/hero-sports-2018-fcs-preseason-top-25-poll-ajaj

So basically a redshirt can play in up to 4 games and keeps his redshirt right? Man that would have been handy last year, and probably even the last couple of years when we were short on depth. Larson I'm sure would have gotten in and maybe even started 4 games towards the end of last year, would have been a good learning experience for him. I agree that it would probably keep redshirt freshman more engaged as well, knowing they may see some game action.

I think Harris needs a pick 6 against Washington to get his name even further back on the radar Hope he is back to 100%, not sure for our sake but for his sake and a potential shot at the next level.

Exactly, if we are down 35-14 I'll be pissed as hell if we pull our starters. I mean if there is 6 minutes left in the game then maybe pull some. At least we have legitimate backup QB's this year so it's not like the season ends if our QB goes out like it's been the past two years. Washington appears to be a very good team and a win is very highly unlikely. But as coaches and players your mindset has to be to win, or at least go in the mindset of making it a 4 quarter game and then see what happens. Will it be a 4 quarter game......likely not. But if you give up before the game even starts you are screwed.

Last years class seemed to have some potential, Slater leaving really hurts though. Grady and Slater leaving.....or when any kid leaves I don't fully put that on the coaches. Hard to totally predict how a kid is going to react to college and being away from home etc., but in the end it's up to the coaches to get the right players and have them stay. We need some home runs on the OL recruiting.