Sioux94

And we have a Bingo!

Why they didn't give him a shot in the second half of the Montana game his junior year is beyond me, unless he wasn't healthy enough to play.

Wow that was definitely a killer at LB that recruiting class. This class was the class in limbo, we had no head coach for a month....Bubba and staff hired end of December and beginning of January. I pointed this out on a different thread that Bubba's first true recruiting class would have been Sophomores this year if redshirted. This junior class in 2017 would obviously in a normal situation play a big role as by juniors guys have the experience and are expected to step up. While there were some good players in this class, due to late coach hire and trying to fill in a class in my opinion is part of the issue. If this class is a little weaker than normal....and we experience a bunch of injuries.....that leads to a result which we saw playout this year. Somebody else posted the two deep numbers by year, more than half of the two deep were freshman and sophomore. Can't say that I know this for sure, but I'd be surprised if there are too many years where there are more freshman and sophomores in your two deep than juniors and seniors for UND or at the FCS level for Top 10 teams. It's things like this that some people don't take into account in the trickle effect of everything that happened this year that snowballed into perfect disaster. That said, it's still 1 strike against this staff as this year was horrible. Time to rebound strong next year!

No doubt....pretty good wheels.....a little reminiscent of Grady's INT return.

I agree, (albiet from my untrained eye) after watching that story on him.....I think we may have gotten a steal there.

I totally get the frustration and yes there were some games where it was really bad. This last game however, the game came down to the last two minutes against a top 20 team and if we didn't fumble at the 1 yard line maybe we win. If our offense was better and able to convert this was a winnable game, to me the EWU loss is on the offense.......which we were suppose to have such a high powered offense this year, which not being able to score against EWU is not good. Need a lot better OL play and a better coordinator. I think the jury is still out on some of the younger guys yet. You may very well be right that they just aren't any good, but I'm not willing to go that far quite yet.

NDSU with a big run play and a big pass play, up 28-14 on USD.

They score a TD on 4th time on the last play of the first half. We fumble the ball on the half yard line. This game was winnable, we had our moments but just like all year it goes the wrong way and we don't get it done. Frustrating.

Well....at least it's finally over. This is going to be a freaking LONG off season.

Well that was a pathetic last drive!!

Send Rudolph to the Pit of Misery!

I have to respectfully disagree on the it not working all year. It's been a decent play this year, and I remember one game we ran it all day long and they couldn't stop it. Teams obviously know we love that play, so when they are selling out for it.......don't keep running it well into the 3rd quarter.

That fumble sums up our season.

Rudy is still running that pitch play that hasn't worked all day and he hasn't adjusted. 7 points through 3 quarters....at least he is putting in his resume for getting dismissed after this year.

I haven't been as hard as others on Rudy.....but geezes 7 points at the half against EWU....that is complete crap.

Well 7 fricking points at halftime against a team not known for their defense.

Yep, and give the jet sweep to Carr since they are seniors. Although on that last run by Keaton it's his choice to hand it off or keep it.

That definitely was a great blitz call by Schmidt

Hey we just ran a screen!!!

What the heck was the purpose of pulling Izzy's redshirt, what a waste.

Yeah he is, I can see why they are comparing him to VA

Still don't understand why we don't have a screen play in our playbook.

Good opening drive, but the way this season has gone we'll get no points.....and then EWU will score on their next possession. That seems like it's the way it's gone this year. Let's get 7 here!

Studs was thrown into a tough situation 3 years ago, his first game was against EWU and his last will be against EWU. While Keaton has some flaws, thank god we've had him for the last three years. Would love to send him and the other seniors out on a high note........Go Hawks!!

Where does the 2 deep get listed? When I go to the UNDsports.com site and go to the football area I don't believe I'm seeing it.