Sioux94

Don't we already have 5 billion TE's on the roster and have recruited 2 more in this class? I doubt he gets moved from QB this year, like another poster said that is one of our thinnest (and most important) positions and unless Bolinski really steps it up to beat out Brad as the number 3, and even then I don't think it happens. The last thing we would want to do is burn Boltman's redshirt to play one half of football if we ran into injuries. Zimmerman seems like the perfect pickup, 3 years left so he can bridge the gap to Boltman and also enough experience to play right away if needed. Our offense dictates the QB to run a little and you hate to have the QB run completely off the table because you are so afraid of getting him hurt. Not saying Keaton should run 15 times a game, but 6-7 times a game.....yes.

Bubba's not going anywhere, at least not anytime soon. They will get it taken care of. Plus I don't ever see Bubba going to be a head coach at another FCS school. Some assistants will leave at some point for promotion opportunities at other schools......that will happen at some point guaranteed, that's just how it works. Paying well will help hold off that thought process a little longer for some of them though.

No we won't ever be able to pay him what he's worth, however give the coaches at least a little love (money) Can't remember the numbers for sure so just use some easy round numbers, attendance is up at least 1,000 per game from 2-3 years ago. Even at just $15/ticket that is 15k a game x 5 game is 75k a year in more brought in from ticket sales, and those numbers are pretty conservative. I don't think it's about money for Bubba though, he's got his dream job and I think he will stay at UND until he is ready to retire. Even if that is the case hopefully some monetary increase for him at some point will happen as he deserves it. Probably more important is keeping a guy like Schmidt around.

No doubt...congrats to them and even better they will be back next year. I'd like to see us start to get some OL on those lists. Two OL on the first team for NDSU.....that's a big reason why they have reservations for Frisco every year.

I've only been on this board for 3 years, and there is always excitement. But seems to me each of the last two years the recruiting classes do seem to be getting better. And there was an article published somewhere about how we were having a top 20 (can't remember if the number was 20 or not) recruiting class at the FCS level. And that was before we've gotten some of these new guys that really seem to have a lot of talent, plus JJ transferring. It seems like we are getting some really good skill guys, however I will agree with one of the other posters.....need some high end OL guys to really make things go.

Bubba needs a raise, and the assistant coaches as well.

Given they scored a whopping 10 points the week before at home.......and have never made it to the semi-finals in the past 40 years.....the results on Saturday weren't that surprising. Definitely one of the best trick plays I've ever seen though!

There are definitely many reasons a kid decides where to go. For the most part from what I've seen on our board when we lose a recruiting battle and a kid goes somewhere else, we are dissappointed........wish them well and hope we meet them on the field down the road. For the most part it's usually not personally ripping on the kid. From what I've heard about what people were saying on BV, that's not the case. When somebody on BV that knew is family basically had to tell somebody to F off because of what they were saying about JJ, that's not cool.

I agree. I thought when reading this earlier this morning....what about Brady at FB on occasion since he is such a bruiser. I doubt Brady would want to move to FB and I doubt they would, but would be cool to see two of our stud RB's in the backfield at the same time.

Perhaps this should be something that should be invented (but slightly different). Go 100% but only go 3/4 of the way (unless you see the punter dropped the ball or something). Call it Double Punt Safe or something so as to have no real possibility of somebody accidently running into the punter. If I was coaching I think I would have a Double Punt Safe call in the playbook for certain situations

Question, when Punt Safe is called I know that obviously means that you don't line everybody up on the line and all go after the ball, some guys hang back to watch for the fake. On Punt Safe are the main interior 3-4 guys still suppose to go pretty hard at the ball/punter because the others are watching for the fake, or are they suppose to go 3/4 speed and pull up short and not really even try. And it's an honest question, because I don't really know for sure on that what is typical.

Was that song made in 1974, with the video version then created in 1995?

I would think it would be a fair question for a reporter to ask if Bubba plans on making a change in special teams next year, or making it more of a priority since special teams had a direct impact on two thirds of our losses. Actually I kind of think it's bad reporting if somebody doesn't ask him that.

Haha that would have been awesome if they made them play that! Damn I think I'll have "Jack Attack" in my head all day now!

I actually think our combination that we wore on Saturday looked good, I had no problems with it. I believe somebody on the Richmond site commented they liked them also.

I do agree with you, a lot to be proud of this year for sure and VERY high expectations for next year. Just saying.......you know there will be others who will still come on here and talk smack, say we were over rated this year because of weak schedule....blah blah blah.

I don't think I'll be able to forget about this until next August. Actually I'll still be thinking about it during the season next year....and will be thinking about it until we get some wins in the playoffs next year. We have to sit around another 12 months while other fan bases say we've never won a game that really matters. It's going to be an extremely long 12 months.

That does sound pretty good! Clive out wide....Santiago in the slot....Oliveira in the backfield.....one of the Tall WR's on the other side. Cloyd at TE if they start using him and gets rolling. Who do you focus on defending? Could make for an extremely versatile offense......they couldn't just stack the box and play the run all day long, well they could but that should leave things wide open for big plays through the air. Santiago had such a big year at RB his first year I think that has kept them from putting him out wide more. He seems like a team player, and I think you are right.......if he started lighting it up out of the slot he's likely got a better chance at that type of position at the next level than RB.

With a slow start and losing the first two games this year, and dropping out of the polls for a while.......I think we were maybe focusing on trying to get style points more than we should have. With most of the OL returning, hoping that start is much better out of the gate next year.

That would require us to actually sit key players like Reyes and Studs in the 4th quarter when we are up 30 points. Unlike this year when we didn't against Sac St. and Reyes got injured and then missed a couple of games and Studs took a hard late hit in the 4th. I do totally agree though, hope we have 4 or more games next year where we are up big in the 4th and can rest some guys, especially since it sounds like we don't have a bye until the last week again.

I agree that they can learn from this loss and experience. However I also think they could have learned a lot by playing on the road in the playoffs against the #2 team this weekend.

I'd agree with that. Hopefully he can improve on that for next year. Thought he might have improved on it this year from the prior year....but sure didn't seem like it....was typically locked in on one guy.

I also remember a few people saying......."it won't happen again this year" after the Stony Brook game. If we had our 1995 (randomly picked a DII team) punt coverage players and coaches/coaching strategy playing on Saturday we are likely playing EWU this weekend. The way it sounds Richmond rarely goes after kicks but they saw a hole in our protection and they went for it.

I guess I read it differently than you, I didn't take that out of it at all. In my mind he basically pointed out there are 5 key seniors we lose and said OL has ton of competition to replace that spot, the DL will be fine, and some linebackers will have to step up to fill some voids there. Hardly doom and gloom....or at least that is not how I take it.

I agree with you there, you've got to have good players on your special teams and can't just put the 2nd stringers in. In watching the 2001 Cal Poly game again Friday night Eric Schmidt was on kickoff coverage and had a nice tackle on a kick return.