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He looks like he'd be a good fit for us.......could be Studsrud 2.0 We definitely need to get a top quality QB recruit this next year. After this year and Keaton all we have are PWO QB's on our roster , Heidlebaugh was a PWO wasn't he, or was he scholarship? Not that a PWO can't turn into a stud. I am confident the staff will get this position some better depth and quality as we move into the future, but we seem to be walking a slippery slope right now with our current QB situation.

That wasn't mentioned, nor was anything negative mentioned until AFTER your Seriously? comment. If you wouldn't have posted that I highly doubt another thing would have been said about Joe.

I guess this is where anything UND-NDSU related people get their panties in a bunch way too quickly. So you took "If Joe Mays got a shot at LB there is no reason Ratelle shouldn't" as a dick head stab at Joe? I took that as him thinking they were both very good linebackers from smaller schools that were somewhat similar. If Geaux_Sioux was trying to imply in his initial comment that Joe wasn't good enough and didn't deserve it he would only come across looking kinda dumb in my opinion....because Joe did make a team and played in the league for while, so I don't believe he at all meant it as a rip on Joe. Joe was a very good linebacker, as is Will.

Actually if you go to the homepage and scroll to the bottom it says :SiouxSports.com is an online community for fans, media, families, participants, and friends of UND Fighting Sioux athletics." which you and several of the others are not. The creators probably never envisioned so many NDSU people to come on here and pipe up every time NDSU is mentioned (and often when they are not even mentioned) that they would need to create a screening process. Periodically posters from other schools come on and chime in, which I think generally most of us feel ok with. I doubt if Will was compared to a Montana player they would be jumping all over it trying to immediately disprove that the two are similar and calling us crazy. And it's funny, what started this was Geau_Sioux just staying Will should get a shot if Mays got a shot, which Bison06 even agrees they were similar coming out of college and similar situation with a smaller school. Walker Texas Rancher (an hour and a half later on a thread not related to NDSU) had to jump in with a Seriously comment acting like the two shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence. That is when people on our end poked that he was with 6 different teams etc.......kind of implying that he wasn't Ray Lewis or anything. We should be able to mention NDSU or an NDSU player without the NDSU superiority complex people having to jump in immediately. Anyway...back to the players. I'm glad the first round of the draft is now on Thursday nights!

I really like that grey helmet, even more than I thought I would. I think the black face mask looks good with it, the holes in the helmet are black so it almost makes the holes look like a black accent to go along with the black face mask. I think the white ND looks good on it too, I like it. A green ND could look good there too, but would have to see it to know if I'd actually like it better or not. I don't know if I would have been a fan of the grey uniforms, however after going to an ASU game and they had theirs on.....I thought it looked pretty cool. They might have went with the white ND on the helmet because maybe the numbers on the jerseys will be white and they will match. ASU had white helmets though to offset all of the grey on the pants and jerseys. I really liked the grey ASU jerseys....so if they do it right I think it can work....will have to see the final outcome with the helmets, jerseys, and pants all together to really know if they pulled it off. I know some say that grey isn't a UND school color........but I don't think black is either. Here is a link to those jerseys.... https://www.google.com/search?q=arizona+state+football+copper+jerseys&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&imgil=u4JIhPS1XZBbIM%253A%253B5SUtGSwwA7nmtM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.statepress.com%25252Farticle%25252F2014%25252F08%25252Fasu-sun-devils-football-new-black-uniforms-jerseys-photos-video&source=iu&pf=m&fir=u4JIhPS1XZBbIM%253A%252C5SUtGSwwA7nmtM%252C_&usg=__Z2Py7oPnw_EJ4cIzuJy7p8xGmaA%3D&ved=0ahUKEwj8rLKR8K_MAhUK8WMKHXaCA2EQyjcIJw&ei=Yj4hV_zzJorijwP2hI6IBg#imgrc=u4JIhPS1XZBbIM%3A

So you admit that Joe and Will are somewhat similar, well at least in a similar position coming out of college then it looks like? Mr. Texas with his.....Seriously comment...when Geau_sioux said that Will should get the same chance that Joe had. Rancher said Seriously.........acting like they are in two different stratospheres coming out of college. Will is rated #14 for ILB.....maybe Joe was a lot higher I don't know (but I'm sure a Bison troll is scrambling this very minute to go find out). I don't think a Seriously comment was warranted......acting like we are dipsh*ts for thinking he should have as good of a chance or shot as Joe did coming out of college. Also you do know that a majority of NDSU trollers that come here can't get themselves to say anything good about UND or what any UND player has ever done right?

That could be, they could somehow be rating guys on some type of value scale as to how good they are compared to where the player is generally expected to get drafted at or something along those lines. Sounds like there is plenty of debate about his knee....some good some bad, maybe their take is the knee is not good.

Well that is what I was thinking too......but having Miles Jack as the 12th ILB on the list....when he will likely go top 10 overall....that just seems strange that there is such a difference in evaluation. However i know each team has certain types of players that fit their scheme the best etc......but I still thought that was a little odd. I guess time will tell how productive each ends up being in a few years! Patriots are obviously a successfull franchise......now if the Browns showed those same ratings.....well then I think we would question it even more

What am I missing on these rankings, they have Will at #2 and Miles Jack at #12 on this list.

It would certainly be nice to have a little more of a dynamic punt returner this year as long as he holds on to the ball. Also would be nice to not have Santiago have to return kicks as I'd rather save him for running behind the line than taking some potentially nasty special teams hits. Fortunately our RB position is deep this year but sure would hate to see him go down. Relating to injuries.....every time Keaton gets up with a hobble this year we'll likely see the season flash before our eyes for a second.

That is great to see. In initial talk it sounded like he would more likely be a free agent and be a fullback or special teams type player. 12 rating is pretty impressive....seems like a pretty good chance he'll get drafted and maybe an actual opportunity to play LB.

Hopefully it will be, that was a nice pass. It looks similar to the one at the 6:47 mark in the Cal Poly highlight video.

I would agree that overall we should be better. It obviously hurts to lose Will.....but our secondary should be better, we have three safeties this year in case there is an injury to one of them. All in all we should just have more experience and another year in the system under the belt for the returning guys. Hopefully that will all translate out onto the field on Saturdays, will be fun to watch. We'll find out in the second week how much our secondary has improved!

Fun watching those highlights.......35-0 at one point.....we completely dominated them at their place. They beat Montana and took Pac 12 ASU into the 4th quarter last year. Definitely have high hopes for this year. Grady coming back and the line coming together will be a big key to taking that next step. It still is a bit scary though that we are one injury away (Studsrud) from going backwards and being a 6-5 team. ESU isn't the dominant team at the top in the Big Sky anymore....it's not a top heavy league like it had been, a lot of balance and good teams which means we can't let up in any of our games.

With Nevermann looking as good as he does, and having Olivera it will be interesting to see if they put in more plays with Santiago at WR. I know they want to get him in space so I'm sure they will have a few new things. Just splitting him out will give the defense something else to be worried about, even if it's just a decoy. Nevermann in the backfield, Clive split wide on one side with Santiago on the other side........who do you focus on.

Oh man....that sucks, very sad. Thoughts out to PSU.

That was a really nice block he had, which we know it will be important for our WR's to be able to block well. Plus he looked good catching the ball as well, who knows maybe he could be the Josh Seibel type? I'm from Dickinson so it's good to see a Dickinson kid out there, wasn't sure how things would go for him at UND but maybe he'll get some playing time. He seems a little lean, but if he can make nice blocks like that.....all is good.

Looks like a few coverage sacks.....that's good to see by our secondary.

Looks like a few nice new plays in the playbook. I'm sure now that guys know the system a bit more it gives Rudulph the option of installing a few more plays for specific situations. I think we'll see a few nice new wrinkles in the offense this year.

Not sure if it is just my computer or not, but my feed is buffering a lot now.

Wow I just checked the forecast for Grand Forks on weather.com and it shows 100% chance of rain on Saturday....that sucks! So much for that being a fun day for the fans to check out the team, that's too bad. If there was 50% chance of rain you could luck out and not get any, 100% chance....you are probably screwed. I wonder if they will consider moving it inside?

Or as Momster posted.....who has a kid in the recruiting process and knows some other kids that are considering UND ..........said the kids were more interested in UND after the hockey teams run through the playoffs and championship, they liked the excitement surrounding it. The excitement does not directly pertain to football, but it can feed off of it.

lol Yes and I stated that in my last message I said that it was actually tied 25-25 the last 50 times, which still helps back up my overall point. Perhaps I should have just stated UND is 10-5 the past fifteen games, 5-4 in the past ten, and 3-2 in the past five. Thank you for the initial correction though

No you made valid points in your statement. I didn't come on this site until the beginning of Mussman's last season as i was really wondering about the direction of the football team and I had moved to AZ the year before and felt a little disconnected and wanted to try and get some information. Since coming on here I love hearing about all of the chat and updates on the football team. I have no desire to go on bville to hear what they are doing, I like hearing and following what UND is doing. Actually if we would have been winning championships at the time I moved down here I likely may have never ended up on here, it is when we were doing poorly that I wanted more info. I can't imagine if we had just won 5 titles.....the thought even crossing my mind about going on to the bville site. There are a few NDSU posters that have a few posts here and there that actually add to some conversations. But the need for some others to come on here daily after winning 5 titles and try and stir up stuff about how good they are and to put down UND, honestly it is just baffling.

lol oh man I knew that would bring an NDSU troll out. I should have stated the last 50 times we played, my bad.....sorry I did not check the specific details as I was making a general point. So the past 50 times we've played the series is tied 25-25 actually, so we don't have a lead during that time period. But given NDSU is the best football team in the Universe that's not bad. Or I could have chosen to say the last 70 years when it was UND 32 - 28 or state more recent head to head and say the last 14 times UND - NDSU played UND is 10-4. Kansas has an all time record of 27-6-73 against OU. Thank you for your obsession with UND however and following blogs daily on Siouxsports that have nothing to do with NDSU.