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Do teams keep a backup FB on their 52 man roster (I'm sure it depends on the team)? With a pro bowl FB already on their team I'm starting to think it may be difficult for Will to make the 52 man roster, unless of course they are wanting a backup FB.

Exactly.....he sits there and reads the board every day....and waits for his opportunity to take a shot at UND. Kind of pathetic, but I guess it helps his self esteem. Let's remember.....believe he is the one who thought........"Wentz is....meh... just ok". Although now I bet outside of this board he probably gets a boner bragging about Wentz going number 2 (no pun intended on the number 2 ) . He probably already bought an Eagles jersey.

Saw this post explaining some of Stitt's offense for Montana...... http://insidethepylon.com/film-study/film-study-u/offense-film-study-u/2016/06/06/bob-stitts-offense-montanta-fly-sweep-screen-concepts/

I agree it's pretty hard to know before a game is played, look at the preseason Big Sky picks last year. We may not even know for sure what our team is until 3 weeks into the season. If we beat SB in a fairly close game, and lost against BG but not in a blow out I don't think we'll really know for sure what we'll have. Although we will know how improved our secondary is after the BG game that's for sure. I'm a little afraid our O line could still be learning those first few games of the year, just like last year....and we might be pretty inconsistent on offense the first few games. If Grady comes back...that will certainly help that situation.

Initially coming into this year I was somewhat thinking the same thing, that I'd be ok with being a little under the radar to start the year. However after getting a little bit of recognition in the preseason polls it was nice, and I also think it can help the players get even more excited about the upcoming year not to mention the casual fan. I think Bubba will do a good job keeping things into perspective to the guys that there still is a lot to prove this year and to still play like the underdog, yet confident underdog. I'm hoping the playoff snubbing last year keeps a chip on our shoulder all year so that we don't let up and have that consistent play all year long. #LeaveNoDoubt

I hope Bowling Green looks at us the same way.....and over looks us.

This is great news!! It's like Christmas in June! Even though our corners will have another year of experience and coaching under their belt, until I see them turn their heads and make a play on those deep balls it still concerns me. Having a quality player like this in the backfield sure will help us match up a little better when we play Bowling Green.

Totally agree, if we had at least one of those guys in there for that game I think we hang on and win. With both of those guys out there was such a huge huge dropoff between them and the backups. If Keaton should happen to go down for a couple of games again this year, hopefully more depth and experience all the way around in the secondary will prevent teams from being able to just chuck it up down field and make big plays if our offense is sputtering. We need to be able to beat average or poor teams if Keaton goes out for a while, last year we just couldn't do it with the safeties out and poor cornerback play.

I love how you sit in the shadows, and just wait for the opportunity to get a slightly negative post in against UND. Maybe if an NDSU player hadn't dove at the back of our players legs and broken it, we wouldn't have been quite as depleted in the secondary that game.

If I was ruler of the world, I'd probably want to hit a button and reset things back to before every team was doing alternate uniforms and keep it that way. When I turn on my TV on Saturday's in the fall now days I can't even tell who is playing half the time until I see the names of the teams. Grey may be the next color that is over done, but the whole alternate uniform thing in general is now over done. In my ruler of the world scenario I'd still let Oregon have the alternate uniforms as they would come up with some good ones, plus when you saw a crazy uniform you kind of new it was them as they were about the only ones doing it initially. I get why teams do it though and I get why we are doing it as well, but now that everybody is doing it I don't think it really adds a whole lot to the overall experience. Since we are doing it though, I just want whatever we do to look pretty good. Grey may be pretty common, but I never expected us to go with a super flashy outlandish type of alternate uniform.

It certainly is possible we could start 0-2, Stony Brook won't be a 'gimme' on the road. Might be a low scoring game, a pick six the other way or a couple of turnovers and anything can happen. Going 0-2 would really leave us little room for error the rest of the way. My prediction is 8-3 on the season. I definitely don't want to end up 7-4 again and leave it up to the committee. With that said about Stony Brook, I am still thinking we will win that game.......and we NEED to win that game!

Interesting take on the Big Sky preseasons rankings. After EWU, Montana, and Montana State dominating the conference for so long, it's nice to see some new blood toward the top. Although that means the top half of the conference are all pretty good, could easily see any of the top 6 teams in this preseason poll winning the conference championship. Last year was a pretty good shake up in the conference with Portland State and Southern Utah doing so well. Will the shake up continue this year.......or will EWU or Montana end back up at the top when it's all said and done? http://www.thespectrum.com/story/sports/2016/06/01/big-sky-football-nau-tops-spectrum-medias-preseason-poll/85266520/?hootPostID=9e10c40146d19af983a6db2eec20d1ce

It would certainly be huge if we could land a good WR, OL, and DB. If we did that and Grady comes back.....I'll be even more optimistic for the upcoming year. We'll just have to hope and pray that Studs doesn't get hurt.

That is cool to see, although I am a little surprised by it though just because we don't have total name recognition in the FCS yet. Last year we made some good strides going 7-4 and most feel we got a bum rap on the playoff selection but usually preseason polls are based a lot on name recognition and what you've done the past few years. It is nice to see that we are getting noticed though, and I guess it means we won't 'sneak' up on anybody this year.

That was cool reading how a lot of the Falcons fans loved his tape and hope they give him a shot at LB.

I agree, and especially now with Will gone he is one of the best players on the team, I just never realized he was that fast before. Sometimes only watching games on tv or video feed you don't get the true sense of some of the players, I miss that. My first thought was I was surprised, and thought it was unusual for a safety to be the third fastest player on a team, but maybe I'm wrong on that part. It's certainly a kudos to him, but also probably indicates we need a bit more speed in some of the other areas.

Here is the list for others to more easily see: Top 10 40's of '16 #DayByDay #NorthDakotaStrength Bollant Santiago Reyes Murray Harris Disterhaupt Palmborg Gordon Lawrence Rodgers They are more in a list format on his tweet, so I'm assuming they are in order of fastest first? No WR's in the top 10....no wonder why we say we need to improve in that area. Although I would think Clive would be on there, but maybe he didn't run or something for some reason? Surprised that Reyes is number 3.

They do talk a fair amount of football on that show during the season, but they talk other sports on there as well and only devote part of the show to football. There use to be a 30 minute football show that was solely a football show that showed more highlights, and talked more in depth about the upcoming matchup for the next week, had player specials on it It also had players of the week on the show for an interview.

I almost started a separate thread on having a Sioux football show a couple of weeks ago, asking why we no longer have one. In the 90's there was 30 minute Sioux football show every week during the season that would go through the highlights and then they'd bring a couple of players on as well. I didn't like it when the football coverage just got jammed into a part of the UND Extra thing since it was covering all sports and couldn't get as many highlights nor have players come on. I'm sure the players felt it was a nice privilege to be able to come on the show in recognition for having a nice game.

I get him wanting a trade, but if they decide not too........he signed a contract and is getting paid very well with that contract......time to strap it up and do your job. I get him positioning and being a whiny baby now to see if he can get out of it and get traded, but if they don't do it and he still sits and complains or sits out....then I think he is partially afraid of competing. I flew out to Philly yesterday for work this week.....so I've asked a few people about Wentz....to see if they are giving him a thumbs up or thumbs down, from just the couple I've heard from they seem ok with him. There weren't any haters from just the couple I talked too....I remember how bad McNabb got boo'd.....at least people didn't boo him when drafted, but I know there are some fans that weren't happy giving up all of those picks.

I think they want to recreate 2014 and try and make a strong Super Bowl run with Romo in his last couple years left. As a Cowboys fan I hope it works....we'll see. If they wouldn't have already picked up Morris I could have seen this more. Congrats to Carson, as a Cowboys fan he is once again playing for the 'other' team though.......so I won't be able to root for the ND kid too much

Let's go Will! Looks like he is thinking 6th or 7th round. http://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-football/4020253-und-football-ex-und-standout-awaits-nfl-draft

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.