Sioux94

Hey buddy, tell that joker on your board that thinks you will score 45 points on us that I will take the bet. You and your USD board seem pretty cocky for a team that giving up 4.5 points on the spread. I think it will be a good game, but hopefully you'll be man enough to come back here if you lose.... which if you look at the history...m doesn't bode well for you.

Yeah their QB did look pretty good on a few of the clips from last week I saw, looks like he can throw the ball pretty well too. Just got into GF.....time to head for some food and drinks.

Can you tell the guy on that board that thinks they will score 45 on us, that I'd like to bet my house on that.....as long as he has a comparable house to offer up. They are not scoring 45 on us, no way.

Perhaps we should start a new thread (or maybe there is one already)........called North Dakota born athletes.....and we can discuss him in there, so we can just think of him as a ND boy, not an NDSU guy. I like to try and think of him as a Bismarck kid, not an NDSU player even though that is very hard at times.....just makes it easier to deal with mentally for me since I can't stand NDSU and their bragging. Sioux Rube can post his weekly stats, and give us weekly tid bits on Wentz like what he likes to eat before big Monday Night Football games etc. Then all of the NDSU posters can come to the UND board....since we know they love it over here...... and talk about Wentz....the Bismarck boy. His first game was against Cleveland, but it was still a pretty impressive start for him....especially since he didn't see many snaps in the preseason.

There were a couple of posts on that USD board from guys who seemed realistic and expected it to be close, and one guy even picked UND to win. Of course there were some other ones that feel pretty confident going into the game, but I think that is pretty normal for a game that is evenly matched.....for each fan base thinking they will prevail in the game. Pretty sure we may have looked a bit arrogant to SB fans who came and read our page, although most of us knew that game would be a tough game and said SB is no push over leading up to that game, I think we all predicted a UND win except for one person. With that said.....I'm really looking forward to beating them and pissing them off, especially the way they talk about ND in general. They also talked about the huge difference between Big Sky and MVFC, which there has been in the past but themselves and NDSU had to go to OT to win last week......and they were both the home teams. The gap may be shrinking between the conferences.....and this is the year to prove it.

I guess it goes to show that talk about some transfers, whether FBS, JUCO or whatever.......well heck even some recruits......you just never know until they are actually listed on the roster come game day if they are going to be there. Dissappointing that he is no longer with the team, but nature of the beast I guess. Maybe his personal situation will change and he could come back, but obviously wouldn't......and can't count on it.

^^^This You can tell by other things that he said that he doesn't respect our team, I mean when he says they should have thrown for school record on us....seriously what an ass hat. Can you imagine if we played a DII school and it went down the to the wire....Bubba saying we should have pass or thrown for a school record against the team? That makes me pissed all over again about missing that two point conversion.....would have loved to watch him cry even more if he had lost. "That's one of those games where we should be sitting up here talking about James throwing for 600 yards and breaking the school record," said Jinks

I thought somebody had said a while back there was going to be a 30 minute football show, dedicated solely to football during the season like there use to be back in the 90's. Does that not start this year?

I think so too. As much as I'd like to see us win comfortably, I think it will still be a game going into the 4th quarter.

I'm flying up from AZ and will be at the game. But I can't profess that I am flying up just for the game......will be up there for a reunion, however having a home game this weekend helped seal the deal on coming back. I am super excited about going to a game in person.....it's been a while! After being down 14-0 last week and three straight 3 and outs and it looked like might be a blow out......I was already a little disappointed that the game this coming week may not be that exciting given a loss to SB and a blow out loss to BG. We still lost to BG but did play well after that and left hope (in my eyes) for the season, I'll be cheering loud to do my part......let's get some false starts!!!

Whatever ones are left.....lets give to OL and speedy WR's

Playoffs are not out the window. There aren't ANY guaranteed wins in the 9 remaining games, but I think it's possible we can go 7-2 or 8-1 the rest of the way. Doesn't mean we will, but it's certainly not totally unrealistic.......or season out the window.

Somebody posted the week before the SB game that our gaurds just didnt' have it.......seems like he was on to something there. BG isn't suppose to be good against the run and we can't get anything going. Hopefully just like the last two years the OL will make huge strides during the year.......if not it's going to be a very so so year.

We seem to be just a shell of that team played the last 3 games last year. 10 points in 6 quarters. It's like Ground Hogs day.......our offense has just stunk to start the year the last 3 years.....outside of the WY game.

My audio is about 5 minutes behind the board.....so haven't been following on here until halftime. Not sure if anybody mentioned....but maybe we should be giving Brady the ball more this game....seems like he had some success? Man that BG TD to end the half was a killer.....ugh.

I will be watching and hoping for the upset.......but a hurry up, throw the ball FBS team just isn't a good matchup for our secondary so I'll say 38-24 BG.

That's quite the prediction, but I hope it comes true! We are now back in the underdog role.....and feel like we have something to prove....hopefully they bounce back and play a much much better game. I do expect the offense to have a better game. Will we play well enough all the way around to upset them......I dunno, we'll see.

Dak looked pretty good his very first preseason game for Dallas, he started the game so he was playing with the 1's and he's looked pretty good the entire preseason. Yes it was only preseason though.....he will have his struggles at times. He could turn out to be the best of the QB's taken. Sounds like Goff will likely be 3rd string initially.

At least I did get my game worn jersey today that I ordered, I thought it was suppose to be here yesterday. Maybe it's like the UND offense......just late and not there for the first game......but will be for the rest of the season! I'll be ready to go and excited come game time for BG.

^this^ I was one of the ones that was pretty negative last night, however after that complete sh*t show on offense in the first half how could I not be. I don't care how good SB is on defense I expected more than 40 some yards in the first half. Last night I also said we'll be 0-2 after two weeks......which is still most likely going to happen, which means we have an uphill battle the rest of the season. This doesn't mean i'm not going stop supporting or caring, and I will be rooting like hell next week against BG hoping we can win. Can we win next week.....yes it is possible. Do I feel good about our chances winning next week......not nearly as good as I felt about it 24 hours ago. It is just one game, but for me this has probably been the most disappointing game during the Bubba era given the expectations for this years team. I am truly just deep down disappointed in last nights performance, but it doesn't mean I am jumping ship. We improved significantly during the year the last two years......just have to hope for the same this year. Studs was horrible in the first half last night, but actually in the second half he wasn't that bad. He had some nice scrambles and actually went 7/8 in the 4th quarter. The disappointing part about that though is that he went 7/8 in the 4th quarter and we still couldn't put up any points.

I totally agree you need to take every chance you get and put 110% effort into it. My only point was that if maybe some other team wanted to take a real look at him as an option to make the team, verses a team that just needed a warm body for a game.......I'd rather he suit up for a team that may be taking a serious look at him not just adding him as a warm body knowing they will 100% be cutting him right after the game.

I can't move on only 5 minutes after that bad of an offensive performance and disappointing loss. I need at least a night of sleep before I can 'move on'.

I made the comment a couple of days ago....I wasn't as worried about winning on the road as last year after beating Wyoming and Portland St.. But I also said we could kind of go in and let it all hang out last year as we weren't expected to win against Wyoming. But we were favored to win this....so would we be able to handle the expectations. It turns out we couldn't. Yes SB has a very good defense......but the offense laid a big fat egg, there is just no getting around that. I guess the guys maybe believed all the hype and thought they could just show up, the offense certainly didn't play with a chip on their shoulder. The only damn good thing that may come out of this is......it better piss them off and get that chip back on their shoulder. After that first drive.....the defense did play well, but I will be concerned when we play passing games.

As upset, pissed, and dissappointed as I am.....I'm not giving up on the season either, but like you I am tempering my expectations more than they were before. However I won't say that we can't be or won't improve to the point that we are a playoff type team this year. We looked like really bad against Drake in the second quarter last year......and against NDSU.......and we improved a lot later in the year. We'll have the chance to turn it around, but that was a really ugly game and I am definitely concerned about the season.

How about the nice call on 4th and 1 at mid field for the first down. Could he have called a better game.....maybe, but I didn't think he called a bad game. Our QB and our offense was just bad tonight. They are really going to have to regroup after this one.