Sioux94

Good question......we may be in the same situation at the end of this year...as we were last year, wondering if we have the QB we need to really be a strong team. Hopefully he can really progress throughout the year. It sure would be nice to start a year knowing we've got 'The Guy" at QB.

Gotcha, Bartels certainly would have made a few better throws and quicker reads than he has. Studs running ability is nice....but if he doesn't get better in the passing game.....not good.

He very well may play a fair amount this year. But from what I've seen a couple people post, that he isn't fully ready yet. He will end up being a beast....but at this point when he isn't fully ready he may only be marginally better than what we have now. I'd rather have him for an extra year when he is a beast all year. Just my opinion. If he plays a lot and plays great this year and we make the playoffs I'll definitely be proven wrong, and I sure hope that happens!

Imagine when he is a senior.....and really really good, and we could have had him for a whole more year after that, but instead we played him for 25 snaps in the 2015 season. I would have liked to have seen us keep his redshirt.

Yep was a great way to end the half. Right after the TD I lost my feed.....are you guys still able to view?

Why was that on Studsrud? His arm got hit on the one pass....and the 3rd down play the WR was covered like a blanket, no separation.

Yep nice goal line stand, offense needs to get back to it.

Let's keep Grady's redshirt. Just get the guys going that we've got....like we are doing today.

Man incredible start, it's like we are a totally different team than the past 6 quarters.....very refreshing and great to see!

There is that pick we've been waiting for!

Yep...great start. O Line looks like they are trying to prove they can play.

It's definitely a lot better setup than last year where you had to register, and then sometimes when you registered you couldn't get access etc. Now it's easy....just click on the game, I haven't had any issues on the site so far and am liking it a lot better.

You should just be able to click on the game.

Almost game time, didn't see a thread started yet.

24 - 13 UND Also agree it's almost a must win for many reasons. If we lose this there will be a lot of apathy from the fan base among one of them.

Santiago, Grady, Smith, Olivera.....those are some good freshman. Too bad we didn't have the luxury of redshirting all of them this year......they would have been seniors in 2019 for the next go round with NDSU. Would have been nice to have them witness it this time on the sideline, and then bring it home in 2019 as key starters. But this year first.....let's have a good game against UC.

Pretty sure our D-2 offense put up around 40 on the road against FCS Northern Iowa. I would totally wholesale change that offense out with this one for just this year if I could. That offense would have gotten more than 61 yards last week. We keep talking about our offensive line, and rightfully so. So was our offensive line that beat Northern Iowa, who were all D2 recruits that much better than our current O line who are all FCS recruits? If so...that seems kind of sad. Hopefully we bounce back this week and look a lot better.

If we see another 4 offensive quarters like the last 6, we really have to start questioning everybody on the offensive side of the ball, including the coaches. I really hope we turn it around so that we don't have to go there, but man I just get pissed when I think how bad we've looked for 6 quarters. 2nd half verses Drake excuse = we let up. 4 quarters against NDSU = they are a really good defense and we played poorly. Those are the excuses that can be used. No more excuses going forward!! Look like something that resembles an FCS offense!! Figure it out!!

Where do we go from here......well most of us would have taken 2-1 after the first three games. However each of the last two games left a real bad taste in our mouths. 6 horrendous offensive quarters. We stunk it up offensively last year for the first 3rd of the season but we got better. Both the players and coaches really need to step it up, and it will go back to the cliché I guess.......they all need to get back to work very hard....Day by Day. They are going to have to mix a few things up on offense though, the last 6 quarters just don't come close to cutting it.

Amen to the banning of mj23 and similar posters. Let NDSU spout for a few days since we just played them....and then get them off here. They can come back in 2019, but this is a UND site and it gets really old having them come on here and brag about NDSU and bash us. I think most of us come here to talk about Sioux football, not argue and start fights. But when they come in here and start with their crap, it is kind of hard not to sometimes.

Can you imagine if a UND player broke NDSU's starting safeties leg with that hit? If they didn't go on to win a championship, we would hear for years how UND's dirty play stole a championship from NDSU. I don't think NDSU coaches players to hit or play dirty, the kid may be a good kid......but that was a bad hit. You cannot blame us for calling it out as such because you guys would have gone nuts if a UND player did it to you.

I have no problem with Klieman's comments in regards to that, not one bit. I can see his point and I really don't think it is a big deal or him whining or complaining.

To be fair....the same thing could have been said about Mollberg last year.....except not after 3 halves......more like 4-5 full games. Not saying Mollberg shouldn't play now though, I'm up for whatever gets our offense moving.

So is it going to be worth blowing Smith's redshirt this year?

If you.....one of the bigger trolls and UND bashers/Bison braggers out there......can only say......."Tough to tell what he was thinking", then we know it was a bad hit.