Sioux94

It's hard to play really well week after week, go to give NDSU credit for what they have done.....played at a high level week after week....it's been impressive. It's nice to see they are human though and pay for not playing well....with a loss. Surprised that it is USD that did it though....especially in Fargo!

Wow just now seeing that USD beat NDSU.....amazing! When somebody posted that on the Weber game thread......I was thinking it must have been a joke. Shocking, the finally didn't come up with a drive or a play at the end of the game to win it.

17-3 is a nice lead at half.....but we definitely left some points on the field. Just keep grinding in the second half.....and no turnovers in second half!

No doubt....ran that punt return too. Good thing that kid is young! But will need to get him some rest at times here I think.

Fake punt but we were on it and held them......UND ball!

Love how we are controlling the clock here.

Wow we screwed the pooch there.......2nd and goal from the 4 and come out with NO points........damn it!! A TD there really changes complection of the game, Weber is still in it now.....

Sure is nice having George back....

Dummied means that one guy fakes he is catching ball on one side of field but the ball is on the other side and another guy catches it....throwing off the coverage.

Sweet....they ran that "dummy" punt return catch........Seibel pretended he was going to catch it but Santiago grabbed it for a big return....woohoo! Nice call!

Told you we were setting up that long pass play!!

BOOM and there is that long pass!!!!

UND 122 - Webert 66 Total yards in the first half.

Yep.....we have been, however we've been moving it on the ground fairly well....which is obviously good. Hopefully that will open up some nice pass plays on 1st and 2nd down here sometime soon.

Man 43 yard kick return......geez we've had poor kick coverage all year. Sounds like flag though so might be coming back. Ball is going back to the 15 or Weber. We were bailed out by penalty on long kick return again.

How the heck can they be telecasting the game locally....but not be able to provide a flipping feed!!

Santiago TD.....woohoo!!!

This sucks.....I wanted to see how Bartels looks......not just listen to it.

Exactly....somebody needs to be held accountable for this. Who knows who's fault it is....but this shouldn't happen. From what it sounds the game is being broadcast on local tv.....so this feed should be going!

Here after the crappy feed last week....thought I would actually get to WATCH the game this week....Ugh! I'm not seeing it either.

I was going to go 27-17 UND....but with Reyes still out I'm going 27-24 UND. Let's be on the positive side of the TO's this week, if we are I think we win. I like this matchup better than our matchup last week.

Wow talk about some crappy luck we are having with our QB's.....that means within about a 12 game span of games.....we would have 3 QB's who got knocked out for the rest of the year. We've had some crappy luck in general with injuries the last year or so to important players.....but losing 3 QB's for the year in 12 games......man that sucks.

I like the idea of that too. However since Santiago is a true freshman, I wonder if they are staying away from that.........so that he doesn't have to be focusing on two positions instead of just RB. They could certainly limit it so that there were only a couple of plays for him at wide out so that it didn't over load him with plays to remember. However with limited reps at wide out, next thing you know he isn't lined up properly or something and we get a flag. With that said it would be nice to see both of them on the field at the same time, and maybe something that will be coming down the road. I wonder what the longer term plan is going to be with Smith other than the jet sweep, to take advantage of his speed.

If our two starting safeties played Saturday.....we win the game. I am disappointed however that our offense didn't pick up the slack more and grind out more offense in the second half. We don't have the depth we need yet, Bubba has only had one recruiting class.....which a number of true freshman are already contributing. I know you are not suppose to blame injuries, but when you don't have the depth you need and you have a big drop off in talent and experience at safety, that has a direct impact on the game especially on a pass heavy team. Part of me wondered when we hired Bubba, if we were just hiring him because he is a UND guy, so I get that. But from everything I've seen he appears to be a good head coach and recruiter and things definitely appear to be going in the right direction. We won't know for a couple more years though what the true end results are.

Glad to hear Weber primarily likes to run the ball, should be a good matchup for us. Let's have NO turnovers this week. Studsrud's athletic and running ability has been nice and he has a winning record for us. Can't say that I wanted Bartels to start over him, but with some of Studs poor throws and never looking off his first option.......a guy can't help but wonder if a better passing attack would result in a net overall gain for our offense even if the QB doesn't get as many rushing yards. I guess now we have no choice and will find out how it goes. Bartels gets a full week of starter reps.....and has played before.....so it's his chance to show us what he's got. Let's just win this one.....I don't want to give up hope on the playoffs yet!