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I do find it odd that Nate has zero catches as a starting WR through 6 games.

Rewatched the game tonight on ESPN+ replay...... remember when we said we just wanted to be better than the other team and not have to rely on trick plays? I don't think there was a single trick play against SU.

And when I click into it....it shows ESPN+

I'm not 100 percent sure but it shows ESPN+ by it when I go online.

If going to do green I'd rather do white pants with solid green jersey. Could wear either the grey or green helmet with that. Green pants and green top would be ok on occasion but I still like the white pants/green solid top. Seems like if we just got a new solid green jersey, and if we still had the grey pants from a few years ago we'd have a lot of good combinations. I am also totally ok with the black pants and top with either helmet, I do like seeing the black pants and jersey occasionally.

I know we all hated the grey pants green jersey combo they had for awhile. Did they completely just burn those grey pants? If they were still around seems like they could work with just a new jersey. Or even on the road wear grey pants, white jersey, silver helmet.

Yeah that is complete crap. And that is where preseason rankings do matter. They were not ranked, way harder to move up even if you deserve it.

Exactly. I originally hated this game being right after the NDSU game, however it actually might be a good thing. I think our team understands that this is a big game and a good team. I think this will help them get focused again. If we were playing someone else on the road I'd be more worried about a hangover. Hopefully I'm right on this.

Not sure if it's just me or not, but it feels like Skokna just seems to be the heartbeat of the team. You listen to him talk and it sounds like he is ready to run through a brick wall for the team on a moments notice.

Montana beats Idaho in their house 23-21. I said it before .....Big Sky is down this year. I think all four of the Dakota's may be be better than every team in the Big Sky other than MSU. Idaho was supposed to be the up and coming Big Sky darling, but get beat at home by a team that lost to an NAU team that we crushed. Still a long ways to go though, but either way I think that second tier in the Big Sky after MSU is not as strong as the second tier MVFC after SDSU.

Now THIS is why flew up here for the weekend!! When I bought my ticket back in August it just felt like this was going to be the year and absolutely HAD to be the year. The SDSU game had me worried and doubting, but as I mentioned earlier this week I felt our players had to be taking this way more personal than SU after getting spanked year after year. Today they came out and did something about it. Also love hearing the 2003 team was up here this week. It just added to the feeling like it had to happen this year. This was a long time coming, congratulations to Bubba and all the coaches staff and players. For me that absolute dime that Tommy dropped in to Elioder and the CJ pick were the two plays of the game. OL was amazing but I think hitting a pass like that to Elidor was an important play in the game. Let's keep it going next week at UNI!!

Flying up to Fargo tonight and then heading up to GF Saturday morning. I'll probably buy some beverages before leaving Fargo, but was wondering if there is beer for sale in the tailgating area and/or food?

With his success in the CFL, do you think he might try to see if he can make an NFL roster sometime?

Bubba was a good defensive coach. You would think all this week he would be helping Joel and working together with him to work on defensive schemes to stop the SU ground game. I'd love to see the same type of defensive performance we saw against MSU in 2019 and against NDSU in 2021.

I agree with you. But actually didn't Boise use a half back pass against us? SDSU also used a trick play against us one of the last 2-3 times we played them. Totally get your point though and agree. Against these really stout defenses, we have to use the right trick play of we are going to do it.... otherwise they sniff it out. Also trick plays are harder for UND than almost anyone else because everyone is aware we run them all the time so they are always looking for it.

I'm not going to diss Cam.....until we beat him. He has gotten the last laugh 3 straight times against us.

Yes that was the game I was thinking of. Kostich Kostich'd that day.

Do you think they are practicing more this week with having two NG's in at the same time? We need to figure out how to stop the plow once they get it hitched up.....which I'm sure they will have it hitched up on the very first snap. Wasn't that FBS DE transfer pretty good size, maybe he gets more reps this week? In the 90's I always felt our coaches were an advantage and have things schemed up properly going into the NDSU game and other big games and have us an edge. Sadly I generally don't feel that way and haven't for a while. Danny has been really good at times though and I do like him, but we have still struggled on offense on many big games. But a lot of that has come down to we couldn't run the ball with any consistency. If you can do that, it makes everything easier. I do recall when Montana State came into the Alerus 7-8 years ago and were highly ranked and were averaging like 300 yards on the ground.....and we had some injuries on the DL. I thought there was NO way we were going to stop them, but we shut them down pretty well and won that game. We need to pull off that kind of magic again.

Yep, our body of work so far this year.....beating Drake, NAU, and WIU and losing the way we did in the other two....in no way warrants #7 IMO. Hopefully after Saturday that will be warranted.

I heard he has also biked by NDSU practices also.....so there is that.

I think one of these would be most likely as well. He's been at UND for 5 years, might just want to finish up a school and enjoy his last year instead of going to a new school where he knows nobody and start over. Would depend on how badly he wanted to play.

Agree. That SDSU pummeling just took a lot out of fans hopes, was like a gut punch to everyone. That said, come Saturday I think all UND fans will be pretty pumped and it will feel pretty electric in the Alerus! We need to get off to a good start. I wonder if we take the ball again right away. Would be pretty demoralizing if we kicked off and NDSU went right down and scored.

Totally agree, if we win this even by one point.....we are now having visions of possibly going 9-2 or 8-3 and we are feeling really good. We lose this, most likely we don't make the playoffs unless we win our the rest of the way which probably won't happen, and we are feeling like the season is sorta over. There have been a lot of big games over the past couple of years, but this one just feels like it's the biggest because if we can't beat SU at home when they are beatable....I don't know when it's ever gonna happen. And to your point.....I have no gut feeling about us as to if we are going to win this game, get beat.....or get beat by 2 ore more scores. I have no clue what is going to happen on Saturday.

Pretty much, NDSU has had us figured out for a while on offense (Tommy/Danny). Last year we started our gangbusters on offense against SDSU, but then they figured us out and we haven't been able to do much since then.

Exactly nobody has defended that throw, it was a bad throw and one that Tommy normally makes. But like death and taxes.....the only thing I know for sure we will see that pic posted at least 5-10 more times by him. I like Tommy and generally he has been good but he absolutely has some limitations, and really hasn't taken a step forward from last year to this year. I would have liked to seen Feeney in earlier last week to get him more Live reps, and if our offense is doing nothing against SU I hope they bring Feeney it to shake things up or something. This Saturday is a must win for the program.