Sioux94

It's Rudy

My prediction is Quincy trots out for the 2nd time in the 2nd quarter....we have the ball at our own 45 yard line. He lines up in the Shotgun, takes the snap...takes two steps forward to fake a run, pulls up....and dumps it off to a streaking Zavalney over the middle who got behind the safeties.....and takes it to the house. Although not sure on his speed....he might get caught from behind. Really sucks Maag is probably out today, and even more so OL starter out.

This is funny, because you flat out stated the other day you don't think Bubba will have the team ready to play and you said you thought we would lose. So which is it, do you think we are going to win, or do you think we are going to lose? I don't think anybody on the team is going down there just for the experience, they sure as heck better be in the mindset to win. I'm hoping we play a perfect game and get some breaks and pull off an upset.

I agree....we were saying that 5 years ago and it has felt like a broken record. Tom Miller also said this is the deepest team we've had at the FCS level, so it has improved from 5 years ago and I'd agree that it is better. Still room to improve though, and we will probably always be saying trying to improve depth. Outside of NDSU....and maybe SDSU, every other school is probably saying it right now too.

I'm not thinking or planning on us losing 7 games, that's not at all what I meant. I'm looking forward to a good year.

That's only 6, you forgot SIU. Yeah he probably has it like that, or us beating YSU and losing to USD. I think we are ranked 7th in the preseason MVFC right, so if that played out that is 6 losses, and then loss to Nebraska for the 7th loss. If that happens, it's time for a change.

UND is handling it the same way as to how they are listing players. Schuster is listed as a Junior, but he has only burned 1 year of eligibility and he could be considered a Sophomore this year. I was thinking about it before, should he stay his extra year and nobody ever beats him out for the starting job he would surely shatter the UND record for games started. He would have started 4 full years, plus the games in the shortened spring season, which I think there were 9 including playoffs. If he is still starting in 2024 that will surely keep our constant QB debate alive, but that is for another thread.

I was going to post about this the other day as I had seen somebody on the FCS FB page post their two deep so I had taken a screen shot of it. They only have 5 underclassmen on their entire 2 deep. Meanwhile we have 4 underclassmen starting on our OL alone. They are sitting in a really good position this year, I doubt it's because their younger guys aren't good. I think we are finally starting to build better depth but we still have a ways to go.

Correct on the big Kiss fan! No wonder why your posts are always good.......you're from Dickinson

Should be easy, since we never turn the ball over at the end of close games.

Here are some pics of the tunnel they walk out of. Summer of 2015 I was in Lincoln for a work trip and the owners son was a freshman on the team. We were close to the stadium so he had his son run me over one afternoon and gave me a tour of their facilities and go out on the field. Thought I would share some pics after you mentioning the tunnel reminded me of walking out on it.

I just had this pop up on my FB memories, 5 years ago today was the game at Utah. Jealous of all of you who are going to the game this weekend! Even met up with UNDColorado from this board to pre-game with before going to tailgate party since I was there solo. Was a great atmosphere and the Utah fans were nice.

Does anybody know if Big Ten Network games can be viewed if you have an ESPN+ subscription? Or will have to sign up for BTN streaming to get it?

After losing in Week 1....I'm sure most of their fan base is wanting and expecting to take us out back to the Wood Shed and getting back on track. Here is to hopefully severely disappointing them.

The entire country is pretty uneducated about FCS football in general, as was I.....until we became FCS. I lived in western ND growing up, I remember in my 20's I worked with a guy from Montana and talked about how good Montana (Griz) was at football. They were pretty much a power house program back in the late 90's, but I knew nothing about them and I've always been a big college football fan. And even after he said that....I didn't know the difference between the Cat and the Griz and which was which....nor did I care. NDSU is literally the only FCS school anybody else other than FCS school's fans know about, and they only know about them because of a crazy run of Championships. I now love the FCS and some really good football is played, but if you think the common Nebraska fan gives a s**t or really knows which North Dakota team is which.....you are dreaming. I'm sure as this week moves along they will find out it's not NDSU they are playing, and I'm sure they will feel a lot better about their chance of winning this week, which is good....I hope their team feels that way too so they under estimate us.

I'd be taking the over on that. NE scored 28 points midway through the 3rd quarter last week, at home and pissed off.....odds are they are going to score more than 36. Although I do think there is a possibility our D can hold them to around mid 30's if the offense can burn clock and we get a couple of turnovers. I think we can score more than 13 on offense too.

May not have been, but was ruled as one and thankfully didn't get over turned. He is definitely taking advantage and making plays when given the opportunity

He had a pretty nice run to almost get the 1st down on that first catch that got called back by a penalty.

Toivinen just made a catch.

Are you kidding me, you just said this is your expectations for the Nebraska game......" I suspect the team to be awestruck and play sloppy". Disgusting is right.

Crazy on how a games whole momentum can change on a call. Really bad choice to go for that on-side kick.

Well looks like it's going to be a full 4th quarter game......which is what we wanted. Hoping Huskers pull it a win.

Does Freund need to start following other HS kickers? He's going to probably need to have a little bit of a backup plan in his mind even if he keeps it on the down low. After Case flipped right at the end, have to give the coaches credit for finding Schuster so quickly.

I've said it before......but in my opinion we've had many kickers that could have been FBS caliber.......from the 90's through 2010 ish had a lot of really good kickers, and in that time I've seen plenty FBS schools have kickers that seemed average. I didn't consider Stage to be the best kicker we've had, but didn't get to see enough of him I guess. How many clutch long FG's did Glass make over the years. Back in the day when we lined up for a 49 yard FG....I was expecting we would make it.

We will have to weather the storm early like Northwestern did......if NE scores on us early.