Parkers Pros

Why did it seem like this game was being streamed for a little while on ESPN plus?

What happened with Howard?? Any scuttle on why??

Had the game started, No nchc feed yet

He was listed as visiting this weekend…

Nothing anywhere about Siegel leaving?

People want to love this football team. A lot of people love football more than they love hockey. It’s just that Hockey is relevant year over year. When UND was relevant at the end of DII the Alerus was sold out, full of students and season ticket holders. They traveled well. I remember there being conversations of how we were going to have to expand the Alerus center when we went division one. After Lennon left we took a step back at UND and he couldn’t meet the same expectations at SIU. We had some fun players but we didn’t have very good teams. If the product is good and relevant North Dakota will fill the building every time. Unfortunately it’s a fickle crowd.

They are looking for playing time. Some young guys coming up behind them I’m guessing…

I love reading fan forums cause it’s hilarious how many football experts are on here cause of their extensive High School experience and the passion they have. “We cannot be ok with losing”? Spoken like a true PS4 Madden basement player. Nobody is ok with losing. Nobody. But how about some perspective. We did quite well yesterday considering we were playing without a huge chunk of our defense and held down a very good offense. Some on here said they feel like this was one of Tommy’s best games. I agree. Hey played well enough to win. Word I have is they really like Feeney, but he is a rail and they don’t want him to get killed so they want him to put on some weight. If the O-line can mature and get better by next year, it’s a big difference in How much this offense opens up. When you have no time you can’t be as deceptive as you want to be. It narrows the play-calling flexibility.

This was a fantastic effort against a very good team in a very tough place to play. We missed our NFL caliber left tackle on that last drive.

We need burners like this Dennis kid to take the top off who just committed. Your right we don’t get great separation. Give Illinois state credit, they played a really good defensive game against us in the secondary. Say what you will about Muss but the one thing he did well, or his staff, was recruiting WR. Greg Hardin, Kenny Golladay, Jameer Jackson were, arguably for sure, the best WR group we ever had. I think talent wise we are deeper now than ever. We have 5-6 really good guys. We need at least 1 who can dominate over the top though to take more pressure off the middle of the field.

Great get guys, this is awesome! Welcome Caden!

Feels like we are trying to just be too cute at times!!

Any word on Connor Ford? Have not seen him in a while

The crowd is hung over still I think

If we would have gotten our O-Line back from this spring our record would be different. But we are young, inexperienced, and possibly just a bit outclassed on the line at times. Most of these short yardage turnover plays are 1st downs in stead of turnovers and Danny has more faith to hand it to Otis straight ahead instead of trying to fool defenses. Nate Ngoun was a huge, huge loss!

Look, nothings gonna happen. We just won the league last year our 1st time out. He is under contract and it would be expensive to buy him out. Ya we have holes. But who do you get that won’t cause an exodus of players if the coach is fired. We have a good core, hopefully we are learning, looking at you Danny and Brent. We have a decent QB room, the best RB room in program history, solid WR, a good enough defense! Starting over sounds silly!

Saw a couple kids wearing placards walking around with their parents one of which was a massive O-lineman.

Our skill players making skill plays! Amazing what happens…

We need to throw a pass on third down, at least if it was incomplete it stops clock and we kick a field goal. And if it’s complete it’s six..

WTH was that??

Root cause this year for our perceived slide is the offensive line. Too many penalties. We are not dominating the line of scrimmage and it shows with the regression of Otis and Schuster. Losing those 3-4 O-lineman from last year looms large. We are not winning the time of possession battle so our Defense is on the field too much. We get gassed in the 2nd half so we can’t get off the field. We can’t be 2 for 9 on 3rd down.

Maag cramping up or pulling hamstrings?

Great to see UND leading the way in offering the condolences to a great coach albeit to a rival, wait, no, that was UMD… Just horrible news..

It’s not that bad. Kids a Junior and an athlete. He will be just fine!

Let’s keep getting them. I would love to hear about a 6’6 300 pound nose tackle cause that would be awesome!