Former Players

[F'n Hawks]

22 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

The ones who win championships?

Who knows, they might still hate their offensive coordinator too…  it’s a position that’s easy to think you know better than.

Bison fans hated Polasek as OC if I remember correctly.

[Sioux94]

50 minutes ago, F'n Hawks said:

Bison fans hated Polasek as OC if I remember correctly.

Didn't a lot of them complain about Rhoel too? 

My reply was also going to be....thr only team that doesn't hate their OC is the one who wins the Championship.  I do remember NDSU complaining about theirs at different times in the past few years and they won titles with those OC's, and they were still complaining. 

If you can run the ball down their throats too, that sure makes life easier as the OC. I remember an SU playoff game with the game on the line and they were either 3rd or 4th and goal from the 5 with less than a minute to play, QB in shotgun.....and I think half the stadium new they were going to run the QB draw....and they did.....and of course he runs it in for a TD and won the game. 

[Sioux94]

3 hours ago, UND69er said:

What?  With a quadruple reverse flea flicker?  I recall a lot of angst with him here too.  Send Fruechte to every OC seminar available or give him some funny mushrooms to gain some imagination.

So now its a quadruple reverse? Man these fish stories just keep getting bigger lol. I do agree there was some angst with Danny sometimes though.  If I recall there was a game at USD where we're moving it on the ground and then he gave up on that.

I think Danny would have had a much better call on 4th and 1 against SU that got blown up. That one huge 4th down play...I think it was against Cap Poly was a thing of beauty. 

Danny's offense definitely had to overcome having a subpar defense. 

[wheelsup]

Danny called a couple too many trick plays for my liking.. but he was more entertaining and consistent than fruechte and my guess a better QB developer. 
 

As I recall.. the major complaints were that Tommy didn’t run as much as he should and didn’t have a great deep ball.  Now we have a QB that runs too much and is inaccurate. 
 

danny was handicapped by having to out score a consistently terrible defense.  It would be interesting to see if a combination of Schmittys defense and Danny’s offense would work..  always fun to dream. 

[geaux_sioux]

44 minutes ago, wheelsup said:

Danny called a couple too many trick plays for my liking.. but he was more entertaining and consistent than fruechte and my guess a better QB developer. 
 

As I recall.. the major complaints were that Tommy didn’t run as much as he should and didn’t have a great deep ball.  Now we have a QB that runs too much and is inaccurate. 
 

danny was handicapped by having to out score a consistently terrible defense.  It would be interesting to see if a combination of Schmittys defense and Danny’s offense would work..  always fun to dream. 

Those trick plays were alot about us not having great skill guys. I blame him more for poor recruiting than for calling trick plays. No excuse for how our wr room has looked for over a decade.