GDT: North Dakota v. Richmond

[Sioux>Bison]

4 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

If people are going to give up on the program over one disappointing loss, then they probably weren't going to stick with the team anyway. This program is going in the right direction; we just need to build more depth and get our younger guys more experience. They will learn from this painful experience and they won't let it happen again.

Like I said before this team is no where nearly as good as they could be. We would all have a different attitude if Richmond has put up a better effort the entire game and showed they actually deserve to win. We got to be patient. We need to drop these boom or bust expectations.

[fightingsioux4life]

1 minute ago, Sioux>Bison said:

Like I said before this team is no where nearly as good as they could be. We would all have a different attitude if Richmond has put up a better effort the entire game and showed they actually deserve to win. We got to be patient. We need to drop these boom or bust expectations.

I couldn't agree with you more. We'll get there. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will this program.

[Irish]

10 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

If people are going to give up on the program over one disappointing loss, then they probably weren't going to stick with the team anyway. This program is going in the right direction; we just need to build more depth and get our younger guys more experience. They will learn from this painful experience and they won't let it happen again.

I'm sure we will get some talent upgrades, but his body of work shows that we can rely on Rudolf to call the same stupid, losing game year after year.

[fightingsioux4life]

Just now, Irish said:

I'm sure we will get some talent upgrades, but his body of work shows that we can rely on Rudolf to call the same stupid, losing game year after year.

Yeah, he makes some strange play calls. And tonight it helped turn the game against us.

[HawkinNutts]

5 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said:

The years to come look really good. This team was not good enough to win it all this year anyways and this game will be a great learning experience. Too bad we couldn't play two playoff games this year. This team will now have another chip on their back to motivate them next year. This wasn't the best team UND will have in the future as this team is young and has a ton of potential.

i think the missing link that may have helped us was the lack of defensive turnovers. Those really made a difference in the past games. I'm still proud of this team for a great season!

Agree with most of this. Playoff experience is great.  Season overall was great. Future looks great.  

And I would've even been happy with a loss if the team played even remotely close to its potential. 

Win it all?  Most likely not, but guarantee EWU prefers Richmond over us. This team had potential to make noise. 

[fightingsioux4life]

Just now, HawkinNutts said:

Agree with most of this. Playoff experience is great.  Season overall was great. Future looks great.  

And I would've even been happy with a loss if the team played even remotely close to its potential. 

Win it all?  Most likely not, but guarantee EWU prefers Richmond over us. This team had potential to make noise. 

I think EWU was looking forward to completing big gains vs. our young and somewhat thin secondary. But I think they'll put up a lot of points vs. Richmond next week. They are a serious contender to make it to Frisco.

[Great Day To Be An Eagle]

1 minute ago, HawkinNutts said:

 

.... but guarantee EWU prefers Richmond over us.  

 

Not sure what the players or team thinks, but the fans wanted a matchup w/ y'all.  We wanted a chance to see a true Big Sky Championship with everything on the line. 

[Sioux>Bison]

Some of our fans need to realize just because we lost our first FCS playoff loss doesn't mean we won't be back again or that we won't win playoff games in the future. This team will be better.

[Siouxperman8]

1 hour ago, geaux_sioux said:

Well !@#$.  We were curb stomping them and !@#$ our pants. The WRs had major drop issues. That cost us the game. The running into the kicker changed everything. That cost us the game. Hunt getting burnt over and over and over. That cost us the game. Crowd going flat like the team when the momentum had shifted. That cost us the game. Most of all just not getting the job done in general cost us the game. I'm extremely proud of this team and the history they made but God damn it they are better than what they sowed in that second half. It had nothing to do with coaching. Guys were in position and failed to make plays they were capable of. This was a massive choke job. 

In the end, it's still blatantly obvious that not having a single speed wr hurts the offense. They don't need to worry about the deep ball and can come down to stuff the run and defend the intermediate pass. We just aren't a complete team yet. The depth is almost there and things are absolutely headed in the right direction. We lost our mojo with all the time off.... now we have 9 months to get it back. If the coached can add a couple of things to this team in the secondary, at QB, and at WR then next year will be a fun one. 

The silver lining in all of this was @GreenWing and I heckled Richmond's coach Rocco so bad before the game that he ran right over to us after the win to talk some !@#$. We got under his skin about the Delaware job and he didn't forget us. 

Going for a block and running into the kicker when up 17 and gonna get the ball at midfield- absolutely the worst decision I have ever seen from a UND football team when considering the right decision was so obvious.  Gotta be smarter than that. What the hell were they thinking.  I am beyond frustrated. 

[SIOUXFAN97]

trick plays are for pussys and right now i thiink rudy is a pussy...first and ten, up 17, up 20 and your almost guaranteed a win, and you run a double reverse for minus seven yards...gutless call that bubba should fire him over...rudy and the special teams guy can back up and go back to minot and wherever you let free runners block punts....total garbage...give the ball to brady 40 times in this game and we win going away...

[Siouxperman8]

My son is a current student. He pointed out what a missed opportunity it was.  Got a bunch of students to the game and interested. Could have built on the feeling that it was fun and that they contributed to a win. Move on in playoffs and raise fb's profile. 

[geaux_sioux]

11 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

trick plays are for pussys and right now i thiink rudy is a pussy...first and ten, up 17, up 20 and your almost guaranteed a win, and you run a double reverse for minus seven yards...gutless call that bubba should fire him over...rudy and the special teams guy can back up and go back to minot and wherever you let free runners block punts....total garbage...give the ball to brady 40 times in this game and we win going away...

That flea flicker worked out pretty nice. That's the only way we could beat them over the top.

[SIOUXFAN97]

5 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

That flea flicker worked out pretty nice. That's the only way we could beat them over the top.

trick plays are for pussys and right now i thiink rudy is a pussy...first and ten, up 17, up 20 and your almost guaranteed a win, and you run a double reverse for minus seven yards...gutless call that bubba should fire him over...rudy and the special teams guy can back up and go back to minot and wherever you let free runners block punts....total garbage...give the ball to brady 40 times in this game and we win going away...

 

5 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

That flea flicker worked out pretty nice. That's the only way we could beat them over the top.

one a game is fine...two are one too many...bubba said we would be a run the ball and play good defense but in this game he lied to us...rudy can go to hell

[SIOUXFAN97]

brady was getting five god dam yards a rush...

[geaux_sioux]

9 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

trick plays are for pussys and right now i thiink rudy is a pussy...first and ten, up 17, up 20 and your almost guaranteed a win, and you run a double reverse for minus seven yards...gutless call that bubba should fire him over...rudy and the special teams guy can back up and go back to minot and wherever you let free runners block punts....total garbage...give the ball to brady 40 times in this game and we win going away...

 

one a game is fine...two are one too many...bubba said we would be a run the ball and play good defense but in this game he lied to us...rudy can go to hell

So Rudolph isn't creative enough one day and then the next he's too flashy? I love how people look at results and then spin their narrative after the fact. Captain Hindsight strikes again. Maybe the WR should have caught some balls tonight? Or is that Rudolph's fault too?

[planet2county]

Wisconsin was up 28-7 on Penn State tonight.  Penn State won.  It happens.  It is time to move on.  There are bigger adversities in life than a game. 

 

 

[AJS]

7 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

So Rudolph isn't creative enough one day and then the next he's too flashy? I love how people look at results and then spin their narrative after the fact. Captain Hindsight strikes again. Maybe the WR should have caught some balls tonight? Or is that Rudolph's fault too?

The only offensive play call of the night, given what was happening that didn't make sense was the reverse, other than that I thought he called a good game. Any offensive troubles tonight could be placed solely on the WRs. As a group they had by far their worst game of the season. Stanley, Toivanen and Wanzek couldn't catch anything.

Everything that happened tonight would have been negated if UND didn't have the worst special teams at the FCS level. It cost them their first game as well as their last. I'll never be able to wrap my head around why they brought pressure on the punt they had interference on.  I can live with a defensive break down, or a questionable offensive call, but what can't be accepted is what took place on that play. 

[nodak651]

Didn't read !@#$ the whole night.   Next year is going to be great!  Team over achieved this year!  Not the end of the world people!  Bummer, but congrats to the guys for the guys for what they achieved this year.  

[Goon]

1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said:

I couldn't agree with you more. We'll get there. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will this program.

I am going to agree with my buddy Fightingsioux4life this team is on the right track, they're so close to being a great football program. They're probably even ahead of where Buba thought they'd be at this time. At the press conference after Bubba was named coach of the year in the BSC, he said, we're not where we want to be yet." That should make all of us happy. Bubba has taken a program that was a big dumpster fire and made it a contender. For this I am thankful. 

[geaux_sioux]

16 minutes ago, AJS said:

The only offensive play call of the night, given what was happening that didn't make sense was the reverse, other than that I thought he called a good game. Any offensive troubles tonight could be placed solely on the WRs. As a group they had by far their worst game of the season. Stanley, Toivanen and Wanzek couldn't catch anything.

Everything that happened tonight would have been negated if UND didn't have the worst special teams at the FCS level. It cost them their first game as well as their last. I'll never be able to wrap my head around why they brought pressure on the punt they had interference on.  I can live with a defensive break down, or a questionable offensive call, but what can't be accepted is what took place on that play. 

Totally agree on special teams. That's on kostich or whoever made that decision. Just plain stupid. 

[Goon]

46 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

brady was getting five god dam yards a rush...

I wish the coaching staff would've come back with him. The Spiders had no answer for him. 

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

3 hours ago, Higgins said:

What bothers me the most about Torrey Hunt are his antics when he make plays that he is expected to make. Look at me!  Aren't I great. Let me pound my chest.

 

As Bud Grant use to tell his players. Act like you've been there before. 

 

I was at the Vikes game Thurs. and they gave that one away to the Boys. Tough week, witnessed both.  Played good enough to a certain point, deserved to win, then choked, choked.  This UND one hurts, gonna hurt, be lots of arrows shot at us down the road.  Cure here is to win some playoff games next year, or the hurt will turn into a burn.

[UNDMOORHEAD]

WTF happened? I was able to watch the first half and we looked fine. The last score I saw before work was 24-7. I come on here expecting to read about how we're going to the second round to play EWU. From reading the posts it sounds like we really choked this one away. I hope the players and coaches can learn from this and come back stronger next year. 

[Oxbow6]

5 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:

So Rudolph isn't creative enough one day and then the next he's too flashy? I love how people look at results and then spin their narrative after the fact. Captain Hindsight strikes again.

Every play call falls within the context and moment of a game..........you should know that. Rudoloh by and large is horrible at that. The flea flicker at that moment was great but it's one play.  UND is built to run the ball... especially up 17... especially when Brady was getting good chuncks on every carry. 

[CMSioux]

7 hours ago, Great Day To Be An Eagle said:

Damn...

Was really hoping for a true Big Sky Championship in Cheney next weekend.

Since y'all dodged that, do you mind shipping your half of the regular season trophy to Cheney? 

EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Eastern Washington University, 207 Physical Education Building, Cheney, WA 99004

 

I guess we'll take it from here for the Big Sky conference. 

Go Eags

You are an arrogant idiot. Go back into your parent's basement.