Gameday: Fighting Hawks vs MVSU

[Cratter]

Washington will probably start from about the 35 yard line on average, if UND gets a chance to kickoff...

[Siouxperman8]

35 minutes ago, gundy1124 said:

And yet Kostich has what could be the BEST TE in the state of MN committed......

I love the small town kids, but a lot of our guys are not small town kids.  I have seen our TE coach in many situations and I disagree with your assessment.

Word I got from parent of player who graduated last year is that the players love him. 

My minimal experience with him has been positive too. 

[MDtoGF]

https://seamoresports.com/2018/08/31/35-7-how-tonights-score-does-not-tell-the-whole-story-for-mvsu/ 

I was the one asking these questions to players and Head Coach Vincent Dancy below.  I will post more UND things, but this MVSU team reminded me a lot of Bubba's first team here. Impressed with their compete level. I had a chance to interview some of their players and Coach Dancy. UND looked good, but MVSU made them earn things and showed how they can win games in the SWAC. I still mainly post UND things but wanted to showcase what this team could be with Coach Dancy leading the way.  

 

 

 

[zonadub]

51 minutes ago, Cratter said:

Washington will probably start from about the UND 35 yard line on average, if UND gets a chance to kickoff...

fyp

[LeaveNoDoubt]

The beers were cold in the tailgating lot today. One good thing 

[JohnboyND7]

3 hours ago, Godsmack said:

I heard Washington’s QB might be a Heisman candidate. 

Browning is a boss.  That game should be about a 40 point game.

3 hours ago, tnt said:

Gotta tell ya, NDSU isn’t exactly a cure for arrogance.

You aren't wrong.  But they've kicked people around for the better part of a decade.  

[Longtime fan]

7 hours ago, shep said:

Not even Ketteringham? So nice to have a DI QB who can make the pass to the right player at the right time. Without the drops he's gotten be 75% at least.

Against the likes of mvsu, I would hope that EVERY player would look all American.  They didn’t..... not even close. At minimum I was expecting a 35-7 score at the half. Not a final!!   Mvsu nearly had it a 21-17 game at the half.  

 

[John W.]

Season ticket holder here....like the potential for this year's team....most improvement as a team is usually between week 1 and 2, but even tho improving....I don't think they'll beat 'U-dub'....

I agree with some who've posted about the 'arrogance' of Bison fandom....rivaled only by the 'arrogance'  of UND hockey, team, staff, fans and those who cover for the media....fingers point in both directions.....

[Oxbow6]

First game.......what I expected to see. UND has a legit QB. 1-0 to start the year. Bring on Dub!

[sioux24/7]

I wasn’t at the game, I listened and watched a bit but my limited assessment is that we could be good but we are missing a key part and that is a secondary. Teams are going to gouge us through the air. 

[F'n Hawks]

Secondary, Special Teams, O line

[homer]

One name I haven’t seen mentioned from last night- Mason Bennett.  Once adjustments were made on D and they were able to play a little faster the kid did what we expected him to do.  Which is good.  

Him and #91 played well when we figured out what they were doing.  They did what we all expected the game to go.  Get the youth behind them up to speed and hopefully healthy.  

Shore up the secondary.  Two corners playing their first game in two years.  Hoping they continue to improve.  

[UNDColorado]

I was underwhelmed to say the least but Ketteringham does look good. He has a cannon and can place the ball where it needs to be. He did have one or two throws where I wish he would have tucked and ran. As mentioned the secondary needs to shore things up but it was nice to see us stop the run again.

[UND-FB-FAN]

I’ve slept on it and now can comment:

Underwhelming performance but a win. Ultimately UND looked worse than I had hoped. The players and coaches have to do better; more work to do.

Positives:

QB play was a quite good. Ketteringham is an upgrade over Studsrud. He has a better deep ball and is composed in the pocket. He also just looks the part. Happy with this position which is huge (most important position in sports).

UND Pass rush was getting after MVSU all night. With that said, MVSU’s Oline was pathetic. Negative rushing yards and multiple false starts.

Garrett Maag is the real deal. Great potential career for him at UND.

New wrinkles in offense: throwing to TE, all three backs on field at same time, more plays to Santiago in space, bubble screens, deep shots; the game was called well by Rudolph.

Negatives:

The fumbles by Oliveira were unacceptable. Can’t turn the ball over.

Have to finish in the red zone! Should’ve scored at least 14 more points! To make matters worse, the field goal unit left points out there on the field! Leach looked poor ... DAMN! That will hurt UND

Pass defense was unacceptable ... again. This will continue to be UND’s Achilles heel unless they can tighten it up. MVSU shouldn’t be able to pass up and down the field like they did.

Cant drop interceptions! Damn! 

kickoff coverage and kick depth was poor

 

All in all, I would give UND a C - grade for this game; Below average but pass because they won. 

Washington game likely to be ugly. Have to hope UND plays way better and Washington completely overlooks UND also.

Not going to overlook the next game to week 3. Have to take it one game at a time. Improve this week and get after it versus one of the best In the country.

[MDtoGF]

Some thoughts on this one from a Fighting Hawks' perspective. 

https://seamoresports.com/2018/08/31/three-thoughts-on-und-football-after-season-opening-win/

 

[UND1981]

5 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

 

 

QB play was a quite good. Ketteringham is an upgrade over Studsrud. He has a better deep ball and is composed in the pocket. He also just looks the part. Happy with this position which is huge (most important position in sports).

 

Agreed.  Fiedler made 2 great catches last night.  I wasn't expecting that.

[Finn flick]

1 minute ago, UND1981 said:

Agreed.  Fiedler made 2 great catches last night.  I wasn't expecting that.

Three

[AJS]

After watching last nights game, plus feelings coming into the season, concerns are WR, Secondary, O-Line, Special Teams

• WR: Had a really bad game as a group, as many dropped balls as I can remember. Guys with the majority of the drops mainly Toivonen / Wanzek are sure handed. I do think this group overall is solid, but they are more on my list as a segue to the second bullet point.
• Secondary: As bad as this group was in the 1st half, they cleaned up basically everything in the 2nd half. I'm not saying this positional group isn't the weakness of the defense, because it is, but I'm optimistic that they will improve. As others have pointed out, Harris (missed entire year due to injury) and Holm (missed most last year due to injury) absolutely were going to have some rust. I'm not saying these two will be the best CB tandem in the FCS, but they both have been pretty good CB's at the this level. Those two will get better, there's no doubt about that. They were missing a starting safety as well. Still needs to improve, but I think they will.
• O-Line: Tough to tell based on opponent. Given how young the line is, they will improve throughout the year
• Special Teams: Kickoff coverage much better in 2nd half, not ideal for kicker to go 0-2 (after going 0-2 in Fall camp scrimmage).

Who got the most reps at RT yesterday? I know Waletzko got in pretty early, but did he play the majority of the game?

 

[LkvlleUNDFan]

21 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:

35-10 UND

Winner of the prediction contest?

[LkvlleUNDFan]

10 hours ago, 1972 said:

I am not sure about Holm at all, he looked completely lost most of the time.  Should have had at least 3 pass interference penslties.  If that's solid, we are in deep crap

And he's going to be tested all game every game with Harris on the other side. Let's hope this was rust.

[LkvlleUNDFan]

It's always hard to assess a team after Game 1. So much can change over the season, and even from week to week, but:

• MVSU's OLine was probably the worst I've seen at this level. Our DLine and LB's had a fun game, and took advantage of the weakness. The MVSU QB is sore today, I'm sure.
• Ketteringham - we're going to like watching him play
• Rudolph - mixed it up more than past years. Even in a game where you want to keep things kind of vanilla, there was rhythm and flow to the offense. Lots of weapons on this team.
• WRs - lots of comments about the drops. My thought during the game was that the MVSU DBs were always in position to make the play. I don't remember a drop that wasn't a contested catch. I don't know if MVSU's DB crew is top-notch or not, but our guys had trouble getting free. I'm not worried about the drops - lack of separation was more the issue.
• Team - played a lot of guys last night. Lots of younger guys got a decent # of plays.
• Injuries - no major ones. Jade Lawrence left the game and was wearing a boot on the sidelines. Tank Harris left the game, looked like an ankle, but was walking pretty well on the sidelines. I think that was more precautionary to take him out.

Looking forward to Seattle and UW next week!

[Midwestern Hawk]

Positives:

QB definite upgrade.

RB's are very good.

TE's were targeted more often.

Run defense was good

Defense improved in 2nd half after adjusting

Negatives:

Pass defense in 1st Half

Dropped passes by WR's

Fumbles

Special Teams(Kickoffs and FG)

 

Overall I'll always take a 35-7 win.  Lots to work on this week.  Hopefully leg injuries to Tank Harris and Jade Lawrence are not serious.

 

[Sioux>Bison]

Young guys I look forward to watching: 

izzy a

zeke ott

Noah Larson 

 

any weather forecast for UW? A rainy muddy battle would even up the teams. 

[siouxfantastic]

This game was a tail of two halves and especially on Defense.  We heard all week that they are going to try to run the ball more and we geared up to stop the run and play not play tight coverage.  We knew little about who was starting on this team and had little film to watch to see what they like to do.  In the second have our corners started to press coverage them to knock them out of their routes and we also played zone to take away their throwing lanes.  This made their qb look for his second read because his first was fighting to get off at the line of scrimmage so he didn't have the quick throw and that allowed us more time to get to the qb to pressure him or sack him.  It was a good adjustment at half.  Now that being said if we are playing a good team we will have to adjust before half-time.  I like how UND spread the ball around on Offense to different players but when we have a chance to catch a ball the WR's need to catch it.  Need to improve on Special team.  That's my 2 cents.

[The Sicatoka]

A Bubba win:

- a win
- lots on the film to work on

My knocks:

- 3rd and 25 and a full blitz to give up 50 yards? 
- 11 and 14 need to bring it in if it hits their hands
- loss of focus on special teams (go up two scores, give up long return)

My "improve it" list:

- I like the reverse rollout action with 8; however, he needs a short and long receiver option
- tackling, especially in/by the secondary
- coverage by the DBs

My "you're fine" list:

- hey, 27, calm down and relax, let muscle memory do the work