A week from today

[Mama Sue]

4 hours ago, Siouxphan27 said:

They have to be very slow and deliberate for their fans to understand. Thus the 4 hours.  

Also repeat, repeat, repeat... just wondering if there were juice commercials during that time.....

[OgieOgilthorpe]

1 thing is for sure- drake is a better team than butler. But another thing is for sure, NDSU could’ve put up 90 on them if they had wanted to, so comparing scores does no good as usual. 

 

I do however have a slightly better feeling about next weekend now that I saw Zim run the offense more successfully. The Oline is going to get eaten alive but I think Zim will be good for 3-4 long explosive plays one way or another. With how spread out things are and how many 3 step routes they can toss, one of unds quick guys is bound to break loose a few times. 

NDSU had no push back whatsoever from that butler d and it made them inaccurately seem even better than last season. Surely they’ll be good but I think UNDs D will at least keep them in check most of the game. 

Chances of winning are extremely low but chances of keeping a respectable full length game are high. This will be a better game than 2015 just because of this offense, but I still predict a 3 score loss. But definitely not a negative yards going into halftime type of game this time. 

[gundy1124]

14 minutes ago, OgieOgilthorpe said:

1 thing is for sure- drake is a better team than butler. But another thing is for sure, NDSU could’ve put up 90 on them if they had wanted to, so comparing scores does no good as usual. 

 

I do however have a slightly better feeling about next weekend now that I saw Zim run the offense more successfully. The Oline is going to get eaten alive but I think Zim will be good for 3-4 long explosive plays one way or another. With how spread out things are and how many 3 step routes they can toss, one of unds quick guys is bound to break loose a few times. 

NDSU had no push back whatsoever from that butler d and it made them inaccurately seem even better than last season. Surely they’ll be good but I think UNDs D will at least keep them in check most of the game. 

Chances of winning are extremely low but chances of keeping a respectable full length game are high. This will be a better game than 2015 just because of this offense, but I still predict a 3 score loss. But definitely not a negative yards going into halftime type of game this time. 

I watched 3 quarters of Butler.  4 new starters on O line and there QB had 3 career passes.  That was a DII team, and an average DII team at best. 

The SU QB is pretty impressive, hopefully we can confuse and pressure.  SU has good weapons but nothing scarey good.  SU defense is really good.  

[SlowHand]

2 hours ago, gundy1124 said:

SU has good weapons but nothing scarey good.  SU defense is really good.  

I saw the opposite.  NDSU D looked worse than last year but their O looked incredible.  The O line is very good.

[gundy1124]

16 minutes ago, SlowHand said:

I saw the opposite.  NDSU D looked worse than last year but their O looked incredible.  The O line is very good.

Vrs our WRs, we will have to compete for the ball.  

[ND1]

2 hours ago, gundy1124 said:

Vrs our WRs, we will have to compete for the ball.  

One thing that caught my attention was the bison secondary.  Only one player on the 2 deep is over 6’ I believe.  Don’t get me wrong they are good, but with our 4 WR at 6-4, we might have some good match ups next week 

[Bison06]

3 hours ago, SlowHand said:

I saw the opposite.  NDSU D looked worse than last year but their O looked incredible.  The O line is very good.

What could possibly be taken away from yesterday’s game that made you think the D looked worse? By the time Butler had even a hint of success we were rotating backups in and all three levels. And even then, our backups and third and fourth stringers only gave up three points.

Not saying they won’t be worse than last years D, but I didn’t see anything but positive from our D yesterday.

[gundy1124]

1 hour ago, ND1 said:

One thing that caught my attention was the bison secondary.  Only one player on the 2 deep is over 6’ I believe.  Don’t get me wrong they are good, but with our 4 WR at 6-4, we might have some good match ups next week.

Their secondary(NDSU) was going thru the motions and I never saw one Butler receiver get open.  Yet Butler wasn't loaded with NFL guys( like they tried talking up the guy from Drake)

[SlowHand]

20 hours ago, Bison06 said:

What could possibly be taken away from yesterday’s game that made you think the D looked worse? By the time Butler had even a hint of success we were rotating backups in and all three levels. And even then, our backups and third and fourth stringers only gave up three points.

Not saying they won’t be worse than last years D, but I didn’t see anything but positive from our D yesterday.

NDSU gave up 2.9 yards per carry to Butler.  Butler has zero run game.  2.9 ypc to Butler should never happen.

[Hayduke]

Oh, the smack talk brings joy to my soul. 

It's Sioux/Bison week, baby!!

My $.02.  NDSU will be a tough task.  I doubt they are overlooking UND and will be ready.  UND will score on them, but not enough.  NDSU will probably win by 2 tds or better.

On the other hand, my other school is Wyoming.  I thought Missouri would cover the 17 pt spread.  WTH do I know?  LOL  

[ND1]

I see bubba has closed practice to the media and fans this week... good idea 

[geaux_sioux]

15 minutes ago, ND1 said:

I see bubba has closed practice to the media and fans this week... good idea 

So he can instal the triple option

[Hayduke]

8 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

So he can instal the triple option

Run Don Morton's veer against them!  LOL

[Bison06]

4 hours ago, SlowHand said:

NDSU gave up 2.9 yards per carry to Butler.  Butler has zero run game.  2.9 ypc to Butler should never happen.

How many of those came in the second half?

[NoiseInsideMyHead]

4 hours ago, SlowHand said:

NDSU gave up 2.9 yards per carry to Butler.  Butler has zero run game.  2.9 ypc to Butler should never happen.

2.9 x 3 < 10, so what's the problem?  A team that pitches out and sprints straight to the sideline every down could make 3 yards a carry, but it's not exactly gonna light things up.

Heck, 50 carries at 2.9 is still less than 150 ypg.

What is an acceptable ypc?

[Bison06]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay?gameId=401127277

Butler drives vs our starters

3 plays for 3 yards punt

4 plays for 14 yards punt

4 plays for 8 yards TOD

3 plays for -1 yard punt

6 plays for -7 yards

3 plays for -12 yards interception

5 plays for 35 yards missed FG

Which of those drives concerned you?

[SlowHand]

6 minutes ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said:

What is an acceptable ypc?

Against Butler?  0.00 to any negative number.

[Bison06]

25 minutes ago, SlowHand said:

Against Butler?  0.00 to any negative number.

First game of the year with that many new starters? That’s not a realistic expectation against anyone.

[Nodak78]

1 hour ago, Bison06 said:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay?gameId=401127277

Butler drives vs our starters

3 plays for 3 yards punt

4 plays for 14 yards punt

4 plays for 8 yards TOD

3 plays for -1 yard punt

6 plays for -7 yards

3 plays for -12 yards interception

5 plays for 35 yards missed FG

Which of those drives concerned you?

You guys did a great job covering Butler.  Congrats.

[Bison06]

2 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:

You guys did a great job covering Butler.  Congrats.

Thanks for following along. 

 

[UND-FB-FAN]

Rivalry week, baby!

 

GO UND FIGHTING HAWKS!

NDSU is No. 1 for a reason. This is a tremendous opportunity for the 2019 UND Fighting Hawks football team. Go out and win the game. Knocking off Goliath would be huge, obviously. It won't be easy, but that is the whole point of competition and rivalry! Win back the state!!!

[Nodak78]

19 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:

You guys did a great job covering Butler.  Congrats.

 

16 minutes ago, Bison06 said:

Thanks for following along. 

 

You damn near shut out Butler with is the 7 ranked team in the pioneer league.  

[Bison06]

8 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:

 

You damn near shut out Butler with is the 7 ranked team in the pioneer league.  

You obviously weren’t reading along.

[Nodak78]

3 minutes ago, Bison06 said:

You obviously weren’t reading along.

So Butler wasn't the 7th ranked team in the pioneer league?

[Bison06]

1 minute ago, Nodak78 said:

So Butler wasn't the 7th ranked team in the pioneer league?

Butler was trash, everybody knows it.

Another poster stated he was unhappy with how our defense looked. So I responded with our defensive drives. You somehow think that is me bragging up the performance against a trash team. This isn’t true and you would know that if you had read along as I said.