2022 Football Season

[Sioux94]

 

From Miller's article on Day 1 practice:  "One of the surprises of the depth chart was starting right tackle Jack Kuntz of Devils Lake."   If he is good enough to start at tackle and they are able to move Kilty to Guard, which they are experimenting with that would be great.  Sounds like they realize we need to be much better on the interior OL, which is true.   Hopefully if we run it up the middle this year on 2nd and 2 we pick up 3 yards instead of losing 1. 

[geaux_sioux]

Toughest hole in town. Either we’re gonna be really good this year or these guys are liars.

[sioux24/7]

5 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

Toughest hole in town. Either we’re gonna be really good this year or these guys are liars.

Sounds like it was on a mulligan

[geaux_sioux]

14 minutes ago, sioux24/7 said:

Sounds like it was on a mulligan

Breakfast ball on the 8th hole?

[Sioux94]

15 hours ago, AJS said:

A few thoughts

1. Nice to see Smith listed at #1 RB as he is the most dynamic back.  Hoping we can get off to better starts offensively this year.  I think it took 4-5 game Weah's first year playing to get moved into the starting spot even though it was clear he should be the #1.  4 RB's with experience....we should have good depth there even if Mitchell is still out for a while. Could Ziebarth end up with as many carries as Skokna by the end of the year? Ziebarth looked pretty good in limited action last year and has more size than Skokna.  

2.  Feeney at #4 on depth chart, is Romfo that good....or is Feeney not as good as we thought? 

3.  We have 3 Kickers......are any of them capable of making a 42 yard FG 7 out of 10 times? 

4. Surprised Navratil is listed as an Or with Ted Mullin at OLB.  Figured Navratil would for sure be starter.  Looks like we should have a good 2 deep at OLB. 

5. Some previously unfamiliar names on the DB 2 deep, hopefully they will be solid.  

6. Hoping Klein can emerge as a sneaky weapon at times with his height. 

 

[siouxfan512]

11 hours ago, UND Fan said:

Pierre is focusing on Law School - can't fault him for that!

Seriously wtf?!?! Bubba needs to improve his recruiting and focus on kids who have their priorities straight. Kids with real values who are focused who have some morals. I’m sick of this kids who just quit  on their team. Football!!!!!

please sense the sarcasm before you respond … I was excited about Pierre since we recruited him, but clearly he is a very bright young man who is focused on the big picture. Best of luck to this kid and thank you for your contribution to the program!

 

 

[The Sicatoka]

In light of Maag's hole in one, do we rename the position he plays to "Ace" receiver? 

[Nodak78]

10 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

In light of Maag's hole in one, do we rename the position he plays to "Ace" receiver? 

Excited on WR's.  Healthy Maag, Klein zalvaney.  All have height.  Belquist, Preston, Wright with some speed.  Not to mention the newcomers.

[Dustin]

 

[UND-FB-FAN]

38 minutes ago, Dustin said:

 

Appreciate the coverage, but that was a whole lotta’ words for a whole lotta’ nothing.

[Teeder11]

56 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:

Excited on WR's.  Healthy Maag, Klein zalvaney.  All have height.  Belquist, Preston, Wright with some speed.  Not to mention the newcomers.

Absolutely. I am also curious about Montrellis "Red" Wilson as a slot threat. He shows some scoot in his Hudl, regardless of the competition level.

https://www.hudl.com/profile/13052360/Montrellis-Wilson

He reminds me of Weah in open space, minus the slippery fingers.  Have we had a true slot receiver option since R.J. Magill?

[Nodak78]

16 minutes ago, Teeder11 said:

Absolutely. I am also curious about Montrellis "Red" Wilson as a slot threat. He shows some scoot in his Hudl, regardless of the competition level.

https://www.hudl.com/profile/13052360/Montrellis-Wilson

He reminds me of Weah in open space, minus the slippery fingers.  Have we had a true slot receiver option since R.J. Magill?

Sounds like Red is making noise in camp.

[shep]

Listening to the 360 guys analyze the OL

[shep]

Matt Nelson is new to the group with Kelly and Shannon.

Questions about the lack of experience at RT with Kuntz and Hagen but Hagen is their breakout OL.

Oliphant is real deal but banged up in spring; hoping Lotysz pushes Carroll at C.

Tommorrow talking about the 10 TEs on the roster.

 

[UND1983]

11 minutes ago, shep said:

Matt Nelson is new to the group with Kelly and Shannon.

Questions about the lack of experience at RT with Kuntz and Hagen but Hagen is their breakout OL.

Oliphant is real deal but banged up in spring; hoping Lotysz pushes Carroll at C.

Tommorrow talking about the 10 TEs on the roster.

 

They seem to like the o line but are cautious due to experience issues. Ventrelli at left tackle is a good move

[AJS]

5 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

They seem to like the o line but are cautious due to experience issues. Ventrelli at left tackle is a good move

They also think Kilty is a better Guard then he is Tackle. 

[Sioux>Bison]

Oline really is the biggest question mark this season. Not a ton of experience but the transfers should help once they figure out the offense. No reason this unit couldn’t be solid once they work through the preseason. We have some good talent that just needs to put it on the field!

[UND1983]

Bryant will help a lot on the inside

[Sioux>Bison]

Tommy needs to run! He can run and needs to be elusive in the pocket and take off to run. No more worrying about the inexperience behind him!

if we see this out of Tommy he may start the whole year

[AJS]

36 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said:

Tommy needs to run! He can run and needs to be elusive in the pocket and take off to run. No more worrying about the inexperience behind him!

if we see this out of Tommy he may start the whole year

Tommy's best game last Fall and overall (given opponent, ect) I would say the offenses best game was @ South Dakota State. I do think a lot of that was attributed to Tommy running by far the most he did all year. It wasn't anything crazy, maybe four / five times, but he got decent chunks of yards, moved the chains. Completely agree, he needs to run when given the chance. 

[Siouxperfan7]

59 minutes ago, AJS said:

Tommy's best game last Fall and overall (given opponent, ect) I would say the offenses best game was @ South Dakota State. I do think a lot of that was attributed to Tommy running by far the most he did all year. It wasn't anything crazy, maybe four / five times, but he got decent chunks of yards, moved the chains. Completely agree, he needs to run when given the chance. 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/gamelog/_/id/4579073/tommy-schuster

Tommy had the most attempts and yards against the Jacks, 10 for 31 yards.  But for the season, he averaged 3.7 rushes for 8 yards.  Take out the Jacks game and it was only an average of 3.1 rushes for 5.8 yards.  

Tommy is a good runner.  He is elusive and as we all know, rarely gets sacked.  Not sure if running the ball for yardage isn't one of Tommy's strengths, or if Freund doesn't call run plays for him and just leaves that for when Quincey is under center.  Have to mix it up more and keep the defense guessing.  Not fooling anoyone wo think Tommy is going to run when stats show that he doesn't.  Same thing applies for with Quincey is in there.  Majority ofthe time he runs.

A successful QB strategy in my opinion would be to make both our QB's more two dimensional. 

[SiouxFan100]

Designed runs ok

for me, more so, is when scrambling to take off - and when doing so get the first down on third downs if it is there - be aware of the situation 

[The Sicatoka]

Or might the concern be if Tommy gets hurt running the ball the offensive playbook becomes very small. 

[AJS]

Who started at Tackle at SDSU when Waletzko was out?

[Nodak78]

9 minutes ago, AJS said:

Who started at Tackle at SDSU when Waletzko was out?

Games lists 2 deep for left tackle

72 Colin Lavell

73 Jack Kuntz