2022 Football Season

[AJS]

As someone who's been pretty optimistic about the O-Line, listening to 360's preview today and reading this article has me really excited for this unit. Taking from both, the highlights being.

• Lotysz being healthy and battling for the starting center position with Carroll
• Bryant has impressed (current LG starter)
• Kuntz / Hagen fighting for Right Tackle spot
• Kilty back at RG (360 feels that's his best position)

 

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/college/und-football-fall-camp-day-2-offensive-linemen-building-bodies-of-work-after-injuries

 

 

 

[The Sicatoka]

 

[Siouxperfan7]

16 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

 

I remember the last time a broadcaster went from calling football games at NDSU to calling football games at UND  

[Teeder11]

19 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

 

A UND alum comes home!

[SuhakiYeahYeah]

37 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

 

Jeez, I thought we were done with NDSU transfers for the year

[UNDColorado]

43 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

 

This should be a good thing. I may have missed it but what happened to Heinert? I really liked him.

[Siouxperfan7]

2 minutes ago, UNDColorado said:

This should be a good thing. I may have missed it but what happened to Heinert? I really liked him.

From the article

Brian Shawn will take over for Alex Heinert due to increasing conflicts between Midco Sports broadcasts of UND football and men's hockey.

For the first time, Midco Sports will be covering select UND road conference football games — something the Big Sky Conference did not allow, but the Missouri Valley Football Conference does.

There are two conference road games this season on dates when UND is home for hockey. Instead of splitting the football duties between Shawn and Heinert, Midco decided to put Shawn on football games full-time and keep Heinert as the primary play-by-play voice of UND men's hockey

[UNDColorado]

2 minutes ago, Siouxperfan7 said:

From the article

Brian Shawn will take over for Alex Heinert due to increasing conflicts between Midco Sports broadcasts of UND football and men's hockey.

For the first time, Midco Sports will be covering select UND road conference football games — something the Big Sky Conference did not allow, but the Missouri Valley Football Conference does.

There are two conference road games this season on dates when UND is home for hockey. Instead of splitting the football duties between Shawn and Heinert, Midco decided to put Shawn on football games full-time and keep Heinert as the primary play-by-play voice of UND men's hockey

Thanks, that's what happens when I skim articles.

[UNDColorado]

I haven't seen this posted here yet but pretty cool program for the football team: https://undalumni.org/meat-up?erid=14116115&trid=84222981-5734-44b7-8625-536b8095864d

[Irish]

17 hours ago, Sioux94 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. 

 

I seriously thought the topic pre-season would be "should Feeney start the first game or should we wait a few games to let him get his feet wet".  Pretty surprised at #4 on the depth chart".

[UNDColorado]

1 hour ago, Irish said:

I seriously thought the topic pre-season would be "should Feeney start the first game or should we wait a few games to let him get his feet wet".  Pretty surprised at #4 on the depth chart".

Kind of makes me laugh about some people on here screaming for him to play last season.

[SiouxFan100]

Pretty early 

[gfhockey]

Props to midco for not being cheap

[gfhockey]

3 hours ago, UNDColorado said:

I haven't seen this posted here yet but pretty cool program for the football team: https://undalumni.org/meat-up?erid=14116115&trid=84222981-5734-44b7-8625-536b8095864d

Oh yeah some guy was talking  out this in a bar a while back. Any one have any cows to donate and not talking ndsu cheerleaders either

[Sioux>Bison]

4 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

 

Brian is a great guy! So glad he is coming home from the dark side! Big news!

[Sioux>Bison]

3 hours ago, UNDColorado said:

This should be a good thing. I may have missed it but what happened to Heinert? I really liked him.

I’ll miss Alex calling football games, his excitement in his calling of games is something I enjoyed

[UND-FB-FAN]

23 hours ago, Sioux>Bison said:

Tommy needs to run! He can run ...

Not sure that is even in his game, unfortunately. Just not who he is as a FB player. Some things you just can't develop. I am hoping Quincy Vaughn, Simon Romfo, or Trey Feeney can push him for the starting job, but that is questionable. I think the season win total is capped at 7 games with Tommy at QB; just not explosive enough to take UND to the next level. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

21 hours ago, Siouxperfan7 said:

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

If you have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterback

[UND-FB-FAN]

18 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

 

great move!

[The Sicatoka]

Brian Shawn was NDSU's TV voice from 2012-2021. I'd be OK if he brought that kind of run with him.  

[geaux_sioux]

6 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Not sure that is even in his game, unfortunately. Just not who he is as a FB player. Some things you just can't develop. I am hoping Quincy Vaughn, Simon Romfo, or Trey Feeney can push him for the starting job, but that is questionable. I think the season win total is capped at 7 games with Tommy at QB; just not explosive enough to take UND to the next level. 

The Feeney situation is concerning. Would have hoped by now to have heard glowing endorsements about him but mum is the word. Romfo has gotten praise on the other hand which is a pleasant surprise.

[UND-FB-FAN]

1 minute ago, geaux_sioux said:

The Feeney situation is concerning. Would have hoped by now to have heard glowing endorsements about him but mum is the word. Romfo has gotten praise on the other hand which is a pleasant surprise.

Don't sleep on Romfo. Doing well thus far and he is a 3-time ND FB state champion (2018-2020). His pedigree is under the radar given Feeney had the big Minnesota accolades, but Romfo can get the job done potentially. Morale of this story is UND needs to keep recruiting good football players from North Dakota at all classifications. 

[SiouxFan100]

Can anyone rank our qbs on arm strength please

[geaux_sioux]

18 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Don't sleep on Romfo. Doing well thus far and he is a 3-time ND FB state champion (2018-2020). His pedigree is under the radar given Feeney had the big Minnesota accolades, but Romfo can get the job done potentially. Morale of this story is UND needs to keep recruiting good football players from North Dakota at all classifications. 

It would be really fun to have a great athlete at qb. Poor man’s Murray if you will.

[The Sicatoka]

13 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:

Can anyone rank our qbs on arm strength please

We'd be guessing by perceptions. 

I'd love to be able to ask Maag and Zavalney.