2023 Football Season

[HoopsFan03]

18 minutes ago, Midwestern Hawk said:

Burning the tape is the way to never get better.  

100%. Especially when it happens two weeks in a row! 

[90siouxfan]

2 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Have I ever said that fans are more important than the players/recruiting or coaching? No. You just falsely attributed something to me. Not a surprise. 
 

Nebraska fans are super passionate, and passionate fans are important, but don’t make it sound like I’ve said fans are more important than the coaches and players, because I never said that. 

You backpedal like an experience QB with a green line.....  are you that California kid with the corn rows?

[UND-FB-FAN]

59 minutes ago, Midwestern Hawk said:

Even if they’re the best FCS team, we had zero answers for them on O or D.  

Many of you have played and/or coached.  

Was this game over before it began?  (Art of War).  I’ve had that feeling  about this team the last season and a half.  Actually since the Bison debacle at the Alerus.

Especially disappointing since UND had 2 weeks to prepare for the disaster in Brookings. NDSU-UND has always been a big game, and Bubba and his teams have always had the “deer in the headlights” look during all of them. Will 10/14 be any different? We’ll see…

[UND-FB-FAN]

45 minutes ago, 90siouxfan said:

You backpedal like an experience QB with a green line.....  are you that California kid with the corn rows?

Sorry, this doesn’t make any sense.

[CMSioux]

12 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Well, Nebraska also has the longest sellout streak in the nation. UND could learn a thing or two about respecting and listening to the fans. I fear (and know from experience) there’s a lot of tone-deaf snobs in the UND athletic department with ulterior motives. Their heads are a bit too big, you could say. 
Alerus Center would be more full potentially if the fans had a larger voice.
 

When it all comes down to it, it is all about finances, but extending Bubba after a 5-6 season makes you wonder what else is going on.

When we were at Nebraska last year several fans mentioned that the only reason the "sell out" record continues is that several local businesses buy up the tickets. They said if the losing continues that might come to an end. There is obviously a lot of community pressure on those busiensses to continue to buy those tickets and keep the streak alive. 

[SIOUXFAN97]

5 hours ago, Midwestern Hawk said:

After the Yotes beat the Bison, the game @USD moves to a "L" from a "toss up".  Remainder of the schedule gives us 2 more wins(W Ill and Ind St), 3 losses( NDSU, @UNI, @USD) and 2 "toss-ups"(@Murray St and Ill St).   

We will finish with 4-6 wins and 5-7 losses. 

Vintage Bubba ball.

yep that game in fargo puts that sodak game in a whole different light.

[90siouxfan]

3 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Sorry, this doesn’t make any sense.

You rail on fans for not wanting enough, throwing tantrums like you...   

[shep]

4 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

 Kelly is not on the coaching staff, so take this with a grain of salt. 

Then again, neither are any of us, but that doesn't stop MANY from pretending they are.

[GoodGood]

5 minutes ago, shep said:

Then again, neither are any of us, but that doesn't stop MANY from pretending they are.

Who is pretending to be a coach? I see a lot of people giving their opinions. You know this is a message board designed for people to give their opinions. Crazy!

[shep]

1 minute ago, GoodGood said:

Who is pretending to be a coach? I see a lot of people giving their opinions. You know this is a message board designed for people to give their opinions. Crazy!

Oh c'mon. There's plenty on here who offer their opinions as though they know more than the coaches. If it offended you, you may be one of them.

[geaux_sioux]

This forum sucks

[GoodGood]

1 minute ago, geaux_sioux said:

This forum sucks

Don't come here then! Crazy!

[GoodGood]

9 minutes ago, shep said:

Oh c'mon. There's plenty on here who offer their opinions as though they know more than the coaches. If it offended you, you may be one of them.

So who cares if User123 thinks they know more than the coaches? I also know nothing about football, but I'll give my opinion on here just like every other user on this board is doing. Wild!

[shep]

4 minutes ago, GoodGood said:

So who cares if User123 thinks they know more than the coaches? I also know nothing about football, but I'll give my opinion on here just like every other user on this board is doing. Wild!

As well you should. You're as free to give your opinion as I am.

But...you disagreed with my comment that many think their opinions are coach like.

[UND-FB-FAN]

10 minutes ago, shep said:

As well you should. You're as free to give your opinion as I am.

But...you disagreed with my comment that many think their opinions are coach like.

Stop assuming and move on. Have some fun. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

1 hour ago, CMSioux said:

When we were at Nebraska last year several fans mentioned that the only reason the "sell out" record continues is that several local businesses buy up the tickets. They said if the losing continues that might come to an end. There is obviously a lot of community pressure on those busiensses to continue to buy those tickets and keep the streak alive. 

You’re absolutely correct, but the sellout streak is still impressive nonetheless, and those businesses and fans that have helped accomplish the streak are noteworthy and worth recognizing. 
 

Business and fan support of that degree for UND football in Grand Forks is certainly absent. For hockey, maybe, but certainly not football. Could it develop for football? Maybe, with certain changes and openness from UND. 

[FSSD]

56 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

This forum sucks

I rarely use the ignore feature (only to Lake's at this point), but there are a handful on this forum that are close.  Very sad.

[Midwestern Hawk]

We will all feel much better about this team we love after we beat Western Illinois by 15-20 points.  The real question for everyone on this forum is 5-7 wins a year good enough for UND football?  Quite honestly, if Bubba's teams would win 8-9 games a season and we were a Top 10 FCS team year in and year out, I would be fine.  I'm not ok with 5-7 wins each year at the University of North Dakota.

[Oxbow6]

12 minutes ago, Midwestern Hawk said:

We will all feel much better about this team we love after we beat Western Illinois by 15-20 points.  The real question for everyone on this forum is 5-7 wins a year good enough for UND football?  Quite honestly, if Bubba's teams would win 8-9 games a season and we were a Top 10 FCS team year in and year out, I would be fine.  I'm not ok with 5-7 wins each year at the University of North Dakota.

Based on my conversations with my SU buddies in the FM area this is the least talented NDSU team in a decade. Can't blow this opportunity especially at home.

[SiouxHawkGuy]

6 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

Based on my conversations with my SU buddies in the FM area this is the least talented NDSU team in a decade. Can't blow this opportunity especially at home.

If South Dakota can do it on the road, North Dakota can do it at home. 

[Irish]

16 hours ago, Dustin said:

I thought if the fans demanded excellence, then we would get excellence.  And if the fans settle for mediocre, we would get mediocre.

Actually, I think it is more if the administration demands excellence - fans had nothing to do with renewing a 5-6 coach before his contract was up.

  

[Midwestern Hawk]

18 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

Based on my conversations with my SU buddies in the FM area this is the least talented NDSU team in a decade. Can't blow this opportunity especially at home.

I'll be there to witness it!  My hopes have been dashed so many times recently...

[siouxfan512]

14 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Especially disappointing since UND had 2 weeks to prepare for the disaster in Brookings. NDSU-UND has always been a big game, and Bubba and his teams have always had the “deer in the headlights” look during all of them. Will 10/14 be any different? We’ll see…

Can't disagree with this at all. Coming off a game in Boise where we just didn't show up or make play, I expected more. There were definitely some positives in the Boise game, not like it was a blow out from the beginning, but it was just more of the same with not being IN the game (at no point did we look like we thought we could win). I'd have expected a big push heading to Brookings. Tough to go into the #1 teams house and come out with a win, but we didn't even put up much of a fight. We looked timid and unprepared. (Can we never use Q as a running QB again please? 4th and short sure, but having him try to run east in west was a bad decision in a long line of bad decisions in that game. SDSU wasn't fooled and even if they were, Q is slower than dirt. I really expected more out of Danny.

Anyway, onward and upward. We should beat up on Western and I'd like to see the team take out some frustrations from the past due games. Don't win, beat them up. Run up the score. Try getting some guys in the game and use the 2nd half to prep for next week, because if you show up flat for one of the biggest games of the year, fans will continue to lose faith. This is still a playoff team, but if a playoff team can't pick of a higher caliber team once in a while, you're not going to do much. NDSU looks primed to pick off, but I can't say I'm confident in UND being up to the task. Hope I'm wrong!

Everyone needs to step it up, especially Tommy! I know there are some that don't like him, but bottom line is if he is starting, he needs to play better than the past two weeks. Danny also needs to give him some opportunities. Lets see some more Elijah Klein, apparently all he does is make circus catches. Maybe we can get that screen game going? I don't know what the answer is, but I'm hoping Danny and Bubba get it dialed in a bit more in the next two weeks. We started off looking like a force to be reckoned with the first two weeks on offense and have dwindled ever since. With a mediocre defense, we can't have a mediocre offense.

[siouxfan512]

28 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

Based on my conversations with my SU buddies in the FM area this is the least talented NDSU team in a decade. Can't blow this opportunity especially at home.

And I'm sure the nasty SU fans will want a win more now than ever. They love to throw out how we can't even beat them on down years. 

[Sioux94]

20 hours ago, AJS said:

I posted this earlier this week. There is a chance that the reason it was so lopsided is because SDSU is a step or two better than ANY other FCS team, except for Montana State. Let’s let this one play out for a few more weeks. 

I agree with this. MSU demolished Weber 40-0. I think when those two teams are on.....it is likely nobody will beat them. That said every team has some poor performances and SDSU may have some games where they beat average teams by only 10-15. SDSU was coming off a bye week and a ranked ND team coming in was a big game and they wanted to show us who is boss......and they absolutely did. 

 

We will see how the season plays out. Regardless if those two teams are head and shoulders better.....it was embarrassing getting pummeled like that. They also pummeled a pretty good NDSU team last year in the Championship game though too. I still think we can be a good team, but obviously we have quite a ways to go to get to the top.