2023 Football Season

[Midwestern Hawk]

The part that kills me about this program is the game yesterday was winnable.  A win there and a win at South Dakota and there is a good chance we are playing in the quarters against a team we already beat this season.  The talent can always be better but great programs just win. It’s been this way for awhile. 

[homer]

1 hour ago, wheelsup said:

100% this.. Tommy/Danny regressed this year for some reason... If you throw out the games against the lower teams the offense did not produce outside of the NDSU game and maybe the Northern Arizona game.  The offensive identity/template this year for success was pounding the rock.. just like the NDSU game.  This is why Im down on Danny this year and not sold on him as head coach of the future.. Tommy was what he was, if you werent willing to give somebody else a try then pound the rock.  If we do that yesterday we win that game even with the poorest showing by UND defense Ive just about ever seen. (Yesterday is still on the defense)

I can see what Danny was thinking to start the 4th……I’ll run playaction, catch them off guard and move the ball.  Problem is as a team we want to score there but not score quick.   Nothing wrong with what we had been doing to that point, pound the ball…..5 minute drive and get them the ball back with 10 minutes left and hopefully behind.  It just changes things.   Commit to 4 down territory from there in and statistically, we can run the ball down the field.   Offense needs to compliment the defense and the staff should know that.  

[UND-FB-FAN]

17 minutes ago, Midwestern Hawk said:

The part that kills me about this program is the game yesterday was winnable.  A win there and a win at South Dakota and there is a good chance we are playing in the quarters against a team we already beat this season.  The talent can always be better but great programs just win. It’s been this way for awhile. 

That’s why the talent talk is futile. The leadership of the student-athletes is where the problem lies. 

[Midwestern Hawk]

24 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

That’s why the talent talk is futile. The leadership of the student-athletes is where the problem lies. 

No question.  The talent has been there for at least the last 5 years to make deep playoff runs with great coaching and leadership.

[Midwestern Hawk]

37 minutes ago, homer said:

I can see what Danny was thinking to start the 4th……I’ll run playaction, catch them off guard and move the ball.  Problem is as a team we want to score there but not score quick.   Nothing wrong with what we had been doing to that point, pound the ball…..5 minute drive and get them the ball back with 10 minutes left and hopefully behind.  It just changes things.   Commit to 4 down territory from there in and statistically, we can run the ball down the field.   Offense needs to compliment the defense and the staff should know that.  

So you are saying Danny outsmarted himself.  If it ain’t broken don’t fix it.  We not only move the ball and score running it, we keep their qb off the field.

[gfhockey]

The whole section I was sitting in, was yelling at Danny to run the ball. Not sure why we did three straight passes three straight sacks.

[geaux_sioux]

49 minutes ago, homer said:

I can see what Danny was thinking to start the 4th……I’ll run playaction, catch them off guard and move the ball.  Problem is as a team we want to score there but not score quick.   Nothing wrong with what we had been doing to that point, pound the ball…..5 minute drive and get them the ball back with 10 minutes left and hopefully behind.  It just changes things.   Commit to 4 down territory from there in and statistically, we can run the ball down the field.   Offense needs to compliment the defense and the staff should know that.  

It’s too obvious for everyone else. That’s what’s frustrating. Our garbage defense needed rest and time to go over things and their offense needed to cool off. So a quick score there does not help us other than 7 more points. It’s just not understanding these in game concepts that Bubba and Co have never been good at. 

[Midwestern Hawk]

33 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

It’s too obvious for everyone else. That’s what’s frustrating. Our garbage defense needed rest and time to go over things and their offense needed to cool off. So a quick score there does not help us other than 7 more points. It’s just not understanding these in game concepts that Bubba and Co have never been good at. 

Complimentary football…

[Sioux94]

6 minutes ago, Midwestern Hawk said:

Complimentary football…

Is what got USD a #3 seed.

[UND1983]

14 hours ago, F'n Hawks said:

We aren’t experts on this site. But we were all worried about OLB and safety going into the season… Pathetic how bad these position groups have become.

360 pin pointed those two as big issues last winter

[Midwestern Hawk]

15 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

360 pin pointed those two as big issues last winter

No question, but every team has weaknesses.  This is FCS football.

[geaux_sioux]

17 minutes ago, Midwestern Hawk said:

No question, but every team has weaknesses.  This is FCS football.

SDSUs is lack of competition?

[Midwestern Hawk]

8 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

SDSUs is lack of competition?

They may have less weaknesses, but they have all the intangibles in their corner every week too.  Sun Tzu.

UND has that confidence against Drake and WIU and that’s about it at this point.

[The Sicatoka]

Danny turned down a free meal … again. 

It’s OK to run the ball, especially if you’re doing it at 6 yards a play. 

[Oxbow6]

5 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Danny turned down a free meal … again. 

It’s OK to run the ball, especially if you’re doing it at 6 yards a play. 

Has NDSU lost a playoff game in the last decade at home scoring 35(+) and running for over 200+ yards?

That's the recipe to win in the playoffs but your D can't get shredded.

[Kab]

Any Monday morning surprises tomorrow or does chaves give an extension because bubba made the playoffs 

[Irish]

7 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Danny turned down a free meal … again. 

It’s OK to run the ball, especially if you’re doing it at 6 yards a play. 

Don't know what's gotten into Danny lately - when he started he showed so much promise

[CMSioux]

1 hour ago, Kab said:

Any Monday morning surprises tomorrow or does chaves give an extension because bubba made the playoffs 

Has there ever been a Monday morning surprise at UND? 

[Kab]

34 minutes ago, CMSioux said:

Has there ever been a Monday morning surprise at UND? 

Don’t know what day mussman was

[fightingsioux4life]

2 minutes ago, Kab said:

Don’t know what day mussman was

I believe it was Monday.

[Dustin]

Don’t know if the Mussman situation was much of a “surprise” though. 

[gfhockey]

When was Brewster and jonesy 

[fightingsioux4life]

1 minute ago, gfhockey said:

When was Brewster and jonesy 

Jones took a different job.

Brewster I don't remember.

[Midwestern Hawk]

2 hours ago, Irish said:

Don't know what's gotten into Danny lately - when he started he showed so much promise

It’s almost like he has tailored the offense to do little but have a high completion percentage.

[SuhakiYeahYeah]

Wesley Eliodor just deleted all his nodak posts on Instagram and is posting pics of himself when he played for south dakota on his story