Griz vs UND Sept 7

[Nodak78]

New Chapter.  Four homes in a row.  Griz are ranked #3.  They had a tough game against Missouri St.  I guess Griz fought a lesser bear and won.

UND needs to clean up some issues to win.   protect the Alerus!!!

[shep]

Despite some head scratching plays and decisions, the result from yesterday suggests a W is possible.

 

Or they get crushed by 30.

[Nodak78]

New poll Montana #6 UND #17.

[UND-FB-FAN]

Big opportunity. Need to win the line of scrimmage, capitalize in the red zone when on offense, and win the turnover battle. Certainly possible for UND to pull out the win given their history in the Alerus. 

[UNDColorado]

I have to be honest. This time last week I was convinced we would lose by three scores to Montana. Now if we can run the ball like we did against ISU and clean a few things up I think we have a real shot. Should be an awesome tailgate and atmosphere!

[nodak651]

Estimated attendance?

[gfhockey]

I know there’s bow and goose hunting going in

[forksandspoons]

5 minutes ago, nodak651 said:

Estimated attendance?

12k 

[UND1983]

1 hour ago, gfhockey said:

I know there’s bow and goose hunting going in

lol dohkay

[ND1]

1 hour ago, nodak651 said:

Estimated attendance?

close to a sell out expected...6pm start, home opener, live bands in the tailgate parking lot before, fireworks show afterwards.  The Al will be rocking!

[fightingsioux4life]

21 minutes ago, ND1 said:

close to a sell out expected...6pm start, home opener, live bands in the tailgate parking lot before, fireworks show afterwards.  The Al will be rocking!

Whether it stays rocking depends on what happens on the field. This is a great opportunity to get people excited about the program.

[nodak651]

 

[F'n Hawks]

4 hours ago, forksandspoons said:

12k 

I don’t think we quite get to 12k. My guess is 10,500

[forksandspoons]

58 minutes ago, F'n Hawks said:

I don’t think we quite get to 12k. My guess is 10,500

Not a crazy amount of tickets left on Ticketmaster. With a decent walk-up crowd, it could sell out. 

[1972]

23 minutes ago, forksandspoons said:

Not a crazy amount of tickets left on Ticketmaster. With a decent walk-up crowd, it could sell out. 

there is a TON of tickets left...you have to remember that the majority of the tickets on the home side of the field are season ticket holders, and of those, a lot choose not to attend..not sure why.

[AJS]

4 minutes ago, 1972 said:

there is a TON of tickets left...you have to remember that the majority of the tickets on the home side of the field are season ticket holders, and of those, a lot choose not to attend..not sure why.

Not sure I'm following. I understand that we don't know if a season ticket holder will actually show up or not, but those tickets are sold. Taking out the student section, what I'm most interested in is how many seats are being held that will eventually be released (opponent tickets for example). 

Sell a few hundred this week and a few hundred walk-ups and it should be pretty full. 

[gfhockey]

Pretty queirt form our marketing dept which could be biggest home game this year 

[gfhockey]

Potato bowl always gets fans cuz it’s potato bowl same with homecoming

[forksandspoons]

26 minutes ago, 1972 said:

there is a TON of tickets left...you have to remember that the majority of the tickets on the home side of the field are season ticket holders, and of those, a lot choose not to attend..not sure why.

a lot less than there typically are left. season ticket holders are more likely to attend a the first home game of the year and more likely to attend a game vs Montana instead of someone like Drake...  

[UND1983]

Tickets sold is the only metric, same at all schools.  

[UND1983]

8 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Potato bowl always gets fans cuz it’s potato bowl same with homecoming

Bodes well for next week then

[1972]

29 minutes ago, AJS said:

I understand that we don't know if a season ticket holder will actually show up or not, but those tickets are sold.

tix sold vs butts in seats is a big difference..and unfortunatly, UND hasnt figured out how to make that work better.

[siouxfan512]

On 9/2/2024 at 9:30 AM, UND-FB-FAN said:

Big opportunity. Need to win the line of scrimmage, capitalize in the red zone when on offense, and win the turnover battle. Certainly possible for UND to pull out the win given their history in the Alerus. 

Could really set the tone for the season.

We would have all like to see a W in Ames, but it was better than I expected given the departures we had (players and coaches). It certainly wasn't an embarrassing loss like we saw against Utah, Washington and a few others. First play of the game was just plain luck to make that catch in solid double coverages; which set them up for the quick score. Would have been nice to have a TD on that long 2nd Q drive. I wish we had kept running up the gut instead of passing in the red zone; could have made it close enough to go for it on 4th. Then the missed pass to Nate D. was disappointing. A few mistakes and place were the turning point in this game. 

Next week will tell us more, but could be an interesting season. Nice to see UND sustain some drives when they had the ball rather than the quick 3 and outs.

[AJS]

I trust others much more with more in-depth break downs, but I liked what I saw overall on Saturday. The two biggest concerns were QB play (down-field passing) and kicking. The defense in all phases looked competent. After the past 3 years, that's a huge complement. There's some young talent for sure. The O-line was awesome in run blocking. 

This seems like more of a solid team. Not dependent so much on one of the facets of the game. Areas to clean up, but I came away really impressed. 

Everyone get to the Alerus on Saturday, so much on the line this early. 

[HoopsFan03]

I'm pumped up for this game!

Hopefully it's a great atmosphere and fans are loud!