Playoffs First Round: UND @ Tennessee Tech

[forksandspoons]

Schmidt in Millers article: 

"Unbelievable, right?" Schmidt said of Rucker. "If you're in Grand Forks and you want to keep Lance Rucker around, you should call the 701 Awards right now and start paying into that thing because we need to keep him in Grand Forks.

 

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/college/und-defense-swarms-tennessee-tech-in-31-6-playoff-win

[Shawn-O]

6 minutes ago, Longtime fan said:

Schmittys first year and he gets Unds first D1 playoff win ( sorry don’t count the covid year playoff win).  
An absolute defensive master piece!  Coaching clearly makes a difference. Und had one of the worst Ds in the fcs only one year ago.  Now they have, imo, the best D in the fcs.  Will not speak on the offense.
 

Congrats Coach! 

 

 

I don’t either. And first road playoff win since way back in the D2 days 

[Dustin]

What a game!!  Been making deer sausage with my in-laws but had the game on the computer as we were working. Fun to be able to relax and enjoy the end of a game. Tempted to make the trip to Texas next week. 

[Feff]

After a bit of reflection: the defense did what it's been doing most of the year and showed TT the best defense they'd seen all year. Their one score was just a broken coverage to the tight end. Other than that we pretty much locked up their wideouts and pretty sure their QB will be having nightmares about Rucker for awhile. 

 

The offense was atrocious. The playcalling was suspect, Jerry was wildly inaccurate, the decision making was not great, and was doing nothing to help out the running game. You hate to see a kid get injured, especially on a dirty hit, but it might have actually helped the offense in the second half. Romfo did nothing spectacular, nothing sexy, but what he DID do was make the right decisions. He got the offense checked into the correct audibles, he didn't turn the ball over or force it (other than that offside play), and he did enough via passing to help the run game. The two things that unlocked the offense were A. getting Ziebarth carries, and B. the outside pass. Just the quick receiver screen was enough to force the safeties to respect plays outside of the hashes and that opened up run lanes. That is the same things that Jerry was doing earlier in the season and why he was having success, do enough in the passing game to open up the run. Where Jerry's game excels over Romfo's is that he is more aggressive going downfield. That was leading to a lot of success when we had goodJerry reading the defense correctly but haven't had that in awhile with a plethora of badJerry games. 

[Feff]

6 minutes ago, forksandspoons said:

Schmidt in Millers article: 

"Unbelievable, right?" Schmidt said of Rucker. "If you're in Grand Forks and you want to keep Lance Rucker around, you should call the 701 Awards right now and start paying into that thing because we need to keep him in Grand Forks.

 

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/college/und-defense-swarms-tennessee-tech-in-31-6-playoff-win

Crazy state of college sports with NIL poaching. 

[iramurphy]

1 hour ago, 90siouxfan said:

they are probably in as much trouble as a catholic priest....

If you request, I believe they will pay for your counseling. 

[Cratter]

Because my last one wasn't "factually correct" let me try to word it in a different way...

Congrats Coach Schmidt, and players, for tying the previous regime in playoff wins in your first year. Awesome start to this tenure!

[nodakvindy]

50 minutes ago, Parkers Pros said:

All those experts who complained that the Valley got too many teams in can shut up now….

And yet Youngstown gacked a 35-7 lead. Still gotta look at each team. The K State and Montana games said as much as any MVC game. 

[Cratter]

11 minutes ago, Cratter said:

Because my last one wasn't "factually correct" let me try to word it in a different way...

Congrats Coach Schmidt, and players, for tying the previous regime in playoff wins in your first year. Awesome start to this tenure!

With that said...wow did it look like two JV Football teams battling it out the first half....blocked punt...turnover...turnover...missed xp...missed field goal...missed field goal...turnover...

[CMSioux]

32 minutes ago, forksandspoons said:

Schmidt in Millers article: 

"Unbelievable, right?" Schmidt said of Rucker. "If you're in Grand Forks and you want to keep Lance Rucker around, you should call the 701 Awards right now and start paying into that thing because we need to keep him in Grand Forks.

 

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/college/und-defense-swarms-tennessee-tech-in-31-6-playoff-win

So if he leaves do we get our money back. Just give to the NIL in general and specify football if you want to support football. 

[ChrisUND1]

2 minutes ago, Cratter said:

With that said...wow did it look like two JV Football teams battling it out the first half....blocked punt...turnover...turnover...missed xp...missed field goal...missed field goal...turnover...

It was a blizzard half without the blizzard. 

[Cratter]

5 minutes ago, nodakvindy said:

And yet Youngstown gacked a 35-7 lead. Still gotta look at each team. The K State and Montana games said as much as any MVC game. 

I think Massey is the best easiest to follow...glad the committee started using it finally.

Odds UND won today: 72%

Odds Youngstown state would win?

58%

Seems accurate 2 me.

 

[Cratter]

"NIL isnt a pay 2 play"

Head coach "please pay our players so they stay here."

Definition of "slippery slope."