To your point on the offense...absolutely accurate with this crew. Lots of points left on the field yesterday. I partly chalk that up to a good UNI defense, but EWU's offence just seemed out of...
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To your point on the offense...absolutely accurate with this crew. Lots of points left on the field yesterday. I partly chalk that up to a good UNI defense, but EWU's offence just seemed out of...
Yeah, but how cold and loud will it be? That’s what I really want to know.
Thanks ‘Backer. We needed to play mistake free football and just had too many drive killing penalties today.
xlolx
I’m starting to wonder as well.
Not sure I agree. There are some key pieces to replace (like McPherson), but many of the Seniors you referenced had already been lost for the year a while back. We got some young guys a lot of...
Great game and congrats to NDSU. I wish the chips had fallen a little differently for us this year. Early on this season with a healthy Gubrud and healthy defense I really thought this would be our...
Dominant. xthumbsupx
I’m sure it did, but unless you’re suggesting that traveling across the country accounts for their being blown out by 30+ points, it really doesn’t matter. We heard the same stuff during our 2010 run...
Good point, but that’s assuming NDSU makes it. Good probability, but then there’s the 2016 outlier.
Interestingly, I think this team’s roster has something like 24 Seniors. You’d think losing that many Seniors would have a huge effect on next season, and it might. But, of the 10 starters lost this...
Agreed. Based on what I’ve seen of Iowa St this year, SDSU would have met a similar fate they did in Fargo.
UC Davis > SDSU IMO.
And maybe if UC Davis had been on the other side they’d have played in the semi’s. And around and around we go...regionalization sucks.
That said, it appears to me that the committee got the...
How many teams have “ran out of gas” by going into Fargo in the playoffs? Or does travel only have an effect on teams that have to go to Cheney? xlolx
BTW, EWU has not played a road playoff game...
Sorry, the bolded was just a little humor. I’ve been told that NDSU ups their game significantly in the playoffs. Based on that logic, we shouldn’t compare regular season and playoff games against...
I see your point and agree with it. I’d offer NDSU fans are a lot more well-versed in what you described than virtually any other fan base in the FCs, however. And given NDSU’s success this decade,...
Stop moving the goal posts. You were referencing defensive yards given up. Gubrud doesn’t/didn’t play defense. Yes, the majority of the second half was played with backups in the game.
What’s...
I think you’re being slightly obtuse.
No, I did not purchase tickets for this game in August for myriad reasons. A) EWU has a bad precedent of losing semi-final games they should win, and B) I’m...
Good grief, we beat Cal Poly 70-17 and played backups the ENTIRE second half. Who cares about stats in a game like that?
We’ll be 3-4k strong down there. Not horrible, but certainly a lot less than we brought in 2010 (I’m assuming this is the NDSU effect.)
You guys want to talk football now?
The defense is better, but that’s really only half of the equation IMO. The fact that we’re greatly improved in running the ball this year means that the D is on the field less. More long sustained...
My, we’re grumpy.
Other than bias...why?
4...but only 3 recently.
I don’t think he will unless some major revelations come out in the short term. I’d obviously like to see him play, but he’d be the 7th starter lost off this year’s defense so I doubt it’s going to...
Someone actually made that claim? Hard to prove a negative, but EWU’s chances of winning that 2016 game in Fargo exponetially higher with Kupp playing in the second half.