Quote Originally Posted by Chi Panther View Post
Maybe this will give more color for those of you who don't think that Marshall team played good defense...

UNI also had Brad Meester at Center (2nd RD Pick and still playing) and Dedric Ward as a WR (3rd Rd Pick, 8 year career).

Now Bohl may be a better coach than Pruett.....but NDSU does not have the same talent....

Semifinals
Montana 70, Troy State 7
Marshall 31, Northern Iowa
14

Final
Marshall 49, Montana 29
I want to start this off by saying I have no idea how good that Marshall team was. I didn't watch a single game of theirs, so I'm not going to try to guess if this NDSU team could have beaten them.

However, I don't think you can necessarily judge how good a team is by how many future NFL players they have/had. I would guess there are probably a number of teams in the FCS that will prbably have more NFL players than NDSU, as well as Kansas State,but I don't think that means those are better teams than NDSU. It does give you an idea though that the Marshall weren't just going up against a bunch of no-names.