SEMO Post Game Thoughts & Discussion

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Originally Posted by BisManBison

Only 2-10 on 3rd down yesterday and now 12-31 for the year against less than stellar competition. That needs attention.

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Not sure about yesterday but the first two games a lot of those 3rd down non conversions were from late in the first two games when we were trying to not score 100 points.

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Originally Posted by BisManBison

Only 2-10 on 3rd down yesterday and now 12-31 for the year against less than stellar competition. That needs attention.

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It's run blocking imo. Run blocking is ndsu's most glaring weakness by a substantial margin. (What a ridiculous weakness for an NDSU team)

Having run blocking issues is making setting up 3rd down more difficult, and converting 3rd down more difficult.

I hope there is an answer that the coaches can get to. They seemed to find an ok answer last year.

The teams we have played are all very bad. The run game should have much more easily dominated them imo.

USD looks pretty weak this year (unlikely to make the playoffs imo), but will be a significant step up in opponent difficulty. Hopefully we can continue to roll.

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Originally Posted by Twentysix

It's run blocking imo. Run blocking is ndsu's most glaring weakness by a substantial margin. (What a ridiculous weakness for an NDSU team)

Having run blocking issues is making setting up 3rd down more difficult, and converting 3rd down more difficult.

I hope there is an answer that the coaches can get to. They seemed to find an ok answer last year.

The teams we have played are all very bad. The run game should have much more easily dominated them imo.

USD looks pretty weak this year (unlikely to make the playoffs imo), but will be a significant step up in opponent difficulty. Hopefully we can continue to roll.

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Agree on run blocking/run game 26.

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Originally Posted by cbline

"Tennessee River" by Alabama is also a strong choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsrMo198l-o

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Yep, Tennessee River is a strong contender. But I think the lyrics to Dixieland Delight paint a good picture of making that long drive to Nashville with the girl you love next to you, going for another Dixieland Delight, an FCS National Championship:

Rolling down a backwoods Tennessee byway
One arm on the wheel
Holding my lover with the other
A sweet, soft, southern thrill
Worked hard all week
Got a little jingle
On a Tennessee Saturday night
Couldn't feel better
I'm together with my Dixieland Delight


For the purpose of the song, it is too bad they moved the title game to Monday, but everything else fits pretty well.
By the way, the Tennessee River flows through Knoxville and Chattanooga, but is about 135 miles south of Nashville.

SEMO had 10 guys in the box. The coach said he didn't think Cole Payton was going to be an accurate passer so they basically said you have to throw to win. Coach Polasek said that SEMO was running a bunch of stunts and twists to disrupt the run game. He also mentioned that teams are loading up on the guards and center and that they need to come up with an answer for that.

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Originally Posted by Twentysix

It's run blocking imo. Run blocking is ndsu's most glaring weakness by a substantial margin. (What a ridiculous weakness for an NDSU team)

Having run blocking issues is making setting up 3rd down more difficult, and converting 3rd down more difficult.

I hope there is an answer that the coaches can get to. They seemed to find an ok answer last year.

The teams we have played are all very bad. The run game should have much more easily dominated them imo.

USD looks pretty weak this year (unlikely to make the playoffs imo), but will be a significant step up in opponent difficulty. Hopefully we can continue to roll.

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Originally Posted by KC_Hats

SEMO had 10 guys in the box. The coach said he didn't think Cole Payton was going to be an accurate passer so they basically said you have to throw to win. Coach Polasek said that SEMO was running a bunch of stunts and twists to disrupt the run game. He also mentioned that teams are loading up on the guards and center and that they need to come up with an answer for that.

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Agreed. Not unusual for teams to sell out to stop the run and that's what Semo did. The Southpaw from Omaha made them pay for it.

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Originally Posted by Professor Chaos

Forgive me for looking ahead but we might need a new "If You're Gonna Play in Texas"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esnb0gnrUNo

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Guitar Town could be another option.

The PA should also play Dolly Parton's 9-5 if/when Cole Payton throws a TD to Bryce Lance.

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Originally Posted by EC8CH

Agreed. Not unusual for teams to sell out to stop the run and that's what Semo did. The Southpaw from Omaha made them pay for it.

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"The Southpaw from Omaha"
I like that.

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Originally Posted by TAILG8R

Not sure about yesterday but the first two games a lot of those 3rd down non conversions were from late in the first two games when we were trying to not score 100 points.

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I had my ChatGPT agent (who I've preemptively nicknamed Agent Smith) run the numbers by quarter. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f6654c55d4.jpg

So 5 for 12 when trying not to score a hundred points on shitty teams.


*Sent from my iPhone where autocorrect is definitely not my friend*

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Originally Posted by TAILG8R

So 5 for 12 when trying not to score a hundred points on shitty teams.


*Sent from my iPhone where autocorrect is definitely not my friend*

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But also 3 for 13 in the first half with starters in the game

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Originally Posted by Gully

Eastbound and Down

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Now we're talking Gully!

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Originally Posted by CoachFSCB

Yep, Tennessee River is a strong contender. But I think the lyrics to Dixieland Delight paint a good picture of making that long drive to Nashville with the girl you love next to you, going for another Dixieland Delight, an FCS National Championship:

Rolling down a backwoods Tennessee byway
One arm on the wheel
Holding my lover with the other
A sweet, soft, southern thrill
Worked hard all week
Got a little jingle
On a Tennessee Saturday night
Couldn't feel better
I'm together with my Dixieland Delight


For the purpose of the song, it is too bad they moved the title game to Monday, but everything else fits pretty well.
By the way, the Tennessee River flows through Knoxville and Chattanooga, but is about 135 miles south of Nashville.

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Too bad the game isn't in Memphis. The obvious choice would be "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones:

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind

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Originally Posted by cbline

Too bad the game isn't in Memphis. The obvious choice would be "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones:

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind

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The title game is only in Nashville for a couple of years and then it is up for grabs. So there is stlll hope.

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Originally Posted by cbline

Too bad the game isn't in Memphis. The obvious choice would be "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones:

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind

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Memphis isn't a place I'd imagine north dakotans want to go. A little on the dangerous side for them.

The victim of a crime rate in Memphis is something crazy like 10%. It's one of the least safe cities in the entire world.

I would think that memphis isn't capable of winning a championship bid for this reason.

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Originally Posted by Twentysix

Memphis isn't a place I'd imagine north dakotans want to go. A little on the dangerous side for them.

The victim of a crime rate in Memphis is something crazy like 10%. It's one of the least safe cities in the entire world.

I would think that memphis isn't capable of winning a championship bid for this reason.

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I was there about 5 years ago - I recall going into a grocery store that had multiple armed security guards...

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Originally Posted by Twentysix

Memphis isn't a place I'd imagine north dakotans want to go. A little on the dangerous side for them.

The victim of a crime rate in Memphis is something crazy like 10%. It's one of the least safe cities in the entire world.

I would think that memphis isn't capable of winning a championship bid for this reason.

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As with any big city, most of your crime is isolated and rarely random. In the area any event would be there will be a lot of people so you would likely be very safe. I've been in a lot of these cities that have high crime rates and never felt concerned for my safety as long as I was aware if my surroundings and didn't wander from the public spaces.

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Is Tennessee a conceal/carry state?

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Originally Posted by KC_Hats

SEMO had 10 guys in the box. The coach said he didn't think Cole Payton was going to be an accurate passer so they basically said you have to throw to win. Coach Polasek said that SEMO was running a bunch of stunts and twists to disrupt the run game. He also mentioned that teams are loading up on the guards and center and that they need to come up with an answer for that.

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This happened quite a bit with Steve Walker and Walker would win the game with his arm. Its just a reality that if they are overplaying the run we have to throw and work them out of it. We have a great receiving corp (probably best ever) so this year we can win those one on one matchups and Cole could have a great season. He has shown he can really sling it when he needs to.

It’s kind of weird that Cole Payton wasn’t even honorable mention for MVFC player of the week on offense.

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Originally Posted by cbline

Too bad the game isn't in Memphis. The obvious choice would be "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones:

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind

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If it were Memphis, i would go I never made it Memphis Kenny Wayne Shepherd. But in general i would go with Guitar Town or Tennessee Flat Top Box (I know it is set in Texas).

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Originally Posted by IndyBison

As with any big city, most of your crime is isolated and rarely random. In the area any event would be there will be a lot of people so you would likely be very safe. I've been in a lot of these cities that have high crime rates and never felt concerned for my safety as long as I was aware if my surroundings and didn't wander from the public spaces.

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I used to live in New Haven CT, the police would sit in their cars around the edge of yale's campus every morning while I walked to school. The city police sort of felt like private security for yale, at least in the morning.

New Haven is a literal shithole.

I havent spent more than a day in memphis, so i cant say personally. But if 10,000 north dakotans spend a week in new haven you are definetly losing a few of them to murders. Some cities are actually genuinely awful, but its often not the cities people actually talk about (chicago, la, dc, etc you will be fine)

While I lived in new haven I had 3 seperate outrageous events occur.

1.) There was a serial killer dismembering people and leaving body parts around the city. Every few days more body parts would be found. After just a couple days of arriving in newhaven a severed leg was found in front of my neighborhood cvs.

2.) A crackhead jumped out of a bush, screamed, and hit a colleague with a baseball bat and picked up my colleagues bag and ran away with it.

3.) There was a drive by shooting in front of my apartment buildings front door in the early afternoon (broad daylight)

There were a lot more things as well, but these 3 are the eyepopping ones lol.

If you send your kid to Yale, have them live on campus and never leave yale or the downtown. Lol
I have a very low opinion of the east coast cause of new haven.

New haven is like twice or three times the size of fargo. Its not even that big.

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Originally Posted by Twentysix

I used to live in New Haven CT, the police would sit in their cars around the edge of yale's campus every morning while I walked to school. The city police sort of felt like private security for yale, at least in the morning.

New Haven is a literal shithole.

I havent spent more than a day in memphis, so i cant say personally. But if 10,000 north dakotans spend a week in new haven you are definetly losing a few of them to murders. Some cities are actually genuinely awful, but its often not the cities people actually talk about (chicago, la, dc, etc you will be fine)

While I lived in new haven I had 3 seperate outrageous events occur.

1.) There was a serial killer dismembering people and leaving body parts around the city. Every few days more body parts would be found. After just a couple days of arriving in newhaven a severed leg was found in front of my neighborhood cvs.

2.) A crackhead jumped out of a bush, screamed, and hit a colleague with a baseball bat and picked up my colleagues bag and ran away with it.

3.) There was a drive by shooting in front of my apartment buildings front door in the early afternoon (broad daylight)

There were a lot more things as well, but these 3 are the eyepopping ones lol.

If you send your kid to Yale, have them live on campus and never leave yale or the downtown. Lol
I have a very low opinion of the east coast cause of new haven.

New haven is like twice or three times the size of fargo. Its not even that big.

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But they have the best pizza, and its not even close... according to a certain pizza reviewer.

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Originally Posted by Tony Almeida

But they have the best pizza, and its not even close... according to a certain pizza reviewer.

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The pizza is good.

Serial killers, crackheads and drive by shootings, that pizza better be effing good.

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Originally Posted by IndyBison

As with any big city, most of your crime is isolated and rarely random. In the area any event would be there will be a lot of people so you would likely be very safe. I've been in a lot of these cities that have high crime rates and never felt concerned for my safety as long as I was aware if my surroundings and didn't wander from the public spaces.

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Sure if you're including the outer suburbs like Germantown, etc, but there're literally no safe areas inside the city limits of Memphis.

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Originally Posted by southcliffbison

Is Tennessee a conceal/carry state?

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Permitless carry...

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Originally Posted by MyOhMy

Sure if you're including the outer suburbs like Germantown, etc, but there're literally no safe areas inside the city limits of Memphis.

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This are probably area you won't be hanging out in while visiting. I've been to Memphis and hung out on and around Beale Street a couple times with no issues. Most crime in most cities is not random.

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