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Scheme- An orderly combination of related parts.
Football is the ultimate team sport. Every player on the roster plays an important role within the team. No one player is bigger or more important than any other player within the team. NDSU is the ultimate team right now and this is one of the many reasons I love being a fan of the Bison.
Something I think that a lot of people maybe don't fully understand about football, or about the Bison specifically, is that there is a reason and explanation for everything we see during the course of a game and season. I'm not trying to come across sounding like I know everything about football because I don't, but maybe I can explain something from my perspective. When NDSU, and that includes the entire program, looks at a schedule for an upcoming year, they go to work in the spring preparing for the teams they will face in the upcoming season. They begin conditioning, studying film, running plays over and over again, and figuring out depth. Summer workouts take place, and my understanding is that a lot of the team stays in Fargo for these. Fall practice begins and they start to prepare for an upcoming opponent. They study their tendencies, their weaknesses, their strengths. They begin to scheme both offensively and defensively for their first opponent. They play their first game and we win. And after the game, several people on here say that "So and so had a great game!!", "I wish they would use him more", "Nice to see Vigen finally using so and so, I've been saying all along how good he is". That's fine, and people can be excited about it, but if you step back and look at the big picture you'd see something. When the Bison prepare for each opponent, they know ahead of time what will give the team the best opportunity to be successful. Take for example the YSU game. Does anyone wonder why all of a sudden Bonnet has a big game, and Vaadeland as well? Listen to the post game interviews and Kevin says they had a scheme in place where they knew the TE's in the flat would be open all day. Colton Heagle has the game of his career against GSU two years ago, shutting down that QB in the playoff game, surprised? No, Kleiman knew that Colton would be an integral part in stopping the option that day. Brock and Vraa go nuts against MSU in the first half of that game because we knew they were susceptible to the long ball. Grant makes 27 tackles in a game. Did he just decide to maybe play harder that day, even harder than any other game he'd played? Nope, schemed. Players still have to go out and make plays, but they are given every opportunity to be successful because of all the preparation beforehand. And that's why I love it when they get interviewed after the game and they give credit to the team and the coaches, because that's what it's all about.
Not really a rant, but I just see a lot of the same old comments from people about this subject and I tried to break it all down a bit.
Go Bison!!!