Next Opponent: Coastal Carolina Chanticleers

[reformedUNDfan]

OK refresh my memory- but weren't these guys supposed to come to Fargo earlier this year too??

that was Western Carolina.

NDSU 48, CCU 24 (going to give you some credit on this one, I'm skeptical you break 14)

[td577]

I am surprised you guys only average an 8+ minute advantage in TOP. We don't hold the ball long because, for the most part, it doesn't take us long to score.

ONLY? Next time your coach has a call in show, ask him what 8+ minutes really means. Otherwise, you were hanging in there pretty good until that comment.

Let's make it 8 and divide among four quarters. That would be an 8.5 over 6.5 minute advantage each quarter. By the time the fourth quarter has come around, even with zero turnovers, your defense has now played an extra three to four drives. Ask them if 8+ is no big deal.

Now limiting the number your offense gets to score, they have to be near perfect. One mistake and they take a drive away. Two mistakes works out to now losing around 6 drives.

Eventually, your team gets frustrated. They know the clock is always working against them and try to push for even more accuracy. You can't push perfection. Your coach will start taking chances and with those chances, more mistakes will happen. Yes, it happens to everyone. Even the two games we lost in the past three seasons you could see the other team trying so hard to not fall into panic mode because they don't know how to use the clock effectively.

This game won't be close. Sorry.

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[devin45k]

34-19 Bison

[EC8CH]

Watching Montana blow back the middle of their D line play after play.

I see lots of yards between the tackles on this one.

[CarringtonBison]

good guys 38
bad guys 21

[56BISON73]

I am surprised you guys only average an 8+ minute advantage in TOP. We don't hold the ball long because, for the most part, it doesn't take us long to score.

That is approx 1/8 of the total game time more than our opponents. We ate up 9+ minutes for the final drive against KSU.

[EC8CH]

These chickens look similar on offense to SHSU, or am I crazy?

[MAKBison]

CCU thread essentially calling the crowed a bunch of bandwagon Biatches Just like all venues they play
(ok maybe maybe no one said baitches, but due to the lost day of my prerogative to interpret intention)

From what I've seen, NDSU ....don't like the up-tempo which should give our defense help. I think our up-tempo style of offense will be an extreme advantage as well as playing in the dome. Just like all venues, if we come out scoring we can take away their home field advantage.

[ndsubison1]

interesting, just off of reading InForums(fargo fishwrap) chat last night, the Fargo beat writers were touting your QB and wideouts.

Breitenstein from Wofford last year really bruised the defense just with the dive alone. Very good player, I dont know if you have a player of his caliber on your team or not, but he was a payton finalist last year.

David Johnson from UNI had a good game against NDSU including like a 60+ yard TD where he shed a tackle. Zenner from SDSU maybe has 50 total yards vs NDSU in 3 games he's faced this defense, and hes one of the FCS's leading rushers.

the bison media blog chat jeff, dom, and petey will answer the same questions over and over. one guest will ask a question then a a minute later another guest will ask the same question

[MAKBison]

Thoughts BV...from one of the Chinballs

I love that their media, their message boards, administration, and everyone else is obsessed with this going on. They are going to be so occupied with this that they will be overlooking the best team that they have played all year.

I do not know how many of watched any of the Furman game last night, but it did nothing but make me and Poot feel that we could win the national title. I realize that the score got lopsided, but Furman got shut down three times inside the 3 yard line, going for the TD each time. They moved the ball with ease against them. NDSU has a really fast corner (maybe the fast I have seen) that we may want to be aware of. He has 21 int's and has returned 7 of them for TDs. #1 I think was his number. I don't think we should need to throw too much though because Furman absolutely gashed them between the tackles. I can see LT having one of his HUGE performances unless they change some things.

Offensively, they are a lot more vanilla than most of our opponents. I think that if we play sound, we should be able to slow them down enough, while I do not feel that they will slow us much at all