Your exact claim: "Your awesome running backs ran for a full yard less per carry last year than NDSU"
I picked everyone listed as a running back and had at least 10 carries, because you know, you were talking about running backs. If you want to use every carry by every player listed as a running back last year, then its 5.5 YPC to 5.6 YPC with NDSU still having a slight advantage. Make up your mind what you want to argue before you make a statement. UND's QB getting sacked or the OC thinking a double reverse is a good idea and ends up going for negative yards has zero to do with the running backs YPC, which is what you originally made a statement about.
You f'hawkers are making a great case by establishing just how delusional the world in eastern Grand Forks county has become.
Rock
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By my count:
Top 40 total offense: Big Sky 6/13, MVFC 4/10
Top 40 rushing offense: Big Sky 4/13, MVFC 3/10
Disclaimer: All totals include quarterback sacks, because those actually do count in football.
UND played 2 Top 40 defenses last year (two losses). NDSU played 6 Top 40 defenses.
Fine, I can fix my claim: your rushing offense, which has been boasted about as being very good despite playing in a league with overall poor rushing defense and against OOC opponents with poor rushing defenses, still averaged a full yard less per carry on all plays counted as rushing attempts than NDSU, who played in a league with very good rushing defenses and against OOC opponents that can stop the run. Appreciate you pointing out the error of my ways, forcing me to come up with several other descriptions of just how bad your rushing offense was considering the level of competition.
Better?
Of course they do and I have never indicated anything besides that. But you set the discussion point by comparing running backs YPC. I don't recall that being impacted by WR jet sweeps or QB sacks or bootlegs. If you want to change what you are talking about, that's fine, but your original point was wrong. UND's running backs had an average within .1 yards of NDSU's running backs, who played behind a better offensive line.
Not rankings wise. A good offense can look great against a shit defense. A good defense can look great against a shit offense. I question that teh valley has enough offenses that can really challenge defenses. I know our coaches have talked about how much easier it was to gameplan for opposing offenses in teh valley.
I suppose that this year with an All-world OT like Grady you will probably lead the FCS in rushing and never have another QB sack.
The original Da Bison.
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