SIU Pregame Thread

[Professor Chaos]

Last regular season game of the year. Senior day. Cold tailgate. It's getting to be that time of year!

Some interesting stuff from Klieman's presser today. Jalen Allison is back as a starting CB on the depth chart and Klieman says he should play. He also says they plan to preserve Seth Wilson's redshirt so he's got 3 games left (with as many as 5 to go). I wonder if that means we see Saybein Clark a decent amount in this game since he's still got 2 games to burn?

I don't anyone that asked him but I would've been curious to hear Klieman's take on whether he planned to play more true freshman this game as a way to get them some experience and give the key contributors a bit of a rest since they've pretty much locked everything up. Of course he'd probably give SIU some lip service about it being a tough game where they can't take anything for granted but I bet we do see a lot of true freshman out there Saturday.

Let's give these seniors a big ovation on Saturday. A good chuck of them were committed when Bohl left and stuck with the program when they had no obligation to do so. And with a monster senior class it'll be good to get each of them their moment during the pregame intro.

[Bison 4 Life]

Hope everybody has their god damn deer by now.

Paraphrasing JJ of course.

[tjbison]

I did not realize till tonight listening to the coaches show that the last time SIU played in the dome was 2014

[Bison 4 Life]

I did not realize that the last time SIU played in the dome was 2014

I remember the last time in Carbondale.

[Mr Meaty]

I remember the last time in Carbondale.

I was at that one.

[BisonLaw]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ge_giC8JEw

[OatmealWicket92]

Hope everybody has their god damn deer by now.

Paraphrasing JJ of course.

Don't have my deer yet, but I ain't missing senior day.

[El_Chapo]

Chubs should be full by 2nd quarter.

Been to seriously 4 games this year, left for chubs in 3 of them. Sold the rest.

Just ridiculous.

1st round playoff game vs freakin Maine or Colgate will be the same.

[X-Factor]

I don’t know that I would say sdsu defense is any sort of a model of consistency, while they typically trips over their own dick when it comes to defending any offense that requires some coaching (SIU almost always gives them trouble). They also gave up over 50 to Indiana State...

SIU can score, I just doubt it will be with consistency, while the Bison should house most possessions

[bruinbison]

Things I’ll be watching today include:

- Who is the Saluki QB? Is the better runner injured? (#7 DeSomer)
If so, does the better one passer play? (#4 Straub)
Or do both play in a valiant effort against the Bison?

- Choices, Choices!
Jackrabbits put up 315 yards rushing last weekend against SIU, 341 yards passing.
I loved how NDSU attacked whatever Missouri State was doing on D last weekend and exploited it. SDSU went with big passing plays and ran impressively against SIU. So shall the Bison! Something to watch anyways......

- Both starting Saluki CB’s and a Safety have been lost for the season to injury, helping explain their troubles defending the pass.

- Most points NDSU has given up this season at the FargoDome is 17 (to SDSU).
Last time the Bison played a bad defense was well, last weekend, and got 48 points, so yeah, I’ll be looking for a 48-17 score.

- SIU has some good players to watch, including former Mutant Ninja Turtle:
WR Raphael Leonard (6’ 2” SR) - 55 receptions - 14.2 ypc - 6 TD’s

Also:
RB D.J. Davis - 5’ 8” 168 JR - 1067 yards rushing - 6.3 ypc - 6 TD’s
DE Anthony Knighton - 6’ 2” 253 Soph - 8.5 sacks

- And finally, will QB Holden Hotchkiss get to play with the 1st team OLine?
Don’t think it happened last weekend, even though the Bison had a 34-0 halftime lead.