Nicholls Post Game Thoughts & Discussion

[Buffalo.Rider]

The scores of the teams who had to play an MVFC team:
13 Nicholls State (playing NDSU) 255 total yards
13 UNI (playing SDSU) 199 total yards
14 Central Ark. (playing Illinois State) 253 total yards
10 SDSU (playing UNI) 202 total yards

The scores of the losing teams for the other 5 games
20 Kennesaw State (playing Weber State) 292 total yards
21 Monmouth (playing James Madison) 240 total yards
28 SE Louisiana (playing the Griz) 466 total yards
21 Abany (playing Mont. State) 315 total yards
Fifth game not played yet.

[Buffalo.Rider]

Run defense continues to be a problem. It's been below average since the SDSU game. Another run heavy team on the docket next week as well so they'll need to tighten it up if they want to avoid a dogfight.

James Madison ran 332 yards in their game today.

[Big Bird]

D line got dominated for a long stretch today.
In that same vein, the linebackers weren't great against the run either. Nicholls was routinely 4 yards past the line when first contact was made, and the safeties cleaned a lot of the runs up.
Special teams were bad again. Missed kicks, muffed return (tough to handle, but still), really bad punt early, and penalties negating returns.
We're spoiled with Trey Lance. He didn't have one of his better games, but he makes such good decisions with the ball. Freshman are supposed to make stupid mistakes, but he just doesn't.
Penalties continue to happen too frequently. Please clean them up.
Really liked the play of the safeties. They're playmakers.
Sproles had a great first half until he got hurt. I hope the injury isn't major.
The streak is incredible.

[23Bison]

D line got dominated for a long stretch today.
In that same vein, the linebackers weren't great against the run either. Nicholls was routinely 4 yards past the line when first contact was made, and the safeties cleaned a lot of the runs up.
Special teams were bad again. Missed kicks, muffed return (tough to handle, but still), really bad punt early, and penalties negating returns.
We're spoiled with Trey Lance. He didn't have one of his better games, but he makes such good decisions with the ball. Freshman are supposed to make stupid mistakes, but he just doesn't.
Penalties continue to happen too frequently. Please clean them up.
Really liked the play of the safeties. They're playmakers.
Sproles had a great first half until he got hurt. I hope the injury isn't major.
The streak is incredible.

I would guess an AC sprain. I’ve had my fair share of those from being tackled in that manor.

[Kevin]

James Madison ran 332 yards in their game today.

That's a hell of a game. Who does he play for?

[DCinOK]

"Targeting" penalties/player-kicked-out will do more to ruin the game of football than the "concussion/CTE scare" will. The Nicholls player did NOTHING wrong and was unfairly ejected and Jabril's play should have been just another football play and move on to the next down. We either decide we're playing American Football or call it something else. Beyond ridiculous.

[VirginiaBison]

Entz likes to talk about “not coaching the aggressiveness out of the kids” but being aggressive and being disciplined are two very different things. You can be both. You don’t have to choose to accept terrible penalties game after game in order to maintain aggressive play. This should be obvious when looking at teams from the pat several years. My biggest fear is that we lose a game because we shoot our selves in the foot with unnecessary penalties. That would be so horrible and the players deserve better. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Exactly, there is a big difference between aggressiveness and stupidity. Too much stupidity.

How many points have been taken off the board because of penalties this year?

[Kevin]

Looking back at highlights I really don't see how Trey's 3rd and 16 run wasn't a first down? He was clearly over the 40 when his knee hit. What angle was the replay booth working off of?

That was a telling play either way. Trey had something today that the rest of the offense just seemed to lack.

[VirginiaBison]

Run defense continues to be a problem. It's been below average since the SDSU game. Another run heavy team on the docket next week as well so they'll need to tighten it up if they want to avoid a dogfight.

Well SDSU is one dimensional - run Robinson. He ran 37 times today for SDSU against UNI for 210 years, 2 TD and 5.7 average. If Code Green cannot stop runs up the gut, its going to be a long day.

[VirginiaBison]

D line got dominated for a long stretch today.

I'm not surprised. History after a bye is slow Bison starts. This one hold true.