Quote Originally Posted by SDbison View Post
I don't think the MVFC overall was that much tougher than the previous teams in the Great West along with other good non-conference games. NDSU's inconsistency killed the team all season long this year. If NDSU played like the previous two years they would be in the playoffs now. The fact is they did not, and there will be even more issues next season.
You are absolutely correct that this team's inconsistency killed them. We never had anything we could count on game after game.

Although NDSU's team last year played very much like this years team, except for one thing. Steve Walker would not let the team lose. As horrible as the team played against Stephan F Austin including Walker, the made just enough plays to win.

Sam Houston, the defense had problems, where it was their fault or Bomar being that good. But once again Walker pulled them through.

Gophers was a team win, but without Walker, I doubt we win that.

Cal Poly, from what I remember we got killed for 50 minutes or so. They made a couple plays to somehow pull it out.

And we all know how SDSU ended up last year.

The 2006 2007 seasons will always be remembered in Bison history as the transition into FCS football. But these teams have also had the opportunity to play against a lesser schedule.
If this years team plays like they did last year in last years schedule, my guess is we finish 7-4 or 6-5. The reason we weren't was mainly because of one player, that will take a very long time to ever see someone come anywhere close to.

We need to find much more depth throughout the program so that when one or two players graduate, we can actually reload instead of dropping off as much as we did this year.