ISU-R Post Game Thoughts & Discussion

[som2025]

A lot of you even in the post game thread are way too negative. We literally beat the #6 ranked team in the FCS by three scores. This thread should be absolutely about celebrating a good win after we completely obliterated their heads thanks to some good performances in the fourth quarter.

At least this wasn't 2024 with the ETSU game that was heart attack inducing, in the year we still won the natty in. I am really optimistic about how well this team can and will do against UND/SDSU and think we have a team that can absolutely perform well enough to beat those teams with a vengeance when the time ultimately comes. GO BISON!

[Alsen]

A lot of you even in the post game thread are way too negative. We literally beat the #6 ranked team in the FCS by three scores. This thread should be absolutely about celebrating a good win after we completely obliterated their heads thanks to some good performances in the fourth quarter.

At least this wasn't 2024 with the ETSU game that was heart attack inducing, in the year we still won the natty in. I am really optimistic about how well this team can and will do against UND/SDSU and think we have a team that can absolutely perform well enough to beat those teams with a vengeance when the time ultimately comes. GO BISON!

I wish you were right, but a W in the Win/Loss column doesn't excuse the coaching staff's mistakes and pitiful unpreparedness of the defense, and the blatant stupidity of the whole approach of the Bison offense, especially in the 1st half.

No,No,No!! There is no excuse for the sins of commission and omnission of this coaching staff. How could they have our LB's standing around oblivious not knowing what to do? How could they be sending our CB's on blitzes with no clue how to approach a QB like Rittenhouse?

I know when I watch this game over again, pausing and rewinding like I did the first time, I am going to see more sickening crap than I did the first time.

This game should not have been close. I would really like to know what Kyle Emmanuel's personnel and private thoughts were concerning the Bison pass rush today. I venture to think he may have been doing more ranting and raving than me.

[reformedUNDfan]

I suppose Sagarin will ding us for not covering the spread....

I believe that NDSU covered the Sagarin spread, which I believe was 15 points. Might jump to 35th

[reformedUNDfan]

Big win over a top tier team with some really good players, and accomplished despite a debacle 1st half.

[KSBisonFan]

In conference play the last 2 weeks, NDSU has punted 1 time. The Bison only had 7 3rd downs the entire game against ISU-R and 1 of those 3rd downs was the final kneel-down. We ran 16 fewer plays than ISU-R and still won by 3 scores.

Multiple areas for the coaches to work on this week.

Must suck mourning a loss this morning at Alsen's house.

[HerdistheWord]

ISUr executed better than us in the first half. Our run D allowed them to create gaps and their run D filled gaps well. Also, I have been unimpressed with special teams. Williams is a great returner, but sometimes it is cool to let the ball bounce into the endzone on kickoffs. Also, he needs to come up and catch some of those punts. He is letting way too many bounce into front of him and then roll an extra 20 yards.

That being said, ISUr is a good team. We beat a good team by 3 scores while not playing our best in the first half. We also made adjustments at halftime and it showed. My biggest issue with Entz was that he seemed unable to make those necessary adjustments. Polasek can.

Even though that first half had me bumming a bit, this game was still a positive overall and defense stepped up when we needed to close out the game.

[Strategery]

Relax, bros. I’m pretty sure I know what happened. Polasek intentionally didn’t fully prep the kids for this game. You can hear it in his presser last week, he wanted the kids to get punched back a little and face some adversity. Well he engineered a way for that happen against a) a team capable of punching back, and b) a team he thought we could still beat when not fully prepared. Now the kids are mad and ready and take on the world. It’s 4D chess bros, trust me or my name isn’t George W. Bush.

[ndsubison1]

A lot of you even in the post game thread are way too negative. We literally beat the #6 ranked team in the FCS by three scores. This thread should be absolutely about celebrating a good win after we completely obliterated their heads thanks to some good performances in the fourth quarter.

At least this wasn't 2024 with the ETSU game that was heart attack inducing, in the year we still won the natty in. I am really optimistic about how well this team can and will do against UND/SDSU and think we have a team that can absolutely perform well enough to beat those teams with a vengeance when the time ultimately comes. GO BISON!

I was actually pretty encouraged by the result.

[NI4NI]

We didn't realize until yesterday how fortunate we are having WDAY televise most of the Bison games.
Please show that appreciation by patronizing those that advertise during these games and thanking them when possible!

[GreenfieldBison]

A lot of you even in the post game thread are way too negative. We literally beat the #6 ranked team in the FCS by three scores. This thread should be absolutely about celebrating a good win after we completely obliterated their heads thanks to some good performances in the fourth quarter.

At least this wasn't 2024 with the ETSU game that was heart attack inducing, in the year we still won the natty in. I am really optimistic about how well this team can and will do against UND/SDSU and think we have a team that can absolutely perform well enough to beat those teams with a vengeance when the time ultimately comes. GO BISON!

I see you’re new here. Welcome to BV!

Unless I missed it I don’t recall a single post demanding that a coach or even the AD be immediately terminated. Not even in the GDT! So, pretty positive-ish threads overall really. It’s a new, kinder, gentler version of BV.