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go guins:
It is the day before NDSU and I sign in and find we don't have a single blog response regarding the game.

Funny, but we have all this bravado predicting big wins etc., and we all know in our hearts that our O is sooooo bad that getting out of Fargo no worse than 28-6 would be a huge moral victory.  I have a friend whose son was a guard for YSU in the ‘00s and I told him in all my years watching YSU, this might be the best D we’ve ever had, at least the most talented.  But it is also be the worst offense I’ve seen.  At very best, a mediocre line, terrible WR play (hopefully due to inexperience), combined with very inconsistent RB’s and certainly the poorest combined effort at QB ever.   You’d have to go back to Dike Beede and the single wing to find passing as bad as we’ve seen this season.   Really sad to waste this D.

IAA Fan:
I am going to go out on a limb and predict 28-24 Good Guys. The best D we have had (by far) was Heacock's 1994. They set an NCAA record that may still stand at 8.5 (or 9.5) points-per-game allowed. I hope it was 1994, I will need to look that up. This year we have a D that is predominantly over-achieving and an O that is predominantly under-achieving. Overall I really expect Carl's D to be even better (or at least more talented) next year, but we lose a couple of ends that this year's D is built on; so we do not want to blow the opportunity those two afford us. On O, we need to trust the staff and see if this line and Wells can get it together. I would like to see the offense stay with select receivers that are used to Wells throwing. I love Jodi, but perhaps we try sets where he is not a 1st-down back. Ryan's hands are pretty good. I do not expect Wells to light the world on fire this weekend, but I think he will improve this offense. Again ...special teams is everything tomorrow.

Penguin Nation:

--- Quote from: IAA Fan on November 04, 2016, 11:46:00 AM ---I am going to go out on a limb and predict 28-24 Good Guys. The best D we have had (by far) was Heacock's 1994. They set an NCAA record that may still stand at 8.5 (or 9.5) points-per-game allowed. I hope it was 1994, I will need to look that up. This year we have a D that is predominantly over-achieving and an O that is predominantly under-achieving. Overall I really expect Carl's D to be even better (or at least more talented) next year, but we lose a couple of ends that this year's D is built on; so we do not want to blow the opportunity those two afford us. On O, we need to trust the staff and see if this line and Wells can get it together. I would like to see the offense stay with select receivers that are used to Wells throwing. I love Jodi, but perhaps we try sets where he is not a 1st-down back. Ryan's hands are pretty good. I do not expect Wells to light the world on fire this weekend, but I think he will improve this offense. Again ...special teams is everything tomorrow.

--- End quote ---

Seniors on the defense: Moss, both Rivers, Eric Thompson, Dawson, Alexander, Pinnock, Bishop, Dortch, Jameel Smith, Jaylin Kelly, and Hagood.

The drop off next year will be substantial on defense.  The offense will be the same old same old. 

This is the year if "it" is going to happen.

"Trust the staff" on offense.  How's that been working out so far?  Maybe some ppl actually suck at their job?  Ever use Comcast?

IAA Fan:
Just as some people suck at being fans. Perhaps people might be more interested in your opinions if you made some specific suggestions besides defense is "great" and offense "sucks"? I made a couple of specific suggestions for tomorrow's game ...use different TB's on first-down and stick to specific receivers that are use to the harder throwing of Wells to the hands. Suggestions like this are what fans do. Unlike you; I know that no other OC, that we can afford, can do any better. So you just keep moving forward. You used to complain when we put up 30+ in the first-half alone because our pathetic D could not stop anyone from scoring 50+ and "we did not score in the second half". Yet you knew that Wolf gave coach M orders to dumb-down the offense and that not too many DC's had trouble adjusting to it at the half. Now the shoe is on the other foot, but you have seen what we are capable of. So you do not like the guy ...fine. How does that help anyone? Not that we are listened to, but it makes us feel good to think that someone might. this is what computer desk coaches (like all of us) do. BTW we are 6-2 with 2 of our 3 weakest teams remaining on the schedule ...so 'lighten up Francis'. This weekend is for the conference crown and a home play-off game. Simply put:

-If we finish out 3-0 we host a play-off game or 2.
-If we go 2-1 we are in and we travel.
-If we go 1-2 or 0-3 we are out of the play-off hunt.

OleYSUfan:
It's great to have hope; but I don't really expect a rusty Hunter Wells making wonderful passes to inept receivers who don't seem to get open and sometimes drop passes right in their hands. We don't seem to use "timed passes" that is: the QB and the receiver have a predetermined spot. The QB throws to that spot prior to the receiver actually being there yet. This has to be practiced often to be effective. These passes are usually "curl" passes designed for 7-15 yds.

I see some hope with a wonderful defensive unit, but can the offense seize the opportunities? This maybe the least effective YSU offense team that I have seen in over 50 years of watching YSU football.

NDSU  20   YSU  13

I hope I'm wrong!

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