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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 3, 2018 19:35:38 GMT -6
Watching this FSU and Va Tech game. Some serious CrampRabbit stuff going on here by VaTech with the Noles driving on offense. This crap should be called.
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 1, 2018 23:47:50 GMT -6
WIU and UNI lost by identical 26-23 scores out in Montana. NDSU beat the snot out of Cal Poly. So 1-2.
Two 3 point losses at the traditional BSC powers in Montana isn't too bad. Play them over here and they are probably wins.
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 1, 2018 23:06:45 GMT -6
Upon further reflection, really impressed with our defense. We kept K-State bottled up all day, only gave up one offensive TD to them IIRC. That's a Big 12 offense that is used to putting up basketball type points.
I don't think it's too bold to say that the punt return we gave up for a TD was the difference in the game. That big play changed everything. But offensively, K- State did diddly squat. That bodes real well for us as the defense is what we have needed to take this program to the next level.
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 1, 2018 22:08:50 GMT -6
I was most impressed with the D and our O-line play. The O-line protected Simmons pretty well. Good signs going into the season.
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 1, 2018 21:12:49 GMT -6
When you have a chance to beat a P5 team you have to capitalize. We let this one get away. Up 24-12 we had ample chance to extend that lead and put KSU away. Didn't do it.
Yeah, it's great to come close. But I don't feel good about this one. Should have been a W.
Lessons learned, have to finish, can't make mistakes. That 5 yard penalty at the end was the difference between OT and losing
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 1, 2018 17:57:34 GMT -6
...and buffering.
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 1, 2018 17:52:06 GMT -6
We got game! Yotes up 10-3
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 1, 2018 17:51:40 GMT -6
ESPN just spins and spins. I've tried it on multiple devices now
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Post by Yote 53 on Aug 31, 2018 22:13:06 GMT -6
I might just be a homer, but I got a good feeling about this one. I'm feeling a statement game and an upset. Maybe we don't pull it off, I think we will, but the Yotes will represent.
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Post by Yote 53 on Aug 31, 2018 22:10:11 GMT -6
You know, I was going to make the trek up the hill for this one. Sometimes life intercedes and I didn't make it. Wish I would have. Congrats ladies. Nice win.
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Post by Yote 53 on Aug 31, 2018 21:11:27 GMT -6
Minnesota and UND are playing a game in Vegas this year. So I guess MN is really trying to avoid them.
I spend way too much time in too many hockey rinks across the upper Midwest. You are not going to be able to come here and peddle the crap you are about UND hockey, Gopher hockey, the BTHC, or the NCHC, so just stop.
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Post by Yote 53 on Aug 31, 2018 8:51:34 GMT -6
I was following this game on Yahoo sports app. When I looked at the stats in the first half, it showed that WIU was leading on the scoreboard but getting absolutely dominated in yardage, first downs, and every other stat. Now, the app could have been wrong because in the second half the stats completely flipped, maybe their was an error and they were corrected? Anyway, yes, very difficult to travel that far west on a Thursday night for a game. Would have been nice for the MVFC to come out of that with a win but I would have to say that WIU represented well.
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Post by Yote 53 on Aug 31, 2018 8:28:59 GMT -6
He's running the numbers through his own model. It's actually a pretty decent model.
FWIW, I would take USD w/the points and the under if you are giving me 22.5.
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Post by Yote 53 on Aug 31, 2018 8:21:30 GMT -6
I'll have to say dragging along my quote keeps my memory fresh. Auggie should help the Summit. You kept the funny part of your quote but edited out the facts: USD 45 - UND 7, but I agree with you about Augie and the Summit. I saw a bit of the UND football game last night against arguably the worst team in all of D1. By the looks of the attendance and the play on the field UNDs budget problems were explained: not many are interested in watching an underfunded football team. I was more convinced than ever UND is a candidate for Summit non-scholarship football. If there is to be regional expansion of the Summit Non-scholarship football is the only answer for schools that don’t have the budgets to compete but want to keep the game while playing D1 sports. Those schools in our region are mostly the D1 hockey schools that are classified D2. Augie, without hockey, is the exception. UND was seen by the Big 10 as just another D2 sponging off their prestige and was pushed out with the other D2s. Proof positive there is no place for us to go because nobody wants to share their money. We have to build our own leagues, with our rivals in our region and make our own money. it was always budgets that kept the old NCC schools from moving up. The hockey schools stood firm in their opposition. Eventually markets grew and so did budgets until a few could clearly see the way. Now other schools are beginning to experience this growth and the desire to participate. As they grow into D1 as Augie seems to be doing we have to embrace them. Moving all of the D2 hockey schools into the Summit forming a Summit hockey league would save costs over running a separate hockey league. It would provide legitamacy to their programs as they compete in all sports under the same conference flag as the Big 10 insisted it do. These schools will have trouble funding football but non-scholarship would give them an option in the Summit making the move more realistic. Don't come here and peddle this crap about UND. You think none of us Coyotes don't know anything about what goes on up there so we'll just somehow accept what you are saying as truth. First, the bolded part, you actually expect us to believe that? The Big Ten started hockey because Penn State started a program. Conference bylaws stated that when 6 schools offered a sport the conference would sponsor the sport. Period. End of story. Minnesota got drug into the BTHC kicking and screaming and they still aren't happy about having to leave the WCHA and UND. Don't believe me? Look it up, or just go to a Gopher game this winter and look at all the empty seats. The WCHA Final Five used to be a great conference tournament. Now the attendance is so bad for the Big Ten Conference tournament they had to put the games back on campus. The BTHC had to bring in Notre Dame as an affiliate member to pump some life into the conference. Now, don't get me wrong, the BTHC has some very good teams, it's just the fan bases have turned on the programs because they would rather play their natural hockey rivals than their Big Ten rivals. At the same time the BTHC was formed, UND joined with the rest of the hockey powers out west and formed the NCHC. The NCHC is the premier hockey conference in the country, that is a fact. It's better than the Big Ten and it's better than Hockey East. So don't come on here and try to spin it that UND got pushed out by the Big Ten schools and had to form some second rate conference of leftover D2 hockey schools. The NCHC is the SEC of college hockey, that conference is going nowhere, much less reforming into some sort of Summit Hockey Conference. That is just laughable. Second, just stop with this mantra that UND is going to drop scholarship football. That's just not going to happen. You Bison fans might think you can fool us but we are not stupid. We know that UND is the school up north with more money and more resources. Yes, their football team stinks right now, but that is due to coaching and playing a weak brand of Big Sky football. We're better because we have to be better to compete in the MVFC. Steel sharpen steel is the appropriate quote here. Once UND joins the conference, spends some time getting acclimated (and kicked around) they'll figure it out and get better. Third, a Summit non-scholarship football conference is just a dumb idea. Why should our conference put together such an endeavor? Just so a bunch of schools that have no business going D1 because they can't afford it, so they have an avenue to move up? Why would we want to associate with that? We'd be better off adding UMKC to the Summit and calling it good. If we wanted to put together an effort with a bunch of moving pieces and parts, our time would be better spent in meetings with some of the state schools from the Big Sky and creating a conference with them, not spinning our wheels creating something so a bunch of D2 regionals can move up. ETA: Just so you don't think I am some UND homer, I'm actually a Gopher hockey fan. So it actually hurts me to say the things I say about Gopher hockey and the BTHC, but they are the truth.
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Post by Yote 53 on Aug 31, 2018 7:49:35 GMT -6
Yeah, I wasn't expecting a win out of Weber but I did expect a better performance.
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