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Post by Yotes on Nov 7, 2016 12:51:10 GMT -6
There's a game in Brookings on Saturday, the 111th meeting between The University of South Dakota and the ag school. We nearly pulled the upset last season in Vermillion but let them off the hook late. I missed our game last week, sounds like we came out flat, but a game against your in-state rival should be more than enough motivation for our guys to show up on Saturday. I bought my tickets already. Curious to see what their stadium looks like, I've heard good things (though literally anything would have been better than their previous setup). Hoping for warm weather to go with the warm welcome we will be receiving from the home fans.
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Post by fightsd on Nov 7, 2016 13:25:03 GMT -6
Great opportunity this week to knock off a team we have struggled with in recent years. I have to think this is the closest these two teams have been since the rivalry was reinstated in 2012. Before the state college folks show up and say otherwise: Yes. This is their biggest rivalry game.
Bottom line is if we show up in Brookings and play like we did last week, we will get flat out embarrassed. To me, this is the game we can judge this team on. How do we bounce back after some adversity? Win or lose, I want to see the same fight that we've seen glimpses of throughout this season. That will be enough for me to believe that this program has turned the corner. Now, if we show up and play a complete game like we are capable of playing, there's absolutely no reason we can't come away with a victory.
This week more than ever, Fight South Dakota! And as always, Hate State.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 7, 2016 13:57:39 GMT -6
Pre season I had pegged this game as the worst one for the Coyotes. I think eventually the Yotes will catch up but things almost never go well in Brookings for the Coyotes. I don't think it will be any different on Saturday. The team is low on momentum and the Jacks have a perfect type of offense to give the Coyotes trouble. I am thinking 38-17 Jacks is about what I expect. Maybe 45-24. I will stick with the first score prediction though. A heavy wind would definitely hurt both teams.
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Post by golfingyote on Nov 7, 2016 14:12:16 GMT -6
Defense has their hands full defending the Goedert Wieneke 2 headed monster. Hard enough trying to gameplan for Wieneke. Both those guys went over 100 last week. As if that wasn't hard enough, they put up 215 as a team rushing. We need Taryn Christion to have a game like he had in the dome last year.
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Post by thumper76 on Nov 7, 2016 18:22:27 GMT -6
. Before the state college folks show up and say otherwise: Yes. This is their biggest rivalry game. . Um, sure. It's not like Marker Week had a 30 page thread about it by Monday on AGS and a much larger thread on our board as well. Keep telling yourself that though buddy. |
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Post by thumper76 on Nov 7, 2016 18:24:36 GMT -6
On the game, the only way I've seen you guys lose is when you throw the game away with turnovers. Should be a close game unless SDSU comes out and jumps on the Yotes right away, then it won't be close. The key for the Yotes is to come out strong and get some points to gain confidence.
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Post by Yotes on Nov 7, 2016 19:24:01 GMT -6
. Before the state college folks show up and say otherwise: Yes. This is their biggest rivalry game. . Um, sure. It's not like Marker Week had a 30 page thread about it by Monday on AGS and a much larger thread on our board as well. Keep telling yourself that though buddy. You're telling me that there were a lot of posts on an NDSU forum and on an SDSU forum about games involving their teams? This just shatters my entire universe. |
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 7, 2016 19:37:47 GMT -6
. Before the state college folks show up and say otherwise: Yes. This is their biggest rivalry game. . Um, sure. It's not like Marker Week had a 30 page thread about it by Monday on AGS and a much larger thread on our board as well. Keep telling yourself that though buddy. I agree with thumper unfortunately this time. USD football hasn't been a threat to SDSU for years. The Coyotes haven't proven as a program that they deserve to be SDSU's biggest rival. I think in all other sports that USD is their biggest rival but in football I do think NDSU is their biggest rival. |
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Post by thumper76 on Nov 7, 2016 19:40:17 GMT -6
Um, sure. It's not like Marker Week had a 30 page thread about it by Monday on AGS and a much larger thread on our board as well. Keep telling yourself that though buddy. You're telling me that there were a lot of posts on an NDSU forum and on an SDSU forum about games involving their teams? This just shatters my entire universe. Any Given Saturday. The national board. And it had more activity for the Marker game than the SDSU and Yote board have combined right now. Sorry to burst your bubble. |
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Post by usdtator on Nov 7, 2016 20:00:36 GMT -6
You're telling me that there were a lot of posts on an NDSU forum and on an SDSU forum about games involving their teams? This just shatters my entire universe. Any Given Saturday. The national board. And it had more activity for the Marker game than the SDSU and Yote board have combined right now. Sorry to burst your bubble. OMG! A bunch of the most arrogant fans in FCS football trying to one up each other... I find it hard to believe you guys have been able stop yourselves long enough to look at other boards. |
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 7, 2016 20:16:11 GMT -6
If USD wants to earn respect from Jacks fans they need to go into SDSU's backyard and take a victory from them on their very own home field. It would be a very bitter loss and hurt their playoff seed and possibly cost them a playoff spot all together. That is something that would get their attention and that would be something that would change their opinion on what kind of a rival USD is to them at football. Until USD wins more then 1 or 2 out of every 10 games against them their fans shouldn't respect the Coyotes. USD needs to take something that is SDSU's and make it their own and a win would be exactly that. The last vision I have of USD playing up in Brookings is the Jacks having to slam on the breaks to avoid completing turning the game into a laugher because they could have named the score 2 years ago but instead let their foot off the gas.
The good thing about this Coyote team is that they have a tendency to be very inconsistent but they also have a tendency to not get blown out in a game. I am not sure they can avoid that fate this time around but if there is something to hang your hat on as a Yotes fan it is that the Coyotes do tend to play in close games.
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Post by Yotes on Nov 7, 2016 20:40:00 GMT -6
You're telling me that there were a lot of posts on an NDSU forum and on an SDSU forum about games involving their teams? This just shatters my entire universe. Any Given Saturday. The national board. And it had more activity for the Marker game than the SDSU and Yote board have combined right now. Sorry to burst your bubble. It's really inaccurate to call AGS a national board when from what I can recall probably 1 out of every 2 posters was an NDSU fan. |
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Post by flagshipU on Nov 7, 2016 22:02:09 GMT -6
The only way I see the Yotes coming out victorious is if the offense can put up a lot of points (40+). Unfortunately, our defense is just too young and inexperienced to shut down anyone right now. I'm optimistic that will change in a couple of years as the young guys seem talented. However, we have to stunt and blitz this year to generate any pressure on the QB and get into the backfield. Sometimes this works, but eventually it always seems to bite us in the rear and we give up big plays.
Regarding the stadium, I was up there for a high school game a few weeks ago and it is nice. Certainly not the "end-all, be-all" that some have made it our to be. Hopefully, there will be a large contingent of red in the stands on Saturday. I'll take the Dome over their new stadium any day, especially after we make the renovations that are in the planning stages.
Go Yotes!!!
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Post by wiley on Nov 8, 2016 8:41:13 GMT -6
Um, sure. It's not like Marker Week had a 30 page thread about it by Monday on AGS and a much larger thread on our board as well. Keep telling yourself that though buddy. I agree with thumper unfortunately this time. USD football hasn't been a threat to SDSU for years. The Coyotes haven't proven as a program that they deserve to be SDSU's biggest rival. I think in all other sports that USD is their biggest rival but in football I do think NDSU is their biggest rival. So let me get this straight. You agree with this moron, yet you go on to say that USD needs to beat SDSU more than once or twice every ten years to be considered a rival? What exactly has SDSU done the last ten years against NDSU to be considered their rival? One thing they have done is put together beautifully written 30 page threads on message boards to make the rivalry what it is today. Bravo. Not sure we can compete with that. Message board threads are what make rivalries. |
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Post by thumper76 on Nov 8, 2016 9:37:31 GMT -6
I agree with thumper unfortunately this time. USD football hasn't been a threat to SDSU for years. The Coyotes haven't proven as a program that they deserve to be SDSU's biggest rival. I think in all other sports that USD is their biggest rival but in football I do think NDSU is their biggest rival. So let me get this straight. You agree with this moron, yet you go on to say that USD needs to beat SDSU more than once or twice every ten years to be considered a rival? What exactly has SDSU done the last ten years against NDSU to be considered their rival? One thing they have done is put together beautifully written 30 page threads on message boards to make the rivalry what it is today. Bravo. Not sure we can compete with that. Message board threads are what make rivalries. Well, in the last ten years SDSU has beaten NDSU four times, once for a conference championship. The other factor being is we end up playing them more because of regionalization of the playoffs, and familiarity breeds contempt I believe is the old saying. We have also had to play them for years on the men's side of the the Summit League tournament, and both teams are in the top of the conference standings and playoffs year in and year out. There is a lot more on the line for the Marker game usually, either advancing in the playoffs or the top of the conference standings. You can be mad about it but it is. I understand we are obviously your biggest rivals, and don't like being considered number two, but that's what it is. I'm not trying to smack here either, just being honest. |
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