That Wisconsin team went 5-7 and finished 13th in the Big Ten. Agree, USD is capable of hanging with Iowa State, but Wisconsin was really bad last year.
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I haven't read the entire thread. We have a team of veterans. Pros, if you will, in how they approach their jobs. The coaches will be in their ears this week about not having a let-down, and the men will listen.
The old adage says that teams improve most between games 1-2. It's SD's opener.
Our opponent is a very good team and deserving of respect. I do not foresee a blowout, but I expect a "comfortable" win for the Cyclones.
The old adage says that teams improve most between games 1-2. It's SD's opener.
Our opponent is a very good team and deserving of respect. I do not foresee a blowout, but I expect a "comfortable" win for the Cyclones.
demoncore1031
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Over the last few years, we have held our opponents well under their normal completion percentage. I would bet that we have one of the best opponent completion percentages in college football. But a guy like Bouman could have a lot of success against our style of defense. He likes to nickel and dime his way down the field and rarely turns the ball over. It will be interesting to see how our defense plays him on Saturday.
It's the first home game of the year, SD is a decent team and will bring a thousand or two fans for the game.
If this was our first game, I would be more worried, because we have struggle in the past on that first weekend. Playing and winning last week will pay dividends this week. We have already faced a better QB and team in KSU than SD could ever hope to be.
Only way SD keeps it close is if Becht is a turnover machine come Saturday, which he has never been. They will hang with us in the first half, something like 17-7 at half, and then ISU comes out in the 2nd half, shuts down their offense, we score a couple more TDs, and are playing subs the last 8 to 10 minutes of the game.
Final score, 34 to 10.
If this was our first game, I would be more worried, because we have struggle in the past on that first weekend. Playing and winning last week will pay dividends this week. We have already faced a better QB and team in KSU than SD could ever hope to be.
Only way SD keeps it close is if Becht is a turnover machine come Saturday, which he has never been. They will hang with us in the first half, something like 17-7 at half, and then ISU comes out in the 2nd half, shuts down their offense, we score a couple more TDs, and are playing subs the last 8 to 10 minutes of the game.
Final score, 34 to 10.
My understanding is that grad assistants and analysts, lead by Derek Hoodjer, do most of the initial tape grinding. Hoodjer is Asst. AD for Football Player Personnel and is the de facto head scout/GM.
I’ve never seen an FCS opponent message board that thought we would beat them.
South Dakota is a good program so I'm certainly not expecting some 45-10 blowout, and I have no problem with fans being confident in their team. My prediction is something like 27-10 good guys. Not a comfortable win like we'd all prefer but also not super nervous going into the 4th quarter.
I imagine we'll go super vanilla/conservative and be up like 1 TD at halftime and everyone will be freaking out and then hopefully pull away a bit more in the second half.
How many have you seen? Seems like that would rare they’d get a lot of traffic outside of like NDSU.
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Besides NDSU I can think of SDSU, UNI, UND, USD - the Valley schools we play all have/had pretty active boards. I think maybe even Western Illinois had a board when we played them.
