time to start playing clean football and get on a roll. next 3 are tough matchups (two tough places to travel and poly at home), but winnable games. clean it up with the penalties, get the run game going, and tackle -> win these 3, get to 5-3 and welcome Weber to town. never look ahead of things, but there's lots of season left and plenty of good players out there. no reason not to turn things around starting with the Fighting Hawks.

I’m not a betting man but I’d put money on us and Poly.

I think they preempted our game for a special broadcast of Grant Napier’s analysis of the King’s Trip to a Dubai

More Cowbells!!! Cowbells, train whistle and the band!! Should be festive

I appreciate the passion for the band, and the need for discussion, just preferably on a conversation devoted to the band.

apparently there is a pre-game concert friday night that the athletic department is putting on to get the students interested in showing up. love to see a big crowd of them, and a big victory to get them hooked.

forecast for Saturday is 71 (its been bouncing around in that range, up to 75). pretty mild at kickoff. entire stadium will be in the sun at the beginning, and the sun shouldnt be the face of the student/east side until pretty late in the game. we're at the top of 123 (just below the press box), and i doubt we'll be out of the sun the entire game. we really lucked out with the weather. if yesterday's weather would have been the forecast, it would have been miserable.

I had heard that the injuries were not as bad as they looked during the NDSU game; not sure if that means all of those players are available for Saturday, or that they will be available soon.

it was 21-3 last year. i was there, on the field, and it wasn't going well. what impressed me at the time was the demeanor of the coaches -> no panic. players were rattled, but they seemed to get things under control at halftime (although we didn't score on the opening drive when half the stadium was still out in the parking lot, something that i thought at the time was a sign that we'd lose).

the biggest difference between halves last year was the pressure we got on their QB. in the first, he was very efficient passing, and picked up some nice yardage running. he's a big guy, not what you tend to picture when you think 'running QB'. second half, we got alot of pressure on him. a big strip sack led to a quick TD and i think hurt his shoulder -> right after that he had 2 INTS on long out patterns where there was no zip on the ball. offense started feeding off the defense, and vice versa, and BOOM, 40-something straight points.

i will say, that was the LOUDEST experience I ever had, and i saw KISS at the old Winterland in the 70's! from what i heard, the Fargodome was loud and electric, but nothing like Montana.

i think Audience is available on Direct TV. i was watching the end of the EWU-Idaho game in a hotel room that had Direct.

Vegas insider has the point spread as us by +5, so pretty darn close game

can we get BACK to football on the football forum? i'm much more concerned about how we will match up against a very good Montana game, in what i think it a pivotal game for us.

i think we're a different animal than Monmouth of North Alabama, especially at home!

Woodstock is showing it

a physical team at home where they can suit up and use their redshirts is a huge advantage. Also helps a lot on special teams where you can use fresh, talented guys, while the traveling team uses some starters. I think we’ll score, but defense will really struggle against the run.

they did have a loud train whistle that the cheerleaders fired after scores. And the Cal Poly game of the late 70’s was the Johnny Lu game - John Lucido

Gary Lee was a guest of ours at a game a couple years back (a brewfest). he was quite a big deal back in the day, playing many a show for Bill Graham at the Fillmore. Good guy.

not to look BEYOND this game, but the forecast for next Saturday's day game (thanks, Roots TV) v Montana is 75 degrees. that's gonna be a HUGE game for both teams.

he was a big advocate of the athletic program. he was critical in that transition period before May took over. don't think Hawkins would be here if Hexter hadn't been there to work things out.

i think that spread is reflective of our #4 maybe being a bit too high! NDSU beat Eastern by 14 on a neutral field last year (the dome is FAR from neutral!), and some think this team is even better. Our line play on both sides of the ball hasn't been good enough for a top 5 team, so i suspect those factors are playing into the spread