I think a real key to this game is keeping it close in the first half. Defense has shown the ability to make half time adjustments and shut things down (ISU, Montana), but these guys are a level above that. Can’t try to play catch-up. Getting an early turnover and capitalizing on it would be HUGE

we have a +12 in turnovers this year, both a credit to the defense for takeaways and the offense for holding onto the ball. have to keep that going this week. i can see them playing it a bit more conservative to limit the risk of turnovers.

here is an article in Yahoo Sports that is quite a difference in our past Novembers

FCS Game of the Week

that's the secret! downside, is that your computer than forgets your login information for many sites (like this one), at least on my MAC

ask the Big Sky commissioner. probably big up in Big Sky country. its the same reason the Idaho game was played at 4:00 in September.

Bu the time I turned on the radio broadcast we were down something like 24-6 about midway through the first. I think Marsh used the word ‘discombobulated ‘. On the ‘plus’ side, Silar and TJ were a combined 3-18, both with several turnovers. I think they’ve shown that they are MUCH better than that. Gonsalez looks like a real player. Others seemed shell shocked. Healthy John will help. HOPEFULLY, one of those disasteric starts against a good team that snowballed. We stunk it up against USF last year, although battled back to make the score look decent. That was 10 games in. Roster is pretty similar to the one we finished the season with; I’m thinking they’ll bounce back

I don’t think we have a choice about ROOTS start times. Part of the Big Sky package. They assign the kickoff times

if we were to lose, then alot would come down to the Idaho St - Weber game the following week (assuming we take care of business vs Sac). An ISU win, knocks Weber to 2 BSC losses. A Weber win, and we might be behind EWU and Weber in the seeding since they both would have top 10 (5) wins.

we'll have to be really clever to come up with some looks to confuse his looks on the short passes, and be very sure tacklers. that was something we didn't go too well against NAU. we have numerous times where we had the QB and/or back for 2-3 yard losses, only to let them get away for decent gains. I think Porter's big run followed a near 10-yard sack.

couldn’t agree more. Turnovers or penalties or special team mistake could turn this into the Montana first half all over.

I thought run defense vs Poly was pretty good after the first drive. No long runs. I think yards per carry was good. Vs NAU, they basically ran the wildcat which gives them a numbers advantage. They’ve been getting a lot a rush yards with it; again, we didn’t give up large chunks. EWU has a good rush game coupled with solid pass, do that’s really going to test us

I think the noon start vs Sac is ROOTS TV thing, as was the early (4:00) kickoff for Idaho

I think we wanted ISU to win, if they could comeback to beat Weber.

I like 4:00 for October and November. Works for locals and out of towners. I was surprised at the turnout, not just the students. Grass on the north end was sparse, not bad in the south. West side was relatively full but they’ve been offering discounts lately.

First quarter offense was as good as it gets. 200 yards, 3 TD. Jake was 10-11. And that was into the wind. Penalties and that INT (that could have been a TD; I think wind pushed it) stalled us in the second. Defense was solid in the second half against a one-dimensional attack. Special teams were solid ( punts into the wind were pretty effective even though yardage looks below average)

On to Cheney. That’s gonna be a tough one.

Does it say when the polls close?

Currently leading by a bit. Hawk and Teevens at Princeton should be the top two

catching up. need more votes to surprise the leader. how can the NDSU guy be coach of the year? they are loaded every year!

I don’t think he’ll pass the NDSU coach; fan base is VERY active

'This is my son, Ron, and his brother, Terry'........

their pass defense looks pretty legit. ISU was 15-32 for 179 yards, 1TD/1 INT. EWU had big numbers, but that's about it. They have given up alot of rushing yards (248 v EWU, 297 v Missouri State, 315 to ISU and 343 v Poly) so that might explain some of it. Completion rates are less than 50%. MIght explain why we tried to run it and run it and run it against them last year.

It would be nice to know the status of Cookus for certain; else, I think they are hurting at QB. Their run game has been okay, except vs POly (356). ISU held them to 77 (but passed for 356!).

Nothing is easy in the Big Sky. Need to play a very solid game.

My mistake on the coaches show..its tonight at 7:00. probably have to work around Kings basketball to get a slot. Breakfast at Cindy's sounds like its still a go on Thursday!