When I was a student the 7PM game times fit well with student life In the dorms everyone did their thing during the day and then walked over to Toomey, after dinner. The whole experience seemed more festive than day games.
I can see why fans remote from Davis prefer an earlier game. So split the difference,have September / early October games, after school starts, at night, partly due to heat issues and partly to get some new students involved.

One take-away from this is that the tv networks pay relatively more for a near meaningless lower tier FCS “bowl game” than they do for a FCS playoff game, or at least the schools and conferences involved get more profit. Why?

They have their niche and they are sticking to it.
In 1977 Davis played Bethune Cookman in the D2 playoffs and won easily before playing Lehigh and losing in the semis

Good. It will be interesting receiver competition if everyone is healthy.

The UNI color commentator after watching our offense for a couple of series said “what wide receiver wouldn’t want to play here
However, We need at least two deep threats at wide receiver and three good receivers for our offense. We were running out of WRs by the EW game, and we lose a couple to graduation. Will Logan Montgomery be back next year? Is Vaughn ok?

My unscientific observation is that 3-4 teams tend to have bigger defensive ends and smaller middle linebackers than 4-3 teams. But it varies.
The thing about the DL is we only added two recruits last year. You have to average more than that if you want to have depth . Same with running back only had Facey as a walk-on. Both DL and RB are wear and tear positions

Nice that we can rationally imagine beating anyone on our schedule any given Saturday. Cal is a long shot but we are not prohibitive underdogs like we were against Stanford this year.

Funny that the article talks about how rare it is for the power 5 conferences to take an FCS coach and then list his competition as all lower profile FBS schools like Troy, Memphis and North Texas. FBS vs FCS is just a letter when your comparing North Dakota State to those schools.

1973 last second loss to Boise State at Toomey field 32-31. Thanksgiving weekend. We had thought team might make playoffs but found out we were out and Boise was in so this was last game. Got out to a big lead but couldn’t get a pass rush against their much larger offensive line. boise went on in the D2 playoffs beat South Dakota, lost to Louisiana Tech. Jim Speck, true freshman from Davis High threw for 419 yards for Aggies.

It sure looked like the players were frozen stiff on defense at end of game.

Jaylin White it was who hit his head on the turf. Played in only four games this year. I would guess he redshirted after injury, Never started again after injury

perhaps it’s a good thing for our smallish defense that their 290lb blocking fullback is graduating. They do still have some big guys.

Hopefully hell be back? The cupboards not bare there but underclassmen haven’t had a big impact in the interior defensive line

In that rating Cal is rated only a little more than a field goal better than Eastern Washington. So we should be able to be competitive with Cal. Better climate for one thing.

Regarding can we replace the seniors on defense the answer is yes.
Our returning guys saw a lot of action.
Young guys need to elevate their game. Can Suani become better than Cloud was? Can Peacock become better than Baumgart? Can guys come back from injury like Nixon and Jaylin White and restore the depth we lost? Also this year would be a good time to add an interior defensive lineman.

Hard to look on the bright side when the other team cut through you like a knife through butter when you have a lead with less than two minutes left.
But we’re close. A lot of what ifs. This was the playoff quarter finals and we were this close to winning.

Maybe a little too experimental. The Crawford pass was a trick play and that’s fine but when you go to untested passer throwing to the QB that’s a whole different level,

So the health questions for us are: who is not available at wide receiver and is Brandon Jamison out.

The UNI radio announcers identified Kraft as leaving the game with some injury after a catch.
Apparently replaced by Babb. Not sure Babb played much, but he is in list of game participants. With our list of receivers Babb would be pretty far down the list if all were healthy.

I think it was Kraft, Don’t know if he came back.
I also suspect Vaughn is hurt as he didn’t play.
Babb played a bit.