• Hi Guest, want to participate in the discussions, keep track of read/unread posts access private forums and more? Create your free account and increase the benefits of your eGriz.com experience today!

A Decision Needs To Be Made

Copper Griz said:
Leadership. I am not seeing it on either side of the ball. Ah Yat played reasonably well. Play calling was suspect. Did the portal and bringing new guys in disrupt team chemistry? Not having a set QB? New coaching structure on D? Injuries? What is going on with the LB’s? Defense looks absolutely lost. Offense was fine until we shot ourselves in the foot. Game was won and the coaches simply got in the way. Worst Griz game I can remember. At least with NAU you could blame illness. That was a putrid thing to watch yesterday
Click to expand...
I mean msu in 2022 and 2019 were way worse. Those are forefront in my mind but I can think of a dozen or more worse loses...this game was one play away from a solid road win against a good team in front of a packed house.
 
The only reason I think Ah Yat came out the first time was because he got smoked on a late hit (that wasn’t flagged) and you could tell it was bothering him. He was dinged up a little on that play so they gave him a series off.
 
Start Fife--he started 6 games in the Mountain West, played well when called on to play for the Fresno State Bulldogs, one of the best teams in The Mountain West and bowl winners during his tenure, is a little bigger than Ah Yat weight wise and probably a little more durable, and played well in the Missouri State game, and is a little older than Ah Yat--has seen some situations in college football that Ah Yat has not yet.

I didn't get to see the game yesterday in Billings as I don't have rabbit ears for my TV, Spectrum didn't show the game in Billings, and ESPN Radio, at least 105.5 FM, didn't broadcast the game, though Cereal Killer said they did carry the game on the AM side, 910.

I just think if we want to win now, we go with the more experienced junior with FBS experience unless he completely falls on his face !!! ( My understanding is Fife played one series yesterday--only one series. How can he or any QB get in a rhythm playing only one series ? ) There is probably a good reason that the University of Minnesota of The Big 10, a mid-level conference team, offered Fife a full-ride and he was headed there until Clif transferred. And as talented as Ah Yat is--24 points in the first quarter is great !!!!--0 points in the second half is butt-ugly, and we aren't going to win many games with our current D scoring only 24 points in a game. And yes, that second half goose egg is not all Ah Yat's fault--linemen whiffed on blocks, receivers ran bad routes, and North Dakota made some great half-time adjustments !!!

I have nothing against Keli Ah Yat and do think he or Huot or both are probably our QB's of the future--tough to be definitive with the transfer portal. That said if we want to win now, not two years from now, I feel Fife gives our best chance to get back to Frisco. Right now with a young Ah Yat starting, I think we're at best # 3 in The Big Sky, behind the Shi##y Kitties with a healthy Tommy Mellott--that all changes if Tommy gets hurt !!!-- and a very tough Idaho team that just beat the Wyoming Cowpies of said FBS Mountain West using their backup QB I just don't see us either winning the Big Sky this year or getting back to Frisco and winning our 3rd NC behind a freshman QB !!!
 
BozAngelesGriz said:
I mean msu in 2022 and 2019 were way worse. Those are forefront in my mind but I can think of a dozen or more worse loses...this game was one play away from a solid road win against a good team in front of a packed house.
Click to expand...

I don’t think UND was that good of a team. We all have our nightmare games that come to memory and I won’t argue with yours. Both listed were bad (2021 real bad) but I think I blocked them out of my mind. Must be PTSD!
 
billingsgriz said:
I didn't get to see the game yesterday in Billings as I don't have rabbit ears for my TV, Spectrum didn't show the game in Billings, and ESPN Radio, at least 105.5 FM, didn't broadcast the game, though Cereal Killer said they did carry the game on the AM side, 910.
Click to expand...

Billingsgriz, you have a Guardian Angel watching over you, standing between you and hearing or seeing that shitshow. When you finally pass on, find out who, and thank them, profusely. 👍
This played out like an episode of 'Heaven Can Wait.'
 
Copper Griz said:
Leadership. I am not seeing it on either side of the ball. Ah Yat played reasonably well. Play calling was suspect. Did the portal and bringing new guys in disrupt team chemistry? Not having a set QB? New coaching structure on D? Injuries? What is going on with the LB’s? Defense looks absolutely lost. Offense was fine until we shot ourselves in the foot. Game was won and the coaches simply got in the way. Worst Griz game I can remember. At least with NAU you could blame illness. That was a putrid thing to watch yesterday
Click to expand...
The illness news did not come out until way after the fact to my recollection. It reminded me of the Idaho game, except UND is not to the level of Idaho.
 
The miserable second half did not all rest on the shoulders of young Ah Yat, but a big chunk of it did--he was our starting QB just like Vidlack took the heat after last year's melt down @ NAU and never started again after that seven-sack debacle !!!

If we want a chance of winning The Big Sky this year and getting back to Frisco and this time winning our 3rd NC, junior and Fresno State veteran Logan Fife is our best bet for winning now instead of winning two years from now !!!

Thirty , 20, or even 10 years ago, I would have said focus on developing young Ah-Yat, but now with the vagaries of the transfer portal and the sudden annual roster losses it can lead to, we had better win now !!!
 
oldngrizzly said:
I will be the first one to admit that I was wrong about Fife.He looked awlful for the few plays he played.I guess now we see why we have AH Yat playing most of the game.We better figure it out for a backup and get him some experience. AH Yat was far from perfect because he is young and lacks development but at this point he's all we got. Unless they play Huot and see where he is at.But then again he has not been developed either. What do the fans think?
Click to expand...
Huot will be gone in the portal and who can blame him. Why would a good qb come here ? to wither and fade away.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top