1. Any Thoughts on lack of game experience (as BH pointed out during his radio post-game interview). He has said this before about them, it wasn't new, but I have heard the staff talk about developing the team in the 'preseason' in years past, so we have one more ooc game right now to get ready for conference play and get that experience on. The improvement seemed to be there for me, even though the pictures provided on TV for this game seemed to be more distant than usual. It looked like the defense got better in the second half again and on the last two drives the offensive play was better, like they finally figured out it was time to amp things up, and also on that post-game show, you may have heard Sammy Akem say that KAY grew up on that last drive.
2. Addressing the lack of false-starts to this point year. Could the Griz media played the UND clip again in the second half? We didn't need that. The crowd on TV was very loud and at the right times. They had their false starts, but they had prepared well with their silent count also, so I don't believe they were going to be affected by more noise any more than our guys were going to react to their false claps to snap the ball.
3. Thoughts on Questionable decision by UND to not run a play at the end of 3rd in the South end. Again, I don't think the crowd noise was their issue and the decision to let the clock run out was not the key. What was the key was going for a fourth down rather than kicking a field goal and coming away empty. Also their lack of urgency on their last possession. They let a lot of time run off the clock and then when they had an incompletion with the clock stopped on their final chance on 4th down, they seemed to rush and hurry when there was no need with the clock frozen.
4. Thoughts on Kyon Loud's game play as a whole. The good and bad. Are we going to have any other CB step up in big way? Is it needed? Kyon played a very good game, but as I said on another post, he had a selfish penalty that was both unacceptable and inexcusable that would have set up a 3rd and goal at the 9. I felt ND would have run the same play they ran on first down inside the 5 and with their kicker struggling, would they have gone for it again, or would we have saved 4 points. This penalty took a way a lot of the good that he did to me, and it's not just this very exciting player, it's our team as a whole hitting late out of bounds and getting silly 15 yard penalties all the time. Play like you already have one call against you and you're about to be ejected, but don't take dumb penalties.
5. Will the Griz have more or less than 406 total yards this week (last meeting in 2022)? Based on what I have seen from Indiana State so far, and that they have given up 325 to McKendree, 239 to Eastern Illinois and 680 to Indiana, I am going to have to take the over on this. We should be able to roll up 81 more yards than an 0-2 D-II team against this defense.