Here a few belated impressions of Scrimmage #1 that was held last Saturday: Overall, the defense outplayed the offense. This is usually the case when it comes to spring ball and it is no different this year. The #1 defense looked pretty good. They had a handful of 3 and Outs and didn’t give up…
The first full scrimmage of the spring football season is set for tomorrow morning, April 9th, at Memorial Stadium. There looks to be a possibility of rain in the morning but should be gone by scrimmage time. The details for the scrimmage are as follows: Scrimmage starts at 1pm. 70 total plays. The offense will…
It was released today via FightingSioux.com that Jack Michaels, the longtime radio icon from the Bismarck-Mandan area, has been named the new play-by-play voice for Fighting Sioux Football. He will replace Dan Hammer, who left the radio business to move over to the TV side of things at KVLY-TV11. Michaels was voice of the Mary…
What we saw and heard from the defense after one week: DL – Jay Nelson is stepping up to be the 3rd defensive end behind Broc Bellmore and Ross Brenneman. He has had a great start thus far. Spencer Cummings is also living up to his billing and has moved up the depth chart and…
It’s only been one week and four practices, with only two of them being fully-padded, but some progress has been made. Visually, the most notable thing is the overall physical size of this team. You can see the results of the strength program from the offseason as the majority of the guys have out on…
Quarterback Key Losses: Jake Landry (2-year starter) With the graduation of starter Jake Landry, the QB position for UND is completely up for grabs. The Sioux will start spring ball with a bunch of unproven QB’s who will all get a shot at being the starter. Senior Brent Goska will begin spring ball as the…
With the start of Spring Ball 2011 being next Monday, March 28th, we thought we would give a preview of each side of the football as we forge into an important time of the year. Spring ball is going to critical for the Sioux this year being they have so many young players that are vying for playing time…
The UND Football team conducted its annual post-winter workout/pre-spring ball testing within the last couple of weeks. As seems to always be the case lately, multiple records were broken. Great job once again by the Sioux Strength Football Staff, led by Head Strength Coach Nate Baukol, as evidenced by the record-breaking results during testing: Safety…
Two former Sioux standouts participated at NDSU’s Pro Day today. Ross Cochran and Ty Boyle both went through the testing down at the Fargodome along with 6 other area prospects. Boyle would project as a defensive tackle in either 3-4 or 4-3 scheme and Cochran would be an outside linebacker, like he was at UND. …
Following the rigors of recruiting season up to signing day and after a brief winter hiatus, we are back. We will try to begin our regular blogging now that we are closing in on spring ball practices. We’d like to thank all of you for the interaction during recruiting season. Our hits and comments were…
