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ST_Lawson wrote:

sealhall74 wrote:Looks like the boys are taking the "Casino Express" up to Fargo. Hope they hit the jackpot. Bad news is I won't be in the house to see it or the Wisconsin BB game next week (back spasms better but still there). Good news is I bought the travel insurance for this trip and I hardly ever do that.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/CXP700

FYI, it is not cheap to take these charters but you really don't have any choice if you want to compete. If you bus it, you would probably need to leave on Thursday and give them a day to recover from buslag. Below is an estimate for this trip to Fargo.

http://www.privatefly.com/private-jet-c ... ch=2034855#

Yea, it's a 10 hour drive from Macomb to Fargo. As you said, they'd have to leave probably Thursday morning and attempt to get a good night's sleep in the hotel on Thursday night. And coming back would be all day Sunday. I've done long stretches on a charter bus before...having to do that twice with a football game in between would not be a fun experience for anyone. What's the limit for taking a bus to an away game...5...6 hours? I assume we'd bus to the ISUs, Southern, UNI, maybe MSU (that's about 5 1/4 hours), and fly to games at YSU and the Dakotas.

letsgonecks wrote:So do or die from here out. I sure hope they've practiced nothing but new formations/wrinkles and plays this week.

We're a pretty conservative team and that's not always a bad thing, but if we're conservative and hope their players or coaches make more mistakes we'll have no chance. I'm sure there's been some stuff offensively and defensively we've practices, but haven't used because we're more comfortable with what we've been running. The time is now to bust it out as their preparation to stop our same old same old will be at a higher level than what we feel works best for us. Even if we exhaust everything in our book and have nothing left for the following 2 weeks, we need this one more.

Let's move some people around on offense. Let's run some rubs and hell lets straight-up pick and make the refs make the call. Misdirection and setup some trickery.....a little taste back to them on what beat us last year with their half back pass to the Wentz. We've seen one pass from Smith, but have 2 other WR that were HS Qb's in Williams and Acklin. Tried one onces last year with Acklin, but there was a pentalty on the play. Flee flicker? Most teams don't stay home for Norvel after the give, so toss it back out as he's moving to the right for some space.

Defense needs to bring no stop pressure on blitzes and rotate at all levels to keep bodies fresh, we have some depth to do so. No delayed blitzes as they've been picked up or read early and gives them easy reads in our soft coverage. Get up on the line bring six, forces them to go one on one and someone beat the TE or RB picking up. Force the young QB to run sooner than he should or force a pass. He's athletic and will likely rack up yards running against us anyways, so force him with pressure. Get the corners up tight early and see what he's capable of. Wentz would probably find the mismatch and beat us all day, but who knows about this guy. Let's find out!!!!!

Have it be up to us.....this young athletic QB either has the game of his life or worst game of his life.

We still have a good chance to lose being super aggressive, but feel 100% we'll lose being the same old same old. Save that for ISUb.

Can't pick us to lose, so WIU 24 - NDSU 14 (if we're aggressive......and it works)

Lakesbison wrote:

what the heck, never been on a plane b4? you cant bring on powerade...lol

funny stuff