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Really great win this weekend. I've been really pleased with the resiliancy and attitude of the team this year. There have been times where mistakes have happened or where they've been down, and they keep fighting hard and not letting it get to them.
This most recent week, they made a costly mistake with the fumble on the kick-off that let Winona State have an easy field to score. From there, the defense clamped down and the offense in the end was able to run out the clock. This is a group that doesn't collapse or fall apart, it picks up, stays focused and executes.
Really good coaching by Laqua, and it's awesome that the team has clinched another winning season for the first time since 2019. I think the year off during the pandemic was a speedbump for the program but the Dragons have regained their footing. Next week will be a huge game. It's going to be a monumental task but how awesome would an upset be.
On another note, absolutely shameful coverage of the game in today's Fargo-Moorhead Forum. The Dragons have a big win at home over a tough opponent to get their first winning season in a couple years. The result? A tiny brief below the fold off to the side on page 2. It didn't even get its own column, it shared space with a brief about the Concordia Cobbers, who also had a good win Saturday.
The Bison, meanwhile? Three stories/columns about the game with basically three pages of coverage. The Dragons game was at home and they couldn't even get a photographer there, they didn't have a picture run in the online MSUM story either. Another page in the Forum? Dedicated to three different stories on the Gophers' win over Michigan State. I'm a Gophers fan, but for the Forum, some of that space could have been used for MSUM and Concordia.
I get NDSU is the big show in town, I really do, but there was definitely room to give the Dragons more coverage with the game in town. I'm not entirely surprised, when the Dragons won over No. 2 Northern State a few years ago in basketball it was only given a brief, too. However, as an alumni and fan, the lack of coverage is upsetting and should be called out.
This most recent week, they made a costly mistake with the fumble on the kick-off that let Winona State have an easy field to score. From there, the defense clamped down and the offense in the end was able to run out the clock. This is a group that doesn't collapse or fall apart, it picks up, stays focused and executes.
Really good coaching by Laqua, and it's awesome that the team has clinched another winning season for the first time since 2019. I think the year off during the pandemic was a speedbump for the program but the Dragons have regained their footing. Next week will be a huge game. It's going to be a monumental task but how awesome would an upset be.
On another note, absolutely shameful coverage of the game in today's Fargo-Moorhead Forum. The Dragons have a big win at home over a tough opponent to get their first winning season in a couple years. The result? A tiny brief below the fold off to the side on page 2. It didn't even get its own column, it shared space with a brief about the Concordia Cobbers, who also had a good win Saturday.
The Bison, meanwhile? Three stories/columns about the game with basically three pages of coverage. The Dragons game was at home and they couldn't even get a photographer there, they didn't have a picture run in the online MSUM story either. Another page in the Forum? Dedicated to three different stories on the Gophers' win over Michigan State. I'm a Gophers fan, but for the Forum, some of that space could have been used for MSUM and Concordia.
I get NDSU is the big show in town, I really do, but there was definitely room to give the Dragons more coverage with the game in town. I'm not entirely surprised, when the Dragons won over No. 2 Northern State a few years ago in basketball it was only given a brief, too. However, as an alumni and fan, the lack of coverage is upsetting and should be called out.
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