You really have to feel bad for UND baseball, insofar as scheduling. UND has just released the 2012 schedule. 51 games. The first 26 and 31 of the first 32 are away. 16 total home games.
Tell me again why there is baseball in North Dakota.
psssst.... lacrosse.
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Baseball 2012
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GeauxSioux
, Feb 08 2012 12:33 PM
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 12:42 PM
Take away the Great West teams on the schedule and that is a good looking non conference schedule. I want to give the baseball coaches credit as they keep plugging away despite lack of conference. I think if someone in the athletics dept. would just make a phone call to the Summit league we could be accepted for baseball only. That conference is hanging on by a thread and needs members dearly. We would be an instant contender in that league, especially after Oral Roberts leaves after the year.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 05:50 PM
homer, on 08 February 2012 - 12:42 PM, said:
Take away the Great West teams on the schedule and that is a good looking non conference schedule. I want to give the baseball coaches credit as they keep plugging away despite lack of conference. I think if someone in the athletics dept. would just make a phone call to the Summit league we could be accepted for baseball only. That conference is hanging on by a thread and needs members dearly. We would be an instant contender in that league, especially after Oral Roberts leaves after the year.
Or talk the BSC teams into getting baseball back.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 10:43 PM
darell1976, on 08 February 2012 - 05:50 PM, said:
Or talk the BSC teams into getting baseball back.
Not gonna happen.................
Including the new members of North Dakota and Southern Utah, the Big Sky has 4 total members that sponsor the sport.
UND would be far better off cutting baseball and diverting the resources elseware......................
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 11:42 PM
Baseball has had a couple of very good recruiting years in a row and it will be interesting to see how they develop. Drop baseball?? Heck no we need to step up our support. Can be fun with a few beers and warm sun in late April or May to heckle some umps and spit seeds.
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 12:33 AM
iramurphy, on 08 February 2012 - 11:42 PM, said:
Baseball has had a couple of very good recruiting years in a row and it will be interesting to see how they develop. Drop baseball?? Heck no we need to step up our support. Can be fun with a few beers and warm sun in late April or May to heckle some umps and spit seeds.
I love the sport of baseball. But I'd be interested to see the drag that the sport has on UND's bottom line. It was different in the NCC when 9 of 10 teams were within a few hours drive of Grand Forks so that weather was not nearly as big a factor.
It's kind of like a farmer near Dickinson trying to plant sugar beets just because they do around Fargo...................
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Posted 25 February 2012 - 05:27 PM
http://wcfcourier.co...0be2f98e14.html
Even with that UNI is looking to cut more money from athletics.
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"If you go back to when we eliminated baseball we were running a major deficit and there was a million dollar cut on top of that," he said. "The situations that led to that aren't in place today."
Even with that UNI is looking to cut more money from athletics.
UNI had to eliminate baseball because of budget cuts, I wonder how long baseball will last at UND. With the Division I, expenses are increasing dramastically from D2, but Revenue seems to be about the same. I think its only a matter of time before UND finds itself needing to reduce expenses.
Maybe coach Dodson should have asked for the 10-run-rule to be in place this weekend.
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 09:03 PM
http://www.fightings...TCLID=205404194
Well the team will get 2 more home games this season. Hopefully the weather holds out and a decent crowd shows up to support the team.
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The series, which was slated for April 1-2 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, will now be split between Grand Forks and Fargo. The series opener will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Kraft Field along with Sunday’s series finale at 1 p.m.
The teams will play a Saturday doubleheader at Newman Outdoor Field in Fargo starting at 1 p.m.
The teams will play a Saturday doubleheader at Newman Outdoor Field in Fargo starting at 1 p.m.
Well the team will get 2 more home games this season. Hopefully the weather holds out and a decent crowd shows up to support the team.
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This will be the third straight season the teams have met, but Friday’s meeting at Kraft Field will be the first there since UND beat the Bison twice at home in 2004. The Sioux own 3-2 mark against NDSU since the rivalry resumed in 2010.
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 01:12 PM
GeauxSioux, on 20 April 2012 - 12:55 PM, said:
Drop baseball and add lacrosse. College baseball with a North Dakota climate doesn't make sense. Catch the wave of interest in lacrosse and get ahead of the other schools in the area.
I've heard this notion somewhere before .... think-think-think ...
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Posted 06 May 2012 - 11:37 PM
I think the future looks fairly good for the baseball team. The top two hitters on the team, average-wise, are both freshmen (Follis and Campbell); as of a week or two ago, when he was hitting .397 (he's now hitting .385), Follis had the highest batting average in the nation among freshmen. The top home run hitter on the team, with 11, is a freshman (Campbell). Also, all four starters in the weekend series just completed, three of which we won, were freshmen (Thome, Ruemmele, Clark, and Campbell), one of which has thrown two consecutive complete-game shutouts (Thome). Finally, only one non-pitcher starter, sometimes two, is a senior. The team is only 11-32 on the season but they've won 8 of their last 11. I think they're going to be pretty good in a year or two.
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Posted 07 May 2012 - 07:40 AM
UND Fan, on 07 May 2012 - 07:11 AM, said:
This team has a ton of talented freshmen - I just hope we can keep them on campus. This year, a couple of really good sophomores-to-be elected to play elsewhere.
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