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I can name another FCS conference where that is true.

That face is the face of a guy who just missed a three-foot putt to lose the back nine and the 18 on a $500-Nassau.

Talk is cheap; it takes money to buy whiskey, ... and football. And Omaha doesn't have money for football.

So the MVC schools lobbied for Murray State (because they are going MVC and MVFC now). MoSt and WIU state yes votes (rest haven't responded). The MVC schools (IlSU, InSU, UNI, SIU, MoSt) plus WIU (Horizon for BB) are a majority in an 11 team league. NDSU said no. (Will that harm them with the MVC in the future?) UND (Armacost) said he's not commenting on a private vote. (I read that as a UND no vote, but he doesn't want to publicly state he disagreed with the decision; that said, I can be wrong.)

The transfer portal has done nothing but fog up my normally clear crystal ball.

The Transfer Portal: For when immediate gratification takes too long.

It's always nice when a player's mom posts here. ... Just funnin' ya @SlowHand, thanks for the info.

Official: https://goracers.com/news/2022/4/4/murray-state-football-to-join-missouri-valley-football-conference-july-of-2023.aspx

Looking at the map of a 12 team MVFC here, it looks like a tight footprint 8 team conference with 4 northwestern outliers. Interesting ...

After that play, at 5-0, and 5 minutes left, Zegras digs under goalie for covered puck, Jay Beagle cross-checks him down, Troy Terry tries to step in, Terry learns hard way to not get into dog fight with Beagle. My question is what and who was Kessel chirping about.

Most of RPI is in the portal right now. They have a lame duck president who has done nothing to help athletics. They’ve named the replacement, but haven’t renewed the mens hockey coach’s contract (expired 4/1). It’s a mess.

And yet they do it. What’s their secret? Depth? Conditioning? Recruiting? Because UND isn’t there yet.

The easiest way to see what a player has left is to find them at HockeyDB and count seasons played, but do NOT count 2020-21. You still only get to play four seasons but 2020-21 does NOT count as a season played for anyone.

If Daschke had two left it’s a no-brainer. But he has one. That would make me look for a two-year player for the reasons I listed before.

Radio guys said UND played 18 games from March to November of 2021, and it could’ve been more if not for games being Covid cancellations. A light spring makes sense in that perspective.

Lookee there ... he's back on the staff page. He's good at that, and good for UND.

Strange ... with Legacy and the new St Mary's both considerably north (43rd Ave plus) I'm surprised they paired that way.

A guy like "Joey Abate" is like the bus: there's always another one coming along.

Others at the event: https://twitter.com/UNDFootball360 https://twitter.com/tommillergf

Astounding USHL performances with DI hockey head coaches in the house ... whodathunkit.

Like it says, radio at 10:30 or 11:00 depending on which signal you can get. And they're Tweeting at https://twitter.com/UNDfootball?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

... and the Omaha Lancers goalie pitched a 55 save shutout over the Fargo Force. Anyone else notice that you see some remarkable USHL stat lines the couple weeks after the end of NCAA regionals? Hmmm ... I wonder why ...

UMass' Bobby Trivigno signs with NYR and gives up the Covid year. I haven't seen this much hype around an eastern kid since Jason Krog could walk on water at New Hampshire.* *The fact it was 10 degrees F didn't matter ... he's walking on water!

They do. https://www.ncsasports.org/coronavirus-sports/ncaa-eligibility-coronavirus