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Given defense is their weakest area (of an admittedly strong team), that sure don't hurt UND.

First time I heard that name in a broadcast I thought the kid's name was "Lukas Savages". I wondered why they kept calling him by first and last name and thought he may have a brother on the roster. Nope. He's "Jarid Lukosevicius". I sure wish Woog was still doing games. I'd listen just to hear ol' Doug call him "Lukas Sid Vicious".

What I see at forwards is three seniors and Gersich and no Gornall. What I see in the forwards pipeline is a 97 (Keane) and three 98s (Weatherby, Mattson, Senden). What is more interesting is the gap in the forward pipeline: no 99s, but three each of 00s and 01s and two 02s. Is there a 00 who really is ready for college hockey as an 18 YO? Are there two (just in case one of the 97/98 don't keep improving)? Along that same thought process, at defense it's three 00s, an 01, and an 02. That said, the only flight risk (no seniors) I see is Wolanin.

Here's what I find interesting: Weatherby is a 1998 YOB. I'm trying to see where that fits in the pipeline.

He looks about 190 soaking wet. Then again, that's what we had a MikeLB most of this season ...

Devil's advocate here: Isn't that initiative and hard work what we want? Doesn't that initiative to work and develop move him up the depth chart.

I have only one critque/comment on your post. Carriage returns, paragraphs, please!

So, off-season homework list: - getting everyone healthy and strong - resetting the team culture; personally, as a fan I will not stand for any off-field issues - seven mountainous, mean, nasty, villainous offensive linemen - finding a group of four starting LBs that actually combined weigh over 850 pounds (about 950 would be good) - having the young secondary reflect on their seasons (good and bad) and grow from there - having a real two-deep and start on a three-deep - figuring out how to go beyond the offensive White or Blue group plays*, and especially on first down *See NFL Challenge at 1:00 mark and 2:37 mark.

"We don't know that." IALTO.

How in the world did I miss this little ditty? Let me guess, Section C, page 6, bottom near the fold. The lead on this one was buried: "UND moved strategically before making Athletics cuts." OCR is in and out in six months. That's as short as OCR will ever go. UND had all the ducks in a row and was expecting this and completely prepared and ready. And that's exactly why Baker Donelson was brought in. PS - Brad ('cause I know you're reading this) - the last paragraph of your article where you quote the last paragraph of both letters, that is what you call "boilerplate legalese". That is standard form letter from OCR; they have to officially close the inquiry and its scope. That's worth reporting just as much as "sun rose in east".

When I did my "by class" counts I looked at names. Normally, I'd recognize most of the seniors and juniors and about half the sophomores. The redshirt freshmen? Maybe a couple names and the rest would be remembering back to signing day two years ago. This time through I swear most of the sophomores and redshirt freshmen names I recognized and could mentally hear Jack Michaels say their name in a game (or lineup). And there are a lot of true freshmen that fall into that same category.

You're just bidding things up.

Um ... pesky facts: Sr: 22 Jr: 18 So: 21 RFr: 15 Fr: 24

They used to be "ketchup and mustard". Now they're just more bloody stool and dehydrated urine.

A lot of Sargent County is done (based on a recent pass down that-a-ways). Tribe: In favor ("we are not mascots or tokens"). Red Tomahawk's family: not so happy. (There was an article I read somewhere I base that on.)

And the numbers are using the same font as the lettering.

Red Tomahawk (that's the name of the person whose silhouette is used) isn't coming off the cruisers quite yet; however, he is coming off the road signs.

Winning solves thousands of ailments.

Did he just realize that 30+ > 26?

Did injuries expose some questionable recruiting or Did some questionable recruiting lead to injuries

I remember Lennon with Muss as OC --> Predictable hyper-conservative offense.

Thinking more about this, I could argue at least two of them should be on the field for any given special teams play (assuming all five available and healthy).

Continuing with the random stats: The leading tackler was a 200 pound redshirt freshman linebacker. The first DL to show up as a leading tackler? Down the list at number 11. Above that are half LBs and half DBs. This defense is supposed have the LBs making the tackles. Of the 39 guys who made a tackle (defense or special teams) only 13 (yeah, just 1/3) played in all 11 games. Think about that: Guys good enough to be on the field on defense or special teams, only 1 of 3 was there every week (Flowers, Palmborg, Blubaugh, Carter, Shannon, Greely, Cieslak, Wilson, Nevermann, Greer, Holmen, Carr, Santiago). The leading interceptors (with a stunning 2 each) were a LB and a safety. The 300 pound Austin Cieslak came in with 1.

Doing some random scrolling through here: http://www.undsports.com//fls/13500/stats/football/2017/TEAMCUME.HTM?DB_OEM_ID=13500#TEAM.IND Santiago was the only punt returner for the season and only returned 11. Total offense? In only 4 games played, Zimmerman was fourth in total offense.