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Baloney. UND needs to win the game. They need to evaluate a number of players under game conditions. New coaches and Bubba need to perfect communication during game conditions and Freund needs to evaluate his offensive scheme with this years personnel. We need to get better as game goes on. We need to be able to get key back ups playing time. We need to develop our ability as players and coaches to adjust to game conditions and put away the opposition in the second half. None of us knows how good Drake will be so we need to assume we have to play our butts off and play mistake free FB to win the game. If we can accomplish all of that it will be a successful start to the season and I couldn’t give a rat’s behind for the margin of victory.

If he is still seeing the field, he has a shot. Right now, he just needs to keep getting better and avoid mistakes. The longer he lasts, other teams have film on him so even if Redskins don’t keep him, he increases the chance someone else will pick him up.

UND should win this game. Hopefully by a comfortable margin. First game of the year I wouldn’t get too carried away with margin of victory. Let’s not get too carried away with the “failure” comments. The coaches, players and fans from Drake should believe this is a winnable game. We aren’t coming off a great year and they can look at their Iowa State game. (On any given day.....). Forget about which conference they play in and forget about scholarships. Their players likely get academic scholarships grants/“work study jobs”. We have done nothing yet this year to indicate we should “dominate “ anyone or for that matter be dominated by anyone else. We need to win games. We can worry about “style points” after the season.

Kleinsasser ran a 4.5 and weighed 275lbs.

To become a winning program you need to recruit players who are good enough to get your program turned around. The formula I outlined is a way to get kids and their parents interested in your program and from their the relationships must develop and grow. It doesn’t just happen. Of course a winning program is at the top of the list for most kids. If you don’t believe in yourself and your program and the opportunity for success you shouldn’t be recruiting.

He played with second team. I didn’t see entire game but he was where he was supposed to be. Made a good break on int he dropped. He looked like he belonged. I think chances still decent but he has to keep learning and getting better each week. Decent shot at practice squad. I’d be surprised if they don’t want to see more of him before they make a decision.

Isn’t that kind of what I had said? The academic issue is indeed a factor but isn’t what will turn the program. When I was involved with recruiting, you pay attention to every detail. There are multiple factors, all important. Who the kids coaches are and where are their loyalties? Who the kids parents and relatives are and where are their loyalties if any? Do they have a girlfriend and where is she going to school? Did the kid have teammates or former teammates being recruited or playing somewhere? What is their GPA and ACT or SAT scores. What are their other sports/hobbies/interests. Did a friend or relative have a bad experience at your school or great experience elsewhere. What do parents do for a living? Are parents divorced and if so, where are they and what are their expectations for the kid? What position does the kid play and what position does he want to play? Which players on your team are best player hosts for the kid? Who is best for the faculty visits? Which coaches on your staff should be involved in the recruiting process? You leave no stone unturned. You can’t do anything about what other schools do or have done. You sell your program on the opportunities for the kids athletic future but also on the culture and philosophy of your team and staff. You sell them on the academic opportunities and social opportunities for growth and success. You also have to recruit the parents or key family members and know who the decision maker in the family is. You do this for every recruit every time. It’s hard work, but you leave “no stone unturned. (You do the same thing recruiting for your company or business to recruit key employees). We as alumni and fans have the responsibility to provide the coaches and athletes the resources necessary for success. If we do that I will take my chances on winning my share of recruiting. I don’t worry about what the Bison or anyone else is doing cuz there is nothing I can do about other programs.

Having attended both UND and Mayo Medical Schools I can tell you the University of North Dakota School of Medicine is every bit as good as your so called “prestigious” programs. “Even go to Minot State”??? You might be surprised to know that could be an advantage to a kid who wishes to attend a so called “prestigious “ medical school. Many of them try to build diversity into their medical school classes. I wouldn’t waste my money on a private college or university for a pre-med program. The key is good MCAT scores, good grades and a resume showing leadership, compassion for others, critical thinking skills and experiences showing you can work with others and handle pressure. The University of North Dakota has an excellent academic reputation among other medical schools around the country. An athlete can complete his pre-med requirements at any accredited college or university and get accepted to medical schools across the country, but all else being equal, there are advantages to a pre-med student from UND.

You are correct in stating the academic factors with respect to recruiting won’t turn the program around but you are wrong in stating it is only propaganda and not a factor. Over the years we have lost some kids to the Bison who were interested in Pharmacy or Agriculture. We have won recruiting battles because we have Physical Therapy and other health sciences as well as Aviation, the presence of our Law School and Medical School excellent offerings across the board in our college of business to name a few. The AC upgraded the business offerings and added nursing partly because they lost some key recruits to other schools. There are still outstanding athletes out there who along with their parents will weigh the academic opportunities heavily. Anyone who has been involved in recruiting athletes understands this. It’s crazy what kids and their families will factor into the equation.

Most teams utilize Spring Ball to re-evaluate players at all positions. If one player is clearly the starter they come in to fall camp #1. The #1 guy usually has to get hurt or regress and #2 has to excel for things to change. Happens at the vast majority of programs across the country from HS to the pros. Coaches start the kid they think will give them the best chance to win. I don’t think the coaches are “locked in” on one guy cuz they need #2&3 to be ready to play. If backups develop beyond expectations and #1 isn’t getting job done you likely will see a change. Has nothing to do with coach’s willingness to adapt.

Bubba didn’t “insist”. He was part of the decision. There was tremendous pressure from across the state and from Alumni.

So we quit? “ History says” if you don’t think you can compete, you can’t. Maybe that’s why we have struggled “for years”. That’s also one of the reasons we didn’t move up to FCS when we should have. Someone didn’t think we could compete. Our coaches need to go after the best kids that we think fit our needs and culture. We will get some kids cuz of academics, some kids cuz of family ties, some kids cuz other schools missed on them. We also need to convince some kids of the future of our program who want to be part of turning the program around. That’s how we start getting those so called top end kids, not by sitting on our ass and worrying about the past.

Anyone with that philosophy won’t get things turned around. We can certainly compete for the “top kids”. We also need to get “top Enders” at Christmas. We need to work harder to get them until we get things turned around.

This was rather disturbing, but then I learned “the rest of the story “. Apparently the “complaint” is years old. It was investigated internally and by the state board of medical examiners and found to be without merit. I don’t know anything else about the issue other than these cases can drag on for years. Media recently jumped on this. They should have included it had already been reviewed by the SDak board of medical examiners and found to be without merit.

Yes.

Yeah it did, sorry. I couldn’t let some of it go unchallenged. I’m done.

I don’t think anyone disputes millions of people experience side effects from medications every year. My colleagues and patients who are Chiropractors would disagree with your generalization. I refer to chiropractors regularly and we consult with each other regularly. They have an area of expertise that can benefit my patients including acupuncture. We work together and can walk down the next hall to consult each other. Your claims about how I feel and think are as inaccurate as your muscle testing voodoo. I don’t know of any good chiropractors trying to convince unsuspecting patients of the goofy stuff you are doing. In my residency we had an annual update from one of the staff who had taught in one of the chiropractic programs. He kept us up to date on changes and advances in chiropractic practice and warned us to stay away from people like you. He felt your bs was fraud. I don’t work with Drs who think they are God’s nor any who don’t want to help their patients get well. Your anti traditional medicine rhetoric is nothing new and usually comes from those who can’t build up a busy practice providing traditional chiropractic care. They are often “anti Vaxers” and usually sell their supplements, mega vitamins, and herbs out of their own office at a premium price. We offer biogenetic testing to all of our patients for $49 and we adjust our recommendations and treatments based on their genetics. Having a patient hold their arms out and thinking one can diagnose what’s in the blood stream based on response to varying amounts of pressure has no factual basis nor evidence to support it. I could do the same video with any of my patients and get the same thing without “adjusting “ the knee. I don’t care what you do as long as you do no harm. If people want to pay you for that more power to you. We have derailed this subject to long, thanks for the entertainment.

The study you refer to was published by the AMA journal which you claim is beholding to the pharmaceutical industry. If your claim is true why would they publish the article? The study is valid but your claim of a “huge fraction” of ER visits are due to adverse drug events is proven inaccurate by your own reference. 9.7 per thousand visits for those over 65 and 3.1 per thousand visits are both less than 1% not a huge fraction as you claim nor is less than 1% a majority of visits. Do you even know how to read or understand a scientific study? I assume you mean generic medication instead of “genetic “ which is the term you use. Our computer programs defer to generic medication automatically. One must manually override to write for a brand name medication. Your “natural based curses” you refer to make no sense. I assume you meant cures but you never tell us what they are. Scientists and Medical providers have a moral and ethical obligation to share all scientific and medical breakthroughs especially if they are safer, more effective, less expensive etc. Unfortunately, these “practitioners “ seem to want to keep their secrets to themselves. Ask these folks what the mark-up is on their unproven products. It’s significant. The pharmaceutical industry has nothing on these folks. I have worked or studied in hospitals around the country and in the military and other countries. I have very seldom met a physician who doesn’t believe in God. Your “life experience” seems to be a bit lacking. Your arguments are shallow and flawed. Making medical and scientific claims without evidence only hurts the naturopathic movement.

How would you know what fraction of ER visits is due to pharmaceutical side effects? I was chief of emergency services in one hospital, medical director of another and did ER work for many years. That was not true in my experience. What is your experience? I doubt you have ER experience so what is your reference. I’m not a member of the AMA so I don’t know their relationship with pharmaceutical companies. Many ER visits aren’t emergencies. We advise people against eating processed foods regardless of where you get your groceries.Whole foods have organic foods. All grocery stores have natural foods and most now have an organic section. The growing of foods organically is thought to be better for the environment. Last time I checked we didn’t have evidence that organic foods we more nutritious than non-organic foods. You make unsubstantiated statements which are easy to prove false. What is your training and experience you base this on? You basically support my arguments concerning outlandish claims and statements made by people with inadequate training or experience to have credibility. To many who prey on those poor suffering souls desperate for help who will pay almost anything for worthless supplements and unproven/untested snake oil remedies. You might want to research how many billions Americans spend on these untested remedies. It is almost as big of a problem as our over priced pharmaceutical drugs, but at least our prescriptions have to undergo testing and scrutiny and have some evidence they do what they claim they do.

This is such nonsense and without factual evidence. Modern medicine includes close attention to the importance of daily exercise, proper sleep, dental care and of course nutrition. Most surgeries do not have bad results. What is your evidence. Surgeries are reviewed at hospitals and surgery centers across the entire country. Those statistics are available to the public. Peer review is done is hospitals/surgeries/clinics across the country. Deaths, surgical errors, medication errors, falls, injuries, complaints etc are all reviewed. Mistakes are dealt with and policy changes and corrective action plans put in place. Complaints to the State Board of Medical Examiners are all addressed, even those without evidence or cause. All pharmaceutical drugs have potential side effects and the providers and patients must weigh risks vs benefits before the patient makes an informed decision. Every Herbal product, naturopathic supplement also has potential risks and side effects including death, cancer risks, kidney and liver damage. The issue most educated and intelligent people raise with your claims is what evidence do you have to support your claims? Very few people have parasites in their bodies. Who told you this nonsense and where is your evidence? Most of the stool culture results I have seen are negative for parasites. The human body is full of bacteria which when overgrown or removed can cause a multitude of problems. The people who go to a few weekend workshops then pass themselves off as Naturopathic “doctors” should have the same regulation, oversights, education requirements, and reviews medical doctors/chiropractors/dentists/physical and occupational therapists undergo. Blood letting or when done by professionals phlebotomy is an important tool in modern medicine for a few select problems, but cutting someone’s skin with a scalpel then putting blood in a test tube and holding it up to the light, then making a diagnosis is nothing short of crazy and dangerous. Time and proper care, diet, and lifestyle changes certainly can improve heart failure, early kidney failure and diabetes. It is very rare that end stage heart failure or renal failure will ever save a patient from the need of a transplant or death. To refer to isolated cases where patients supposedly needed a heart or kidney transplant without the audience knowing what the medical records and studies showed is not evidence. The majority of licensed physicians and other providers include the natural, dietary and appropriate homeopathic approach to the patient and your ridiculous comments are without evidence or merit. Too many times have I dealt with patients given a diagnosis by one of these so called naturopathic folks that I can easily prove with a simple test is false. What I can’t do is get them a refund for the hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars wasted on unnecessary supplements or vitamins that did no more than give the patient expensive poop. Difficult patients that traditional providers struggle to help often have pain, fatigue, weight, psychological problems etc. that are difficult to find a cause or cure for. There are also a multitude of patients that we may not know at first what the issues are. Your insulting and inaccurate comments focus on those we struggle with. We also can be wrong or make mistakes. If an alternative provider can help someone that traditional providers can’t, I’m all for it. It happens. They should be able to do so under the microscope of state boards and reviews like the rest of us and be subject to reprimand for make false or misleading statements.

Any reason the UND golf coaches couldn’t be the golf pros? Great way to supplement income. Do they still have the driving range? Does the pro shop have golf gear? A great place to sell UND gear and golf accessories. Coordinate with bookstore/Scheels/REA to supply. UND will need to aggressively market the venue and if necessary remodeling/repurposing to be used as a venue for events. Should be able to provide catering/restaurant services through UND food service. Do some weekend golf outings in fall with UND athletics and UND alumni assn. Opportunities to provide a venue for GF Park Board to use for part of youth golf program? Whomever is heading this up will need to be hustling year round and think outside the box to make this a special fun venue.

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What reason does one have to bring this comment to our recruiting thread when we have just had an excellent start to the recruiting season? Do we really need all of us to make the same lame comments about coaches for and against in June? It’s a pointless discussion and our opinions aren’t going to make a lick of difference in June, July, August, Sept. We have a staff in place and they are working very hard to move the program forward. Committed recruits and prospective recruits don’t need to check this page to see who else is committed or offered and read someone here wants to discuss getting rid of coaches (one of which the kid and his family may have made a great connection to). Your or my lame opinions about coaches belong elsewhere.

“Unwarranted arrogance “ ? What is that??? Is there such a thing as warranted arrogance? First of all there are a lot of people who know quite a bit about hockey, but very little about coaching. We have been fortunate to have four outstanding coaches at UND since the Mid 1970’s. They all have different personalities. To judge a coaches ability solely based on National titles is a bit shallow just as judging their personalities based on whether or not they will hang out with or drink with some of our fans is flawed. They were, and still are, approachable. They all were wary of the media and wary that anything they say or do with fans can be taken out of context. They keep a tight social circle of trusted friends and family for good reason. Too many fans cross the line of what is acceptable in interacting with players and coaches and the smart ones will do their best to protect their private lives and their time with family and friends. That often comes across as being aloof or arrogant.

Not saying he isn’t a good get but if he is going to score at this level he will need to be able to shoot. Tougher to dunk at this level due to bigger more athletic defenders than kids see in HS or prep school. Time will tell. I guess out recruiting low level D1 schools doesn’t impress me much. Nothing against the kid. Great to have him.