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Yeah, I get that but I think there is money out here. Puts a damper on what should be great week of celebration for Sioux athletics and UND.

Difficult to understand when there was no concerted effort to raise an extra $1,000,000 per yer to keep these programs going. I also would like to see more support from the $325,000,000 Spirit Campaign. I know a lot of those dollars are dedicated funds ,earmarked for programs and projects as directed by the donors. We shouldn't be waiting for phase 2 of the practice facility which is supposed to house sports medicine research. We shouldn't be struggling to keep up our coaches salaries nor funding for programs. You can't say the money isn't there if no one busts their butt to find it. Feel badly for the Sioux athletes and coaches. You don't do this to the Sioux family without a fight.

Success of the hockey team certainly has a positive effect on FB as well as other sports and academic programs. Positive National exposure helps anything UND.

Found a buyer. If deal falls though I will sell them for face value to Sioux fans. I will re-post if they are available.

Not impressed with a teacher who claims to be worried about her students but cowers under her desk and can barely speak "initially from fear then from rage". Swearing at a fellow faculty member is not acceptable. She apologized. The conversation was private and her apology was private. That's ok with me. For her to say this type of training is inappropriate , unnecessary and irresponsible is worse than being goofy enough to call 911 and then to write a letter to the paper. These young men and women of ROTC are doing the necessary training that some day may allow them to complete their missions successfully and hopefully save lives of fellow soldiers and innocent civilians. The fact that she failed to read her notice that this would occur is her own fault. Didn't she know UND has Army ROTC? They weren't assaulting her office they were outside on the quad without real weapons. Maybe she should assess the situation before panicking. She demonstrated you can't count on her in a crisis. Why didn't she utilize this as an opportunity to teach both her students and others of how she felt and why and then maybe assign her students the task of interviewing those same ROTC students. They could find out more about ROTC and their training and why and how those students decided to join ROTC and what that means to their plans for the future and plans for their own families. If training our futures officers causes a closed minded professor to crawl under her desk, wet her grundies and tremble occasionally I guess that is a small sacrifice to our nation for the young warriors who place their own lives on hold and risk life and limb to serve our country. Moon Mullins who was a professor in the early 1970's used to jump out the window at Merrifield Hall then come back into the class and have the students write a paper about how they felt and what they thought. Maybe she could have her students write a poem about her trembling under her desk and peeing her pants. "There once was a professor from Grand Forks who......... She might get published.

Thanks. I have my tix but have two extra and didn't want to charge too much for Sioux fans.

Anyone know what face value is for tix? Upper bowl less than lower bowl?

I have 2 extra tix Sec. 102 Row R seats 4 &5. I paid $475 each on Stub Hub. You can have for same price. PM me.

Good summary. I also think Asplin could be a very pleasant surprise. Staff does need to evaluate what we are doing to be proactive with high risk kids coming in. When they leave I would like most of them to talk about how this program saved them as opposed to trying to figure out whether or not they left because of a discipline issue, grades or disgruntled. I have no inside info on the most recent defections but it is a potential problem for every college program. We need to be a program where others look to UND and wonder how we are so successful with all kids rather than one that says everyone has the same problem. Same goes for MBB, VB and WBB.

Good to see someone remembered Pollard. Fritz Pollard was an All-American FB player who had tied the world record in the high hurdles. He won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He did this as a young black man who overcame the barriers faced by a young black athlete here and in Nazi Germany. He also overcame the disadvantage of running track in a cold weather climate when we didn't have an indoor track facility. I sat next to him at a UND alumni dinner years ago that I attended with my Dad. Fritz was a class act. He talked about his the barriers they faced having meals and staying at hotels as they traveled to away games. He talked about how Coach Jack West and his teammates supported him and left restaurants that wouldn't let them dine together as a team. Intelligent, articulate, classy gentleman. Ranks with the best. I also had lunch with his Olympic teammate Jesse Owens when he spoke at N. Dak. Boys State when I was. Boys State Counselor. Jesse Owens is the only autograph I have ever kept. Wish I would have gotten Fritz Pollard's. Humbling experience both times. Makes this discussion seem a bit silly. The fact these guys did great things or that Roger Maris did great things doesn't lessen the accomplishments of Wentz. What an athlete does or doesn't do doesn't make fans any better or worse. The fans are spectators just like the media guys. As fans or media folks we haven't done great things. The athletes do. Don't make us look bad by whining about the attention the guy gets. Wentz has earned the respect and attention he is getting. If you can't see he is the real deal then I don't think you know FB. Wish him the best and support our own teams so we can get better. Ignore the losers who seem to think the accomplishments of athletes or athletic teams somehow make them better than they are and waste time coming on another schools blog to gloat. On to Tampa. Go Hawks.

Don't let that happen, she would never come out from under her desk.

She doesn't need to be worried about being let go for "being too sexy".

Baukol

exactly, but I'm also including Bartels.

Of course not, and that wasn't the point. I'm comparing the situation at Penn State where the QB has no time to throw and gets no protection and the crap kicked out of him to what Bartels and Mollberg went through here the first 2 years they played. They both took a lot of criticism from fans and I am stating that what I and some others tried to say is that it isn't fair to give up on them based on playing in a survival mode. I'm stating that there is value to a QB to develop as a Freshman and Sophomore in a good system. Both of those guys were thrown under the bus by some. Same principle. Those who claim they saw enough of these 2 guys in the first 2 years under duress to judge them as a bust may be wrong. I know I'm not supposed to have an opinion on QB's but I thought it interesting that others feel when a QB gets hammered like that they need a chance to recover.

Interesting to hear the "experts" talk about the Penn State QB Hackenberg and how he got the crap knocked out of him at Penn State and how it affected his mechanics, reads etc. They aren't going to condemn him for things out of his control and he will likely be selected in the 2nd or 3rd round by a team that will give him a chance to improve and develop. Hard to make consistent reads when you have 1/2 to 2 sec to throw. Of course that wouldn't have any effect on a QB in the Big Sky. Also interesting to hear how Wentz talked about developing as a back up under Johnson. He will likely be the first or second QB selected (despite what some of the "experts" on this blog think about him). Just thinking.... I wonder if any of that applies to QB's at UND or shouldn't I wonder cuz I'm from DL?

Ugly. Loved the Brien logo, never liked this.

We didn't have a "mascot". We had a logo. The logo was what was best about the Fighting Sioux name. Apparently the people who granted the University permission to use the name years ago, passed away or changed their mind, or were overruled, or as some claim, maybe didn't have the authority to grant it in the first place. Doesn't matter what I wanted the name is gone and whining about it won't bring it back. At this point in time I prefer to distance the University from the old name. It was something out of my control and out of the control of the coaches players and Kelly. We have wasted too much time and money over something that really doesn't matter all that much. Some seem to spend more time worrying about the nickname than we do about winning games and moving the University forward. The people on the reservations, who could have taken the necessary steps to keep the name didn't. There is nothing sacred or meaningful about a nickname or mascot. Most of them are animals, mythical creatures or legends. One of my Chippewa friends once commented that we should have changed the name to Chippewa cuz they were the ones who defeated the Sioux and drove them west into the Dakotas. Who the hell cares that the name is now Fighting Hawks? Wan't even on my radar as a choice but I really don't care. I do care about our athletes coaches and programs and know we need to move forward. You can be a sheepdog and piss on a fire hydrant and you will be just as far ahead as you will chasing windmills and ranting about a name. How about we focus on what is more important right now such as increasing our resources for our athletic teams and university and improving our chance of success. We have a better chance of accomplishing something and we can each make a difference. 25 Years ago I spent some time in the sand. If I can stand to hear a bunch of college idiots being disrespectful during the national anthem instead of honoring those who gave their lives , than you should be able to stand for a change in the name.

This looks like a woodpecker that was sitting on a high power line during a surge. Other than the colors are cool.

Let them post. I agree with the moderators. They shouldn't be banned anymore than the Sioux fans who are intolerant of anyone with a dissenting opinion. When you are bored go back and see what kind of criticism people get and how defensive people get over someone else's opinion. This is a blog. If any of you define yourselves by the success or failures of your favorite college team then I think that is too bad for you. Most of these AC fans who post, define themselves by the success of their football team but this guy asked a legitimate question. If you don't wish to discuss with him (or her) don't).

He probably wouldn't have. The oline was dominated by the dline, our QB couldn't hit a fat pig in the butt with a mop, and so the defense wasn't worried about the passing game. We weren't ready to play the AC. I think we would have been better prepared had we made the playoffs, but it seems most or many disagree with me. We have a ways to go but we are getting better. We had a good recruiting year again. Still need to improve the passing game and maintain the improvement in the run game and continue to improve the oline play. . Keep checking the rear view mirror. We will get there.

Most of us knew where we were compared to the AC before the game. That is why I didn't wish to play them until the playoffs. I think there is a reasonable chance we could have played them had we gotten by round one of the playoffs, and won another FCS game instead of playing them. We were a better team at the end of the year as some pointed out. We couldn't run a lick against the AC and Studsrud was terrible when we played them. At the end of the year he was playing the best FB of his short career and our running game was clicking. I get the argument for having been overlooked for the playoffs. I just don't think there is any point in complaining we got screwed by the committee when we didn't do what we needed to do. I think we are moving forward and my comment was we should focus on next year and the things we can control so we don't have anything like that to complain about next year.

This won't be too popular but we weren't ready to play the best teams in the FCS last year. Had we not played the AC we likely would have been in. Had we not had our butts kicked by both NDSU and Montana we would likely have been in. Had we not blown games with Idaho State and Weber State we would have been in. I agree we had an argument that we should have been in at 7-4 but we left ourselves vulnerable to a committee. I think this staff has the program moving in the right direction but frankly, we weren't good enough last year to compete with the very best at this level. I don't like to see the complaining months later about getting screwed by a committee. We need to deal with the things we can control and we fell short in a couple of areas last year. We can't blame someone else. 2016 holds promise of a run at the conference title. The coaches and players should be preparing for that and that also means a run at the FCS title. If that isn't our mindset we shouldn't be at this level. As fans we need to fill the seats and our administrators need to work to improve the game day experience for our students and fans. Our media folks also need to increase coverage of our athletic teams without cutting back on what we do for our local high school teams. Focus on what we can control and do.

Why anyone cares about what these guys thinks is amazing. Izzo, Kolpack and McFeely are likely the guys who were one of the last ones chosen on athletic teams and got stuck playing right field wearing new armbands, headbands, gloves, baseball shoes and picked dandelions until they got hit on the head with a fly ball. To think a recruit or parent would ask their opinion of the program is nuts but probably happened. Parents today call the sports media complaining their kids picture hasn't been in the paper or isn't mentioned in articles. I can imagine the self importance of folks who were never part of competition now on the "inside". Likely worth at least half a chubby to them and they get paid for it. Good for them.