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I'm sure the coaches know where Nick and his family are in this process. They have a great relationship with the players and I would bet that Nick consults with our coaches, his family and whomever his adviser is. If we are going to get players of his caliber we are going to have to live with the fact that many of them are going to move to the pro leagues early. Our coaching staff has dealt with similar situations in the past and will advise Nick, then support his decision. This is different than a recruit backing out in August. There is nothing "bush league" about a young man who has given fans a lot to cheer for these last 2 years, taking whatever time he needs to make one of the most important decisions in his life. The coaches can deal with this and have contingency plans for these situations. Fighting Sioux Hockey will be fine whatever Nick's decision is.

On the NFL network they said he had only one scholarship offer, from North Dakota. They got it right.

He has an NHL shot, wins face offs. He's tough. If he remains disciplined, and plays smart he can overcome what some think is lack of speed. He was able to be very effective against a lot of faster guys in college. As you move to the next level, there are more of those fast guys. The big guys are faster and the fast guys are bigger and tougher. How big is his heart? He will have to work harder and play smarter than the faster guys. It will be a challenge but I wouldn't say never. Good luck to the kid.

He just realized he could have had a V8 with his Vodka.

Kid made a couple of mistakes. Quinipiac band did play the war drum beat associated with Native Americans. He also doesn't know the difference between a mascot/logo/name. This guy is irrelevant. More important things to write about. For those of you who seem to struggle with which name, the hockey team settled that issue. Just call them National Champs.

We don't need to. Sioux hockey team said it all.

The Sioux win a national title and some of our fans have nothing better to do than criticize a kid who played hurt??? Are you kidding me? You have no idea what his injury was. If Anas had a recurrent shoulder dislocation, he may have been running back into the locker room to have the dislocation reduced so he could come back and play. (That hurts like hell by the way). That is a more likely than he was whining or crying. Gutsy performance on his part. You guys who post dumb stuff like that embarrass knowledgeable fans who appreciate the effort put forth by other teams and players. That is one of the reasons some opposing fans hate us. When you act like jackasses, especially when we win it shows a real lack of class. I bet none of the Sioux players or coaches criticize him.

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.