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His play-by-play talents, though, are exceptional IMO. He does a great job of painting a picture over the radio of what is taking place on the football field................

According to a Dan Hammer tweet:

I've had the chance to deal with Josh on several occaisons. He will be sorely missed as he was a great asset to the University. Good luck in the future Josh, and thanks for everything you've done here............

I called into the coach's show tonight to ask about the status of Jaron Nash. They are still waiting, but he has not been ruled out yet for the opener on Friday. They expect to hear something tomorrow or Friday............

That is unfortunate about Sutton. He's never been flashy, but he has certainly been a consistent, effective, and reliable player over the years. Thanks, Mitch................ It has been a treat to watch you over the course of your career................

IIRC, (and I could be wrong), but I think Ed Schultz replaced Scott Miller. That was like late 90's I believe. Ed left WDAY for KFGO, and WDAY hired Scott Miller to replace him as NDSU play by play guy, and Ed took over the vacant UND play-by-play position.

Huh, I never knew that. I know Swygman used to do football, but didn't know about Hennessey. How long has Hennessey been calling games (of any type) for UND?

I don't mind Hammer as a play-by-play guy, but I'm not knowledgable about hockey myself. To a casual hockey fan like me, I haven't noticed much difference between him and Sweeney. However, I also quickly grow tired about how he constantly refers to Koberinski as "Kober", coach Mussman as "Muss", and coach Hakstol as "Hak". I know these guys are all often referred to by these names and that's fine, but I honestly can't remember the last time I've heard him address Koberinski or Mussman by their actual names.....................

Gee, that surprises me a bit. I wouldn't think Hennessy would be too interested in calling football, basketball, and volleyball games. Perhaps he's growing tired of all the travel he's required to do?

Yes, he did...........

According to the Kansas St. website, the game will be on Fox Sports Midwest.

I for one, would like to see this team live up to its potential from the beginning of the season all the way to the end. Two years in a row they've been terribly incosistent during the season, and then start to gel near the end of February. Let's gel from start to finish this year............

That was an extremely entertaining game! Last two games at the Alerus this season were great! Defense played pretty well in the second half and got some key stops, so hats off to them. Much like they did in the second half of the Montana game and in quarters 2 and 3 against NAU and Cal Poly. They really need to learn to do it for an entire game now. It's not like the Sioux ran all over SUU, but it sure was nice to see the run game, specifically Mitch Sutton, take charge when they were needed to. Playing defense is much tougher for the opponent when they have to defend both the run and the pass. Whatever happened to the vaunted North Dakota pass rush? If I get time, I wanted to re-watch the game and see how many times we brought 4 and 5 guys. They got to Sorenson a few times, but there was at least one time where I saw him make a phone call while he was in the pocket waiting for the receivers to finish running their routes. Good win for the team. Now take a weekend off, heal up, and go crush the UNC Bears................

We may hold them scoreless, but BYE will still rack up close to 200 yards rushing.........................

I'm usually pretty reluctant to criticize officials, but I agree that pass interference call on Mackey was pretty weak. That play, and the one where Mackey got the interception, were probably the two best defensive plays of Mackey's UND career.

Pretty much all schools at our level of play have one or two non-DI's on the schedule. I'd expect we will have one or two of these type of games every year. But I agree that the home portion of the non-conference schedule isn't very exciting.

I'm not so sure I'd agree with that. I've watched the FSSN on FTA satellite for 7 years, and the picture quality was near HD-quality, and far superior to any SD broadcast one could find on DirecTV because the FTA feed is the "1st generation" of the feed. This year's broadcasts that I've seen on FTA are multiple times worse than any other year, and these are the feeds that FCS, NESN, and the independent cable companies are using. I watched parts of the UAA games on both FTA and FCS, and I could barely tell a difference. Prior to this season, the FTA feed was always much better than the FCS feed on DirecTV.

What happened to Anderson?

I got no problem with this. Sounds fine to me.

Didn't mean anything sarcastic by it............ Just sayin', if we can't even approach a sell-out for the home-opener, the Potato Bowl, or Homecoming, I personally don't think it is realistic to assume that this game will get anywhere close to filling the Alerus. If I'm wrong, I'll be happy to buy you a brew sometime......................

Surely, you jest.............

While the Big Sky schedule will certainly be demanding, I think the consistency that it will provide will be very beneficial to the team. Last year, we basically played two separate months almost entirely on the road, sometimes going 10 days between games. Getting back to the Thursday-Saturday rotation with no unreasonable exclusive road stretches, should help the team improve its traditional road woes. I hope.

Pretty tough to pick North Dakota in this game.....................

I think Bohl lost his job at Nebraska due to a head coaching change. I'm pretty sure he didn't leave Nebraska to coach FU.

Yeah, because Deboer's offenses have been lighting up the Missouri Valley ever since he's been there.............. Doesn't seem like the offense needs much tweaking............. I listened on the radio, and it was disappointing to here our own sideline reporter say that before the end of the 3rd quarter our players had a look in their eyes like, "lets just head back to Grand Forks".....................