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If playoff ineligibility is the problem, then there wouldn't be any point in bringing in more "attractive" opponents this year. Grand Forks' sports fans love to see the 52-7 drubbings we would put on the Newberrys, Westchesters, and Humboldt States of the world.....................they'll be treated to more of that at home this season, and assuming we can smoke the NAIA's in convincing fashion, attendance will rise this season. Grand Forks loves a winner..........................

Didn't get to listen to the game save for bits and pieces..................Brekke played just 11 minutes. How come.......fouls, injury, other?

I think the majority of fans are not very knowledgable and really don't care who we play, they want to see wins, and hopefully this schedule will provide some and my guess is that is what will rejuvenate fan interest. The fact that only 6,000 fans showed up to see North Dakota play then #16 ranked Cal Poly in 2009 tells me that the average fans apparently don't have the desire to see "quality" DI teams in the Alerus like most of us on these forums probably do.

According to Fightingsioux.com, both games will be on channel 617 on DirecTV................................as posted above, all home games, save for one or two exceptions throughout the season are on either 617, 623, or 625 on DirecTV.

I'm not from Grand Forks. Other than just about every Sioux Football game played there, the only other event I've attended there is the Ozzy Osbourne concert. Given the fact that Sioux football and Ozzy are two of my favorite things in life, the Alerus has more than met my expectations............................ Seriously, how good or bad is the basketball setup in the Alerus, atmosphere wise and viewing wise? Never been to a game there, and I absolutely hated it when UND played in the REA except for NDSU, (I wasn't at the Kansas game, but I'd imagine that was a good time as well). I wouldn't be in favor of moving Sioux basketball to the Alerus, unless they were routinely drawing 6,000 or more. I wouldn't be adverse though to playing a known high-draw game there like NDSU. To me it wouldn't make much difference if such a game were in the Alerus or the REA. I suppose REA would still draw better though simply due to the facility and it being on campus (students currently can't seem to walk 3 blocks to the Betty, I'm sure the Alerus would seem like it is on another continent to them).

Very frustrating to lose by 16 when we had 10 point lead in the first half.

The last three "voices of Sioux Football", Dan Hammer, Ed Schultz, and Scott Miller, were all quite good IMO........................and they were all "outsiders". I'm kind of intrigued by the Darin Looker idea. Whoever it is, UND needs to make a smart hire here, someone who is knowledgable about the game, has a good radio personality and has a great radio voice that listeners will associate with the program, regardless of where he comes from.

65 New Jersey Tech 49 North Dakota Final

Sioux now down 12 with about 4 minutes left................. Lots of turnovers tonight North Dakota 41 NJIT 53

For what it is worth, until WDAY came into the fold, one would be unable to hear any UND basketball games in the Fargo area. Prior to this season, games could only be heard on 100.3 FM around Grand Forks, which carries all UND basketball games.

Part of the agreement with WDAY is that in addition to broadcasting ALL Men's Hockey and Football games, they broadcast a "UND Game of the Week". Since the season started, they've broadcast a handful of volleyball, basketball, and I think maybe even a women's hockey game on a weekly basis. It is not part of their agreement to carry all basketball games or an entire double-header. My guess is that they only intended on broadcasting one of the basketball games last Saturday, and for whatever reason they decided to go with the women's game.

Great win.................... Way to go Sioux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I disagree. Both newspapers are owned by the same company. The Herald was all over TJ Oshie's inablity to refrain from relieving himself while in an elevator. They were all over Brad Kelley and Bobby Stroup. Matt Frattin, Matt Greene.................They got the scoop when Robbie Bina thwarted Grand Forks' Finest...............................just last week a Forum writer attempted to blame the demise of the UND nickname on UND's own administration. Perhaps NDSU student-athletes are just more apt to getting into trouble?.................... It is afterall the larger of the two the Universities located in the larger city...........................more opportunities for kids to get into trouble..................................... I've never understood NDSU fan's disdain for the Forum and Fargo media in general. They have two guys (Izzo and Kolpack) blogging regulary, great Saturday coverage for football...............Most on Bisonville ordained Dan Hammer the anti-christ because he called UND games, despite the fact that 70% of his sports talk show was devoted to NDSU and he rarely talked about UND........................

This is a major bummer. I'm of the opinion that Murray was the most valuable player North Dakota had on both offense and special teams last season. He will not be as easy to replace as Bamba was..........

Here's a link to the Montana St. beat writer's blog. This is a post made from last May's Big Sky meetingings where they addressed going away from the "lone wolf" schedule and doing away with Friday-Saturday games.............

Doug Fullerton had a meet & greet at the University of Montana today, where he addressed the future of the Big Sky. Here is the twitter page of an Egriz member that attended and posted updates................. Key remarks: -Feels there may be the potential for some FBS schools to drop to FCS -Confirmed the 8 game/2 rival system for football schedules, and 20 conference basketball games -Big Sky is one of the few conferences that turns a profit on its TV deal

Congrats to Roebuck...................

My thought is that the last two recruiting classes make Jones look all right................ These guys will be juniors as we enter Big Sky play...............good things on the horizon I hope.....................

Going to ignore you now Dan....................... I'm Tivo-ing until I get the kids to bed. Don't take it personal.

I've got it on FTA satellite. Anybody get that has FCS from a cable provider?

On now. Attendance looks attrocious. Can't seem to find it on DirecTV................

Yes one auto bid

One thing is certain...............and that is that Tom Douple is an absurd little human being. Just watched Faison's press conference, to say the least he comes off as a tad more convincing than last time I heard Douple speak publicly back in January of 2009 when he told Dan Hammer roughly 6 times that he had NEVER, NOT ONCE discussed North Dakota's nickname with his presidents, and then 8 hours later told Jeff Kolpack that he'd been advising his members not to schedule UND.

Utah Valley, Chicago St., Texas-PanAm, and Houston Baptist are all still available to the Summit when they look to expand........ Douple had a vision of building the Summit League around the 4 Dakota schools. He saw it as the best way to fortify what has historically been the most unstable conference in all of the NCAA. It is quite possible that after the first expansion into the Dakota's, the core Summit schools would have preferred a more midwestern based school like SIU-Edwardsville. Douple eventually convinced them to see things his way regarding building around the Dakotas. UND squashed that vision when they joined the Big Sky. Losing SUU, despite claims that everyone in the league wanted them gone, leaves the Summit at an odd number of schools (Big Sky detractors will quickly point out the near insurmountable conundrum that an odd-numbered basketball league presents ). With SIU-E gone to the OVC, and UND gone to the BSC, the Summit is left with Chicago St., whom they jettisoned from the conference several years ago, as the most logical expansion candidate to get back to an even number of schools. The Summit president's want to see the contingency plan should another round of conference realignments take another bite out of the league. The Big Sky is encroaching on their turf. The Southland is being depleted. If Douple had never wanted to insert himself into the nickname issue "of his own volition", he wouldn't have at all. He would have simply forwarded UND's membership application to the President's Council and let them debate the issue. His own statements indicated that he alone decided to table the application. Again I ask, how in the world could the president of a university that isn't a member of a league, have the influence to convince the commissioner of that league to publically conduct himself in the manner in which Douple did, drawing criticism and antagonizing the stake-holders of that university to the point where many of us detested the Summit League long before the Big Sky ever came into play? As full fledged members of the Big Sky, just think of the things that Kelley and Faison will be able get Doug Fullerton to do for UND.

I agree, it was public knowledge that UND and the SBoHE wanted to speed up the process. Time was an important factor as far as the conference affiliation went, and things were looking rather dire when USD was included while UND was left out in the cold. No, it makes him look pretty bad.....................as usual. From Kolpack's article, Douple says: My, what a mighty sword UND wielded over Douple and the Summit League, which they were never a member of..............................with that kind of influence, Kelley and Faison's real crime would be having stopped with just that simple order.