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What's the story with Bledsoe? He didn't play at all on Saturday............

23 North Dakota 38 Wisconsin Half -North Dakota shooting 29%, Wisco 45% -ND 3-7 on 3 pointers -Sioux just 6-12 from the FT line -16 turnovers for ND, 10 for Wisco -Sioux out-rebounded 20-18

Gametracker Sioux with 10 turnovers already 11 North Dakota 23 Wisconsin 8:00 1st half

10 North Dakota 19 Wisconsin 10:28 1st half

Muss was on with Dan Hammer today, and said that Bamba, Sutton, and Benjamin are expected to practice for the first time this week today. He also mentioned Ty Boyle as still being "nicked up" as well.

Really.........? We're playing for a conference championship in football in 2 days and we're trying to convince fans of the opposition to become UND hockey fans? Really........? No wonder UND is the first of 5 former NCC schools to not experience an attendance increase at home football games during the DI transition.

I saw that both Shuler and Brekke got a few minutes in the game yesterday. I thought they were going to redshirt? Or can they still play in exhibitions without affecting their redshirt status?

It has been a horrendous season for Sioux soccer, but congrats to the ladies...........they beat New Jersey Tech yesterday, the #1 seed in the Great West tournament.

Although I've been one of the more vocal ones regarding my displeasure with the "Co-coordinator" set up (not just this year, since it started), I haven't really advocated axing the both of them, rather I'd just like a decision to be made so that one guy is running this defense. Having said that, if neither of them were deemed to be "the guy", what about Josh Kotelnicki? He's done a good job with special teams both here and at Kansas St., and has experience as a defensive coordinator.

Agreed on both points. Just pointing out that the GWC needs FB members. Utah Valley has grown at a progression similar to that of Boise State in the 80's and 90's. If a current GWC member has the gumption to try it, UVU seems the most likely to try. Their athletic department as a whole seems to be very well run. BYU and Utah are the traditionally dominant teams, while TCU is a burgeoning power. Adding Boise St. gives 4 real BCS threats, but also means the top teams will beating up on each other more. Houston and Fresno could clutter things even more. The biggest advantage to going to 12 teams would be to allow for a lucrative conference title game, but if the balance of power started to shift away from BYU and Utah, I could see those schools organizing another coup. With the addition of Boise St., it would put 3 of the 4 power programs in the Northern tier of the conference. I don't argue with any of that either, except that Poly and Davis have a very budget friendly conference in the Big West. I think they'll take their time and build for a move, while Sac St. would be more apt to "wing it". I saw that after I made my last post. Definately some interesting comments.

There is a dude over at AGS that is pretty convinced that Texas-PanAm is adding football. His source is apparently a MySpace page. Seriously that would be great if UTPA added football in the GWC, or Utah Valley which seems much more realistic with the growth that that school has undergone in the last 10-15 years. The Great West needs football teams in a bad way. Regarding the Mountain West, I can't really see them adding anyone beyond Boise St. That would put them 10. They all broke away from the WAC in the first place because it got so big. If the WAC ever does add a team in the near future, talking within the next 5-7 years, I would think Sac St. would be most likely. It would be an upgrade geographically from Sac St. standpoint. I think FBS is alot farther off for Cal Poly or UC Davis, unless Davis decides it wants to get in a race with Sacramento to be the first from that market to get to the FBS level. I think Davis intends to be in the FBS someday, but it is a long term plan, like 15+ years out. Davis or Poly would be relunctant to leave the Big West unless the timing was perfect, and they had all of their ducks in a row so to speak. The WAC would love to have Montana, but I'm not so sure that the administration is nearly as serious about looking at a move to FBS as are a handful of posters on Egriz. Montana St. won't leave FCS unless Montana does. Of course if you are right, and the WAC goes down to 7, or even 6, members in one off-season, they could get pretty aggressive in targeting Big Sky and Big West/Great West schools.

24 Stony Brook (5-4) 14 Gardner-Webb 56 Southern Utah (4-4) 35 UC Davis (4-4) 21 South Dakota (3-5) 17 Northern Colorado 34 North Dakota 17 Cal Poly (4-4) 25 Southeastern Louisiana 21 Central Arkansas (5-3) 7 Stephen F. Austin (6-2) 28 Texas St. 34 Sam Houston St. 30 Northwestern St. (0-8) 42 Texas Tech (6-3) 21 Kansas 49 Sioux Falls (9-0) 14 Northwestern College BYE Southern Oregon (2-6)

Yeah, we were there and that was a helluva a game too! 5 games, back and forth throughout. UND is in the driver seat now. They gotta play New Jersey Tech once more on the road, but they handled them pretty easily in the Betty. I think they announced attendance at 575, great atmosphere in there yesterday. If Hardee and company can keep things building, UND could have a nice volleyball program.

42 Cal Poly 10 North Dakota Sorry, but I haven't seen anything over the past two weeks to make me think there is much hope for anything other than a blow-out of UND tomorrow.

North Dakota picked to finish 4th in the Great West. Bledsoe and Mertens selected to 2nd team all conference. Link

Feel free to continue the discussion without petty name-calling, cursing, or references to the male anatomy. Otherwise the topic will be closed.

I don't intend this to be smack-ish, though it will probably come off that way, but SFA beat us by 31 and beat Sam Houston by 39. I think SHSU beat NDSU by 3. I'm not inferring anything other than the fact that SFA has proven to be a real good football team, with a couple wins over Top 15 programs on their resume. They didn't get alot of credit for being as such from UND-haters when they steam-rolled over us back in September, although that hasn't proven to be a monumental task itself either.

I've watched alot of FCS football today. Our Offensive line is small. We ran the ball pretty good today, but it was mostly Landry improvising and Goska on draw plays.

Those teams didn't appear better, they were better. UND is in it's third transition year, and has been targeting "DI" players for 3+ years. Yet we have one of the smallest O-Lines in the division and below average linebackers for a program that has been known in the region as "Linebacker U".

If the staff were paid more, would the players execute better?

Apparently neither is NAIA............. And apparently last week against USF was not an abberation.

Man, we really suck.

Coach likes the way his guys are playing......... Maybe the radio crew is at a different game!!!!!!!!!!! I will give the defense credit though, sounds like they're playing much better.

TD SUU......... Truly pathetic series of events to end the 1st half

Wow...........