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Freund and Braegelman named academic all-americans. Congrats guys!

Stony Brook is a one game deal. South Alabama apparently on the horizon........ Wayne's World

Marcus Tibesar and Andrew Miller are the team captains. Link

Good news, no increase in ticket prices across the board again for next season. Link They are offering season tickets as low as $40 for Football and $100 for Basketball. Great idea IMO, especially for basketball, I think they the same deal for basketball last season as well. Pretty cool to see that they are offering tickets at a discount for football as well, despite setting an attendance record last year and demand is obviously going up. Nice to see them not gouging the fans, something they could certainly do with the DI move and continued high demand for Hockey and Football tickets. Hopefully we set another attendance record at the Alerus next season!

Perusing through the Schedule Thread in the hockey forum, it looks as if the Sioux-Gopher series at REA falls on this particular weekend! I don't know if that is good or bad for a football game with an NAIA team, but it does mean that there will probably be alot of extra people in town that weekend. Hopefully they make a day of it and attend both games. I know I intend to. And so far it looks like back-to-back weekends of Football & Hockey on the same day as apparently the hockey team will host Merrimack the same day the FB team hosts Stony Brook. I always look forward to all day Fighting Sioux events.......

I see in moving the Sioux Falls game to Saturday, they also bumped up the start time to 1:00. Unless there happens to be a hockey game that day, I wish they'd keep it as an evening kickoff.

Very happy that they were able to work out a deal with Stony Brook. Despite the rotten set up for the dates, IMO it is better than A) 4 home games, and B) 3 non-DI opponents. Glad to have a non-conference DI opponent coming to the Alerus. It would have been nice if Sioux Falls or Southern Oregon could have been pushed up to the Sept. 12 date, but apparently not.

UND football: Spring season starts today

Wisconsin and Iowa lifted their ban on UND after we reached the settlement with the NCAA. Minnesota is the only one who didn't.

Anybody been following the Class B? Koeber from Dakota Prairie has been impressive. How high of a "next level" (college) can he play at?

Thank you NDSU fans.

I agree about the negatives of playing a mid-season Thursday night game. Although I do like the idea of the Thursday home-opener like we had last year. I really like the predominant switch to night games in general. The 1:00 start pretty much blows the whole day for anyone who is travelling any great distance. I think the switch to evening games will greatly help attendance, regardless of the opponent.

Ugly news regarding a potential opponent for the Sept. 12 Potato Bowl date.

Coach Jones mentioned Montana on the final episode of Sioux Sports Weekly as one of the teams that will visit the Sioux Center next season. Here's an updated list of next season's tentative opponents: @ Montana tournament (Montana, Loyola Marymount, UND, TBA) @ Drake Tournament (Drake, South Dakota, UND, TBA) @ Iowa State Tournament @ South Dakota @ Chicago State @ NJIT @ UT-Pan American @ Houston Baptist @ Utah Valley @ Texas A&M vs. Northern Iowa vs. UW-Green Bay vs. Missouri-Kansas City vs. Northern Colorado vs. Southern Illinois-Edwardsville vs. Montana vs. Sioux Falls vs. South Dakota vs. Chicago State vs. NJIT vs. UT-Pan American vs. Houston Baptist vs. Utah Valley TBA Great West Conference Tourney I'm really liking how this schedule is shaping up. I'm especially excited about Northern Iowa, Wisconsin-Green Bay, and Montana as home games. To me, it's really quite impressive to get those teams to come to our place in just our second year of DI. I also really like establishing relationships early on with the DI schools from Iowa.

Daniel Harkins and O.J. Harrison were honorable mention on the Division I All Independent Team.

It was mentioned in a Wayne Nelson blog. He referred to te Women's NIT and the College Basketball Invitational on the men's side.

This refers to the DII Basketball Tournament, but two time Sioux opponent from this season Southwest Minnesota St. has advanced to the Elite 8. Bracket

Anyone else notice that 3 of the 4 home games listed on the schedule at Fightingsioux.com are evening games? I think that is a good move. Also, Northeastern St. has been added to the 2010 schedule as a home game. I've never heard of Northeastern St., but Rocky Hager is the coach of Northeastern. Is that who it is referring to? Anyways, 5 home games already for 2010. EDIT: I'm guessing it is DII Northeastern St. from the Lonestar Conference.

Starting a new thread in order to continue discussions from two other threads of the same nature that have already been closed is not needed. Please refrain from beating this dead horse. I think the theme of this discussion has been set in stone: Bison fans are excited for their team, some Sioux fans are excited a school from their state is representing, some Sioux fans want them to fail. Point taken.

USF is one of 3 teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference that did not report any attendance figures this season. As far as I can tell, they haven't reported any attendance numbers for at least the past 4 seasons. Just for reference, there are 13 teams in the GPAC. Dakota Weslyan led the leauge in attendance this past season with an average of 1,656 per game. The next highest reported total was 742. Total average conference attendance is skewed because 3 teams didn't report, but on average a GPAC game draws 352.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there is about an equal chance of Mplsbison's Summit League Football scenario playing out as there is that North Dakota will get an invitation to the Big 10.

Blog from Wayne Nelson. Maybe a little surprising considering Coach Johnson's parting remarks about the fan support that UND receives.

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Loyola-Marymount will also participate in the Montana Tournament.

Sioux volleyball program hires Mike Moffitt as assistant coach With a coaching staff formerly entrenched at New Mexico St. and Texas Tech, I'd say there is a good chance that the Southwest will be recruited fairly heavily in the future.