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1. Cal Poly 2. UC Davis 3. South Dakota 4. North Dakota 5. Southern Utah The Sports Network I don't know, I probably would have flip flopped North Dakota and South Dakota. USD has to play at Grand Forks and at SLO, and they're not known as the greatest road team in the world. They got SUU and Davis at home which they should win both. UC Davis should be good, but USD plays very well in the DakotaDome, and the Aggies seem to struggle on the road, just like the Coyotes. Even if ND and SD finish 2-2 in the GWC, I'm confident ND will have the head-to-head against them.

From that April blog post: -Nov. 8 Bemidji St. (exh) -Dec. 29 St. Olaf

UND extends athletic director Brian Faison's contract through 2012

The Roster is up. Jarrel Davis is wearing #27.

So how does everyone think this season will go? New QB, new RB, green WR's, virtually new OL. IMO the defense might get back on track this year. We should have a good secondary, and LB play should improve. My prediction: Texas Tech..............LOSS: If we score I'll consider it a moral victory. Northwestern St.......LOSS: Similar to last year's UC-Davis game, closer than the score indicated, but we fall by 10-14 points. Stephen F. Austin.......WIN: Kinda close, but the guys gain confidence and win in a squeaker like they should have @ SLU '08 South Dakota............WIN: 1st home game after 2 months of practice & games. USD will be good, but they fall by 13. Stony Brook..............WIN: They have a good RB, but underestimate ND. Another Potato Bowl win. UND by 19. Sioux Falls.................WIN: We treat them the same way we do other NAIA's and past OOC DII teams. A 44-7 win. Southern Utah...........WIN: Revenge for last season's 2nd half debacle. A repeat of UND v. SUU '07. 39-17 win. Cal Poly..................LOSS: A poor crowd on Halloween despite UND's biggest DI home game to date. 24-13 loss. Southern Oregon........WIN: See Sioux Falls explanation. 44-3 win. UC Davis...................WIN: Could go either way, but I see ND pulling it out in a close one. 27-23 win. Central Arkansas......LOSS: Of all the recent DII move-ups, UCA is the one to imitate. They are good. ND falls 39-20. I'm always an optimist when it comes to North Dakota, but I think a 7-4 season is probable. Maybe even 8-3. On the other hand, so is 6-5 or 5-6. I think the NSU, Poly, and Davis games could really go either way. Depending on what Poly does, a Great West title is obtainable. They are good, but they lost alot from last year, new head coach too. I have a feeling we are going to split against the CA schools. USD is my sleeper in the Great West. I'm confident we will beat them in GF, but they will have a good team this season. If the game were in Verm, I'd probably pick them this year, but it's not so I will pick ND. And I expect us to at least get votes in some of the polls by season's end. We got votes in most of the polls through the first 2/3 of last season. As we improve, the country should take notice.

Apparently they will return the game in 2010-11. Tom Miller Blog

Murray is out for the season....... Link

So I'm curious.............I would doubt that if UND is taking all broadcasting "in house" that they would kick Hennessey and Swygman to the curb. Is this just a formality, that Tim and Swyg will naturally apply for and get the job to become UND employees for the portion of the season that their play-by-play duties fall upon and remain Clear Channel employees?

Sounds good to me.....I'm ready to pony up. I support THE University of North Dakota and its student-athletes. Not an abstract and arbitrary moniker......

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Looks like Sioux Falls will be a DII program when we play them in 2011........ USF to apply to NCAA Division II

This may be a dumb question, but why does going to 11 teams make scheduling problematic when, currently with 10 teams, the WCHA plays an unbalanced schedule?

Jordan May is transferring to MSU-Moorhead. KVLY Webcast

It is nice to see all the festivities being added to the spring game to make it more of an event, market the program, and hopefully generate more interest. Down the road, I'd like to see them explore radio coverage of the spring game. I believe they've been broadcasting the spring game at NDSU for a few years now which is nice idea. Hearing football on the radio in April is a nice way to generate buzz for the upcoming season during a dead time for the sports season.

Could Monsebroten contribute at the point? I was actually quite impressed with him in his limited time last season, although I don't think he is a true point guard either.

UND football: Landry ready to lead the way

Here's a seating chart for the Alerus that shows the price to pay to sit in each section.

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