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At least the defense has been consistent all season. Crappy against all divisions......

I know, no playoffs for the Sioux for a while. But the march for the Great West Conference Championship starts today! Good luck to Coach Mussman and the boys!

I agree whole-heartedly. You will not hear much college hockey talk anymore on the Fan unless the Gophers are in the Frozen Four. Certainly, a good portion of the Friday shows will not be devoted to the WCHA like it has been, and their won't be any more visits to GF by the Fan.

Chicago State Accepts Invitation to Join Great West Good deal. The more the merrier.

As of 10/22/08 VOLLEYBALL North Dakota 22-4 South Dakota 19-2 Houston Baptist 19-5 New Jersey Tech 12-10 Utah Valley 6-9 Texas PanAm 4-12 SOCCER Utah Valley 9-4-1 Houston Baptist 8-6-1 South Dakota 5-9 North Dakota 3-13 New Jersey Tech 2-14-1

After delving further into the numbers for these two teams, I've decided the game is almost just too close to call. The two best pass offenses in the league pitted against the two worst pass defenses in the league. Also, these two teams have the top 2 run defenses in the GWC. Davis is 2nd in the league in sacks, but North Dakota is 2nd in sacks against. Davis has taken alot of sacks on the season, but UND doesn't get to the QB a whole lot. UC Davis and UND are 1 and 2 respectively in time of possession in the conference. The Aggies are definately battle tested as they have obviously played a much tougher schedule than the Sioux and have lost a couple heart-breakers to very good teams, but still the strongest team they have defeated is SUU. UC Davis is undefeated at home this season. UND has played all right in their two road games this season. (Idaho St. should have been blown out.) A couple of apparent advantages I can see for the Sioux are that Davis is prone to turn the ball over and they take alot of penalties. If these two teams met on a neutral field, I think they'd play to 49-49 tie. With the game being a road game, outdoors for UND, I am going to reluctantly pick UC Davis to win by 3-6 points in a high scoring affair. UC Davis 44 Northh Dakota 40

I agree with all those sentiments. But as the season has played out, it looks like UC Davis is not as tough as we all they'd they be. Don't get me wrong, they will still be the best team we have faced to date. The biggest worry is the fact that they are a pass-happy team, and UND has proven to be vulnerable in the secondary. Hopefully we step it up. I expect an entertaining and close game.

Yes, and we host SUU on the weekend of the Deer opener. I worry that could be our only game to dip below 10,000. We'll see.

12,283

Can't buy tickets off of ticketmaster this morning...... Hopefully this is a trend that continues into the future!

Yes it is. Hopefully that helps a little bit.

Sports Network's FCS College Football Poll 1. James Madison Dukes (105) 6-1 2,649 1 2. Appalachian State Mountaineers (1) 4-2 2,507 2 3. Elon Phoenix 6-1 2,151 6 4. Wofford Terriers 4-1 2,082 8 5. Cal Poly Mustangs 3-1 2,037 7 6. Northern Iowa Panthers 4-2 1,884 10 7. Villanova Wildcats 4-1 1,876 9 8. Montana Grizzlies 5-1 1,804 12 9. Richmond Spiders 4-3 1,608 5 10. Massachusetts Minutemen 4-2 1,497 13 11. New Hampshire Wildcats 4-1 1,458 4 12. McNeese State Cowboys 3-2 1,440 3 13. Central Arkansas Bears 5-1 1,291 14 14. Liberty Flames 6-0 1,152 15 15. Western Illinois Leathernecks 4-2 1,054 17 16. Southern Illinois Salukis 3-2 1,034 16 17. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks 5-1 932 18 18. Weber State Wildcats 5-2 771 22 19. Furman Paladins 5-2 744 20 20. North Dakota State Bison 3-3 645 11 21. South Dakota State Jackrabbits 3-3 348 25 22. Tennessee State Tigers 5-1 333 NR 23. Jacksonville State Gamecocks 4-2 265 19 24. The Citadel Bulldogs 3-3 184 21 25. Hampton Pirates 4-1 173 NR Others receiving votes: William & Mary 129, Harvard 100, South Carolina State 97, Texas State 81, Eastern Washington 78, Georgia Southen 61, Sam Houston State 60, San Diego 38, Lafayette 29, Tennessee-Martin 25, Delaware 24, Eastern Kentucky 22, Prairie View 21, Northwestern State 17, Grambling 13, UC Davis 12, Colgate 11, Princeton 11, Sacred Heart 11, Eastern Illinois 10, Maine 10, Cornell 9, North Dakota 9, Southern 7, Yale 6, Northeastern 6, Montana State 5, Florida A&M 4, Delaware State 1, Penn 1.

It is duck season, but has been open for a week and a half now, so I don't think the impact will be as great as it would have had we had a game on the opener. The SUU game cooincides with the opening of deer season though, I'd expect that to have an impact. I'll guess somewhere between 11,000 and 12,000.

28 UC Davis 13 SUU Halftime

21 UC Davis 13 SUU End 1st Q

The ladies won their first game against Bryant this morning, then fell in 5 sets to those mangy Coyotes from USD. They play their 3rd game of the day in about 45 minutes. Fightingsioux.com

13 SUU 14 UC Davis 1st Q

13 SUU 7 UC Davis Late 1st Quarter

Mussman said on the Coach's show that UND and Hawaii have a tentative agreement to play in 2010. No contract signed yet.

I emailed Sweeney and asked him about the (Z), and you're right Sprig, those games will be on WDAZ. That's good. 5 games on regular TV this season!

As of 10/7/08: VOLLEYBALL North Dakota 18-2 South Dakota 15-1 Houston Baptist 16-4 New Jersey Tech 11-7 Utah Valley 5-8 Texas-PanAm 3-10 SOCCER Houston Baptist 6-5 Utah Valley 5-4-1 South Dakota 4-8 North Dakota 3-9 New Jersey Tech 2-11

Yes, Fortec Star Lifetime Ultra. I'm thinking of upgrading to a receiver with PVR. What do you think of the Visionsat IV200?

That is what I was trying to do last night. I added a TP to the G 11 bird at 91 W, with the coordinates on the UND website, and tried a TP scan but had no signal at all on that TP. This is normally what I do in order to get Montana Football games as well. After screwing around for an hour and a half, I finally reset my system to factory default, and just did a power-scan of 91W, and the game came in at 12191 V. I had the same problem last season. The last 3-4 games of the season, I was only able to find the hockey games on a frequency just a few notches off from that which was posted on the Ralph's website. Never have I had any trouble scanning in a channel posted on sattelliteguys.us. Only the FSSN.

Judging from the Big Sky's past expansion patterns and from the western opposition from Sac St. and Portland St., I'd the chances are extremely remote. My bet is that UND will continue to court the Summit League, and the Great West will likely be our football home for many years to come, barring any major shake-ups.

I did not have any signal on the 12187 frequency. I had to do a power-scan, and the FSSN finally showed up, but the frequency was 12191. Why is that? Sounds like everyone else found it on the coordinates that UND released.