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The soccer team is really struggling this year. They are 3-9, and recently lost to Northern Iowa, Montana, and USD, three struggling programs in their own right. Our program showed so much potential just a few seasons ago when Brock Thompson was named coach, but has fallen off considerably. Just wondering if there are any great soccer minds out there that have an opinion on what this program needs to do to improve.

As of 9/30/08 VOLLEYBALL North Dakota 16-2 South Dakota 13-1 Houston Baptist 16-4 New Jersey Tech 10-7 Utah Valley 3-7 Texas-PanAm 3-9 SOCCER Houston Baptist 5-3 Utah Valley 4-4-1 North Dakota 3-6 South Dakota 3-8 New Jersey Tech 1-11

The most striking thing to me about the various polls released so far this week is the fact the Southern Illinois is ranked behing Northern Iowa in all of them.

In the Northern Arizona Tournament the Sioux will play: Nov. 28 vs. UC-Riverside Nov. 29 vs. Northern Arizona In the Iowa St. Tourney: Dec. 29 vs. Lamar Dec. 30 vs. Niagra or Iowa St.

Co-Players of the Week

UND will play Cal Poly next year.

Might be right, but ya never know. We've been getting votes every week of the season. Alot will depend on how we perform against Southern Illinois and through the GWC schedule.

To me, the polls are very important over the next 4 years. With no play-offs to shoot for, my #1 goal for the football team will always be to win the Great West title, and #2 will be to finish the season in the Top 25.

They can be ranked, but can't make the playoffs.

ESPN-Wandering schools find a home in the Great West

Interesting Box Score from this game.... FIRST DOWNS 27 UND 13 SLU RUSH YARDS 117 UND 82 SLU PASS YARDS 319 UND 269 SLU TOTAL OFFENSE 436 UND 361 SLU TIME OF POSSESSION 34:10 UND 25:50 SLU TURNOVERS 2 UND 0 SLU FINAL SCORE 35 UND 38 SLU Those two turnovers were probably alot more costly than some of the big plays given up by the secondary.

I agree with mksioux. The team showed alot resilience, but IMO we should beat a middle-of-the-pack SLC team. Obviously SLU's athleticism was the decisive factor in this game. They were the better team, and congrats to them on a good win. The secondary has been a problem for several seasons now. I've said all year that we have better players in the defensive backfield than in recent seasons, but we continue to get torched for long pass plays. Unless the pass defense tightens up quickly, these high scoring, nail-biter games will be the theme of the season.

34 SUU 20 Texas State Final 27 SIU 24 UNI Final Coach Lennon gets his first conference win, and a huge one at that.

Better field positiong for the defense

Southland Conference is bush league.

The D has given the O the opportunity it wanted.

I've only been able to listen intermittently. Is our defense getting any pressure on the QB? Sounds like the rush defense is playing well again, but the secondary continues to give up big plays.

Southeastern Louisiana strives for progress

Britta Hanson was named GWC Player of the Week.

As of 9/22/08: VOLLEYBALL North Dakota 14-2 South Dakota 11-1 Houston Baptist 10-4 New Jersey Tech 5-7 Texas-PanAm 3-8 Utah Valley 2-7 SOCCER Houston Baptist 4-1 Utah Valley 4-2-1 North Dakota 3-5 South Dakota 3-6 New Jersey Tech 1-9

Here's the skinny on this game........ SLU Record: 2-2 UND Record: 4-0 SLU has beaten Alcorn St. and South Dakota, and lost to 2 FBS teams Mississippi St. and Louisiana Tech SLU is giving up 33.2 points/game, UND is scoring 38.5 points/game SLU is scoring 25.2 points/game, UND is giving up 18.2 points/game SLU is averaging 69.5 rushing yds/game, UND is giving up 66.5 rushing yds/game SLU is averaging 269 passing yds/game, UND is giving up 266 passing yds/game UND is averaging 196 rushing yds/game, SLU is giving up 192 rushing yds/game UND is averaging 245 pass yds/game, SLU is giving up 225 pass yds/game SLU is giving up 76 yds/game to penalties, UND is giving up 29 Both teams are +4 in turnover margin

Hey, slulionsfan, what is the proper acronym to refer to your team by: SLU, SELU, or SELA? I've seen all three thrown out?

That's a myth. A game broadcast is a 3 hour commercial for the University. How many people stay home from hockey games because they are all on TV? Not me. Coach Lennon said several times that if he had it his way, every home game would be on TV. Mussman basically said the same thing on the radio two weeks ago. USD is drawing much smaller crowds and have more empty seats on Saturdays, but their administration still sees the value of having casual sports fans having the opportunity to watch their university play. And before anyone jumps on me for wanting the games on TV so that I can stay home and watch, I should point out that I go to all the home games, and I'm going to the USD game this year. In a perfect world the away games would be on TV but I understand the cost that is involved with that. But when the University basically owns a TV station, I don't see the point in not utilizing it to put the home games on TV and deliver the product to a much larger audience than the 10,000 or so who file into the Alerus on the weekend.

SME Network Top 25 Broadcasters Poll RANK 1 James Madison (13) 2 Richmond (5) 3 Montana (2) 4 Northern Iowa 5 Appalachian St. 6 McNeese St. 7 Cal Poly 8 Eastern Washington 9 New Hampshire 10 North Dakota St. 11 Elon 12 Wofford 13 Massachusetts 14 Delaware 15 Southern Illinois 16 Eastern Illinois 17 Villanova 18 Furman 19 Youngstown St. 20 Central Arkansas 21 South Dakota St 22 The Citadel 23 Western Illinios 24 Georgia Southern 25 Liberty OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Northern Arizona 40, Tennessee St 34, Sam Houston St 26, Jacksonville St 21, Harvard 15, Yale 11, William & Mary 6, Montana St 3, Delaware St 2, Coastal Carolina 1, Weber St 1, Dayton 1, North Dakota 1 How is it that we get fewer votes in some of these polls after winning on the road against a DI team than we did in the weeks prior for destroying DII & DIII teams at home?

None that I know of.