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Even though we are not playing a conference schedule in Volleyball or Soccer this season, I thought it would be interesting to keep track of the records of the GWC members this season. VOLLEYBALL North Dakota 12-0 South Dakota 11-1 Houston Baptist 10-1 Texas-PanAm 3-4 Utah Valley 2-5 New Jersey Tech 2-6 SOCCER Utah Valley 4-0-1 Houston Baptist 4-1 South Dakota 3-4 North Dakota 3-5 New Jersey Tech 1-6 It should be noted that every game that Houston Baptist has played this season in both Volleyball and Soccer have been against DI opposition. Impressive. They are in the same transitional stage as UND. Soccer was mentioned as a sport that that the GWC would not sponsor, however they are giving out Player-of-the-Week honors so that is why I included it. Perhaps something has changed.

Tom's Take - Tom Miller Blog

What a tool........... Bigger just isn't always better

Phase 1 of Alerus Center upgrades approved I think the big lettering should say "Home of North Dakota Football".

I agree. But, Watkins is a bit banged up now too (hamstring), so maybe if Saporu is healthy that's who's spot he takes and Watkins plays more in nickel situations. I can't see them taking time away from Hawkins with the way that he has played thus far.

I have been impressed with SDSU since they moved. While NDSU has an extremely successful transition, I have been more impressed with SDSU given the fact that as far as football goes, they weren't a world-beater in DII. Their women's basketball team has been the most successful ex-NCC team to move to DI if you ask me. I like to think that it just means that the top half of the NCC, pre-2002, were very very good in DII. I don't think that it is a cooincidence that UNC is the former NCC team of the first three to move that has struggled so badly. UNC, at best, is the 5th most significant university in Colorado. NDSU, SDSU, UND, and USD could all be considered "flagships", and really are the only thing going in North Dakota and South Dakota. I think that has done wonders for recruiting. When it all comes down to it, the players for any given school are the reason for whatever type of success is acheived.

Doubt it will be Altitude. If you wanna watch on computer, it will be streamed by BigSkyTV.org. Free service.

SME Network Poll 1 vote for North Dakota

TSN Poll 1. Appalachian State Mountaineers (96) 1-1 2,668 1 2. Richmond Spiders (1) 2-1 2,452 4 3. North Dakota State Bison (5) 2-1 2,417 2 4. Montana Grizzlies (7) 2-0 2,355 5 5. James Madison Dukes (2) 2-1 2,294 7 6. Delaware Blue Hens (1) 1-1 2,027 6 7. McNeese State Cowboys 1-1 1,920 8 8. Northern Iowa Panthers 1-1 1,905 9 9. Massachusetts Minutemen 2-1 1,677 3 10. New Hampshire Wildcats (1) 2-0 1,535 10 11. Wofford Terriers 2-0 1,458 12 12. South Dakota State Jackrabbits 2-1 1,448 13 13. Cal Poly Mustangs 1-1 1,337 14 14. Eastern Washington Eagles 0-2 1,271 16 15. Southern Illinois Salukis 1-1 1,201 11 16. Georgia Southern Eagles 2-1 1,030 17 17. Elon Phoenix 2-1 962 18 18. Central Arkansas Bears 3-0 945 19 19. Villanova Wildcats 1-1 740 21 20. Western Illinois Leathernecks 1-2 618 15 21. The Citadel Bulldogs 1-1 445 22 22. Eastern Illinois Panthers 1-2 415 20 23. Liberty Flames 3-0 248 25 24. Furman Paladins 2-1 244 NR 25. Tennessee State Tigers 3-0 194 NR Others receiving votes: Harvard 185, Youngstown State 170, Northern Arizona 146, Delaware State 96, Yale 87, Holy Cross 86, South Carolina State 56, Jacksonville State 49, Sam Houston State 44, Prairie View 29, Norfolk State 27, Northwestern State 26, UC Davis 23, Sacramento State 22, Hampton 21, Weber State 20, Eastern Kentucky 18, San Diego 16, Dayton 15, Albany 12, Lafayette 11, Brown 10, Montana State 9, North Dakota 5, Sacred Heart 4, Florida A&M 3, Southeastern Louisiana 2, Maine 1, Nicholls State 1, William & Mary 1.

It was on Altitude.

I hope you don't mind, UND92,96 , but I asked coach your question when he was on Mac Talk this morning. He said they won't red shirt him, and they hope he'll be ready to play on Thursday, and if not he will definatly be back by the Western Washington game in a month.

AGS Poll 1. Appalachian St. (101) (1) 2. Richmond (13) (3) 3. North Dakota St. (5) (2) 4. Montana (5) (4) 5. James Madison (3) (8) 6. McNeese St. (1) (6) 7. Northern Iowa (5) 8. Delaware (9) 9. Cal Poly (1) (10) 10. Eastern Washington (11) 11. Wofford (12) 12. Massachusetts (7) 13. New Hampshire (1) (14) 14. South Dakota St. (15) 15. Southern Illinois (13) 16. Villanova (17) 17. Elon (18) 18. Georgia Southern (16) 19. Central Arkansas (21) 20. The Citadel (20) 21. Western Illinois (19) 22. Furman (24) 23. Eastern Illinois (22) 24. Harvard (NR) 25. Liberty (NR) Others receiving votes (minimum of 5 votes): Youngstown St. (54), Yale (36), Northern Arizona (35), Sam Houston St. (28), Eastern Kentucky (20), UC Davis (19), Hampton (18), Albany (17), Montana St. (17), South Carolina St. (17), Holy Cross (15), Fordham (11), Jacksonville St. (11), Tennessee St. (10), Univ. North Dakota (7), Dayton (6), Delaware St. (6), William & Mary (6), Prairie View A&M (5), Weber St. (5) MOST SIGNIFICANT WIN OF THE WEEK: James Madison MOST SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF THE WEEK: Massachusetts

Softball Coach Sami Strinz was on Sioux Sports Extra tonight. She mentioned that they do play a few fall games. South Dakota St. was one of them. And a home game in early October as well. She said the team will have a 56 game schedule this season and 50 of them will be against DI teams.

This weekend, I saw a full page ad for UND in the Sept. 8 issue of Sports Illustrated. I don't know how that stuff works, if it was a truly national advertising campaign, or if SI breaks down its distribution to different regions so this maybe was just a "upper midwest" issue. Just thought it was kind of neat to see.

ISU is giving up ~240 rushing yards per game. Perhaps that is the reason the Sioux were so persistant with establishing the run game Saturday. The Bengals' key player appears to be senior WR/PR Eddie Thompson. He has alot of catches so far, but not many yards. He had a very nice season last year. Their QB is just a sophomore, but he did start 9 games last season. He has thrown 4 INT's so far. ISU has not had alot of success running the ball so far this season. Although they pretty much abandoned their running game against Idaho when they fell behind quickly. Their head coach is somewhat known for liking to pass, but so far it looks like it has been alot of underneath passing, as their longest pass play has been 23 yards. I think North Dakota is the better team in this matchup, but it is ISU's home opener, they'll have had nearly two weeks to prepare to UND's 5 days, and we have spend one of our 5 days travelling. All factors that can't be ignored. If UND can run the ball anywhere close to the way they did on Saturday, I think we'll be in good shape. I like the matchup of our run defense against their run offense. Get in the backfield and disrupt the QB. ND 20 ISU 16

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My thoughts: -Best complete game on both sides of the ball so far......they did exactly what I expected they should do against a DIII team -The run defense is very good -The entire defense was very good overall today.......if not for the one big pass play by UW-L, score would have been 45-0 -Josh Murray is good. He makes good decisions and is a patient runner. Could be a big star for this team for the next 3 yrs. -Ismael Bamba runs fast. Hope he gets more reps either at WR or on special teams -Loyal Janke has lost a step over the years -Students must have went to the library after halftime. -Dominique Hawkins continues to impress me both in the secondary and on special teams -It's true SiouxMD, popcorn is expensive, and hot butter not only costs more, but you have to negotiate for it

Man, if I were playing on the opposing side of the ball as all these guys that have long hair hanging out their helmet now-a-days, I'd be reaching and grabbing at ever folicule I could!

Travesty averted

Besides North Dakota, there are 14 other schools in the country that share an open date with Cal Poly. This game won't happen. My money is on Nicholls St playing Poly on Sept. 27. Nicholls has had two games cancelled now, and are down to a 9 game season.

Cal Poly's game with McNeese St. has been cancelled and will not be made up this season.

Earlier posts in the "2008 Schedule" thread indicate that our game with SELA is for this year only.

CSN West News & Notes

10 years sounds about right to me. The Alerus will be sold out for every game startin sometime in the 2010 season. Sell outs mean buzz, TV revenue, increased ticket prices. If ticket demand continues to outpace supply by year 5 of the new agreement with the Alerus, then start talking about an on-campus stadium. However, I firmly believe that an outdoor stadium in Grand Forks will reduce demand. What the demand is in 5 years remains to be seen.

UND is in NORTH DAKOTA!