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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!

Wow..........spoken like someone who truly has absolutely no clue what-so-ever about how switching divisons work. No hard feelings, not everyone is as big of a nerd as me. I'm sure the student-athletes would really like to thank you for your support though. Way to go! People keep bringing up Valparaiso. Valpo made a name for itself in DI basketball. Fact is they recruit the same players as UW-Lacrosse. The two teams UND has defeated this season would probably have put up 50 or more points on any Valpo team, and UW-Lax would probably come close as well.

They also beat South Dakota in 2003, and DII Washburn in 2002 and 2001.

USD's 2009 Opponents

SME Network Poll 1 Appalachian St. (15) 2 North Dakota St. (4) 3 Massachusetts 4 Montana 5 James Madison (1) 6 Richmond 7 Northern Iowa 8 Delaware 9 McNeese St. 10 Eastern Washington 11 Cal Poly 12 Wofford 13 New Hampshire 14 Southern Illinois 15 Elon 16 South Dakota St 17 Georgia Southern 18 Western Illinios 19 Eastern Illinois 20 Villanova 21 Central Arkansas 22 The Citadel 23 Youngstown St. 24 Sam Houston St 25 Northern Arizona OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Delaware St 37, Jacksonville St 16, Furman 15, Hofstra 11, Norfolk St 10, Liberty 10, Eastern Kentucky 8, Harvard 8, Yale 6 Fordham 6, Colgate 5, Montana St 4, Sacramento St 4, Hampton 4, North Dakota 3, Weber St 2, William & Mary 1

TSN Poll . Appalachian State Mountaineers (85) 1-1 2,976 1 2. North Dakota State Bison (22) 2-0 2,775 2 3. Massachusetts Minutemen (1) 2-0 2,647 4 4. Richmond Spiders 1-1 2,606 3 5. Montana Grizzlies (1) 1-0 2,572 5 6. Delaware Blue Hens (1) 0-1 2,561 6 7. James Madison Dukes 1-1 2,470 8 8. McNeese State Cowboys 1-1 2,218 10 9. Northern Iowa Panthers 1-1 1,504 9 10. New Hampshire Wildcats 1-0 1,400 15 11. Southern Illinois Salukis 1-0 1,343 12 12. Wofford Terriers 2-0 1,293 13 13. South Dakota State Jackrabbits 1-1 994 21 14. Cal Poly Mustangs 1-1 962 11 15. Western Illinois Leathernecks 1-1 918 18 16. Eastern Washington Eagles 0-2 866 7 17. Georgia Southern Eagles 1-1 833 16 18. Elon Phoenix 1-1 820 17 19. Central Arkansas Bears 2-0 597 22 20. Eastern Illinois Panthers 0-2 517 19 21. Villanova Wildcats 0-1 470 23 22. The Citadel Bulldogs 1-1 411 20 23. Youngstown State Penguins 0-2 228 14 24. Harvard Crimson 0-0 191 25 25. Liberty Flames 2-0 147 NR Others receiving votes: Northern Arizona 125, Furman 113, Delaware State 95, Sam Houston State 89, Fordham 65, Eastern Kentucky 54, Jacksonville State 51, Hampton 46, Tennessee State 43, Yale 42, Holy Cross 41, South Carolina State 21, San Diego 18, Norfolk State 17, UC Davis 16, Montana State 15, Sacramento State 15, Grambling 13, North Dakota 12, South Dakota 12, Prairie View 10, Dayton 8, Coastal Carolina 8, Albany 7, Colgate 5, Hofstra 5, Stony Brook 5, Nicholls State 3, Northwestern State 2, Lafayette 1, Texas State 1.

Wisconson-Lacrosse @ North Dakota Cal Poly @ McNeese St. Portland St. @ UC Davis South Dakota @ Southeastern Louisiana Southern Utah @ Montana My picks: UND over Lax 41-13---More like TAMUK than SCSU McNeese over Poly 27-21---This will be a good even matchup, gotta go with the home team in this one though Davis over PSU 34-24---Davis gets off the schnied at home after two close road losses USD over SELU 21-20---Yotes fired up after playing well at UNI Griz over SUU 35-14---Home opener for the Griz, SUU played 'em tough last year, Griz don't want let down after win in SLO

Occaisonally some feeds from certain events can be found, but the channel is not available full time on FTA.

AGS Poll Any Given Saturday Poll Top 25 (First place votes in parenthesis) 1. Appalachian St. (69) 2. North Dakota St. (15) 3. Richmond (7) 4. Montana (1) 5. Northern Iowa 6. McNeese St. (1) 7. Massachusetts 8. James Madison 9. Delaware 10. Cal Poly 11. Eastern Washington 12. Wofford 13. Southern Illinois 14. New Hampshire 15. South Dakota St. 16. Georgia Southern 17. Villanova 18. Elon 19. Western Illinois 20. The Citadel 21. Central Arkansas 22. Eastern Illinois 23. Fordham 24. Furman 25. Youngstown St. Others receiving votes (minimum of 5 votes): Yale (28), Harvard (25), Sam Houston St. (25), Northern Arizona (24), Eastern Kentucky (21), Holy Cross (17), Liberty (17), Montana St. (12), South Carolina St. (12), Hampton (11), Jacksonville St. (11), Delaware St. (9), UC Davis (8), Albany (7), North Dakota (6) MOST SIGNIFICANT WIN OF THE WEEK: Montana MOST SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF THE WEEK: Youngstown St.

Coach Mussman was just on Mac Talk and mentioned that there could potentially be one road game televised this season. Southern Illinois, perhaps? Could also be South Dakota, I believe they have a similar arrangement with Midcontinent that we do.