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I agree that alot will be expected from Benter. I also think/hope that Ben Lenhertz will have a bigger role this year. He was somewhat effective in his limited playing time this past year. I really feel that to succeed in the NCC, you have to have an inside presence. Koenig can provide, and Gutter did. Just look at USD last season, big physical team, had alot of success. I like the way our program is headed, but I also feel that we are getting somewhat small. Youmens, Bledsoe, Dumas, Monsebroten, and presumably Doyle will all be fighting over minutes this upcoming season. Hopefully Dumas or Monsebroten can emerge as a true and steady point guard for this team for the future, something UND has lacked over the past few years.

I'm disappointed that Gutter won't be back. He showed alot of improvement last year as a junior, and was physical inside presence on a team that doesn't have much of that. Hopefully Koenig will be fully healthy next season.

I might be wrong, but wasn't Ralph's gift the largest athletic gift to a any University in the U.S. until recently when I think I read Oklahoma got like a $175 million+ gift from an alum in the last couple years? Like I said, my memory is foggy. At any rate, the REA must be right up there in the top 5 or so isn't it?

I posted this in another thread, but it should probably go here too....... IAC I've always thought that the Alerus should be made more available to UND as a practice facility for not only football, but for other sports like baseball, softball, and track & field....................and Lacrosse??!! If it had field turf, it could be used for soccer, too. UND is key to the potential profitability of the Alerus. The main arena is not that busy throughout the year, why not make it available to UND for a variety of things? At higher rental price of course than it pays currently just for football games. It seems like utilizing this great space would be better (for both UND and the city of Grand Forks) than the talk of abandoning this fantastic 6-year old facility for building an outdoor football stadium (let's at least come close to selling out the Alerus consistently before we seriously consider that), an indoor football practice facility, a soccer field, a T&F facility, etc. I think the Alerus is great. Let's use it. Knowing its history, I'm sure the city is willing to work with UND.

I'm not surprised. I'd suspect that UND will select Mens and Womens swimming and diving to be eligible early, and there is little revenue to be earned from those sports. USD is relatively competetive in T & F so it makes sense for them. However, I wouldn't mind volleyball being selected because it does have the potential to generate at least some revenue. The problem is an adequate offsetting men's sport. Lacrosse, anyone?

I disagree, going from a fledgling school in the Mid-Con to UW-GB in the Horizon is a huge step up. The Horizon is easily the most prominent "Mid-Major" conference in the country. They take basketball very seriously in Wisconsin with UW, Marquette, UW-Green Bay, and UW-Milwaukee. I'd guess it was an easy decision.

Herald article on UND releasing schedule.

UND press release on today's spring game. Sounded like Freund was pretty sharp.

It appears that would be the official 2007 schedule. Bummer, I was still hoping for an 11th (6 home game) schedule.

Sorry, I guess I can only read words that are underlined. My guess is that it is partly because this is UND's last year of DII. There were lots of quality DII's looking for games (according to D2football.com) this off season that would have been very attractive for UND. North Alabama, Washburn, Emporia, Tusculum, to name a few. But most of them were looking for home-and-home agreements. With the SUU game, UND needed at least one more home game for 2007. If we didn't have an FCS already on the schedule, I wouldn't have been surprised to see UND travel to one of those places and get the return game for 2008, when it'll be even harder to get home games.

I would say pretty slim at this point. But maybe they will or already have something worked out. As it stands now, they'll have two bye weeks in the month of September.

C'mon Walrus, you know I'd never hold that against you!!!!!! Please reconsider, there are already enough "less opinionated" people in the basketball forum.

This begs the question: Does the NCAA think that T.J. Oshie himself is offensive? I hope that they don't make him transfer to Central Michigan.

Thanks for the update, Walrus! There's a couple articles in the Herald about spring ball today too. Sioux defense dominates in first scrimmage From rivals to teammates

Thanks, but I'll have to decline. One of my biggest pet peeves is bloggers that only make a post about once a month, and I know that is how my blog would be if I had one. Wayne Nelson and I would have a nasty war trying to see who could go the longest between posts. I think that would be a great idea. What would be even better is if there were a couple or so UND blogs devoted to something other than hockey. Don't get me wrong, I love hockey but comparatively there is so little info put out there about the other sports. If they were up to it, I'd nominate The Walrus and/or UND92,96 to do a basketball blog. Iramurphy would do a great job with a football blog I'm sure.

Crickets chirping.................. The silence is deafening...................... So, nothing then?

During one of the Fighting Sioux Coaches Shows towards the end of this season, I even heard Roebuck state that there is a good chance that the Betty in a few years will be only a volleyball facility and basketball practice facility.

Where does Wisconsin play basketball again?

Do you have a specific example of why he has done a poor job?

What's an "im in" ?

He's not from North Dakota, therefore he can't be a genius.

Tom Buning has done an excellent job leading this university's athletic department so far.