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UND 61 WSC 60 3 minutes to play

UND 46 WSC 41 11 minutes to play

UND won 80-77

WSC 35 UND 31 16 minutes left

Halftime Stats Sioux Shooting 41% Out-rebounded 14-17 Turnovers: 9 for UND, 11 for Wayne St. Bledsoe 8 pts Boyce 5 pts Youmens 4 pts

UND 27 WSC 29 Halftime

UND 23 WSC 22 2 minutes left in first half

What ever happened to Bigmrg?

You have to remember that one of those games was against Northeastern, coached by Rocky Hager. That game had alot of appeal to alot of North Dakotans. The other game was UC-Davis which was televised on satellite by Comcast. WDAY simply picked up their feed (actually "borrowing" the satellite and transponder that the FSSN uses), and sent down one employee, Steve Hallstrom, to do sideline reporting. This game was probably one of the cheapest football telecast that WDAY has ever pulled off. They did the same thing last year for the Montana St. game, which was NDSU's only locally televised game last year. I am very grateful for the coverage that WDAZ/FSSN has provided the Sioux over the years, which is all the more reason I am upset over the lack of coverage during the 2006 football post-season.

Noooooo...........not on the weekend after a holiday. BTW, good to have you back in the States, SiouxMD. You're contributions to our country are greatly appreciated!

I agree. I don't really agree with that, though. Forum Communications has the TV rights for both schools and (with alot of help from UND & REA via the FSSN) has put alot more time and money into televising alot more UND sporting events over the past five years. Last year alone I believe they broadcast over 30 UND games between hockey, football, and basketball. Which is why this is so perplexing to me. Forget road games, all home fb playoff games have been televised in '03, '04, and '05. Now this year we're two games into the playoffs and no TV for either one.

Relevant issue #3: If WDAZ had the foresight to put in a bid on a possible Dec. 2 game two weeks in advance, why did they not do the same for a possible game on Nov. 25? Very "small time"

On the basis that their reason for not televising is "due to a shortened work week". I apologize if I offended you PCM. I'd compare my passion for Sioux Football to that of yours for Sioux Hockey and if a Sioux hockey playoff game fell on a holiday weekend and was not televised, I'm sure many more would be very upset. But, like I said, it's only football.

That would be just fine with me PCM. There is a difference between an online article for an early regular season hockey game and TV coverage of what, in theory (not likely), could be the last post-season game our football team plays for the next 6+ years. This game is worthy of being on TV. Perhaps since it is a Holiday this week, we should e-mail Clear Channel and tell them to give Hammer, Stein, and Macnamara the weekend off as well. Afterall, it is only a football game. Give your folks all the best and enjoy your Thanksgiving. At least you'll be able to watch the hockey games in Pierre.

Lennon just said on the coaches show that Strouth probably suffered a career ending injury.

Link In other words, they are being lazy. They did already bid on next week's game.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention..........WHAT A FRIGGIN' JOKE!

Sweeney said no TV. NCAA didn't reply to their bid soon enough. Said they have already bid on next weeks game and plan to air that one. I hope the Sioux win this weekend, otherwise will DAZ broadcast UNO vs. GVSU/USD?

Ya, I'm starting to think WDAZ maybe dropping the ball now. In 2004 they broadcast from Houghton, Michigan which is the toughest place to get to in North America from Grand Forks. If they had a full week to prepare a broadcast from that high-school field in the middle of nowhere, I think they have plenty of time to take a drive down I-29 straight into Omaha. We'll see if Sweeney has anything to say about it on the 6:00 news.

I'm not ready to just yet blame WDAZ for "choosing" not to televise this game. I'm not in the media industry so I don't know what all is involved. I tend to be thinking that the NCAA is screwing with UND. But teamsioux and sultan do have a point. UND & DAZ new with 99% certainty that we would playing in Omaha this weekend, the day that the NW Regional rankings came out. They aren't rookies, they know what is involved, they've been televising road games for decades. If they knew that they had the rights by noon today, and it were at all feasible to get the game on, then they should put it on. Again, I don't know how it all works, but advertising for instance shouldn't be a problem. It is the same five commercials for every FSSN broadcast all season. I don't care if it is a holdiay weekend, and somebody had plans, if one enters the TV industry, they know before hand that they're working hours change with different events. Lots and lots of jobs are that way. If they're not doing it because the crew wants to eat turkey at cousin Bob's this weekend, then that is inexcusable. But again, I prefer to blame the NCAA for this too.

According to the athletic dept., they are still looking into all TV options for this game. Also, WDAZ put in a bid to televise both this weekend's game, and next weekend (should there be one) whether it is home or away.

Just got an e-mail from WDAZ echoing what "Stack" said. This is a joke, and something does indeed smell funny. DAZ has an excellent track record for televising post-season road football games. They are not new at this, and I'm sure did everything they normally do this time of year to get these games on TV like they have every year. Remember 2004? We had 3 road games in the playoffs that year, and every one of them were on DAZ. I don't think that this is WDAZ's fault. Perhaps, more jerking-off from the NCAA? Like UND92,96 said, I can't remember the last time a road playoff game wasn't on TV.

If UND can stipulate in their radio contracts that "all home women's hockey games must be aired", I'd think they could stipulate in a televesion contract that " all road post-season football games must be aired". I'd gladly trade regular season home games for playoff road games. Although I guess we won't have to worry about that for at least 5 years or so after we move DI. All the more reason for this weekend's game to be on TV.

Can you think of a better vacation destination than Omaha, Nebraska?

EMAIL WDAZ AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS!! Pat Sweeney: psweeney@wdaz.com James Degelder: jdegelder@wdaz.com If they should drop the ball on this, which would be very disappointing, any other station can pick up UND events if WDAZ elects not to. Let them know it is important. KVLY Scott Peters: scottp@kvlytv11.com KX4 Rich Lodewyk: richl@kx4.com