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On the highlights from the scrimmage today it looked like there was pretty good crown in attendance. Anyone who posts here in attendance to give us a recap? Sounds like three Juco guys looked good today in Kennedy, Goard and Welch.

Portland St. should be on that list in my opinion.

The Opening Drive video is outstanding. Gives you the goosebumps a little bit. Great job to Jason and the rest of the crew who put it together. Cannot not wait until the opener.

Great update Teeder. I love hearing the great posts about our offense. Its early but in years past all we have read about at the beginning of camp has been how good our defense has looked. Reading all this about our offense is a very good thing or a sign of things to come for the D. Exciting year ahead.

I can sum this up.....we're scared of losing. (See basketball and volleyball)

Thanks for the update Teeder. Man I am excited for this season.

If that is accurate I would be ok with it.

Someone way down on the charts wouldn't be a big blow worth tweeting about. Someone could have suffered an offseason injury as well.

Trying to figure out which position lacked the most depth. With it being a big blow it has to be in the secondary. Or qb. Interested to see what it is all about.

UND hasn't had a offense capable of keeping another teams offense off the field by gaining first downs consistently in a few years. Our defense has been put into some tough spots and has been on the field way more than is fair to ask. It all comes down to our offense performing to the level they are capable of this year. Even you, Bison Dan and teh Jonnyboy don't know if they are going to do that.

About as much as ndsu donors for all sports and BSA.

Maybe they are getting some information to make their jobs easier as well. Last year they and the ndsu coaches were the only ones to know about the Molberg commitment. They knew about it even before Molberg himself.

The papers out west cover the Big Sky more than they cover the conferences UND and ndsu were/are in. This was true even before UND got into the Big Sky. So yes, they have read about Eastern Washington more times than they have read about one of the directional Illinois teams in the MVFC.

The scholarship offer was the one he turned down from ndsu.

True, but the western half of the state gets more coverage and is more familiar with the Big Sky than the Great West, MVFC or Summit so there is some interest there and some value to advertising there.

Buy- he will be a steal and our recruiting class this year was good.

Based on all reports teams moving up from to the WAC for football would be all Southeastern schools. This could be something to make scheduling easier for Idaho and NMSU for those sports. Save them from Independence.

Well, was our offense that bad this year in the scrimmages I saw in the spring or was our defense that good? And with the secondary we had last year the guys coming back have a lot to prove. I saw some talent but not much production. This year is our chance to begin to prove ourselves at this level. Lets not get a head of ourselves until at least two weeks from now when the boys put all the pads on for the first time.

I don't think its conversation worth having until after the season. Buzzkill or not it sounds real silly to have this conversation before fall camp even starts. There is plent of conversation to be had. Freshmen report in less than a week. Camp starts in a week. Where is Fafita and what is our secondary going to look like? How is the turf coming along at the Al? Crowning anyone anything before the season has even started is a joke. They are big boys, they will have their chance to prove it in about a month.

They haven't even played a game yet

LOL..... well, any other questions.

I'm confident if he is not at UND, he won't be in the state of North Dakota next season. I guess we'll find out in a couple weeks though.

Yes you did. It was reported last week by Travis of Wissports and the UND areavoices guys.

You wrote 5 posts quesitoning why UND was so excited to get this kid as a preferred walk on but never once questioned why your own coaching staff decided to make an half scholorship offer 2 weeks before camp. NDSU has done very well recruiting and there is no question what they have done works but its a UND board and I'll stick up for the UND staff and players everytime. You try to pretend your not stirring the pot but you keep asking a question and don't listen to the answers or look at the current facts of the situation. The big one being the kid turned down a ndsu scholorship to walk on at UND. He also has talked to the UW coaching staff in the past couple weeks along with another FBS school, if it was a ndsu recruit in the same situation you and all the other fans of your school would rightfully be singing the kids praises and you know it.

You are not taking into consideration where UND coaches had him in their rankings. If they got the player or players ranked higher than him than there was no need to offer a scholorship. I guess the more obvious question is what does it say for NDSU's recruiting class when you come in two weeks before camp to offer a half scholorship to a kid that is only a preferred walk on elsewhere? And when 2 FBS schools and one other local FCS call the UND coaching staff to let them know they are going to talk to Joe and may offer a scholorship why did ndsu not have the courtesy to do the same? I think the kid is going to be a very good player and it sounds like he has great head on his shoulders as it sounds as though he has been very honest with the coaching staff throughout the last couple weeks after the all star game.