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I love going and reading the recruiting threads here and Bisonville. Seeing guys like you, BisonDan and others ripping UND's recruiting class saying it lacked talent. Now a few months later, your bison are offering scholorships to one of our preferred walk ons. New low no matter how you look at it.

One guess where he's from.

I think UNC will get at least 3 conference wins this year.

Push- I'm as interested to see if there is any improvement to this stat as I am to see if there is any improvement to our DB play on the football field. Both will be keys to our success this season in both sports. How many games did this cost us last season?

That is more what I meant. Everytime I start to get real excited about next year I think about the DB's and that tempers my expectations. The potential is there. They are very good against the run but I need to see improvement from last year against the pass. I'm just ready to see what we have.

Good ones. I forgot about Goodman. Also, excited to see Nichols this year. And our entire defensive backfield.

Spencer Cummings

Scream Yellow. I think ndsu already used that a few years back.

Come on Sic. Don't let facts get in the way of a good story trying to prove a point. He thought he had a good thing going there.

replace Crown college or Presentation college with a home game vs. USD or UNO and that is a good looking schedule. I'm glad we are finally in a conference that gives us something to be excited about.

Two very solid teams at the top who deserve to be there based on what they have coming back from last year. Its a 1A & 1B thing if you ask me. After all the games are played that top 10 will look very different. Can't wait for the season to start.

I think its a good idea. The papers in Dickinson, Minot and sometimes Bismarck already cover the Big Sky conference as much or more than they cover other conferences so fans west of the Missouri are very familiar with these teams. A traveling trophy tied to both states would be great idea with a team we are playing on a yearly basis.

I agree with you on this.

Its a preseason poll. Doesn't mean a whole lot. Lets wait until the final one comes out and see how each conference finishes up.

Nope. Man it must have hurt Terry to write this column. http://terryvandrovec.tumblr.com/ That number for UND is only going to grow. I have heard football season ticket sales had a nice bump this offseason. And hopefully with the women's and men's basketball teams finally being in a conference thier attendance will increase. Also, every women's volleyball game seemed to have more and more people at it last year as the season went a long. Huge number and still a lot of room for improvement, without having to spend any money on new facilities.

Offense Breakout- Ivery Breakout- Shea Walker- (both on the line and special teams) MVP- Miller Defense Breakout- Spencer Cummings- (I can't wait to see this kid this year) MVP- Devin Benjamin- (Our defense will only be as good against the run as our NG play) MVP 2- Dom Bennet (Kid will have an all conference year this year if he stays healthy) Special Teams Breakout- Will Ratelle MVP- Cameron and Miller (we are solid in the kicking game)

I may be wrong but I believe SDSU's contracts are one year deals that are renewed yearly so as I said above, your comparing the yearly salary of a coach who just made it through transition to a coach who led his team to NCAA tournament.

I wouldn't say on the bubble but a I mentioned above, both coaches have already noted that they have to prove themselves. They have had the opportunity to build their programs for this year and next. That has also been stated many times on this board. Really not a secret Danno. Also, I didn't note that Jones was 2-1 last year against those other higher paid coaches in the article.

Is Terry V. really that shocked that a coach that has made the FCS playoffs (Stig), along with a coach who is very well known in the FCS world by having a Nat'l title on his resume and has BCS experience (Glenn)or a coach who has obviously been successful (Bohl) and a basketball a coach that has lead his team to the NCAA tourney (Nagy) are making that much more than coaches who's teams are just getting through transition? Both Mussman and Jone have themselves made it known that they are grateful for the raise but understand they need to continue to develop and prove themselves. I was fairly shocked that USD was paying Boots that much but I guess he has been there for 25 years and is the assistant athletic director. I guess Terry V forgot to mention that. The guy is in the same boat as Kolpack where he lets his hate and envy for UND get in the way of facts when he writes articles.

No one is delusional, I would expect the same response from any bison fan if I just started throwing out claims without any numbers to back it.

I'll just wait until they give tickets away at Stop N Go when I fill my car.

Were you at that one Danno? You seem to know a lot about UND gameday.

Well said Sic. I agree with everything you said. Mussman and the staff have come a long way and I think finally understood the last couple years that they needed to improve as much as the team did. Mussman has admitted as much and that says a lot about him as a coach and his players have responded to that. I have heard as well that the players like him because of the fact he is always straight forward with them and they know exactly what position they are in. No sugarcoating.

Buy- I'm hoping this year he performs as well on the field as he has done recruiting off it. This should be a good year for recruiting with being playoff elgible, being in an well known conference with some great venues to pitch to recruits, the nickname being gone and not used against the program, and extension to let recruits know that the coach will be around awhile if he performs and the all black uniforms this year with replacements for others in the works. Get that IPF done and UND football is in a good spot. The staff has done very good recruiting with every year being better than the last on paper and kids producing on the field. The above should help that tremendously.

I'm betting Kolpack and Coach Bohl are on it. There is no way UND could be ranked that high.