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The problem is that when your starters don’t even appear to be good depth guys you are in trouble regardless. But hey, let’s defer to the second half because we can count on our defense to get us off to a good start. That is just plain ignorance, or delusional.

But we will score on their backups to make it seem like it wasn’t quite that bad.

Maybe we can see how far our field goal kicker can kick.

Only bad things can happen now. Take a knee.

But we do get the ball first in the second half, so Bubba gave us the chance to think positive.

3rd and 18 and as last year we give so much cushion, and give up the first down.

Not many teams have done much with stopping it, but SDSU had a plan, and executed quite well. That is why SDSU won a championship, as they were prepared on what we were going to do.

You know your play calling is bad, when they call it out that early. No threat, even if you are trying to set up your “trick” play.

UND still thinks they are in the D2 days when they had a dominant defense. They need to get ahead and hope they can hang on now.

Who won the coin toss?

He had a penalty last night, but not sure he played the previous game. Saw he was one of the early energy player of the game leaders, but that must have been based on the one game.

You can’t tell me that some of these players care as much about this as the Europeans do. Why take the weeks off after the FedEx Cup if you want to be in form for the Ryder Cup? Time to hurt their ego and make it North America or the America’s against Europe, even though you probably wouldn’t have automatic qualifiers from Canada or South America. Maybe they need some players that appreciate being in the competition, like Max Homa.

The U.S. captains could have mustered a few points if they would have played because they could hit the fairway every once in a while.

Embarrassing performance when they all spouted off how they needed to get off to a good start. Anyone notice how all the European’s were focused on cheering on their teammates on the last hole, while the Americans were sitting together but were on their cell phones.

It’s not like Ziemer, Whipple, Phillips, Grimes, Townsend and Hendrickson aren’t elite recruits, it’s just that they aren’t quite to the elite level of a Cooley or Eiserman, but few are. We haven’t got that elite of the elite recruit much either, and the one we did, Sanderson, we got before he was really recognized as elite.

https://www.therinklive.com/junior-and-prospects/ushl/tri-city-storm-tender-shakopees-cooper-simpson-for-2023-24-season Tendered by Tri City. Looks like a really good get. His namesake being named an assistant coach, probably tilted the recruitment in our favor.

I remember years ago, Minnesota always had much higher rated recruiting classes than UND. In the end UND held their own, and then some against Minnesota. Rankings give you a better feeling about your team, but in the end it doesn't measure all of the intangibles a player or recruiting class has.

Anyone hear if there are new concessions or other changes for game day at the Ralph?

I suppose you are always going to get guys that follow the money, but maybe a lot of the elite players won't be as concerned about the short term gain, and want to train and develop in a pro-type atmosphere that UND has to offer. As long as we get our fair share of guys that are of the 2-3 year college route elite players we should be fine. Will be interesting to see if the NCAA makes some major tweaks to NIL.

Considering how much money he is poised to make down the road, this would make more sense.

Part of me thinks that if super talented players like Eiserman are jumping ship for $100,000, how cautious will they be in playing their one year in college hockey to make sure they aren’t injured and get the really big payday.

I wouldn’t get too giddy at Minnesota’s misfortune because if NIL continues to play a big role, they are better positioned with all the major companies and money floating around than we are. We can only hope that Schlossman is right and that the NCAA will be forced to take a closer look at NIL to prevent college sports from being a farce. Personally, I prefer the academic rewards slant that UND is taking.

What about Travis Kelce dating Taylor Swift? Can he be successful?

They were speculating that Nick Oliver, who coached Gruba in Fargo and is now at Wisconsin, might have recruited him when he was at St. Cloud.

The Big Ten helped ruin traditional College Hockey, now NIL is helping to destroy it even more.