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I'll give it a go.
MacMillan - Knight - Kristo
St. Clair - Nelson - Grimaldi
Dickin - Lamoureux - Rodwell
Odonnell - Rowney - Parks
Forbort - Blood
MacWilliam - Simpson
Gleason - Mattson
There will probably be so many different combos at the start of the year to see who has chemistry together, but that's my guess.
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Exactly. You can't turn chicken poop into chicken soup. Just because some school in Louisiana has a crappy stadium doesn't mean that we should settle on a little less crappy of a stadium. I just don't see the logic in that. You can look at other schools and point out how crappy their facilities are but how does that justify us having a crappy stadium? And for those of you who don't think the Alerus is a poor venue for UND football, you are outnumbered. By a lot. Last Thursday we were tailgaiting at the game with about 20 people. We started talking about the Alerus and every single one of them thought the Alerus stinks to watch a game in.
What was your alternative when asking these people? I think attendance at the Alerus compared to Memorial Stadium has you outnumbered. Now if your alternative is a new 100+ million stadium, then I would vote for that. Will you and all your friends each chip in $10,000 to help make that happen?
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I dare you to find a FCS team that plays on a football field that is more boring that piece of junk rug at the Al? Two giant Alerus logos and two Sioux words in the end zones? I know they replacing the field next year but what are the odds the Alerus center logos will be bigger and more in your face? They should have the interlocking N&D at midfield, with the Big Sky logo at the 25 and North in one end zone and Dakota in the other. The sound system stinks. Me and my three friends that went to the Drake game couldn't hear a word anyone was saying about anything the whole game. The banners that hang from the roof also partially block the video boards too. Also the rise over run or pitch of the seats sucks. I'm only how many rows up when i sit in the last row behind the students yet I feel i'm miles from the action. Compare that to REA where they have the highest pitch possible (ADA sets this i think?) for their seats and sit in the last row of REA and you feel your right on top of the action. In my mind the seating pitch is one the biggest failures in the Alerus that makes that it feel so sterile.
Really, logos on the field is a big concern for you. As for video boards, there are many teams that would love to have video boards period. I've heard fans that come in here and wish they had a facility like it. Is it perfect? No. I can imagine if they do get a new field, then there would be the complaints that it's too cold again, and we go back to the days of 2000-3000 at a playoff game. By the way, have you ever heard of the DakotaDome?
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Official Roster with updated bios is up:
http://www.fightingsioux.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=13500&SPID=6403&SPSID=58669
Haven't heard of #26 Monique Weber. Is she a transfer.
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From what I've heard, Seth Nichols could have a big impact this year as a receiving threat at TE, and he was held out last night with an injury of some sort. Hopefully he can be back by the Idaho game, which could really help the passing game. If you put Hardin, McGill, Townsend and Nichols out there, that's four pretty good weapons for Bradley to throw to.
And on the defensive side we will be without Mackey and Bennett for the additional game against Idaho and they should be back after their two-game suspensions.
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Ok, last post on this, I promise...
In no way, shape or form did I say an FBS win is more important than FCS success. All i said was that we need a signature FBS win. It could not do anything but HELP our cause with recruiting. I never said I thought it was more important than doing well against FCS competition.
If you think I said otherwise, go back and re-read my posts.
Having said that, can't wait to watch the game tomorrow at the Alerus. Hopefully we have a full house.
GO SIOUX!
I agree, a signature win gets the fan base excited more than beating teams that they have been playing and beating for years, provided you have a decent season besides. That extra boost of confidence for both the fans and the players should propel you to better things throughout the year. It seems people aren't excited about women's basketball as much as they were in the past, even though they have had good conference and post season runs the last couple of years, because they have been outmatched in many games out of conference.
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I guess I would like to see a signature win sooner or later, much like our win against Northern Iowa a few years backs going up a division. Beating a team such as Nothern Illinois or Idaho like we played last year, or someone up just a level, would put the program in the right frame of mind with the confidence that will help us be competitive in the Big Sky.
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How many kids are there from Minnesota playing in Ann Arbor that are 16? Should be able to figure out who it is, so it sounds like either Walters or this kid has an axe to grind. I wouldn't exactly classify any league with Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and even Michigan State as inferior, just as I certainly wouldn't classify the NCHC as "the Secondary Six" as another person with an axe to grind suggests.
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UND is in the running for Gabe Guertler
Via Fargo Force beat writer
http://slightlychilled.areavoices.com/?p=876
Sounds like a high-end recruit. Hopefully Zane Gothberg will bring him up to Grand Forks a couple times to watch the Sioux. Hopefully John Marks will fill him in what it means to play for North Dakota, and how that makes you part of the Fighting Sioux family for life, even if we wouldn't be the Fighting Sioux at that point.
http://fargoforce.com/blog/gabe-guertler-fall-classic-player-spotlight/
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Actually, UND does have a Norwegian program!
http://arts-sciences.und.edu/languages/norwegian/index.cfm
I feel like the NCAA, jumping to the "hostile and abusive" conclusions!
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Do you really want to punish all Native Americans because of something some left wing nuts caused? That is stooping to the level of the PC crowd that is forcing the retirement, despite the fact that most of the tribal members of both Spirit Lake and Standing Rock have actually openly supported the Sioux name and logo (symbol). You sure don't want to force the Native Americans to have to go to NDSU, do you?
I don't think anybody wants to punish Native Americans that support the nickname. I just wish there was a way to show the PC crowd that actions have consequences... and Standing Rock took actions years ago that led us to go down the road of having Sioux as a nickname by giving permission and having a tribal ceremony. Now, having to change a nickname and the symbol which the University has become synonymous with, will create marketing problems as well as numerous others with alumni and friends who are upset by the whole thing because of the pride factor that will be lost. If I take a job and the commensurate salary with the responsibilities of that job, then decide to take on a less stressful job with less responsibilities, I wouldn't expect to keep the same salary. There are so many Native American programs at UND because the name is Fighting Sioux, plain and simple. Frankly, I think the University of North Dakota is hostile and abusive to Norwegians! Where are the Norwegian programs?
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I guess if the freshmen are going to be 3's, I would just as soon see them redshirt. Would love it if this was Jake Miller's freshman year. I know they were short at that position when it wasn't sure with Sutton's situation, but in the end, he was only out a brief time. Unless the other depth is not good at all, why not redshirt and have them when things really start to count.
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Yeah, got my football and hockey tickets today.
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How about Roughnecks? It is original and can be related with North Dakota's Oil Boom.
rough·neck
noun
1.
a rough, coarse person; a tough.
2.
any laborer working on an oil-drilling rig. Compare roustabout ( def. 4 ) .
I see there is a show on television called "Arctic Roughnecks". As previously mentioned, not sure how the women's teams would feel about that name. Personally, I don't mind Roughnecks or Wheatkings.
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Sorry, those of you who want "The U"... Miami just got a whole lotta bad reps and they call themselves "The U".
Fail.
Yeah, you would think the NCAA would take care of "real" problems before they decide to take on imaginary ones. The NCAA is a complete joke, and if Miami doesn't get something close to the death penalty, they will become even moreso. How do the administrators in the NCAA look themselves in the mirror every morning?
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I say once the nickname is gone the fan base needs to start doing the tomahawk chop and have a white guy dressed up as a native american with warpoint on a horse throwing a spear into the turf. When the NCAA asks what is happening on our campus, we just respond that we thought that was the way we would be able to get the nickname back -- because it appears to have worked for Florida State! They probably still wouldn't understand the hypocrisy.
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I have heard from people that know Steve that has said in so many words that his kid isn't going to UND... I don't know if it has changed recently. I wouldn't count on him being a Fighting Sioux.
Not saying he will or he won't but we have seen plenty of occasions on this board that "know" somebody that have expressed confidence that such and such would happen then didn't. Steve might have said "in so many words" that he was very unhappy with UND or something of the sort, and then someone who "knows" Steve extrapolates that to mean that his kid would never play for the Sioux. Or, he might have actually expressed that his kid would never play for the Sioux to someone. That is the basis of a rumor, when it isn't actually heard from the horses mouth. I guess in the next year or so, we'll probably find out one way or another.
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I have heard the same thing so I wouldn't count on him coming to UND.
If indeed the Sioux offered him, there must have at least been some conversation with the coaches and the family. It would be nice to land him, partly because he is a local kid, but at this point his progess over the last few years hasn't branded him an elite talent. So if rumors are correct, unless he takes off in college like his dad, the Sioux could certainly attract players that would rival his talent anyway, so it's not like it would hurt the program. On the other hand, to miss out on playing for a team that is perenially a national contender and a chance for a National Championship only comes along once in a lifetime ... and if Cary Eades ever gets the itch to take on a head coaching challenge, it might not be best to burn your bridges, because let's face it, while most of us are out of the loop on the facts of these situations, the coaches probably know exactly why they lose out on players. Hopefully the Sioux can land a local boy that would most likely be a very good four-year player.
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From everything I've read and/or heard, Steve Johnson has applied for the Women's job and the assistant men's job and obviously hasn't gotten any of them and is quite bitter about it. Therefore everything I've seen points to his son Luke going elsewhere. Hopefully the info is incorrect and maybe his son wants to play for the Sioux but I don't know if dad will be the one pushing him towards UND. It sounds like it is going to be a tough sell.
Heard some of the rumors, but who knows what is actually the truth. The reason he wanted to take both of those jobs mentioned is because he wanted to be back in the Fighting Sioux camp because of the great experiences he had with the Sioux when he was in college. How do you deny your own flesh and blood those same experiences because you feel slighted. If Luke feels like that on his own, then so be it, but if Steve steered him away from UND because of that, then that to me would be kind of selfish. Again, that might not be the case at all, because bits and pieces of information can sometimes get blown out of proportion, and sometimes people think that a person should feel that way, and they actually might not.
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Maybe this is comparing apples to oranges, but it seems odd to me that the coaches have said that it was up to Dominique Hawkins if he wanted to make the move to safety or not, and after he tried it in the spring, he was asked if he wanted to continue down that path. Also it was said that the coaches wanted to remove Dan Hendrickson from kickoff coverage to preserve his body on defense, which was met with "no way" by Hendrickson. You love that attitude, but it makes you wonder who is running the show. I guess, I don't know to what extent that Hakstol talked to Marto, Davidson, Genoway, Gleason on their position switches, but ultimately he moved them for the betterment of the team and I don't know that the players had the decision in their hands. Maybe it is nitpicking a bit, but if a move needs to be made for the team to be better, it doesn't hurt to talk to the player first, but in the end it should be what the coaches feel is best. The coaches certainly saw Hawkins in spring ball, and if having him at safety utilized his abilities and made the team better then case closed. Perhaps they wanted to give the players the perception that they had a say in the matter and in the end they would have put their foot down, in which case -- nevermind!
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Luke Johnson had a goal in a 6-3 USA under 17 team loss. Wonder if he has any offers yet. Does the fact that St. Cloud State is in the old WCHA have any impact if he might play for them with his dad as an assistant? Of course a lot can happen in a couple years, with him and his dad.
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You're right you got two wrong. #8 and #13 are the ones you got wrong. Hint: These two were on the team last year but will play for other schools next season.
Also, Ryan Hill wore # 28 in the 2009-2010 season.
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Maybe we should boil this down to this:
The world's climate is changing - (it has been changing since year 1)
Here's the questions:
Does the minuscule amount of greenhouse gases that are man made (as a % of all greenhouse gases) causing climate change? (I highly doubt it)
Does man have a way to stop climate change? (No way - nothing I've seen by any climate scientist has shown we can)
We do need to be good stewards of our planet but let's do what's right and skip the pseudoscience.
Agree with this 100%. I just got back from Glacier National Park, and learned that the Glaciers in the park have diminished from 150 to 50 now, but the retreat of the glaciers started in 1860. They actually grew in the 1960's and 1970's. That would make no sense if automobiles and other industrialized societal inventions were the cause. Nevertheless, I agree that being good stewards no matter how miniscule the impact is indeed a good thing.
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.. and yet nobody was thinking twice to buy packages for $400-$600 for the Frozen Four last year.