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Of all the ones you mentioned specifically, I thought Hunt, Tucker, Smith and Dulin stood out the most. That is not to detract from the others.... they just didn't stand out. But sometimes it is easier for WR and DBs to stand out more early in spring and fall because of the no contact situations.

Crap, I forgot a big one. Joe Francis at TE looks like the real deal. In fact, he looked down right impressive out there this morning. He hauled in every pass that came his way and had nice quickness after the catch. His size and relative speed looked really good.

OK... here we go! Let me just start off with a hearty "Hallelujah!" for the HPC! The hair on the back of my neck still stands up when I walk into that beast of a building. 1. Bubba preached more urgency and crispness during drills. Tried to get the boys attention that this stuff if for real now and they can't just hear what the coaches are saying, they need to really listen and execute. 2. After practice huddle: Bubble told the team to go to the Betty this afternoon at 2 p.m. to support WBB against MSU. He said Mia Loyd is tough and her play is worth the price of admission alone. Coach Freund, quickly piped in "But don't skip class!!!" What Bubba didn't say was that there will be an NBA Hall of Famer in the building this afternoon, as former Jazz great John Stockton is an assistant with MSU. 3. This just in: Cole Reyes is one tough mutha F@##$%. He is out there practicing with the team in the same gear as the rest of the team with a big old cast on his left forearm. He doesn't sit out any drills and goes as hard as you'd expect. He is truly UND football tough int the traditional sense. 4. Clive was running wild today. Nobody could cover him(and that's not a knock on the secondary)and he was sucking in every ball like a vacuum. He hauled in one that would have been good for a TD from 60+ out, and he pulled in another tough grab that would have went for long yardage. He looked like he was having fun out there. 5. Heidelbaugh started out fine in drills but was a bit unsettled with his footwork once things went uptempo in skelly work, causing several balls to sail on him. Studs and Bartels looked fine. 6. If you can believe this --- Santiago looks to have even sharper cuts through the line and more burst once hes' in the open than last year. Stay tuned. If the line can gel, who knows how far he'll go. 7. I liked what I saw from Stetson Carr at WR... he's a bigger version of Seibel and was featured a lot today with intermediate over the middle pass plays. He hauled in all but one that was broken up by a good play by an ILB. If I remember correctly, he had a really good spring two years ago but eventually left the the team. Glad he's back! 8. A newbie that showed flashes today was DB Torrey Hunt, wearing #16. The kid had a really nice break on one pass play where he picked it off just before it hit the receivers hands and he took it for what would have been a sure 6 points. He looks very fast albeit a bit thin at this point. I was impressed with his showing given is lack of familiarity with the defensive schemes. That's it for today. I will try to get out there again tomorrow morning. Enjoy!

No. Tony Roland was never one that I saw touted as a for-sure difference maker. He never really stood out last fall. Tyler Coyne (before his season ender), Josh Leonhard and Francis had much better reps during practices.

My utopian wish for some day down the road would be an FBS Big Sky Conference with UND, USD, SDSU, MSU, UM, ISU, Idaho, UNC, NDSU, and WYO (coming back to its roots). And then EWU, Weber, PSU, SAC, Poly, Davis, NAU, SUU and NMSU could play in their own sandbox.

I've always gotten that same vibe. Hmmm?

I totally agree! -- Hey, wait a minute!

I thought I was sitting next to you here in section 402 row F. This middle age white guy is going off constantly on Jones and Shanks. And were up by 25! ( ;

No. He did come back and played well after hurting it. But ankles do have a tendency to swell up after the fact. We'll see. Wondering about Seales, too. He warmed up on Thursday night but did not play.

I still can't believe how well Avants has adjusted to the college game, especially as an undersized inside player. The look on the opposing, taller post players faces when he forces them to pass out to the perimeter or blocks their shots or when he schools the same players for a bucket underneath is almost worth the price of admission.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Oh yeah, well, my dad can beat up your dad!

Last time I checked Hooker is part of the team. Sometimes one or two people step up. When Hooker has had rare off nights in the past and we won, McBuckets 2.0, or Baldwin, or Crandall,etc. stepped up and carried the bulk of the load. Other times they won as a balanced team, which his optimal, but at the end of the day a win is a win. Yeah, I get it, it was a career night for Q but like I said, he's part of our TEAM and we might want to enjoy it while it lasts instead of always downgrading wins as flukes because of certain aspects of individual games. When Huff went bonkers against Bucky a couple years ago only to be countered by an insanely more bonkers effort by Frank the Tank, I lamented how we would have won that game IF Kamenski would not have been such a factor. But after I cooled off, I realized the "if and but" nature of my thought processes. We have to beat the TEAM that opposes us, to include every individual unit of said TEAM and vice versa. When Bolomboy and Senglin go off on us again this year and knock us out of the BSC tourney, Weber fans won't be griping about the quality of the win based on the team effort as a whole. Weber just expects Bolomboy to be Bolomboy and accepts that. We won't downgrade that win either; we'll just lament how awesome it would be to have such an impact player. Well, I say we do have such a player and it is Q. Let's start appreciating his game changing talents. Sometimes we just need to enjoy the darn wins in a conference where parity is much more than it was even just a few weeks ago.

Without Forte's big game inside for PSU, We win running away. We could do this all day. Ifs and buts....

Their record is deceiving. They have a couple of difference maker players, Forte being one, who they just gained the services of recently. They are a solid team right now, not so much earlier.

Seales is warming up!

I need to get my SiouxSports media credentials mailed in ASAP!

I think that's probably spot on. Rebels to the core!

So can we surmise that the theory it was the students who carried the water for the new FS name during the voting process was,shall we say, off the mark?

Of these two concepts, I like first one.

Great showing for a young squad ... keep it going against the Tide in Bama!

USC walk-off single. wins it in the 9th.

6-6. Going to bottom of 9.

6-6. Top of 9.

6-6. USC-UND heading to top of 8.