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It's probably best to consider this experimental still: SiouxSports.com Text Message Score Notifications It's probably not particularly useful to people who regularly follow the game in other ways (whether attending, watching on t.v., or monitoring on the Internet), but is really cool for people (like me) who are often doing other things Friday or Saturday night but would like to get a notification of the outcome (even if a few minutes delayed). In testing, it has worked pretty well. Mid-game notifications are spotty (some games they're within seconds of each score, some games they're non-existent), but the final score notification has been pretty reliable and timely. Nonetheless, you have nothing to lose. It's free to try (except for any fee you may pay for receiving a text message), and easy to unsubscribe.

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Diggler can be very helpful. Just click "My Controls" at the top then "Compose New Message" to send him a PM letting him know what you want, I'm sure he'll respond quickly. How'd you send him an email if you didn't know who he was?

Mea culpa, you're right. It doesn't hurt us like it would have 3 years ago, it just doesn't help us like it would've the last couple years. I think the SOS this year is simply like the non-win% part of RPI, that is -- part your opponents' win% and part your opponents' opponents' win%, all D2 only.

A little more from the Herald. As many of us expected: And: Unfortunately, I remember this being true. After a couple years of the punishment for playing I-AA's being removed, and after UND scheduled UNI, I remember the rules changing (again) last Spring such that defeating a I-AA was once again worse than losing to a good D-II. That would have, of course, been incorporated in the weekly regional rankings as well, but it's one more way that the two teams could have appeared closer than we expected.

The Herald added this insight: I still think UND should be ahead of UNO, but I also still don't buy the conspiracy theory. I just think the regional poll people considered UND ahead of Omaha, whereas the national people thought it was close enough that they broke the "tie" with the head-to-head. Either way, as Dale Lennon said,

Awesome business to be in. It definitely seems poised for continued growth, 500 employees in G.F. will be great for the community. In addition to adding on to a solid manufacturing base, they will include some higher level jobs, too. I would guess that support for alternative energy will be steady in coming years; Repubs think America's addiction to oil is a security threat (as discussed in the last State of the Union), and the newly in power Dems view it as a conservation issue.

This was discussed in the football playoff selection thread, but probably ought to be noted here. UND is getting lonely on the list... NCAA says Newberry agrees to drop Indians nickname It's funny, because what Newberry actually says is: Guess they're just trying to let the fans down easy, telling them they're committed to "resolving the dispute" while telling the NCAA that they're dropping the name.

Earlier in this thread, I said:

Obviously we've seen WSU already this year, and experienced good success in that early season matchup. In an article before the matchup, Winona felt like their D was ready for whatever came: Warriors 'D' still stifling Of course, no one expected them to be coming to North Dakota

It's worth noting that this outcome is WORSE than if UND had held it's #2 slot but been prevented from hosting. In that scenario, we would've had a first round bye but then likely had to go to UNO (or possibly Winona), despite being the higher seed. In this scenario we would still have to travel to UNO for a second round game, but now we have to defeat Winona (at home thanks to the injunction) first.

I'm not ready to get out my tinfoil hat. I'm not sure I believe that the NCAA executive committee exercised some influence over the selection committee to knock us down a slot. I would think the selection committee would be very resistant to such meddling. However, it is a bit hard to provide alternative explanations. Sure, we (9-1) lost h2h against UNO (8-2), but UNO (8-2) lost h2h against USD (8-3). We had the higher regional ranking coming into this weekend, in which we beat tournament participant USD, while UNO beat Central Washington. It's a little baffling. They made a big point of noting how UND was hosting only because of today's ruling. That Newberry is hosting without comment is a little interesting.

Most stunning is that our win over USD had us drop a spot in the regional rankings since last week and allowed UNO to catapult ahead of both USD and us. We have to take care of Winona at home (again) to get the shot to face UNO on the road (again). Ugh.

Official pairings NW #1 GVSU (plays winner of USD/Northwood) #2 UNO (plays winner of UND / Winona) #3 UND #4 South Dakota #5 Northwood #6 Winona State #3 vs. #6 will be at Grand Forks.

It's a currently an above-the-fold headline on cnn.com:

Hell of a win. I only saw the 2nd half, my first Rutgers game at all this year, but that running back (Ray?) was amazing! He'd just take off from way behind the line and pound for 15 yards. The magnitude of the comeback and complete domination in the 2nd prove Rutgers deserves consideration for the championship if they win out. Way to go.

INCH's Nine College Hockey Related Ballot Initiatives ...

It will be part of the new FightingSioux.com, due soon. (Made by XOS Tech., who do a huge number of college web sites, so it will undoubtedly look like GoBison, GopherSports, any of these guys, et al.) There's been some discussion of it in the D-I forum.

Stafford's first game is thrill of a lifetime

I'm comfortable stating that I caught the user who goes by "GrahamKracker" trying to guess other member's passwords and successfully logging into at least one other user's account to fabricate racist posts. GrahamKracker had identified himself to me and others as Mr. LaPointe numerous times before that incident, and additional evidence suggests that self-identification was correct. I'm repeating myself, but people continue to refer to the incident as the "hack", whereas I think its noteworthy attribute was the "fabrication of racism". Perhaps the most outspoken critic of the Sioux name was caught red-handed fabricating the incidents of racism he decries. While I was quick to dismiss such conspiracy theories before, in that there are indisputably racist people at UND as everywhere, now I sure wonder every time he conveniently stumbles on a new racist sign, blog, or t-shirt.

St. Cloud's complete inability to run the ball killed them in OT. If they had been able to mix in a couple runs from 1st and 4, they would've stood a good chance of scoring. Instead, we knew we just needed to break up four passes. Final yardage: UND rush 209 pass 228 SCSU rush 19 pass 266

Chappell 23/150/3 TD Dressler 2/43 rushing, 7/53/1 TD receiving

St. Cloud St. has Live game stats this year, no idea yet how close they'll be to the audio broadcasts in timing. Other team's audio broadcast: SCSU broadcast

Ummm... you do realize that your post is smack and his wasn't, right? He was pointing out that the unusual statistical anomaly was coming to an end as one of NDSU's opponents rose over .500, whereas you jumped all over him with the thread's first: * personal attack * off-topic mention of UND * smack against perceived slight to NDSU with off-topic unfavorable comparison to UND Be careful in that glass house. That said, I think this thread's legitimacy as a discussion of NDSU's peculiar schedule has ended, it's hard to imagine anything but smack from here out... Complaints will be entertained in the usual space.

I'm not sure why this thread was dredged back up, but I'm happy to respond. I agree with you. That's really what this thread is about, isn't it? If you start on page 1, the problem was that a Bison fan jumped into a random thread about UND and tried to start turning it into UND vs. NDSU smack. We stopped it and Bison fans got upset that we intervened too quickly to stop the smack, claiming that we wouldn't have done the same if it had gone the other way. I remain unapologetic for cutting any trolling off at the source, and complaints that I shouldn't because some other smack managed to survive longer is specious at best. The primary topic of this board is UND. If you want to talk about UND, fan or opponent, you're welcome. Though on-topic smack (e.g. with an upcoming opponent pregame) occurs frequently, just jumping into non-smack discussions and trying to smack UND will get the thread closed, and after many infractions, you suspended. There will be some discussion of NDSU because they're a regional school, went through a transition similar to UND's, and their conference movements undoubtedly affect our search. However, such threads will unapologetically be from a perspective of their impact on UND, because it's a UND message board. If you see a thread that you think is out of hand or contains unnecessary smack, don't assume we're just letting it go, assume we haven't seen it and report it!