jimdahl

Hydrogen lab going up by old REA this spring

Errr... spoke to soon. The calculations in my head apparently weren't that great -- quick back of the envelope calculations tell me that our opp. win% will be nearly equal next week (UND would have an edge of only about .002, if the D2+ group includes the teams I think it does). UNO has the H2H tie-breaker and an advantage in the new last 4 comparison, while UND holds the common opponents edge. I'm going to retreat to claim that UND really needs the road win over a top team to boost the QWI, which would create a nice gap between UND and UNO on that criterion.

The big new criteria is opponents' win percentage (excluding games against you). UNO effectively just played a 1.000 team (our loss against them doesn't count), while UND played a .750 team (UNO's win over us doesn't count). That was enough for UNO to cross UND in opponents' win %, by my calculation. In that same calculation, I have UND with a slight edge over UNO in SSI. Don't worry, though, it's just a quirk of the schedule order. We have yet to play USD, at .800, while UNO gets to play a nearly winless Mankato. Win or lose, that should push our opp% back above UNO's.

The slowness may have been related to the problem I was discussing here. I'm going to be away for a few hours, but please post details of any ongoing problems in that thread and I'll check it when I get a chance.

DNS problem fixed, machine rebooted again so all the programs would get the updates. This should at least solve the front page problem, keep me informed about the other.

Ah, that I can duplicate. There seems to be some trouble with one of the caches that helps that page build quickly (starting Sunday morning), so the page keeps trying to load this resource until it times out (30 secs would be my guess). I'll look into that. Maybe if we're lucky the two will turn out to be related... Update -- the tried and true debugging method of rebooting didn't help. It actually seems to be a network problem; SiouxSports.com is having troubles contacting its DNS, for the techies.

If you hit submit twice it will send or post the message twice; if you somehow find yourself in that situation, it's best to wait. However, it isn't supposed to be possible because once you hit the "Submit" button, the button is supposed to be disabled to prevent that very problem. I can't duplicate the slowdown you're getting after posting / sending a PM. Plenty of people do seem to be posting and sending PM's, so either they're a patient group or the problem is somewhat isolated. Are more people seeing that? Is it every time? Do you get stuck at the "Thanks" screen or the screen with the button? Are you hitting the button again or hitting reload? Browser / version? Internet connection type / speed?

Nothing has happened yet as far as a commission having any sort of results / recommendations, or even holding a single meeting as far as I know. I'm not the self-proclaimed arbiter of newsworthiness, Sioux fans just aren't talking about it much (and I presumed because nothing has happened to talk about yet). There are a few threads in community and a few in football on the implications of a possible reclassification, but certainly not so much that I think it demands breaking it out. If traffic on the topic picks up, we'll happily provide a dedicated space for such discussion.

You can read it at Cratter's link. We'll actually unlock it, old threads and all, when UND actually gets the ball rolling and starts to make the topic newsworthy again.

Ack. UND up 19-14. UND driving to try to burn the clock, Belmore fumbles at the 45. UNO gets the ball with 1:51 to go at the UND 42.

At the end of the 3rd, UMD has a couple TD lead on USD. If that holds and UND holds on, UND is your 2005 NCC champ.

Hopefully at the game! Glad to hear the Sioux are doing well so far.

Yeah, good thinking -- much more important to have Paukovich available for both games in the killer Michigan Tech series than both at UND. And these brilliant coaches somehow managed to win two national championships? Seriously, up until this point I've somewhat disregarded the riled up fans as... well... riled up fans. But it seriously sounds like Paukovich is coming looking for a fight, trying to plan the best timing for a DQ. It seems his plan is: whine that he thinks UND players are cheap thugs and he's concerned for his very LIFE!, plan when to optimally start a fight... [figure out the optimal UND player to take out, start premeditated fight, whine about how UND thugs got in fight with him?] Lest he forget, there has only been one actual major incident of violence between the Sioux and Paukovich, and Paukovich was NOT on the angelic side of it.

Fun facts from UND's press release:

Since you're repeating the story across threads to take a swipe, I'll repeat myself from another thread and swipe back. I don't see anything being "broke" here. The committee was specifically called for in strategic plan 2 and has been discussed by Buning numerous times in the past. If the Forum's just getting around to covering those events, that's a good demonstration of how little they follow UND.

This story was previously mentioned in D-I vs. D-II by someone who gets up just a few minutes earlier . However, I really don't see anything "news" in it. The strategic plan 2 dictated a study of divisional classification and Buning has talked about the formal study many times this summer.

UND to perform classification study None of this is really new, having been talked about for at least a year or so and having been directly called for this summer in Strategic Plan II, but the ball is rolling.

I guess I could be getting old enough that I'm just remembering last year's discussion. Good to see that despite the onset of senility, I'm at least being consistent; I still believe this:

I could have sworn there was a thread about this in August when the rankings came out, but don't see it now. 3rd tier isn't a bad bunch, additionally including schools like Wyoming, VCU, WVU, South Dakota, Mass-Lowell. Other schools of Sioux-fan interest I'd add: Denver University (85) Colorado College (27 - Liberal Arts) Mankato (3rd tier - Masters Midwest) SCSU (3rd tier - Masters Midwest) Duluth (44 - Masters Midwest) Being in national tier 3 generally puts UND a cut above its University of Minnesota-... conference foes. I think that contributes significantly to UND's continued ability to draw out of state (49.1% out-of-state, including 26.6% Minnesota in 04-05). Though there's no way to know where in the 3rd tier UND falls, one can infer reasonably high from our inclusion in the Princeton Review list which omits many of the other 3rd tier National Universities. Looking at the bottom of the 1st tier, it may seem unrealistic in the short term, but how great would it be if the improvements to research and doctoral opportunities (increasing peer assessment), and new admissions standards (increasing student test scores / decreasing acceptance rate / increasing success of future students leading to endowment) pushed UND into the 1st tier? For students whose first impression of a school comes from those lists, that could instantly put UND into the consideration set of quite a few more desirable regional students, creating a snowball effect. Regardless, I wholeheartedly support missing the admissions goals for a few years because of increased standards to continue to improve UND's academic reputation and rankings. The one criterion from UND's description that makes me laugh every year is: Setting: Urban

Indians.

You are WAY ahead of the Internet broadcast. At least 5 mins, I would say. I'm not sure if I want to read whats going to happen and then listen to it or not...

I actually have all the calculations happening, but it still doesn't exactly match the regional rankings and it wasn't obvious why. With Bob bravely doing it by hand and posting it at d2football.com, the NCAA revamping it entirely again next year, and UND a ridiculously strong #1 (), it doesn't seem worth the effort yet to give it the attention I have some of the hockey calculators. I do have the RPI code ready to go so as soon as the NCAA stablizes the criteria (next year?), I'll solicit some help with the details and put some serious effort into the math / programming to create ranking analysis tools for D2 football that rival those we have for college hockey.

Sorry for the delay, you did try to ask. Let's apply the forums' "avoid politics" standard to avatars. Yep. I certainly couldn't care less if I walked into someone's office and they had ESPN open on the web browser, corroborated by the fact that the majority of posts here appear during the business day and there are quite a few non-students who post. I know some places are strict, but everyplace I've worked allows casual, personal web browsing as long as it's not inappropriate and you get your work done.