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Answering truthfully got me to a state bordering my home, which would be more impressive had the questions not included a specific geographical reference. Apparently I'm out of touch, though, since I can find Minnesota easily, but not North Dakota

1963 cochamps. That season the Sioux went on to defeat Denver for their 2nd ever NCAA championship!

My guess is that they weren't specifically targeted, rather they were hit by an Internet worm searching out sites running PHP-BB (the free bulletin board software they use for their Ticket Exchange) that aren't running the newest security fixes. Keeping an Internet-facing server secure isn't easy, it used to take months for newly discovered problems to be exploited, now its days or even hours.

While I'm normally loath to post log data because we don't want to "out" anyone, this aggregate data seems harmless enough; here are the domains that have visited SiouxSports.com this month, in descending order of number of visits. Down to about Mexico they're definitely real visits (>1Mb transferred), under that could be mistypes/flukes, though some of them are undoubtedly a single legitimate visit: Network net Commercial com Unknown ip USA Educational edu United States us USA Government gov Canada ca USA Military mil Non-Profit Organizations org Australia au Old style Arpanet arpa Netherlands nl Tuvalu tv United Kingdom uk Norway no Germany de Finland fi Brazil br Sweden se Austria at Mexico mx Switzerland ch Romania ro Japan jp France fr Israel il Belgium be Denmark dk Russian Federation ru Poland pl Saint Helena sh Iceland is Slovak Republic sk Guernsey gg Ascension Island ac Niue nu[/code] I see someone out in UND-wear no less than once a month near my undisclosed home no fewer than 1327mi from Grand Forks.

That should relieve a lot of the reclassification pressure on UND for a while. The potential for a time-sensitive conference affiliation was really the only thing giving it any immediacy, since the football scholarship reduction now seems unlikely to pass. Given their public statements, it now seems like UND's administration will just continue to keep an eye NDSU's progress and work on improving UND's athletic finances.

The nice thing about these message boards is that everyone's predictions are immutably on record when the results come in; derision of his prediction aside, looks like star2city wins this one bigtime. No Denver, but definitely thinking along the right lines: Big Sky to consider Northern Colorado

The Presentation College problem is solved by securing a conference. Then, basketball can eventually make the Big Dance by winning the conference (yay, a first round drubbing by Duke!) Seriously, though, I've always thought the average college basketball player would rather play a game in the D-I tournament than the D-II championship, but I certainly have no first hand experience. The NCAA recognizes the problem of schools reclassifying primarily for football, as I mentioned here (unfortunately, my attempt to salvage that thread failed).

Of course NDSU is UND's biggest overall rival (and vice versa), I've never seen anyone claim otherwise However, on the topic of interesting quotes about divisional classification in today's Herald: Brand: Maybe NCAA should restructure football Which has such juicy quotes (familiar sounding to readers of this board) from NCAA President Brand as: I've always been among those who believe that in the long run, UND will be in the same division as similar rival NDSU again. It's been speculated here that it could come from the NCAA modifying the divisional system; that could be better for UND than a complete reclassification that UND's leaders fear might not be financially tenable and which would primarily benefit only a couple big sports (though the latter certainly seems more likely than the former).

Since it's moderately apropos, someone may have snuck this into one of the D-I threads that I'm astutely avoiding, but it bears mention here: UND decides not to bid on D-II football title game Apparently they couldn't find the time to bid: Conspiracy theorists take note:

Hmmm... the biggest I have of the logo seems to be 300x329.

I'm certainly not a football rules expert, and couldn't hunt down a rule named "leaping", so was wondering if it was the "no hurdling" rule: rule 9, article 2, section i, in the NCAA football rules? Regardless, nothing I've heard said the call was anything other than legit, it's just rare enough that most of us don't understand it.

Making our posts congratulating the Sioux on a great season and for hanging in with PSU would have been kind of silly before the game was played. No one in this thread except you is bagging on the Sioux, quite the opposite, we're congratulating them for doing so much better than most expected. Given the offensive struggles all season and coming in as a 5 seed (who wouldn't have even made the playoffs last season), they won 3 games to make it to the semifinals (including the program's first 2 road playoff wins ever), and in their loss matched the offense of an undefeated PSU, which some had hyped as the greatest in football history; it's another season for the Sioux to be very proud of. You're not going to change our pride in the Sioux team's accomplishments this season and over the last 4 years. You've already made your ungracious boast about how your team is better this year; just go enjoy PSU's success and well-earned trip to Florence and let us celebrate the Sioux's accomplishments.

Yeah, I think the "a few calls makes it go the other way" statement was not meant to be a complaint about the reffing, rather a happy observation that the Sioux team was playing at about the same level as PSU, so that fewer miscues or capitalizing on a few more missed opportunities could have made it go the other way. I agree with the principle of the ungracious boast that the better team won, in that after watching the game I would expect PSU to win that matchup >6 of 10 times. However, we're congratulating the UND team because no one really expected them to be playing this deep into the playoffs and certainly no one thought they would be as competitive as they were with PSU. Congrats to the Sioux on a great season! Congrats also to the senior class. They brought us the first ever Sioux championship, and went on to be a runner up and a semifinalist in subsequent years. It's great to see UND football at this level and to have games to watch in December! Thanks!

It's weird that only being down by 11 with 10 mins left makes us feel out of the game...

How did we get a hold on a FG attempt?

Exactly -- the annoying thing is that PSU's offense hasn't been better than UND's at marching down the field. The big difference has been that when PSU starts putting together a drive, it ends in a TD; whereas UND has twice been held to a FG in the red zone. Don't misunderstand me -- by converting where we can't, PSU deserves to be ahead; it's just frustrating because I though UND would be ahead now if the game developed this way. I know it didn't result in a score, but I still can't quit looking at that -1 TO margin for UND, because I was really hoping that would be +2 or 3 by now, for the Sioux to win.

Another 3 and out for Pitt St. I hope UND and Pitt St are starting to realize that Pitt St. is beatable. We seem to be moving the ball equally well, just keep executing on the little things.

Yep, Sioux D held again, forcing another punt. I'm quite happy with 10-14 at this point. Pitt St is getting yds as we knew they would, but the Sioux D has been bending not breaking. The Sioux D has been containing the pass pretty well, so when they can force the pass its been going well. The Sioux O has been doing a fine job of getting some time of possession and moving the ball. To my surprise, the Sioux O seemed to have had more big plays in the 1st half than Pitt St. O, but we didn't win the crucial TO/special teams battle. Play the same game but have some of the little things go UND's way in the 2nd half and it's possible to win.

After that big 3rd down conversion to Caleb Johnson, UND and Pitt St seem about even on big offensive plays. UND needs to start winning the battle of special teams/TOs to have a prayer. Philpot is out, Majors is in.

Sioux recover from a 3rd and 19 with a long ball to Caleb Johnson. Sioux on Pitt St.'s 32, 1st down. The previous play had been a big break for the Sioux, after a sack in which Belmore lost the ball but Sioux recovered. Sioux have had great balance in being able to both run and pass this drive, grind out some 1st downs, burn some clock. Just what the doctor ordered.

My bigger concern has been can the UND O burn some time? Scoring off favorable field position, D, special teams is nice and probably crucial to a Sioux win today, but the inconsistent Sioux O has to put together some sustained drives to make Pitt's D work a bit and give UND's D some rest.

Yep, definitely a legit penalty, and very stupid since the pass was already incomplete. This game has been textbook so far. Philpot's passes so far have been awful, easy for the Sioux to stop. Sioux are doing a fair job containing Philpot's rushing, but Pitt St. is grinding out a lot of yards on the ground. Pitt St. has been dominating the ball, but special teams are why the score doesn't show it. If it continues like this, the Sioux will definitely need to force some turnovers or continue to play a perfect special teams game to give them the extra edge. 7-7 with about 4min remaining in the 1st

Pitt St gets an break -- ball popped out of Philpot's hands as he was being tackled, but he was ruled down on the field. Replay was pretty inconclusive, so it was certainly a fine call. After UND's first penalty, Philpot runs for a 1st down past the 50.

Awesome!!! Again, Pitt St. finds themselves in a 3rd and 15 so has to go to the pass. Sioux hold up forcing another punt. 3 and out, baby! Sioux mess up on the punt, turning it over to PSU midfield The call is overruled on the field, UND ball on the 48!

Pitt St moved the ball pretty well, confirming what we all feared coming into the game -- they're going to get yards so the Sioux need to figure out how to make them work for every yard and bend but not break. The Sioux are starting to limit Philpot's rushing and have been hitting him hard. A penalty pushed the Gorillas back forcing Philpot to move to the pass and they failed to convert on a 3rd and 15. Despite giving up one big run and a grinding 1st after that, the Sioux D forced a punt on the opening drive. UND went 3 and out, so the offense isn't yet holding up their end of the field position battle.