jimdahl

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UND settling into a more natural rating for its performance. If they win they climb, if they lose they fall. But, UND is still the single most volatile team in the PWR this weekend. The season outlook continues to track the original prediction from a couple weeks ago.

Ack, of course. (though I think you meant *cough* ) Frankly, I think the coaches have been beating it out of him. To me it's sort of the same as when a young running QB hits the NFL -- he has a couple awesome years of run & gun, but if that doesn't win a Superbowl the coaches start trying to coach the run out of him. Then everyone's surprised that he's not quite as dynamic an individual as he used to be. They let Ovechkin be himself for a few years and then had to make some changes because they were exiting the playoffs "too early". Now he's a cautious, two-way, setup player. Still very valuable to a good team, but he's not on a particularly great team anymore, so can't carry it by himself because he's been trained not to. IMHO.

Ouch At least last night they didn't look completely lost like they did the first two games. The short season is going to be tough on teams that have undergone personnel changes. Detroit, Philly, and the Rangers are also all looking rough early. With only 42 games, these missed points are going to keep someone out of the playoffs.

It's just part of each scoreboard on ESPN, you can talk about the game. Like this: http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/conversation?gameId=330262464

Then you should tell more people about it Be sure to mention that it's Lakes-free!

Ok, the forum is now telling IE10 to render in IE9 mode. I expect that to fix the problem, but may also cause some other weirdness. Let me know how it goes.

Hmmm.... seems to be a known problem with IE10 and the (very popular) web text editor TinyMCE CKEditor. http://answers.micro...c1-b6832aaf52ad I'll keep looking into it, but for now the workaround is to use a browser other than IE.

Browser/version? (Given that there are at least two of you, and nothing has changed on our side in months, I'm guessing a recent automatic browser upgrade breaks the text editor).

UND still with much more downside potential than upside going into this weekend. Weekly rankings analysis Upside potential Cornell and/or Colgate wins over Yale could help UND take the comparison with Yale as TUC comes into play when Yale reaches 10 games vs. TUCs. Downside potential A Bentley win over Holy Cross could knock Holy Cross out of consideration. This would considerably harm UND’s winning percentage vs. TUCs. A Clarkson win over Dartmouth would be enough to give Dartmouth the edge over UND’s current RPI. A St. Lawrence win over Dartmouth would have a slightly smaller effect. A pair of Wisconsin wins over Alaska Anchorage could be enough to take RPI and COP, and thus the comparison with UND. A Mass.-Lowell win over Northeastern would give Mass.-Lowell the edge over UND’s current RPI and the comparison with UND.

After my first post on PWR predictions this year, in which I predicted doom if UND got swept, UND managed to inch slightly up despite only taking 1 point from the weekend. Look back at the chart, UND did land well within it's "win 1" possibilities curve. It landed near the top thanks to a convincing St. Cloud sweep of Denver, which KRACH gave only about a 12% chance of occurring. That gave North Dakota the comparison with Denver on the basis of RPI. In future weeks I'll again start to include the key games to watch.

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark

To help pass another day until the weekend... Google -- I wanna drive the zamboni After a few easy rounds of figure skaters it turns to hockey.

A first look at the NCAA hockey PairWise Rankings (PWR) contains a little analysis on the short-term PWR impact of this series. Bottom line -- we need it more than Minnesota does.

This is a little over the top... What’s in a name? The Redskins’ bad karma And here I thought it was just bad coaching by Shanahan.

Yeah, I considered that. That's close to what I think we want, is people to be able to talk about things like guns, economics, business development, education, etc...; but short of the "You're just being a typical R/D so now I hate you" stuff. Would changing the rule to "no partisan politics" work (or is that too specific and we'd struggle to find the line?)

We didn't particularly mean for "no politics" to prevent discussions like this that aren't particularly partisan; but it clearly isn't permitted under the rules as written. Perhaps we'll try to clarify the politics rule a bit. Discussion of moderation / rules always welcome in the siouxsports admin forum.

It's a tough line, and I'm just noting that I'm worrying people are starting to get a little personal. It just all goes better if people go out of their way to be nice while disagreeing

Time issue fixed. I had it set to only sync the time on reboots, but it's been so reliable lately that it has been rebooted in a year or so, and manged to drift by a few minutes.

Let's keep our criticisms targeted at the things people have written and not personal, please. Thanks!

No doubt the Packers are the huge favorite, but Minnesota looked pretty competitive in Lambeau last time. In fact, Minnesota has done a pretty good job of stepping up against big opponents all year. Finally, the decreased temperature should favor the running team over the passing team, if it has any effect. That said, I don't think AP is the wildcard, it's been pretty well demonstrated that GB is going to have trouble containing him. So, I think it comes down to Ponder. He's the one whose performance has been wildly unpredictable game to game. If Ponder can't establish enough of a threat that GB can just ignore Ponder and swarm AP, then it's over. If Ponder throws multiple picks like last visit to Lambeau, it would be pretty tough to win. But, if he can complete 7-yd passes and not turn the ball over, it's a winnable game. In the other direction, the tale of two halves last week seemed to come down to whether Winfield was in play. I agree that Cobb could be a big factor in that regard, particularly if Vikes are fielding a weakened secondary; if Rodgers can reliably hook up with Cobb, the Vikes are in huge (i.e. blowout) trouble. I agree though that the only winning game plan for Minnesota is score early then settle in and let the defense frustrate Rodgers. It's hard to imagine a big Minnesota comeback.

Yeah, the attempt at a table had a bunch of spaces between each of the "columns". In the regular post it was ok, the board properly compressed those down to a single space. But in the quote, it tried to preserve the formatting, resulting in a superwide post. I removed the table from the quote.

My take -- obviously the FCS championship game is 2nd tier college football, but I can't think of any reason to be vehemently reminding everyone of that today other than envy for that game. I wish UND were in it.

Alas, this seems smart: Alcohol sales to stop early at Packers-Vikings game

My biggest surprise was how bad both D's were 2nd half. I didn't see that coming at all.