jimdahl

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Seriously, that's what I wonder every time I see one of these stories. I guess most of my real jobs have been in places that are pretty serious about data management, but I have troubles even imagining life in an organization where grabbing a complete copy of an important database and throwing it on a laptop seems like a reasonable or even sane decision. In unrelated news -- UND alumni should watch their credit card statements to make sure their involuntary $10 donations go through, it will appear on your credit card statement as "siouxsports.com".

In MBB's last season in D-II and the NCC, Emmanuel Little had 134 FGA and made 64 FGs in conference play.

1365 = total attendance at WBB's 3 neutral site games in 07-08. That average of 455 per game was dragged down significantly by the 75 total people in attendance for UND's game vs. Oklahoma Panhandle St at 3:00pm on Dec. 2.

Since I had the spreadsheet lying around, I gave the INCH predictions the same treatment as the coaches poll. The verdict? INCH has been a more accurate predictor than the coaches poll 4 of the last 5 years. Just remember -- past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

I would have said the exact opposite -- I found pre-lockout NHL unwatchable because skill players were continuously and systematically obstructed. Immediately after the lockout we were able to see players skate, and pass, and shoot like they hadn't been able to in a decade. If someone made the mistake of obstructing, we then got to see that talent shine even more in a 5-4. Watching a powerplay is more interesting hockey to me than: skate to the center line, get mugged, dump the puck, chase it hoping to regain control in the attack zone, have someone on the other team pick it up, repeat. Unfortunately, obstruction was creeping back in quite a bit as a defensive strategy in the last two seasons, and I felt like officials really started letting things go last season. I see about 10x as many NHL games as college, and when I watch a WCHA game I find the current "let them play" mentality to make the game look amateurish and players less talented than they really are. I'd love to see the league follow through with its annual threat to crack down, and am confident the players and coaches would adjust. To each his own, I guess.

I was curious about how well the coaches do, so compared their picks to the outcomes for the last 5 years. If you want to wade into the stats a little: How good is the coaches' poll? If not: They do a lot better than you would do just throwing darts, and a little better than if you just guessed each year's final standings would be the same as the previous year's.

1368 -- Total rebounds by the 2007 Sioux Women's basketball team (last season in D-II)

While UND should easily handle OPEN WEEK, I'm a little worried about attendance.

@Mankato generally isn't that hard to get and its a fun place to go to a game. Their site says they're on sale next Monday.

Though the Sioux announcers initially said it was short, in the post-game the SE LA guys who were right there said it was long enough and went just inches outside the post.

Yep -- fighting back to stay in the game doesn't erase that a lot of us expected or hoped it would go far better, but it's certainly better than not fighting back and instead getting clobbered. It also makes it a lot easier to be optimistic about the future, which is why we tune in during the transition. As I said in my last post, I don't see SE LA potentially being better than expected as making much of a difference, because the Sioux had some of the same problems last week against a not-great FCS team. There are simply some things the Sioux need to tighten up and improve on to consistently win games like this.

Reminds me of your question a few pages back. Each could have gone the other way and the Sioux won one and lost one 38-35, but we also saw tonight's defensive problems last week when playing a questionable FCS team. Whether SELA is better than expected or not doesn't affect that. Like fightingsioux4life said, the Sioux have a few years of I-AA/increased scholarship recruiting ahead of them before we can really start to judge where the transition will land them in FCS, but no doubt things are going to have to speed up and tighten up if that's going to be where we want them to. I've never been much for moral victories myself, but it would have been a lot more annoying to have the team roll over when sliding toward an unexpected blowout rather than fight back to keep it close. Though not a moral victory, I view it as sufficient incentive to continue to tune in.

Look at you two sandbagging Seriously, though, I think most Sioux fans would have been happy to write NDSU off as an anomaly (though still would have been envious). However, that NDSU *and* SDSU became reasonably successful, ranked teams during their transitions suggested to me that the gap between the top of DII and I-AA wasn't as big as I thought (though I, admittedly, previously thought it was huge). I do agree with your points about our team having entirely been recruited for D-II, and would add that we aren't yet feeling the recruiting effects of a massive increase in scholarships. There's certainly no guarantee that those will give UND similar success (UNC is a fine counterexample), but I don't think its unreasonable for fans to be hopefully and perhaps even optimistic about UND's future in FCS.

PAT MISSED!?! Argh. Well, it's still 2 scores and a couple big defensive stands...

The SELA announcers are saying it bounced off a lineman, so should have been an illegal touch instead of a TD.

Opponents announcers (which I always think is more fun, plus it works on non-Windows machines, no login required -- are you paying attention UND?)

At the half -- Idaho St (0-3) 21, Eastern Washington (1-2) 21

There's precedent to define "opponents" loosely

Montana St takes an early lead over USD, 7-0 with 7:33 to go in the 1st Central Washington draws first blood against Montana, 7-0 with 10:44 to go in the 1st Final: Northeastern defeated UC-Davis, 27-10

UND plans to dissolve School of Communication This says it all to me:

As long as the name you want is available, I can change it for you. Either respond in this thread, or drop me a PM (one of the options if you click on my name).

I haven't been... blessed... with knowing anything about a fourth, but around here the doctors wouldn't LET you go 9 days late on the first, they'd be in there yanking her out by now.

They both might be right. The Pocatello Marathon reportedly has a 1600ft change in elevation in the first 14 miles. OT: I don't think I remember ever seeing over 200 simultaneous on the board for a football game before.

If more of you gave up, maybe it would get better for me