jimdahl

I'm just the messenger -- thanks UND athletics!

Just wanted to point this out to all the football fans here... UND is reaching out to Internet fans, so we should encourage future such endeavors with a positive response to this one.

While you and I know before the season begins that beating SCSU should give you less credit than beating Ohio St, a strictly mathematical model that only examined this season wouldn't. To interject some of that human-like intuition and produce a somewhat meaningful ranking from week 1, most of them initialize each team with some credit for last year's results. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that UND finished around the 23rd FCS school last season.

I must say, some of the anti-NDSU arguments are a bit familiar. They're similar to the arguments a lot of us made when we were fans of a D-II football team watching one of our D-II rivals move to I-AA. Some points are true, but some are born of misunderstanding. When NDSU was moving, I thought UND should move too but also asked some questions similar to the above because I believed the hype that I-AA was such a step up that the SUs would have thrown away exciting rivalries for .500 records versus unknown teams. I worried that would reduce attendance and lead to financial strains. Instead we've seen that the SUs were immediately competitive (SDSU moreso than it was in D-II), bringing new excitement to the programs. DeLand can feel sorry for the SUs and UxDs, but he won't be joining SU fans in that assessment, as attendance is up over 50% at NDSU and 100% at SDSU. Clearly those fans are excited about those games, even if an SCSU columnist is not. It's still true that FCS is not the big time, I-AA teams aren't generally more nationally known than II teams, and in a lot of ways I-AA is just a different lower division than II. I, for one, am as happy to see our Great West conferencemates on future schedules as I would be to see SCSU instead; and the ability to get a game vs. a Texas Tech or even a Minnesota is exciting to the fan base and players, and does provide an exciting glimpse of the "big time" that SCSU isn't going to get from the NSIC.

Oh, I had a good one for 1385, too. 1385 = career points by Durlene Heisler, #12 all-time in career points for the Sioux WBB.

I read it as an endorsement of a name that evokes memories of the Fighting Sioux nickname. E.g. something related to American Indians, but not the word Sioux itself.

Goetz says he wants to speed up timeline for nickname resolution eh? Uh?

I went to the opening and dedication of the 9/11 Pentagon memorial tonight. A few snapshots: 9/11 Pentagon Memorial opening

Having abandoned our offices by 10am or so, I remember watching tv in the hotel bar until about 11:30am when the genius manager kicked us all out insisting he had to start preparing for the lunch crowd. I don't think he quite grasped the magnitude of the event. I was in Atlanta, though living in Madison, WI, at the time. Atlanta and O'Hare being among the last airports to reopen that week, I felt reasonably stranded in Atlanta. I found out that two of my coworkers were from Chicago, so we just grabbed one of their rental cars and drove up to Chicago/Madison. The funniest part of that trip was when the two women I was driving with forced us to stop at an outlet mall on the way home (really, you need to shop now? One of them even called my wife to apologize that I'd be getting home two hours later.) I still remember the poor Hertz woman when I returned that car-- Her: This car wasn't rented by you. Me: Nope. Her: Where is the person who rented it? Me: Chicago. Her: This car was supposed to be returned in Atlanta two days ago. Me: Yep. Her: <dumbfounded silence> Me: Have a nice weekend. The next weekend (not the 15th, but the 22nd) I was in one of our private corporate hotels just outside NYC. I was apparently among the few idiots who actually followed through his commitment to travel to NYC that weekend, so my company was letting visiting rescue workers stay in all of our empty rooms. I got to talking to some guys from a SWAT team from upstate at the company bar, who offered to take me to down to ground zero. The story of how we managed to get through two roadblocks but not the third is too long for this post, but it's a good one. So, we got as far as the inner ring around the WTC buildings but not inside. At that time the trade centers were still about a 5-story pile of rubble. Mentally trying to process the destruction, it was the smell that really overwhelmed you because you were mentally prepared for everything else.

College Hockey Live They don't seem to have anything up for this year yet... (You could have found that link yourself either from the hockey page or the front of the wiki, by following the link for NCAA hockey links to reach: http://wiki.siouxsports.com/doku.php/hocke...aa_hockey_links) Update: When I started writing this, AZSIOUX's post didn't contain the link yet

For yesterday: N.D. House Bill 1393 put the name "Ralph Engelstad Arena" into the state Century Code, thus requiring legislation for any future change. Helping the Ralph stay the Ralph

17-3 at the half 1 04:09 SCSU 23yd FG 1 01:15 UND 11yd TD pass Freund to Caufield 2 12:09 UND 46yd FG 2 07:56 UND 30yd TD pass Freund to Trenbeath UND 38 plays/201 yds (63 rushing) SCSU 24 plays/148 yds (48 rushing) SCSU 1 fumble lost, 1 INT SCSU 4 pen/41yds, UND 2 pen/10yds UND 19:15 / SCSU 10:45

OT: This thread just passed half a million views. Wow.

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It's working for me, but REALLY quiet. Since I'm on a laptop, I can't do anything about it (I've got it cranked). I guess next time I try it on a computer connected to speakers. Still, I'm excited about the prospect.

Hat tip to UND92,96 for pointing this out over in the football forum -- it looks like the Coaches' Show will finally be available on the Internet. It's available as of now in real-time, and a listen later (podcast) option will be added later. Fighting Sioux coaches' radio show begins tonight Those of us not in the G.F. radio market will finally have the option to hear the show. Thanks UND!

1-3-98 UND men's hockey beat Western Michigan 5-1, completing the weekend sweep. UND holds a 4-0 all-time record vs. the Broncos, with an astounding 28 GF and 12 GA.

Though I feel like I post the "everyone's reading what you write, be careful" caveat at least every six months, I'll choose to be happy that others are taking up the mantle, because it's an important message. Watch what you say, because thousands of people are reading (Dec 2002). Having GDM or me actually delete a post or even suspend an individual is really a last resort -- community enforcement of its own standards is better for everyone. While we've put forth a sizable effort to write up some guidelines, they can really be summarized as: It's a timely post for this forum, as the scrutiny that has typically been reserved for hockey at UND will shine more and more on other sports as they move up to D-I.

1-3-99 UND lost to the other UND in hockey, 3-4. Source: 1998-99 schedule Perhaps surprisingly, UND has an all-time 15-16-1 losing record to ND.

The refresh matches the style the blog & wiki have had for a few weeks, front will have it soon. Cleaner lines, packing more into each page, but better use of white space, new color palette, etc... There's a lot more thought and theory behind it, but too much for this thread. Anyway... nice to see the offense find its groove. Good first game, fun to be able to see the video, happy to see openers like this instead of Crookston or even Humboldt, record first game attendance.

This link does it automatically for me (I couldn't get it to work by selecting it from the menu on the fightingsioux page). It uses Windows Media, so you have to be on a PC (it may work with the older Windows Media on Mac, I haven't tested that yet this year). I think it also requires Adobe Flash, now. If you're on Firefox, you probably need the Windows Media plugin for Firefox -- test in IE if you're not sure.

Hello, Paul?

Nice to see something that was a little drive, too (instead of one big play, like the Javelinas TD). 8 play, 41 yd, 3:37

Sioux broadcast (reg. required) It's on 96.1 in G.F., but I don't immediately see a link to listen directly to that on the net. I'm not really getting much of anywhere with TAMUK's broadcast, either.

More opponent scouting... Javs geared up for season opener Caller-Times A&M-K hoping it's finally found a little stability under center Caller-Times Javs ready to win again Caller-Times