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44 minutes ago, SWSiouxMN said:
He can't have a worse shot that Seales had from outside.
Probably not. And he looks like an athletic player. But if you don't have at least a more than 50/50 shot at hitting an open jumper, your effectiveness as a D1 player is diminished. You can offset that by having 4 other offensive minded players on the court at the same time, I don't know if UND has that, but if they do he would be a very good addition as a slasher/defensive specialist.
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22 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:
NDSU is at the point of major embarrassment. They have won more FCS championships than anyone, but no G5 conference interest exists. They need to go FBS and my plan lays it out.
You are right as always. Damned embarrassing to win 7 of 8 titles and beat every FBS with enough guts to schedule you. And I wouldn't be so sure UND will be following NDSU into an FBS conference if they ever get the opportunity to join one, like the MWC. If they want two teams, my guess their first choice to join NDSU would be SDSU, not UND. But we all know you know better than the rest of us. You haven't been wrong yet...
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4 hours ago, sioux24/7 said:
I think all but one of his plays from the highlights in the article was a layup or dunk.
When a player says his shot is a work in progress that would be a bit concerning.
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1 minute ago, SiouxVolley said:
Speaking from the 7-0 foot Jordan Meidinger experience?
I don't think they offered him that early and I never thought he was worthy of a scholarship. You can look back and I always thought RIchman definitely offered the wrong Dickinson kid. I still wish he would have offered Moody.
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On 6/8/2019 at 4:50 PM, Dale said:
Santiago was cut today and did not get placed on the practice squad.
I get why Santiago would want to get on a CFL practice squad. You don't make any money but you keep your dream alive. I see John Crockett was cut from Ottawa but make their practice squad. I really don't get why someone who is 3 or 4 years out of college and had a taste of the NFL would try to hang on with very little chance of getting back to the NFL.
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1 minute ago, SiouxFan100 said:
All of a sudden it appears we have have all sorts of good recruiting options
what changed??
The kids from Enderlin just finished their freshman seasons. You might want to pump the brakes on them a bit. I am not saying they may not be good in the future, but they are very young playing against class B kids a half a foot shorter than them and they weren't exactly dominating. Again, they may wind up being good D1 players, but I think it is way too early to be offering them scholarships.
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15 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
SiouxVolley will also be on QVC later this week trying to sell "medical" leaches, reiki crystals and sharp knives for at home bloodletting..........
He will also be peddling the very rare and extremely accurate “SiouxVolley crystal ball”. The predictions are guaranteed to come true, even if nobody alive today will be around to see it.
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On 6/6/2019 at 11:24 PM, SiouxVolley said:
nd1sufan with an entirely inaccurate portrayal of Williston’s growth. I was talking decades and those trolls only consider years.
Edmonton had under Williston’s 2010 population in 1910. Now it is 920;000 just in the city.
Trolls not understanding compound growth over generations again.
if it gets a chemical industry, which is more and likely, Williston will get a big lift in growth.
Housing prices are at sticker shock level for a ND town and the economic driver for the city is already overwhelming.
Well, I think you said in your 2014 posts that in 10 - 15 years Williston would be in the 400,000 range. Since then in 5 years, WIlliston has actually lost population. And even though oil prices are down, April was very close to a record of oil production in ND. Williston could double in the next 5 years (which won't happen) and still lose ground to Fargo.
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2 minutes ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:
Would be good for SU if they seen some of that down the road? The potential is there.
They reportedly have half of the $37,5 Million raised for the practice facility. A couple of phone calls to Mr. Wentz and Mr. Turner may close that gap.
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On 6/14/2014 at 8:15 PM, SiouxVolley said:
http://seekingalpha....ly-a-lot-bigger
Interesting talk about the Bakken getting bigger. The Three Forks is Divide and Burke Counties, as well as in Saskatchewan (called Torquay there) may be gaining a lot of attention. The middle Bakken in Divide and Burke is rather marginal economically, but the Three Forks may be huge there. The middle Bakken in Saskatchewan is productive only because it is cheaper to drill at only about 3000 ft rather than 10,000 ft around Williston. The Three Forks can change to whole equation in northern counties, NE Montana, and SE Saskatchewan.
A couple months ago, saw figures that predicted 140,000 wells and Williston with 150,000 people. Those could easily be larger if this is proven out. Crosby could be like Watford City, growing to 20,000 people.
On 4/28/2014 at 7:41 PM, SiouxVolley said:North Dakota may end up with six metro areas with more than 50,000 people. I guess Fargo won't take over the state as NDSU people have been spouting about.
SiouxVolley with another of his incredibly accurate predictions. The Fargo Metro has added just about 20,000 people since these posts, almost as much as todays population of Williston,
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Not a bad contract extension for Mr. Wentz. 4 years at $32 million a year with $107 Million guaranteed.
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2 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:
I don’t know who the next one will be but what I do know is that su will claim they didn’t want him.
So far there has been one D1 commit from ND that both schools have offered...
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4 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
Don’t worry, we don’t.
Not worried, Just wondering who will be the next number 1 recruit in the state this year. First Lotysz, now Klein. Who will the next North Dakotan be to commit to UND and claim the "best player in the State" title.
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55 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Stand by what I said. He was not a D1 BB player last year. Maybe in a 3 years but he literally never played on a sh#tty team.
Have to agree. He may have been extremely athletic but had no obvious basketball skills. He also needed to add at least 30 to 40 pounds to be a D1 BB player. Wouldn't be surprised if Sather didn't try very hard to retain him,
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2 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
No, once again that's Dom "who else offered" & "breaking academic failures" Izzo.
No, every time UND gets a commit Miller will put any other offers the kid may have had in his story.
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7 hours ago, Sioux94 said:
This must be fake news. There is no way a kid would pick UND over NDSU, I'll give it about an hour or so before we get an NDSU poster to post how they didn't really want him or only offered half a scholarship etc..
Go Hawks!
Trust me, if NDSU even had interest in him Miller would have put "he chose UND over interest from NDSU" in his story.
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1 minute ago, geaux_sioux said:
Tom likes to have the facts in order before jumping out with a story, otherwise he would have written a bomb of a piece about your FB and Clean Victory.
Yep, everybody at NDSU is roided up, just like Bakken claimed in the 80's. I guess when you can't beat them you just cry "cheaters". One positive test for a substance in a supplement in hundreds if not thousands of tests in the championship run and they are all cheaters.
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22 minutes ago, Siouxperman8 said:
I don't understand the criticism of Bubba and staff for not setting Weah and others up for success when you have no idea what was done for them.
I don't know all the details but I do know they provide a lot of academic support for the players and have for many years. I don't think playing in 2-4 games really took him away from his studies. As was stated on here earlier - having something to strive for athletically motivates a lot of kids to do their school work. At some point students have to do the work - nobody can do it for them. Unless it is the Gopher basketball team of the Clem Haskins era.
No, playing 2-4 games wouldn't have made a difference if he was also practicing all year. But with his issues coming in, and they were issue the staff was aware of, It may have been best to keep him away from all football activities and concentrate only on getting his studies and study habit in order for the first year, It may have saved him a year of eligibility by being able to be academically this year. He may have been a little behind football wise, but he could have made that up in the spring and this fall.
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17 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
They aren’t pussy whipped by the coaches like Dom and Jeff.
When is the last time they criticized a UND team or coach? Especially Nelson. And why did Izzo have to "break" the Weah story? Where were Nelson and Miller? I can guarantee you somebody called Izzo and tipped him off. My guess is Miller and Nelson had heard from someone also.
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13 hours ago, Mama Sue said:
He will probably get an award from someone or some group for his top notch reporting....
Not everybody can be as hard on the hometown program as Tom Miller and Wayne Nelson... They are truly pit bulls...
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On 5/27/2019 at 8:59 AM, homer said:
If only Izzo was consistent in his reporting with “all athletes with Fargo ties” the publicity would not have been an issue you would have to be so concerned about.
UND’s staff has done a great job supplying the kid with resources to succeed. It’s up to him this summer to figure it all out.
So if the Satter kid is academically ineligible Izzo will not report it? OK
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On 5/25/2019 at 9:01 AM, UND1983 said:
You seem genuinely excited about it. A flurry of posts suddenly out of nowhere. Congrats on celebrating a kids misfortune you ^%$' loser.
Not celebrating anybody failing. I hope the UND360 guys are right and he comes back and gets is academics in order and succeeds. I just think in the long run it would have been better for the kid if the staff had told him he needed to concentrate strictly on academics his first year to get him on the correct path to getting an education and a degree. It would have saved the kid the publicity and a year of eligibility. And I know in this case all of the warning signs were very evident.
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14 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:
I wonder how this can be a surprise to our coaches.
I assume grades are being monitored and steps taken to prevent this. Knowing coaches can only do so much - the athletic has to perform on and off the field
the athlete needs to keep their act together
It is partially on the coaches in the recruiting process. I live in Moorhead and heard that the NDSU staff thought he may be one of the kids like Marcus Williams and Crockett that come to college and focus ONLY on academics for a year (like WIlliams) or even two years (like Crockett). It may have been in both the program and Weah's best interest to redshirt him last year, not even practice, and get his grades in line and him used to college life. Easier to do when the kid agrees to it, and maybe Weah wouldn't agree to it.
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3 minutes ago, UND Fan said:
GRAND FORKS - University of North Dakota freshman running back Otis Weah is off of the football team and his return to the roster is unknown.
The former Moorhead Spud has been ruled academically ineligible according to two sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Weah's status at the university is in doubt because of his academic standing.
Weah had a tremendous spring for the Fighting Hawks and was being looked at as a potential feature back for UND for this upcoming season.. He played in four games in 2018, carrying the ball five times for 28 yards and scoring one touchdown. The four games was the maximum for a player to play in to maintain a redshirt and have four years of eligibility.
This is from Izzo's story. I haven't seen anyone confirm it other than him.
Conference Realignments - Take 2
in NCAA News
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I don't think Matt Larsen is embarrassed about not getting an invite to an FBS conference, but maybe you know him more personally than I do. Conferences and school presidents do what is in the best interests of their entities. There may be some monetary reasons and concerns about the competitiveness of NDSU when weighing possible membership. I guess the UND AD and President must have been extremely embarrassed when the Big 10 schools split from their conferences in hockey and invited an associate member and it wasn't UND. How embarrassing for the supposed top program in college hockey.