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At least they got an all expensed paid trip to San Diego. UND got to plaÿ a meaningless game no one cared about, throw 40 grand down the toilet, and make their players stay in Grand Forks over spring break. Sounds like IPFW got the better deal.

Cost of living is a lot lower in Grand Forks

UND has the best Mid Major Freshman and the Mid Major player of the year and NDSU beat them in Grand Forks. Sounds like a pretty good coaching job to me.

Not defending any player. Just think if you are voting for the better player who they play for shouldn't come into play. I would vote for Daum over any NDSU freshman also because he is clearly better. Why not vote for Jones for Mid Major coach of the year. He isn't the best coach but he does coach at UND. Shouldn't you vote for him? This is after all a UND fan site.

Then maybe this should be in the Fire Jones thread. If you have the best freshman and the best player in the country and end up 18-15(or whatever it is) playing a Big Sky schedule, you are GREATLY underachieving.

Faison has FCOA and continued high travel costs to worry about. He knows he can't find a competent HC for $100,000 a year. As long as Jones has a respectable record (around .500) he will keep him. My guess is he is saving at least $200,000 a year with the salary total of his Mens BB staff compared to other D1 staffs in the region. He would have to come up with that difference with a new staff. He won't do it unless he is forced to.

But UND will be the only ND team to play post season basketball for the 5th (or however many it has been) year in a row. That is something for Jones to hang his hat on.

That is how you get 8 KC Royals starting in an All Star game and the rules have to be changed. It is just a stupid when NDSU fans encourage going on some ESPN website and voting for the best fan base/game experience or whatever the poll of the day is. Let the awards be given out by impartial writers or coaches. Not saying it is just a UND thing, just saying encouraging someone to vote for someone just because you are a fan of their team is wrong.

But Crandall doesn't deserve to beat Daum. Daum is by far a better and more valuable player than Crandall. Crandall averaged 10 pts, 4 rbs and shot 41% from the field and 30% from the 3-point range. Daum averaged 15 pts, 6 rbs and shot 56% from the field and 45% from 3. If you want to add FT's it is 82% to 73% in favor of Daum. Daum deserves to beat Crandall.

It tells he has already decided to drop down to an FCS BSC and he is trying to save face by hinting there is a chance the BSC will go FBS. He is the first AD to drop his FB program from FBS to FCS and he has to give his FB fans (as few as there actually are by the drop FB campaign) a glimmer of hope they won't be dropping down. The Deputy Commissioner of the BSC was on Kolpack and Izzo on Saturday and they asked him about BSC to FBS. He didn't make it sound like anything there are seriously looking at. He made it sound like more of a pipe dream by a few than a movement by the masses.

They will drop down to FCS in the Big Sky and keep football. If they and the BSC ends up moving to the 2nd tier (currently the G5 of the FBS) of college football, it will be at the same time as a major College Football realignment when the top 4 or 5 FCS conferences in the country will move up at the same time. This whole BSC to the FBS as it currently exists is just a bunch of BS from SV. Having Idaho in the BSC gives them zero advantage over the MVFC. And both conferences have equal numbers of teams that are both capable and incapable of making the move to the FBS in it's current form. If the rules are changed by the NCAA, it will open up the road for all FCS conferences to make the move, not just the BSC.They won't all make the move, but they will all have an equal chance to meet the new requirements. They aren't going to write new rules to allow only one conference to qualify as SV would have you believe.

Yes, and when the NCAA and other FBS presidents see they are losing the football powerhouse Idaho, the first move they will make is call an emergency session to change the rules and do anything they can to keep them FBS. One FBS president was quoted as saying "If they can't compete at the FBS level, lets create an FBS conference they can compete in".

NFL scouts are looking for talent not facilities. So to answer your question, it will never happen. It may host a UND pro day, and it most likely will someday, but it won't host the only pro day in ND.

According to NFPOST.COM. it is up to the host school to allow the other schools players to attend. An interesting part of the pro days at the major schools is that there may be kids from the smaller schools in that state also working out. With so many workouts scheduled in such a short period of time it has become very difficult to get to many of the small schools. For this reason, the NFL allows players from lower level schools to work out at the large schools within that state. For example, a player from Eastern Illinois or Western Illinois can work out at the Northwestern or Illinois pro day. At the same time, a player from Northwestern cannot workout at Illinois’ pro day. The large school has to agree to let the small school players work out but in most cases it’s not a problem. Often the small school prospects work out after the major school prospects are done. It makes for a long day for scouts but it gives the clubs valuable information as well as saving valuable time. It’s also a value to the smaller school prospects because the small school may not have the indoor facilities that many of the major schools have. With this, the player gets to work out under very good conditions. As it says, it is usually not a problem, but it does look like the host school has the final say.

#buttidaho... You are forgetting the BSC has the Idaho wildcard in their pocket. They are their magic ticket to the FBS. Never mind that the Big Sky schools can't even afford FCOA much less 22 more scholarships.

I didn't think I said UND football was in the toilet now or wil be in the future. All I was saying is the when UND fans are saying they won't be caught off guard and affected by the Fargodome atmosphere the next time they play the is not true. None of the players in 2019 will have played there before and you can't prepare them without actually having been there before. And 2019 is the next time the are scheduled to play. Anytime before that is very speculative, even if both make the playoffs. I will take that bet if anyone wants it. Not that UND doesn't make the playoffs, because I think they will, but that they won't meet in the playoffs before 2019?

The next time they play them there will be nobody on the UND roster that will have played in that atmosphere before. They won't be anymore prepared than this year. The staff has played in the Fargodome before but they couldn't seem to get the players prepared for it this year, so why will 2019 be any different? They will think it will be no different than playing in the Alerus, Walkup Skydome or Idaho's dome.

Thanks for listening though. Surprising a UND fan would listen to a program about NDSU FB recruits. I thought UND fans were above that and it is only degenerative NDSU fans that paid attention to the others program.

They list Brooks 15 lbs lighter than JJ, but I don't think there is that much difference. He is a back that doesn't shy away from contact and will run over you like JJ will. I don't know how happy he will be if he is just a short yardage back behind 2 sophomores. Agian, I am not saying it is going to happen and I knew he wasn't going anywhere at semester break. i know he will be going through spring ball, but I don't think the Gopher staff sees a future for him at RB. Personally, I think he would make a hell of a LB.

Just heard from a friend of the family that he may be thinking about it. The U went with another true freshman RB this year (Brooks) who is similar to Johannesson. The U of M staff may want him to play LB and he really wants to be a RB. Also, Kill and his OC aare no longer with the program. I don't expect anything to happen until after spring ball, if ever. I don't think it is even a 50/50 chance. There is a better chance he sticks it out with the U, but there is a chance.

I have no info, but Bisonation is usually pretty accurate. According to Dom Izzo, NDSU has very limited scholarship money available this year. They have 15 scholly commits and 12 PWO's. I think they may be saving one for Johannesson from South. It sounds like he may be thinking about transferring from the U of Minn.

According to Bisonation, he is a PWO at NDSU also.

I for one am pulling for Caggiula and Boeser to have great NHL careers. I hope Ratelle gets a shot at an NFL roster and hope he makes it. They all seem like good kids. I don't know why most of you can't see Wentz's talent and pull for him to have a good NFL career.

But that is only because all of the other QB's coming out this year suck, so in comparison, Wentz looks good. I'm sure if you ask Cratter or Darrell, if Studsrud was coming out this year he would be the Belle of the Ball too. If this was a good year for QB's, Wentz wouldn't have the size, intelligence, and leadership qualities NFL teams are looking for nd his arm wouldn't be a strong or accurate. Believe it or not, NFL scouts know what they are looking for in a QB. There have actually been down years for QB's when none have been selected in the 1st round and other years when the first QB has gone in the latter half of the 1st round.

He made a throw on the sidelines 15 yards downfield frow the opposite hash on a line right on the money in a tight window in the only place it could have been placed and his receiver dropped it. That was a throw not many QB's at any level can make. That is why scouts are drooling over him. Maybe you should ask one of your better defensive players that was actually on the field with Wentz this year about his opinion about Wentz. Cole Reyes came away from that game pretty impressed with Wentz if I remember correctly. Or maybe you put more trust in Cratters unbiased opinion than someone that actually plays the game and has some football knowledge.