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And these 8 players will be punished with a fine and probation if they are convicted. Did Ralph get suspended from Attending one or two of his Nazi parties in additon to his fine and probation? Hakstol finally suspended his star player for one game of a series after a second arrest in the same year for getting in a fight in an elevator. I don't think UND coaches have a corner on the disciplne market. One game out of 40 or 50 is not real harsh.

I think the whole team speed argument is overrated. I've heard that for the last 8 years since NDSU made the jump to 1-AA and I don't think they have ever been overmatched in team speed. Maybe if they played App State, but not by any MVFC, Big Sky or even any FBS team they have palyed so far. There may be a slight difference, but not enough to make THE difference.

I agree it would be embarassing for NDSU to lose to UND. But NDSU has NOT had this game circled since the start of this year. It means more to the fans than the team. If you would give Philips the option of trading a win over UND with a win a week ago at Oral Roberts he would jump at the chance to make that trade. I do believe that UND may have had this game circled on their calendar since last years game.

It boils down to which NDSU team show up. If both teams bring their best, it is still a double digit NDSU win. If NDSU doesn't show up, UND has a shot. It means a lot more to UND than NDSU. If you were to tell Brian Jones UND could win one more game this season he would pick this one. If you told Saul Philips NDSU could win one more game this WEEK, he would say SDSU on Saturday.

Kind of like Sioux fans were ripping Southern Utah a year ago? Now they are the second coming of Duke since they are joining the Big Sky. They were worse than Mayville State when they were in the Summit.

UND is better on paper? NDSU has at least 4 players on its roster that I wouldn't trade for anyone on the UND roster (Lawrence Alexander, Taylor Braun, Marshall Bjorklund and Mike Felt). I'm not saying NDSU will win since anything can happen in any given game, but on paper talent wise it should be a 15 to 20 point NDSU win. Huff appears to be a very good athlete but not a great basketball player yet.

I work with a huge Sioux hockey fan who said he was listening to the Sioux/Gopher post games this year and he said Henessey was stalling and taking extra breaks waiting for Hakstol to come up for an interview until finally saying it must be too much of a hike for him to get up to the press box and going off the air without talking to him. He said it happens often. Maybe not after every loss, but quite often. I have no reason to doubt him.

Can someone tell me the last time a media personality in GF (Sweeney, Nelson, Miller, Schlossman, et al) have said a bad word or questioned anything a UND team or caoch has done? Your hockey coach won't do an interview after a loss and nobody says a thing about it. I can guarantee you Bohl or Phillips would be taken to the woodshed if they did that.

Don't confuse The Sic with facts.

Just wondering if your sources are coaches, athletic directors, administrators, or someone else? Why should everything that comes out of your mouth through your posts be taken as gospel? Why are you more reliable than a newspaper reporter? My guess is you are somewhat more biased than than a reporter. People on this site always talk about Bison fans saying that if a kid signs with UND that NDSU never offered or didn't want him. I don't agree as I know they offered Molberg and he is going to UND (congrats on that get). Now it sounds like you, who appears to know all about UND, seems to think UND can't lose a kid to NDSU.

Saul Phillips was on the radio in the last week and he said it will be continuing as an every year game alternating between Fargo and Grand Forks. I'm sure the date for next year won't come out until late summer or early fall. He was asked about a home and home every year like UND and SDSU did this year and he didn't think that would happen unless they were in the same conference in the future.

So do UND coaches tell you about every offer they extend to a recruit? Was the Woods kid lying when he told the Forum in Saturday's paper that UND coaches visited him and said they would match any offer that NDSU had given him?

What did Hardee state in an interview?

Yes, recruiting is going great. When is the last time a ND kid that both schools recruited went to UND? Even this year with the playing field supposedly leveled with the Big Sky coming next year and the transition over, the top two ND kids have verbaled to NDSU. For being the "Flagship" school in ND, UND sure seems to have trouble getting the best ND kids in their program.

D1 schools losing to D2 schools in basketball exhibitions every year, at the low-major, mid-major and even high major levels. Guess which school is going to be more excited to play the game and which one it means more to? I guess we will find out more in January when the 2 teams play each other.

NDSU just got a verbal tonight from a back from Milwaukee (Marcus Horne). He had offers from all but 2 of the MAC teams and was starting to get strong interest from several Big Ten schools. Had 3 Preferred walk on offers from the Big Ten. He was apparently at the UNI game this weekend and verballed right after the game. I saw several recruits on the field before the game. If a recruit visits the Fargodome on a game day and the Alerus on a game day, which do you suppose he will be more impressed with?

Does Boise State have other sports other than football?

I don't see a change coming soon if the sentiments of UND's Associate AD and radio announcer Sean Johnson is any indication. I was in the car and heard his post game interviews with some players and listening to him and the players, it sounded like they played a great game and were pretty pleased with their play. I was surprised to hear the final score. I figured it had to be a Sioux win or at least a close game. I didn't hear Mussman inteviewed after the game, so I don't know how he sounded.

This match was UND's "match of the year". Even Hardee said after the match that they have been waiting a year for this match. It meant MUCH more to UND than it did to NDSU. It was horrible scheduling on NDSU's part to play this match right before a weekend series at home against a top 20 team. UND has nothing to play for except the NDSU game and the reaction of the Sioux players abnd coaches afterward showed it. It looked like they had just won the Super Bowl. They have no NCAA tournament to play for. If you asked UND players and Coach Hardee what their biggest match of the season would be this year, they would have said to a man NDSU. The same could not be said about the importance of the match to NDSU. NDSU would tell you the Summit League and the conference tournament is by far more important than the UND match.

If you are talking hostile environments, I don't think Idaho or Northern Illinois were any more hostile than a MVFC road game.

I would disagree with that. NDSU played a lot of road games in their transition as part of home and home series. They played at Georgia Southern, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston State, Northwestern State, Nichols State, Weber State, Montana State, etc. along with the FBS schools (which they are 4 and 3 against, 2 and 2 against BSC schools). Some of those schools backed out of their end of the home and home, but NDSU played at all of them. It just appears that in their last year of the transition, UND would rather schedule 3 NAIA schools than try for some home and homes against some FCS schools. Look at NDSU's schedule in their final year of transition and then look at UND's this year, then tell me which is tougher.

You won't get a much better shot at an FBS win than this one. They just lost to a very bad MAC team. Idaho would be 14 point dogs to any top 10 FCS team. Or at least should be.

Actually, Sioux Falls can't beat an average (Washburn) Div 2 team.

Maybe you should get a muzzle for your hockey coach and take his computer away. He is as much responsible for the new law as anybody. I don't think a challenge to the law by the SBoHE is going to make the the controversy go away very soon, as there will still be a question as to how it will end up. And don't expect a special session to be called just to address the nickname issue. That would be seen as a major waste of taxpayers money.

If USD had come in with UND, I don't believe the Big Sky presidents would be threatening the deny UND's membership. It's not necessarily that they didn't want UND, but they wanted a package deal of USD/UND. When that didn't happen, they would prefer to have neither. Just my opinion, just like most on this site seem to think UND is a dream fit for the Big Sky. The truth may lie somewhere in between, but if you took another vote of the presidents today knowing it is just UND with no USD, I don't think they get in.