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Fortunately nobody actually listened to it aside from about a dozen people in Finland, Portugal and Poland.

All too well.

I think it would be fine to bring in a quarterback to compete with Jerry, but I feel like the odds of a new OC/QB coach fixing whatever was wrong with him in the second half of the season are much higher than finding a clearly better quarterback in the portal. I fully expect that Jerry will be the starter, and Sulik the likely backup. I did a little checking on transfer quarterbacks UND has brought in over the years. The rosters on the UND athletics only go back to 2003, but since that time I counted nine QB transfers. Braden Hanson obviously worked out in the one season he was here. Nate Ketteringham had his moments. The rest played either sparingly, or not at all, and generally only lasted a season or two on the roster before transferring out.

I would add Devereaux to the list of "must keeps".

Being the head coach of three different division I schools in three years is pretty unbelievable. Regardless of the money, that's a bad, bad look for Rogers. It will also presumably mean four schools in four years for Freund regardless of where he ends up.

I'm certainly not saying Hutter is the greatest coach who ever lived, but Dawn Staley couldn't win with this roster. Nobody is going to X and O their way out of this. We need some more players who can play at this level, regardless of what system is used.

I think Hutter's mistake was allowing ALL of the players who didn't make the choice to enter the portal come back. He knew some either absolutely couldn't play at this level, or didn't fit the system he wants to run. He gambled that the players he could bring in with the roughly six scholarships he had to work with would be enough, along Demers and Aumer, to be a pretty competitive team. Anything he got from the other returnees was a nice bonus (and at least of late he's getting that from Volmer). But then Klosterbuer got hurt right away, and a few of other newcomers haven't played as well as hoped, at least so far. So now we are where we are, and last night looked even worse than normal with Demers out with an illness. He absolutely needs to add, at a minimum, an experienced point guard to replace Hughes and another 6'2-6'3" player who can play the 4 or 5 for next season. Without some players leaving that's not going to be possible, so either he makes the tough decisions, or else we're likely in for more of the same, if not worse, next season.

Unless there was a last minute offer from Iowa State or Iowa, I have to think Headings is still going to sign with UND. He was listed in an article from the Des Moines Register this morning as a UND commit and expected to sign today.

Harris is still playing in the Texas playoffs, and there's nothing on his twitter feed suggesting that he's flipped or even taken any other visits since committing to UND. I have to think he may still be signing today.

I believe it's a prep school affiliated with West Point. He has all four years left.

I don't see Carter Harris from Texas, either.

I would seriously consider using a guy like Erick Paye as a Quincy Vaughn-type short yardage QB. Anybody who ever watched him hoop knows what kind of an athlete he is, and he's up to 250 pounds now.

Doesn’t appear that Tech played any other playoff teams this season?

I think he actually makes more money than Tupac did. But if UND were going to pay at a level more commensurate with what it's going to take to be competitive in volleyball, I think he'd be an excellent candidate.

Time to start another coaching search. Tupac is out.

O.K., I think we were just talking about two different things. I was looking at it more from the standpoint of the fact that towns in Minnesota in that 50,000 to 80,000 range typically seem to just have one public high school, whereas that's not the case in North Dakota. The hypothetical of one school in GF, let alone adding in EGF, is an interesting conversation in terms of hockey, but I think we all realize it's never going to happen.

I think he'll play some against teams with a true 5. I'm just not sure how many of them there are anymore. I could be wrong, though.

That's undoubtedly true, but isn't that the case in Moorhead right now? Not to say it's right or wrong, I'm just curious if that's something many people complain about there? Or maybe people just know the deal, and kids go to Shanley, for example, if there's a question about whether they're going to make the team for Moorhead?

Assuming there's a new coach next season, I just hope it's either an NSIC head coach, or a Big 10 assistant with ties to the upper midwest. There are enough good players within an eight hour drive of Grand Forks to field a competitive team year in and year out. I just don't think the coaches since Hardee have believed that, and we've seen the results. Minnesota is considered one of the top states for high school volleyball. The next coach needs to recruit there much, much better.

I know others have made this point over the years, but it bears repeating--Moorhead's enrollment is roughly the same as Central and Red River combined. I assume that's why at the bantam level, the Grand Forks Aviators compete very favorably with all the usual MN powers, but at the high school level it's not quite the same because the talent gets split in Grand Forks, whereas it does not at the larger MN schools.

Anybody know why Micah didn't play last night? If Natsvlishvili can provide the kind of production he did last night on a semi consistent basis (10 points, 7 boards), that would be outstanding. I think the rotation of Uelmen, King, Anderson, Marley, Guga, Micah, Kraft and Smith, by the end of the season, could be a pretty decent team.

Yes, she’s been at Concordia in Moorhead for awhile. Unfortunately, it’s not going great, at least in terms of wins and losses.

What is the story with the coach at Concordia-St. Paul? He's been there forever, and has won at an absurd rate. Does he just not want to go anywhere else? By the way, their best player Makenna Nold, the league MVP as a sophomore, is from Jamestown and has family ties to UND. Might have been smart to offer her.

Assuming no upsets in the MVFC this weekend, you are potentially going to have UND, USD, YSU and ISU-red all having basically the same record. UND beat YSU. YSU beat ISU-red. ISU-red beat USD. USD beat UND. So wouldn't that essentially cancel out head-to-head as a big factor in seeding MVFC teams other than NDSU? I believe that's what happened last year when seeding NDSU, SDSU and USD, because they were all 1-1 against the other two.

I agree, and am concerned about this happening. UND really needs to beat SDSU by more than USD did. We had much performances vs. NDSU and several other common opponents. I just hope Larsen's absence from the committee helps us in that regard, because you know we'd get no favors if he were still around.