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I don't know whether this was linked earlier in this thread or not, but this Wayne Nelson blog more or less echoes my own feelings (scroll down to "Rough, rough night"): http://www.areavoices.com/waynenelson/

LaFrance's college basketball career is over: http://www.areavoices.com/waynenelson/ So if my math is correct, we now have either two or three available scholarships for next year, depending upon the Sharkova situation.

Bohl is probably feeling the heat, and had to throw somebody under the bus I guess. Ironically, isn't that what happened to him at Nebraska back in the day?

I figured somebody would misconstrue that post. To answer the questions--none of them, and I don't. I was just curious after reading through the lengthy thread from four years ago. Maybe I was the only one, or this wasn't the right thread to post the info. Sorry.

It doesn't merit its own thread, and I didn't know where else to post it, but I see NDSU defensive coordinator Mike Breske has "resigned": http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/arti...794/group/home/

Not sure whether this is of any interest to anyone, but the following is what became of the other three finalists for the UND job ultimately given to Brian Jones: Tom Brown--still associate head coach at Winona State. Randall Herbst--head coach at the University of Mary, after stops at Florida Southern and UNO. Steve Weemer--still a high school coach in Illinois.

If "crowds" of 640 become the norm, patience may be something Faison can't really afford to have a lot of.

It's really quite inexplicable that Jones didn't sign a true point guard, at least from the high school ranks, until last month. He was hired in June of 2006, and signed his first true point guard in November of 2009.

Unless it was a mis-print in the box score, last night's attendance was just 640. Last year's lowest attendance was a little over 1500.

We know full well how bad this is: http://forum.siouxsports.com/index.php?showtopic=13222

It will probably take a half hour or more to get all the way through it, but it's fascinating to read through this thread given what's going on now: http://forum.siouxsports.com/index.php?showtopic=5512 Sadly, I seem to have lost a lot of my passion for UND basketball since then.

73 Mayville St. 61 UND I have no comment.

Yes--111-27. And MSU-Moorhead beat them by 50 earlier this season.

That 2005 game still leaves a bad taste in my mouth for a couple of reasons. One, the turnovers at the worst possible time by one player in particular were absolute killers. And the other was, if memory serves, the apparent refusal to pay special attention to Chris Denney. Denney was really their only receiving threat, and yet he always seemed to be open in the fourth quarter.

Very true. Keep in mind also that there's something to be said for productivity even if a kid doesn't necessarily have blazing speed or a 40" vertical or can bench 225 pounds 20 times. I don't know anything about Carr, but Miller was extremely productive for probably the best high school program in North Dakota. He seems like the type of kid SDSU has been having a lot of success with lately. Given a choice between a kid with all the measurables but modest productivity, and a kid without great measurables but with great productivity, I'll take the latter most of the time. Given the already excellent performance of the class of 2008, and the rumored potential of the class of 2009, I can't second-guess Mussman as an evaluator of talent.

Cameron was both in high school, but I guess I don't know for certain whether it was contemplated that he would concentrate on punting at the college level. This is strictly a guess, but it wouldn't surprise me if Cameron punts and maybe kicks off, but Miller handles the extra points and field goals.

In addition to SDSU, there's another former UND opponent that recently moved up and is experiencing early success at the dI level. Remember Florida Gulf Coast, UND's opponent at the 2007 Elite 8? They went 26-5 last year, and made the WNIT. They're 4-2 so far this year. Sagarin has them at number 94 right now--10 spots below SDSU.

There will likely be a competition for the kicker job between Cameron and Zeb Miller.

As I've said before, we won't know for certain exactly where the team stands until they start playing Great West opponents. We're unfortunately quite overmatched against the most of the teams we've played so far, but perhaps not so much so against Great West teams. But regardless of the level of competition, the shooting has been poor, and that's probably largely a function of not having a low-post scorer and having to rely too much on outside shooting.

UND shot 11% from the field in the first half against WKU, and 21% for the game.

I don't know exactly what the problems are. I'm not as worried about the talent level as I am about getting the most out of whatever talent we do have. But I'm going to just sit back and watch how the rest of the season unfolds and refrain from making any further comments until then.

Good points. Basically, when you combine a slow-down, turnover-prone offense, poor shooting and an ineffective zone defense, it adds up to being number 341 out of 347 dI teams in the country.

Pioneer Press has come out with their all state team. Interesting that Crookston jr. LB Brody Davidson made the team, as you don't normally expect kids from not-especially-good teams from northwest MN to get a lot of recognition state-wide. Some of the names I'm especially interested in from this list are John Crockett from Totino-Grace, Shea Walker from Cretin (h.s. teammate of Kleason and Binns), and Matt Michaelson from Pequot Lakes.

I never expected miracles, but I did expect that Glas's successor would have us clearly better than teams like Bemidji State by his fourth year. We're not.

Pretty much every high school boy basketball player dreams of playing dI. For that reason, we should be in a good position to, at a minimum, get some of the best dII-caliber players around. I'm not sure we are. In fact, I think we'd finish in the bottom third of the NSIC right now. Yes, Jones didn't come in at a great time with the impending dI transition, but it's still his fourth year, and no apparent improvement has been shown. That's a concern IMO, particularly since he has no track record as a head coach anywhere else.