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According to Pat Sweeney on the 6:00 WDAZ sports, Blais won't be applying for the UND a.d. job.

Ashley Langen should pass Kristi Boese on Thursday to move into third-place on the all-time UND scoring list. She'll also likely pass Sheri Kleinsasser at some point during the conference season to move into second place behind Jenny Crouse.

According to the Eastview football website, he did commit to UNI.

It doesn't look like early round playoff games draw all that well at SIU, either. link.

Ryan Bakken blog.

I suppose it's difficult to compare teams at this point due to the varying degrees of schedule difficulty, but the NCC and the region as a whole look pretty tough this year. UND and Concordia-St. Paul are the only unbeatens, but Mankato, USD, UNO and Fort Lewis all have just one loss so far.

It's interesting that another former NCC coach--Beau Baldwin from Central Washington--just took the head coaching job at Eastern Washington, which like SIU was a FCS playoff team this past year. However, he'll "only" be making $100k, which is half of what Lennon is getting at SIU, and less than what Lennon was making at UND in dII (at least in terms of base salary).

Bubba's base salary at Duluth was $80,000. [url="http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=57401

Last night on the WDAZ sports, Mannausau and Belmore were interviewed, and it certainly seemed as though both were pleased with the hire and planned on staying.

So far, so good with recruits' response to the hire: (from a Dave Kolpack A.P. story)

Mitch Sutton and Tyrell Rosemeyer have also reportedly been offered.

Mussman could be named sometime after 4:30 P.M. today: [url="http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=62627

I believe Jones showed he's pretty strict given the length of Youmans' suspension last year for getting into a fight with a teammate. It sounds like young Mr. Callahan has some growing up to do.

I never actually saw the kid play, so it's hard to say. Based upon his high school accomplishments, I think he has a chance to be a player at SDSU, but I'm not sure I'd necessarily call this a huge loss, either. Time will tell, I guess.

UND press release on the Callahan departure from the program.

Kauker would never be mad at me. I went to Central!

I forgot to post last night that I'm reserving judgment as to the accuracy of the info until I get confirmation from Mark Kauk.

On the coaches' show tonight, Swyg said that Mussman will be named as Lennon's successor on Friday.

I guess this makes it official--Callahan's name has been removed from the roster. link

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Good points.

Nobody else internally will apply. And since the process apparently isn't going to be opened up to external applicants, I guess there won't be any more applicants, period.

Like Jon Heimler, it sounds like running back Bradie Ewing has both a scholarship offer from UND, and a preferred walk-on offer from Wisconsin. link