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We always give the NSIC teams grief about playing a weak schedule. You guys didn't play a single ranked team all year. Not one. If "crap schedule" isn't politically correct, what would you call that kind of schedule? It's not your fault that besides GVSU, the GLIAC blows, but face it--the past two years it has. Those are simply the facts. You don't have to like them. My definition of a weak conference is one in which the second-best team in that conference can't win a home game against notoriously poor road team USD (as Northwood failed to do last year).

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I'm telling ya, if you want to go to a power running game, this is your guy. According to the depth chart on the last game notes, he's actually 220, and he's pretty fast, too. 1,700-plus yards rushing as a senior on GFC's state title winning team a couple of years ago.

Hopefully the Sioux can shut these guys up, but if not, I'm going to become a UNO fan for the first time in my life. I'm tired of GVSU, and I'm tired of their crap schedule making it all but impossible for us to get homefield against them.

I just looked at their season stats, and somewhat surprisingly, they're giving up 157 yards rushing per game, compared to just 132 yards passing. Of course, it's probably tough to know how much those numbers really mean given the relatively weak competition they've played this year.

So much for that bright idea. If he's injured, it must have just happened this week as he was the offensive scout player of the week.

I alluded to this earlier, and acknowledging that it's unlikely, does anybody think any consideration at all is being given to lifting the red-shirt off Catlin Solum? Under normal circumstances, I'd say definitely no. However, this is not a normal situation with no playoff possibilities until 2012--after the current batch of red-shirts will presumably be done. It makes for a somewhat interesting decision (if you were convinced that neither Chappell nor Murray will be ready to play by Saturday). He's not Chappell, but he is very good.

I'm disappointed with Freund's omission, but I understand it. The thing about Miller is that although we all know he's a great player, he's neither a quarterback in the traditional sense of the word, nor did he have big numbers throwing, or really even rushing compared to last year. Nevertheless, Freund has had an incredible year with or without all conference recognition.

link Congrats to all the Sioux players who made it (Braegelmann, Dressler (3 "positions"!), Chappell, Cadwell, Meek, Alexander and Halfmann on first team; Troen, Ott, Stroup and Manke on second team).

IMO, if UND was going to have a "down" recruiting year, last year was going to be it. It turned out to be quite the contrary, as by most accounts that class appears to be very good. There will be some kids--particularly in ND and northwest Minnesota--that we'll lose to NDSU for a few more years due to the post season issue and the fact that they've gotten some very positive publicity in recent years due to some nice wins. But with Lennon in charge and an additional 21 scholarships (I think) for this recruiting year, I'm not worried in the least.

Lennon pretty much said it was too early to make any judgments on the severity of the injuries. Just like in 2003 when Lueck's status never was disclosed prior to the national championship game, I wouldn't expect to hear anything definitive this time around, either.

If Murray can't go, I think we'll see Dressler motioning in and out of the backfield even more than usual. Honestly, until the emergence of Chappell last year, I felt he was the best running back in the program for a couple of years. Not that he's going to get 20 carries or anything, but at least the threat of a big run will be there every time he lines up in the backfield. Also, let's keep in mind that last year UND had very little success running the ball against Grand Valley even with a healthy Chappell. To beat them, I think you have to do it through the air for the most part.

Top three, actually (Brady also). This is a good example of why getting one of the top two seeds and a bye in the first round is so crucial.

IMO, there's no way UND could realistically run the same offense and play Battle against GVSU. In order to have any chance to win, you'd almost have to either i) go empty backfield and throw on every down, a la Mankato and Duluth; ii) line up Dressler at running back; iii) move Ryan Kasowski to offense; or iv) take the red shirt off Solum (highly unlikely at this point). Great job by the defense today. I know Winona's offense isn't of the same caliber as UNO or USD, notwithstanding their regular season stats, but it was nice to see a running game completely shut down by the Sioux defense again.

Battle didn't play h.s. ball in Grand Forks. I believe he's actually from Massachusetts. Not sure how or why he ended up here. I'm pretty sure he's a walk-on.

Metro is a decent team, and will probably be in the regional. I guess I'm just used to the Sioux blowing out RMAC team at home, whether during the regular season or the post season. And UND was well on their way to a blowout before the last seven or eight minutes. There were certainly some bright spots last night with the play of Kimbrough and Langen, and some good things from Youngblut, Ledger, Seay and Guinn. I'd just like to see some more consistent perimeter scoring and better handling of the ball against pressure.

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I'm going to resist the urge to get too negative about this performance, but considering Adams was picked fifth (out of seven teams) in the RMAC west division, tonight's game may not bode well for UND's chances to show significant improvement upon last year's record.

I'm sure we'll get plenty of crap from some Bison fans about the attendance at the football game tomorrow, but on the bright side, the UND-Metro game outdrew the NDSU-Idaho game in Fargo by about 400. In the words of Carl Spackler "so we've got that going for us, which is nice."

Those Adams Atoms do play pretty good ball. Ogre is tough inside.

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I doubt it'll even be 6,000.

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Just not a very good performance tonight. No flow, no transition points, poor three-point shooting and just not enough offense from the perimeter players. Obviously the team is not at full strength right now and it's very early, but UND did not look like the number one team in the country tonight.