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It sounds like she was a good player, but she graduated from college just three years ago, and her W-L record in two years at Dakota Wesleyan was 23-62. Did the IUP coach withdraw from consideration? This may be the least experienced UND head coach since Maria Bruggeman went from being a grad assistant to head volleyball coach.

Andrea LaFrance had a nice performance in the first game of the Lions all-star series. link. Kirstie Gillett evidently struggled, going 1 for 9 from the field.

I assume the poster means Kamille Wahlin.

It sounds like the ladies are really on a mission for this season: [url="http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=44005

I can see we're not getting anywhere here, so I guess we'll simply agree to disagree.

Kevin Fee blog.

It's not really a completely black and white issue, because it depends on whether a school is at least relatively compliant to begin with. But I'd be willing to bet that an otherwise compliant school COULD drop a women's sport, along with a corresponding men's sport, so long as the net result, i.e. proportionality, doesn't change. Heck, a school could simply choose to drop athletics altogether and be perfectly Title IX compliant.

I don't claim to be a Title IX expert, but I think you're misunderstanding what Title IX requires. UND is no more required to have a softball program than NDSU is required to have a swimming program. Besides, like most schools UND uses the "proportionality" test rather than the "interests and abilities" test in order to judge Title IX compliance. Under my scenario, UND's Title IX compliance would be unaffected by a drop of both softball and baseball. Again, I'm not suggesting that this be done--merely that it could without violating Title IX.

Because UND is apparently sitting very well right now with regard to Title IX, I think it could (not saying it should) cut both baseball and softball and invest whatever scholarships softball currrently has into other women's sports such as swimming, track/cross country, soccer or tennis. I don't know if any of those sports are currently fully-funded, but presumably not all of them are. In other words, I believe you could cut a women's sport, so long as a corresponding men's sport is also cut, and not necessarily run afoul of Title IX.

No. She now lives in Florida.

Kind of an interesting local connection on this show as ex-UMC football player Nick Starcevic is a contestant. He's the brother of former UND football player Alex Starcevic.

Here's an interview with Gene Roebuck.

Don't get me wrong, I have great respect for what Terry Wanless accomplished at UND, and don't think he deserved to be forced out. With that said, through his first four years, his m.o. was apparently more of trying to balance the budget by making cuts rather than by increasing fundraising. Even Tom Clifford was quoted in the Bakken article as giving Wanless only lukewarm approval in terms of job performance in areas other than gender equity through his first four years:

Actually, no. From the October 1994 Bakken article I mentioned above: The issue about Buning I'm most curious about is exactly how fundraising is going. I don't know that answer, but obviously it's a very important one.

I found this article, and it's an interesting read, particularly given what appears to be going on now at UND. In any event, I think it's worth the $2.95 it costs to download it from the Herald website. It's from October of 1994, and was written by Ryan Bakken, in case anybody wants to look for it.

I gave an example of something he said, which was reported in the media, as an example of why I don't particularly like the man. I've also exchanged e-mails with him, which didn't serve to make me change my opinion. That's the best I can do without using second and third-hand accounts, and I'm not going to do that on a message board. Frankly, I'm starting to think that chastising and defending him on this board are an equal waste of time.

I have no problem, even in retrospect, with the fact that Smith didn't get the UND job. Sure, I think he warranted an interview, but such is life. What I did have a problem with was the a.d.'s above-referenced comments, which came after a process that gave us a less-than-stellar list of finalists (Jones did end up being a good hire IMO, though). I believe you yourself even posted something to the effect that "this was a dII list." I just don't care for Buning's propensity for speaking first, thinking about the consequences later.

I would think so. I believe this has something to do with the 10-semester rule which often results in a dII player being around for six years, e.g. Jeff Glas, even though he never really had an injury that would have given him a medical red-shirt. However, I believe it's a different rule in dI, so Freund probably won't have eligibility beyond the 2008 season. I'm sure somebody has a better grasp of this situation than I do, but I believe that UND's move to division I could result in some players--such as Freund in football and Daniel Harkins in basketball--getting one fewer year of eligibility than what they would have had if UND were staying dII.

I'm not sure how long ago this was posted on www.fightingsioux.com, but I just noticed this 2007 Sioux football prospectus. link

Not surprisingly, the MPO's projection of the GF population is higher than that of the census. link.

Ashley Privatsky, a guard from Devils Lake, and Jenna Gillett, a post from Dakota Prairie, have verbally committed and will presumably sign this fall.

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My two cents is this--if Joe Alumni tries to put pressure on an a.d. to retain a once-successful coach whose time has clearly passed, that's a good example of somebody attempting to exert influence in a foolish manner. I believe that has happened at UND in the past, and obviously the a.d. turned out to be correct in his eventual decision. With that said, obviously that's not to say that a.d.'s don't sometimes make mistakes in the way they deal with current and potential donors. I just don't necessarily buy the argument that such complaints can be explained away by labeling the complainants as part of a "good ole boys" club. As an example, I (and many others) didn't really appreciate the comments by Mr. Buning during the men's basketball hiring process when he responded to questions about the required qualifications which all-but-eliminated all local candidates: Disagreement is fine, but it seems rather foolish for an a.d. to make condescending remarks like that.

I think the key word is "if." Who exactly is contending that there is a problem at UND in this regard? Personally, I don't think there is.