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I'm listening to the coach's show right now on the radio, and it sounds like there were more injuries from the West Chester game than just Strouth. No other names were mentioned. Does anybody know of other players who may be out this week?

You are correct. I guess I just assumed he was a senior since you so rarely see a first team all-state sophomore offensive lineman.

No, but I can think of a lot of people who are up in arms about things JBB has said over the past several years. Seriously, I listened to the interview with Buning at halftime of the Central Washington game, and I didn't hear anything remotely derogatory about anyone or anything. I didn't have a radio with me at the game on Saturday, but if he was interviewed again, I highly doubt he'd have said anything un-diplomatic judging by what he's said in the media so far. To the best of my knowledge, archives of the radio broadcasts aren't available online.

A few more of the top ND seniors this year: Austin Richard, Fargo South, OL, 6'4", 305 Cole Zarak, Wahpeton, OL, 6'3", 285 Reggie Stecher, Bismarck St. Mary's, kicker Landon Smith, Dickinson Trinity, TE/LB (ex-Sioux Lee Smith's brother, I think) Michael Arndt, LaMoure, OL/DL, 6'6", 260 (brother plays for NDSU) Lee Vandal, Rolla-Rock Lake, LB, 6'0", 210 Adam Forsch, Washburn, OL/DL, 6'3", 240 Chris Bauer, New Salem, RB/DB, 5'10, 160

There must have been some sort of problem with the counting, since it wasn't reported in the box score or on the statistics page of www.fightingsioux.com. It looked like around 8500 to me.

It didn't look too promising for Strouth to be back anytime soon based upon the way he came off the field without putting any weight on his leg. I definitely think Beatty can do the job, if he can stay healthy. But if Strouth is out for an extended period of time, does that mean Armentrout or Brady get more carries, or might Dressler be shifted more to running back to fill the role Strouth did when Roland was the primary ball carrier, i.e. the lightning to go along with Beatty's thunder?

Last night was evidently a pretty terrible performance by Central. On paper, they should have had little trouble with an inexperienced Minot team, but of course games aren't played on paper.

According to a report on the WDAZ news tonight, the Spririt Lake tribal council delayed a vote on the resolution to oppose UND's use of the Fighting Sioux name until they can meet with Kupchella next week. According to the report, an informal vote was taken today, with two members voting to oppose UND's use of the name, and two voting not to oppose it. Presumably, the tribal chairperson would be the deciding vote. At least the door remains open to the Spirit Lake tribe offering some semblance of support for UND's continued use of the name and logo.

No, I don't typically read the Williston paper. But I will do a google news search almost daily for North Dakota football-related stories. It's a good way to read up on local angle stories from players' home town papers, as well as to get recruiting info. I thought the Hoffelt info was news-worthy since when his name was removed from the roster a few weeks ago, it appeared that perhaps his career was over.

Grand Forks Central's Alys Seay has verbally committed to UND. link

Although this isn't about Drew Thomas, it appears that another injured player, Andy Hoffelt, will be returning next season, according to this article in the Williston paper.

I haven't heard anything, but I would kind of expect that she'll take a red-shirt year. Hopefully, between Jahner (when she's not playing the point), Guinn, Beck and Bagaason, the wing positions should still be pretty solid.

Here it is: link

Every time I hear Leigh Jeanotte speak out against the Fighting Sioux name, I have to laugh at the irony that he allowed his daughters to attend Grand Forks Central back in the 80's--when GFC used the name "Redskins." He has been all over the map on the Indian team name issue. Obviously he originally didn't think it was a big deal, as the above example should illustrate. Then about five years ago he said in a conversation with my wife that UND's use of the Fighting Sioux name was honorable, but he had a problem with how rival fans treated the name. Now, the name and logo are outright wrong in his view. He has no real credibility IMO.

Considering it's Labor Day weekend, anything over 9000 would be good. Last year's Labor Day weekend game (Mesa St.) drew 8400. I don't believe it will be close to a sell-out.

The new women's basketball roster has been posted. Glynn and walk-on Haug didn't return, and Draayer is now a student assistant.

This is actually a bigger issue than Red River when you consider that no Grand Forks school has won a football title since 1946. Hopefully Central can finally break through this year to end this unbelievable dryspell.

Paul Graveline.

A few more GFC hockey players are Paul Graveline, who played at Wisconsin in the mid 80's; Dave Hanson, who played for Denver in the mid-to-late 80's; and Paul Markovich, who played at CC around that same time and was a Rhodes scholar, as well.

I guess I am getting pretty old (GFC class of '88). Salander graduated in about 1994 or so, so that SEEMS pretty recent to an old geezer like myself.

One more fairly recent GFC track and field dI athlete was Disa Salander, who threw the shot and disc at Kentucky. And although it was a long time ago, GFC has also produced two olympic track and field medalists--Cliff Cushman (Kansas; silver in 400m hurdles in 1960) and John Bennett (Marquette; silver in long jump in 1956).

GFC (since the mid-80's) Mike Markovich (Denver hockey) Jay Ness (Lake Superior State hockey) Chad Johnson (UND hockey) Tony Gasparini (UMD hockey) Jake Moreland (SCSU hockey) Jay Panzer Jeff Panzer Nick Fuher Joey Gasparini (Vermont hockey) In terms of non-hockey, there's been a few from track: Wade Juntunen (AZ) Dani Parkos (MN) A few other throwers, but I can't remember who went where.