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That loss at Portland St. is looking worse every week. It's their only Big Sky win thus far.

I believe there are still five spots open, and two of those will likely be saved in case there are FBS transfers over the spring and summer who may be good fits. So we may still see two or three more signees beyond those that are already known commitments.

One recruiting scenario where it might be difficult to portray it as a cause for celebration is when your program is reduced to having to poach verbal commits from a lower-division program or programs in the last two weeks before signing day just to fill out a class. This is purely a hypothetical, mind you.

For those who follow ND AAA football pretty closely, how would you compare the abilities/potential of Carter Blackwell and Tristan Hartness?

I just asked SFI, and they indicated they believe UND still has a good shot at him, barring a late FBS offer.

I interpreted it as the former, and not the latter.

Has anybody heard anything about whether UND is still in the running for Troy Hansen? I haven't found anything to suggest that he's committed anywhere yet.

Apparently the hope is that LB Keelan Poole out of Colorado could potentially take Momoh's place in UND's recruiting class, per SFI: http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1463610/keelan-poole

Smith just committed to UND, per his tweet.

Momoh is now committed to Wyoming, per SFI.

I believe he's projected as a corner, although he apparently played a lot at safety in high school.

And one who wasn't really a highly-publicized recruit. I think it's safe to say Brewster saw something in her few other division I coaches did, and it paid off big time.

Not sure about records, but this was the worst second half of the year in terms of score differential (-28). Previous worst was (-26) vs. Utah.

Ugh. From up 6 to down 13 in the first 10 minutes of the second half.

It seems to me that Oliveira can probably do everything Norberg can do in terms of physical running, and he also adds more elusiveness and probably more speed.

I'm curious as to why aside from Sam's Club and the Flying J truck stop generally being a few cents less, there is never any variance in Grand Forks for gas, but there can be as much as 47 cents per gallon difference between stations, at least as of yesterday, for diesel? Why wouldn't the "agreement" on a set price for gas, which circumstantial evidence strongly suggests has existed for years in GF, extend to diesel, as well?

Here's the list of known visits for this weekend: http://siouxfb.areavoices.com/2015/01/23/official-visit-weekend-1-24-15/#comments

UND 2-1 on the road, 0-3 at home in the Big Sky. Not exactly what anybody would have predicted so far.

Szabla was really impressive in the second half. It would be nice if UND had more bench production (only 4 points tonight), but the starting five is very solid, first half shooting struggles notwithstanding.

Turnovers and wildly inconsistent 3-point shooting have been the primary weaknesses of this program for years. Even when there have been good 3-point shooters, more often than not they've been forwards (Moen, Boese, Youngblut, Buck, etc.). Recruiting guards who are well-rounded players who can hit the 3 fairly consistently has proven challenging ever since the Pudenz sisters graduated.

Same high school as ex-UND player Mike Edwards.

Per SFI, Wyoming recently offered Momoh.

SFI is saying Georges will be a junior, so he may only have two years left.

I really think Knauf got everything out of the 2014 line that was humanly possible. I am looking forward to seeing what he can do with better talent and more experience with which to work.

I'm not really qualified to judge the play of individual offensive linemen, but considering Boas started all 12 games this season, I was thinking it might be more likely that Francis slides over to Henson's guard spot for one year, and Boas starts again at center.