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Wow--physical run by Norberg.

Shaugabay is out according to Tom Miller. Look for a lot of Norberg.

NAU just scored again. Now 20-14.

You have to give Joe Glenn credit. USD was 1-10 two years ago in his first year, then 4-8 last year, and now this year they played Montana very tough in Missoula, and now is taking it to #22 (for now) Northern Arizona.

Kyle Ruhe is out for the year with a knee injury, per a Tom Miller tweet.

Don't forget Phil Harmeson. I believe he was the driving force behind the Buning hire. Had Rob Bollinger gotten the a.d. job instead of Buning, I doubt things would have ever gotten to this point.

Speaking of recruits not panning out/not staying, I think the class of 2012 is a good example of why the program is where it is. UND signed 18 high school recruits that year to some type of scholarship. Only seven are still on the roster--Bartels, Carrothers, Labat, Mathewson, Mollberg, Nordby and Rich.

Although this very well may have come against questionable competition, Oliveira had quite a game last week (from today's Herald):

Greer commitment has been confirmed by SFI.

Sounds like there was a commitment by a defensive player from the St Louis area today, per a Kevin Maurice tweet.

Is Shea Walker expected to be clearly better than Woodsmall as the backup nose? I only ask because considering the lack of depth at center and guard right now, and the fact that the guy does have a number of starts at both positions in his career, it would be nice to have another experienced option on the interior of the OL--unless he's expected to make a real impact on defense.

Adding to Matt's point, I think the increased success of SDSU in FCS relative to division II also supports the notion--and arguably even moreso than the NDSU experience--that moving first was a huge, huge reason for the football success both programs have had the past several years. I'm not going to bash RT or Kupchella now, because I believe there were legitimate reasons, or at least reasons that seemed legitimate at the time, for waiting. But in retrospect, waiting turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes the UND athletic department has ever made.

It's pretty amazing to me that of the nine players listed on the 2-deep on the OL, there are nearly as many either recruited by Bubba, or switched from the defensive line (four), as recruited by the Mussman regime as offensive linemen (five). Mussman and company really did a poor job of recruiting, retaining and developing offensive linemen. It's difficult to understand why things got to this point, given the fact that you shouldn't need to stray too far from the region to find solid players at these positions. I'm still perplexed as to how Mussman's 2012 recruiting class included just one offensive lineman--and he's not even on the roster anymore.

Per SFI, walk-on juco transfer Aaron Rogers has left the team. No word on anybody else as of yet.

Not certain exactly which NDSU official he's quoting, but Schlossman just tweeted this quote from the press conference: "It helps us fill 2015. It helps us start 2019. That's the way we're looking at it...I wouldn't look into it further than that."

For some reason, the "quote" feature is not working for me anymore.

Anybody listen to the press conference? Schlossman described it in a tweet as "strange, strange".

Per Dom Izzo, Johannesson has committed to Minnesota.

Putting aside the issue of whether it's ever acceptable to sign a two-game, road-only contract with an FCS program (which I strongly oppose), isn't a 2015 game a bit premature given how much work Bubba has in front of him to get the program back to its pre-Muss level? I would have actually felt better about signing a one-game deal for 2019 if a home-and-home absolutely was not going to happen.

Is Dan Bell injured? Just wondering if there are any healthy non-true freshman OL not listed on the 2-deep.

Given how much last year's secondary struggled, and all the new players added in the offseason, is anybody else a bit surprised that last year's fourth or fifth corner is starting this year?

Here's the full SFI update: http://siouxfb.areavoices.com So apparently now both Carter AND Harris are probably not going to red-shirt, plus Montague sounds like he may play some right away at safety. While I think it's great that they are playing well enough to have their shirts pulled, does this mean that none of the juco transfer db's are ready to play right now? Right now only Tillman, Carter, Brown and Harris are being mentioned as the primary contributors at corner.

Based upon a Gigli tweet, I'm thinking Oliveira may have committed to UND today. Also, Carl Engwall has reportedly committed to UND. EDIT: Both commitments have been confirmed by SFI.

No personal attacks, defamation or libel. No trolling. These are just a couple of the rules that seem to be broken repeatedly by certain posters, particularly in this thread. Does anybody actually get banned anymore? Some of these threads are virtually unreadable, even if a person does have the usual offenders on the "ignore" list, since their posts keep getting quoted. And yes, I understand that attempting to read anything in a thread with "NDSU" or "Bison" in the title is an "enter at your own risk" situation, but this nonsense is getting prevalent in a lot of other threads, too. It's getting really old.

UND opens as a 23-point underdog, per SFI.