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There's a Q and A session going on right now at Sioux Football Insider if anyone is interested: http://siouxfb.areavoices.com

IMO this was probably the biggest error Lennon made at UND. There weren't a lot of truly puzzling decisions during his tenure, but this one sticks out to me.

She sounds like a nice addition--averaged over 19 ppg as a jr. and was named to the class AAA all state team by the MN Girls Basketball Coaches' Association. This site had her as the number eight prospect in the class of 2014, although it was from last summer: http://mock-draft-20...ings-2014s.html

Sorry, did not mean to click on the "reputation" button for this post. I'm guessing the poster means that he would not be surprised if Mollberg is at number 2 for the Valparaiso game?

Jones' contract has been extended through 2016-17, and he's getting a raise to $100k, per a Tom Miller tweet.

According to a blog entry from the "Grand Forks Gourmet", there's a sign on the Dickey's door which indicates that they have had some equipment problems, and that they expect to re-open shortly. Whether that's actually true or not, I have no idea.

According to a tweet from Jody Norstedt, UND is apparently hosting UMKC transfer guard Estan Tyler today. He's originally from St. Paul. He led UMKC in scoring, assists and 3-point % last season. Not sure why he's transferring. I believe he has two years of eligibility remaining.

Tweet by North Dakota football. Wayne Nelson just tweeted that guarantee is $500k.

UND at Washington in 2018.

Shirvani is reportedly getting $925,000 as a buyout of his contract.

UND at Utah in 2017.

He's out: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/265139/

There is going to be a lot more new home construction in Grand Forks in the next few years, and barring a big shift in the boundaries it will only make the disparity between the two high schools even more glaring. You can't continue to have the two mega-elementary schools in town (soon three) completely in the RR district, as that is a big part of the problem. My kids go to Kelly. I completely understand that it wouldn't necessarily be popular at first to switch from a north-Central/south-RR split to an east-Central/west-RR split, but I don't see how else you can effect significant change. I'm sure the plan now is to simply shift the boundary a few blocks south in an attempt to compensate for all the new construction in the south end. As we've seen over the past few decades, that just doesn't work if fairness is the goal. The big unknown to me is whether the large disparity in extra-curricular achievement is also seen in academic achievement. I suppose people can make the argument that if it's only sports where one sees a big achievement gap, it's not enough of a reason to make a radical change. But if a similar disparity is seen in test scores, college attendance, etc., that makes for a far more compelling argument, and "tradition" as a reason to keep the status quo no longer carries much weight.

I might be in favor of that if the boundaries were changed to something more equitable, i.e. everybody east of Washington goes to Central and everybody west of Washington goes to Red River (I realize that would probably have to be tweaked somewhat to roughly equalize enrollments). But simply doing away with open enrollment without doing anything to the boundaries would not do much to equalize things. Actually, Central would probably have been worse off over the years, as it has probably benefitted from it more than RR, at least in hockey, i.e. the Lamoureux's, Jake Marto, Luke Johnson, etc.

With the school year now over and Red River having experienced another very good year in athletics while Central mostly struggled again, I wanted to revisit this topic. I can't help but compare Grand Forks to Bismarck--similar size, two public high schools with one quite old and one far less so, etc., but whereas in GF the "new" school has come to completely dominate the old school virtually across the board in athletics, in Bismarck the old school seems to generally be the dominant one. So my question is: why is the situation in Bismarck so different? For one thing, I'm guessing that unlike in GF, Bismarck's boundary lines aren't drawn in such a way that 90% of the new construction over the past 30 years has occurred in the "new" school's district.

It always perplexes me how Sioux Falls media types apparently expected UND to leave football on an island, and join the Summit a few years back, all for the sake of putting the band back together...

What about football? Are you assuming that an MVFC invite was/is a given? I don't. And that's not a risk UND, or any other school in a similar position, could afford to take unless they were going to go the UNO route and drop football altogether.

Besides Klancher starting a few games when Wagner was injured, I'm not aware of a freshman starting at quarterback at UND, period.

I watched the spring game online, and Mussman said he just had surgery recently but is expected to be ready for the upcoming season.

Personally, I don't have a huge problem with Jones' current pay, or where he ranks relative to the rest of the Big Sky. If UND has as good of a year next year as expected, he'll get a large raise. I also had no problem whatsoever with Roebuck making significantly more than did Jones, even though having the women's coach paid more than the men's coach is highly unusual, given their respective accomplishments and length of service. But once Roebuck retired, and the decision was made to promote Brewster rather than conducting a national search, it seems to me that it may have made some sense to simply start Brewster at roughly the same pay level as Jones. It seems doubtful that Brewster was in a position to demand to be paid at roughly the same level Roebuck was; and/or to be paid significantly more than Jones.

Here's kind of an interesting NY Times article on the subject: http://www.nytimes.c...?pagewanted=all

If I were Jones, I'd be more than a little irritated about the fact that Brewster, in his first year as head coach, made a significantly higher salary than me: http://www.grandfork...ary comparison/

I agree. Clearly he's a capable and proven OC, and this would provide a measure of continuity, particularly for the young quarterbacks.

Considering their unlikely sweet 16 run, it's interesting to look back on the fact that one of Hooker's many offers was from Florida Gulf Coast.

Should be fun. I'm really happy for the team to get to play another game, and the fact that it's against Jake AND that it's Jones' alma mater makes it all the better. Jones (UNI grad) vs. Jacobson (UND grad).