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Every commitment is unofficial until signing day. But usually, once a kid gives a verbal commitment, it's solid. I would say it's even more so when the kid is from the area. My guess is that there will be something in the local media this weekend or early next week to confirm that he has indeed verbally committed.

They played really well in the 2003 playoff game, when they had that receiver (Samp?) who UND had trouble covering. After that season, it was all down hill.

I think Winona is glad UND left dII.

Excellent!

I haven't heard anything. Would really love to see what Wilmer could do if healthy. If nothing else, he would be a nice backup to Brekke, who as we saw last year has a tendency to get into foul trouble.

Will be very interested to see what kind of regular rotation Jones uses this year, i.e. eight, nine or even ten players? Seems likely that some players who either did, or would have started two years ago may have a very tough time getting minutes.

You have to wade through some nonsense, but I would encourage people to read all the comments to the "Mollberg Update" posting at SFI. This is where I'm basing my opinion that UND has a good shot.

On the other hand, SFI referenced their DL sources in the tweet, and there are a lot of UND alums very close to the football program there. At least one has already speculated that UND will ultimately be his choice. With the transition finally over, the start of Big Sky play next year, the strong UND history with DL players and the decent possibility he could play very early, I'm thinking UND has a good chance here.

SFI just tweeted that it sounds like Mollberg's decision could come as early as this weekend.

UND lands major recruit: http://undhockey.areavoices.com/?p=88377

One interesting factoid about this matchup is that UND radio analyst Mike Berg is a member of the Black Hills State athletic hall of fame for his high school coaching career: http://www.bhsu.edu/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Print.aspx?tabid=3454&tabmoduleid=30538&articleId=518&moduleId=5092&PortalID=0 Also, former UND football player Matt Field is a starting OL for BHSU.

This is their second year of a two-year transition. Next year, they will be a provisional dII member (and will join the RMAC). I believe they are playoff eligible starting in the 2013-14 season. Not sure if they are up to the 28-scholarship RMAC limit yet, but I doubt they are.

He's investigating as we speak. Dan Barreiro's got his "Pat Fitzgerald" schtick. We've now got the Kolpack one.

Per a Schlossman tweet, Karvinen has been cleared to play this season.

I have no problem cheering for the Yotes. Good luck on Saturday. I hope someday UND gets to play in Madison again.

If his coaching ability even comes close to matching his playing ability, this was a great hire.

I would too. But Minnesota won't schedule us in football. With that said, I still think UND's actual performance against Fresno (and Northern Illinois last year, who dominated the Goofs) was more impressive in the scheme of things than a close win over a Brewster-coached team. I also think NDSU's near-win over a Mason Gopher team was far more impressive than beating the Brewster version (not talking about "what you'd rather have"--just talking about what's more impressive), but you apparently disagree and that's fine.

If you're talking about two comparable teams, yes. But we're talking about Pat Hill vs. Tim Brewster. Big difference there too, don't you think?

So I'm assuming then that if it's "hilarious" that UND entered the poll after taking a pretty decent Fresno State team to the wire, then it must have been even more "hilarious" when USD entered the poll last year after edging the hapless Gophers, right? Or were voters thinking they were voting for SDSU? Hmmmm...

To clarify, it was Kolpack who responded to Vandrovec's tweet with the theory that it had to be due to confusion by the voters. I apologize if my post was unclear about the true origin of the theory.

Funny thing is that all this "confusion" talk started with a tweet by Terry Vandrovec of the Argus Leader, who seemed miffed that SDSU was the lowest ranked of the four Dakota teams. Given their performance last Saturday night, perhaps that dubious distinction is deserved. And now, their starting quarterback has quit the team. It's looking like a potentially disastrous season in Brookings...

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I don't think it's even remotely warranted at this point, but any positive publicity is good, I suppose.

I agree. The best win of the dI era was probably at Central Arkansas, and I believe they were sub-.500 that season.

One other game of possible interest to UND fans--Mary (and Josh Murray) are hosting Augie on Midcontinent Sports Channel right now.