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Aye.

It appears the final scholarship will be going to shooting guard Shane Benton from Iowa: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Shane-Benton-119969

It's been confirmed--Kill is the new Gopher coach: http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/blogs/111355544.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU1yDEmP:QMDCinchO7DU

I hope Horton gets a decent job. I wonder if Lennon will get any consideration for Kill's old job?

No kidding. I wonder if Chryst wasn't interested? He was my pick the second Brewster got canned.

Rumor has it NIU coach Jerry Kill will be the next Gophers coach.

I believe UND has just one road win over a non-transitional dI team under Brian Jones (UMKC to open the 2008-09 season). And NDSU has an RPI of 157, compared to UND at 337. If UND stays within 15, I would be pleasantly surprised. Mitchell and the three freshmen would probably all need to have really good games for UND to be competitive.

To the best of my knowledge, UND hasn't gotten a single double-figures scoring game from a member of the red-shirt sophomore class yet this year. By comparison, the three true freshmen have each had multiple double-figures games. There are a lot of scholarships tied up in the sophomore class. Needless to say, production needs to be better than what it's been so far.

UNI lost at home to Lehigh today. Western Illinois won at Coastal Carolina.

It's still surprising that they would get smoked by a program with 20-something scholarships and no history of playoff success.

I know they have a new head coach this year. Other than that, I'll have to defer to RD17 to explain why they seem to have fallen so far compared to the past decade.

A few key transfers would certainly help, but I don't think a program should rely on them in great numbers. For whatever reason, UND simply hasn't had much luck with transfers. There have been a handful of them over the years, but have any been impact players in the Alerus era other than Jared Enger and Travis Lueck? Not that I can recall. Generally speaking, the transfers UND has had haven't even developed into starters, let alone impact players.

I don't have a link or anything, but I'm about 90% sure this was a home-and-home deal.

USD, Cal Poly, Valpo, Sioux Falls and...probably a low-level dII team? The frustrating thing is that we weren't able to get more home-and-homes for the road games we played in 2008 and 2009, i.e. SE Louisiana, SFA and SIU. That was where USD did a better job scheduling-wise, as they managed to get UNI, UNC and SE Louisiana to travel to Vermillion in the past couple of years. I guess we will still eventually get Central Arkansas and SDSU, but now the Montana game would have happened anyway, so that doesn't quite seem like as big of a coup as it did when originally scheduled.

I also hope that 2011 is the last time we schedule two FBS games in a year. Wins are tough enough to come by these days without "playing up" more than once per year.

The conference Robert Morris plays in only allows its members to fund no more than 34 scholarships for football: http://bisonmedia.areavoices.com/2010/11/23/rmu-3-4-defense-but-34-scholarships/

And the fact that it actually took them several years to reach 63 scholarships.

I wouldn't expect anybody to be excited about this game (if true), but it appears UND may be playing Valparaiso in either 2011 or 2012: http://www.post-trib.com/sports/mutka/2912516,jmutka-1122.article

That was the only game I ever attended in the Fargodome. I guess I picked a pretty good one.

Kelby Klosterman was a three-year starter, as was Kevin Klancher, but you're definitely correct that starting for more than two years has been the exception rather than the rule. I'm concerned that throwing a young quarterback to the wolves too early could damage his confidence. If we had an exceptional defense returning, more of a consistent running game, and more experienced receivers, it would be one thing, but this team probably can't win a lot of games with a "manage the game" quarterback, and realistically that's probably the best that could be expected from a freshman.

Chilly has been fired, according to multiple media outlets.

I don't think a future schedule at UND has ever been announced before the current season is over. Now that it is, if the rumor is true that it's complete, hopefully it will be announced fairly soon.

I read or heard somewhere that the schedule is complete for next year. No word on when it will be announced, though.

Bellmore also returns at DE.

I know he can't specifically talk about a potential FBS transfer, but I just think he could say that UND will be looking at bringing in a transfer. Period. No need to specify juco. Personally, I don't think the odds of finding a juco quarterback who can actually play, who isn't wanted by FBS programs, and who doesn't have eligibility issues, are very good.