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60-49 with 1:18 to go

Only other one I know Joanna is doing is the Omaha trip...........Feb 26 & 27.

College Sports Madness bracketology has us playing SDSU and a second round matchup with McNeese State in week 2 for the winner. http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/fcs-football/bracketology

My brother works at UND and I talked to him after the first vote. He said one of the 6 people in his technical maintenance department printed out the fierce fighting hawk logo with the feathers and all 6 thought it was great. He was going to vote Roughriders, but he thought the "hawk logo was too great to pass up." and changed his mind. He said all 6 voted for the Hawks. He is 63, a longtime season ticket holder and a Sioux sports fan. Just hasn't followed the whole nickname change as passionately as many have. I told him there is no way UND will ever use a logo anywhere close to what they were shown, but his group of 6 bought the idea that it would be the logo. I have to think a high percentage of the Hawk vote is in that camp. Strong UND and Sioux fans, not dumb, but certainly uninformed.

2-0 EGF up on Hermantown with about 3 minutes left in the first.

When we were in Omaha for the hockey series, we took in the Saturday afternoon Mens basketball game between Creighton and Georgetown. Over 17,000 in attendance at Century Link for the 1:00 pm MBB game. With the Omaha - UND MHockey game at 7:00 pm. We talked to some locals and asked about the conversion. They said the arena staff can make the complete basketball to hockey conversion in 30 minutes. A multi-purpose facility has to have the equipment and manpower to make the conversion that quickly if they want to schedule both sports a few hours apart. Just saying, no reason it couldn't be done at the REA (except maybe the costs of extra equipment and payroll) 17k for Creighton BBall and 10 or 11k for UNO Hockey (at least against UND) probably makes it more financially feasible than using our BBall numbers.

Is Kuntz the son of former Sioux FB player Mike Kuntz? Should give UND the inside track.

The Al Pearson bus experience is about to land in Sioux Falls for quick lunch. Then on to Omaha.

Daughter and son-in-law coming to town this weekend, looking for 2 tickets or even 4 for Satuday............PM me if you're looking to sell a set.

PM sent on behalf of CMSioux

from SFI this morning oskie says: November 5, 2014 at 8:34 am If a twitter account is accurate, Dev Ferguson is one of them. Our other guess is Casey Young. Young was in a logjam at WR and never beat out anybody ahead of him. We have no idea why Ferguson would quit but to each his own. He is a talented player but had trouble staying on the field. - See more at: http://siouxfb.areavoices.com/2014/10/31/week-9-preview-6-eastern-washington-eagles/#comments

: I was part of a tour of the Betty and Ralph a few years ago that my employer arranged for some out of town visitors. Someone asked the tour guide how the Betty was paid for. She said it is commom mis-perception that Ralph or the REA paid for the Betty. She said it wasn't true and UND took a loan of over 7 million and was paying off the Betty out of athletic department revenues. It was named in honor of Betty, but the Engelstad family wasn't involved in paying for it. I think if you look back, even in this forum, you'll see that is the case. Not sure on whose property the Betty sits...UND or REA. But, for the expense of the building at least, the Betty was a UND project.

And most UND fans are "competent" enough to know about the states of SD and MN. Just maybe not the state of NDSU? Also, if you "grow tired" of people on a UND site not giving you the love you need, even though you are such an innocent non-troll simply looking for some friendly banter, my suggestion would be for you to stay in the state of NDSU, where I'm sure you can find it.

An update on the Fleet Farm. I just talked to my friend at the utility that originally told me about Fleet Farm coming to GF. He said after they provided the study to Fleet Farm on how they would serve them along with the estimated costs involved for a new Grand Forks store, months went by without hearing much. He said they finally talked to Fleet Farm HQ 2 months ago and were told they no longer have plans for building in Grand Forks. (Fleet Farm has since announced for Duluth - Hermantown as their next build) Interestingly, for those who talked about the Mills family and Home of Economy handshake deal years ago.......my friend says that since they got the word on Fleet Farm, they were asked to basically do the same thing for the Home of Economy. He said HOE is planning to build a new, large store on the south end of GF and turn the north end location into staging and storage area for their stores. So, maybe that "family agreement" is still in effect. If this rumor doesn't come true I'll stop listening to my him

Come on, only my wife can call me completely wrong. I probably should have said "in comparison to Tim and Pat, Dan had almost no local connection". At the time those final 3 were interviewed, Tim and Pat had been living and working in Grand Forks for over 30 years. Doing play by play of UND games, doing UND coach's shows, reporting on UND sports, all while residing in Grand Forks as UND guys. For over 3 decades. Meanwhile, Dan was a Fargo guy. Had never lived in Grand Forks before. Had never done a UND coach's show. Had way less overall colllege sports play by play experience than the other 2. That's what surprised Pat when he lost out on the job. What does "LOCAL input from the community" even mean? Did Midco poll 20 people? 100 people? The local media and UND folks I know, consider Dan a downgrade from Pat in both his play by play call and also in terms of UND knowledge. And, most local fans I've talked to still consider Dan both a "Fargo guy" and a downgrade. Midco made a business decision hiring Dan, all I was saying was I surprised by it, and so was Pat. Maybe you care to explain what "LOCAL input from the community" means and how that factored into hiring a Fargo guy over long term, local UND guys.

Agreed............ I worked with Pat for his first 12 years at 'DAZ. He told me that he, Hammer and Tim Hennessy were the final 3 for the Midco job at the time. He couldn't understand why 2 local, "UND guys" were bypassed for a Fargo guy. I told him it was because a South Dakota based company didn't understand or care about the importance of a local connection. On another note, Rob Horken isn't be the one making any decision about eliminating newscasts, or any future one about dropping local sports. Those type of decisions always have and always will be made in Fargo, despite resistance from WDAZ management. Rob just has the fun job of delivering the news to people and carrying out the orders. Good Luck in the new job Pat!

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/sports/Vanstone+Riders+must+seal+deal+with+Dressler/10149423/story.html Saskatoon newspaper article hoping for Weston back to the Riders. "Provided that Dressler clears NFL waivers, there will be a frantic bidding war for his services. Any CFL general manager who does not contact Dressler's agent and make a lucrative offer should quickly become a former CFL general manager. But nobody should be more interested in Dressler than Roughriders vice-president of football operations and general manager Brendan Taman, who is left without an option in this case. Sign Dressler. Period."

I received my Tailgate passes in today's mail..............looking forward to Sept 6

Agree..... The difference for the ladies this year was the huge upgrade at the guard position from the previous year. Similar to what the Men needed (and still need) on the inside. I thought every BSC team had at least one or 2 decent, blue collar big men. Guys who weren't fancy but were physically solid and worked hard at their role of rebounding, defense and basic big man-back-to-the-basket moves. Similar to what Brekke gave us....and I went into the season hoping that Calc and Salmonson could be those types of players. I was amazed at how little they brought. They both continually got out-physicalled and seemed lost on defense and boxing out. I hate to say it, but I don't think either of them are legitimate D1 big men. If you add Traylor, Calcaterra and Salmonson's season rebounding totals together, Huff by himself had about 20 more than those 3 "bigs" combined. I know some on here like to call out Huff. He was our scoring leader, our rebounding leader and our steals leader, playing hard defense and putting his light frame up against much bigger people on the boards all year. The tragedy of this Senior class was we couldn't put a capable big man out there much of the time. It sure showed once again last night.

Bailey had 33 points last night leading Fergus Falls (29-1) past Albany by 27 points and make it to the MN 3A State tourney. Should be a very nice addition to the UND ladies next year.

a guy sitting in front of me at the game always has his radio headset on. I asked him late in the game about Huff and he said he got dinged and they were worried about a possible concussion. At least that was the speculation.

Thursday's game against Montana on as scheduled GRAND FORKS, N.D.-- Thursday's women's basketball game with Montana scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center is on as planned. Winter weather and potentially dangerous travel conditions are possible. Fans are encouraged to use caution in traveling. The game can be seen live on UND Insider and WatchBigSky.com or you can listen on 1440-AM (Grand Forks) or 970-AM (Fargo). http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=13500&ATCLID=209358668

I heard it from a couple of sources that insist preparations are in the works, because they are involved with them..... Jean K. was 93 yrs old when she passed away almost 6 years ago..............The Mills family is on at least the 3rd generation of management. I don't know how much an urban legend handshake agreement from decades ago matters in 2014.

I heard this from a friend who works for one of the local utilities. He says they are doing design work for providing service to a new Fleet Farm store to be built near the new WalMart on Hwy 2 West. He said it's also 90% certain a Home Depot is going in across Hwy 2 to the north from those 2 stores. Going to be nice additions to the north side of town.

Completely agree. The key is what we get as a staff as a whole and its good to hear the AD is starting to step up, finally. Folks on here have accused Faison of knowing in October he was going to fire Mussman but still being unprepared for the process of hiring a new staff. Or, that he was going to fire him earlier but the USD game stopped that. I don’t think he had any desire to fire Mussman until being pressured late this year. Mainly, because any change in staff would automatically cause a major increase in overall football staffing costs…..something he clearly has wanted to avoid. In my opinion he handcuffed Mussman going into the Big Sky. Going into the BSC, and even between year 1 and 2 Faison had the opportunity to show a commitment to raising the level of UND football by having the Athletic Dept. step up and bring in some experienced, outside staff for some of the open positions. The boys at SFI said Mussman had carte blanch to hire any assistants he wanted under Faison, in every way except for salary. No offense to Luke or Josh, but I have to think Mussman had far more experienced options, if it wasn’t for the dollars needed, to get more seasoned coordinators. Last fall we started out with 2 first time coordinators, 2 line coaches in their 1st or 2nd year, a 1st year running back coach, a special teams coach in his first year as ST coordinator, 1st year inside LB coach, 2nd year CB coach, etc. Mussman may have had carte blanch from Faison, but it’s clear the purse strings were pretty tight over Faison’s tenure. You can get by with a new coach here and there, but when the majority of the coaches are figuring out how to do their new job it’s not a good situation. Now, when Faison started feeling the heat, he magically finds way more dollars for both the new head coach, but more importantly for his new staff. (I never heard reports of Mussman being unhappy with his own compensation, I did hear he was unhappy with the dollars available for staff). If reports are correct, I’m expecting about a triple increase in football staff costs in one year. Many on here like to say Mussman set UND football back, in my opinion he did what he could with how he supported. Rather, I tend to believe that Faison’s going cheap on football set things back. If he’s finding all this money now, he should have been able to have done that 2 or more years ago too, at least incrementally. I know many will say great young coaches can be successful in new positions, but they typically have other veteran coaches to learn from. Our young guys were overwhelmed at times this year and it showed on the field. I hope Faison spends some serious UND money and hits a home run with a great new staff. I just wish he had invested some of that a few years ago.