coach daddy

Agree with statement that USD was already ahead of us. Also believe that basketball is a sport where improvement can be made more quickly than a sport like football. 1 or 2 impact basketball players can turn average into very good in a year. I don't believe that can be done in football.

Totally agree. Wisc. is real good.

Please, lets not compare how bad we lost to how bad others lost to teams we both play. To anyone who knows anything about sports, common opponents and comparing scores means nothing. If you think us losing by 15 and Iowa St. losing by 6 means we'd only lose to Iowa St. by 9, that's nonsense. We have a lot of work to do and a long way to go. Lets just keep playing, dig in and watch them become what they will become.

We must have different definitions of the term "unbiased"

How about a Big Sky and WAC merge into one big FBS conference? Does that excite anyone?

I'm a UND guy but I'd think SU wins going away. Can't ever put a number on a game like this but this SU team is a sleeper in the Summit this year. Good shooters, decent size. The games with Oregon and Minnesota make thing it will be tough for UND to stay close.

I would be shocked if Phil ever puts his name to UND basketball. He's just not that in to UND. Think of the financial impact he could make for our program. He's no Engelstad but he makes $12-15 million a year coaching. As much as he would be a great asset, when he leaves the Lakers, he's going into deep hiding in my opinion.

Attendance issues for their first home playoff game in how long? 16-17 years? This is for all the crap we've taken cause only 6000 showed up for Winona St. those years. You're no better than we are when it comes to playoff games where the home team is "supposed" to win. http://bisonmedia.areavoices.com/2010/11/26/here-it-is/

Ditto

I think if you look at our roster now, we are recruiting plenty outside the area. Not many ND kids on that roster. I'd never not want to recruit Minn. The metro area is loaded with players.

On this site...........no one cares!!!

I guess my point in believing he's "earned" the right to see this through to the Big Sky is the body of work he's done over 10 or more years with the program. He was a very good O.C., winning a National Championship. We always had excellent DII football players on offense and he gets a lot of credit for recognizing talent at that level and bringing them to UND. Now that we have a conference affiliation, lets let him have the chance to go get players for this level too. Other than QB, I believe our skill people are pretty good right now. We all knew that this period of football wasn't going to be very good. Kids aren't lining up to play here when there is no playoff aspirations or conference affiliation attached to who we are. Now, that's behind us and lets see what he can do. I believe he'll be fine.

Schools can opt up if they choose. Paperwork has to be done in the spring/summer prior to alignments changing. Alignments change in 2011 so paperwork had to be submitted by spring/summer of 2010.

The enrollment numbers were tweaked, DL has more boys in grades 7-12 so they move up. Shanley has a ways to go before they move anywhere

Dale is 3-6 this year at S. Ill. and he was pre-season top 3 in the country. While he was really good, he wasn't God. This year he's proven to be human too.

Its based on enrollment.....sort of. It has to do with the number of boys in grades 7-12, not total enrollment.

Agreed. We can't recruit top-flite talent when we have no conference, no hope for playoffs, etc. Starting this spring, we need to be bringing much better talent than we currently have. I am willing to give Mussman and crew that chance. He has earned it.

Sarcasm dually noted!! I do believe Velva would have a little something for all 3 of them most years.

Totally agree!!

More proud of the fact that we scored 77 points................in one game. That was usually a weekend of work for us last year. We all know we're no NDSU when it comes to roundball. Dec. 11th, maybe!!!!

I don't think it will interesting at all. With this QB combo we've got going, we're going to lose. Our defense would have to score twice to be in the game next weekend. SDSU QB is bad so we may get that done but don't see how we win in Brookings. Time to put stuff away, recruit for 2012 and prioritize the skill positions on this team. We have solid RB's and WR's but this QB thing has got to be improved.

Would be even more awesome if we got ESPN 3 in GF. I don't believe we have access to it in this area. Used to be ESPN 360, I know we didn't get it then.

Since I'm talking to a guy in Wyoming, I'll put it this way; It's a horse a piece.

Both home games. Their first 4 home games are UMC, Concordia, Mayville St. and Valley City. Might as well have season tickets to UND games right now.