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My old coach used to say - "You are never as good as your best game and you are never as bad as your worst." You have a highs/lows during a season. Let the season build and see what you have at the end.

I don't think this program is going in the tank. I like the coordinators that we have in place. I think given time they will produce. Muss sat a couple players last year for skipping class and he sat a player this year for unknown reasons. He kicked Murray off the team. I believe this is the first year that UND has had a full set of assistant coaches. Is Muss the right guy, I don't know that this point. But, I am going to wait until the end of the season to make my evaluation.

Fire away.. I can handle it. just saying let the season play out.

Nice, hey I am not saying I am happy with results on the field - far from it.

Fine, you can look at the transitional period. I am choosing to look at this season. It is off to a bad start, I was expecting a slow start giving an inexperienced QB and a defense that is going to take a another year or two to fix - unless you go with a heavy JUCO/drop down approached. Based on the recruiting last year and this summer and the lack of significant drop downs or JUCOs. It is clear the coaches are going to rebuild the defense with 4 year players. That is going to take time. So, I was not optimistic about a major change on the defensive side of the ball. Overall, I felt like this was going to be a .500 team and they might be able to win one of the four major home games. Notice what the Griz did to rebuild the offense - two major drop downs - one a Florida commit who ended up at Marshall and was Conference USA Freshman of the Year who is now at Montana, a stud receiver from Washington and they reinstated a QB. Quick question how do you go from a Florida recruit to Montana in a couple of years - the guy has got some baggage. It does not mean he isn't a good guy, but he is a risk. Do we want UND to take those types of risks? Or do we want to take a patience long term approach and build from within. Again, it is clear - UND is rebuilding from within and I support that approach and it is going to take a couple of years to do that... I am fine with that..

I can think of 3 games and in reference to the body of work - I am talking about this season. I want to see how the season goes and I will take a look at it at the end of the year.

I still say, wait until the season is over and then review. You need to look at the full body of work. None of us know the full story - plus sometimes you have games that are just bad. You go back to work and make sure it does not happen again. I will review at the end of the season.

I don't know what the defensive call was - but Carr was 10 yards from the line of scrimmage when the pass was released. I think Montana attacked the safeties yesterday and won big time.

Everyone needs to calm down on this topic and let the season play out. Right now I say Muss stays, he has a rebuilt staff that I like and I like the talent level of the younger player.

Montana taking a knee at the 5 V formation... they could have put up another TD but settled with a 30-6 win - they look good.. Big Sky - Montana St, EWU and Montana all look good - but it is a long season - I love UND being in the Big Sky..

Montana 30 and App 6 Griz rolling..

Montana looks good - the transfer running back Van looks really good and Johnson looks good. The Griz are handling App

Sic - thanks.. I was watching BigSkyTV but switched over to ESPN3 for the Montana game 16-6 midway through the 3rd. It looks like App St is starting to get it going.. Johnson the QB is 13 of 14..

Weber St up over SFA in 4 qtr - don't have the exact score but they said Weber St leading by 19.

Adams is a stud and Montana is up on App 16 - 3 at half

I a little nervous about the o-line.. The Pre-Fall two deep had: RT - Deneui, Windfedt RG - Hoerchner, Meehan C - Walker, Hellman LG - Anderson, Adams LT - Kleason, Barton Hurt, illness or still recovering from injury: Windfedt, Adams and Walker Current Two-Deep: RT - Deneui, Peterson RG - Meehan - ? C - Hoerchner - ? LG - Anderson, Isenberger LT - Kleason, Barton Of the current back ups only Barton was in the two deep rotation at the start of fall camp and season just started.

that is good stuff.

Congrats to the Bison

Dan: I think you are missing the point, your success is based on the fact the you are competing in the Summit League. If your programs moved over the Big Sky only the softball program would have success. The rest would be middle of the pack. Look at the preseason rankings for CC this year: http://www.ustfccca.org/2013/08/featured/division-i-cross-country-preseason-regional-rankings-released Mens: Midwest Region: SDSU (12) and USD (13) Mountain Region: Defending regional champions from 2012 NAU, 2013 preseason rankings: NAU (1), Weber St (9), S. Utah (10), Montana St (13). Womens: Midwest Region: NDSU (6) and USD (15) Mountain Region: Defending regional champions from 2012 Weber St, 2013 preseason rankings: Weber St (3), NAU (4), S. Utah (5), Idaho St. (12). Last years team rankings for mens/womens outdoor track: http://www.ustfccca.org/assets/rankings/div1/2013-otf/NCAAD1_2013_outWk9_TF_NationalRankingsByTeam.pdf Mens: Big Sky: NAU(35), Idaho(75), Sac St (84), SUU(98), Idaho St (99), Weber St (101), Montana St (118), UNC (131) Summit Leage: NDSU (103), USD (131) Womens: Big Sky: Weber St (54), NAU (83), Portland St (111), Idaho (137) Summit League: USD (31), NDSU (96) Golf Rankings: Mens: Big Sky: Idaho (107), Sac St (144), UNC (149), SUU (152), Weber St (199) Summit: Denver (104), NDSU (189), SDSU (195) Womens: Big Sky: Idaho (89), Portland St (99), NAU (103), Sac St (144), Weber St (155), S. Utah (156), Montana (169), UNC (179), Montana St (186) Summit: Denver (35), NDSU (160), IUPUI (169) Softball Rankings: The Summit does have a nice softball conference compared to Big Sky. Big Sky: Portland St (152), Idaho St (184) Summit: NDSU (62), Omaha (71), IPFW (89), USD (145), W. Ill (167) Simply put NDSU would not be winning those trophies in the Big Sky plain and simple - best of luck and thank you for your interest in UND sports.

I thought that the Alerus is about right - hopefully we can get the place rock'n this year. 1) Washington-Grizzly Stadium - The stadium does have an odd configuration seems piece meal. 2) Aggie Stadium - It's new, but looks a bit generic. I do believe that they plan to add on in future - bit too high in the rankings. 3) Walkup Skydome - Nice facility again a bit too high 4) Bobcat Stadium - I think it should be higher up 5) Elizabeth Dee Shaw Stewart Stadium - about right - maybe too high. 6) Jeld-Wen Field - Nice facility should be higher 7) Spanos Stadium - Nice facility should be higher 8) Alerus Center I need to get out to some of these stadiums. Thinking about Bozeman in 14 and Poly in 15

I really enjoyed this site for making picks last year they did a good job. http://www.bigskychallenge.com/index.php?utm_source=newslettter2001&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=welcome

Well, now that fall camp is in progress. I thought that I had better get my act together. So, I have got 10 lbs of ribs with a new dry rub in the frig waiting for a long slow cook tomorrow. Of course I have some beer ready to go also, got to get my game day routine ready to go.

Sumner is very underrated. If the Jacks need to throw that ball - he can do it very well.

I just got my season tickets ready to go - section 215

First, I hope for a healthy fall camp UND is thin on D/O Line. I am also looking forward to seeing how keys players return from injuries: O Line Darren Deneui - if he returns healthy they can move Kleason back to the inside. Dustin Adams - if he returns healthy provides depth and competition for starting roll D Line Mike Edwards - if he returns healthy they have three players completing at NG. Garrett Cary - in coming FR - I remember Muss saying that he thought that he might have a chance to play as a true freshman but he is injured so I expect him to RS. Other than that I hope we get a healthy return of the following players - they could have a big impact on the team: R.J. McGill, Garrison Goodman, Seth Stanchik and P. J. Sparks