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Please post your concerns about Bison recruiting on Bisonville. They might care more than I do.

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Fri - Simpson Sat - Gleason

Yes

Kristo

Got to go with Blood

Just reposting this nugget... wow - you need to talk to your coach because he was recruiting him at QB.

Great pick-up for the Sioux

I know the schedule will get better but not many home games on Saturday for out of town fans..

I would guess that BHS is going to blitz all day. Things that Bradley needs to improve: 1) Taking a snap under center and pulling away from the center without falling down or tripping (In three games he has done this twice and he does not take many snaps under center) this lead to the 4 and 15 sequence in the 4th Q against Fresno St. 2) Sensing pressure in the pocket - he really has no feel for this yet and opponents are going to see it on film and they are going to put as much pressure on him as possible. 3) Throw the ball away - he has taken two or three sacks so far this year that could have been avoided. 4) He does not look comfortable running or throwing on the run. Again, teams are going to try and force him to run. FYI, I have been impressed with him so far and I do think that Bradley does do a good job of throwing to a spot, he has a very catchable ball and reading defenses out of the pistol and making the quick 2 or 3 count throw. I don't want to sound too critical.

Couple of notes with the data that I collected. - The NCAA had full data for the following sports: football, basketball-m, and hockey-m - The NCAA had full data minus transitional schools for basketball-w. So, UND and USD data is not included. - The NCAA only had top 50 for baseball - total values ranged from 394,900 (LSU) to 23,459 (Ohio St.) - The NCAA only had top 50 for softball - total values ranged from 63,271 (Alabama) to 3,058 (Portland St.) - The NCAA only had top 50 for Soccer - m - total values ranged from 70,471 (UC Santa Barbara) to 4,562 (Radford) - The NCAA only had top 50 for Soccer - w - total values ranged from 45,132 (Portland) to 4,601 (UCF) - The NCAA only had top 50 for Volley Ball - w - total values ranged from 123,382 (Hawaii) to 7,672 (Md. East Shore) NOTE: NDSU was 44th (12,826) - No data for Hockey - w Actually, I needed some data because I am reviewing data analysis software for my company and saw this thread and thought that I would use it as my core subject. Based on the chatter yesterday - I should have gathered the coaches poll data..

Here are total number for Big Sky/Great West/Summit: North Dakota 324,060 Montana 257,989 North Dakota St. 183,213 Montana St. 162,594 Neb Omaha 159,886 Weber St. 123,470 South Dakota St. 114,008 Northern Colo. 86,517 South Dakota 85,373 Western Ill. 81,097 Eastern Wash. 78,466 Southern Utah 74,502 Idaho St. 64,276 Oral Roberts 60,834 Northern Ariz. 60,643 Oakland 58,215 Sacramento St. 50,107 Portland St. 48,632 Utah Valley 38,745 IPFW 33,456 UMKC 24,833 IUPUI 17,751 Tex.-Pan American 17,371 Chicago St. 16,661 NJIT 10,462 Centenary (LA) 8,198 Here are the numbers minus (Football and/or Hockey): Montana 105,300 Weber St. 88,906 North Dakota St. 71,606 South Dakota St. 63,891 Montana St. 62,505 Oral Roberts 60,834 Northern Colo. 58,598 Oakland 58,215 North Dakota 48,170 South Dakota 43,614 Southern Utah 39,118 Utah Valley 38,745 Idaho St. 37,336 IPFW 33,456 Portland St. 29,053 Eastern Wash. 26,682 UMKC 24,833 Northern Ariz. 23,652 IUPUI 17,751 Tex.-Pan American 17,371 Chicago St. 16,661 Western Ill. 14,524 Sacramento St. 12,225 NJIT 10,462 Centenary (LA) 8,198

Top 25 include FCS/FBS (not including basketball only or BCS schools) Hawaii 687,543 BYU 685,556 New Mexico 634,955 East Carolina 515,651 TCU 493,869 Fresno St. 481,789 Memphis 477,250 San Diego St. 426,010 UTEP 412,544 UCF 409,662 UNLV 372,881 Southern Miss. 349,871 Air Force 335,212 North Dakota 324,060 Old Dominion 317,632 Boise St. 313,250 Tulane 313,171 Rice 302,067 Dayton 298,877 Houston 295,295 Marshall 266,562 Wyoming 266,268 Utah St. 264,078 Montana 257,989 Ohio 250,336 If you added FBS-basketball only schools you would add: Marquette 305,225

The Top 10 FCS Schools: North Dakota 324,060 Old Dominion 317,632 Dayton 298,877 Montana 257,989 Delaware 238,465 Missouri St. 236,047 Appalachian St. 233,643 Villanova 231,760 UNI 206,705 James Madison 204,754 .. 14) North Dakota St. 183,213 The one common theme with the top FCS schools was they had a dominate sport that accounted for well over 50% of total attendance. The sports varied between Football/Basketball and Hockey. UNI/Old Dominion are the only schools with two sports split equally - Basketball/Football. North Dakota was hockey 73%, Dayton was basketball 80%, and Missouri St was basketball 55%. All the other top programs are football based at the FSC level with ranges of 88% (App St.) to (JMU) 50%. NOTE: NDSU was 61% football.

I pulled the attendance data off the NCAA site to take a look at all levels of DI sports. I was amazed at how poor the lower BCS schools draw. Wake Forest BB - m 174,781 BB - w 11,673 FB 182,843 Scr-M 16,748 Scr-W 6,424 Total 392,469 Northwestern BB - m 89,955 BB - w 19,268 FB 218,696 Sftb 4,418 Total 332,337 Washington St. BB - m 128,570 BB - w 7,295 FB 147,194 Scr-W 4,714 Total 287,773

I just got the Amercia One - Big Sky TV working.. it took a bit of work.. But the site rocks. I am watching two games right now. Weber/Sac St and ISU/UNC. Very impressed with the video quality of both games.

I can not wait for the Big Sky start - the fans of the big dakota 3 get old.

During the Great Depression is was proposed that the two schools consolidate due to extremely low tax revenue. Both schools were impacted. This is not the first time that higher education was impacted by low tax revenue. In the early 1900's UND was kept open by bonds sold to local merchants and GF residents due to state funding cuts. It looks like the NDBHE was formed in 1938 and prior to it's formation the State of North Dakota built a new field house in 1930 and enlarged and improved Dacotah Field using WPA funds in 1938 for NDSU. UND requests for new or updated facilities would not be granted until the 1950's.

Did they play in the same college division? If yes, then they should play.

Actually, the no huddle has gone away, but they still run the pistol formation about 40%/50% of the time. I think that Bradley works well from that formation so I don't see it going away. I can not rip on the special teams they have played very well this season.

Do you realize that you just said - they beat Oklahoma and Nebraska (in Lincoln) in the same year and finished #21 in country and its no big deal. They did beat Mich St in a bowl game and finished 9-4. The 4 loses are: 1) #2 Texas @ Austin 24-34 2) #23 Houston @ Houston 28-29 3) Texas A&M Lubback 52-30 4) #18 Okl St @Stillwater 17-24 Yep, pushover cupcake team wish they would play somebody to get that 9-4 record.

Absolutely agree, but it takes more than one year to retool a college team. I am simply pointing out the fact that they switched the offense which made then vulnerable if the first string QB went down. It happened and they struggled after the injury. Many teams are going to struggle when they lose the starting QB because he has taken most of the reps and prep.

You are talking about general frustration with multiple games, but you do not provided specific examples so it is hard to respond. As to being 4th of 4 Dakota schools, UND is 3-1 vs USD during the transition. So, head to head UND has held its own with USD. USD has had some nice wins EWU and UM (overal last year sub .500 record - plus they lost to Lamar a first year program) but they are a senior dominated team this year. This is going to be a big year for USD. I picked them to win the Great West this year. But it will be interesting to see how they rebound after that in the following years. SDSU beat UND head to head last year but UND had a lost season after all the injuries at WR/QB. Plus, I think that SDSU had a 500 or less record last year. NDSU had a nice transition, but they followed it up with a terrible 3-8 season and backed into the playoff last year after a terrible loss at MSU. They are less than 500 in MVF play - NOTE: Going off of UNI fans comments - I could be wrong. So, all Dakota programs have struggled at times. The thing that I have noticed with FCS play is the QB is the most important position on offense. If you do not have one - defenses will shut you down and you can not hide that position. Back in the DII days you could get by just running the ball. I will be honest with you I do not really care about the other dakota schools. UND needs to get ready for the Big Sky which is all about QBs/WRs/CB - much more wide open football. Let's see the QB that you are talking about redshirted at Arkansas, then played 1 year of JUCO, then start two games and played in 6 games as a So and then played in 8 games as a Junior. Yes, he is a first year starter as a Senior - but not the wide-eyed rookie you portray. All of the receivers are very good and step above the FCS level talent. UND was down a starting CB yesterday and I was impressed with several plays down field by Brown (RFr). The biggest problem yesterday was with the offense and not maintaining the ball to allow the defense a rest and to break the rthym of the Idaho offense by putting on the bench for an extended period of time. The other factor was field position - they worked with a short field on two of those TD positions. Give credit to Idaho - they stopped trying to force it deep and went to the short stuff. UND did not come out of it because they stayed with a bend don't break plan. UND is out manned when playing FBS teams right now. They don't have that level of talent. I thought that they did a good job of mixing things up to get the lead but to get that lead they had to throw everything at Idaho from the start. Once Idaho adjusted not much you could do - give Idaho some credit. Again, the offense is too young right now run a sophisticated offense so they have to stay vanilla or it will get worse. I look for the offense to improve throughout the season. I do like some of the things that I see will Bradley but he does have some limitations right now. I think that you are forgetting about a Poly game a couple of years ago Poly was up by 10 or 14 and UND came back to win. Poly was ranked 16 at the time. I think in two of the USD games that UND out game planned them... I believe that UND went wildcat several times and caught them every time in the other game they caught them with overloading one side of the line multiple times and USD got caught each time - Shepard never beat UND. I was at the game - bad loss no doubt.. lets see - SDSU lost to Div III - Stig is still coaching... USD lost to first year program Lamar - Ed's still coaching.. its one game - move on.. It is not unheard of.. I see it in many games. I think a lot of it had to do with the maturity of the offense at this point and the 2 to 1 time of possession. He did not want to risk putting the defense back out on the field. - see above - I noted a couple that I thought of right away The offense is struggling right now and they have struggled since Landry was hurt. It is going to take sometime to get it back up to speed. They had to go outside the program to bring in QB and the exposive weapons on offense are young.

Several things that people need to think about: 1) Last year UND switched to a no huddle offense and most of the reps and prep went to one QB. QB goes down and you have a backup that has little game experience plus a new offense. So, depending on the game you are talking about... it would be natural for the coach to limit the playbook and play conservative and win the game with Defense and Special Teams. I assume that you are talking about the Montana game. It nearly worked. 2) This year they are working with a young QB early in the season against a FBS team. Again you are not going to be able to run all your plays because the QB in new and many of the players he is working with are young also. I think that I saw 4 or 5 dropped balls yesterday. Many times it was a matter of the timing be slightly off or the receivers not being prepared to catch the ball. It takes time to build the chemistry.

You raise a valid point with Buning.. I think he is the AD that signed the Idaho deal and I don't think that UND made much money playing those games. Mussman has been more active with transfers: Bradley, Daniels (LB) and I think a D Line this year from NDSc-W.