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6 hours ago, ChadR said:
Will Pinto make the USA WJC roster? They are naming it tomorrow.
I'm really hoping so. I'll be in Czechia for three of the U.S. games and would love to see him out there!
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1 minute ago, BrandonH61 said:
Anybody able to YouTube stream this one? Letting the parents use the nchc.tv login tonight.
Agreed. I'd love to watch from Germany.
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3 hours ago, Irish said:
Tom Buning, former assistant AD at Army, was in way over his head as UND athletic director and did not endear himself to the fans or alumni.
You're comparing an athletic department employee to a career academic? Seriously?
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3 minutes ago, SiouxVolley said:
So U of San Diego has had a major increase in growth because of their handling of the Pioneer: not. USD has alumni that want fb and give major $'s in spite of being a continent away from their opponents.
Southpaw and jdub27 have shown repeatedly no financial sense at all.
So the moon isn't actually made of cheese, despite what many notable books say. Those books have made a lot of money.
SiouxVolley has shown no regard for how this news will affect the cheese stock market.
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1 hour ago, SiouxVolley said:
But as usual you show no understanding.
Classic Siouxvolley post sequence here:
Makes an asinine post, claiming something that can easily be disputed.
When it is disputed, claim the other person doesn't know anything about some random other topic.
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41 minutes ago, Ice Arena Man said:
Where in Fargo can a person watch Fighting Sioux hockey games this weekend. Asking for a FRIEND.
There are some old games on YouTube and I bet someone has some DVDs if you're only interested in watching Fighting Sioux hockey.
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Uncle Andy it is.
Having interacted with him several times in the past, I think he is a great choice for UND.
Despite what some people who have never met him have said about him, he very easily transitions between military and civilian worlds.
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10 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:
Seems we went deep quite a bit this year though.
What part about me using a hypothetical on offense to compare the inability of the current D coordinator to adjust do you not understand?
Let's try again: Rudy wasted Santiago because he didn't adjust to John's skills. Santiago was never going to be a run up the middle kind of back, yet how many times did we see just that? No adjustment for the skills, abilities and weaknesses of a player. The offense suffered and Rudy got fired.
Compare that to the D, where Schmidt is playing a D that requires a big body up front. If you don't have that body, you need to adjust. How many times this year did we see the 3 linemen get eaten up a single block each, then 2 LBs both get covered by their linemen, leaving 10+ yard rushes over and over. Schmidt hasn't adjusted to the modern game and the D is suffering because of it.
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4 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:
Who is the Brad Johnson- like qb you’re thinking of?
I'm just using that as a hypothetical. Freund isn't going to run vertical routes every play if he doesn't have a QB who can throw.
Why is Schmidt running the same old system if he doesn't have the right type of players?
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If you don't have a QB who can throw more than 20 yards downfield, you adjust your playbook to fit your players.
If you don't have a large body up front, you need to adjust to fit your players. Schmidt isn't doing that.
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Hoping all UND fans are safe after 11 people shot in NOLA overnight :
CNN: Shooting on the edge of the French Quarter leaves 11 injured in New Orleans.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/01/us/new-orleans-shooting-french-quarter/index.html-
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3 minutes ago, iramurphy said:
There is nothing in his tweet supporting mediocrity. Any leader that publicly criticizes their subordinates should not be in that position. You don’t play to the media and the fans. Unless he is going to make a change, his statement to the public is exactly what he needs to do. Anything else would undermine the program. It would be devastating to recruiting for them to read coaching staff is on a short leash.
He didn't tweet anything about supporting Jones after MBB lost to end their season. He didn't tweet anything about supporting Brad Berry after the season. Of course he's not going to publicly criticize his coach. But he also doesn't need to send out that tweet unless he truly has Bubba's back in this.
That's unfortunate. I watched the game last night on my phone and every time they showed Bubba, he looked like he had no clue what was going on in the game. Only time he showed any sort of emotion was talking to the ref about Maag being held. Just looked outright confused the whole time.
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10 hours ago, Hammersmith said:
And having space for two more autobids makes sense in case the SWAC and MEAC ever want to rejoin, or the Ivy decides to take part, or a new conference forms like the Great West almost did before being absorbed into the Big Sky.
With the WAC looking to add FCS teams, they too would eventually take one of the autobids. Lots of moving parts, but imagine a 32 team tournament if WAC, SWAC, MEAC and Ivies all decide they want the autobid.
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11 minutes ago, SiouxVolley said:
So typical that you don't have a creative thought in your little mind.
Livingston had to overcome frigid temperatures. UND will have to overcome 3rd world conditions in their locker room.
Apologies, I didn't come to the logical conclusion that playing in freezing temperatures is similar to getting dressed in a tent before the game. Clearly, those are similar.
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10 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:
There seems to be many parallels between the Livingston St game and the upcoming Nicholls St game.
2 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:As typical, you don't see any correlation between ability to pay for facilities and long term success.
No, what I don't see is how anything you said in your post shows parallels between a UND vs Livingston St game in 1975 and this weekend's game.
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2 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:
There seems to be many parallels between the Livingston St game and the upcoming Nicholls St game.
Livingston St, now U of West Alabama, is located in one of the poorest regions in Alabama, has less than 5000 students, and under a million in endowment now, but is in the shadow of Tuscaloosa. Really shocked at the lack of new buildings and mostly decrepit campus there after driving through.
Nicholls St has been majorly hurt by Louisiana’s lack of support for its colleges other than LSU. That region seems to be Cajun Country but LSU is also close. It has less than $10 million in endowment and under 7000 students. For it to be DI almost decades before UND shows the athletic priorities in the South.
Only you would compare the endowments of two schools when talking about the similarities between two teams 44 years apart.
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12 hours ago, Hammersmith said:
Regarding music being played on offense or defense:
When music is playing, people tend to not make as much noise. Speakers are pointed to the stands, mouths are pointed to the field. I would consider playing music when UND is on offense to keep people from yelling, then turn it off when UND is on defense and use the boards and announcer to encourage the crowd to fill that silence with noise of their own. At least those sound waves will be traveling in the right direction.
The band can be a positive if they have a good selection of shorts(2-10 seconds each), but they need a drum major or director that understands football in order to insert the right short at the right time. (That's actually how I became a FB fan - I was a drum major at NDSU for two years and needed to learn the basics of FB in order to do my job. Some DMs did, some didn't; I wanted to be one that did.)
I would say the biggest problem(for every FB program, not just yours) is that you need a very unique person running things in the control room. To be really successful, they almost need to have a theatre background or something like it in order to understand how to pull everything together for an audience. But at the same time, they need to completely understand football. Not a typical combination of traits. And in a modern control room, you have so much technology to work with, so you have to add being a techie to that list of traits. Now that's a real tough combination to find; I've found them to be almost mutually exclusive. (which is also why local sports broadcasts often suck so much)
Having a producer, director, announcer and sound guy on the same page with a knowledge of the sport is huge.
But so is having the band director and marketing staff. So much dead air happens when the band isn't ready or when marketing staff doesn't have people ready for the next stoppage.
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2 hours ago, CMSioux said:
Yes fan noise is expected but music should absolutely be expected to help create issues for an opposing team - that is what a home field advantage is. Perhaps the speakers are positioned for fan experience but why have any chance that the home team doesn't have zero communications issues during their huddle?
Not everyone is sitting at the 50 yard line with no one taller than them standing up in front of them. Sometimes you have to look at the screen to see what is going on - but again why have cameras in the crowd when the action is on the field?
They never show a touchdown replay more than once - showing it during the XP it gets lost in the shuffle.
Just my opinions.
Point 1: Again, the speakers don't affect the huddle communication. Especially, after the speaker fixes a couple years ago. It's literally never an issue. Ambient noise from people talking during the game is just as loud on the field.
Point 2: The video board is not there for the handful of fans who refuse to stand up when their view is blocked. The cameras from the in-house feed are 10% for the live play (0% presnap), 50% for fan engagement and 40% replays.
Point 3: Send UND an email.
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20 minutes ago, CMSioux said:
They should have an instructional sheet that stays in the AV room for those working in the studio that don't understand the nuances of football. My suggestions would include:
1. Know when it is important to play music loud. That would be when the other teams has the ball. Stop the music when UND is in their huddle. Part of a home field advantage is making it hard for the other team's offense to hear and easy for the home team offense to hear.
2. Put the camera shot on the field at least 10 seconds before the ball is hiked. There are numerous instances when the big screens have spectator shots on them and the ball is set and about to be put into play.
3. Wait until AFTER the extra point to show a touchdown replay and know that it is okay to show a touchdown replay more than once, if time allows.
I take issue with all 3 of your points, mainly because I've run the video board at multiple D1 venues.
First, the audio on the field from music is not nearly as loud as it is in the stands. The speakers are positioned and tuned for the fan experience, that music isn't going to affect a team during the huddle.
Music also shouldn't be used or expected to cause issues with the opposing team. That's what yelling fans are for.
The video boards are not there to show only the game. If you want to watch it on a screen instead of looking at the live thing happening in front of you, stay at home and watch it on TV.
There is nothing wrong with showing the replay of a TD immediately after a touchdown. Many people want to see that right away. Yes, you show the TD replay after the XP, but why wouldn't you show it after the TD?
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18 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:
Armacost would likely be a poor choice, IMO. Military admins typically don't know how to deal with faculty and students who disagree with them.
That's such a stupid generalization and you clearly know nothing about the man.
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1 hour ago, Sioux95 said:
Fair enough. I'll revise my comment to say better judgement about what's best for the program. Burning Skokna's redshirt to play in a couple of playoff games is one thing, but burning it to play against UNC or SUU is inexcusable, even if the kid was pushing for it. Some will say you can't predict the future, one play and his career could be over, etc, but that works both ways. It's a much safer bet that if we don't make the playoffs this year, 3 years from now we'll all wish he had redshirted. I'm tired of trading kid's best year for their worst year.
It's the kid's choice. If he has a plan to graduate in 4 years and he is good enough to play in his freshman year, he doesn't get redshirted. Unless you'd only want him for 3 years on the field.
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1 hour ago, homer said:
This line of thinking is why I hope the selection committee takes SOS into serious consideration. Is the goal only to get to 7 wins or is the goal to challenge yourself while doing so? The NDSU loss isn’t the one that kept UND out of the playoffs both years.
No, but if they schedule a cup-cake for those two games that's hypothetically another win, which definitely puts them in the playoffs each time.
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Both in and out of conference, UND has the most goals for of any NCHC team and the largest goal differential.
After 4 league games, UND has 17 goals for and 7 against. GD is +10. The second best is three teams at +2.
After 11 total games, UND has 44 goals and 17 against. GD is +27. The second best is DU at +14 through 12 games.
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30 minutes ago, SiouxBoys said:
I just have a strange feeling that if we made the playoffs, they would set us up to go to Brookings in the second round.
With regionalization, we're going to be on the road in round 2, most likely at one of the SUs.
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Just curious, but how does being an incredibly unsuccessful offensive coordinator in FBS then make you qualified to lead a team from FCS to FBS?