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San Jose State shut out Sacramento State 24-0 in last year's home opener...Sac State rolled UND in GF 31-7 several weeks later...I guess we'll find out if progress has been made soon...

UND travelling to Fargo twice before a return date is set..Eastern Michigan playing at Florida and Michigan State...Weber State opening up at Arizona State...some folks around here are gonna have a heart attack at some point...

Nice piece - thanks for posting the link.

They're awesome! I'm not a Blues fan but they have a great fan base in that town. Nice to see the Blues looking good again.

There's a thread for that too.

In his defense, the post making that claim wasn't made by darell.

THAT'S what you deduced from my comments on Colorado, the ACC, and Notre Dame coaches?

A) fightingsioux4life brought up Notre Dame/Miami, not me. B) the claim was that this (meaning two "home" games in a row for one school) would "never happen"...something I promptly refuted and proved to be incorrect.

Colorado's conference is as good as the ACC...so what? Colorado's terrible. I hope Bubba rights the ship. But a certain Notre Dame has had a slew of saviors come along since Lou Holtz....Bob Davie, Tyrone Willingham, Charlie Weis...I'll wait to see the on-the-field product before proclaiming to be on the "same level" as NDSU.

Speaking of laughable...let's look at the Notre Dame/Miami rivalry. After losing in Miami in 1989, Notre Dame almost immediately announced that the 1990 game in South Bend would be it - the rivalry needed a "cooling off period." The teams would not meet again in regular season play until 2012 - at Soldier Field. Notre Dame territory. A second game was scheduled for 2016. Where, you ask? Miami? Tampa Bay? Hell, how about Jacksonville? Nope. South Bend, Indiana.

And what better way to set the tone for a great relationship with your new head coach than by squashing his request to get a certain team on the schedule, right? Your Alabama/Auburn question doesn't make any sense unless Alabama were to move up to FBS1 and leaves Auburn behind in FBS2.

Well you see, darell, Alabama and Duke actually go back a long ways together. Alabama coach Wallace Wade left Tuscaloosa to coach at Duke way before our time. He's such a legend at both schools that the street that runs alongside Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium is Wade Avenue and Duke's stadium is actually NAMED Wallace Wade Stadium. In addition, Duke coach David Cutcliffe played at Alabama and was an assistant coach under some guy you may have heard of: Paul "Bear" Bryant. Call it a hunch...but I have a feeling that those are a couple of good reasons why mighty Alabama travelled to lowly Duke in 2010...

So now you're all IN FAVOR of this game despite posting a week or two ago that UND should forget about NDSU and get someone else on the schedule?

Kentucky's SEC in football...Indiana's Big 10 in football...Colorado's Pac 12 in football...do those schools carry the same amount of FBS "respect" as Alabama, Ohio State, and USC?

Yawn...I've explained my family NDSU-ology before, darell, and I won't do it again. And I think the word you are looking for is "pedestal."

I never said NDSU was a quasi-FBS team, but to their credit, their resume doesn't include a 15 point loss and a 2 point win over an NAIA school, does it? God help us all over an NDSU/UND football game? I think he's got bigger issues to deal with these days... It seems that Bubba wanted the game scheduled regardless of how, when, or where. You want him fired too?

Nice! Very under-rated player simply because of UND's poor record during his time in Grand Forks. He had a key role with the Red Wings as well...a shame that he was traded a year or two before Detroit won the Stanley Cup.

I'm talking program, darell, not conference. The second-best ACC team last season was Duke. That doesn't diminish the Seminoles' championship any, does it?

On the plus side, most Bison fans in attendance should be able to answer the tailgate-party question "who is NDSU playing today?".

...and Toledo's as FBS as Florida State...

The discount double-check guy? What does he have to do with NFL 2014?

I cannot wait to see the St Louis Blues' jersey unveiling today. Hopefully the piping mess is gone!

Pre-season musings... Adrian Peterson, on who the Vikings QB ahould be: "Going off of understanding the offense and who's running the offense better right now, you know, nothing to do with talent-wise, so that's why Matt has the edge..." I have no comment on the long, drawn-out, rambling sentence there but wow, talk about a back-handed endorsement of Matt Cassel... Does any QB have worse luck than the Rams' Sam Bradford? St Louis will regret investing in Bradford, unfortunately. Blake Bortles looks like the real deal. Tampa Bay's new uniforms are awfully tough to watch on TV. Anybody else think that Kirk Cousins just might be a better QB than RG III? I'm not a fan of Pete Carroll but there's no denying that he's done a heck-of-a job with the Seahawks. San Francisco must be hiding all of its offensive tricks until the regular season. If not, they're in trouble. Uttering a slur in practice gets a coach suspended for 3 regular season games. Video-tape showing a player dragging his unconscious girlfriend off an elevator gets him suspended for 2 regular season games. Go figure... Detroit's Nick Fairley looks like he ATE last year's Nick Fairley. Terrible draft choice. Miami's best shot at winning this season might be to bring back Dan Marino, Tony Nathan, Mark Clayton, and Mark Duper. And those uniforms are awful. Every time I look at Eli Manning, my immediate thought is Woody Harrelson in "White Men Can't Jump" going berserk yelling "Opie Taylor? I ain't your Opie Taylor!" OK, OK, I get it. You have a boatload of NFL titles. But when you've won 2 championships in the last almost-50 years, are you REALLY "Titletown, USA"? I see the Houston Texans...but I want to see the Houston Oilers. The San Antonio Raiders? Yikes. I like the Eagles in the NFC East. Denver won't make the Super Bowl. It's almost hard to believe that Matt Flynn was brought in to be Seattle's QB of the future. When I hear the name "Colts," I still think of Baltimore. Man, I'm old... Really hated to see the HHH Metrodome torn down. What an iconic stadium. Just kidding! That place had all the aesthetic appeal of a toxic waste dump. I bet Jerry Jones is a real prick to work for. The Atlanta Falcons will rebound this year and make the playoffs. The Steelers uniforms just scream "tough." Cleveland dumping Trent Richardson on Indianapolis was pure genius. That's enough for now...anyone else with some random NFL thoughts?

I'd probably start with Al Henry and Al Hangsleben from the early 1970's...

One thing is certain...it's obvious that UND's negotiating team included gfhockey and some of his good ol' boys...unfortunately, they were all coming off a 20 hour long pub crawl...