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sounds like Chyzyk has had a pretty good fall camp so far.

I saw starman used the old second half team thing. didn't he see last season? the second half team thing is so pre 2013 . kidding aside I look for this years team to finish the regular season with 20-22 wins. I forsee alot of splits this season to go along with 4-5 sweeps, top three finish in the NCHC, runnerup finish in the tourney and top 8 finish in the pairwise which lands us a spot in the west regional at the x along with minny. and along the way somewhereI will jump off the deep end and declare the season over before the end of january.

Jim, It would be intersting to see once this gets finalized as to how these changes would have affected last years pairwise.

after a lackluster performance and loss to a bad vermont team in three weeks it will start.

kiper said on espn radio this morning that NDSU could play in any FBS conference including the SEC and not be a cellar team I don't know if I would go that far yet. but they are damn good. didn't their men's bb team knock off a top 15 wisconsin team a few years back. I would put that win as bigger beings kstate isn't going to be as good as they were last year. also their FB team's win at montana back about ten years ago could be considered a bigger win as at that time they were truly playing up a division and it was their fist win against an upper division team and started to pave the way for their D1 move.

look at the teams over the past few years in BC and yale that have won it all, neither was a "Big" team. nor were Blais' two title winners.

best of luck jim, but could you have not announced this 2-3 months ago to allow hakstol to replace you.

I'm not sold on johnson yet, at this point I think he is overrated and so do nhl scouts/teams as within a year he goes from potential first round/second round pick to what the fifth round.

these have been sold.

new owners. the other owner decided to move back to texas and the new owners are local. it is open went there today.

pair of tickets for friday nights section 316 row G(row in front of press box) seats 6 and 7. $390 for pair.

yep, there were two instances in hakstol's tenure where a third place game helped them 2005 when they beat minny and secured a two seed and 2008 when they beat cc which gave them a one seed that year. but the 2009 third place game didn't do much for them.

I know this really isn't the forum for this but out of curiosity where was the "old barn" located on campus?

wouldn't that be determined march after it is determined which teams will be there?

how about play one of the alaska schools there and have games that count.

I apologize, I wasn't directing it at you, I was directing it at the exhibition games. it is just me but I am not a fan of games that don't count.

woohoo. I'm sorry but who cares about two exhbition games versus canadian schools.

yep and they even broadcast two games from houghton last season.

I'm not opposed to a dh in the nl either, I think it is just stupid that in the world series you have it in al parks and not in nl parks.

they could just go back to the days of yesteryear like you mentioned and just rotate homefield. I would actually prefer to see more interleague and say have one 3 game series against every team from the other league and determine homefield off of overall best record just like the nba and nhl do. but "tradionalists" would have heart attacks if that were to happen.

it's better than having a home run hitting contest to decide home field. at this point there isn't a better solution to determine home field in the world series as everbody doesn't play everybody in interleague to make having the best record be the determining factor. that said some interleague matchups are no different than say carolina versus the wild in hockey, or memphis versus the hawks in basketball or detroit versus buffalo infootball. there are always going to be less than desireable matchups.

I've got us going 22-12 for the year in the regular season, where that wouldl leave us is anyone's guess.

miami? BU? SCSU? Omaha? I'm willing to bet UND gets 3-4 wins out of these four first half series. the bigger question is whch team will they lose to that no one thinks they should?

just think if stafford, zajac and spirko would have stayed another year.

06-07 would be my guess. although duncan wasn't a 1st or 2nd round pick.