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Root Sports Big Sky Defensive Player of the week: Sept 5 Root Sports Big Sky Co-Defensive Player of the week: Sept 19 Root Sports Big Sky Offensive Player of the week: Sept 26 Root Sports Big Sky Offensive Player of the week: Oct 17 Root Sports Big Sky Defensive Player of the week: Oct 31 Root Sports Big Sky Special Team Player of the week: Oct 31 Root Sports Big Sky Defensive Player of the week: Nov 14

Hindsight, this probably should have been started at the beginning of the season considering how many weekly conference awards UND has won. The 30th anniversary season of the Eddie Robinson Award features 15 finalists for FCS Coach of the Year.

Who are we trying to kid, even when other teams win, it still hasn't mattered. See: Big Sky 4, MVFC 3 for proof.

Guessing no. But you can still get almost 3 hours of tailgating in at the Alerus before heading over to the Betty.

Quit giving away the secret, it was full enough up there last game.

One was an extension of existing sales taxes specifically to pay for flood control. The other was a new 3/4% sales tax for 50 years that didn't have very much in terms of specifics. I don't argue that they listed things that needed to be paid for but they weren't very specific on the projects, particularly the costs. I would guess they will evaluate why it failed and come back with a more specific measure. As is life, once it is on the books, it is a lot easier to keep it there.

Missed that. Overall message doesn't change.

Exactly what "threats" did he make? He said he wanted a full understanding of athletic department finances and that there could be cuts. I think you're misunderstanding the whole situation. There is no argument that the Summit/MVFC combo would cost less. However that was never an option until recently and regardless of timing, it would have been explored whether they were working on the budget or not. I'm not sure if a Summit/Big Sky affiliate would have previously been explored but it appears that is irrelevant at this point. With it being a cost savings and possibly an option now, it makes that combination more appealing in that area but the athletic department will continue to be fine if they stay in the Big Sky. It is takes an incredibly large leap to get to "they can't afford it".

Golladay wouldn't have been on the team this year if he stayed at UND, he would have graduated last year. He had to redshirt his first year at NIU because of transfer rules, which worked out fine for him since he played as a true freshman at UND. Golladay got looked over big time and had an opportunity to play at a higher level an hour from home instead of 12. This is definitely a situation where I don't fault the kid for making the decision he did, though I really wish we would have go to watch him finish his career at UND. He'll probably get drafted and have a good shot to play on Sundays.

UND can afford to be in the Big Sky, however the MVFC may apparently be an option for the first time since UND moved D1 and the timing with all costs being examined, including conference affiliation, makes it even more prevalent. There is a difference. UND will continue operating just fine as is if they remain in the Big Sky, which wouldn't be the case if they "couldn't afford it".

Pretty sure their conference champion plays in the Celebration Bowl, however I believe the rest of the conference is technically eligible for an at-large bid.

Not so sure it was a student. He definitely wasn't sitting in the student section. Not sure if that makes it better or worse.

For the first round, yes. (Assuming a win Saturday) UND will be one of the top unranked teams, arguably somewhere around 9-12. Sending them to Fargo to face the top seed for a second round game definitely strays away from what a true bracket should look like. Not that it is going to change but yeah, San Diego would be an excellent first round game for UND.

Might want to brush up on what the 1st amendment actually covers. They can force people to remove offensive clothing, ndsu said it themselves.

As expected, the narrative seems to be it is somehow UND's fault because they haven't moved on or something like that. While it makes no sense, I guess that somehow some UND fans not being able to let go of the Fighting Sioux logo makes it OK for FargoU fans to continue to show how classy they really are?

Ballpark around 8,300 tickets sold so far. Not sure how that compares to other weeks but is getting near Weber attendance, which was frankly embarrassing. Need to do better this week. Weather should be helpful and make for a nice tailgating morning.

I openly stated that I don't know what is going on behind the scenes but there is something. You yourself have added to some of the speculation about teams in the MVFC, though I rarely see any links or credible sources to back it up. There are people who post here who know things and have posted comments that it isn't hard to read through the lines on. I feel comfortable with what I know from both on this board and in person. I will absolutely be the first one in line to admit I was 100% completely wrong if the WAC thing happens. I also have with 99.99999% confidence I will never have to worry about that. Not 100% because there is always a change for a seismic shift to come out of nowhere, but there is no chance the scenario plays out like you have described many different times and ways. There is no logic for UND to move to the G5 as it sits, increasing travel budgets to be associated with more schools it has nothing in common with.

Patty V has been publicly and privately saying for years that the MVFC has zero desire to expand and the conversation has been dead in the water. For all of the sudden there to be talk about join dates and exit fees, there has obviously been a significant change behind the scenes the last few months in order for conversations to get this far. Not sure if it is WIU, YSU, MSU or something else, but there is something going on that shifted the MVFC stance. Keep spinning it however you want, you are absolutely wrong on it. I'm not advocating one way or another but whether people are in favor of it or not, it shouldn't exactly be a huge surprise to anyone that as soon as the MVFC became a possibility, UND would explore moving into the Summit/MVFC. The Summit alone was never an option due to the need to protect football which is why after the MVFC made it abundantly clear they weren't looking at moving to 11 and the Big Sky offered, UND took it in a heartbeat. Despite the spin, this isn't UND begging to join Summit or crawling back to the Dakota schools, this is a scenario that has always been on the radar but never previously been an actual possibility. Now that it apparently is, UND is looking into it and with budget issues, it would not be a surprise to see them take it. The benefits to the Summit are obvious, get to 10 teams for basketball and solidify the conference further. Not quiet as clear with the MVFC but there are at least of a few possibilities that have been mentioned multiple times on why they have all of the sudden opened the lines of communication.

Interesting wardrobe choices allowed in the fargodome, especially after the recent request by Bresciani to stop the racist chants.

Just give them time to get over that their games to UND will be a quality loss.

AD's don't go rogue and go deep into conversations with other conferences or buy-out clauses with their current conference without the sign-off of the President.

Must be something in the Fargo media water. Dom and Calilou had the committee chair on this morning and continued the whine-fest. They asked him if he was hearing uproars about the prelim rankings from across the country or just pockets. The response was "very isolated pockets". After he was done, they went into a diatribe about the release and how compared to the FBS process, it is such a joke. Here's a hint, it isn't the same. Accept it for what it is and get over it. The process for the initial release was explained but apparently that isn't good enough. He stated this was preliminary, they haven't met and discussed anything in depth. If you want to argue it was pointless to release it at this point, I have no issue with that. They were trying to be transparent and create discussion. Guessing this is roughly what they do at this time every year, they just made it public this time. Take it for what it is worth and move on. However, instead of doing that, the Fargo media specifically stated on the air that NDSU is ranked where they are because people are tired of them. Not because they lost a home game, have won 2 more in overtime and by admittance of their own fans, haven't been playing all that great and aren't exactly blowing teams out (though admittedly keep winning tough games which is impressive). No, instead they openly stated that the rankings were a conspiracy against NDSU. It is nice to have media that care about FCS but take off your cheerleading outfit when you're pretending to be objective.

But overreacting and folding the tent on the season is so much more fun.

Are you Jeremy Jorgenson? This is about as tactful as he was talking to the head of the playoff committee today. I'll sum it up for anyone who doesn't want to bother to listen: 25 minutes of constant whining about some preliminary polls that were put out to generate discussion. I feel bad for the guy coming on to try to discuss it and he did his best to address questions but his answers weren't going to satisfy the radio hosts regardless of what they said (because obviously NDSU wasn't high enough). Oh and the MVFC is super duper tough (literally mentioned by JJ 3x in 15 seconds) and the Big Sky has an unbalanced schedule. Do I agree with all of the rankings? Probably not. Am I going to flip out, start sending tweets to the guy and claim conspiracy over a preliminary poll. Absolutely not. Win and everything takes care of itself.