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Him and Idalski were there to do interviews with Hennessy but he made a point to come into the ballroom and listen for a while and may or may not have bought Bubba a well-deserved beverage. Nice to see him to that, especially with the support that the football team gives to other programs.

I agree. My point was to point out how absurd the claim that "Any recruit that picks the B1G over any NCHC school is bonkers" actually is. Sometimes its OK to take off the Kelly green shades and put down the Kool-Aid.

Not saying there aren't but none of the NCHC schools are on the same page academically as the B1G schools. To claim that someone would be crazy to pick a B1G over any NCHC is pretty absurd on a few different levels. Obviously there are a lot of variables that go into that decision and there are advantages and disadvantages to both sides.

I feel pretty comfortable assuming that there will be some changes to tuition waivers.

Well there is that whole education aspect of college as well...

Listening to the staff talk about the class last night, it was obvious that they valued multi-sport athletes and the versatility that comes with it. The size and speed some of these guys have is pretty impressive coming out of high school. Also said something like 18 or 19 of the signees had been to one of UND's summer camps, reiterating how important that is.

I agree after driving by twice tonight, once at dusk and once when its was completely dark. I appreciate the effort but execution was more than lacking. Maybe "Project 88" will turn out better....

Ah, so you're referring to costs that were due to changes mandated by the NCAA (which is what Faison referred to in the article, some of which were not actually incurred by UND) and then spitballing the rest? Not to mention the costs of changing uniforms and other gear that is replaced every couple of years (if not more frequently) is included in that number and would have be incurred regardless. That article also fails to mention $750,000 was an estimate (not actual money spent) and over 3/4's of it ($575,000) was the estimate to come up with the new nickname and logo.

At least the contract for the new logo and implementation is projected to cost less (~$49,500) than a year's worth of Bresciani's incidentals covered by the NDSU Foundation ($70K+), so I guess that's a bonus! Plus I'd love to see your source that shows $2 million of taxpayer money was used but I won't hold my breath.

I knew it looked somewhat familiar:

Looks like Ruhe transferred to Southwest Minnesota State.

Rastas is in, looks like Marler from Minot either isn't coming or being announced today.

Russo was in earlier and Cloyd was just announced. Down to Turner and Randolph Randolph has a picture of him signing on his twitter.

Hope UNDFan doesn't mind, but fixed to clear up confusion

There's actually 25 listed. The heading is off saying 4 PWO's, there is 5 with the addition of Rastas. The list matches SFI's list of 25 as well.

Feel pretty confident seeing on Twitter the amount of UND gear his parents got, but still would be nice to have that one in the hopper.

One had the preference of the academia on the committee and one had the preference of everyone else. Not sure about the feelings on the third one.

Yep, that is a very nice one to see! Hoping to see Cloyd's fax come in soon...

It depends on whether they get the proper paperwork filled out and sent in. It is slightly different from those getting scholarships.

That's actually the reason I prefer Olsen from ASU. I think he has the experience to know what he doesn't know from the different places and positions he's been in. His expertise in budgeting/finance has to be really attractive right now with the budget shortfall and upcoming drop in state funding. I just personally think that Shirley's application is one turn too soon for him though there is nothing that says he wouldn't do an excellent job.

While I do think he'd do a excellent job, I agree with previous sentiments, he's about one higher level job short on his resume to take over at UND. He's trending in the right direction and checking all the right boxes moving up with each stop and having now been a president at two different universities, but zero experience at a research institute is a tough sell with his only previous stops being UM-Crookston, Dakota State, Valley City and Minot State.

Former ND Miss Basketball (and NDSU player) Holly Johnson will play her final season at UND (per UNDSports.com)

I thought this was a pretty objective take on the situation, pretty insightful article in general about pre-draft hype. Carson Wentz Hype Train Needs to Slow It's Roll - http://thedraftwire.usatoday.com/2016/01/31/carson-wentz-is-who-we-thought-he-was-and-there-is-nothing-wrong-with-that/

I don't necessarily disagree overall but if you haven't seen a difference between this year and the last couple years, it's because you aren't paying attention or you don't want to. Like I said, I hope everyone learns from it.

Young team got too confident, things had been coming easy. They had some adversity last night and didn't weather it. Lots of things that could have went another way, hopefully they (and the staff) learn from it so later in the year they come out with a better result. This team has the talent to make some noise in the conference tournament.