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I'd argue there is a difference between a preseason 2nd team all-conference player vs. preseason player of the year but regardless, UND knocked off a Summit team with no Loyd among others tonight.

If true, guessing someone within the athletic department either knew something that wasn't public info or not officially decided and told it to the announcers in the pregame meeting.

Everyone is looking like a freshman. Need to calm down.

I thought you were a Nodak then Roughrider guy?

Hold on now. The 2015 Kansas Jayhawks would like to have a talk with you...

When a team not named NDSU beats a weak FBS team?

I, along with probably everyone else on this board, have witnessed and heard stories about athletes from every sport (and regular students too!!) and in my experience, the football players were nowhere near to the top of the list. Not to mention that I'd guess that a majority of students that come to UND are a lot more familiar with football than they are hockey.

The committee took North Dakota off the ballot, Kelley didn't.

If a school wants to host, it has to make a bid of at least the minimum for that round (bids for all rounds were due yesterday): First round – $30,000 Second round – $40,000 Quarterfinals – $50,000 Semifinals – $60,000 Those are the minimum amount the school is guaranteeing the NCAA for hosting. Schools can make bids in excess of those in hopes of getting a game by submitting a projected budget and the NCAA takes 75% of the net receipts of the projections. Other schools in the past have put guaranteed funds into the ticket sales portion in order to boost their bid and get a home game.

Why would they do that when the fix has been in for the sUNDogs since the beginning?

It comes down to assignment football. In that situation, I really like the experience of UND's linebackers led by Ratelle. #Area51 #Ratackle

Surprised he doesn't have much for offers. Guessing his height is the issue?

The Wyoming guy that missed the tackle was not happy... Wish I could find the video that had the other view. It made the defensive player look even worse.

The students would probably get a little more freedom if they had something that wasn't vulgar/inappropriate and actually used a little creativity. I, along with many others, aren't going to claim innocence from participating when I was a student but it seems that the only ones that have survived are the worst of the group.

It was a good time to test him out and see what he has as a running back. He took some shots but he is definitely a playmaker with game changing speed. As for Santiago, watching his vision and how he sets up the defenders to go right into his blockers is crazy. Watching a couple of his runs from the end zone with how he moves just enough to get everything set up then makes his cut or hits the hole and is gone is almost surreal. Not sure how fast he actually is, but he must be faster than he looks to defenders. Multiple times on the highlights you see a defender who thinks they have an angle on him only to come up at least a step or two behind when they get to him.

While I agree, I still am not sold on him at running back for the long term. He took more solid/hard hits in one half of football than Santiago has taken all year. He runs well but doesn't seem to have quite the vision or the ability to avoid impact like Santiago does (though not many do). As for Norberg, it seems that he has developed a little more "wiggle". Last year it seemed to be head down and that's what you were going to get. He looked much better running the ball Saturday. In his defense, probably helped immensely being a full time running back rather than getting just switched over from linebacker.

I'd go the opposite way. Regular season games are tickets sold. Playoffs games are actual people through the door. Add in Thanksgiving weekend and "short-notice", attendance will be down. Historically that is almost universally the trend through the FCS.

Not sure I can agree with that as UND is flipping to the complete other end of the spectrum (D-III to top 20). Brand new team who is likely still finding its way traveling to one of the top programs in the country, not to mention two players (including one starter) who are expected to play a significant role didn't even dress for the only game UND has played. Wisconsin will be playing its third game against D-1 competition. Not going to overreact one way or another after this game. The upcoming tournament this weekend against some mid-majors will give a much better picture of where this team really is.

I wouldn't say Kaminsky was an unknown at the time but that was definitely good coming out party. That was absurd.

For whatever it is worth, Sagarin does have the Big Sky ranked as the #2 conference.

Ding, ding, ding.

Denying Grand Forks residents a new fast food option is not a good first impression to make.

Hopefully after the first playoff game.

I was disappointed when I clicked that and it wasn't this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9VhD4SccSE

And I've explained exactly why your theory has zero basis of being true so I guess I don't need bother with that. We both want the same result so we can leave it at that. Hopefully the GF Herald's article (that was about 2 weeks too late) opens a few eyes up.