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Not at all, but I expect roughly the same tonight.* Just pointing out some inaccuracies in darell's assertions. *Wow am I setting myself up....

He did coach the team when they beat Mayville 76-39, including outscoring them in the second half 38-15. Must have been a fluke. Or did you miss that box score?

You must be new around here.

Someone tweeted a picture of the line that's forming in front of the Betty in anticipation for the game tonight:

I mean, I don't want to go waaaaaay back, but 2015 UND verbal Elijah Grady had an offer from NDSU. And considering how Mussman recruited ND, you don't exactly have a whole lot to brag about.

Then why are you still here?

Highly doubt that. Maybe the Cavalry though.

Will be interesting to see what happens when teams have some scouting on him. He has a motor though. They need to do something about that floor, it is absolutely terrible. I thought maybe it was just Saturday but I watched a few minutes tonight and saw guys slipping all over the place.

Tyler will be fine. He started as a true freshman and held his own in the Summit in UMKC's slow paced system. He is a different player then Anderson or Webb though. Shanks must not be too bad, NDSU wanted him pretty badly and Minnesota wanted him but didn't have a spot. Needs to fill out some and develop but has 3 1/2 years left. He also had 3 guys that were 6'7" and two more that were 6'10" at the 4 and 5 spots in front of him at Utah State, there was no way he was going to see playing time worth wasting a year over.

Not at all what I said, but if I had to choose, I absolutely would prefer a team playing better at the end of the year over the beginning of the year. Winning a bunch of games early in the season doesn't matter if the team flames out in conference play or loses in the first round of the conference tournament. I'd prefer a nice mix, but if a team is going to peak, I want it to be in February/March since I don't think we'll be seeing an at large bid out of the Big Sky anytime soon. And who would have imagined a team replacing 2/3's of its production and that has 3 or 4 new starters would be inconsistent and lay some eggs. Don't like it and hoped it wouldn't happen, but it isn't a big surprise. I think we already have enough threads centered on coaches who the fans perceive to have not end the year the way they'd prefer. And if you want to be picky about it, it has actually become statistically easier to make the tournament. In previous years, 7 out of 11 teams made it (63.6%). Now 8 out of 12 teams make it (66.7%).

Hopefully the drop in oil prices causing a little bit of a slow down out west will drop construction prices a little bit and they can lock some stuff in.

For better or worse, the transition to D-1 worked in Jones favor. He has been able to buy himself enough time to prove it. The dollar amount of the contract tells me the AD isn't completely sold either.

Exactly. Which is the same reason Jones will likely have the rest of this year and next year to get it figured out. After the 2013 season (first D-1) where his team finished 3rd in the Big Sky and was a missed 3 pointer away from making the conference championship, he had 2 years left on his contract and they added two more and brought his salary to slightly over $100K. He has 1 1/2 years to change people's mind.

It was FU fans who claimed they weren't "road games" because of the fan support, so take that up with them. And you still are missing the point: The question wasn't about how many games has NDSU won away from the Fargodome, it was how successful would they have been if their opponent had the home field advantage instead of them. The last playoff game that NDSU's opponent had a home field advantage, NDSU lost.

He did turn a 6-7 team into a 1-11 team and still got almost 3 more years after that. Brewster coached almost 4 years of his 5 year contract.

Pretty tough to call it a fluke when they were a rattled 3 pointer away from doing it the year before. I have no disagreements on Jones OOC record among other things but his teams have played their best basketball at the end of the year and in conference tournaments. Making the Big Sky championship game last year was no fluke. They also hired Tim Brewster in between and their program got worse before it got better. Kind of an important detail.

So two teams are playing a road game? Both teams playing away from home (a neutral site game) has nothing to do with the point that apparently sent you into a tizzy to begin with, which was that NDSU has had an advantage of all home games the last 4 years (which they've earned and no one has argued) and wondering how they would have fared without that advantage. Apparently asking how the games may have turned out differently if NDSU had to go to the opposing team stadium (not a neutral one), play in front of the opposing team's crowd (outside of a tiny visiting team allotment) and been the only team that had to travel is too much for you to comprehend.

I know it is a highlight film, but I really like how he squares up and takes on running backs, looks like he has no issues tackling. Also seems to be good at going up and getting the ball rather than letting it come down. Someone with a little more technical knowledge can probably offer a better assessment on his coverage skills.

The answer is still zero. NDSU's website confirms. http://gobison.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=50&path=football Overall: 15-0 Home: 9-0 Away: 5-0 Neutral: 1-0

I honestly believe this part to be absolutely false. I don't think there is anyone, regardless of opinion, that doesn't want and expect success for UND. The transition means that the type of success that is realistically attainable isn't the same as it was in D-2 in a lot of sports, but there isn't anyone who doesn't want UND to be successful. There are realities and constraints that do come into play, whether us as fans like it or even realize it. Despite that, I still expect UND to be a place where a student athlete is given a chance to excel on and off the field.

The answer is still 0. They have won 3 neutral field games. Playing against another team in their own stadium, in front of their own crowd, is considered a road game. Playing in a stadium that both teams have to travel to and is not the regular stadium for either team is a neutral field game. Neither team (in theory) has an advantage over the other. The fact that you can't understand the difference doesn't make you correct. The original post was a compliment to the home-field advantage that NDSU has, which has helped them. Asking how many of the games they would have won in the other teams stadium, where they were the only team traveling and don't have the crowd behind them, is a fair question.

Too many words, not enough pictures? 5

It is a neutral field game. Both teams travel, they aren't the away team in someone else's stadium and they haven't been since EWU in 2010 (which they have earned). And after your outburst about it, two other FU fans posted contradicting statements to your view. Seems like you're in the minority on this one. Not sure what the hockey regionals in Fargo have to do with it? UND is the host school at a neutral site venue. That doesn't change whether they make it in the playoffs or not.

UMD's coach Shannon Miller is not having her contract renewed after this season due to budget problems. Interesting situation. She claims that she'd offered to take a paycut but the school wouldn't talk numbers with her. http://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/3635707-contract-not-renewed-womens-hockey-coach-minnesota-duluth-due-finances