jdub27

The Alabama Board of Trustees should be embarrassed. Bear Bryant's son helps put the final nail in the coffin of some marginal competition in the state. And the school now owes Tennessee $925K for not playing next year instead of the $925K they were supposed to get. Not to mention they'll likely get the boot from Conference USA. Hope Alabama and Auburn enjoy the extra money, which will be chump change to them. I believe they will be allowed to transfer freely without penalty. Unfortunate that they have to choose leaving their school or continue their football careers. Definitely a shame, especially after their 1st year head coach seems to have things headed in the right direction.

Should he? My personal opinion, I don't know, we'll see how the season progresses. Any sort of postseason play (outside of the Big Sky tournament) would be overachieving based on preseason polls. Even making the Big Sky tournament would exceed where the team was picked, but I fully expect them to make the tournament. Will he? No, assuming no off-court issues or anything along those lines. He will be given at least this year and next year.

Me understanding and pointing out that he isn't going to be fired and why is not the equivalent to giving him my full support. Critical thinking, give it a whirl instead of knee-jerk reactions.

The suspense is killing me!

UND plays in a 1 bid league. Since the dance is all that matters, Jones has finished 2nd and 3rd in the conference in the regular season and made it to the semis and the finals. I guess its unfortunate that he couldn't duct tape enough healthy players together for the game against Weber last year but I guess he's not a miracle worker. Maybe he should have had the foresight to have Brekke wear a helmet or something since his injury left a gigantic hole that no one was able to fill. No one was cheering about making the CIT instead of the dance, but it still gives the players another game and a little extra exposure. Again, putting word in other people's mouth (that must be your bit?). Mussman's time had come, but I was also realistic enough to know it wasn't going to happen in the middle of the season. You haven't spelled out a whole lot of actual reasons why someone else would be able to come in with the resources and salary currently offered to Jones and the MBB program and be more successful. But I guess if we fire him, that will fix everything. If you didn't think that there was going to be some serious bumps in the road from a team that lost well over 50% of minutes and 2/3's of its scoring from last year and has 3 or 4 players playing meaningful minutes that had never set foot on the court for UND prior to the season, than you are either delusional or you don't listen/watch very closely.

Feel free to point out a single spot where I've said that I love Jones. I try using some critical thinking and looking into a situation rather than just glancing at the final score to see whether UND won or lost and basing my decision on that. There are definitely some things that make me question him but there are also a lot of other things that make me think that he deserves more time. If you had your way, the athletic department would be buried in debt from paying contract buyouts.

Because you can read a box score? And the Nebraska football players disagree very much with your personal assessment of Pelini and him being fired.

How many games have you watched this year?

Pattyn

Either 406 or 409 I think?

No clue, was only listening to the radio as the game wasn't on TV. UND had their 10th team foul less than 11 minutes into the second half.

Not much choice but to play less aggressively when you're in foul trouble like that. Everyone would have been fouled out at the pace they were going. Nash ended the game with 4 and Coleman, De Rouen, Tyler and Hobaugh all had 3 on top of Hooker being out of the game with an injury. That's 3 starters plus the first guy off the bench in foul trouble and another starter out with an injury. It's not a huge surprise that a quality team made a run against that kind of situation. On a positive note, Nash went 6-7 from the line and the team shot 10-11 (91% the first half). Also have 14 assists on 25 made baskets. On a sour note, they went 6-11 (55%) the second half to finish the game at 73%.

Let them back in but the boys closed it out. Neutral court but nice to see a good win not at home against a quality team. Tough game Friday, guessing Hooker won't be available which no good.

Game is at 9:30 tonight. Doesn't appear to be any video I can see but will be on 100.3FM. Friday's game against Utah appears to be the only one of the three that will be televised (Pac-12 Network for those who may get it).

Pattyn

My first thought as well. The staff was obviously protecting Studsrud due to an incredibly thin bench at QB. He was asked to be a game manager, not game changer, and while he did a pretty good job of it, I'm not sure that does anything more than put him in the conversation to be the starting QB next year, same as Mollberg and Bartels.

On Columbia in front of the mall. Across from BWW about a block north in the new strip mall being put up.

He was also almost 60 after his 6 years in Wyoming. He had more or less retired until USD begged him to come out of retirement. Here's some numbers to chew on: Since 2004, there has been exactly 3 coaches that have went from FCS or lower to a P5 school: Mike London (Virginia from Richmond) - was a former player Paul Wulff (Washington State from EWU) - was a former player Jim Harbaugh (Stanford from San Diego) There's also been 15 other hires by FBS schools that have where the coach was from the FCS or lower (including Bohl) in that time frame. Here's the list: North Texas, Rice, UAB, Army(x2), New Mexico State, Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, NIU, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming and Georgia State. Not exactly any dream destinations and two of the three that actually went into the P5 were former players with the third being Jim Harbaugh (who has pretty decent bloodlines and his dad was at one point the DC at Stanford).

Despite what the rubes from the south kept trying to convince themselves, it was going to be nearly impossible to get a legitimate P5 job jumping from FCS. Big time boosters have egos that get in the way. Wyoming is a stepping stone even if its only for 2-3 years.

I think its probably a cross between people already donating money and it not being a specific item (at this point). I also get that its hard to figure out what specifically to give to when you don't have a general idea on how much you will have to work with/offer.

Weren't there some FU trolls explaining to us in the "7-5 Hypothetical" thread how no team with 5 losses should ever be considered for the playoffs? Thinking Bethune was the one that has a complaint against Indiana State. 1-1 against FBS (beat FIU, lost to UCF), lost to MEAC champs (South Carolina St) and had then had a bad loss to Hampton their second to last game. Also had a win against Grambling who won the SWAC. Indiana St went 1-1 against FBS (beat Ball State, lost to Indiana), took 5th in their conference and lost 2 of the last 3, including their last game against WIU. They did beat Liberty and UNI which are quality wins. Would have been a pretty easy choice had they not choked this weekend, instead they left it open for debate. Idaho St. is a tough call, 0-2 vs FBS and 2-0 vs non-D1. Their 6-2 conference record was all they had to stand behind and they went 0-2 vs MSU/EWU (though both very close games) and didn't play UM.

Iheartradio. 96.1 for Jack Michaels

Pretty decent feed, wish they had the radio guys instead of the PA announcer. UND looking good so far.

Pattyn

Bubba gets his first road win and ends the year on a high note. 23-10 UND