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Also this part on the TV Coverage For the record, it is on Fox Sports North at 8pm.

They have a whole website to do it, one that doesn't even have opinions any different from theirs. It won't stop it.

He obviously has talent but teams are stacking the box with 8-9 guys and covering the WR's one on one with little to no safety help. I watched the SDSU game and he had between 5-7 seconds minimum each drop back to throw. Teams are selling out to stop the run, having Crockett lined up behind him has benefitted him immensely. That plan came incredibly close to working for SDSU and CCU. It worked exceptionally well for UNI. .

From what I understand, the member schools have similar feelings. Arizona State would also be subject to the same buyout clauses as any other school, so even if they were join and then jump ship, they would be paying a hefty penalty to do so, though I can't remember what the exit fee is at the moment.

My thoughts as well.

Cowboys originally had a guy lined up over the gunner but he shifted down to the line of scrimmage indicating a block formation, leaving the guy wide open. Dallas basically dared the Colts to audible and they did. The punter did his part, the guy just flat out dropped it.

This will be an issue very, very soon. B1G schools will have an advantage. Other schools will have to decide whether or not they will follow. UND has already indicated they will.

Great. Now the boys in Tuscaloosa can go after the UAH hockey program like they did to the UAB football program.

Oh my. I'll just put this here I guess:

I thought individual awards didn't matter?

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.