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Molberg was a pretty prized recruit. Had quite a few B1G teams interested and likely would have had an offer for Iowa had he not hurt his ankle his senior year. Craig Bohl kept recruiting him even after he verballed to UND, including calling him from TCF Bank Stadium right before kickoff in one of the NDSU/UM games. Not saying the results have been equivalent to what the hype was (albeit very, very early in his college career), but at the time Molberg picked UND, it was a big deal.

One other thing to consider, it seems that quite a few of the players that have become big contributors for SU were guys that were late bloomers, guys who really blossomed their senior year. Now, as was stated, if they are getting guys that were at or near the top of their board, they probably won't lose any sleep on that and guessing they still have a fair amount of scholarship money available, but there are many players that aren't on anyone's radar right now that will become big time contributors for D-1 schools in the next few years. A good recent example is Joe Schobert. Was ready to take a PWO from UND and ended up playing as a true freshman at Wisconsin after having a good senior season and great all-star games in the spring/summer.

Guessing Arkansas's state legislature didn't get involved...

Not so certain it was a UND fan..

He had zero intention of checking on recruiting, that I can assure you of.

For someone who rants and raves about people bringing up UND all the time, you sure keep a pretty good watch on this message board.

Green and pink are official colors of the University and academics. Green and white were adopted as the official athletic colors long ago.

Couldn't agree with you more. Everything can and will be manipulated by opposing fans.

Just off the top of my head... 3. It would be a constant circus full of distractions. The Walk for Change would be just a preview of what you would continue to see. I'm sure all the student athletes would be real excited that the protests, letters and comments where a nickname is the focus instead of their performance on the field and in the classroom. Sounds like something people would be excited to sign up for. 4. Per the settlement, the teams can't use the Sioux nickname in postseason play regardless or the games are forfeited. All the coaches, particularly Hak, would be excited to know that their season is over once the regular season/conference tournament has concluded. Most people aren't excited about losing the Sioux name or having to choose a new one. But that doesn't change that we will always be The University of North Dakota. That's the name student-athletes sign up to play for. That's the name alumni and fans donate to and cheer for. That's the one thing that has never changed.

Good to see the staff hard at work in Minnesota.

Ugly uniforms like that are not limited to Adidas by any means.

I think you're correct. All the losing makes everything a blur.

Should have traded Willingham last year. Couldn't trade him this year even if they wanted to, no one wanted him.

Pretty sure it's going into the IPF.

Practice at 8:30 tomorrow for anyone who wants to check it out.

You don't think that a list of all applicants the day after the initial posting period was over or checking to see if anyone applied in the last 2 weeks since isn't worth reporting?

No concern on my part, it just humors me that the Fargo media is scared to step on the FU athletic departments toes for fear of losing access.

That doesn't answer the question why the Fargo media took such in interest in a hire at UND and are more or less ignoring one of the biggest hires in NDSU history.

As long as this thread was brought back up, anyone have any idea why the Fargo media isn't reporting anything on the applicants for the AD position at FU? McFeeley hasn't said a word about it and Izzo has done one list and updated it a week or two later. They were doing at minimum weekly updates on UND's football coach. You'd think this would be a bigger deal.

Like most places, I would almost guarantee they still use tickets sold not butts in seat. The exclusion might be playoffs where reporting a lower number is more beneficial. Watch any Twins game the rest of the summer and it is a prime example. They also use scanners for tickets but I guarantee the number reported isn't people in the stadium.

Correct

He is the king of getting threads started "just for discussion"...

Not sure but Bubba was wearing an adidas polo at the meet and greet at Scheels last night. Make of that what you will.

Are you trying to spin it now that his offer was dropped?

Getting a little ahead of the topic, but the Herald says that UNI will be making a return trip to Grand Forks in 2015-2016. NDSU will also be coming to Grand Forks and I'd assume SDSU will as well. Not a bad start to the home OOC schedule for next year.