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Who said anything about skin color or that what he did isn't abuse? Just thought it was worth pointing out that the first grand jury dismissed it while the second brought charges and curious if there was any difference between what was presented to them. Edit - Apparently the original report was incorrect and there the first grand jury indicted him. Disregard my original curiosity. I had not seen an article retracting the original report. Thanks for the clarification.

Just want to point out that the first grand jury dismissed it. The prosecutor had to take it to a second grand jury before he was charged. Have not saw anything that clarifies if they had more evidence or why the second one charged him while the first didn't. No clue if anything changed but throws another twist into the whole mess.

He must have been hearing similar comments on how its coming across because it was kind of odd that he made a point to directly address it. Again, no disagreements that out of context or by itself, it looks like they aren't real concerned how the season ends, which is pretty far from the truth.

Mussman was let go on November 18. Bubba was hired December 24. One week beyond the required 30 day posting period. I'm not a fan of the scoreboard thing but Bubba did directly address it at the luncheon a couple weeks ago and how it was being misunderstood. His said his point with the phrase is that he wants people to be able to watch the team and not know whether they are up 20 or down 20 (or 30 or 40.....) and not that they don't care whether they win or lose, because they do. He wants the team to give the same effort regardless of what the scoreboard says. The same can definitely not be said of the past few years, the second the team got down, they folded, outside of the USD game in 2011 I guess. No disagreement from me that if they turn in another performance or two like they did this past weekend, you can come up with all the clichés you want, but people aren't going to show up. The effort thing was just the cherry on top of watching the team getting run out of their own building the past few years, they need to be competitive or the crowds won't show.

Go Bisons! I was going to make a joke about their big game against Regina last night and then found out that the University of Manitoba's athletic website is http://www.gobisons.ca/ Looks like FU is already blocked from going international, at least to the north.

Heart says 27-24 UND. Head says 31-17 MSU.

UND will get an allotment and they will be distributed based request sorted by Priority Points. No clue how many it will be, but the place only holds 5,000 and tickets are held back for the other 3 schools as well. There will be a fair amount of tickets that go on sale to the general public this fall but I haven't seen an exact date. Going to be a tough ticket to get.

Not sure why they don't do a home/home for every sport outside of football. Both basketball teams have hard time getting quality home games. Would be better than the D-II/D-III/NAIA home games that litter both schedules.

It would only be adding a trip to Grand Forks every other year. It also gets them an extra home game against a D-1 school who happens to fill their gym when they play every year instead of every other year. Seems to make sense to me.

Why?

http://www.nchc.tv/faq

Definitely a step in the right direction:

You are mistaken. Garman has been listed as the starter the previous two games though Simmons ended up with more carries both games. Hopefully Shaugabuy has enough of an understanding of pass blocking and other responsibilities for the coaches to give him extended time on Saturday. I'm guessing he does but I can't think of any other reason that the coaching staff hasn't put him out there more.

The quotes from NDSU's coach and players in the article Caillou wrote sure contradict that. Not to mention that beating UND was specifically mentioned as one of their top couple goals for the year in their season preview. #buttsuperbowl You're a special kind of stupid aren't you?

Christmas present for MafiaMan?

Jer Garman listed as the starting RB with Shaugabay as the backup. Casey Young no longer listed on the 2-deep, Dev Ferguson instead listed as the backup at two different WR positions. Shea Walker returns and is listed as backup NG. Cole Reyes not listed at all. Carr and James listed as starters at the safety position.

Not sure anyone counts cross country scores as an actual team sport, but if you really want to, you might want to recheck that women's cross country score.... And I feel pretty confident the overall scoreboard will be even after tonight (using the actual results, not the incorrect ones someone posts on a message board).

Only in the Football forum though.

Why was it that they couldn't win when the playing field was level? NDSU was not at any disadvantage compared to other schools. So why were scholarship limits that applied the same to everybody an excuse only for them?

I guess people using the excuse that their team couldn't win because all of the teams had the same number of scholarships (level playing field) has always been a strange argument that I wouldn't personally make.

They already implemented it for their games this year. Their OOC game against Montana was $45/35 (sideline/endzone), SDSU and homecoming was $40/30 and the rest of the games at $35/25. Now if what they said in their press conference is true and UND is just another game that will help fill the schedule, I would fully expect price to reflect that and the UND game will be at bottom end of the scale. Wasn't much discussion about the pricing structure though...

That the reason that NDSU supposedly couldn't win anymore was because everyone had the same amount of scholarships?

Oddly enough, I did all those last weeks and they didn't work. Now today for some reason, it is working. Technology...

You are correct. I meant to type against and not at. On a separate note, the Quote feature finally works on IE for me!!

While all of these are true, you left out that South Carolina absolutely flopped at against A&M and there is no highly ranked match-ups. Everything you stated would completely be overridden in a heartbeat if that was the case. And don't claim sour grapes, the article in the Forum spells out the exact same thing. Fargo has been a nice fallback for them for the second year in a row when there hasn't been a big time game.