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The lack of an inside game is glaringly obvious tonight.

Wow was that a terrible call/great acting getting an And-1 on the off balance 3 pointer..

Need to play the last 10 minutes like they did the first 10 minutes and forget how ugly the middle 20 were. As ugly as that was, still very much in it.

How old were you in '03? 10 or 11? I doubt you have a whole lot of insight of what went on other than some revisionist history you've read on the intertubes.

Yet it was still your highest attended game of the year. Even more than your "rival" SDSU. Same with your volleyball team.

If he's 6'2" and runs a legitimate 4.50 40-yard dash, you find room for him on the field. Haven't saw any film of him on defense, but wonder if he could match up at corner against some of the Big Sky receivers.

This poll has be open for almost two years. Go back and look at one of the handful of other polls on your board that seem to pop up once or twice a year. The results are more in line with what you are seeing here. And again, UND's schedule is full this year, they aren't putting NDSU on it and playing 12 games in a row without a bye. They already have two tough non-conference games with what will be a brand new QB (likely a red-shirt freshman). The only thing I see changing UND's mind is Montana buying out their game.

Hudl video That page and this one both list his 40 yard dash at 4.50. His highlights show him playing mainly QB in high school but he is listed as playing DB as well. If that speed is legit and he's 6'2" 185lbs, there are probably a handful of options to find him some time on the field. Per this article, the newspaper named him a first team all area and: Welcome Kurt!

"Until contracts are signed, it's still tentative," he told the Grand Forks Herald. "We'll be sending (NDSU) contract drafts ... the first of next week." Short of checking GT's mail for him, I guess you should ask Izzo or Kolpack to follow-up and see if it got lost.

As much as I would like to see the two teams play, the game isn't happening this year barring Montana buying out their return trip to Grand Forks. UND is not playing 12 games in a row with its only bye week being the final week of the season. NDSU will have to solve this year's scheduling problems with another expensive one-time game.

Not sure if serious...

UND, like many other teams, is sticking with 11 games. UND's other open week is the last week of the season. That would give UND 12 straight games with no bye week. That would be terrible scheduling. Originally, yes. But now that UND is in the Big Sky, Faison has also agreed that would be the best way to restart the series. Faison stated he was sending that exact contract and there hasn't been a peep from GT.

Zero inside info, but wouldn't be surprised if they lost a guy or two that had originally committed. Or could just mean they had a few high targets out there still, thought they still had a shot and found out they were out of the running. Not sure how much to read into it.

You must have missed the interview after the CSU game then.

And size is one thing you can't teach. It looks like in high school they liked to get him the ball in space and let him do some after the catch running, lined him up split out wide even with other tight ends in the game (they usually stayed in and blocked). Welcome Kyle!

You're only looking at it for a 1 year at a time. If it is a home and home, you need to look at the years combined. If they played 2 home games in separate years and made $100K each year (your numbers: $500K gate less $300K guarantee less $100K expenses), they make a total of $200K over 2 years. If they have a home and home with UND, the first year, they make $500K gate less expenses of $100K for a profit of $400K (no guarantee needs to be paid) and make $0 the year they have to go to UND for a total of $400K over a 2 year span. Which scenario (using your numbers) does NDSU come out ahead in?

And what numbers are you using to show that they are losing money? The price for bringing teams will only go up and NDSU's margin on games will keep shrinking unless they raise ticket prices. NDSU already charges more for certain basketball games, so obviously the athletic department isn't adverse to doing it, they just haven't yet for football. Frankly, I'm surprised they don't (I guess I haven't cared to look at their single game ticket prices to verify), but if they want to leave money on the table for SDSU, UNI and homecoming games, fine by me.

Except you don't have to pay a $250K+ guarantee the year there is a home game and you can charge more for the UND game (dynamic pricing). Not sure how many times people have done the actual math to show that NDSU doesn't lose money in this scenario, but apparently you missed it.

I believe at the luncheon today, despite not dressing tonight, Hak said that O'Donnell had one of his best weeks of practice that he has seen. Someone can correct me if I misheard it but quite certain that was his comment.

Jones made some very direct comments today about how well these guys can play as a team when they let the offense run. He also said that some of the guys need to stop coming down the court like they have a big "S" on their chest and try to save the day with a big shot, but rather let the system and game plan do the work. Pretty much the same observation that has been stated over and over here.

Pretty much dead on. I would love to see what would happen if someone would go to FU's message board and post some stories about the things that UND's student athletes do in the community with no expectation of attention or recognition.

Hak said that Grimaldi is staying wtih Rowney/Caggiula and Gaarder moves down to the Mac's line. Looks to be correct.

Maybe I read it wrong, but it looks to my like you used A&M's 19 point win over SHSU and NDSU's 26 point win over SHSU to say they aren't that far apart. I'm saying that A&M could have won that game by 70+ if they wanted to (and were on track to surpass that). Yeah you said they don't have a chance in hell but you then said they aren't as far apart as people think. Just wondering how far apart you think they are? I think NDSU is a very good team due to their defense and could stick around with the majority of FBS teams because of it (outside of the top 35 or so).

So Indiana St. would have a shot is what you're saying? Texax A&M was up 47-0 less than 5 minutes into the 3rd quarter and 47-7 after the 3rd quarter. They let Johnny Football attempt an extra point. I don't think that game was ever in doubt.

Their losses were to South Carolina (#8), Northwestern (#17), Georgia (#5) and Florida (#9). I think you're understimating them a little bit.