petey23

According to who? I have been told it has never happened.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. The obsession continues.

As I have said a few times and it continues to ring true. Not all Bison fans are bad people, it really is the rotten few thousand that spoil it for the other 11. #rollturd

If NDSU hasn't sent a championship ring to Tim Brewster the last 3 years it is criminal.

Kid got smoked and you call that a dive?

I was at the game until about the 8 minute mark. A few things stuck out to me early. UND looked ready to play on defense.......for 1 possession anyway. After the 3rd or 4th attempt at the ball screen and NDSU doubled the ball and completely turned the screener loose since it was Calcaterra I was expecting UND to either spread the floor and leave the lane open on offense and let our guards take their guys off the dribble or, oh I don't know, maybe use someone who is an offensive threat to score set the initial pick and either pop back for open jumper or finish at the rim(Nash or Tyler)....Also if they are going to guard Nash with Kory Brown why are we giving the ball to Nash 20 feet from the basket instead of posting him up?....these are adjustments that should have been made at the first media timeout....we did open the lane for a few possessions in the second half when the game was pretty much out of hand and I believe we drew fouls on 4 or 5 straight possessions since much like last year they were unable to guard us going to the hole but we eventually strayed back away from that.(start the game that way or even play the last 16 minutes of the first half that way and at the very least NDSU would have had to play more the 6 guys as they would have likely had 5 or 6 guys with 2 or 3 fouls each by halftime. I could go on but it was just a disgusting effort from the start.

No kidding. A horsecollar or a clothesline would be a better description. Was not a cross check.

You can't really believe that? Has Mark Emmert hi jacked your account?

Correct. 11th best team in the weakest P5 conference.

Alabama won a national title(or natty if you prefer) when they were not even SEC champs or even SEC division champs.

I know that people are biased since this is the part of the country most of us live in....but ESPN Stats & Information Conference Power Rankings Overall Ranking Conference AP Rank FPI Rank Overall Rating 1 Big 12 90.3 2 SEC 90.2 3 Pac-12 83.2 4 Big Ten 69.1 5 ACC 69 6 MW 22.3 7 American 21.7 8 C-USA 18.1 9 Sun Belt 10 14.8 10 MAC 14.7 Don't shoot the messenger. The Big 10 and ACC are significantly below the other 3 P5 conferences. If FSU wasn't undefeated and the defending champ I wouldn't put them in the final 4 but can they be left out under those circumstances? It would be fine with me if they were since I wouldn't rank them any higher than 6th. So if the best team from the 5th best conference is in, I am sorry but I have a hard time elevating the team from a conference who was barely 4th with a loss on their schedule at home to the 11th best team from the 5th best conference and not having a team from the top conference statistically .

Yeah. If Ohio State gets in it shows the influence of the Big 10 large media markets and how corrupt the NCAA is. I think this proves they should have started this thing with 8 teams from the get go......Ohio State is good............but there is no getting around losing at home to the 11th best team from the ACC.

I have a friend who is pretty tied into NDSU and I asked him if Bresciani was tone deaf or is he that pretentious and arrogant......he said the latter.

Ha! Back in the 80"s and 90's when Nebraska was favored big you would bet on them to cover on the road and not at home since they could only travel with 60 or 65 guys and they were all better than some of the teams they were playing but at home they had a 100+ dressed.

I believe the Big 10 strongly suggested they re-evaluate their scheduling practices.

Corvallis has some of the worst facilities and is probably the toughest place to recruit too of any P5 Conference. In a poll of the P5 conference football coaches, Riley is rated as the most underrated coach in college football and in a poll of all FBS school coaches he is ranked 2nd. I was underwhelmed but an starting to warm up to the hire. Pelini is gone for being a jackass and for having his team unprepared to play too many times. I think he would still have his job even if he went 10-3 or 9-4 every year if he had a personality and lost to Wisconsin 21-17 or 24-20 and didn' routinely have his unprepared teams get half a hundo hung on them.

They cancelled out of a home and home with North Carolina because they were too tough and wanted out of the TCU game as well.

If Nebraska offered Kill the job, Jerry would be at the airport before Eichorst hung up the phone....3 or 4 times the money in a place that costs 20% less to live. Not to mention the programs. I realize Nebraska isn't what they were in the 90's but the resources and commitment to be are in place, just tougher to get that type of talent to Lincoln these days...but who wouldn't rather coach at a school where winning the Big 10 and competing occasionally for a National title are the goals versus beating 4 powder puffs and then hopefully winning 3 or 4 big 10 games so we can go somewhere warm for bowl season.

I think the main reason Bielema left Wisconsin was due to the size of his assistant coaches salary pool and he wasn't able to get any or keep high profile asssitants.

Bielema is either interested and deflecting or it is his agent trying to get him and his staff a raise at Arkansas.

That is definitely part of it....but also a guy can take advantage of known injuries as well. If a guy knows you have a wrist injury he can shade you a certain way or know which way to pull a faceoff or if you have a known leg injury he would know which way to attack you in a 1 on 1.

Wow. You have absolutely no idea at all what you are talking about.

I am just saying that Florida State is elevated to where they are currently in large part due to last season. If I was the committee there is no way I leave out an undefeated and defending national champion so I am not saying that. But year to year, teams get a jump start in the rankings and the perception of the committee based upon prior seasons......even though every coach will tell you that every season is different.

If Florida State wasn't defending national champions they would not be in the mix. They would be behind Ohio State and Baylor as well. TCU and Baylor are the co-champions of the Big 12 which turned out to be the toughest conference this season just slightly ahead of the SEC while the ACC was a distant 5th finishing even behind the Big 10.

Well the Osieki left Wisconsin so Jordan opened up his recruitment again and Gregiore, all things equal was going to go to UND but DU was going to bring him in a year earlier than we were.....Gwoz pushed him back a year and he changed his mind and went to UND......so it's not like UND recruited committed players. That said, I don't have a problem recruiting verbals when they are 16-17. We haven't but I wouldn't mind if we did.