petey23

Nicholls State has an endowment of 8.5 million. UND is around 280 million. Villanova is around 750 million. SELA is around 35 million.

Friend of mine forwarded me a news article about Nicholls State bid packages and strategy...looks like they bid right around 80k for this round.

Well we know the Nicholls State coaching staff is capable of making a few head scratching decisions. It was like they tried to lose on purpose to SELA on Thursday night but then SELA refused to win.

Stadiums are similar size...SELA with a stadium half the size of Villanova outbid them as well

UND races to a 31-10 lead and hangs on to win 34-29 as we knock a pass down in the end zone to preserve the victory.

We do match up resume wise with Nichols but they are not on the bubble anymore, they have the auto bid.

I think the Nichols win hurt us? Now the Southland has 3 viable teams where a Nichols loss would have eliminated them and just left SELA and C. Arkansas.

I said the same thing the last two years. 2 years ago I said we could beat anyone in the country 2-1 just as easily as we could lose 2-1. In 2018 we played UMD in the 3rd place game at the Excel and both teams went into that game believing that they needed to win that game to make the tournament. UND handled them pretty easily and then over the next 5-6 hours you had 5-6 things take place in other conferences that jumbled the pairwise and UMD gets in and wins the national title. For this year I think if the Penalty kill can remain this effective or close to it and the power play continues to tick upward those will be keys for UND as we get into February and March. Last year we finished at 94.1%(PK +PP) and this year we are currently at 111.6%.

Hope you are correct, but I think S. Illinois is in and if Nichols beats SELA I could see them both getting in. If Towson and Albany both win and they decide to take a 10 win Kennesaw team it gets a little dicey.

So who is in? Big Sky-(4) Montana---will finish 10-2 or 9-3 Weber State--will finish 9-3 Sac State--will finish 9-3 or 8-4 Montana St.--will finish 9-3 or 8-4 CAA-(3) JMU--will finish 11-1(11-0 FCS) Villanova--will finish 9-3 Towson--will finish 8-4(8-3 FCS) MVC-(5) NDSU--will finish 12-0 Illinois St.--will finish 9-3(9-2 FCS) SDSU--will finish 9-3(9-2 FCS) UNI--will finish 8-4(8-3 FCS) S. Illinois--will finish 7-5(6-4 FCS, but with a FBS win and FBS loss and FCS losses to all playoff teams) Big South-(1) Monmouth--will finish 10-2(10-1 FCS) NEC-(1) CCSU--will finish 11-1(11-0 FCS) Patriot-(1) Holy Cross--will finish 7-5(7-3 FCS) Pioneer-(1) San Diego--will finish 9-2 Southern-(1) Wofford--will finish 8-3(8-2 FCS) OVC-(2) Austin Peay--will finish 9-3 SEMO--will finish 9-3(8-2 FCS) Southland-(2) C. Arkansas--will finish 9-3(9-2 FCS) Winner of SELA and Nichols St. wins the auto bid. IF SELA wins they are 8-3(8-2 FCS), if Nichols wins they are 8-4(8-3 FCS) That is 21 spots taken. The battle comes down to 10 teams for 3 spots. UND--a win gets them to 7-4 Furman--will finish 8-4(7-3 FCS) The Loser of the defacto championship game in the Southland will either be SELA who would be 7-4(7-3 FCS) or Nichols who would be 7-5(7-4 FCS) EWU--will likely finish 7-5(6-4 FCS) Kennesaw St.--will finish 10-2(8-1 FCS) Albany--will finish 8-4(8-3 FCS) Maine--with a win over UNH they would finish 7-5(7-4 FCS) and on a 5 game winning streak UT-Martin--with an upset win over Kentucky they would finish 8-4(7-3 FCS with an FBS win and loss) Are NC A&T and SCSU in the mix? Both will finish at 8-3(8-2 FCS) We need Maine to lose. Probably want a SELA win over Nichols. Realistically I think it comes down to UND, Furman, Kennesaw, and Albany given a Maine loss and SELA win.....UND might want to win impressively this week after blowing an opportunity to have a 30+ point win last weekend.

After stumbling and bumbling through the first half with a 10 point lead and the start we had to the second half which should have allowed us to dictate to UNC how we would allow them to move the ball on offense the fact we held on to win by 7 instead of winning by 31 or more is puzzling. This game had 59-28 or 66-28 written all over it.

Lets hope so since the top 2 D-men in their pipeline are in Grand Forks.

I don't think so either...but a 2nd round draftpick Defensemen who is splitting time might be?

I think D would be the position where additional slots may open up. Could be some early departures after the season. JBD Kierstad and to a lesser extent Tychonik

I heard this as well but didn't want to post anything until official. So Budy signed today and being they were recruited during their final season of Juniors I would guess Ness and Gaber would be coming in as well. That would leave 2 spots....for now. Costello, Rizzo, Bowen, and Halliday seem most likely for different reasons.

Be interesting to see which guys sign their letters of intent tomorrow.

It did look a little better when he had 6 points in 11 or 12 games.

I had posted some of this in another thread. I put an asterisk next to those you would like to bring in as I agree they are likely. If we bring in those 4 we would have room for 1 more if we do not have any early departures. Randklev, Costello, and Ness are in their last year of juniors I believe so at least two of them would be looking for another school. I am guessing we told Mancinelli that we might not have room for him next year and he decided to look elsewhere. Ness is a recent commit so not sure where that leaves the 2 local kids Randklev and Costello? Zach Yon, Dixon Bowen, Westin Michaud, Cole Smith, Casey Johnson all graduate. Only 1 or 2 early departures possible? These guys are slated to come in next year. *Brendan Budy--2000 birthdate, 1 year of college(DU), ages out of Juniors I believe Griffin Ness--turns 20 in December...out of Junior options *Riese Gaber--just turned 20...last year of juniors Dane Montgomery--2002 birthdate...probably delays if necessary Stephen Halliday--2002 birthdate...could delay *Massimo Rizzo--2001 birthdate, 7th round draft pick,,,has battled injuries. could delay Carter Randklev---turns 20 in a couple weeks...currently still coming back from injuries with The Force...out of options Jackson Kunz--2002 birthdate...often injured...could delay *Ethan Bowen--2002 birthdate Braden Costello--turns 20 in the spring, out of options...off to a decent start in BCHL Michael Mancinelli--2001 birthdate, could delay

I rewound and watched this a few times. He had a lot of room to run and a wall of blockers. I am guessing that punt was supposed to be high and in the middle of the field from watching the Viking players routes from the line of scrimmage.

Does anyone have video of the Maag touchdown that was called back for interference? My feed was messed up and I just had audio and when it came back they didn't show a replay. It didn't look like Maag or the sideline were arguing too much but I missed seeing that play.

I believe we are in right now and will be at 7-4. If we lose to either of the teams remaining on our schedule we certainly would not deserve to be in the playoffs and the conversation around our football program becomes a completely different discussion.

good catch...that should help as it keeps them out of comparing a 7-4 UND, a 7-5 UCD, and a 7-5 Montana St. as we win that comparison...if EWU is in the nix it gets jumbled. I know we aren't in the BIg Sky but schedule wise and comparison wise we will likely be looked at that way....just without the BIg Sky in our corner.

Bottom line is, we let a game get away from us. We have 2 games left on our schedule that we should win comfortably. Get to 7-4 and see what happens. Big Sky likely has 4 spots although if Montana State dumps 2 and EWU and Davis both get to 7-5 as well it gets interesting and would not be in our favor. Big South has 1 spot for sure, but a bad scenario for us would be for both Monmouth and Kennesaw to win out to finish 10-2 or even if Monmouth finishes 9-3 as they will be conference champion and the committee might take Kennesaw at 10-2....with their schedule Kennesaw will finish 10-2 and Monmouth is unlikely to dump 2. CAA has 4 spots currently. UNH has 2 toss up games so they could finish anywhere from 5-6 to 7-4...problem is Albany could easily finish 8-4 and keep the 4th spot for the conference...they play each other so both can't happen. MVC has 5 spots currently with 4 pretty much locked. SDSU has a couple tough games so not sure what happens if they finish 7-5(unlikely they end season on 3 game skid). S. Illinois is the interesting team as they will most certainly finish 7-5 unless NDSU tanks a game...at 7-5 they will need SEMO to win out which is also likely. They would have 4 losses to playoff teams and 1 to an FBS school. Northeast Conference will get 1 spot...probably C. Connecticut although they play RMU and Duquesne to finish the season so the conference is very much up for grabs. OVC currently has 2 spots and both Austin Peay and SEMO are likely to win out and finish 9-3. Patriot League will get 1 spot. Currently Lafayette controls their destiny with a 3-7 overall record. Southern has 2 spots currently. Furman is 7-3 and will finish either 8-4 or 9-3 while Wofford is 6-3 and could finish anywhere from 6-5 to 8-3...The Citadel is in the mix at 6-4 with 2 tossup games remaining. Southland is a mess. Currently has 2 spots with C. Arkansas at 7-3(will finish 8-4 or 9-3) and SELA at 6-3(will finish 7-4 or 8-3). SHSU is 6-4 but will finish at 8-4. Nicholls is 6-4 and could finish 0-2, 1-1, or 2-0 and McNeese is 6-4 and will finish either 1-1 or 2-0. San Diego gets the Pioneer spot at 9-2 likely. If South Carolina State finishes at 8-3 and 3rd in their conference(no HBC bowl) will they get a spot? UND should finish at 7-4 as an independent. I count 33 teams still at least in the mix for the 24 spots available.

They can only call a 5 minute penalty on a review like that...it was definitely a penalty but if the refs decide it was only a 2 minute penalty they can't go back and call a non major penalty they they missed live.

I lived in Smith for a year. It was old then(1984-85)