petey23

Looks like Nicholls State is bringing in a QB from LSU

Is this #4?

Did we just burn another game for Shuster for 1 play again?

Not sure if they officially release the amount of the bids although I guess depending on state laws and which schools are private vs. public....but at this point for all we know is we may have had the 2nd largest bid of the 16 teams playing next weekend and happened to draw the team with the largest bid.

60/40 run-pass

No it doesn't. They outbid USD by $1000 in 2017

If placement in the bracket means anything and it obviously doesn't we would either be the #16 or #17 team. You have to remember several auto bids are lower. If you took regionalization out of it it would look like this. #1 plays winner of #16/#17 #2 plays winner of #15/#18 #3 plays winner of #14/#19 #4 plays winner of #13/#20 #5 plays winner of #12/#21 #6 plays winner of #11/#22 #7 plays winner of #10/#23 #8 plays winner of #9/#24

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