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Collegiate women's basketball has always been the sport with the least amount of parity. It's why you get the same dozen schools year after year in the final games of the tournament.

Alabama got knocked out by Auburn.... oh wait, no that didn't happen

One of my big worries is at the offensive line. There has been little to no improvement over the past two years really. Our best linemen 3 years ago were a grad transfer and a physical freak (in a good way). I have to think that the o-line coach is very much on the hot seat this season since we all know there are no coaching staff changes taking place before it begins. If the offensive line is not appreciably better, then a new o-line coach is very much necessary.

Preseason rankings are a joke and have been shown to be pretty inaccurate to actual results, FSU showed that this year. I also thought they were highly overrated at #3 you start the season and part of that was to drum up early season interest (read as media hype and tv rating) for the Alabama game. At the end of the season who did Alabama beat? An ok Miss St team and a subpar LSU rivalry game with a cakewalk like Mercer on the late season schedule. Am i saying Alabama is bad? No. Just committees and rankings constantly overvalue them simply because of who they are.

Any thoughts on the fbs playoff field? Has Alabama just proven they can get away with scheduling nobody?

I want UND to surpass and play at the highest fcs level for awhile, but i also wouldn't mind seeing NDSU collapse and have some dumpster fire years.

WMU look skilled but they also look pretty cheap. Some cheap shots in there and the obvious dives. I agree with the color guy, I thought WMU played a cleaner, more straight up game than what they showed tonight.

At this point it hurts nothing to shake up the top line.

Crandall was not smart at the end of regulation. That reach in foul that gave UVU the tying free throws was just completely ill-advised.

Score might be better if UND shot the 3 halfway decent. Some quality looks that are bricking out. Having the 2 bigs on the floor for UVU is a major rebounding advantage.

To me this is the make/break season for the OL coach. If he can't get more productivity from his line, he needs to go. You can claim injuries for last season but for the past two seasons the offensive line has underperformed and have failed to really open any kind of lanes for our all-conference/american running backs. Yes, teams are stacking the box because the OC lacks any kind of imagination, but with that said they were doing the same thing three years ago and that line was opening massive holes. Get Santiago to the second level and all of a sudden you get your explosive offensive plays.

A troll is "a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response." Your posts fall under the extraneous as they really service zero purpose outside of your amusement. You are quoting old posts and knowing that it will notify those posters, and you are also probably intending them all to try to respond, again for the purposes of starting an argument for your amusement. Try and be as polite and civil as you want, you're still trolling.

Sorry but at this point Bison06 is trolling. Dredging up old posts in the hopes of eliciting responses that really do absolutely nothing to further any conversation other than to point at the bad year UND had.

I'd be fine with unbiased officiating, call penalties that are penalties and call both teams the same. Last night was an obvious example of not doing that.

Bowen injured?

What if I told you it's possible to have an aggressive, defensive-minded philosophy but still have a dynamic offense...

There was certainly attrition in prior years but this last season saw O'Brien retire and Poole get kicked off the team. Hunt was injured towards the beginning of the year, Larson missed the season (smartly not to burn the redshirt), and Rodgers got hurt the second game of the year. Attrition hurt, but injuries and idiocy finished the ILB off. I agree the coaches failed to backfill last year and the year before for ILB. For the kind of defense UND runs, we need at least 8-9 ILBs on the roster. You play 4 or 5 rotating through, and you have the others filling in on special teams or redshirting.

Yes, the offense had to win games but they were also assisted by the defense. For example, the tying points in the USD game were by the defense.

Agreed with this. Brew has shown the ability to develop a team throughout a season. As for Freije, sometimes you just have an off game, it happens to everyone. She'll be fine.

2017 exposed the offense for what it was. 2016 the offense was gifted short fields and didn't have to win every game (turnovers, total defense, etc.). 3 and outs aren't completely devastating when your defense can get the ball right back. 2017 the defense was so injury riddled and played so poorly that that became impossible. Rudolph never adjusted. He lacked imagination last year, he lacked imagination this year. Throw in his questionable calls to offset his good calls and he is what he is, a mediocre OC that sticks to a game plan to a fault.

It frustrates me to no end to be watching other college football games and you see how other offenses utilize dynamic running backs. The comment about the UCF running back today was along the lines of, "well what position is he?" and the answer, "he's whatever we need him to be on that play, if he's in the backfield he's a running back, if he's out wide he's a wide receiver." Santiago is that dynamic and yet more often than not we pound him between the tackles on a good 70% of his plays.

When people in the stands are calling out what the play is going to be on greater than 50% of the offensive plays, you know you don't have much imagination at the OC spot.

The puck was very much visible in the net underneath the goalie's pad. I just can't believe these refs weren't able to see that given all the camera angles they were fed.

How blind are these refs? The puck was obviously in the net.

That has been Miami's MO over the past several years, good skaters, good speed and try to skate circles around the opposition.