Ole in MSP
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I don't care how good the kid is! We need BIGS! We're going to find ourselves with Brekke as our only big soon.
Not only Bigs, but athletic Bigs. UND will go nowhere recruiting skinny ND and Upper midwest white kids unless you can find 5 Phil Jackson's. They need to get into the heart of HS BB in the bigger cities, inner cities, places where the kids play BB all day long like the kids in Minnesota and ND do with hockey. They need to find tough kids who would be Big 10 partials or walkons that would only play a role at a Big 10 school and tell them they will either start or get lots of minutes as the first player off the bench. Personally I do not think there is one kid on the UND team that is good enough to make it in the Big 10 even as a bench ridereven Huff, who would have been eaten alive by now by any Big 10 coach worth his pay. In addition they need to start coaching these kids that they are a team. The victory over Montana should have been easier than it was and if you cannot shoot 75% from the foul line your scholarship is in jeopardy. C'mon, we have been building for almost 5 years to play big time BB. It is time to look like it. Where is Bill Fitch when you really need him? Lots of season left. Let's see some improvement.
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I've said that fans DON'T seem to show up no matter who the opponent is. My guess is the SD Mines game will probably be the first or second best attended game on next season's schedule.
You surely cannot be serious! SD Mines won one game this year. They lost to Sioux Falls 71-7, a team UND beat solidly while playing poorly. They lost to Missouri Mines 60-6, a team that USD hammered. This game should not happen. It will be another Crookston debacle and anyone with any sense will find something else to do.
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Yes it will
http://www.grandfork...group/homepage/
Portland State is a Big Sky Conference member and UND will join the league next season. The Sept. 8 game, however, will be a nonconference contest.
It will also be UND's annual Potato Bowl.
The Bison play the Gophers, UND is playing the Vikings!
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I bet the ladies got an earful from Gene after this one - many, many mistakes down the stretch along with lousy FT shooting!
I am sure they did. He was pretty candid during the post game interview. Said these kids are on scholarship and need to work harder to continue to earn them. One question I have always had about his teams. He is always advocating fast play. In circumstances when you have the lead late, is it not wise to slow down a bit and run the clock? The limited games I have seen are always up tempo and this seems to lead to a lot of turnovers especially late. Is the shot clock different in WBB? They had the lead late and still seemed to want to force the ball. Comments?
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They say you can learn more from a loss than you can a win and I hope our coaches can find teaching points and make some changes. We have plenty of talent, there is just a lack of maturity that will come with time and some coaching.
With my best Jim Mora impersonation "Coaching, did you say coaching?! The best indicator of a good coach is consistency and control/molding the players to work best for the team. I do not see that on a regular basis. Lack of a couple of athletic big men hurts, but we are one year away from being in a legitimate big time BB environment. We better improve and mature fast.
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More regional airport news. Delta dropped the Saab and cant land the Barbie jet when it's windy in devils lake.
ND should get smart like Wisconsin, Iowa etc. and build a regional airport midway betweend GF, Fargo, Devils Lake and whatever city is the closest to the NS line west of Fargo (Jamestown?). Central Wisconsin Airport and Eastern Iowa airport have proven to be big benefits to each region. The population of Eastern ND is not large enough to support 3 airports that will handle major airlines and likely will not be in the foreseeable future. Those in Fargo may think they deserve their own, but realistically they are still a small player in the airline world with cost considerations being far more important than providing connections service. I am sure this will never happen as the climate for working together is zero, but long term, this is a better option than fighting to maintain local services.
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Your point on preparedness is duly noted. But as far as your description of Des Moines as "mundane," I would have to say that "mundane" is a subjective and relative term. Maybe Des Moines and Iowa are mundane as compared to Minneapolis, Madison or Chicago and their respective states.... but it is twice the size of Fargo and the state of Iowa does have a slew of Division I institutions, including 2 that compete at the FBS level. So compared to Grand Forks (and I love Grand Forks), I think its hard to argue that it's a hole-in-the-wall town.
Sorry if I offended. I am a GF native BTW, but rarely get there. When my younger daughter (a national merit scholar) was looking at colleges about 10 years ago now, we visited Drake and stayed in Des Moines. I think everything in town was closed downtown except one Italian restaurant. There was only one hotel near downtown that was acceptable and the department chair in the school of journalism offered nothing except bad mouthing other J schools. To put it bluntly, DM was a cowtown in those days and in recent years driving around it I still find no reason to get off the Interstate. Ironically, same daughter married a Drake grad while she was at UW Madison and he was in law school there and my neighbor's daughter is a Pharm D grad from Drake. Go figure!
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After seeing the Bison score tonight and the fact that our game against Western Illinois was one of the poorest games we have played in quite a while, I think it makes me think there is some light at the end of the tunnel. We need to get it back on track which starts with Anderson getting it going again.
Scores vs UND and NDSU were similar, but keep in mind the Bison played at WIU while WIU played at UND. Not sure how many points that swings, but it is worth noting. I think UND should be very competitive against the Bison, but again, it will almost be a "neutral" court if played at the REA. Would be a nice win if UND does it.
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Sioux lose 74-60 after shooting only 17% in the first half.
According to Roebuck, freshman Burck and Mills played a strong second half in which the Sioux scored 44 points.
Is there something in the water in GF that makes many of the UND teams go on the road and play so poorly in the early stages of games? Is it maturity, is it preparation/scouting, is it "small school" syndrom? This is a recurring theme, not just for the WBB and not all the time, but it is frequent enough to question some of the coaching staff about being ready to play. It happens in FB, MBB, even hockey too. Just wondering since I have not lived in GF in many years. Drake is a smaller school in a rather mundane community in a mundane state. UND should not be "unprepared" to play in these places.
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Agree Western Illinois was a bad loss but in college basketball anything is possible and more so when they take the 15th rank team down to the wire on the road they are a dangerous team. Whether they can do that night in and night out is a different story but on 2 occassions so far this year they played well.
Two things, one positive, one negative: WIU lost by 4 at Michigan, good for UND's credit, Michigan looked like %^&* against Duke in Maui, brings Michigan into question. Bottom line; UND playing as well as they can for 40 minutes can be a very good team. Not playing as well as they can, they can be beaten by mediocrity. Hopefully the guys play at the top of their game, injuries stay away, Huff gets out of his funk, and with a litttle luck, it could be a great season. Go Sioux, or whomever the hell we are now.
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Actually, they said during the radio broadcast the only defense that W. Illinois plays is a man to man that switches everything and once they close off the drive, they sag off you so they can take away any pass to the post. I give W. Illinois credit, they definitely know how to defend- it was proven against us and I believe they held Michigan to just 59 points. As much as we struggled with our offense against their defense though I was more discouraged with our defensive effort. That's a reflection on our guys not taking the opponent seriously. As coach remarked in his comments after the game that the staff can tell the guys until they are nearly blue in the face that they had better respect the opponent, but it's the actual players that have to carry out the message. They didn't do that in this one. It's a maturity thing and a tough lesson to learn. But hopefully it's been learned. Also, I request that our team start valuing possesions a little more. That doesn't mean you have to use the entire shot clock it just means take care of the ball. Quit giving the ball away especially with unforced turnovers- that is frustrating. I don't care if the best scoring opportunity comes in the first 10 seconds of the shot clock or the last 10, but quit turning the ball over so at least you get a shot.
I did not see or listen to the game, but in the box score I noticed that Huff was 1/6 from 3 pt, and 2/11 on normal shots. Anybody got some insight on that? Tough stats for a starter with his athletic ability.
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Will be interesting to see how Bradley does tonight on a neutral court against Wisconsin. It can be seen on the Big 10 network.
For what it is worth, UW trampled Bradley by 24.
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Here is a Gopher Hole Q&A with Eden Prairie's RB. and before you rip on it being from the gopher hole, those guys do a good job talking to high schoolers and a lot of the kids are right in UND and NDSUs wheelhouse:
http://www.gopherhol...rticle&sid=1571
(I apologize if it's not hyperlinked. Trying tonfigure that out with the iPad.)
Thanks. Looks like he has an interest in the Ivy league schools.
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Flipping back and forth between the CC/UND hockey game and the 5A finals of the Minnesota FB championships. Seems to be some darn good players on both teams and probably in the smaller divisions too. Mussman was at the hockey game between periods on TV. It is a bit late maybe in the recruiting season, but I sure hope that one or more of the UND coaches is scouting these games at the metrodome. RB and DE for Eden Prairie and QB for Wayzata in particular stand out.
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Had 4 great assists also. Montana got extremely physical in those last few moments and several fouls should have been called when several of our players got mugged and no fouls where called. Have no idea what the refs where looking at. We had way too many turnovers (22) by all our players with Webb leading with 6. Remember this team is basically lead by 5 sophomores and no doubt Montana was bigger at every position and more experienced and with this youth still a lot of mistakes will still be made. They however fight and claw their way thru inexperience and beat a team like Montana. Great win.
Peace man. Love the Sioux. Hope they have a great year. Great win. Hope all the kids develop, get more physical and make the dance next year.
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Have to disagree with you on not strong enough or cant pass off the dribble. He was 2nd on the team last year in assists and had the best assist/turnover ratio on the team That in its self makes your comment incorrect. He is also one of our best defenders. Not starting because Anderson is the best player on the team right now. He rarely ever turns the ball over and always makes the right pass or feed. Enjoy watching this kid play and just wished he would shoot it more. You are also the poster that called Schuler a bust his freshman year before he became a 2 time player of the week and the 10th all time scorer in freshman history. You can definately judge basketball talent.
Turned the ball over 3 times in the last few minutes to let Montana back in the game and take the lead late. Not trying to beat the kid up. Just pointing out what I saw.
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You got to be kidding me. He is more under control than any guard we have. He got mugged on his turnover late in the game bringing the ball up the floor and no call was made. I personally would rather have him with the ball late in the game than any other guard we have. He has showed control and poise over these last 2 years more than anybody.
Kid can shoot pretty well, granted, but he is not strong enough or quick enough, not strong on feeding the ball or on the dribble. You could see that Montana knew that and picked on him late in the game several times forcing turnovers at a critical time. Saw the same thing last year. Probably the reason he is not starting. Looks like a real nice kid, but needs some muscle and some toughness in my opinion.
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mariucci was "whining" back in the 60s? you cant appreciate a coach trying to build hockey in the US with US players? instead- his legacy to you is he was "whining" about coaches filling up ncaa teams with canadian players??
north dakotans fall over themselves when a local kid has passion for the sioux. same in MN- it just happens more often. if north dakota had enough talent to fill up the siouxs roster with north dakotas- and compete at a very high level- im sure youd take pride in that.. as a north dakotan.
Never could appreciate the guy. Whined for years like a little kid. If the WCHA schools did not go to Canada in those days the Gophers would have had no one to play. Again, Renfrew started it, another hallowed Big 10 first and MacInnis, Bessone, and Armstrong along with UND followed in order to have enough players to have a team. U of M should be grateful to all those schools for playing them.
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Good win... But better practice those free throws, fellas.
Yes, and never let Schuler bring the ball up the floor.
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Gofer fan? You got the wrong guy Ole. Next time read the whole thread first.
Gotcha! Sorry about that, short of time and that issue has been a sore spot with me for over 40 years. Mariucci started the whining back in the 60's or before and it still has not gone away. Michigan under Al Renfrew actually started the Canadian immigration followed up by Murray Armstrong at DU. From there it escalated. Gophers never hesitated to bring in FB players from 2000 miles away though who were more foreign to Minnesota than any Canuck from 100 miles north of GF. Take care.
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That and all the 26 year old Canadians playing for the Sioux every year.
You must be that informed Gopher fan that sat a few feet from me at Mary Ucci a couple of years ago that was ragging on Joe Finley yelling "go back to Canada". The look on your face when I told you he was from Edina gave me chuckles for weeks.
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Anyone have any information about what if any recruits were in over the weekend to see the most up and down FB game in recent years? It had to be exciting for any body thinking of being a future Sioux.
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I believe Ole was referring to how Moo U creates excitement for their program by scheduling and beating (upsetting??) the goofers. Not that beating the Minny football team is that great of an accomplishment (see South Dakota in 2010).
That is correct. Should have said "i.e. NDSU did". Beating KU, Ball State and CMU were also notable accomplishments too. You have to give them credit for those wins over D1 schools.
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Ok so you are all over Faison for scheduling South Dakota School of Mines. But do you then raise him to the rafters as he was instrumental for getting us into a big time conference (Big Sky) where we are getting a full conference schedule and not just 4 games like the the Great West? It would seem a bit hypocritical not to. As has been pointed out many of our esteemed on here (the likes of RD and Sica) many of the big FCS schools schedule a lower tier school just as many FBS schools schedule an FCS school. It's one game. Our Big Sky schedule along with our FBS game is going be way better than anything we've had in over 6 years. I'm refuse to get worked up over School of the Mines. Hopefully, our schedule will continue to get better as we become a full fledged D1 member.
I cannot complain much about SDM&T, but there are better DII opponents that would draw a better crowd. My biggest concern, the many weeks of inactivity on the schedules for 2013, 14,15. That is a ways out there, but many of the bigger schools are already scheduled that far out. I really really hope that now with the nickname behind us that Faison is working to get some FBS schools and notable FCS schools on the schedule for those years. Nothing generates interest like playing up and perhaps upsetting a FBS school i.e. NDSU.
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Mizzou Athletics Web Site Says NDSU Playing There Saturday
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UND WBB outscored 21-0 right out of the chute. Too bad it was not NDSU. Like the men's team, UND women are short on maturity too. Closer perhaps to the mid major teams in talent than the men, but equally immature. Is it a thing that comes from living and playing in a small town environment or what? Seems to be a chronic issue with some UND teams.