Oskie
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Anthony Taylor would be a nice get if it is true..
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Yes we are. We actually are working on post right now that deals with the scouts. We will try and give our best guess about who could contribute right away, etc.
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I'm surprised at the complete lack of info regarding UND recruiting in California this year. At this time last year, scout.com had UND listed for 10 or so kids from Cali.
What I am sensing is that they are starting in the midwest, like usual, but have a much better chance at kids now that the transition is over-so they are covering a wider swath locally early on in the process. They can then fill in some gaps come January with skill kids from out west or down south. We should still see a couple Cali kids along with a AZ kid or two at signing day.
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For those of us who follow UND FB recruiting closely, you will remember that last year we offered Lucas Dunne, an all-state running back from Concord De La Salle, CA. De La Salle is, year in and year out, one of the top FB big schools in all of CA.
I was sure hoping that he would sign with us but was puzzled when he didn't sign with anyone. I, and others, have wondered what happened with him. I have just learned that he is playing rugby for the Cal Golden Bears. Mystery solved!
We did hear last year after recruiting was over that they never did offer Dunne, which is why he didn't end up playing FB anywhere. They offered Sparks instead.
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New commitment--Ryan Bartels from Sycamore, IL: http://www.daily-chr...dakota/aikkh86/
Nice find, 92,96! We have been following him but never thought he would commit this soon. Good get for the Sioux!
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I like the idea of forgoing the FBS game that year. With 7 home games, and doubling up on FBS games in '10 & '11, hopefully they'll have built up enough coin that they won't feel they need the money game that year. With 2014 also being a 12 game season, I wouldn't be surprised to see them book two FBS opponents that year, and they'd still be able to do 6 home games.
And it looks to me like Fightingsioux.com has the dates posted incorrectly in the schedule section of football page for the 2013 schedule. The official release from the Big Sky and the original release from UND shows us with no bye week once conference play begins, with Sac St. on October 26. Just a typo by whoever transferred the schedules into the schedule section of the football page, which shows us playing UC Davis on November 23. We actually play UC Davis on Nov 16. UC Davis and Sac St. will always be played on the final day of the regular season along with Weber vs. Idaho St., Eastern Washington vs. Portland St., and Montana vs. Montana St.
Good catch. Now that the unscheduled date is the last week of the year it makes me wonder if UND will pull a Cal-Poly (Wisconsin) and schedule their FBS game that last week. That would give them 12 games total, 7 home games, and an FBS game. Doesn't get much better than that.
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I just keep looking at the 2013 schedule and how insanely awesome it is. It will be an extremely difficult one as well.
-7 home games
-4 consecutive home games to open the season
-3 extremely high interest home games with UM, MSU, & SDSU........2 more very intriguing home games with EWU & UNC
-No back-to-back road trips
-Regular season finale with a November road trip to sunny Davis, CA (I highly recommend anyone who could make this trip do so)
With a good product on the field, attendance could push the Alerus Center's capacity in 2013.
2013 is a 12 game year. I wouldn't be surprised though if UND sticks with just the 11 games. You could potentially squeeze in an FBS game on Sept 21, but I doubt the staff would be much in favor of sandwiching that in between the Griz and Cats. Nice to have a bye week in between those two games. If they did want 12, I wonder if it would be at all feasible to get a cupcake in on the last day of the season. Assuming we'll have first round bye in the playoffs that season
, I'd rather do that and have 8 home games than have 2 consecutive weeks off going into the post-season. 
Excellent post Bin. That 2013 home schedule is right now, on paper, the best home schedule that any 4 of the Dakota teams has put together and it isn't even close. 3 of the teams are from neighboring states/playoff contenders and one is the 2010 National Champion. I am skeptical that the Montana game is still on because of the league mandated 2012-2014 games but I have read on here where Sean Johnson said they are so lets go with it.
My question: I can guarantee UND wants to keep the bye week on October 26, the middle of October is a perfect time for one. Do the Sioux need to play an FBS game on Sept 21st if they already have 7 home games and the gate that will come from them? Debatable. One team we did hear about was New Mexico State. Don't know if it was for 2013 but that would be an alright team to play because they are a lower end FBS team and the Sioux shouldn't get beat up playing them.
Which leads me to a new point. UND needs to start scheduling winnable FBS games (MAC or run-first teams). It is quite apparent that was Gene Taylor's model in scheduling if you look at the records of the teams they have played and it has worked (if UND could only know which ones are going to fire their coaches the year before too like Gene
) . SDSU has had a fairly tough FBS schedule as it turned out mainly due to Neb. For UND, the combined records of the 3 FBS teams they have played is 26-14 and 2 of the 3 won their bowl game. Wyoming will be a nice fit if UND can improve. -
most Big Sky Schools play up or down in OOC due to the lack of regional FCS schools. All BSC teams other than Portland State and Weber played "down" last year, however those two schools played two FBS games. With the BSC gobbling up all the potential FCS OOC opponents in its region, I would expect to that trend continue. CAA and SoCon schools often play all DI schedules, because they are surrounded by DI teams. In addition, no MVFC team is scheduled to play "down" next year.
2010 in the MVFC:
Southern Illinois played Quincy (NAIA)
Illinois State played Central Missouri (D2)
Indiana State played St Josephs (D2)
That may change this year but it shows they do it too.
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I understand the dislike for seeing a D2 team on the schedule, don't get me wrong. I would love to see an all FCS schedule too. The only reason I can come up with is finances. If more people show up, better teams will come. As we have all seen, the price for bringing teams into Grand Forks/Fargo has practically doubled in the last 5 years and that is a real problem.
Lets hope attendance/wins are up this year so the AD can feel like he can afford to schedule better FCS teams.
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Regarding the 2012 schedule, here is our take:
1. If you think it is a joke to schedule a D2 team as one of your non-conference home games then you better let Montana and Montana State know also because they have made a habit of it.
2. It is our first year of eligibility and frankly there is no guarantee how attendance is going to be. How can the AD drop 150k on an east coast doormat if he doesn't know how many people will show?
3. Our other non-conference home game is against a perennial Southland power in Central Arkansas. That is an excellent home game.
4. We have San Diego State, who has turned it around and was in a Bowl this year, as our FBS game. Once again, not some 1-11 doormat FBS team.
5. That leaves 4 Big Sky home games. All of which are going to be tough for our program at this point. (we have heard that Montana State is one of them and based on how the Great West schedule will be this year and how UND is going to UNC this year, we are also guessing that Davis and UNC will be at home--don't know about the 4th game though, could be SUU). Complete guess but we will see.
6. Honestly, do you think the coaching staff really wants Central Arkansas, 4 Big Sky teams, and another good FCS team as their home slate. Every team in the country tries to play one dog. In some cases they get two (wink wink).
These are our thoughts on the schedule.
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We did tweet after the Orender situation that we had heard through the grapevine that UND was possibly getting an FBS transfer. We were waiting for actual confirmation though and are glad it came out so soon. This kid looks good. We will dig on it today and hopefully have something up later.