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A little jealous. It would be nice if they could do something with some of the science and engineering buildings one of these days. Some of the labs could really use a gutting.

SDSU's passing D has allegedly improved, and their record kinda shows it, they started 1-3 in conference and then won 4 straight. They gave up 25 points between the last two games.

not many jobs have opened up so far. James Madison would be one. Lots of places have nice facilities at this level.

never saw that figure before. I'd be interested to see what programs those kids were in, not that I ever will.

several of them have an unused redshirt, and those are the ones most likely to be welcomed elsewhere, since they were good enough to play early. There might be a couple, but I don't think it will be much more than you would expect from normal attrition.

ticket numbers are probably generous considering the last home game.

probably out of our price range. Current salary appears to be 250k/year

how long until they form the serach committee is a better question. I'd say in 3-4 weeks we should have a good idea, with a new hire shortly afterword

NDSU stopped advertising heavily a few years ago because they were over capacity. With some recent projects being completed and a couple new building going up I think they are going to pursue some modest expansion. most of which went to grad student, who tend to get them. also the reason NDSU had so many waivers was largely because of it's graduate programs. NDSU's grad student mix is much more STEM heavy, and those spots get waivers pretty much everywhere, including UND. The other major contributor was, IIRC, was a different setup for need based aid, which exploded starting in 2008.

caruso is by far the obvious choice among those listed.

I wonder if UND could afford ed odgeron if USC doesn't keep him?

russel wilson 5'11 Colin Kaepernick 6'4 I think most of the top picks in the coming 2014 QB class are in the 6'2 range.

it was the last game of the season

that was a pretty terrible season. Hopefully there is better coaching next year, it's going to be a long road back. This wasn't just play calling, it was conditioning, talent development, leadership... it might take a year for the players to develop those skills and learn to play well as a team.

I wasn't talking about athletics with the last comment. UND went 0-4 last year, not sure how many other games there have even been.

and how does being in the big sky benefit that? (they have fracking in the midwest too) The MVC private schools have no say whatsoever over the football conference, and they sure don't want another public football school. The only affiliation the MVC has with the MVFC are three words and 5 members, who form the power group opposite the private schools. the MVC has shown no interest in further expansion. In fact, realignment is basically over at the d1 level, it isn't something that even gets talked about.

I love that any criticism of the route UND has taken over the last decade makes me some sort of NDSU double agent. When I wanted muss fired years ago (thats where i first got my rep here), it's because I wanted UND to fail and NDSU to win, before that, when I wanted UND to move up with NDSU and SDSU, it was because i was an NDSU fanboy. Same old dumb argument. It seems to me that UND has repeatedly gone down the wrong path because of this attitude that UND can't be seen following NDSU or doing anything that might have the side affect of benefiting NDSU, and in the long run all it's done is put UND in a worse position that it would otherwise be. Yes, UND in the summit would benefit NDSU. It would also be good for UND and it's fans, most of whom live in the summit footprint. Hopefully some of you wake up before NDSU surpasses UND, because that is where the trend-lines lead.

thats because normal schools don't blab everything to the press the first chance they get. the dakotas were already well into their transition when the were invited. just like und, unc, and half the rest of the big sky. nothing says good academics like the big sky. Pro-tip: the only sky schools who have any academic rep don't have med schools. I have no idea how you think being in the sky helps the EERC or PE. way to make !@#$ up i guess

again, adding UND will actually reduce the amount that eastern schools have to come to the dakotas. Diagram it out, you'll see that I am right. I'm not sure what you mean by 'evening out the balance of powers'. Patty V wants to keep her league alive, and that can't happen if the summit leaves (for whatever reason). the summit is a better league based on quality of play. I'm surprised noone seems to be aware, but the BSC is one of the worst BB leagues in the country. The summit is firmly in the middle of the pack. Its much better financially as we'll get more games with team our fans actually would care about, and won't have to fly for our entire schedule. It was also around the same time the nickname issue was finally resolved. xDSU wanted to get into the sky because they thought that was the best they could do. Then WKU left the gateway, and they go the chance to make something even better, which they have.

who gives a !@#$ if we play any of the big sky schools? We could be playing denver in all sports twice a year, as well as all the others, instead of having the 'option' to play them. No-possible better arrangement my ass, our conference schedule is a yawn-fest. when did we ever try? The moment we got a look we told them to f-off in favor or our bottom feeder conference of choice. If we want to join the summit, the summit will get us in the mvfc. You know, the conferences that actually make sense for us. Your argument is that we should get in bed with the first loser that said we were pretty. Talk about low standards. The summit is not on a run, it's a fundamentally different league. With half their schools barely out of transition, they were a top-half league, they aren't going to take a step back by adding another potential mid-major program in UND.

I'm just gaming it out. The summit needs UND, the MVFC needs the summit schools. If the summit schools take their ball and go home, the MVFC would have to pick up another member, and their aren't any that wouldn't require an all sport invite, and the MVC does not want any of those schools. So the end result is if ndsu, sdsu, usd and wiu want UND in, UND gets in. Some kind of pseudo-divisions could actually reduce the frequency with which the isu, ysu, siu faction would have to play in the dakotas, presuming that the summit school would all play each other annually. I might have to start bothering faison about it.

and like I said, if we wanted to go to the summit (objectively we should, its a better league even without us, and a vastly better league with us), I think we can be close to 100% confident that UND would be accepted into the mvfc. und ndsu sdsu usd uno denver wiu, plus the alphabet soup indiana schools and potentially umkc or oru coming back. Thats a league that could on occasion produce multiple bids and even rival the MVC.

the summit *with UND* is a vastly better league than the sky and completely stable and features most of our rivals (UNO denver ndsu sdsu usd). I'm sure the other 4 summit schools would have the leverage to get UND into the MVFC. seriously aside from the stability strawman, I'm not sure what the pro-sky case is.

valpo really is unbelievably bad. They have been blown out regularly in pioneer league conference play. They lost twice to BAD d2 teams from a d2 basketball conference that only started football last year. http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/schedule/_/id/2674/valparaiso-crusaders

MSU is in 3rd place in the valley and is on a 4 game winning streak. USD even took Montana to the final play and had the lead with 2 minutes to go. SIU was pretty close to breaking out with a solid season. Lost to EIU in OT by 3, lost to YSU by 1 in the final minutes (they missed an XP earlier), and turned the ball over on downs at the Illinois 3 yard line with a minute left while down 8.