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that worked out pretty well didn't it? Wish that group got a chance at the dance....

Be interesting to see what he does with that last one. It needs to address the PG or Center position.

The Bison offered him as well. Looks like he was offered at Northern when Sather was the coach.

Interesting that they made a profit.... ($1.2 million of it) Now wonder where that will go? Wonder how this compared to last years report (anybody have that at the ready or know where to find it?)

I think Morris nailed it on the head last night with this struggles: He is thinking so hard about hitting the change up that he is late on hitting those fastballs. He needs a mental reset

Oh I've driven by it on my way to town (never been in it but have seen pictures of the inside with the hockey setup), Red Baron Arena is a massive upgrade over Lockwoods Arena

I read that, interesting that both Marshall and East Grand were considered.

They weren't going to sign him anyways but I was expecting a little more than that.... Lets hope for addition by subtraction...… Of course this means Poolman should finally crack the top 6.

I still think they can get to 8 wins. Just beat the teams you need to beat and defend home turf. Eastern and Weber will be tough on the road... but they have two weeks to prep for both, so NOT impossible to get at least one win. NDSU.... I'll save that for the week of.

I wonder how much Roncali pulls away from Central in regards to basketball talent (they are usually pretty good team in Class B and in the NEC). From what I have read they should be two of the better players in the EDC this year. I think the issues last year was they were very inexperienced and in that conference, that is a recipe for a long season. It is interesting that he is already hitting SD hard, which I don't remember the last offer UND has made to a SoDak kid before Sather came aboard.

YA is going to Iowa.

They stopped recruiting Iowa

I think they are 2022s

That's pretty sweet.

Its crazy... Unless UND beats them, the its "Its the worst Griz team in x years"

2 of the first three commits are O-line nice

Back to the box I go. The dumb Norwegian mistyped the Finns.

My take on Idalski is this. He did help the program from a doormat to respectable (now it did help that he had the Lammy Twins, that we cannot deny) but after a while... sometimes you can only go so far as a coach at a program. They never could take that next step. Its like that NFL team that goes from 3-13 to 9-7 and sneaks into a wild card. That part is easy... but can you go from that to 11-5 or 12-4 and make a deep playoff run. They could never do that. Did he have bad luck: Yes. The NCAA with the usually nonsense about Kharvanin, the injuries that derailed Jensen of EGF, who could have been a top 6 forward and Slavin of Colorado, who could have been a stud in the D corp. Tapani leaving after 1 year. To your two points: It is a mix. I'll let others deal with the local recruiting (because I think a few posters will have better insight on this that I will) but my biggest gripe with Idalski was this: It wasn't that he couldn't beat Minnesota or Wisconsin on a consistence basis but.. and you can go back to previous years threads to see this potentially, every year before the season Brad would have his preseason article, and it would say that this year UND would avoid the bad losses that kept them out of more NCAA tournaments. It would even had quotes of Idalski saying this exact thing. Well here is the thing: UND couldn't do it. It was a slip up against Syracuse, a slip up against Linderwood (which was an awful loss), a loss and tie against St. Cloud, a loss against Mankato, a loss against Ohio State, etc. With how the pairwise worked and only 8 teams getting in, it was these types of games that UND was not winning that was costing them in the end where they would finish 9th in the pairwise. They won enough against Minnesota, Wisconsin and Duluth to have gotten in if they didn't slip up... Even in their best season, the triple OT loss in the first round to the U, if Parizak doesn't bury that winner in OT against Bemidji and they tie... they would have needed to win the conference tournament to get in. I'll put it bluntly: If the program was still here, my money would be that someone else would be in charge right now. Nevertheless, I hope he does well in China.

I know that Halli Krzyzaniak was close to making the Canadian team (and might have a shot in 2022) and outside of Amsley-Benzie getting a look IIRC, no. Most I believe have been Finns.

a matchup with the Mayor.. very nice

Tommy is his first name

Had a lot of D2 offers but I think he can be capable of playing at the low-D1 level. Played on a very good Park Center team this year. He is another combo guard yes, but unlike Danielson, he has more point guard in him. I think he can upgrade the position. What I like most about him: He appears to have "it". He is not afraid of taking the big shot. UND needs a gamer like that to run the show. Of course the last time UND raided PC, it didn't turn out half bad.

Chapman. I wish

You can never have too many of those