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UND Fan, If you need a 3-4 source, I'd be glad to be that guy. I saw it all, one of the sorriest and most uncalled for scenes I have ever witnessed. To say I felt sorry for Rich is an understatement. Even the SDSU fans still in the building were embaressed and had to pick their jaws off the floor.

This is interesting. I'm interested to see what the reaction at SDSU is to this. Oien in trouble

Since you apparently don't know, the NCAA is a governing body, their job is to tell universities what they can and can't do. If and your NDSU brotheren don't like the NCAA, fell free to join the NAIA, there Koenig would get to play and you could bend all the rules you wanted and no one would know.

I don't know if anyone is necessarily advocating this, but in no way should UND or any other state university bring a player aboard to, persay, fill a quota of state players. You need people who can help, not a 6-7 stiff from Oakes who is tall but slow as molasses with no athletic ability who is on the team just because he is a ND kid. A program doesn't win that way and reps are taken away from people who can and will contribute. I don't see anyone that the current staff has "missed" on in state, the Hanson's and Vliems and Undlin's included. Those kids would have contributed at UND, and I am not taking anything away from them, but I am not sure if they would have had the same success in a system where they wouldn't have gotten to play from day 1, which wouldn't have been the case at UND. Thomas Dryburgh from Fordville-Lankin via Fargo Shanley is at Wahpeton Science right now and is one to watch, though. He is playing pretty good minutes for them, and they are dynamite in an otherwise weak region.

UND Fan, I know that the Gophers are talking to the Baagason girl, but she is only a JR so that really may not mean much. I was told that she isn't close to a Kelly Roysland, though, and is kind of a tweener right now in that she is too small for the post and night quite quick enough to play on the perimeter in college. Once again though, still being a JR, things can change quickly.

I don't know if people are necessarily complaining but more trying to make sense of things. Let's face it, the atmosphere at REA for basketball is TERRIBLE. After the women's game on Sat, I talked to one of the Bison players I know pretty well for 5-10 minutes, she said that they consider the REA to be a neutral court at best. They would so much rather play at the REA then Hyslop. Part of it is the student situation there. On Sat, the students were not allowed to stand because the Bison fans couldn't see, which may be true but to what extent, but where else in the country is that the case. Not in Fargo, where the students were right in front of me, and I couldn't see a thing offensively in the 2nd half. I am not complaining about not being able to see in Fargo, that is how it should be. In the Betty, the atmosphere would be so much better, fairly large bleachers for students behind both baskets where they cannot "obstruct anyone's view". Students are key to every homecourt in college basketball, and when that is taken away like it is at the REA for basketball, there is no enthusiasm at all. A 5000 seat Betty would be almost the perfect situation for a college hoops team, but the current Betty will seat about 4200 as told by someone who works at the Ralph, that could be great, but it needs to be utilized, and I think it should be utilized for every home game. My $.02.

The interesting thing with Koenig is that if he didn't go DI, he told UND that he was theirs. If he is unhappy, UND is in a very good situation to land him because of the relationships and history he has developed with the school, too bad it is all speculation at this point.

I'm sure we'd find a way to bend the rules for a great player like Koenig.

They were going to discuss either a now fundraising or ticket drive, or maybe both, I don't remember exactly what was said, but Sweeney mentioned it the other night.

So Ferris State is the worst non-conference opponent, they were 6-5 last year and almost beat Saginaw at Saginaw, so they must have been a fairly good team. When your Bison finally get a schedule done and stop burning bridges with the people at the NoPlayoffsFor20YearsDome, then come talk. Our worst nonconference opponent will be better then your worst opponent, St. Mary's (CA), now there is a real good team.

The men's schedule is the best that I can remember as far as nonconference games go, as at the Disney Classic there will likely be at least 2 ranked opponents. Not to give up on this year, but next year looks like it should be the deepest and best team since the glory days of the early 90's. The rotations will be tough PG-Nobles, Doyle, and Leikas SG/SF-MJ, Jacobson, Parks, Austin PF-Lindahl, Gutter, Wells C-Rype and Stoute Add to that the 1 or 2 JC kids the SIoux will I'm sure get, things look great. This year is far from done yet though, so I'll have to curb my inthusiasm.

Wow!! I didn't even notice that. Minnesota vs UND will be a game with 2 young teams on the floor. The women also have Seattle Pacific at home, they are undefeated as of the last poll and ranked I think 4th in the country.

Men's basketball schedule looks real good. Disney Classic is always great. Lake Superior St. brings Mike Fitzner, who is their head coach, along with Brady Larson back to UND. Kearney at home is a great game. Rico Burkett's Wayne State back here also.

The press conference was called to announce a new ticket/fundraising drive also. I think that was the biggest reason for it, the common fan just has more interest in the schedule.

Did I miss something or is the press conference not on the radio?

So you are saying the Sioux men would've beat the piss out of the Bison, because according to you the Bison get all of the best players from the biggest schools in the biggest cities that play against the toughest competition in the toughest conferences, and the Sioux get the rest.

talk about a loser....Go over to Bisonville, a lot more UND talk there then there is NDSU talk here.

There was actually a pretty decent number in the upper bowl as well.

Why would you come on this board as a Bison fan and start bragging about postseason when, after this year, you won't see it in basketball for a minimum of 13 years, probably more like a minimum of 20-25, and in football for a minimum of 4. You have to pick your fights better then that....bro. If the postseason is the only time it counts, then the Bison have a long time ahead to be known as Mr. Irrelevant.

It ceases to amaze me how your posts get increasingly dumber. It is a university release with 36 names on it. Walk-ons were not announced at a single university in the US, walk-ons don't appear on lists of recruitis signing LOI's on national signing day, obviously some of the recruits were given sums like $200, but all were signed and given some sort of financial aid.

It seems strange that if they didn't sign 36, why would the Argus Leader and www.usdcoyotes.com both claim that they did? Is it yet another conspiracy similar to that of UND trying to hinder NDSU's move to DI?

I'll take a crack at it. If a IAA team schedules a game with NDSU, it will probably be a good game with NDSU having a decent shot at winning the game. Meanwhile, SDSU hasn't had a sniff of the playoffs since Carter was in office, '79 I think, and that is their only appearance, they are year-in, year-out, pretty much the armpit of the football conference. There is no risk in scheduling them for Georgia Southern and Montana St, it will be a pretty easy win. The SDSU dreamers will tell you otherwise, but their overall record the last 20-30 years tells the story. I don't think it is Taylor's fault, there is a much bigger risk there for IAA teams and especially contenders.