Dustin

Other than overstaying his welcome, I really do think bubba did some important things for UND football. His successors will have absolutely no excuses. Take us to the promised land, Schmitty.

Why is the middle of the field open like the Red Sea??

Me either. Looks like they’ll be 15-1.

Dear Eric, your assignment is simple. Put an end to this madness. sincerely, disgruntled UND fans

Un-be-effin-lievable.

Go Bobcats!! Please do UND fans (and presumably SDSU fans) a favor this year

I guess anything aside from 5x5 is a sort of special teams situation. So, I guess hockey governing boards need to examine how important it is to promote a faster scoring scenario than 5x5 would generate. If the answer is “Yes, a faster scoring scenario is preferred,” then at least power plays are common feature of regulation hockey, whereas none of the other options are.

Check out my new thread: “Hockey OT Format” Seeking discussion and ideas.

Wanted to start a discussion about how OT is played in hockey. I am not familiar with how all leagues do their OT, but from what I’ve observed recently, once the game gets to OT, what is played is a lot less like the actual game of hockey (3x3, shoutouts, etc). I understand that staying 5x5 can create a long drawn out game with teams taking few chances. 4x4 seems the most appropriate to me, though a 4x4 situation still isn’t that common in regulation. 3x3 and especially shoutouts are skills competitions more for the fans. So who has ideas for a more “hockey-minded” solution? One idea that someone on here suggested that was really intriguing to me was to do alternating power plays. This would sort of follow the OT format in college football, where each team gets an equal number of chances at scoring, in this case via a 2-minute power play. If Team A scores on theirs, but Team B doesn’t score on theirs, Team A wins. If both score or neither score, a second round is played, and so on and so forth. A possible rule could be that if Team B scores short handed, they win, but I am not necessarily sold on that. If additional penalties are called during the power play, I would suggest the following: If the attacking team commits a penalty, their turn is over, and the other team gets to start their power play. If the defending team commits a penalty, they go down another man for the remainder. Penalized players would not get to play in the next round, but could come back after that.

Ouch.

Posted this in the game thread, but is there a MBB equivalent to Eric Schmidt?? I know the last time the position was open I was an advocate for Boschee. I may have to rethink that now, perhaps. May want someone with some P4 experience to handle the realities of college basketball in the new era.

Is there a MBB equivalent to Eric Schmidt??

Not what I had in mind, but those guys did make a point that some NFL coaches call offensive/defensive plays. Perhaps a salary distribution move to start things off. Maybe that changes with future renegotiated contracts.

I wonder if the Haug connection to Bemidji State puts Bolte into contention for DC.

I've been curious about this myself.

Do we know how UND's collective stacks up against other schools'? Is there a way to know?

I'll answer this from my perspective. I was not overly impressed with his defenses at UND, and it seemed the San Diego SU defenses were also similarly questionable. But I've been a convert in the period since he was hired with his access to knowledge at the highest level of FBS.

This was completely unacceptable.

Yes. I am thinking he's courting one preferred name, with a potential couple backups in case his first choice doesn't pan out.

makes sense

Yes. That was his last chance to make a splash hire, which appears so far he did. I think Chaves' job is safe for at least 4-5 years.

This is probably the biggest defensive truth post-2007.

Yep. Same problem as the football program.

Exactly. True of any organizational activity, whether it's sports or a business.

Yeah, I knew there had to be others, just couldn't remember their big moments as readily.