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Did a search of this forum and there was some talk about a UND at Bowling Green football game. Looks like 2016 is the date. http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/mid-amer/bowling-green-falcons.php

Fighting off eight set points in a row is incredible. What are the odds of that? Was curious about who leads the Big Sky in volleyball attendance: looks like it is Montana State with 995 a match. Northern Colorado is right about our level with a 727 average. Idaho State is at 682. PSU and NAU are both under 500. Would be nice to average over 1000, but that would likely take a 20 win season.

Thanks. Thought the volleyball tournament host was determined by this regular season, like basketball does it.

Biggest win of the season! First win over an upper tier team (NAU, PSU, and ISU). Hopefully the team can continue to play at a higher level. Looks like the conference tournament will now be in Pocatello, as ISU now has a one game lead. Although ISU plays at PSU in the last game of the season. Portland would be better for UND: less travel hassles, less home fans, and lower elevation.

Rumor on the Griz board is that the new Montana AD is attempting to buy out UM's non-conference September game in Grand Forks. http://www.egriz.com/grizboard/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60022

We're on the same page. Rather have the W/L record exceed the stats than the other way around.

Just give it a rest. The Green Team has wonderful insightful posts, and his statement was not a personal attack on anyone. You were the one that started a personal attack. Why do people here attack non- trolls? Trolls deserve attacks, not ?loyal posters.

Hope you realize that UND's offense has not played the four worst defenses in the conference. ISU, UCD, and UNC all have horrible defenses statistically. The statistics aren't true round robin, so they aren't fully comparable. Let UND' offense tee off against ISU, and watch what happens. UND had two blow out games where the team seemed to give up. Those games demoralized fans and made UND offensive stats horrible. Even with those two blowouts, if UND had won against SDSU and NAU, playoffs would have been possible. By statistics, the Baltimore Orioles should have lost 25 more games than they did (scored fewer runs than they allowed), but the stats didn't mean crap. The most amazing stat to me is that UND's D only had one in the top 100 in tackles: Baylee Carr. No LB listed. The stats also show UND's defense is also actually pretty decent in the Red Zone. It's atrocious outside the red zone. There's no doubt this team has some glaring weaknesses, but it is also more opportunistic than given credit for.

Thought there might be a thread on this: So Penn State's Pres, VP, and AD knew about the Sandusky allegations since 1998. In 2001 after the shower sodomy incident, this group of "leaders" call their general counsel about what legal direction they should take, and decided to do nothing but hide the event. Too worried about the effect on Penn St, Paterno, and Sandusky, but didn't give a !@#$ about the kids. Thirteen years of this crap. Even had hidden files that they weren't delivered to the Grand Jury until all of them were fired. http://sports.yahoo....ky01191010.html

The Twolves are arguably the most diverse team in the league: two Hispanics and two foreign Slavs. Foreign players have long been discrimated by the NBA, as they were traditionally viewed as soft. The problem is that all the non-American are white, so they don't count as "diverse" in the detractors eyes, even though arguably they bring more diversity than a pool of black and white Americans. Too many people, including these civil "rights" advocates are so superficial - only looling at skin color - that even their own prejudices are nakedly apparent.

Isn't the US supposed to be a post-racial country? Guess it doesn't matter that Minnesota has players from Montenegro, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain as well as a player named Love that was an Olympian. http://www.startribune.com/sports/wolves/176071391.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y&refer=y http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201210/are-minnesota-timberwolves-too-white At least the players don't see it as a big deal:

Case Keenum was given a sixth year of eligibility, but he was injured his true freshman year and his senior year. http://www.chron.com/sports/college-football/article/UH-s-Case-Keenum-wins-NCAA-appeal-can-play-in-1684230.php

If fans think four wins is at all in the cards in those five road games, we are setting ourselves up for a major disappointment. Road games are always tough to come by. Kansas St - <5% chance of a win N Iowa - <10% chance of a win Hawaii - <15 % chance of a win SDSU - 25 % chance NDSU - 40% chance If any of the games were at UND, add 25% to each. Through those five games, a 1-4 road record would actually be reasonable. If this team finishes 3rd in the Big Sky, that would be tremendous progress considering how much more difficult this year will be. This team has never competed in a real conference yet, so the mental toughness and road travels will be a learning experience. The senior year of Webb, Anderson, Brekke, Huff, Schuler etc, we should have higher hopes.

The Cal Poly win was huge for the Hornets. Many of their fans had given up on them after being blasted by UND at home. Now Sac St arguably can get in with a 7-4 record (1-1 vs FBS and no sub-FCS games). Thu, Aug 30 at New Mexico State L 19-49 -- Sat, Sep 8 at Colorado W 30-28 -- Sat, Sep 15 Northern Colorado W 28-17 -- Sat, Sep 22 North Dakota L 13-35 -- Sat, Sep 29 at Idaho State W 54-31 -- Sat, Oct 6 at Southern Utah W 27-22 -- Sat, Oct 13 Weber State W 19-14 -- Sat, Oct 20 at Eastern Washington L 28-31 -- Sat, Oct 27 Cal Poly W 35-29 -- Sat, Nov 3 Montana State 7:05 pm -- Sat, Nov 17 at UC Davis TBA --

Amen. It would have been great for UND to have an open date earlier, like Montana St, Montana, E Wash, etc. Having an open date after S Utah will be much less meaningful than an October date that most other BSC teams have had.

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Ag agree. And when has Faison ever shown the ability to hire footballl staff. His record at NMSU in that department was horrific. Trust Faison for basketball and volleyball, but not hockey or football.

Very disappointed but can't say the result is all that surprising. As someone else said, UND just doesn't play well on the road in cooler conditions. The two road results with decent games were in San Diego and Sacramento. Would rate the top of the BSC in this order: Cal Poly Montana St EWU NAU The Alerus seems to give UND a 14 pt advantage, but cold road locations UND subtract 14 from its effort. Still say Hendrickson was the LB that had the craziness to keep this defense together last year, both on the field and off. He definitely wasn't soft. Need that kind of mentality for next year.

I deleted that later. Many arena dig down much lower than the Ralph. The Ralph also had permitting issues until there was English Coulee flood protection in place. The Ralph also isn't designed as a community shelter. My point was that if it wasn't built in a flood prone arena, it's construction would have been cheaper.

It's clear that when you love something, the product comes out wonderfully. Bet some of the posters here spend far more time on this board than twins15 does on his blog.

The Alerus is intended to double as a community shelter in the event of a community disaster. It's been used as such when Canadians were stuck in Grand Forks without housing during a World Juniors blizzard. People forget about that whole concept. For Fargo to flight floods, the FargoDome was the focus of that effort and without it Fargo's battles would have been much more difficult. People complain all the time about the bottom line of the Alerus, but if they ever needed it for the safety of their lives they would quickly change their tune - at least temporarily. Most larger arenas and stadiums are dug down to save construction and steel costs as well as create a more stable foundation.

UND is 6-0 against the teams below us, but 0-7 against those above us. NAU, PSU, and ISU are clearly the upper tier of the BSC. NAU in particular is young, so making a challenge in future years may be much more difficult than anticipated.

Would also add that the Alerus as it exists is not the originally intended design. Originally, the level of the playing field was lower than ground level, so escalators and stairs were not required to reach the main concourse level. After the flood, the entire Alerus Arena area design was raised up, so that flooding of any kind could not inundate the playing level, lockers, lower seats etc (see the FargoDome). This redesign added considerable cost and greatly increased the cost of any expansion on the south end. At that time, the requirement for FBS was 30,000 or so stadium seats and nobody anticipated it would drop to 15,000 for both stadium size and average attendance. For watchmaker to come on here with "know it all" crap he spews is disgusting, and nobody here seems to challenge his B.S. At least he could actually get the facts correct.

This is a stupid thread, but then again, look who started it: Watchmaker. He thinks he should be running everything but can't even run his own life. If the Alerus didn't exist, football attendance would be half of what it is. November games would be lucky to get 3000.

North Carolina has had incredible athletes on their recent football teams, but multiple other issues. Braden had offers from Kansas St, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan St, Rutgers, Missouri, and Colorado. Every single one of those schools except Colorado and arguably Iowa effectively recruited high quality QBs. For the first three years, Braden backed up T. J. Yates, who started last year for the Texans while Schaub was down. Yates had impressive seasons for the Tar Heels and remains second for the Texans after Schaub. Butch Davis was forced to resign the fall before Hanson was an academic senior. UNC started a Sophomore Bryn Renner, instead of Hanson, when Southern Miss's coach moved in. This was Renner's performance last year: Year Team Attempts Completions Completion % Yards TDs INT 2009 North Carolina Redshirt 2010 North Carolina 2 1 50.0% 14 0 0 2011 North Carolina 308 212 68.8% 2,769 23 12 Back luck just seems to follow Hanson, being stuck behind Yates, than passed over by the new coach in favor of Renner, than a broken leg in his first game at UND. The Dallas Cowboys have been scouting Hanson at UND.