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Do #1 seeds get choice for the Regional? or is this ESPN choice?

Any other teams there no one would've made a fuss. Should there be a 2500 seat rink for regional? No, but beggers cant be choosers either. Not alot of western facilities that can meet the requirements of seating, non host site, etc. Need to develop more western programs, even then you wont have 5 schools within 30 miles like you do out east but would still help, still a north eastern heavy system D1 hockey is.

One thing I found interesting on this as well was Denver being a 1 seed and being forced to play a 10am game their time.

Officially? Does anyone remember? Unofficially? Most people think that you can't use the camera on the far end of the ice to call offsides when the multiple closer cameras do not show it.

It is actually AIC home rink. I have not seen anything about AIC being a co-host though, so maybe thats the loophole, you can host at a different teams home venue? We also had the ghost host of Providence in Providence, by having Brown host but still always placed at the Dunkin Donut center, which is their basketball home arena.

In the regional sports world it seems that you have to adapt to streaming world or falter. It been surprising to me that Midco Sports has stuck around as long as it has and even grown in recent years, which may have also led it down a financial rabbit hole. More and more people are moving away from the cable packages and moving to direct streaming platforms which brings overall subscriber numbers down. And with NCHCTV and MidcoSports Plus there was little incentive to pay for the entire Midco cable package just to watch the sports. Even the Wild and Twins being put on Bally Sports Plus also took away the requirement. Now are they also struggling with the online subscription service financially like the other big services? Also having all the MVFC games on ESPN+ was a cheaper option then MidcoSports Plus/Cable and ESPN/TNT/ETC are planning a combined sports streaming service for later this year. They must be thinking to adapt or lose out.

Jody Norstedt was but he resigned before layoffs were announced. Taylor Budge was retained, so may be a increased role for her, probably not PXP but shows they are not canning everyone and believe she has a important role with UND athletics. Alex Heinert also appears to have been retained. While he has his CBS Sports assignments as well that is not every weekend. Would not be surprised for basketball and volleyball to see Ryan Cunningham come back to doing PxP. He did some previously for those sports as a freelancer for the games that were broadcast on Bally/Fox Sports North.

They mentioned keeping up contractual obligations with UND/USD/SDSU, and I know UND especially hockey has been huge for them so I would see them keeping that as is with a dedicated PXP. I believe they kept a USD and SDSU personality on staff. For other events its better to freelance and not pay fulltime benefits. For lower viewed events as well you might see the radio crew or a school appointed staff. Even the old Fight Sioux Sports Network had dedicated PXP.

Think that more than likely they will continue to offer the ability to broadcast or stream the coverage but leave it up to the schools to hire and pay for their PXP personnel?

The number of wide open receivers in that red zone series and Tommy doesn't toss to any. Red became open, but had 2 options of the left side of the field that didn't require rolling out and he could've thrown while set.

UNI might finish 6-5 and UND luckily finish 7-4, and we know how that goes, and UNI showing everyone that be the right pick.

At this point just let Kostich coach offense.

Attendance for next week taking a hit majorly if any body on edge was watching today.

If we didn't lose here, then Murray would probably be our new Idaho State game.

There have been multiple plays where they were open as soon as the play started. Weekly somehow we leave guys uncovered.

Ok, see these receivers? Leave them open, might confuse them.

Not even competitive in this game, and allowing a LB playing 4th string RB to run all over the defense.

Been the case for UND defenses since Bubba been here. The earlier years we atleast had a strong DL that got to the QB early and often not giving time for these wide open guys to be open long enough.

Our best defense today is the UNI receivers' hands.

Trenches are getting beat on both sides of the ball. Huge holes for UNI RBs, and alot of defensive pressure on Tommy. We can't stop run or pass.

Romfo QB powers

He punted further when we had the short field and he made it into the endzone....

It may not have, I heard the announcers say Stevens but didn't look at the number.

I thought we had a different FG kicker the last few weeks? Why did we go back to Stevens?

Of all the things called targeting in the past, that would've qualified.