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Post by dave on Feb 7, 2022 23:00:12 GMT -6
If you want an example of objective commentators, turn on the men's game. I hate the Bison but WDAY does a great job with broadcasts. I agree with this post 100% the Bison crew do a good job, and for the record when my team plays on the road I don't expect the announcers to be unbiased. I expect and am OK with a certain amount of homerism. Since I'm the one who brought up Newitt let me clarify my position on him, first I agree he is very knowledgeable about the game and I like and respect that part of his broadcast. In my original post I said he was the master of the backhanded compliment, maybe that was a poor choice of words on my part. It's more like he can't pay the Jacks a compliment without a qualifier. As an example if the Jacks have a good play he will point it out and his remarks are complimentary, but immediately he has to go off on how the other team had a lapse in defense, implying IMO that the Jacks got lucky. I get tired of that, sometimes you just need to comment on the good play and leave it alone, don't over analyze.
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Post by dave on Feb 7, 2022 9:35:59 GMT -6
I know that people on the bunny board are complaining about the announcers. I get the feeling they expect that the announcers should say good things about only their team when they are the home team. In other words, they should be like the guy who was doing Western Illinois games a couple years ago, who would always say “they somehow lucked out on another basket”, whenever a coyote would score…. I like the recent announcers we have had, at both games in North Dakota, and for the game in Frost this week. They are complimentary of talent on both teams, and call it like they see it, rather than being cheerleaders for the home team. They realize that their audience is made up of fans of both teams. Nope I don't like Brad Knew-It, he's a master of the backhanded compliment. I don't mind if the broadcast crew is somewhat biased toward the team they regularly cover, most of the people watching are probably fans of that team.
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Post by dave on Sept 9, 2020 7:28:51 GMT -6
Extremely disappointing not having a football season, here is an interesting chart regarding covid 19 and college students.
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Post by dave on Mar 9, 2020 13:28:22 GMT -6
Douple has said before he doesn't negotiate membership through the media. I've always felt the reason Augie is so public about it's intentions is they know it is an uphill battle, as the state universities won't want another D1 school in the area dividing an already small market. When they are voted down expect an all out media campaign that the big bad state schools won't let poor little Augie in their conference, especially us up at SDSU we are always a favorite target of theirs. It's time to start reminding the media and Augie supporters if they want to move up the WAC is always an option.
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Post by dave on Mar 9, 2020 11:20:31 GMT -6
Is it normal for an application to be this public? St Thomas seemingly joined overnight since we heard nothing about it. GCU apparently applied and our source is a passing comment at the Yankton QB club. I don't recall hearing much about ORU or UMKC coming back either. Can't recall much lead-in for UND either, despite how notable that was on a local scale. I have to keep asking myself if Augustana actually plans on going D1 or if they're just blowing smoke to gain exposure. They simply don't have a D1 profile and have gone about this entire process the wrong way. Douple on KWSN last week talking about UST and Augie, listen at the 14:25 mark where he talks about expansion and reports in the media. If Augie wants to go D1 and the Summit doesn't want them go to the WAC they need members. kwsn.com/podcasts/sports-talk-with-kwsn/5093/douple-on-summit-growth-whats-next-for-st-thomas-and-augustana-possibly-joining/
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Post by dave on Dec 5, 2019 13:28:47 GMT -6
Only you, kiyoat, would research the dates of the games played in 1889 . Did Stig coach in that first game? Don't be ridiculous he was merely a grad assistant back then.
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Post by dave on Aug 6, 2019 21:17:02 GMT -6
IIRC the NCAA allows a transitioning school to fast track one men's and one women's sport, other than football and basketball, so if that rule is still in place, and assuming Augie will be taking PFW's spot, Augie's baseball team will be playoff eligible in something like two years. I'd imagine the NCAA will grant a waiver to the Summit League preserving autobids in all sports. BTW how soon does the name get changed back to the North Central Conference.
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Post by dave on May 25, 2019 12:34:42 GMT -6
I think both the Yotes and the Jacks would wish the bottom feeding Bizzzuuhhnn pathetic womens bb team would somehow get their RPI above 300. Both of the SD are getting it done, schedule good ooc games, win there fair share, and then comes along the Summit League schedule and rpi's plummet taking away at large bids and 12 or better seeds in the NCAA tournament. What you fail to understand is college athletics is cyclical, programs such as UND will eventually get their house in order and have success again, the ndsu women's bb is the exception to that rule. What has it been for you guys two decades of sucking soon to be a quarter of a century.
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Post by dave on May 25, 2019 7:49:44 GMT -6
Augie doesn’t need to build anything. Their facilities are set. In the meantime UST can build, with their unlimited funds, a hockey arena, football stadium and basketball arena. All of that to become a very small D1 school, like Augie. Bring them on but Augie is not going away. I don’t believe it’s either/or. Augie is in. UST is speculative. They need 20 million/year budget to have the bare bones funding of Maine and Und. They need what, 500 million or so for facilities? They need a waiver to skip D2 with viable D2 & D3 options out there. It should be interesting watching it unfold. Not only the Augie UST situations but the accelerating deterioration of athletics at UND. Can they reverse their collapsed hockey, football and BB programs with a budget on life support? If so a D1 all sports UST has hope too. Very similar to the situation the Bison find their women's basketball program in.
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Post by dave on Apr 4, 2019 20:42:53 GMT -6
Interest in the article all the Dakota influence. Of the main participants they discussed, one from USD, one from UND, and an AD from SDSU. SDSU AD Justin Sell is the chair of the committee, there was some interesting articles and comments from Justin Sell when the committee was formed a year ago, or has it been two time flies by.
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Post by dave on Apr 1, 2019 8:46:14 GMT -6
The USF AD was at UMKC when they left for the WAC he was interviewed on KWSN about a year ago. He implied that UMKC thought them Summit was becoming to Dakota centered and there was no chance to advance to the NCAA men's bb tourney, they thought the WAC would be an easier path, they were also hoping to turn some NCAA runs into a MVC invite. They now regret that move as travel costs are killing them.
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Post by dave on Feb 27, 2019 7:59:01 GMT -6
I caught bits and pieces of the show yesterday and I think John was trying to make the argument for more mid majors getting at large bids vs high majors with sub 500 conference record. It had something to do with an article written by Seth Davis in the Athletic, tried to read it but I'm not a subscriber, may need to subscribe there has been some good stuff coming from the Athletic.
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Post by dave on Feb 26, 2019 20:48:00 GMT -6
The original configuration of Frost was a great venue with the students on the south side, the fans were right on top of the court the atmosphere as electric. Everytime they renovated and upgraded the seating sight lines were made worse and the fans and the students were moved a little bit away from the court losing a little atmosphere, but I think it's still a great venue. The renovation will better utilize the corners and hopefully improve the sight lines in the upper balcony, my uneducated guess is max seating will probably be in that 4500 to 5000 range, hopefully more.
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Post by dave on Jan 17, 2019 22:31:15 GMT -6
Early this year while watching a game I thought I heard calling more offensive fouls was a point of emphasis for ncaa officials this year, so I did a quick search and found a youtube link from the ncaa explaining things the refs are supposed to watch this year, episode ten deals with offensive fouls, my personal favorite was the episode on the hook and hold, I guess I must like a little dirty play. www.youtube.com/channel/UChy2SdUn8Jl3H2NQ3801kMQ
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Post by dave on Dec 16, 2018 12:56:30 GMT -6
Can someone help me out: what is the reasoning/logic behind the anti-NCC-part-2 bias? Not an anti NCC thing for me it is the fact that this area is so sparsely populated, coaches will say recruiting starts at campus and spreads out from there. We soon will have three D-I schools competing for the limited number of athletes in this area. Same could be said for corporate donations. A diluted talent pool and funding could hurt the competitiveness of our local schools and the Summit League overall, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The four Dakota state schools could easily make the argument for moving up because our peer institutions in other states were already D-I, Augie fits the profile of a D-II school. Augie should first grow its enrollment, add more majors and graduate programs and then move up sometime around 2030. All that being said I've reached the acceptance stage of grief, Augie will be a D-I member of the Summit League in the not too distant future.
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