The Official USD to D-I Smack Thread

[Nidaros]

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The signature is great. Yogi Berra could not have come up with that one.

I can not believe that they had to settle for D2 tournaments. How much will they get from Mankato in guarentee money?

Will they be taking a bus to West Texas. In December barring no surprise Southwest blizzard it would be nice sunny bus ride.

[Jacks-02]

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Let's pull it apart, shall we?

D-I Counters:
at Cornell
at Cincinatti
at Notre Dame
at New Orleans

Non-D-I Counters:
at UND
UND
at SIU-E
at Seattle
at SIU-E
at Seattle
at Independent tournament, Grand Forks (2 games)

Non-D-I away games at:
Post University at Mankato
Chowan at Mankato
at West Texas A&M Tournament, 2 games
at Palm Beach Atlantic

Home games (all non-D-I):
Graceland
Chadron State
Mayville State
Dana
Minnesota-Duluth
Midland Lutheran
Southwest Minnesota St.
St. Olaf
Valley City State
William Penn
Mt. Marty
Lake Erie

Wow, its questionable if thats any better than the women's...

[NorCalJack]

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If anyone is interested in the Graceland website, I found it here. It is located in Tiffin, Iowa. Short road trip for Graceland. I don't think the parents of the Graceland students will allow them to stay over night. They need to be in bed by 8 PM. LOL!!! Nice schedule.

[RowdyRabbit]

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Holy moses that's a terrible schedule...anyone know exactly how many D-3 teams they are playing? I know St. Olaf is one....not sure of any others.

That is just plain embarrassing.

[West-River_Jack]

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7,800 or so at the Dome, according to USD. That means there were somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people there. Take away the usual USD freebie quotient and probably 1,500 to 3,000 were paying customers.

There is a simple answer for everything. This from the Volante:

http://media.www.volanteonline.com/m...mlemailedition

The last paragraph of the article:

"The university also gave every family who checked in Saturday two free tickets for the football game against St. Ambrose. They also received two tickets for the tailgating party before the game."

[launcher46]

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I know it is tough to come up with good games during transition... but could someone please give me one reason it is possible for it to be THAT BAD?

[Jacks#1Fan]

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If anyone is interested in the Graceland website, I found it here. It is located in Tiffin, Iowa. Short road trip for Graceland. I don't think the parents of the Graceland students will allow them to stay over night. They need to be in bed by 8 PM. LOL!!! Nice schedule.

Love it NCJ! For the rest of you posters, check out his link. Rep points for you tonight. After pre-school they eventually get to Graceland University in Lamoni IA, with about 2,300 students, competing in NAIA. And now they can add to their resume by pointing out they are playing a D-I university...whoopee. That's probably one of the exciting games Boots had in mind in his quote.

[Vision]

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For comparison here is SDSU's first year schedule:

Butler at Indianapolis, Ind.
Manhattan at Riverdale, N.Y.
Mayville State (N.D.) Frost Arena
Illinois-Chicago at Chicago, Ill.
Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Milwaukee, Wisc.
Southeast Missouri State at Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Marquette at Milwaukee, Wisc.
Denver at Denver, Colo.
Michigan Tech Frost Arena
Tennessee State at Nashville, Tenn.

SDSU Burger King Classic
Wanye State (Neb.) Frost Arena
Wanye State (Mich.) Frost Arena

San Diego State at San Diego, Calif.
Buena Vista (Neb.) Frost Arena
North Dakota State Frost Arena
UMKC at Kansas City, Mo.
Morningside Frost Arena
Bellevue (Neb.) Frost Arena
Arkansas State at Jonesboro, Ark.
Winona State (Minn.) Frost Arena
Upper Iowa Frost Arena
Southwest Minnesota State Frost Arena
Colorado at Boulder, Colo.

National Independent Tournament
Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras at Fort Meyes, Fla.
North Dakota State at Fort Myers, Fla.
Puerto Rico-Bayamon at Fort Myers, Fla.

Central Florida at Orlando, Fla.
North Dakota State at Fargo, N.D.

[Jack4Life]

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If anyone is interested in the Graceland website, I found it here. It is located in Tiffin, Iowa. Short road trip for Graceland. I don't think the parents of the Graceland students will allow them to stay over night. They need to be in bed by 8 PM. LOL!!! Nice schedule.

Didn't look at the thread, but I believe they are coached by a former Mt. Marty player, Coach Quinn. They have played in Yankton against the Mount and I believe Mt. Marty handled them easily and the Mount was not that tough...

[1bunnies]

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I know it is tough to come up with good games during transition... but could someone please give me one reason it is possible for it to be THAT BAD?

1. Because it is usd.

They believe by scheduling opponents they can boyhandle that it automatically makes them a great team. They havn't figured it out before and they won't figure it out now.

[SUPERBUNNY]

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The cool thing for USD is that this P.O.S. schedule won't affest their attendance a lick!

They will find a way to announce that they had one more fan in the stands this year than we did in our first transition year!!!

Now the dollars coming in, that my friends is a much different story.

Should be an exciting year of basketball in the world's largest septic tank!

SUPERBUNNY

[MilwaukeeJacksAlum]

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I'm not one to pull out the "double standard" card quickly, but this schedule would have been ridiculed endlessly had SDSU brought out that garbage after announcing we were going D1. That's a horrible schedule for a Junior High team. How, as the athletic department, look any donor in the eye after the schedules they've produced so far. As sad as it is to say, their football schedule is the best so far! I'm almost embarrassed for them. Almost.

[jack power]

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I'm not one to pull out the "double standard" card quickly, but this schedule would have been ridiculed endlessly had SDSU brought out that garbage after announcing we were going D1. That's a horrible schedule for a Junior High team. How, as the athletic department, look any donor in the eye after the schedules they've produced so far. As sad as it is to say, their football schedule is the best so far! I'm almost embarrassed for them. Almost.

I don't know how they can look their players in the eye, the seniors in particlar. That is just a pathetic effort.

[SturgisJeff]

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Maybe wrong but I think there are 8 NAIA schools on the schdule. I know Mount Marty is NAIA Div 2.

[launcher46]

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Anybody have any predictions for the USD-UNI game on saturday?

I think the game stays close into the second half. Then with 5:21 left in the third quarter, and the game tied at 14,the Northern Iowa coaches (realizing they have a game on their hands) decide to take the 2007 UNI intramural flag football championship runners up out of the game and replace them with their actual players. Northern Iowa then goes on 314-0 run to close out the game. Final score UNI 328- USD 14.

In his post game press conference, Ed Meierkort emphatically defends his postion that fcs is not much of a step up from division 2 citing the fact that they hung with them until the end of the third quarter.