Witt hasn't aged a bit! His analysis is just about what I expected but my only surprise is that I didn't think Witt would have UMD all the way down at 5? I still think (imo) UMD is still #2 behind Mankato but the games played might prove me wrong otherwise!
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Brandon Zylstra, brother of the Mav's Shane, cut by the Vikings but picked up by Carolina.
https://www.wctrib.com/sports/464162...olina-Panthers
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Originally posted by MStateMaverick View PostNot football related, but can't find the woman's soccer department on this new format. Mav women beat #1 ranked Grand Valley today 1-0, after defeating #4 ranked Central Mo Friday 2-0. Congratulations to them.
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Trying to learn some history about our team. Where did we play before Blakeslee? I saw team pictures from the 1890s, but the site lists us as having began varsity football in 1821. What happened in the 1970s that we skipped a year? And this is about hockey, but why did Don Brose not coach for 1 season in the 80s and then come back?
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Originally posted by Supercal95 View PostTrying to learn some history about our team. Where did we play before Blakeslee? I saw team pictures from the 1890s, but the site lists us as having began varsity football in 1821. What happened in the 1970s that we skipped a year? And this is about hockey, but why did Don Brose not coach for 1 season in the 80s and then come back?
In 1976 MSU was in the NCC. The full amount of scholarships at that time was 45. They only had enough for about 35. Rather than shift money around or go on a fund raising drive they dropped the sport and promptly got kicked out of the league. Total bush move. Set the program back at least ten years. I graduated that spring and was totally bored with them not having the sport that fall. I put the blame on the administration at that time- both the president and the AD. Hving club football a year later was pretty half-assed. And it really hurt the basketball program who was on the way up- they had scheduled Nebraska and Kansas that year.
As far as Don Brose- I can't remember if it was for his health or for his wife- I believe that she died around that time.
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Originally posted by laker View Post
They played down at the bottom of the hill before campus started being built up on top. There was a physical education building there that looked like a Japanese battleship. But during the mid to late 50s and I would assume until 1962 when Blakeslee was built, they played at Mankato HS (now Mankato West). I saw a program from 1958- I think that the game started at 8 or 8:30. They would practice across the river in North Mankato. They would take a bus over and back. Sometimes they would reach out the windows and try to take pop bottles from the top of delivery trucks.
In 1976 MSU was in the NCC. The full amount of scholarships at that time was 45. They only had enough for about 35. Rather than shift money around or go on a fund raising drive they dropped the sport and promptly got kicked out of the league. Total bush move. Set the program back at least ten years. I graduated that spring and was totally bored with them not having the sport that fall. I put the blame on the administration at that time- both the president and the AD. Hving club football a year later was pretty half-assed. And it really hurt the basketball program who was on the way up- they had scheduled Nebraska and Kansas that year.
As far as Don Brose- I can't remember if it was for his health or for his wife- I believe that she died around that time.
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Total bush move. It sounds like we should be about where UNI is right now if they didn't cancel that season. I heard we also dropped plans to get a law school around that time, and the hippie protests at that time. What a disastrous administration. We could truly be Minnesota's 2nd university but squandered it.
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Originally posted by Supercal95 View PostTotal bush move. It sounds like we should be about where UNI is right now if they didn't cancel that season. I heard we also dropped plans to get a law school around that time, and the hippie protests at that time. What a disastrous administration. We could truly be Minnesota's 2nd university but squandered it.
I had Butch Raymond for a class. He had to go before some student committee to request new practice tops, which were worn out. A coed asked why they just couldn't go shirts and skins instead.
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Originally posted by Supercal95 View PostWhen did we move from the NAIA? Wasn't it only like a decade earlier? Also, when did D2 move from 45 to 36 schollys?
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The big boys were called the University division. The NCC was D2, with the NIC (which would become the NSIC) was NAIA until 1995.
Again, Wikipedia is the source. "Before 1973, the NCAA's smaller schools were grouped together in the College Division. In 1973, the College Division split in two when the NCAA began using numeric designations for its competitions. The College Division members who wanted to offer athletic scholarships or compete against those who did became Division II, while those who chose not to offer athletic scholarships became Division III."
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