September 23, 2025 • 13 mins
UND Head Coach Jesse Tupac reflects on the team's 3-1 victory over West Georgia, highlighting the performance of both setters and hitters. He discusses the importance of building chemistry—both in getting to know opponents and in learning how to play effectively as a team. Looking ahead, Coach Tupac previews upcoming matchups against South Dakota andl North Dakota State (NDSU).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's Paul Ralston and beating everyone, and welcome to another
edition of Hawk Talk downtown Grand Forks from the five
oh six bub inside Hugo's Pure Market. I'm Paul Ralston.
It is a great week of und sports ahead. Already
great news coming down the pipeline today. We want to
(00:20):
welcome you all across the Fighting Hawks Radio network and
locally here fourteen forty am the Fan. If you're listening
anywhere in the world, you just have to tap into
that iHeartRadio app KKXLAM tell your friends and then you
can go back to listen to any conversation that we
have here tonight on the Hawk Talk Radio talk podcasting
area inside the iHeartRadio app in iHeartRadio dot com. That's
(00:43):
Hawk Talk. And of course, Hugoes is the official grocery
store of University of North Dakota Athletics. They are your
headquarters for getting geared up for a tailgating Saturday. Of
course we don't have one this Saturday, but homecoming was
fantastic and of course we got a homecoming win. We'll
talk with Eric Schmidt here momentarily. Wallso tell you that
if it's still lake season. By the looks of it outside.
(01:04):
It's still lake season. They've got great locations on your
way to and from the lake. You can head out
to Park Rapids. They've got a Hugos there for you.
Boston along Highway too, they've got a Hugos there for you,
So make sure it's Hugos, the official grocery store of
University of North Dakota Athletics. We're going to talk to
you in DY volleyball before we talk to you in
D football. You D volleyball, huge Summing League week ahead,
(01:25):
winners of three of their last four. And I tell
you what I do. Have some news here before we
get to you in D volleyball. Everybody, I got great news.
The University of North Dakota men's golf team went to
Des Moines, Iowa, and won the Zach Johnson Invitational. They
beat all the Dakota schools, the Drake schools, all of
(01:47):
those schools. They shattered their scoring record. And congratulations to
Todd Schaeffer and his entire team for having an outstanding
event and bringing home a trophy, a championship. Yeah, there's
a trophy involved. That is a fantastic day.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
They're two days in west of Moines. Iowa. So congratulations
to them, and now if we can just parlay that
good feeling into us great start in some league play.
Joining us now to talk to you and D Volleyball
is the head coach of you and D Volleyball, Jesse Tupac, everybody,
thanks for having Yeah, we're tell you what, coach, I
was just gonna say that winners of three of your
(02:28):
last four, I mean you said, let's turn that frown
upside down. You absolutely did that your last trip two
of three on the road in Georgia and make it
never been there. But your team kind of just went
to work and put their heads down and continue to
try to build towards the SMA League season. That must
have been a fairly good trip at times for your squad.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah. You know, we've been talking all year about the
youth of this team and how they were just going
to continue to make exponential gains day in and day
out and weekend and week out, and I think we're
seeing we're seeing the product of that. There our three
freshmen that were starting for us this beginning, Kammani and
Sadie and Maddie all a phenomenal job for us. I
mean Kamani went out, we beat ut Martin in five
Friday morning, and Kimani actually set a school record for
(03:10):
hitting efficiency in a five set match and that record
has stood since nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's incredible when you think about it, Really, you're not
messing around if you're setting records that were established when
I arrived at the University of North Dakota. Yeah, that's impressive.
You talk a little bit about Sadie and she's a setter,
and when you look at that a little bit in
regards to her abilities in learning how to set people
(03:37):
because everybody likes certain things, and she's going to learn
a lot of basically intricacies of fellow teammates and basically
the hitters of where they want it. And that takes
some time, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Absolutely? I mean, one, it's going to be an adjustment
to go from the high school level to the college
level too. It's just going to be an adjustment systematically
to learn our speed and how we want to play
the game. But then just getting to know each of
your individual attacks. And she and I got to watch
film together today and that was the conversation and say, hey,
this person touches ten to seven, and this person person
touches ten two and this person touches nine to eleven,
and so they're all going to need a slightly different
(04:10):
set at a slightly different speed and heightened. So getting
to know them and spending that time with them is
invaluable for her. And so we're seeing now four weeks
into the season like we're getting more consistent outcomes because
we're able to really develop those relationships and make sure
that we're working well together.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think what happens a lot of the times as
well is that young players. I know they've played a
lot because of JO programs and their high school programs,
but they don't always understand all the things once you
get to collegiately, film study and note taking and scouts
and really diving into the details and the hours that
go along with the practice of preparing one's mind, preparing
(04:46):
to scout not only the opponent you're playing, but the
teammates that you're playing with. As you just described there,
that's an information overload at times for young people.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
One hundred percent. I mean like we played Friday morning
at ten am, you played Saturday morning at ten am.
That means that really it's seven am with the usual
morning lineup of showing up and doing our scout and
dialing in the information that we want to dial in
and then making sure that we can go execute it
in match. And definitely week one, it's going to feel
like you're drinking through a fire hose, you know, and
then you start to get used to the information and
you're like, oh, I can actually apply this in ways
(05:16):
that it puts a lot of pressure on our opponents.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, when we look at some of the other things
that are happening, you mentioned that you seeing Skyler starting
to you talk about that improvement with players, and she's
another one that's continuing to try to take strides in
her game and that can also help you as well.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, our entire backcourt, I mean, Skyler and Izzy and
Katie Piez have done a really nice job of holding
down the backcourt both in defense and and receive. And
Skyler and Izzy in particularly like eighty percent plus in
system over the weekend, which is just video game numbers.
But I would be remiss if I didn't give a
shout out to Izzy McCormick against you, T Martin. She
got a career high in twenty nine digs in that match,
(05:54):
but she also surpassed a thousand career digs, which makes
her only the twenty first person ever in school history
to do so, and so really proud of her and
the work that she's done. And all three of those Skyler,
Izzy and Katy all doing a really nice job in
serviceive and and defense.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I was gonna say that once you start getting into
those types of rarefied errors and you start getting into
those lists and you talk about cracking top twenty or whatever,
sometimes you go up rather quickly at that point as
the season progresses at this stage of your career. So
congratulations to Izzy, the Bloomington, Illinois native as she continues
to make her mark here at the University of North Dakota.
(06:29):
With their individual numbers, the non conference season is behind
us now, yep, and we turned full attention. And the
thing you stressed yesterday and your conversation was the media,
is that what's going to be hard to get fans
headed around is you can't pick the easy opponent. That
in the Assemble League there are no easy ones, Like
everybody is really worthy on the given night, they can
(06:53):
beat everybody can beat everybody, And that says a lot
to the strength of the league a credit to that,
but it's also a slog and so good luck number one.
But the league is strong, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, you know, last year was the best year in
seven league history. This year we're actually three slots higher
in terms of conference rankings in the country. And look
at shows like in the last two years, five teams
have won a nine team conference. Wow, because we had
a four way tie in twenty twenty three and then
twenty twenty four completely different team won the conference. Right,
So when six teams make the conference tournament and in
(07:24):
the last two years, five of six teams have won
the conference that, you know every night it's going to
be a battle, right And or Roberts, who had the
last couple of years, has been one of the worst
teams in the conference. Ten years ago was in the
conference finals and playing for the championship. And they go
out and they beat a really good New Mexico State
team over the weekend, and so we know every mite
is going to be a battle and every team's gonna
be really good. And so yeah, we're really excited to
(07:44):
play NDSU and FARGE on Saturday, but we cannot overlook
South Dakota on Thursday, because they're always gonna be a
great program.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah. South Dakota is one of those programs that has
just kind of hit its anticipated groove and they expect
to kind of do things. That's kind of fun when
you reach that platform. But your matches with them in
recent seasons have been exciting but confounding at times, basically
just to see it over the line. And I know
some players have been through those matches and have kind
(08:12):
of a long memory, right, and that may serve players
well or may work against them. But maybe sometimes having
the young players that don't really know maybe some of
the heartbreak and the things that went down to the
wire that just ripped your heart out of your chest. Basically,
sometimes having fresh faces and not having all that baggage
is good. That is good too.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I mean we've gone five with South Dakota every year
the last three years, which had never even happened before.
And you know, those matches have been eighteen sixteen and
the fifth at fifteen thirteen, and so we know that
we're right there competing with those teams. But it's definitely
nice to have some freshmen on the team that haven't
had that experience and you're just hung going to get
some wins in the conference play.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
When you ready for a weekend like this where you
have two matches, one at home and one on the road,
that's kind of an interesting Now where we get into
a summit with odd number of teams, you're having certain
weeks like that where you have one home, one road.
You still get to sleep in your own bed in
this instance, and you get to kind of have a routine.
And I would assume that that's kind of really as
(09:09):
a coaching staff, as a training staff, as team leadership,
and veterans that have been through it getting into that routine.
That's really but what you've been trying to dial into
at the very basic of it to prepare for a
weekend like.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
This, Yeah, can you crush the professionalism piece of being
student athletes? Like we want to show up, we want
to do the work, we want to get in there,
and thenk we want to get out and at the
end of the day, like whether we're on the road
or at home, like school doesn't stop right, Like we've
got athletes. There are certain athletes on our team that
have three exams this week before we go into comsplay
right and good scheduling. Yeah. Yeah, but the ability to
like sleep in your own beds and get a extra
sety time and then make sure that we're can crush
(09:43):
it in our class in the fassroom is really important
for us. And so to be able to do that
put that behind us and then go focus on the match,
it's going to be really important.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah. I was gonna say that when you talk about
just having that routine and then you know with a
week that I also almost feel like it's almost better
to have a match on Thursday where it's gonna be
tough and you that's really your only focus now for
the fans listening out there, for the fans here that
are listening here locally at the five oh six Pub
(10:10):
downtown Grand Forks. No, certainly South Dakota always brings up
the attention and the radar, but when they hear that
you're heading to Fargo Saturday now for a coaching staff
and a team, you probably don't look at things because
you have such a prominent opponent in on Thursday. But
they're excited about that one in Fargo because some will
travel and be a part of it, and that's an
atmosphere and I think you took away from from the
(10:33):
making Georgia is that you can play in adverse atmospheres
and you can handle it, and you're gonna have to
have a little composure and that whole scene coming up
on Saturday Mercer.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Mercer had a really fun environment. They had a couple
of their other sports teams that were there, and they're
a really rowdy student section, and I was like, Hey,
this is exactly what's gonna feel like a week from
today when we're in Fargo. The only difference is can
assume like an extra thousand people in the gym, you know,
as I get used to that. But like, ultimately it
was a great rep and the coolest part was that,
like there was no flinching on our side of in
that situation. And so to know that we had that
(11:03):
rep and we can go in a Fargo and know
that's gonna be competitive and it's gonna be uh, it's
gonna be pretty narley, but we're gonna be able to
go out and compete. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
And we can't wait to get going and to play
against tho two teams.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, when we look at the Summit League season, I
mean your schedule is such that it it there's no gimmes.
As you just mentioned, it starts this weekend with a
split home and away situation, and then the following week
I think you're fully on the road, right, So basically
you're gonna start with one whole match and then what
three straight down the road basically, so you're gonna get
(11:36):
to kind of see where where everybody's at, how everybody's
at after kind of being hit with the mallet hammer
that they do in that Gopher game basically that you
play at the Arcades, because because I mean, you know,
you're going into tough environments, none should be bigger than
the other, and you're really gonna have a good idea
of the pulse of your team through the early quarter
of the season.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be a battle every single night,
and you know, we're we're just grateful that we only
fly one more time this year. We've had a couple
of really g narling layovers where some flights have been
delayed and we've had to sprint through the airport. But
now it's all bus trips, and so it's gonna be
a really good chance for us to just dollan and
we want to and go out and compete.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Whack a Mole was the name of the game that
I was looking for. That was the game, Whack a Mole.
I tell you what we're gonna see if we can't
have a great old block party seven to one block
party tomorrow night, seven o'clock South Dakota of the opponent,
and then we'll get ready to head down to Fargo
and cheerroll loud at the Bunker as well. Coming up
on Saturday evening as it's NDSU in Fargo for this
(12:33):
Undie volleyball team. Coach Tupac, congratulations winning three of your
last four. We look forward to the start of the
sumer League season tomorrow night at home. Good luck for
that one and we'll talk to you really soon.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Good luck, awesome, Thanks Paul.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
All right, there's Jesse Tupac. Everybody. Exciting times for U
and D volleyball as they turned their attention to some
league play. We'll be talking about some league play for
you and D soccer as well as the spotlight is
now for you and D soccer taking on Denver Thursday
afternoon at Bronson Field and we'll talk with Henrik Son
a little bit later on in the program. When we
(13:05):
turn around, we will talk some U and D football.
As U and D football is in in the midst
of an open week doesn't mean that they're not doing things.
They're a busy bunch, but we'll talk to Eric Schmid
about that game homecoming win, and we'll also talk about
what open week means to a Eric Schmidt led U
and D Fighting Hawk football program. When we returned to
the five oh six Pub inside Hugo's Pure Market downtown
(13:29):
Grand Forks, I'm Paul Ralston Mooring inviting you to come
down and join us live here as well, but we're
certainly pleased to have you all across the Fighting Hawks
Radio networks
Here's Paul Ralston and beating everyone, and welcome to another
edition of Hawk Talk downtown Grand Forks from the five
oh six bub inside Hugo's Pure Market. I'm Paul Ralston.
It is a great week of und sports ahead. Already
great news coming down the pipeline today. We want to
(00:20):
welcome you all across the Fighting Hawks Radio network and
locally here fourteen forty am the Fan. If you're listening
anywhere in the world, you just have to tap into
that iHeartRadio app KKXLAM tell your friends and then you
can go back to listen to any conversation that we
have here tonight on the Hawk Talk Radio talk podcasting
area inside the iHeartRadio app in iHeartRadio dot com. That's
(00:43):
Hawk Talk. And of course, Hugoes is the official grocery
store of University of North Dakota Athletics. They are your
headquarters for getting geared up for a tailgating Saturday. Of
course we don't have one this Saturday, but homecoming was
fantastic and of course we got a homecoming win. We'll
talk with Eric Schmidt here momentarily. Wallso tell you that
if it's still lake season. By the looks of it outside.
(01:04):
It's still lake season. They've got great locations on your
way to and from the lake. You can head out
to Park Rapids. They've got a Hugos there for you.
Boston along Highway too, they've got a Hugos there for you,
So make sure it's Hugos, the official grocery store of
University of North Dakota Athletics. We're going to talk to
you in DY volleyball before we talk to you in
D football. You D volleyball, huge Summing League week ahead,
(01:25):
winners of three of their last four. And I tell
you what I do. Have some news here before we
get to you in D volleyball. Everybody, I got great news.
The University of North Dakota men's golf team went to
Des Moines, Iowa, and won the Zach Johnson Invitational. They
beat all the Dakota schools, the Drake schools, all of
(01:47):
those schools. They shattered their scoring record. And congratulations to
Todd Schaeffer and his entire team for having an outstanding
event and bringing home a trophy, a championship. Yeah, there's
a trophy involved. That is a fantastic day.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
They're two days in west of Moines. Iowa. So congratulations
to them, and now if we can just parlay that
good feeling into us great start in some league play.
Joining us now to talk to you and D Volleyball
is the head coach of you and D Volleyball, Jesse Tupac, everybody,
thanks for having Yeah, we're tell you what, coach, I
was just gonna say that winners of three of your
(02:28):
last four, I mean you said, let's turn that frown
upside down. You absolutely did that your last trip two
of three on the road in Georgia and make it
never been there. But your team kind of just went
to work and put their heads down and continue to
try to build towards the SMA League season. That must
have been a fairly good trip at times for your squad.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah. You know, we've been talking all year about the
youth of this team and how they were just going
to continue to make exponential gains day in and day
out and weekend and week out, and I think we're
seeing we're seeing the product of that. There our three
freshmen that were starting for us this beginning, Kammani and
Sadie and Maddie all a phenomenal job for us. I
mean Kamani went out, we beat ut Martin in five
Friday morning, and Kimani actually set a school record for
(03:10):
hitting efficiency in a five set match and that record
has stood since nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's incredible when you think about it, Really, you're not
messing around if you're setting records that were established when
I arrived at the University of North Dakota. Yeah, that's impressive.
You talk a little bit about Sadie and she's a setter,
and when you look at that a little bit in
regards to her abilities in learning how to set people
(03:37):
because everybody likes certain things, and she's going to learn
a lot of basically intricacies of fellow teammates and basically
the hitters of where they want it. And that takes
some time, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Absolutely? I mean, one, it's going to be an adjustment
to go from the high school level to the college
level too. It's just going to be an adjustment systematically
to learn our speed and how we want to play
the game. But then just getting to know each of
your individual attacks. And she and I got to watch
film together today and that was the conversation and say, hey,
this person touches ten to seven, and this person person
touches ten two and this person touches nine to eleven,
and so they're all going to need a slightly different
(04:10):
set at a slightly different speed and heightened. So getting
to know them and spending that time with them is
invaluable for her. And so we're seeing now four weeks
into the season like we're getting more consistent outcomes because
we're able to really develop those relationships and make sure
that we're working well together.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think what happens a lot of the times as
well is that young players. I know they've played a
lot because of JO programs and their high school programs,
but they don't always understand all the things once you
get to collegiately, film study and note taking and scouts
and really diving into the details and the hours that
go along with the practice of preparing one's mind, preparing
(04:46):
to scout not only the opponent you're playing, but the
teammates that you're playing with. As you just described there,
that's an information overload at times for young people.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
One hundred percent. I mean like we played Friday morning
at ten am, you played Saturday morning at ten am.
That means that really it's seven am with the usual
morning lineup of showing up and doing our scout and
dialing in the information that we want to dial in
and then making sure that we can go execute it
in match. And definitely week one, it's going to feel
like you're drinking through a fire hose, you know, and
then you start to get used to the information and
you're like, oh, I can actually apply this in ways
(05:16):
that it puts a lot of pressure on our opponents.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, when we look at some of the other things
that are happening, you mentioned that you seeing Skyler starting
to you talk about that improvement with players, and she's
another one that's continuing to try to take strides in
her game and that can also help you as well.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, our entire backcourt, I mean, Skyler and Izzy and
Katie Piez have done a really nice job of holding
down the backcourt both in defense and and receive. And
Skyler and Izzy in particularly like eighty percent plus in
system over the weekend, which is just video game numbers.
But I would be remiss if I didn't give a
shout out to Izzy McCormick against you, T Martin. She
got a career high in twenty nine digs in that match,
(05:54):
but she also surpassed a thousand career digs, which makes
her only the twenty first person ever in school history
to do so, and so really proud of her and
the work that she's done. And all three of those Skyler,
Izzy and Katy all doing a really nice job in
serviceive and and defense.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I was gonna say that once you start getting into
those types of rarefied errors and you start getting into
those lists and you talk about cracking top twenty or whatever,
sometimes you go up rather quickly at that point as
the season progresses at this stage of your career. So
congratulations to Izzy, the Bloomington, Illinois native as she continues
to make her mark here at the University of North Dakota.
(06:29):
With their individual numbers, the non conference season is behind
us now, yep, and we turned full attention. And the
thing you stressed yesterday and your conversation was the media,
is that what's going to be hard to get fans
headed around is you can't pick the easy opponent. That
in the Assemble League there are no easy ones, Like
everybody is really worthy on the given night, they can
(06:53):
beat everybody can beat everybody, And that says a lot
to the strength of the league a credit to that,
but it's also a slog and so good luck number one.
But the league is strong, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, you know, last year was the best year in
seven league history. This year we're actually three slots higher
in terms of conference rankings in the country. And look
at shows like in the last two years, five teams
have won a nine team conference. Wow, because we had
a four way tie in twenty twenty three and then
twenty twenty four completely different team won the conference. Right,
So when six teams make the conference tournament and in
(07:24):
the last two years, five of six teams have won
the conference that, you know every night it's going to
be a battle, right And or Roberts, who had the
last couple of years, has been one of the worst
teams in the conference. Ten years ago was in the
conference finals and playing for the championship. And they go
out and they beat a really good New Mexico State
team over the weekend, and so we know every mite
is going to be a battle and every team's gonna
be really good. And so yeah, we're really excited to
(07:44):
play NDSU and FARGE on Saturday, but we cannot overlook
South Dakota on Thursday, because they're always gonna be a
great program.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah. South Dakota is one of those programs that has
just kind of hit its anticipated groove and they expect
to kind of do things. That's kind of fun when
you reach that platform. But your matches with them in
recent seasons have been exciting but confounding at times, basically
just to see it over the line. And I know
some players have been through those matches and have kind
(08:12):
of a long memory, right, and that may serve players
well or may work against them. But maybe sometimes having
the young players that don't really know maybe some of
the heartbreak and the things that went down to the
wire that just ripped your heart out of your chest. Basically,
sometimes having fresh faces and not having all that baggage
is good. That is good too.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I mean we've gone five with South Dakota every year
the last three years, which had never even happened before.
And you know, those matches have been eighteen sixteen and
the fifth at fifteen thirteen, and so we know that
we're right there competing with those teams. But it's definitely
nice to have some freshmen on the team that haven't
had that experience and you're just hung going to get
some wins in the conference play.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
When you ready for a weekend like this where you
have two matches, one at home and one on the road,
that's kind of an interesting Now where we get into
a summit with odd number of teams, you're having certain
weeks like that where you have one home, one road.
You still get to sleep in your own bed in
this instance, and you get to kind of have a routine.
And I would assume that that's kind of really as
(09:09):
a coaching staff, as a training staff, as team leadership,
and veterans that have been through it getting into that routine.
That's really but what you've been trying to dial into
at the very basic of it to prepare for a
weekend like.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
This, Yeah, can you crush the professionalism piece of being
student athletes? Like we want to show up, we want
to do the work, we want to get in there,
and thenk we want to get out and at the
end of the day, like whether we're on the road
or at home, like school doesn't stop right, Like we've
got athletes. There are certain athletes on our team that
have three exams this week before we go into comsplay
right and good scheduling. Yeah. Yeah, but the ability to
like sleep in your own beds and get a extra
sety time and then make sure that we're can crush
(09:43):
it in our class in the fassroom is really important
for us. And so to be able to do that
put that behind us and then go focus on the match,
it's going to be really important.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah. I was gonna say that when you talk about
just having that routine and then you know with a
week that I also almost feel like it's almost better
to have a match on Thursday where it's gonna be
tough and you that's really your only focus now for
the fans listening out there, for the fans here that
are listening here locally at the five oh six Pub
(10:10):
downtown Grand Forks. No, certainly South Dakota always brings up
the attention and the radar, but when they hear that
you're heading to Fargo Saturday now for a coaching staff
and a team, you probably don't look at things because
you have such a prominent opponent in on Thursday. But
they're excited about that one in Fargo because some will
travel and be a part of it, and that's an
atmosphere and I think you took away from from the
(10:33):
making Georgia is that you can play in adverse atmospheres
and you can handle it, and you're gonna have to
have a little composure and that whole scene coming up
on Saturday Mercer.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Mercer had a really fun environment. They had a couple
of their other sports teams that were there, and they're
a really rowdy student section, and I was like, Hey,
this is exactly what's gonna feel like a week from
today when we're in Fargo. The only difference is can
assume like an extra thousand people in the gym, you know,
as I get used to that. But like, ultimately it
was a great rep and the coolest part was that,
like there was no flinching on our side of in
that situation. And so to know that we had that
(11:03):
rep and we can go in a Fargo and know
that's gonna be competitive and it's gonna be uh, it's
gonna be pretty narley, but we're gonna be able to
go out and compete. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
And we can't wait to get going and to play
against tho two teams.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, when we look at the Summit League season, I
mean your schedule is such that it it there's no gimmes.
As you just mentioned, it starts this weekend with a
split home and away situation, and then the following week
I think you're fully on the road, right, So basically
you're gonna start with one whole match and then what
three straight down the road basically, so you're gonna get
(11:36):
to kind of see where where everybody's at, how everybody's
at after kind of being hit with the mallet hammer
that they do in that Gopher game basically that you
play at the Arcades, because because I mean, you know,
you're going into tough environments, none should be bigger than
the other, and you're really gonna have a good idea
of the pulse of your team through the early quarter
of the season.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be a battle every single night,
and you know, we're we're just grateful that we only
fly one more time this year. We've had a couple
of really g narling layovers where some flights have been
delayed and we've had to sprint through the airport. But
now it's all bus trips, and so it's gonna be
a really good chance for us to just dollan and
we want to and go out and compete.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Whack a Mole was the name of the game that
I was looking for. That was the game, Whack a Mole.
I tell you what we're gonna see if we can't
have a great old block party seven to one block
party tomorrow night, seven o'clock South Dakota of the opponent,
and then we'll get ready to head down to Fargo
and cheerroll loud at the Bunker as well. Coming up
on Saturday evening as it's NDSU in Fargo for this
(12:33):
Undie volleyball team. Coach Tupac, congratulations winning three of your
last four. We look forward to the start of the
sumer League season tomorrow night at home. Good luck for
that one and we'll talk to you really soon.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Good luck, awesome, Thanks Paul.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
All right, there's Jesse Tupac. Everybody. Exciting times for U
and D volleyball as they turned their attention to some
league play. We'll be talking about some league play for
you and D soccer as well as the spotlight is
now for you and D soccer taking on Denver Thursday
afternoon at Bronson Field and we'll talk with Henrik Son
a little bit later on in the program. When we
(13:05):
turn around, we will talk some U and D football.
As U and D football is in in the midst
of an open week doesn't mean that they're not doing things.
They're a busy bunch, but we'll talk to Eric Schmid
about that game homecoming win, and we'll also talk about
what open week means to a Eric Schmidt led U
and D Fighting Hawk football program. When we returned to
the five oh six Pub inside Hugo's Pure Market downtown
(13:29):
Grand Forks, I'm Paul Ralston Mooring inviting you to come
down and join us live here as well, but we're
certainly pleased to have you all across the Fighting Hawks
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