Personally, the ways I find best are either:
- have pictures of the game referee in bed with his mistress and threaten to send them to his wife
or
- walk past the game officials' pre-game meal table and drop a bulging envelope while saying "straight cash, homey"
Oh.
Wait.
You meant hypothetically, not what's worked in the past.
Signed,
A proponent of the idea that UND should change it's moniker to "The Mafia" ... Capiche?
"Gay spent five seasons as the head coach at North Dakota and compiled a career record of 22-61-6."
Using ties as "half a win" 22-61-6 is 0.281.
0.281 is a batting average for a slick fielding shortstop, not a winning percentage at UND.
According to the Summit League ...
UMKC? No, "Kansas City".
UNO? No, "Omaha".
IPFW? No, "Fort Wayne".
IUPUI? No, "Indianapolis".
Thus, we now also have "Fargo" (aka FU), "Brookings", and "Vermillion", and "Macomb" (Western Illinois).
On that, I'm pretty sure you're mistaken. Idaho's leaving the WAC presumably because of the low academic calibre of the teams just invited to the WAC. Idaho State isn't much better. Idaho would prefer to be associated first with the Montanas. Idaho State and Weber State are the logical travel pair (as are EWU and UI). If it goes divisions, I expect them (UI/ISU) to be apart.
A 22-game conference schedule still leaves room for 5-7 non-conference games (depending on how you schedule them).
Given that many non-Big Sky teams are too soft and meek to brave North Dakota in December through February a 22-game conference schedule isn't a bad notion.
Alternatively, I predict the west coast and southern teams in the BSC will not want full round robing (22 games) because they have an easier time scheduling non-conference.
What I'd like to see is Midco get high-def going at The Ralph and The Al and then negotiate with Root to trade games on Root for use of Midco's production equipment when Root does Big Sky games in Grand Forks.
The win-win I'd try to negotiate:
- MidcoSN could show "Root exclusive" games involving UND
- Root would save the costs of bringing their HD equipment to GF for Big Sky games
Allow me to say it was a good win and one more thing:
UND had the chance to let another game get away. They didn't let it happen this time.
The win over Montana is nice; how they didn't roll over this time, and came back to win, is more important.
The solution to "get students to show and stay" is easy (and I know it'll irk some of you):
Give out student tickets to the next home hockey series at the end of home football games.