The Sicatoka

Tim Hennessy has worked at about every AM station in GF. Radio people move around in markets. Ask KFGO's, no WDAY's, no KFGO's "Jack and Sandy."

Ho-o-o-o-o-ogan! I see no-thing! I hear no-o-othing! Amazing point. As good as Mel Brooks.

Do I want to give Mel Brooks from $66 to over $200 to attend "The Producers"? At least Ralph didn't make a buck off of his "celebrations" of Hitler.

The Herald knows they're sold now too! http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/14763367.htm

Clear Channel is corporate. Leighton is local and employee-owned. I'd guess that CC (deeper corporate pockets) would be the one offering the larger up-front cash. Owning and licensing the rights, UND can include a "we approve the announcer" clause in any deal. Repeat after me, "We want Tim."

I listen to KFGO primarily now (AM at least) because they carry Sioux hockey. If Sioux hockey were to move to a new station, I'd likely follow.

If they were tongue-in-cheek events (as they were by the evidence) at the Nazis (ala Mel Brooks' "Springtime for Hitler" in the musical "The Producers", which is classic tongue-in-cheek) what's wrong with that? Note to self: Defer any donations from Mel Brooks.

For this conversation assume the date is June 6, 1944. It's "D-Day." The Allied troops are storming the Normandy beach. The end of the Third Reich is at hand (but we don't know it yet). Ralph Louis Engelstad is a 14 year old boy in Thief River Falls, MN. (DOB: Jan 28, 1930) How many people that boy knew never came home? Would that cause some strange facination with WWII? He spent some very formative years (ages 9 to 15) with his life dominated by WWII. Collecting cars and other significant items from Allied and Axis forces only makes sense. Did he do some really dumb things (with his collections) along the way, things he apologized for? Yup. Don't we all do dumb things now and then? But would collecting things make him a Commie, a Nazi, a Doughboy, or a Kamikazi (sp)?

Where else would one get Kona but Kona? http://www.lioncoffee.com/

Fresh rhubarb pie at my place later tonight.

Again the "$700k" number comes up. Can we see how the SUs are doing (their budgets)? Can we see what the SUs asked for and got in up-front money for the move? C'mon. These are easy things. Show, so UND can find the key take-aways.

Really? Dang. And here I thought UND was up seven DI titles to zero. Must be the math.

That's the first, of the things you list, that I'd expect to see. Why (in any scenario with UNO as a DII) does UNO want to keep flying to Washington for football when the MIAA is a very strong conference and they are right next door.

Somebody has to check the math.

Neither did NDSU in their last DII year.

What conference are you in today? Can we look at your budget to see how you do it fiscally?

How do you measure the true cost of a "stay"? There have to be impacts beyond fiscal in a long-term view. I'd say we could look at the budgets of the SUs for a move estimate, but asking to see those budgets just gets me in trouble. At least the report was honest enough to admit that it wasn't best qualified to make either estimate and that more work needed to be done.

Why would he even soil his hands by striking them? I figured he'd smote them with a mere passing thought.

Careful. There are juries still out in Fargo and Brookings. Milton College.

I know you weren't putting down the idea. In that thread is the scenario where going to lacrosse makes sense: being DI in a non-baseball conference. All the things you mention are right there. The rest of the problem is that I don't see GF looking to build a baseball facility. And I really don't expect the Northern League to be looking at Grand Forks any time soon either. My thoughts are save that "powder" and use it another day to try to get higher returns out of an existing facility (i.e. The Al as host to both UND Football, and maybe, someday, UND Lacrosse).

First you call him a "Gopher"; then you say "something's not right in his head." Why are you repeating yourself?

More information about this system: Cost you ask? From the attachment's to UND's DI report:

Even if you didn't commit the offense there. Amazing. Man, that's a racket even Tony Soprano would be impressed with.

What I find quite humorous is fans and alumni of schools who did hire outside consultants saying UND should have hired outside consultants when those schools that did hire outside consultants didn't follow the recommendations they paid for! More humorous is that same group of fans pointing out UND's present budgetary status and saying UND can't go in that condition when their very schools did the very same just a few years ago.

Everyone one who has read the Final Report to Kupchella, all of it, including the fiscal sub-committee data and the attachments, raise their hand. Well, I see mine up. I read it and saw a set of simple facts and data. It doesn't all say "go" nor does it all say "stay". I saw issues I hadn't seen before. It was about as unbiased a report as any I'd seen. There was no "tone" to it, positive or negative. For example, I see this random tossing about of "additional $1,000,000.00" being scoffed by some folks as a huge understimate. Guess what: Scoffing is correct! UND's report says so: I read honest assessments of present dollars, possible revenues, areas of strength, areas of weakness. What I read in the report primarily, however, is what I've said all along: Answer either "cost" or "conference" and you have your answer. I expect we'll be receiving our answer shortly.