The Sicatoka

UND doesn't have a spring revenue sport, and I doubt baseball, even with a stadium ever will be, is part of my thinking for starting the conversation.

I didn't feed him. Knowing he knows how to, I told him where to fish.

Come on tony, you've downloaded and read that report more times than I have by now. Your answers are on pages 7-9 of the Final Report.

Mike McFeely has chimed in with a hearty, "[url="http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=128604

The GF Herald story: http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/14715499.htm

Interesting innuendo from Fargo Forum writer Jeff Kolpack in his blog under the heading of "And let's talk about commitment": That bold part, that's some, how shall we say, interesting language from Kolpack. It's clearly an indication that if NDSU left WDAY-AM Radio the rest of ForumComm (The Forum, WDAY-TV) coverage might "change" also. What's more fun is Kolpack's blog just above that one (no coincidence?) titled "Siouxper news:

Oh that's just a bunch of (am I really gonna say it?) ... Blarney's.

Here's the story in the Forum: http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm...&section=sports

Only in Don Lucia's mind.

Don't forget about this (admittedly 'out there') notion. The DI Report says it'd take $2.5 million for a baseball stadium. Under this "drop baseball, add lacrosse" notion we'd have a facility already.

In the attachments to UND's DI Report it lists: Baseball Current stadium: Needs significant investment to upgrade. To be top DII or competitive DII: Needs major efforts to replace or construct. Issues: Stadium needs to be moved on campus! Lighted stadium with seating for 500 with covered press box, scoreboard and sound system. Would completely investigate use of synthetic turf. Cost: $2.5M Softball All areas same as baseball. Cost: $1.5M It'd be $2,500,000.00 to put baseball into appropriate facilities on campus. The Al is built and ready and has open spring dates.

They missed getting 50,000 people at The Linc for the semis on Saturday by under 1000 people. Yowzah! Congrats to UMass for making their first ever championship game. Congrats to Virginia for National Championship #4. You folks remember Virginia, the team with the coach named Don Starsia: http://siouxsports.com/forums/index.php?s=...ndpost&p=129220

Interesting. My source was me sitting in a room with 60 other people, including a football, a basketball, and a hockey coach, all from UND, listening to Tom Buning. He talked about how UM-Crookston wants a $4000 guarantee to come to GF and play basketball and how that's a 'bargain' considering Bemidji State wants $6000 to come to GF. He talked about how that money (any paid guarantee) is gone from UND and instead is building someone else's programs. He (rhetorically) asked if UND was getting the most possible value from that money. (He clearly wanted UND's money to build UND's programs. Who can blame him.) It was rather interesting to listen to. Many of those issues hadn't been put out there that plainly before. I'm glad I was there to hear it. I still don't know if I'm convinced one way or another, but it did add to the total dialog on the issue.

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=128515 As troubling as this is, I expect similar reports from all of the NDUS campuses. Energy costs and the PeopleSoft (ahem) adventures will be the culprits I suspect. Folks, it might be time to ask why we have campuses at Mayville and Bottineau, and maybe a few others. With the existing technologies on other NDUS campuses the people in those affected areas who can't attend a different school full time could still learn remotely.

The word "lacrosse" shows up twice in the main report on page 25. In some of the supporting documents it says it would cost about $2.5 million for an on-campus baseball stadium and about $1.5 million for an on-campus softball stadium. The Al is lax ready.

I've heard Buning speak about cost v. return in DI v. DII terms in front of his coaches (at a Sioux Boosters meeting). He was talking about the guarantees even low-level NSIC teams want to play BB v. UND at the time.

NOTE: I was not there! however, I'm sure somone said (paraphrased), "Show me the money!"

Also of note from the link above:

I'm perplexed as well, but like the man in the best position to know said,

Welcome to "As the Roster Turns" for Wednesday, May 31. In another thread "Clayton Hoyt" provided a link saying Michael Forney is coming in this fall. That makes the roster 25. It was 27 last season (if you include Robbie Bina who sat out the entire year). The last interview I heard (read?) it was projected that Genoway would play defense. That would mean we're still at 14 Fs (with 8D and 3G). I still suspect that there's room for another forward. Tune in again tomorrow for "As the Roster Turns".

I just re-read the Forum article (link)

I wondered if the - Bison football PA announcer being half of the KFGO morning team, and - the former PA announcer for Sioux hockey being the prime local host for WDAY-AM would come into play sooner or later. I would suspect if (somehow, I don't expect it) Clear Channel got NDSU and Leighton got UND that Leighton would enter into an agreement with Forum Communications to put UND games on WDAY. I say that because I expect either no changes from current or Clear Channel to end up with both.

You looking for the "North Dakota State" tree? Bird? Flower? Emblem? High school boys basketball tournament bracket? Highway Department? Forecast? If and how you use quotes will radically change how those searches come out. Dang. Got sucked into this again.

Yeah, but the timer would probably be a WCHA official which would mean any contact would add two minutes to the hockey player.