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Don't have to. They're in the "Attachements" PDF in the Final Report to Dr. Kupchella, pages 22-25 (of 127).

He wrote his own "death warrant" if it wasn't.

I'd guess every NCAA school's does. The NCAA talks it up great too (and we know by actions it's money first, then athletes, with them). It's the dedication of the school to the athletes' success is what makes it work or not. Either you have administrators and coaches that drive for total success (academic and athletic) like Stanford or like UND, or you have Bob Huggins and Cincinnati. I was happy to see a solid look at "support systems" in the report to Kupchella.

The numbers say you could play lax in The Al. Memorial has more turf space than The Al.

But did you get ... room service ... for your efforts?

That's my take also.

I've rolled it out in front of folks with "nice offices" in various key UND buildings. Others in this thread may offer up more/other info.

Without even knowing, I'm sure you stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

http://siouxsports.com/forums/index.php?s=...ndpost&p=169547

From http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/sports/14712009.htm

Personally, if I was on UND's side of the table in the negotiations, I'd want that answer before signing anything.

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.