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From http://www2.ncaa.org/media_and_events/pres...e_Athletics.pdf (That's the report released last week.)

Are we talking about Ed Belfour here? 1987 NCAA Championship (winning goalie) A Cup with the Stars A Gold Medal with Team Canada Plus, A Calder (NHL ROY) A Crozier (NHL's best save percentage during the regular season) A couple of Vezina Trophies (NHL goalie judged to be the best at his position) Four Jennings Awards (NHL goalie for the team with the fewest goals scored against it)

A link may have been useful. http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/mbball...RELEASE_ID=3949

Tell him his role and he just goes out and does it. I still believe his strongest suit is on the defensive end. Expect a defensive centerman who wins about 70% of face-offs and with a right-around-zero plus-minus in the pros. And that plus-minus is against just about anybody.

With each federal program comes the responsibility to properly administer it, which means the university must hire and pay people to do the required federal paperwork and accounting. Typically, the feds allow a certain percentage of a grant's budget to be used to pay the university for the costs associated with administering a program (overhead). It's true that UND does not "pay" for these federal programs. But these programs wouldn't be on campus without the institutional support that the programs receive from the University in the form of lab space, office space and equipment. One of the keys to being approved for a federal grant is the ability to prove that the university has the facilities to house the proposed program and the administrative capability to support it. I assume this is what you mean when you say the programs pay the university to be on campus. Yes, they do pay because UND doesn't have a pot of gold sitting around that it can dip into to cover the increased administrative costs that come with federal programs. This is standard operating procedure with federal grants, and it's no different with federal grants for Indian-related programs than it is with grants from DOE, EPA and NIH. So which universities in the state could take on INMED, RAIN and INBRE, programs that are here because the School of Medicine is here? I'm sure other programs are on the UND campus because they're closely associated with one of the university's academic areas. More importantly, they're here because one or more people on the UND faculty or staff made the commitment and effort to bring the programs to UND. If other universities in the state are so big on administering these programs, why haven't they applied for the grants? Or could it be that they don't have the academic qualifications, the institutional commitment or the administrative support that UND possesses? If your numbers are correct, 2 are paid for by UND, but UND provides the infrastructure and effort and will to support all 30.

I am proud of who I am and what I have accomplished. My ethnicity is a small portion of who I am. My identity is established by me and my actions. My identity is not solely tied to flesh-tones.

Yes, Team Makers raised over a million dollars in FY 05. But that was their "had to make it" goal for their portion of the NDSU Athletics budget. (Just for comparison, UND's Fighting Sioux club raised $1.468 million in FY 04.) The money PCM is asking about is the $1 million that Associate AD Inniger had to raise above and beyond anything that Team Makers put together. (On April 18 The Forum reported he'd only raised $400k of the $1 million.)

tony, you're assuming that either path will be able to be deemed "wiser". I guess I should have stated that only time will tell if either, neither, or both paths were wise.

I believe the NCC could survive the loss of UND if a suitable replacement was found (e.g. Winona State, Concordia-St. Paul, UN-Kearney, or DII newbie U of Mary). However, I do not believe the NCC could survive the loss of both UND and UN-Omaha. I also believe that if (a) UN-Omaha leaves to replace Missouri-Rolla in the MIAA (or jumps to DI-AA) or (b) if UND makes the jump to DI-AA, it will spur the other school (UND/UNO) to move out of the NCC also. At that point expect a major reshuffling of (the remaining) NCC, NSIC, and even Dak-10 (8?) schools into probably two new large (10-14 team) conferences, one being DII and one being I'm not sure what.

Part of respect is spelling UND and NDSU appropriately. UND sees the parts of DII that are most like it: SCSU, MSU-Mankato, UM-Duluth, UN-Omaha. (I'm sure you see the theme there.) UND needs to retain strong relationships with those schools because all of those schools base their budgets around the gate of that common theme (and the other sport rivalries that come from it). UND can't just bolt away from those schools because it believes it sees something better out there. If UND does leave the NCC and DII I'd expect there to be a smooth transition plan in place for both UND and the NCC, thus helping and protecting all the schools mentioned. And it's not like UND is sitting around doing nothing while things play out. UND is controlling what it can control: - It can't control new members of DII joining the NSIC - It can't control (it has some influence) on DII football scholarship numbers - It can control its facilities (as in construction) and is doing so nicely. - It can control its athletic budget. (Remember the noteworthy UND IAC minutes where Dr. Kupchella asked for two budgets: a DII and a projected DI budget.)

People love the feel-good story of a little guy doing well. Like it or not, the State of North Dakota's stature makes it a de facto "little guy". Thus, rightly or wrongly, UND Hockey plays the role of "little guy" because of where the school is located. David. Goliath.

Twisting? "I'm in no rush to see NDSU and UND on the same field ... " How else but "don't want to face" should anyone have read that? New rivalries? Very difficult given geography. Respect and sportsmanship. Yes. Give it time.

North Dakota = North Korea? Apparently someone north of the border reads The Onion. http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/General...o_harboring.htm

Until non-hockey fan people from outside of the upper midwest can associate "North Dakota" with something other than "Mount Rushmore" North Dakota will be an underdog. It's that simple.

The NCC limit is 15 mens scholarships outside of basketball and football. (Not being sponsored by the NCC, WCHA mens hockey falls outside of this rule.) I believe legend334 had the specifics by sport one time.

I really don't have a problem with anything in your first two paragraphs. My speculation about NDSU: A little of two factors: (a) fewer scholarships didn't allow for as deep of a bench, and (b) the coaching that had NDSU 2, 3, or 4 -deep at key positions just wasn't producing as well as it had in the past with the talent in hand. That did puzzle me. UND has a history of controlling what it can control and not making reactionary moves to things happening around it. I'd have been forced to deem such a scenario, if it had come to pass, as reactionary. The flip side is that NDSU may have reacted to something that did not come to pass at the time. I'm sure you don't want to face UND in competition. The courtesy, however, has to meet one other key requirement: If there's a legitimate concern to the taxpayers of North Dakota it must be able to be addressed (be it at UND or NDSU). All the rest of this sports stuff comes in second to the owners of the institutions and the folks who ultimately have the fiscal responsibilities.

No, I'm serious. If NDSU is in such a different situation please explain it. It could better explain the course UND has chosen.

After re-reading I can see how 2 was meant to be a conditional case of 1. Sorry. (But my point still holds true also.)

Regarding the changes in football (NDSU's flagship sport), these DII changes so radically negatively impacted NDSU such that they decide to move to DI-AA and yet these same changes allow, in parallel, for UND's program to become dominant in DII. What I don't understand is if these recent changes in football were bad for strong DII programs, why wasn't UND negatively impacted and yet NDSU claims to be? The answers have to go beyond "flagship". I need help sorting out the other reasons.

The administrator here tells us all of the time that folks from UND read this board. However, expecting them to act because of a post on an internet board is an unrealistic expectation. A board like this is easily discounted. Direct contact by a name and a face isn't. If you believe there is a problem, directly contact folks at UND Athletics or UND in general and let them know your thoughts. It works.

In each case a random, scientific methodology was employed: polling. The use of the word "respondents" in the Indian Country Today article implies that a random polling was not done, but that those participating in the survey "self-selected" by choosing to respond to a question (like an on-line click the button "what do you think" survey) thus making the survey results unscientific and thus somewhere between suspect and untrustworthy. Harris and Annenberg followed scientific process in polling and show it. Can the Indian Country Today show the same?

A new NHL CBA will come. Roenick will still be a PR nightmare. Talk about a "Sprewell moment". [brooklyn accent] Yo Jeremy, I'z gotz usez CBA ri' he'ah, 'n' use ken kiss it too. [/brooklyn accent]

Omaha: Week-long event. Eight teams. Frozen Four: Weekend event. Four teams. World Junior Championships: Two-week long event. Ten teams. UND and Grand Forks could never host a Frozen Four much less World Juniors.