The Sicatoka
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If I had my ideal stadium, the Alerus would have 30,000 seats (for an eventual move to Division I-A), have a retractable roof, field turf, suites on the west side, and be paid for and owned by the University. Now that's what I call a dream.
You forgot the part about "able to play baseball in it" in there.
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The leg room was the main issue for me. I would compare the width of the seats to the metrodome which is notoriously small seats.
Is the issue the width of the seat or the width of the .....
;) The lower bowl does seem to have better space between both seats and rows. The upper bowl does feel tighter relative to that but the viewing angles are great and for being in the upper deck of an arena you are very close to the game.
But hey, you're at a hockey game! If you wanted to lounge why didn't you stay home in the overstuffed rocker with the remote and watch on Fighting Sioux Sports Network.
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I would have went with wraparound seating.
Would they have been able to have both mens and womens basketball and volleyball practicing all at the same time in a "full bowl" design?
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From USCHO Magazine:
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Here are the guys UND listed as coming in this fall at RB:
Reece Henrickson, 5'11 184, RB, Stephen-Argyle High School - Stephen, MNHonors
2003 1st Team All State Running Back
(2 Time) 1st Team All Conference Running Back
2003 Top of the State Conference Offensive MVP
2003 Stats
32 Overall Touchdowns
966 Rushing yards and 18 Rushing Touchdowns
800 receiving yards and 13 Receiving Touchdowns
Jordan Armentrout, 5-9, 175, Running Back, Madison Memorial High School - Verona, WI
Honors
2003 1st Team All Conference
2003 1st Team All City
2003 1st Team All Region
2003 1st Team All Area
2003 Stats
Rushing: 218 attempts, 1329 yards, 6.1 yards per carry, 16 TDs
Punt Returns: 15 yards per return average
Mike Rohde, 5-9 180, Running Back, D.C. Everest High School - Mosinee, WI
Honors
(2 Time) 1st Team All Conference RB
2003 WFCA 1st Team All State RB
(2 Time) Wisconsin Preps Football 1st Team All State RB
(2 Time) Associated Press 2nd Team All State RB
2003 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2nd Team All State RB
2003 Season Stats
Rushing: 221 attempts, 1661 yards, 7.52 ypc, 162.4 yards per game, 23 TDs
Broke 2 individual WIAA Division 1 State Championship Records
Longest rushing TD from scrimmage - 77yds.
Most TDs scored by an individual - 4 TDs
Some of those numbers are just mind-boggling.
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A little cut-and-paste action from the UND recruits press release and ...
Weston Dressler - 5-8 170, Wide Receiver/Running Back, Bismarck High - Bismarck, NDHonors
(3 time) 1st Team WDC All Conference
(3 time) 1st Team All State
First Player in WDC History to be a 3 Time All State performer
2003 Stats
2,100 rushing yards
40 Touchdowns
U2Bad1 is correct: Dressler was a WR his sophomore year and, based on the above, was noteworthy (how's that for understatement?, sophomore 1st Team All State) at that position as well.
He had 40 TDs his senior year. There are teams in the state that didn't have 40 TDs all season!
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Too bad your wrong buddy, ....
Rick has seen more levels of hockey in more different places and made more hockey contacts than most of us could ever dream of. Plus, you'd be amazed who he loses money to on golf courses.
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How many of Brad Miller's former teammates (from Georgia) are playing junior hockey? How many of his Shattuck teammates will go on to junior hockey?
I think I can state with great assurity that he didn't have the caliber of teammates in Georgia that he had at Shattuck.
Apparently he needs more time surrounded with Shattuck-like guys (who dream of playing Division I college hockey) somewhere in junior hockey so he can keep building his game.
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Shame on me.
I gave Dressler and Caufield their due but missed one.
From the link Corella provided above:
Defensively for the North Dakotans, ... Washburn's Ward DeMontigny was named the squad's defensive MVP. -
"The speed of this (Montana) defense is phenomenal ... Everybody's running around plugging gaps and cutting off angles. There was no chance they (ND) were getting anywhere." -- Dillon's Chad Schira, who was Montana's defensive MVP."The speed of their linebackers and safeties was something we weren't used to." -- North Dakota coach Mark Gibson.
Those quotes are from the Bismarck Tribune story on the Montana/North Dakota game.
Yet, somehow, even against all that defensive speed, Weston Dressler was able to get 22 carries for 153 yards to set a new Badlands Bowl mark.
I'll never question Dressler's speed. What concerns me is his ability to take punishment against larger competition (beyond high school). Then again, I seem to recall a few "too small" but quick backs fairing well in NCC backfields (Philip Moore, Josh Ranek).
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Heck I might even offer Tim a lift being that we won't EVER see high speed rail in these parts.
Tell Governor Tim that he has to wear his old-school Sioux jersey or no ride.
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Now if we could only close the distance gap between Minneapolis and Grand Forks that would be desireable. Good reason to buy an aircraft though
Too bad the former Governor is no longer in St. Paul. You might have been able to convince him of the need for a high-speed light rail line from the Twin Cities to Whitey's* in East Grand Forks.
;) * Ride the shuttle bus to the game from there.
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RD17:
I'm going off of the shape and colors. Plastic seating is normally one color. Those are clearly two and the color alignments are the same as in The Ralph (dark green backs and seats, you can just see the edge of the seat, and black under seat structure pieces). Plus, those seats look thicker than standard plastic. I base that off of the renderings of the arena found on the Icon Architects' page for The Betty.
UND Fan:
I've seen numbers from 3300 to 4000. I wish I knew for sure also. I go off of the same information (web, newspapers) that you read.
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... if the amount of money spent on Div I from Div II levels had been allocated to facilities improvement, a revamped BSA would have been paid for.
That's not really all that far-fetched: The Betty's almost ready.
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Screw hay. They can pick rocks. I've got about 10 acres that would keep these boys busy for a while. Hell, I'll even provide the steak.
A quick trip back to "conditioning techniques":
Three words: retaining wall block.
Oh my achin' everything ....
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I know that a couple of months back Earl Strinden (as the face-man for UND Sports Facilities Inc.) was asking for about an extra $500k in donations to finish The Betty off in the same high caliber way that The Ralph is.
Everything I'd read about The Betty to this point said "plastic seating". But look at this picture:
http://www.ralphengelstadarena.com/images/...04/DSC06912.jpg
Aren't those the same leather seats that are in The Ralph? Did they raise the money? That picture makes me think they probably did.
That photo is a part of this gallery:
http://theralph.com/construction/Jun1.htm
The whole construction progress gallery is here:
http://theralph.com/construction/
The project description is here:
http://theralph.com/new2/Arena_Info_Sectio...ioux_Center.htm
When the construction crews are done there, I guess they move across the street to the new Wellness Center.
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Just wanted to correct this Sicatoka, read the Argus leader article if it doesn't sound this way in the Grand forks Paper
"My understanding was that if (SDSU is) not in a conference on Sept. 1, that the Board of Regents would pull out the rug from underneath South Dakota State. For them (Not SDSU, the South Dakota Board of Regents) to say it's not a deadline, that's wrong." -- South Dakota State Sen. Clarence Kooistra, R-Garretson
aff: Does either "them" matter when the person making the statement is a part of the group that ultimately controls the purse-strings (i.e. the state senate)? The statement shows what is on the mind of some of those in the SD legislature.
'star2city' hit an issue that matters: Media. Conferences want exposure. Denver is one of the fastest growing areas into the country. What conference wouldn't want to tap into that population base. That's a big advantage to the Denver and Northern Colorado.
There is probably some merit to the hypothetical timeline put forth by 'star2city'. I could easily forsee the 2004 and 2005 suppositions. The rest? Too politically charged. I'll leave it alone.
What I don't see in there is the shake-up in the NCAA that seems to be looming on the horizon.
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From the link (UND recruits in bold):
Individual statisticsRushing: ND -- Weston Dressler 22-153, Tyler Roehl 8-18, B.J. Etzold 4-(minus 31), Tom Prout 7-14, Rockie Stavn 3-8, Jake Caufield 1-(minus 1), Bryce Petersen 6-34. M -- Rob Schulte 14-56, Torey Thomas 6-69, Jake Kallestad 10-58, Josh Saunders 3-3.
Passing: ND --B.J. Etzold 4-9-1, 28 yards; Tom Prout 2-11-0, 18 yards. M -- Torey Thomas 8-11-0, 144 yards; Josh Saunders 13-17-1, 129 yards.
Receiving: ND -- Jake Caufield 3-15, Mike Feldman 1-5, Alex Belquist 1-11, John Breitbach 1-15. M -- Rob Schulte 1-3, Brian Sloan 3-56, Daine Solomon 1-9, Tyler Bolton 3-51, Ryan Bagley 3-54, Kevin Staley 3-16, Chris Sundberg 2-12.
Montana had two 100-yard passers!
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The Preference Points you have, the faster you move up on the list!!
Yup. You said "cash" as if you meant some sort of underhanded dealing were going on. Nope. They have a system and have it posted.
I'd suspect that airmail's hypothesis isn't off by much.
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'Bypass' with cash? No.
Move up the list by "adding points"? Probably.
Preference points: http://www.undalumni.org/fsc-priority-points.htm
I have tickets and wanted to get a couple more. I'm sure there are other folks like me out there also. I'm not able to get them either. Maybe they should have built the arena the size of the one in Tampa.
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To me it is clear: The level of ND HS hockey competition doesn't prepare you for the rigors of the WCHA. Coming right to a top tier Division I program from high school is a rarity any more.
The Zach Parises and Drew Staffords are exceptions, even from preps like Shattuck-St. Mary's.
The best example I could give to try to convince someone: Quinn Fylling.
He tried coming from the US National Development Team.
He ended up leaving UND for a year to play in Sioux Falls.
He's a much better player for it and able to contribute more at UND now.
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A state senator believes that some organization ("them") in the state higher education system is not following a deadline. It would be very surprising to find that he is the only state legislator with that interpretation. The "them" won't matter when the political ramifications start to come about, and as everything does, it will turn political.