The Sicatoka
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Just a slight news flash. Most gopher fans don't consider the sioux/gopher matchup as a huge rivalry (since the main rivalry there is with the badgers).
You'd better check the bulb in your news flash.
Going to their board like this, you'll find these fan poll results.
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smog:
Gopher fans don't all buy it, even on their board.
PA and Dubay would publicly disembowel the Pope with a melon baller if they thought it would get them better ratings.
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Yeah, I live in North Dakota and you live in Minnesota.
And April 15th is coming soon and is much worse on your side of the Red.
Plus, I can have a beer and watch Sioux Hockey live in their home arena.
But hey, "Take it for what its worth..." don't "get all uppity and high-strung about it."
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bisonfan1234: The Betty.
So the REA Board is out to financially undermine UND Athletics?
Gee, who's on the REA Board of Directors?
- Earl Strinden, VP Emeritus, UND Alumni Association
- Dr. Tom Clifford, President Emeritus, UND
Those two guys seem like two really likely ones to be out to get UND.
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another deal most people dont know about is the amount of money UND athletics pays the REA...money up front as well as rental to use the REA each month for hockey...as well as REA getting half the ticket sales..so i would venture to say after all is said and done...UND is getting a raw end of the deal in the exchange....again...my opinion....life was so much easier in the old barn......gotta feeling life will be much much different with volleyball and hoops moving to the Ralph....
Help me out here: Which of that is fact and which is your opinion?
Mr. Engelstad explicitly stated he built REA to benefit Fighting Sioux Hockey and UND Athletics. So why exactly would REA charge them to use the facilities built for them?
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Empty "sold" seats really bother me. Give them away to a friend if you can't use them. I'm a yet to not be able to find someone willing to use a ticket.
Admittedly, there's another "hidden" problem within this "empty seats" realm that even Blais would probably admit: For a lot of those empty seats the season ticket holders are there but are up in the Club Rooms or in a friend's suite (drinkin' their $40 a case beer).
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The suite is $25,000.00 a year.
You pay for catering to your suite separately after each event. A few beers, some munchies, some sodas, cha-ching.
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Is that when Bis...-SIOUX football broadcaster, Repub.... DEMOCRAT mouthpiece, Sio... GOPHER hockey fan, Conser.... LIBERAL pundit "Fast" Eddie Schultz jumped in and ripped on Blais?
Eddie is a wonderf... PUTZ!
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"Matt" Patrick, "Matt" Ludwig, and "Matt" Zombo may not go for it.
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I'd guess your hockey numbers are right there.
But how much did the Fighting Sioux Club, a body outside of UND Athletics reporting-wise, make? Those numbers don't get reported directly with the ones you quote (because they aren't UND Athletics).
But the bigger question is this: Why are you arguing about how much money hockey makes for UND when it is clear that UND Hockey alone generates more revenue than all of Bison Athletics? The $4.8MM number you will even go with is roughly 3/4 NDSU's entire athletics budget!
Food for thought:
2002-2003 Academic Year NCAA Total Attendance Numbers (may be differences in number of home games):
School MBB FB WBB Hockey Sub-total
UND: 47,924 56,930 38,497 256,591 399,942
NDSU 48,770 63,721 44,885 000,000 157,376
It takes money to play; money comes in through the gate first.
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(Ryan) Potulny on being at Minnesota:
"The atmosphere is almost like it is at games at UND, where the fans are crazy about hockey."
Gopher fans: Almost.
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NDSU folded hockey back then after that.
In the 1980s NDSU started a (sucessful) club program ... and folded that too.
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the max revenue for hockey in 03 could be just under 4.8 mil
You're figuring just ticket sales.
Did you forget that to have four seats in the lower bowl of REA you have to join the Fighting Sioux club at the Coaches Club level ($1100 per year)?
Four in the lower at REA:
$1100 FSC membership
$345
$345
$345 * 2/3 (Coaches club discount)
$345 * 2/3 (Coaches club discount)
At that, the per seat price for over half the lower bowl jumps to $562.50.
You have to be a FSC member for most of the upper also, but not at the $1100 level, but there is no "club level" seat price discount up there either.
UND hockey is the UND Athletics cash-cow.
Alternatively, imagine trying to fund a football program with just one home gate.
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Remember: Profits of Ralph Engelstad Arena end up going back to UND Athletics.
Ticket sales
Concessions
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I see them as mutually exclusive:
"smack board" or "having a life."
Sioux fans don't have smack boards.
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... sees St. Cloud, Mankato, and Bemidji ....
... Duluth, Omaha ...
All are "cash cow"-ing (or at least holding their own fiscally) for their schools.
Not many specific programs can say they pay their own way at the gate (meaning UND hockey or Minnesota mens basketball for examples).
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Story on Rory Manke that also mentions Ross Brennan and Shad Carney have returned.
Getting Brennan back helps the defensive line right now.
Getting Carney back replaces Joe Wilson (and who knows, maybe more).
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Jordan Parise article in the GF Herald.
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Indubitably.
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Hmmmmmm.....I didn't drink when I was in college....
Did you ever bolt from law enforcement at a traffic stop?
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Either ndsubison is unemployed and was up late drinking and posting, OR
he is a ndsu student, and he was up late drinking and posting. both are very possible. how was your night of cow-tipping, ndsubison?
Be nice. You don't know any of that.
In an unrelated note, from WDAY-AM Radio (Voice of the Bison):
NDSU student spends hours unprotected in the coldWDAY Radio - 01/22/2004
An NDSU student was treated and released from Meritcare Hospital after spending two hours in the frigid cold without a jacket or gloves.
West Fargo police say 19 year-old Johann Thomasson became intoxicated after a night of partying with friends last night.
He was riding in the back seat of a car when he jumped out and ran.
Thomasson's friends contacted police 90 minutes later saying he was still missing.
Authorities found him a short time later in the 400 block of 12th Avenue NW.
West Fargo police officer Al Schmitt says Thomasson was beginning to show signs of frostbite.
Schmidt says charges against Thomassson could include underage consumption of alchol.
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... fans a lot of entertainment in the off-season....
Off-season?
We go from an amazing run to the DII National Championship football game straight into a #1 DI college hockey ranking.
There is no "off-season" for UND fans. It's all good.
If NDSU added hockey...
in Men's Hockey
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Ever hear the name "Matt Cullen"?
Anyone?