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  1. "DU will travel 400 more miles for its regional this weekend than BC has traveled for regionals in the last 13 years COMBINED."

    Run the math on that:

    Denver to Manchester is 2000 miles. If DU will travel 400 miles more that means 1600 miles is the baseline for comparison.

    1600 miles / 13 years is an average of 123 miles per year.

    Put that in perspective: Over the last 13 years, on average, what BC has had to travel is the equivalent of Grand Forks to Bemidji.

    To really put that in perspective you also have to remember that in 2011 they traveled to St. Louis where they got pounded by CC. That trip was 1050 miles (by air). So in 12 years they travelled 550 miles or an average of about 45 miles per year. I checked my math twice as that almost seems impossible but that's what it is.

    Your math is right.

    That is disgusting. Why not just have them play in Conte Forum. :glare:

  2. "DU will travel 400 more miles for its regional this weekend than BC has traveled for regionals in the last 13 years COMBINED."

    Run the math on that:

    Denver to Manchester is 2000 miles. If DU will travel 400 miles more that means 1600 miles is the baseline for comparison.

    1600 miles / 13 years is an average of 123 miles per year.

    Put that in perspective: Over the last 13 years, on average, what BC has had to travel is the equivalent of Grand Forks to Bemidji.

  3. @SchlossmanGF: DU will travel 400 more miles for its regional this weekend than BC has traveled for regionals in the last 13 years COMBINED.

    @SchlossmanGF: BU and BC have got on a plane 3 times for a regional in the last 13 years. The teams lost by four goals in 1st rd each time.

    @chnews: Recent committee member: "Was shocked at how they did it ... Supposed to protect the #1 seed with #16 and #8 for 2nd round. Didn't do it."

    I'm not sure which of those three factoids/statements disgusts me most.

  4. First, what a poor topic line. Why not "Property Taxes - Why so high?"

    Some context of what you're talking about (without having to click a link) would be nice.

    Second, a tax rate is just that, a tax rate. You have to also figure in valuations of the properties. Then you can determine revenues generated.

    Yeah, in ND it's 1.42 percent of home value, but what is the average home value?

    If it costs $100k per year to have a county sheriff, but your county property values are very low, you need to have a high tax rate to raise the $100k when compared to a county with high property values.

  5. Pondering this further, many of us remarked last year that UND had a HC, an associate HC, and an assistant HC (and Breitbach was an assistant coach).

    The associate HC is now running Champions Club. The assistant HC is now the new DC.

    Could Breitbach be looking to see his title changed to assistant head coach?

  6. If Breitbach were to go at this late date my suspicion is that Mussman would take over the OC role. I'm not sure there's anyone else ready to step right in (internal or external).

  7. Back to the larger point:

    In NCAA play the pace of play ... slows .... way ..... way ...... way ....... down (because of their different TV timeout standards compared to regular season play).

    I think that hurts deep teams that rolled four lines all season.

    In NCAA play you can get away with "two lines and a spare forward" <cough-Duluth-cough-2011-cough-cough> and can drop down to five defensemen earlier than usual.

    Will Hakstol make that adjustment this year?

  8. I think Gaarder, Rodwell, and Mitch Mac anchor a fourth line and simply look to forecheck and not get caught up ice. No goals for, no goals against.

    Why not take the whole leap ...

    St. Clair Gaarder Caggiula

    Pattyn Rodwell MitchMac <-- in this scenario I'd sit MitchMac for Jim

  9. I'll say it again: I believe three tiers of DI football are on the horizon.

    - today's BCS conferences

    - the rest of BCS plus the top of FCS

    - all the rest

    Were something like that to come to pass, I think you'd see the 15k requirement dialed back to about 10k for the middle tier (or a hard 35k requirement put in to play in the top level).

  10. Interesting statement from Faison:

    Geography played into both (GSU, ASU) schools’ favor – something that NDSU and UND do not currently have going for them. Faison could only guess that the Mid-American Conference may be a possibility should the day come.

    “From a financial standpoint, it’s a significant investment,” he said. “At the same time, I can see the benefits of FBS.”

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