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Don't feed the trolls.

It wouldn't be from one rich alumni, but probably 10 donors of $30 million.

Can you imagine if Ralph wanted to have fun with people: To UND: "Have an architectural firm draw up the nicest stadium in the country. Leather seats. Luxury suites, milliondollar scoreboard. Tell them this is what you plan for a hockey arena in the future. If I like it, I might donate a lot of money to UND. " UND: "How many seats" Ralph: "11-12,000" UND: "That seems like a lot. Double the current 6,000 seat one and sometimes we can't even fill that that." Ralph: "Dont' worry. Build it and they will come. Better to have to many seats than not enough!" Every fan in the country to UND: "Pipe Dream" Ralph reaction:

I gotta agree. It would be disasterous to move football outdoors again in Grand Forks regardless of what "traditionalists" think. There is no doubt that being outdoors would cost UND attendance numbers meaning less revenue for UND. The new stadium needs to be in the 23,000-28,000 seat range. Lonnie Laffen of JLG Architects wrote this on the blog I like it. Integrating the tradition with the future.

Just so you know. The Sioux Football show is broadcast on the web too. You really seem to be bent out of shape about nothing. The only fact here is the Bohl show dropped in ratings because it switched times to Sunday mornings when less people watch it (the average fan has probably yet to realize when and where it moved to). That is all. Undo you undies.

On a SDSU message board. All right I'll stop now. They do a good job of supporting there football team similar to UND and its hockey.

Wrong again. No surprise though . I think it was to guage the football TV ratings.

I was thinking the same.

Apparently I should add the McFeely blog to my favorite links that discuss UND sports. I had no idea there was so much good talk going on there about UND.

Anytime things like this occur Minnesota Politicians have a fit if they try to move it outside the state of MN.

You are definately right. He is using SIU as a stepping stone. Otherwise he would have stayed at UND as mentioned by his "bleed green" during his press conference. This move will help him NOT lose four years in his career goals.

I know of quite a few actually. Well I know of serveral people that would love to be the Next AD of UND. Dean Blais included. I think the AD job will be a tough one because the former one got fired/quit , coupled with the fact that coaches are getting fired or quitting. Not because of people talking on a message board. If so, God help us. Ah yes the "hide the truth" doctorine. "Jimmy is doing an excellent job. He is a very hard worker." Jane says to the "public." Then Jane tells Jimmy, "You aren't doing such a great job. You need to improve or you are fired." It is not a very good philosophy to live by. If there are problems that are not being addressed what better way to help create change than by UND fans (the people who care the most about the school) talking about it trying to find solutions. We all know certain people in the administration read these forums. And here's a shocker....they get ideas that they like and use them to better the university . I am not blaming anyone for anything. I speak in generals, not about Lennon or Buning or any other adminstratiors at UND, but if there are potential conflict of interests in the adminstration they should be addressed and possibly changed for the future. And as JimDahl pointed out

Those so called "conflict of interest" nobody likes. I knew his point from the beginning.

The reason UND/NDSU/SDSU/USD need to anchor a conference or at least be working to be in the same conference and so they have enough votes to control it.

I believe there are 148 D2 football teams vs 122 FCS teams according to a quick lookup at mratings.com.

Looking at that map I would guess there are fewer FCS teams than Division 2 football teams. Anyone know for sure? If no, no wonder it will become easier to competitive in FCS right away.

I would have went but didn't know it was so soon. Forgot.

It is easy to dream. But making things a reality is much easier. "out of our price range" ?? ?? ha Sorry, I have to laugh....It is one of the funnier things I have heard on this board. UND is the oldest and largest institute in the Dakotas. Has more national coverage than both NDSU and SDSU. Is one of the best colleges in the nation (NDSU is not), has more Division 1 titles than both NDSU, SDSU, and USD combined. Should I go on? Out of UND's price range? I think not.

Tickets to the Frozen Four in Denver: ;)

Did you read what "dlsiouxfan" said? I suspect you are like most americans and did not, because if you did you would read. It was not apologizing for "moving up the food chain."

Helps the fundraising efforts even more.

Seems rationale to me.

We can talk in hypotheticals all day long.

I still didn't see your proposal? All you said was let others take care of it. Heres the problem with that "solution": Those people whos job it is the fix it are a sometimes a part of the problem (Nixon). Or the system is broken or they know there is a problem but don't care and don't want to fix it. Unlike UND92/96 who is simple pointing out things that don't add up with the current administration. All he is doing is talking and pointing out facts. Nothing wrong with asking questions about the competence of certain individuals in the administration. Your comeback attacking him to his normal competent questions/discussion on a message board? He called his bevavior "foolish." Which is actually the exact opposite. That doesn't seem to add much to the conversation: just attacks the person not the topic at hand.

and moreso, it helps distract from the message, because people have been known to attach the person and not the message. The message remains the same.