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They though students would show up at 8:00 am Friday morning and get in line? Common sense tells a person people are going to get in line early to "get in that line." This is only an issue for two reason: 1. Students are so disrespectful, foul mouths, drunks who can't control themselves that they must know who sits in that seat so they can watch them with the cameras for disorderly conduct and take away their seat when they say a bad word or stand. (the first part was tongue in cheek in case you didn't notice) 2. Engelstad is only out to make a buck regardless of the situation. They don't care about the atmosphere. This wouldn't be a problem is their was such a SMALL student section in the lower bowl. "hmmm how can we make more money...well lets put twice as many students in the upper bowl as their is in the lower bowl so we can sell those seats for good money...perfect."

"There is no such thing as ugly girls, just not enough vodka."

When did they add baseball to that list?

Charging students has nothing to do with supply and demand. Before moving into their respective new buildings more people attended, on average, football games than hockey games. It is all about making money. As of right now UND/Alerus makes $0 from students, and if they only 1,000 paid $5 for these seven home games, that is a good amount of money. The Alerus has one of the best atmosphere in Division 2. Why screw that up? I remember the old Engelstad having one of the best atmospheres in Division 1, but they moved into a new building and started charging students. They didn't seem to care about the atmosphere. I also propose having only one section in the lower part of the Alerus and moving the rest of the student sections to the "upper" part, therefore allowing the season ticket holders to have better seats which will result in more money as seen in Ralph Engelstad Arena

UND has a good reason to move up. "Profit Sharing" from the Frozen Four they participate in. UND has missed out on some good money in the past.

The Sioux moved into a new non-UND owned hockey facility and started charging students to go to the games. The Sioux moved into a new non-UND owned football arena, so why not charge them, say $5 to go to a game?

I'm betting NDSU will tear down the BSA and build a new basketball facility after consultants said it would cost to much to repair/renovate. $8-16 million that seems a little steep to me to renovate a building, considering the extravegant Betty only cost approximately 7 million.

No one ever mentioned a 100K arena. That is not the point here.

Gotta sell dataflix tix some how.

That made no sense at all, anyways... When is NDSU going to realize they just ain't in the same class as UND? Yes you can argue about what the definition of flagship is, but UND is Tier 3, NDSU is tier 4. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/r...tudoc_brief.php You won't find NDSU in this book; Best 357 Colleges There is only doubt among NDSU fans, which school is the 'flagship.'

I think SiouxGoo has a point. http://www.UND.edu/org/iac/IAC05-26-04.htm "He reported that most team budgets stayed the same or were cut." "Ray Diez questioned whether Athletics would end the year in the black. John Sirignano said the budget surplus was last year

Could have been it was just TOO crowded.

Good topic. KG was also USHL Goaltender of the Year. Bring Home Number 8!!

Star2City, your one of my favorite posters. Keep up the good work.

The UND administration must believe its Duluth because that single game ticket costs $20 compared to $18 for the rest, or should I say they saw an opportunity.

The atmosphere at the Alerus is 10 times better than Memorial ever was.

No need to expand to 15,000. BSC is never going I-A and neither are the Sioux.

You want to have a serious discussion about UND recruits.

I thought I read somewhere that the Alerus was going to put up memorabilia to make it feel more like a home field for the Sioux. Did I miss it on Saturday or is that in the plans for later?

Ziggy must like being a backup.

My team is better than your team. Always has always will!!

This probably isn't "proof" to you, but go to WDAZ.com click "Sioux Fans Tour the Betty Engelstad Center" (gotta do it quick before the link goes away) and at the end Lori Cowan will state: "The arena was built with a seven million dollar donation to UND from the Engelstad family."

Tell me your kidding? You are complaining about dust on your seat!!