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No. Playing basketball at UND does not provide you a leg up. My dad also played at UND and brought me to all the Sioux games when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. I remember going to UND/NDSU games when they had a freshman game, a JV game and then the main event. We pretty much lived at the U when I was growing up, basketball, football, hockey and countless other events on campus. I am sure there are many on this board with a long history with the Fieldhouse/Hyslop. So, no, playing basketball at UND does not provide trump.

I am beginning to think that you are here only to argue. You asked Sica to provide one example of something Schafer did during his short tenure. Sica obliged and provided documentation of Schafer putting budgeting together. You come back with a BS comment. You stated that Yale, Harvard, Vanderbilt... wouldn't tear down buildings to make way for new. "You would have a fight on your hands". They would remodel instead. I provided a link to where Vandy was tearing down housing to build new, which you didn't accept because what they tore down was ugly. I provided a link to where Yale was involved in a controversy from outside of Yale for tearing down historic buildings. You backpedaled that all campuses have good and bad buildings. It doesn't really sound like you contribute anything positive to this forum. Are you here just to lob grenades and spout off about your contacts at major universities?

How about Yale. Weren't they also mentioned as a school that would not allow such things to happen. You point at West Point as "how things are done right". UND is renovating Merrifield Hall. Are they doing it "wrong". Certain buildings allow for renovation and others don't. Decisions are made based on many factors. I don't think you or I have the information that incorporated the deciding factors at UND to make a decision on Hyslop. I would love to see the venue remain, but understand if that is not possible and life will go on. UND will use that land for something that fits with a future vision for the campus.

Wasn’t Vanderbilt one of the examples of schools that would just renovate and not demo to make way for the new? Vanderbilt announces demolition of final Carmichael Towers buildings to continue residential colleges progress I must say that the new looks much better than the old in this case.

St. Cloud State University hopes an accelerated online program will boost enrollment and ease budget woes. Critics say it's exploitive. An interesting piece on how St. Cloud is handling their enrollment death spiral and how the administration hopes to get out of it. They plan to partner with a "for profit" company to do accelerated online learning to pump up their enrollment. The comments to the article are very telling as to what former graduates and people in the area think. The future is not bright at SCSU. One hour away from the 16th largest MSA in the country and their president thinks this is a winning idea.

Reading here, Minot State began as a 2-year teaching college and evolved into a 4 year university with a graduate school.

I do wish that there was a way to keep the venue portion of Hyslop. I have many fond memories of that place. I watched many great basketball games there, including the days of Phil Jackson. Running the UND indoor track meets. Shrine Circus. I also remember going to a Boy/Cub Scout event there when they had the just had the dirt floors. There was a teepee in there with a small open fire and they were making pancakes. Not sure how they got away with that.

Once upon a time there was UND-Williston and UND-Lake Region. Perhaps they should go back to that. I also remember that Bottineau was associated with NDSU.

Here is a snapshot of the schools in the NDUS from 2006-2021.

Here are the enrollment figures for UND from 1884 to 2020. 13,000 wasn't attained until 2003.

Most Beautiful Campuses in the Midwest It is a nice list to be part of. Good Company.

Yeah, I am finally alive again. If that was you helping to make that happen, thanks. If it was just me stupid, thank for not pointing that out.

Thank you to the Albrecht family… https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/und-breaks-ground-on-new-softball-facility-multiuse-apartments

I go to church with an SDSU grad. He was beaming tonight.

Differing opinions. https://www.snl24.com/soccerladuma/international/ronaldinho-the-best-i-faced-he-is-the-greatest-of-all-time-20200812 He must at least be close. Messi first, Ronaldinho, second. https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-soccer-players-of-all-time/ranker-soccer My opinion.... I just find Ronaldinho a whole lot more fun to watch. Love the level of skill. The big smile on his face when he played. Wasn't a flopper. How can you not like this guy?..

Ronaldinho. Better skills. Better team player and a personality that lit up the stadium.

Go back to the branch campus concept. UND-Williston

My son showed me last night that there is live count going on.... https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciA_cwSJSrkzi5zfa3MHx_ftAn100WaRev760ZEUc3CMidUA/viewanalytics?pli=1&pli=1 Bloodwashed Bluegrass is currently in 4th. Thanks for the votes.

Yeah, he kind of surprised everyone with that. Thanks for voting for them. Voting closes Friday.

My son entered a bluegrass contest with some of his friends from church. They made the first cut and now there is open voting for the version of Auld Lang Syne. Have a listen to his band, Bloodwashed Bluegrass, and vote for them if you like feel they are worthy. My son is the one in lower right playing guitar. Somehow all of my kids are musical, even though I stunk at playing trombone. The voting is at the bottom of the page, below all of the contestants. https://store.banjobenclark.com/blogs/banjo-bens-blog/auld-lang-syne-band-contest

I was passing through MSP earlier this month on the way back from GF. We stopped at the Whole Food in Edina to grab some lunch for the road, as we were tired of fast food on the trip. We walked in and saw all of the chafing dishes, salads, sides... were empty. All they had was soup. I asked a couple of employees who were walking by what was going on. They said that they can't anyone to come to work. Their kitchen typically has 40 people working. They had 5. Add your assumptions as to why, here....

http://www.wiz1.net/schedule

I posted this link earlier. http://www.wiz1.net/schedule I have hit a couple of the links for current contests and the links seem to be working. UMass/LSSU game is listed. The UND game will likely be listed when it get closer to game time. All times are GMT+1