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Buthockey is exactly why. REA was in the process of adorning the new arena with 2,500 of the new Ben Brien logos, and they had new banners made to match. REA doesn't care enough about basketball to do the same when the teams moved into the Sioux Center 3 or 4 years later. The new football banners were put into the Alerus about 5 years after it opened, and they were paid for by Harold Newman of Newman Signs.

I'm talking women's basketball. The REA made new ones for the hockey team with the new logo when they opened the new arena in 2001. When the basketball teams moved into the Sioux Center in 2004, they just brought the old ones from the Hyslop.

Because the geometric logo was the one in use when they won all the national championsips. Those banners were hanging in the Hyslop and they just moved them. I'm pretty sure there are.

You are probably right. But, count me in the camp that a suspension for any amount of time is a bit of an over-reaction. I think at most, Ralston should have been made to privately address the coaches and team to apologize.

I see what you did there..............

I agree with you for once............

While watching the Portland St.-Eastern Washington basketball game last night, I noticed that PSU also has a single video board hanging on one end of their arena. And they are another school like Sac St. that plays in a tiny high school like gym with about 1,000 seats. I think UND must be the only Big Sky school that doesn't have some sort of video board. If they can't have, or afford, a center-hung scoreboard, there should be no reason the Sioux Center shouldn't have a flat screen video board on each end of the court.

We should start a grass roots "Free Ralston" campaign.................

Bummer...........

Standings, as of 2/19/13 Montana...................15-1 Weber St..................14-2 North Dakota............8-8 Southern Utah..........8-8 Sacramento St.........7-9 Montana St...............7-9 Northern Arizona......7-9 Northern Colorado....7-9 Eastern Washington...6-10 Portland St................5-11 Idaho St.....................4-12

89 Portland ST 80 Eastern Washington Final

I don't know that I believe any of them at this point! If FOX has enough pull to influence the number of teams, they will certainly massage the geography of it as well. As I said, I don't see both Dayton and Xavier making it in, because there is too much market overlap. If Richmond truly is a candidate, then VCU certainly is not. Not only is there market overlap, but they are not private either.

Charlie Sheen......................

I don't know, I can kind of see why Siena would be in play. This season aside, they've been pretty good in recent years, have a great facility, draw 7,000 per game, located in New York (C7 will want their tournament at Madison Square Garden), are private (and catholic to boot), and are basketball-centric. I don't know anything about Detroit. But the "midwestern division" will need someone in that area. I think it's unlikely that the C7 takes both Xavier and Dayton.

Huh, I've only heard/read a couple of comments about Ralston on other Big Sky boards, and both have been positive when they've been watching our broadcasts on Big Sky TV. I actually really enjoy listening to Paul. He has just the right amount of homerism, yet he is critical at times when the team isn't playing well. Apparently too critical. Then again, you don't really like anything about UND, so I am not surprised you don't like Ralston.

Well it was indeed a choke job.....................

Gene Taylor doesn't want the game because UND wasn't willing to fall on the sword for them back in 2003 and it made him have to work a little harder to fill the schedule during the transition.

I think all of these classes are housed in the College of Forensic Accounting. Not sure if that is on the main campus or the downtown campus though.

Oh good lord................ SRSLY? Why doesn't NDSU go offer a 4 game contract to some other DII school?

How so? You say that UND tried to screw NDSU by not even agreeing to play them. I say NDSU did screw UND by changing their mind about playing UND after entering into a contractual agreement to do so. Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad at all about the baseball game, nor am I seriously implying that because of that scenario I truly think NDSU wouldn't honor a home-and-home contract with Montana or anybody else. What I am saying is that it is misguided at best to insinuate that anyone would think there is a good chance that UND would not honor a contract to play NDSU, just because they would not enter into a contract with them 10 years ago when the two schools were not even playing in the same division. And folks, let's be honest with ourselves. If the shoe were on the other foot, does anybody here, Sioux fan or Bison fan, really think that NDSU would not have done the same thing? Money ain't easy to come by at this level of NCAA athletics, so when a chance to make more comes along, you jump at it. Doesn't matter if it is $50,000 or $500,000 more. Every school is looking for more income. That includes UND and NDSU, Montana and Montana St., Prairie View A&M, and SMU too. And if any of you think that that NDSU lap-dog Kolpack's forensic accounting analysis is based on any actual financial data that he's seen from any of these contracts, well then that is comical.

Well as far as I know, the only contracted game between the two schools that was ever cancelled, was a baseball game that was to be played in 2006 that NDSU cancelled. So using your criteria, NDSU is the school with a track record for not honoring commitments. Perhaps Montana should think long and hard about coming to Fargo next year, because a return game from the Bison may not be a sure thing. History seems to suggest that NDSU has a propensity to opt out of contracted games with regional schools. I don't think one can really point to any instances where UND has done the same.

OOkkkayyyy?.................. Care to cite an example of that then?

You just indicated so here:

I don't recall UND ever backing out of a scheduled game with Fargo. Care to cite an example?