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Hopefully this will help the NCAA realize that they will be shooting themselves in the foot if they impose sanctions on UND that wouldn't allow them to ever host this event again.

God, I hope so. Hey iramurphy, I've done a 180! You won't find me on the Belmore bandwagon going into this season. Start Manke, let Freund mop up (so he's ready for 2007), and propel Belmore to #2 holder. I had little faith in Belmore going into last year, then he got my hopes up, only to completely dash them.

Will they be running buses all night during the games from the Memorial parking lot? I ain't gonna make it up there until about half way through the Holy Cross-Minnesota game. I'm guessing street parking to the south will be full by then, and I don't want to hoof it all the way from the football stadium.

I never said he isn't knowledgable. In fact I said he may be knowledgable.

I agree that is a questionable statement at best. I am a Miles fan from his Mayville days, as I got to know him personally there. He is a class act, very humble, and a very knowledgable coach. Bohl may be a knowledgable coach (perhaps remains to be seen) but he comes off as very arrogant, elitest, and according to Ed Shultz, "bush-league". On the other hand, Ed Shultz is himself an invertabrate, and has no spine, so take that with a grain of salt I guess.

Am I interpreting this right: Is he saying that it'll be easy to form a new conference from thin air? That's a rather bold statement isn't it? I only know of 2 area schools that have recently moved up, and I doubt that either of them would extend a helping hand to UND. Unless he's assuming that USD or SCSU or somebody else has expressed interest in going with UND.

Jeff Kolpack posted this in his Bison Media Blog over a week ago, regarding Bollinger's exodus. http://www.areavoices.com/bisonmedia/ Could there be any truth to this, or is Kolpack just blowing smoke? I know Lennon just signed an extension last fall, but I'm sure there are few DII coaches more attractive than Dale right now.

FSN North or ESPNU are the only options as far as I know.

One of NDSU's motives for going DI was to offer more football schollies and play opponents that offered more scholarships, which in theory is supposed to offer a higher quality of play on the field. Ironically, that first DI-AA game was against Valparaiso, which offers zero scholarships.

Where do you buy $16 tickets?!

NDSU has a much better basketball coach than they do football coach.

That's what I've always said!

Dataflix would make Steven Tyler's voice all scratchy and his face would be all pixellated so I doubt that they'd ever go for such an arrangem......................oh.............nevermind.

Is that that same screenshot that refers to NDSU as "North Dakota", or is it this one? "College Hoops 2K6 - North Dakota plays big - XBox 360" Funny how on the same weekend that Red Baron screwed up, so did X-Box!

I feel bad for the SCSU captain and the Wisonsin captain. They will probably be suspended from school now.

Back on topic......... Steve Hallstrom reported on WDAY @ 6:00 tonight that the Bison will be playing the Gophers in football on October 21, 2006 at the Metrodome. A third year transitional school playing our region's most visible Big 10 school, in the nation's most visible sport. Guarantee of $300,000. That sounds like a reason to go DI to me............ http://www.wday.com/ (click on 6:00 p.m. newscast)

I'd rather have the Gophers goaltenders wondering if they could catch a cold, much less a puck, which is what they're probably wondering right now. Briggs and Frazee are to the point where they are gonna be wondering what the opposing goaltender is gonna be doing rather than what the opposing forwards are doing. That said, I'm focusing on what Michigan is gonna be doing, not Minnesota.

I agree. Not to take anything away Katy Peterson, she may be the perfect person for the job, but I would have thought that there would have been interest from several DI assistants and several top-notch DII head coaches in this position. This program has shown some amount of potential over the past few years. And the Sioux Center must be one of the top volleyball arenas in the country, regardless of division doesn't it? Perhaps BisonDan has a point. This hiring coupled with the defection of Rob Bollinger doesn't give me alot of hope about a DI move. On the other hand, I don't remember Tim Miles (who I think is one of the best coaches to reside within the Louisiana Purchase!) being on the radar of many DI schools when NDSU hired him. I still hold out hope. Good luck, Katy Peterson!!!

I wonder how well this event is selling. I got my tickets on October 15th-- section 101, row I. Your seats sound better.

Attendance is usually down for post-season events, I don't see why this would be any different.

I think that we could be amazed at what this simple statement could do for UND Men's Basketball recruiting after a recruit walks out out of the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center down the hall and into the Ralph Engelstad Arena: "You could be playing Division I college basketball in this building."

Without trying to come off as arrogant or smacky, I don't think that it would be interesting at all. Average DI basketball attendance in 2004-05 was 5,095. Now let's define "successful DI mid-major". I would say that Gonzaga is the epitomy of a consistent, successful "mid-major" program. They draw an even 6,000 per game. Granted, they sell out every game, so it is unclear of their total possible drawing potential if they played in a bigger home arena. However, NDSU basketball, or UND basketball for that matter (if they go DI) is long, long, long ways off from being the caliber of Gonzaga. So, UND Hockey draws double of what the average DI basketball program does, and nearly double of what undisputedly is the most successful and high-profile mid-major basketball program in all of college basketball. Furthermore, UND Hockey draws better than all but 32 of the 326 DI basketball programs in the nation. The popularity of hockey in this region is further exemplified by Sicatoka's post about Gopher basketball attendance, keeping in mind that the Big 10 conference is the oldest conference in country, and a conference made up of some of the largest schools in the country with enormous fan bases. Only six of the eleven Big Ten basketball programs outdraw UND hockey. The three highest drawing programs in college hockey are Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Minnesota. That alone makes me think that hockey must be pretty damn popular in this region of the country. No "mid-major" basketball program could ever touch UND Hockey.

He would be a nice addition to UND. I went to alot of JC games when he coached there. He has a good coaching style, that is fun to watch.

Dan Grossman, UND's all-time career receptions leader, signed with the Sioux Falls Storm of the United Indoor Football League last week. Good Luck, Dan!! http://www.siouxfallsstorm.com/news/detail.cfm?id=205 Tony Hermes also plays for the Storm.

That's what I meant to say. UND and NDSU have always competed for recruits, and I think the DI label is gonna cause NDSU to win the vast majority of recruits, especially those from the twin cities area.