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NDSU is in compliance, in fact the prong NDSU has chosen is what makes our women's programs so strong.

Would also be grounds for a lawsuit, a lawsuit the Big Sky would lose.

Doesn't UND use the proportion prong of Title IX? I think you could figure out a way around it if you wanted but it may require as you say cutting a men's sport.

Women's hockey sucks everywhere, the amount of money your school wastes on it astounds me. Men's hockey I get, cash cow and can bring some great exposure. You should stick that money into WBB or VB if you want a better return on it.

Honestly if NDSU wanted to they could charge much more for the UND game and the other games. That is just where demand is at right now, I think what they are doing is sustainable as long as they are investing back into the program(like cost of attendance for example)

All things that will help push cost of attendance forward at NDSU, not my fault Faison cut us a sweetheart deal. Did you not think we would take full advantage of it? If NDSU is going to play this game, that was always the plan. It was the main reason to do it. Team makers will smash records next year.

Our women's basketball team thanks you for helping to pay for their cost of attendance stipends. Thanks Faison and Bubba, I will invite them over to toast over the crow I eat with some good whiskey. It is the least I can do.

I thought the post was about Wheeler. Not sure what the rules say about that situation but if he never attended I think he could play, he wouldn't really be a transfer.

Not sure that is possible anymore, Jeff Goodman was talking about today that all transfers that don't use the grad school waiver will have to sit under the NCAA's new transfer rules.

Uh oh...it happening! Bison Big 12 bound.... http://www.inforum.com/sports/bison/3714423-ndsu-heading-big-12-which-sport

The Vikings did send a scout to look at him for his pro day, that is about as much as I know in regards to their interest. I expect AP to be traded before the draft.

ESPN transfer list... http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/jeff-goodman/post/_/id/4899/top-10-transfers-and-complete-transfer-list&ex_cid=InsiderTwitter_GoodmanTransferList2015March?refresh=true

SMU would have been huge, probably a 12 but they should be happy getting G-Town. That to me is almost as good as getting a 5-12 match up, G-Town is overrated. I have no clue how they are seeded higher than UNI.

The Big Sky had nothing to do with it, EWU had a great OOC schedule and got a huge win. NDSU getting a 12 last year was similar, great OOC schedule and some nice wins. NDSU didn't really do much in the OOC this year and were punished for it. Do well in conference play and against a great OOC schedule will mean good things if you get into the dance.

I don't think there is a difference between either conference for basketball. There are no recognizable names in either conference really, no Gonzaga or Wichita State's. I don't think kids really care where they travel to, they mostly want to play high level competition and both conferences offer the same ability to schedule power five schools in non-conference. Neither conference has a high level basketball program, both are one bid leagues. Really for recruiting you are mostly looking at relationship with the coach, academic major, style of play, program tradition, facilities, and perhaps location could play a bit of role but it is probably further down the list.

All I am saying if the committee had an issue with athletic scholarships, they could have put money toward that instead. They could have just flat out denied all of them, like they denied other requests. I don't think NDSU intentionally did anything, other then try to get their full share of the money available.

If it was clear, then why weren't they denied? It wasn't for a great sum of money and other things were denied by the committee, so I don't think denying these things would create a big issue. In fact NDSU's requests exceeded what the state could match when it was all said and done. The fact that nobody objected to this seems to make me think a lot of people here are trying to create a controversy that does not exist and never existed outside of Rob Port's sayanythingstupid blog.

I wouldn't connect Port to UND, he is just bomb throwing far right loon that people give way too much publicity to. He hates all of higher education, NDSU is just his favorite whipping boy.

I don't have a single issue with it, as long it is going for student scholarships and not some coaches salary or a building. Mountain out of a molehill, which is Rob Port's forte.

The foundation put in the extra $3 million to get the ball rolling, construction costs kept on accelerating and after the president's house debacle NDSU doesn't want to come in over budget again. The school has been very cautious with this project because of that fact. In most states NDSU would have used bonds and would be playing in the renovated SHAC right now but ND has to do everything the hard way.

Billy Turner was a Big 10 player straight out of high school, the guy started as a true freshman. The coaches were amazed they got him, any Bison fans that try to convince themselves otherwise are fooling themselves. No chance Kill lets him leave the state, Billy was a classic example of Brewster not being able to evaluate talent that doesn't have four or five stars next to his name. If he lived in Wisconsin or Iowa, those coaches don't let him leave the state. Kill has been doing a solid job at keeping these players, Ben Lauer would be one example.

Polls aren't a big deal, if NDSU wins out they will be a 1 or 2 seed. CCU has some things to worry about seedingwise with no FBS game and no top 25 wins. Looking like a 3 to 5 seed to me.

It was kind of heated for a while, SDSU beat NDSU three straight times from 2007-2009 but now SDSU losing 5 straight to NDSU has kind of taken the steam out of things. Not sure NDSU really has a rival in football at the moment.

Agreed and that is where they have sunk their resources as of late with the new arena and Craig Smith. Once SDSU gets their new football stadium online, USD's facilities will be much closer to NSIC schools then their Dakota FCS brethren.

The basketball schools run the MVC, they fear the whole Big East fiasco happening to them in regards to football. Doubt the MVC expands past 10. Too many conflicting interests in that conference, anything beyond 10 would have to be a slam dunk like say SLU and I don't see that happening. If MSU leaves they add a basketball school.