82SiouxGuy

Friday tickets are sold. Saturday tickets are still available.

See post above yours.

Ed never came over to the good side. He just went where the cash was. There was a rumor within the last few years that he was interested in working Bison games again. If you look in the dictionary under the word mercenary you will see a picture of Ed Schulz.

Do you mean the former voice of the Bison?

I have 3 in the upper deck if you are interested.

I'm pretty sure there is already an organic store in Grand Forks that has been in business for several years, Amazing Grains. They seem to do a pretty good business. But a lot of people don't go there because of the location downtown. I don't know if there is enough business available to support a 2nd store or not, but something near UND might be a good location.

The Princeton offense is a motion offense with a lot of picks and screens. This is a good description of the original Princeton offense. Everyone that runs the offense makes their own adjustments. Right now the players aren't making the shots needed to make the offense work.

It looks like there are plenty of tickets available for this weekend, so I will discount these tickets to $20 each. There are 3 tickets available for each night. Send me a PM and we can make arrangements to get the tickets to you.

A lot of these type claims get messy, so they may have just passed the law to run everything through the State Fire and Tornado Fund and then let them sort it out. It would put the state's interests in the hands of experts in the insurance industry to help protect the state rather than depend on people at the individual institutions. And it would be easier to just have a policy to handle all claims the same way rather than try to decide depending on the individual circumstances.

College faculty? That's a perfect target market for organic foods.

They also had 2 tap beers, Michelob or Miller Light, for $1 every night from 10 until closing. I usually worked until 10 when I worked nights so we often stopped over for a couple of quick beers (or more).

The following is just a guess. NDSU doesn't want to pay for the extra repairs out of their own funds, and they shouldn't have to. Someone's insurance company will have to pay for it. But there will be a fight over who is responsible and who will pay for the repair work in the end. So the state of North Dakota insurance fund will front the cost of the repairs and then sort out the actual cause, which will help figure out who will ultimately pay. It may take several years to sort out who pays in the end and the State Fire and Tornado Fund is there to help state institutions in situations like this.

I was around during that same general timeframe and agree about Judy's. I went there a couple of times, but it was more of a neighborhood hangout. I know that my Dad used to stop there for a beer when he had some time to kill in that part of town. I hung out at many of the places ScottM listed along with stopping at John Barleycorn in the mall after work.

It seemed like they targeted the business toward the hockey crowd and not the crowd that surrounded it the other 340 days a year.

There is also the possibility that they may not be able to sell the building for what they paid to build it. Leasing may give them a chance to recoup those costs.

A lot of restaurant buildings are leased. Leasing allows someone to get into business with a lot less cost. If someone wants to put a restaurant into that building they would have to come up with $3 or 4 million more to buy the building than they would if they just wanted to run a restaurant. A lot of restaurant owners don't want the headaches or the potential cost of owning a building. You're right that sometimes a building owner will get greedy and try to get a huge increase in rent at the end of the lease. Sometimes that results in restaurants closing even when they have been successful. And sometimes the building sits empty because the owner made a poor business decision. But a smart business owner and smart building owner will find a compromise that allows both of them to be successful. My guess is that Suite 49 closed because it was losing money. Or it was pretty close to losing money. Either way it probably wasn't real successful. It was busy on hockey nights, but I think it was pretty quiet a lot of the time. I know I was there for lunch a couple of times and the building was pretty empty. Browns have done well for themselves in business and know how to run a successful business. But restaurants aren't their area of expertise. They know that it is going to be hard for someone to come in, buy the building, and try to run a successful restaurant. So leasing out the building is probably the best option for everyone involved unless someone comes forward with $5 million in cash to start up something new.

I just found out that I have 3 tickets available for each night, another person has to work. Let's say $25 each and you can have anywhere from 1 to 3. The tickets are at the top of Section 306, great seats. Let me know if you are interested.

Tickets are still available. Send me a PM if you are interested.

It's good to know that they were doing something. Did it start early enough? Could more have been done? I don't know and don't have any details. You are right about the lack of negotiation from the other side. My only thought was that if the communication had been ongoing for years maybe some of those chairs would be filled. There was a relationship of some kind when the elders made a presentation to President Starcher approximately 40 years ago. It went bad after that.

What I am talking about probably wouldn't have cost a lot of money. It is often all about the personal relationships. People at different levels of the administration probably should have been in regular contact with the tribes, and made trips out to the reservations on a regular basis. Many of the programs targeted at Native Americans are run by the group that opposes the nickname. They have been the only ones communicating with the tribes. Other people should have been out working with the tribes to give them a different, and hopefully more balanced, view of the University. Like I said, this is 20-20 hindsight. But I think it would have made for a better working relationship with the tribes.

It's all about ratings. Not enough people interested in watching the games to get TV people interested in broadcasting. Only a limited number of schools have a big enough following to warrant regular television broadcasts.

No one has found any television coverage of this tournament, not on DirecTV or anywhere else.

Very few of the nickname opponents have had a problem with the "Fighting" part of the nickname. The ones that did thought it was stereotyping based on history. But even most of the opponents don't care about the "Fighting" part. They think that it is an insult to use the actual name, Sioux, for something like a sports nickname. They believe it is racist. They hear opposing teams yell nasty things or put see nasty things on signs. And they believe that those opposing teams are including the tribes in what they say. They don't accept that the insults are directed at the University of North Dakota and have nothing to do with the tribes. They also believe that objectifying the tribes by using the nickname helps promote racism in the community in some way. Like some idiot is going to think less of a Native American just because UND teams are called the Fighting Sioux. Using just the name Sioux would have made no difference at all in this debate.

Sorry, I was talking off the top of my head and mainly referring to the men's programs when I made that comment about wins against notable opponents. I was thinking that NDSU had those wins in Year 3. Guess it shows how much I was paying attention to NDSU basketball. My point about building toward the end of transition is still valid. NDSU winning their league and going to the Big Dance was the ultimate version of that strategy.

I will repeat what I said in another thread. The men have 6 redshirt freshman and 2 sophomores, so it is a young team. They have had a lot of injuries. They have had 9 different players start and used 6 different starting line-ups (that was as of the Iowa State game). It is hard to develop any kind of consistency or any ability to play together when you never get a chance to play together. The step up to Division I is huge. It would be like the football team going from Division II to BCS level football. Anyone that expected a lot of success this soon was fooling themselves. More success than they are currently having would have been nice. But it isn't really that important if the team can grow through the transition. The goal of the program should be to be competitive within their league and ready to compete for league titles by the time they are done with the transition. Beating other established DI teams would also be part of that scenario. Some of these young players were considered pretty talented when they were recruited. But it doesn't happen overnight. It will be hard to make a true determination on the abilities and the real potential for this team until the 2nd half of next year. That gives the team time to get healthy, learn to play together and time to mature. If we don't see some major improvements by that time it will probably be time to look for a new coach. As far as the offense goes, it is actually a good choice for a transitioning team. You can be successful with a Princeton offense without having top end offensive talent. The keys are to be patient, take a lot of time making passes, find open players for higher probability shots and make a good percentage of shots. You also need to play good defense. From what I have seen and heard, the team is often rushing, finding open players for lower probability shots, or turning the ball over, making a low percentage of all shots and not playing good defense. All of them could be symptoms of a young team, that needs to mature, and that hasn't played together a lot. All are correctable with time. We just don't know if this team can be corrected or not. Time will tell.