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I don't think it would be possible to set up a CFL field. Not enough room, plus the carpet has the college lines painted on it and it would not be easy to replace with CFL markings.

I believe the proper term is hussy.

Vande on Friday and Marto on Saturday.

I think it would be a fair sized cut to a coordinator job at FCS. Plus their off season is pretty quiet, especially compared to the NFL or recruiting for college. So it may be a tough sell to get Tibesar back unless he saw it as a way to get back on the fast track. A head coaching position at FCS (or maybe even at DII) is a different story. That would be a chance to be the head guy and would probably be worth taking a cut.

There is a significant sized group that is opposed to accepting payment or "selling out". I don't know if it is large enough to prevent a deal.

From what I've read, they don't have a referendum process in their government. The Tribal Council makes all decisions. I don't think they have ever had a referendum or public vote on an issue at Standing Rock. No one seems to know if there are enough votes on the Council to allow a vote. Past Council votes on the issue were not unanimous, but were strongly against the nickname. We don't know if enough Council members changed during the election, or changed their minds, to allow a vote. Only a meeting of the Council will answer that question and tell us if the nickname has a chance or not.

Sorry, but you're spinning this a little quickly. Laws may not have been broken, and if that's true then no one will be in trouble. But money was spent without authorization, the SBoHE will not authorize NDSU to pay those costs, and the NDSU Foundation is refusing to pay them. And breaking the rules was done on purpose. This story isn't done yet and a lot of questions still need to be answered.

I'm pretty sure it's a very vocal minority that are in favor of using the vulgar chant.

Really? He's undefeated on the season and has given up a total of 7 goals in 4 games, including a shut-out. What more do you want him to do? Throw shut-outs every game?

KFGO 790 AM should have all UND hockey games on live in the Fargo area.

If they continue to show up in the numbers that they have the past 2 games then they deserve to lose that prime seating. When the students show up they are a definite presence behind the bench. When they don't they lose their bargaining power. I'm sure that it didn't look good on television to see all of those empty seats at midfield.

I think that you can pull the costs of furnishings out of the cost overrun for both schools. They were both given permission to furnish the houses above the $900,000 (although I don't know for sure if a limit was set on the cost of furnishings). Both still went over budget, it is a matter of how much.

Is it possible for Chapman to commit a crime in your book? Whether he did something purposefully or accidentally that detracts from NDSU doesn't affect whether he did something wrong or not. I haven't seen any proof that Chapman or anyone else committed a crime. I'm also not sure that he didn't, the evidence isn't all in yet. There are definitely questionable areas that should be examined, and an audit by the state will accomplish that. Some of the house decisions and taking his kids to Washington DC are 2 examples of items that should be examined. I think that there are other decisions that are legal but were not wise financial decisions. Examples may include private plane and the choice of hotels on the DC trip. Chapman deserved to get some heat for those type decisions, but not lose his job. Of course he made the decision to quit instead of taking the heat. They are definitely going to examine UND for the house issue. Dr. Kelley won't be affected at all by the examination since the house was completed before he started his job. Kupchella and his staff were the decision makers. The decision makers at the UND Foundation may be affected. And what they decide on the landscaping and site preparation issue will determine if UND did anything wrong. If there is evidence that previous projects have not included landscaping and site prep, than UND and NDSU will be off the hook for those portions. That would leave UND over budget by approximately $20,000 and NDSU still over budget by several hundred thousand. If there is no precedence for separating out the outdoor work, then both schools have a large problem.

Growing is better than shrinking. Growing slowly is much better than growing too fast.

This was filmed at TD Gardens. The video was made for a promotion they are doing for the Boston Bruins.

It's 635,000+ and actually growing (although not very quickly).

I think it's at your house. Probably not a large crowd for that one.

By breaking whatever rules or policies that are in the way?

Is Vern willing to build a new house for him?

No one knows what the tribal council will do. The best guess is that they will consider either allowing a tribal vote or upholding the pipe ceremony from 1969. But no one knows whether they would support either. The only thing that will get done before Oct 31 is the consideration of either or both issues. If the council decides to allow a vote of tribal members, the SBoHE will extend the deadline either 30 or 60 days to get that done. If the tribal council decides that they won't allow a vote and will not consider the pipe ceremony, then that will be the end of it.

You are reading things that I never said. I never mentioned ESPN.com. And I never mentioned an individual game highlight segment. When I was talking scores I was talking about reading scores on Sportscenter or a crawl of scores on any of the ESPN networks. They don't always give all scores for a division. For football they sometimes only do Top 25 or major conferences. They don't usually run college hockey scores, but I have seen them list scores for a limited number of games. A Big Ten Hockey Conference would take all of this coverage. And I never said that this was a major deciding factor for anyone. But it would be a loss of publicity. All losses would add up to become important. The same holds true with regional media in the Twin Cities and Wisconsin areas. I'm not talking about anyone becoming a Sioux fan because of reading a story or series of stories in the Star Tribune. I never even suggested that. I'm talking about awareness. Having UND in regional media keeps people aware of its existence. Do you think the average high school student in Anoka or Eden Prairie would even consider going to UND if they never heard the name mentioned. If they wanted to be a pilot, sure. But if they want to be a teacher or a nurse, probably not so much. But if they are watching TV and hear the name, or reading a newspaper web site (because they would never read the actual newspaper) or listen to the radio and hear UND, then they might pay attention. That might get them to look a little further and find a great school that they wouldn't have known about. That is the kind of free press that would hurt if lost. And it would get worse as time went on. Schools closer to Minneapolis and part of the University of Minnesota or Minnesota State University systems would probably be the winners. As far as hockey players, I barely mentioned them. But yeah, it would hurt recruiting. There have been several players from the Twin Cities that were interested in UND because they didn't like the home team and wanted a chance to play against them, or UMTC didn't recruit them so they wanted a chance to play against them, or one of the reasons they looked at UND was the chance to play in front of friends and family in the Twin Cities. UND might still get some of them, but it would also lose players if that wasn't an option. Would that severely damage the UND hockey program, probably not. But it would make a difference for some people. You keep talking about whether any of these issues would make a huge difference to people becoming UND fans or players. No single incident is going to make a big difference. And it won't affect hardcore hockey fans, I never said it would. Every one of these items is very minor when looked at alone. But they could add up to be a major problem. Marketing guidelines say that you need a minimum of 7 exposures to make an impact. That means people need to be exposed to the UND name at least 7 times in a period of time to have it remain in their mind. Taking UND sports out of the media in the Twin Cities area would hurt student recruiting, and possibly player recruiting. As I have said repeated times, the only question is the extent of the damage. Would it cost UND 10 students and 1 player in a given year? Or would it cost 100 students? We don't know that right now.

I don't think you read anything I wrote. First, I didn't say anything about watching games on ESPN. I said scores. ESPN has listed regular college hockey scores or used highlights from regular games from time to time. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. They are more likely to post scores from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State and Notre Dame than they are UND, UMD, SCSU, etc. Just a fact of life, they notice the big name schools. The rest of my post dealt with exposure in the Twin Cities area and parts of Wisconsin because of UND playing the major schools in those areas. I concentrated on that because that is a huge drawing area for UND, and an area that would obviously be affected by a change in conference. The Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, KFAN, WCCO and all other media outlets in the Twin Cities area, along with the media outlets in Madison, actually give coverage to games between UND and either Minnesota or Wisconsin. That is "free" public relations for UND. University of North Dakota in a headline from a major metropolitan newspaper is a big deal, and happens every year because UND plays Minnesota in hockey. Those media outlets are going to give much less coverage to a conference that does not involve Minnesota or Wisconsin. For instance, look for the coverage of the Northern Sun. That is the way those media outlets would treat a WCHA without Minnesota and Wisconsin. Less coverage (or no coverage) by media outlets means less awareness by residents, students and prospective hockey players in those areas. UND has a lot of great things going for it and is a great school. But losing that "free" exposure would definitely hurt. We just don't know how much it would hurt.

The world wouldn't stop if UND no longer played Minnesota or Wisconsin. But playing them on a regular basis does get attention in places like Minneapolis. It helps keep UND in the minds of students and players from the Twin Cities and some areas of Wisconsin. You may notice that a fair number of UND students and players hail from places like Minneapolis. And the scores from games with large schools are more likely to be reported on ESPN (although it is college hockey and it won't get much attention from national outlets). So being in the same league with those schools and playing them on a regular basis is more advantageous to UND than the alternative. Losing those schools to a BTHC, and losing regular games with those schools, would definitely hurt UND and the hockey program. The question is how much it would hurt.

Absolutely.

It's hard to say since they didn't. But since he started in the construction business, and made a lot of money in construction, I'm sure he would have found a way to make a living. Not to mention the real estate business, which seemed to be very good to him. They didn't take his license. The FBI didn't find enough evidence to charge him with anything after a 4 year investigation. He's been dead for several years. I'm sure that he wasn't a saint. Very few people are. But there isn't enough evidence of any kind to say that he was a monster either. Maybe it's time to let it go and let Ralph rest in peace.