82SiouxGuy

Tickets are still available. Make me a decent offer.

I have 2 tickets available for Saturday against UNO. Tickets are at the top of Section 306. Asking $100 for the pair or best offer.

Those 3 schools have plenty of advantages, plus they have tradition on their sides. Duluth won 2 national titles before UND started playing. They have 5 total. Wisconsin has 4. Minnesota has 6 and have dominated most recent years. Those 3 schools have won every title ever given out by the NCAA except Clarkson in 2014. They have also taken 5 of the runner-up positions. Out of 32 teams playing in NCAA finals, those 3 schools represent 20 of the 32 spots. Those 3 schools have dominated the number of Olympians. Minnesota still has the same successful coach for the past 9 years. Wisconsin has had the same successful coach for 13 years. Knocking the king off the top of the mountain isn't exactly an easy task.

Those 3 schools have a record of something like 63-3-8 against all other teams this year. UND had 3 of those 8 ties. Mankato, Bemidji, and Boston U got the wins, Ohio State got 2 ties, Bemidji got 2, and Boston College got 1. Wisconsin, Duluth, and Minnesota are currently 1,2, and 3 in Pairwise. So, no one is having much success against those 3 teams this season. UND is 13-4-3 against everyone else.

There is an entire section for buying and selling tickets at the bottom of the UND Community forum. It has been very effective for me when moving tickets.

I sat in 104 for Elton John. They had a plain flat stage setup. Most of the concert was aimed at the other end of the arena, so we saw the back of the band most of the time. But they would turn our direction part of the time. We did see a little more of the backstage type stuff that most people don't see and I find that interesting. Our tickets were also quite a bit cheaper. The sound was the same, and I went to hear the music, so I enjoyed the concert.

I'm pretty sure that every employee hired at UND, like at most employers, has a trial or probation period. These employees on probation do not have the same rights as a permanent employee, so I don't believe they would be eligible for the immediate promotion. They would not be eligible until the end of their probation period (I think that most probationary periods are 90 days, I've heard of 6 month and 1 year periods for some jobs). They could apply for the better job as a part of the open application period. It would be pretty hard to hide a good basketball coach for 90 or more days.

It certainly hurts. There is still decent Canadian traffic. The local hotels still do pretty well on a lot of weekends. Once the exchange bottoms out for a little while Canadians seem to adjust and continue coming down to shop. They just don't buy quite as much. But it isn't like it was a few years ago.

My first job out of high school was at Target. I helped open the store in the mall. I worked there all the way through college and for more than 3 years in management after college. Retail is totally different from the summer of 1978. But I don't think it will completely go away real soon. Too many people want the instant gratification of walking in a store and picking up merchandise. They also like to see and feel it in person. VR is going to have to keep improving to replace the sensations of feeling the fabric in a shirt or seeing the color of things in person for many people.

You're right, there has been a lot of talk about the issue in the past. I am sure that the policy has prevented some very good candidates from applying for President positions as well as head coaching positions. It's unfortunate that the policy may have stopped North Dakota from getting the best people in those positions in at least some cases.

Every state has different hiring policies. North Dakota has probably among the most "transparent" policies. That's why everyone that applies for every job is public information, even for high level jobs like University Presidents and college coaches. The jobs have to be open and advertised for a minimum length of time (I think it's like 10 days or 2 weeks), then they have to have a process to score candidates, interview candidates, usually have second interviews, do background checks, etc. A lot of states and schools set up different policies for specific type positions. That's why the University of Minnesota could hire a football coach today if they wanted. North Dakota schools can't do that, unless the person is already on staff and is qualified for the position. I don't think anyone would say that any of the basketball assistants are good candidates for a Division I head coaching position right now.

Grand Cities Mall was purchased by Hope Church, which makes it a whole different type of animal. I believe the mall itself is still considered a for profit business, so it is still paying taxes. The mall doesn't own the Macy's building so they may not have much control in the situation unless they buy it. I believe that Macy's parent company, May Department Store Company, owns the building. The mall itself was built by Dayton Hudson. Macy's was originally a Dayton's store. But Dayton Hudson kept ownership of the Dayton's building and the Target building (also part of Dayton Hudson at the time) when they sold the rest of the mall. Dayton's stores later merged a couple of times to end up as part of Macy's. Dayton Hudson later changed its name to Target Corp when Target became the biggest part of the company. Target sold its building to Scheel's. But Target kept the building empty on purpose for a couple of years so that a direct competitor couldn't some how get access to the building as people got used to shopping down the street. The mall itself has been sold at least a few times over the years. The mall, JC Penney, and Sears buildings are all owned by companies out of Chicago.

Hugo's has some interest in the old Scheel's spot so they can expand the liquor store and the grocery store. I don't know if the hold up is cost of rent or if they have decided to concentrate on building the new store on South Washington. It may take some time to sort out the Macy's spot. I assume that Kmart is still making money and that's why they keep it open. Overhead is probably pretty low on that building, which helps with profitability. That plus a built in clientele within walking distance.

Richmond is a private school and can set their own hiring policies. UND is part of North Dakota state government. They have to follow North Dakota hiring policies. That includes a full, open hiring process unless they are promoting a qualified person from within. That's why it took UND a month to hire Bubba to coach the football team, but only a couple of hours to hire Berry to coach the hockey team.

I would think that property along 32nd Ave is going to be pretty expensive. There isn't much left to develop. The company that owns the property isn't gong to give it away, even for a library. And renovating a 40 year old building to re-purpose for a library would also be pricey. It would probably be cheaper to buy either Kmart or the Travelodge, tear them down, and build a new library, rather than renovate Macy's.

I know what I'm comparing. You said worst ever (and so have others). It wasn't the worst ever. Tannehill lost his grip. There have been plenty of other throws like that. Bit of you want to qualify it as the worst pass by a NFL quarterback not under a lot of pressure, at least it would be under consideration. Here's another really bad pass, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WpleexzYJk. And yet another, http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap2000000261441/Brandon-Weeden-ugly-interception. Both of these are from this century, and neither one a Dolphin.

Not even close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-pxMm_UdY4

How does you posting on this board help UND financially? That is the contribution that counts for UND. They really don't care if you post here. So your contribution to UND is the cost of tickets for 2 football games. As has been posted in other threads, scheduling in Division I men's basketball is different from all other sports. Schools and entire conferences are broken up into levels, your ability to schedule depends a great deal on your level. For instance you have the Power 5 conferences. Even these schools actually have 2 levels. The upper level schools play a majority of their non-conference games at home. Most of the home games are Power 5 schools, some mid-majors, occasionally a low level DI, but they sometimes play DII schools. They will travel to other upper level Power 5 conference schools, rarely to any others. Most of the traveling are home and homes or for tournaments. Lower level Power 5 schools also play a majority of their non-conference games at home. Some are equal level, some mid-majors, some low level DI and a few DII. They play tournaments on the road and play home and home series with similar programs. They may do a home and home with a top end mid-major, but rarely anyone at a lower level. Mid-majors play as many home games as they can. Home games are usually other mid-majors, low level DI schools and even some DIIs. They will take pay games at Power 5 conference schools. They play tournaments. They schedule home and homes with other mid-majors. Very rarely do they travel to low level DI schools. Low level DI are single bid conferences like the Summit and Big Sky. They play very few home non-conference games. They play tournaments to make a few bucks. They play pay games at upper levels, the higher the level the more they can make. They play a few home games against DII schools. There are 2 major factors that can help some low level DI schools schedule more home games than others. One is location. If they are located reasonably close to other low level or mid-major schools that are in a different conference, the schools can schedule home and homes to get cheap games and possibly draw better than average crowds because of local awareness. A few schools have a large enough attendance to be able to pay a decent amount for a pay game. If you can regularly attract 5-8,000 for games, you can afford to pay another low level DI school or even some mid-majors a large enough sum to show up. Very few low level schools have this luxury. And has been noted before, your ability to compete will also be a factor. Schools would rather play teams they think they can beat rather than lose to a lower level school. UND has the "best" of all worlds for DI basketball scheduling. They belong to a low level conference. They have had enough talent most of the last few years to be dangerous. The only DI that is really close is NDSU. The next couple are the South Dakota schools, that have plenty of other options, or U of Minnesota which is Power 5 and not traveling to Grand Forks. UND is the furthest out of the way for teams to travel. And the attendance for basketball at UND is not high enough to pay a big payout for a game. UND will have trouble scheduling home non-conference games until the dynamic changes. You keep comparing to NDSU. They more than likely lost money paying Arkansas State to play in a special game, the re-opening of the facility. That would be bad business on a regular basis. They have UND. And they have what appears to be the back end of a home and home with Davis. Throw out the Ark State game, since that type event probably isn't normal, and they would have 2 DI games. Last year they had 3 including Montana, Montana State and North Carolina A&T. UND had a 2nd DI game scheduled this year, but the team backed out. You can't force schools to travel to Grand Forks. SDSU is another example. This year they have 3 home DI non-conference games. Last year they had 2. South Dakota has 4 this year (3 Big Sky plus Bowling Green), but last year they had 2. The Dakota schools are normally going to have 2 or 3 home DI non-conference games most years. Grand Forks is at the end of the line and the furthest from everyone else, so they are going to have the most trouble scheduling.

The FargoDome has a policy that does give them the right to do something about it, as do most publicly and private facilities. As the renter of the facility, NDSU can direct the FargoDome to uphold their own policy. http://fargodome.com/guidelines-policies

You wrote a story that wasn't at all true. No one ran away, Toews and Oshie never even left the police car. The police didn't have to arrest them a second time. Your case has a better chance of being believed if you come close to using the truth in your comparison.

There was no release of prisoners. No one ran away. They were not arrested again later after escaping. The charge against Bina was dismissed (which means the judge didn't believe that he was trying to help the others escape), the other 2 plead guilty to being minors in a bar. http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2007/07/01_binas.php

http://www.ethosreview.org/intellectual-spaces/is-college-football-profitable/ College football is only profitable in a select few cases, probably 10% or less of Division I programs. NDSU may be making money right now (I don't know if anyone has actually seen their books or not to know for sure), but even that program is not going to make money on a regular basis. The only 2 athletic programs on campus at UND that actually have a chance to make a decent profit on a regular basis are men's hockey and basketball. Basketball would have to become a regular or semi-regular participant in March Madness to really make money.

And what do they give away to students at football games to get them to attend? The statement was made that no one goes to women's hockey and that you just had to look at the attendance. I posted the attendance numbers for the women's sports that listed it. Hockey has better attendance numbers than volleyball, less than basketball.

2015-2016 attendance Women's hockey 16,143 total home attendance - 16 games - 1,009 per game Volleyball 13,562 total home attendance - 14 matches - 969 per match Women's basketball 24,775 total home attendance - 16 games - 1,548 per game Soccer 1,624 total home attendance - 8 games - 203 per game Softball 755 total home attendance - 11 games - 69 per game

Your plan doesn't allow for any non-conference FCS away games. Which FCS schools are going to schedule games at UND without getting return games at their place?