82SiouxGuy

Grand Forks is a 3 time winner of this award. The 3 asterisks by the city name signify 3 time winners.

I have 2 tickets available for Friday night's game. They are at the top of 306, the end the Sioux shoot twice. $20 each or best offer. Tickets are in Grand Forks, I will be at the game and can meet you there.

There has been a change in plans for the weekend. The people that were going to use a pair of our tickets on Friday are now going to use all 4 on Saturday instead. So the Saturday tickets are gone, but I now have a pair available on Friday night. Same deal, $20 each or best offer. I will be at the game so I can meet you there to deliver the tickets.

I have to work Saturday night so I have 4 tickets available for the game. Tickets are at the top of section 306, the end that the Sioux shoot twice. They are on the aisle. Asking $20 each or best offer. Tickets are in Grand Forks. PM me if you are interested.

There is absolutely no way that someone growing up in this era would take the time or have the abilities to find such an obscure site on a new-fangled invention like the World Wide Web, that's just crazy talk.

Do you mean like on the Fighting Sioux web site?

I think I found this thread just in time. I will go with VandeVelde.

It seems to me that your view of UND is slightly skewed. UND football has been in the NCAA playoffs the last 5 years. One of those years they were in the title game, and they won a National Title earlier in this decade. Now they are moving up to the next level. They were successful enough that their coach was recruited by one of the better programs at that next level. And UND had a very qualified candidate in-house that was ready for a promotion to Head Coach. The football program and the rest of the athletic department will be fine in their move to Division I. The University is also doing fine. The school has one of the Top 10 Entrepreneur programs in the country, the best Aerospace program and many other high quality educational programs. Research has increased tremendously over the past 5-10 years. They are working with some of the top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the country. I don't think I would call any of those lows and I could go on and on. North Dakota State is also doing very well. The athletic department has made the move to Division I look easy. The school itself has done a great job of growing and has many excellent educational programs. Yet instead of being happy for your school and celebrating the successes, you seem to have a need to troll on this web site. One other thing, you and many other NDSU fans seem to have this need to denigrate UND because of attendance at a Division II play-off game. How about a few facts. Attendance at the UND-Winona play-off game was the 3rd highest out of the 8 play-off games that weekend. The 2 higher ranking games were held in Texas. It ranked 8th out of 23 total play-off games in Division II during 2007. Two of the higher ranking games were the Championship game and the semi-final at Northwest Missouri State. The UND-Winona game had better attendance than the semi-final held at Valdosta State (better than all 3 of the play-off games at Valdosta). Lower attendance at most Division II play-off games seems to be a trend, many schools had attendance for play-off games that was lower than their average attendance. That was especially true for the first 2 weekends. UND was part of that trend. It isn't something to celebrate, but only a fool would base their expectations for the potential success of something important like moving an entire athletic department up to Division I on attendance at a single football game. Unless you consider that trend to be one of the many reasons that it was time to make the move.

I don't know of a specific saying, although there may be one within the program. But Dale spent most of the past 30 years associated with the University of North Dakota and the football program. This wasn't a place that he just worked for a few years. So I'm sure he will always have a special place in his heart for UND. There is a lot of loyalty associated with the school and the athletic program.

It seems that Tim's father died. Tim grew up in the Twin Cities so it probably would not have been in the Grand Forks Herald. The regular PA announcer, Darrin Looker, moved over to do the radio broadcast and Hennen came in to fill in on the PA job. My condolences to Tim and his family on the loss of his father.

You're getting ahead of yourself. UND will have every opportunity to be a top tier FCS program in the future. But the reality is we are not there yet. We are a Division II school that is just starting a 5 year process to become a full fledged FCS program. If UND is not an upper level program in 5-10 years, then you can be concerned. But there is no realistic way you can compare the UND football program with a well established FCS program like SIU right now.

I'm guessing that it would be quite a bit more expensive to produce and stream a hockey game from Europe than having permanent broadcast facilities and hiring college students on a part time basis to shoot the game here in the States. And potentially having 2 different rinks to broadcast from would add to the problem. Are there enough fans in the US willing to pay to have those games available?

Not a chance that RT will be back as either AD or football coach and I doubt that he would be interested.

Still have the pair available for Friday night. PM me if you are interested, I will check it a few times on Friday. Asking $20 or best offer per ticket.

Already have a full thread on the subject here. A lot of the reaction you want is there.

There is a rumor on the fan board for Southern Illinois University that Dale Lennon may be a finalist for their open head coach position. The topic is discussed in several places on the board, but one of them is shown here. There doesn't seem to be any corroboration to the rumor so far. Rumors vary from having 2 to 5 different finalists and the only one that seems to be confirmed is Matt Eberflus, the associate head coach at Missouri.

I thought it was a special fire for British spies and beautiful women with names like Pussy Galore or Honey Ryder. I think they use 007 logs to light it.

The Saturday tickets are sold. The Friday night tickets are still available for $20 each. I am in Grand Forks and will be at the game so we can deliver them anytime between now and game time.

If you are talking about this coming Saturday against New Hampshire, I have a pair. They are in the top row of section 306, the corner where the Sioux shoot twice. I'm asking $20 each. PM me if you are interested. I live in Grand Forks and will be at the game so we could make arrangements to deliver the tickets to you.

You're right about the running them into the ground part. But they were started and had good years well before he got involved. It's great when you can be there in person to witness your favorite team do well or watch sports history. I am a big Twins fan and lived in the Twin Cities in the early 1990s. I went to about 1/4 of the home games that year and all of the home playoff and World Series games except one. Being in the stands and watching Jack Morris throw a 10 inning shutout during Game 7 is probably my favorite memory of attending a sporting event.

Try this link. And I must be older than 28 too because I remember Peter Puck. Thanks for the update JFR.

Your Blackhawks history is off a little bit. The team was started and joined the NHL in 1926. That owner died in 1944. It was sold again in 1952 to 3 partners, one of them being Arthur Wirtz and the other 2 being James Norris Jr and Sr. Norris Sr died late in 1952. His son Norris Jr died in 1966 and William Wirtz took over as President of the club. Chicago won 3 Stanley Cups, 2 during the 30s and the last one in 1961.

I'll keep it simple just for you. Seattle paid way too much for Silva. The absence of quality free agent pitchers does not make a number 3 or 4 starter worth $12 million per year unless you have a payroll of more than $120 million. Very few teams can afford that much payroll.

It is as bad as it sounds. If Silva is your 3rd or 4th starter, that means you are paying 2 or 3 guys even more. Say they average $14 million (probably low), that's $28 plus Silva is $40 million. Add in a closer, the rest of the bullpen and a 5th starter and you are going to be well over $50 million for just your pitching staff. And most teams pay less than 50% of their payroll to the pitching staff. Now you have a payroll of well over $100 million and possibly well over $120 million. I am pretty sure that not too many teams not named New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles can afford payrolls over $120 million. A year ago people were amazed that the Twins would resign him for $4 million. Now he's worth triple that much?

I don't know how they operate, but it could be that they have him listed as a Division II recruit because of the verbal to UND. After all, UND is still a Division II school. The other players listed seem to either have a school listed or nothing. If the verbal is new or unofficial then they may want to protect themselves by just saying it is a DII school.