82SiouxGuy

Midco is not connected with Neulion. Midco does make their production available to Neulion as a part of the contract with UND. However, Midco has nothing to do with the internet broadcast rights. I doubt that they would get involved with internet broadcast rights for an away game. UND and/or Neulion would have to make those arrangements.

They will be doing the chat. Coaches will be joining about 9.

You can sell a lot of tickets at $1 each. The really good thing is it sounds like they had a lot of people that had never been to a women's game, and some that hadn't ever been to a college hockey game of any kind. That might help develop new fans.

I thought I saw somewhere that they extended the FCS contract to end with the Midco contract.

KFYR is owned by Clear Channel. They may not be interested in working with Leighton if Leighton took the contract away from Clear Channel. Other than Grand Forks, I'm pretty sure that Leighton's other stations are in Minnesota, so Leighton may not be the best partner for UND. They would have a more difficult time building a network in North Dakota.

I think that was the acid.

The loading dock is directly north of the field for most of the width. It might be possible to build stands over the top of the kitchen and Ballroom 1 (and maybe part of the loading dock). I believe that Ballroom 1 is the only one of the ballrooms that would be affected. The loading dock would have to be moved north. They would have to figure out a way to get everything from the new loading dock area to the arena, especially large items.

I was going to say 4 or 5 hours but wasn't sure how long it would take from north of Bemidji. It's been a long time since I've made that drive.

It has great potential. 3 conferences represented. All schools within less than a days drive. I would guess that each school has a lot of alumni in the Twin Cities. Several Davids taking on Goliath. Good hockey tradition at several schools. Bragging rights within Minnesota. A lot of reasons that the tournament could develop into something really good. Only time will tell if it does.

I believe that the fans from all schools have an equal right to buy tickets. Gopher fans don't have a special right to buy those tickets. So the fans from the other schools could buy those tickets if they want. Like I said, they are going to make more money doing it this way until they have enough demand to sell most of the tickets for both games individually. A big part of this tournament is to make money for the schools, so they will probably structure it to make money rather than worrying about the atmosphere during the afternoon game.

Anyone that paid the package fee but only attended a single game during the tournament. But it doesn't matter if they were Gopher fans or non-Gopher fans, the tournament and the schools probably made more money doing tickets that way then they would have if they would have sold tickets by the game. And they will probably continue to do so until there is enough interest to sell a lot of individual game tickets for both games each day.

Or maybe they sell 12,000 tickets for the whole day at $45 each for a total of $540,000 versus 3,000 tickets for the afternoon game at $25 each and 10,000 tickets for the evening game at $25 for a total of $325,000. The $45 price is the actual 1 day price that was charged this year. They would not get $40 per ticket for the non-Minnesota games. That's more tickets sold, but less money doing it your way (plus extra costs by spending more on labor and lower concession sales). They are selling the tickets for both games for a lot more than they would sell individual game tickets, but probably less than 2 individual tickets. That means they are bringing in a lot more money for the afternoon game by doing it this way then they would if they were selling tickets individually because everyone attending the evening game has already paid a fee for the afternoon game whether they attend or not.

The people may like the extra money, but the league may be trying to cut costs. I don't know how many they have working at the game, but lets say it's 100. That number times $10 per hour times even 2 hours adds up to a nice little sum. I'm sure that the actual numbers are quite a bit more than that. Plus, you probably lose concessions money because people would leave and eat at one of the surrounding restaurants rather than eating a full meal at the rink. They might sell more tickets, but it may also cut into attendance at the early game. I've been to those type tournaments and I usually go to both games as long as I have a ticket. But I may not show up for both games if I have to buy a second ticket. For the Final 5 I usually bought tickets for the UND games, and sometimes skipped the other games. I never bought the tournament pass and never went to the Thursday game. The state tournament is a completely different animal because you don't know who is going to play until right before the tournament, they sell out most of the games, and while you have a base of people that go every year you also have a block of tickets set aside for the individual schools that normally sell out because it is a big deal to make the state tournament.

If they go with individual game tickets they will have to empty the building between games. That would make for a longer day for staff and add costs. The added cost might be one reason they did a full day ticket.

I didn't "experiment" like a lot of people did so my memory is probably a bit better than some others.

I was in high school during the middle 70's, so that explains why I don't remember them.

I'm from the same district and remember a lot of those. But some of those must have been well before my time.

See H2H (head to head) column.

No Native American nicknames or imagery will be allowed by the NCAA. It isn't going to happen.

Nothing related to Native Americans can be used, and no imagery or logos related to Native Americans can be used. If you can find a use of Tribe that is not related to Native Americans, it might be a possibility. But because of the history of the Fighting Sioux nickname, I would say that it is very unlikely that something like Tribe would be chosen.

No

The nickname was only a small part of the conversation.

He made several public appearances when he received that honorary doctorate, including a "Great Conversation" held at the Chester Fritz Auditorium. http://und.edu/provost/great-conversations/jackson.cfm

Shouldn't that be: ban gfhockey??

I actually do believe that you're clueless and a troll. I'm not quite sure why you keep posting here, and why you are allowed to keep posting here when you are nothing but a troll.