82SiouxGuy

Nice trolling effort, but you're clueless. You may not realize this, but size of school has nothing to do with the quality of the athletic program. Just ask Duke how their basketball program does against the "big NCAA schools". It's almost the exact same size as UND. Then compare to Ohio State, one of the truly "big NCAA schools" no matter how you define it, and their "storied hockey history". UND helped build DI hockey along with schools like Minnesota and Michigan so they would probably be a hockey power no matter what other schools were involved.

This forecast only goes through the end of the regular season. The Pairwise that counts is 2 weeks later after the league tournaments. Those game results also will figure into the final Pairwise rankings, as will the results of a lot of other games. UND will probably be fine as long as they win a few more games than they lose between now and the middle of March, which means winning somewhere between 60-70% of their games. This may be a year when a 3rd place game in the conference tournament will make a difference whether some team makes the NCAA tournament or not.

The league has a website at www.midwestpremierfootball.org.

Possible but I would doubt it. I don't remember what the last public event held there was. It may take work to get things like concessions and restrooms ready for the public. The high school stadiums would be cheaper and be pretty much ready to use. Like I said, they don't seem to get big crowds for these games so they don't need 5,000 seats or whatever Memorial has with the permanent seating.

UND's dates are booked as soon as they contract games. This league plays a lot of its games on high school fields. It has been around for 3 years and seem to have averaged 500-1,000 people per game. I could see games at Cushman, EGF Senior High and at UMC.

Why don't you let us know when FCS schools supply anywhere close to 30% of the NFL players. And how many FCS players are chosen in the first round of the NFL draft? Last year approximately 60 players played in the NHL that were chosen in the 1st round of the NHL draft and played college hockey. Another 39 were chosen in the 2nd round. NAIA football players end up in the NFL also. Does that make NAIA football equal to FCS in your eyes? Your comparing apples to pineapples, the comparison makes no sense. Obviously you're just trolling for attention.

Don't know where the coaches will want him to play, but he wouldn't be the first high school running back to play linebacker in college.

It looks like he was a finalist for Wisconsin Running Back of the Year and was First Team All State RB. The stats look like he didn't play LB his senior year, and played one game his junior year.

Isn't that cute? You actually believe that you know something about hockey. Good for you.

It also costs a lot more to do the site work and concrete work during the winter.

Then you don't even count Williston or Dickinson, both are more than 250 miles and they are in the same state. Bismarck only fits in that range if you go cross country. Most of South Dakota doesn't fit in your range. The southern half of Minnesota isn't in that range, including the Twin Cities. Your backyard basically includes the eastern half of North Dakota and the northern half of Minnesota. I don't think you are going to fill out much of a DI football roster from that limited area.

The storm is supposed to be pretty much through by 6 pm, so if Montana is in town they can probably play the game.

Almost anyone could have predicted UND losing and would have had a pretty good chance of being correct. That isn't much of a prediction under the circumstances. But losing in that situation isn't a letdown.

A letdown usually signifies that a team lost to a weaker team, not losing to a team ranked #2 in the nation playing in their home rink. Or at least it signifies that the team with the letdown plays poorly. UND took a lead in the first. It sounds like Wisconsin had a fluke type goal plus an empty net goal. Otherwise it sounds like it was a pretty closely played game, not a letdown of any kind.

Probably a lot longer than it would take for them to get a scholarship at another school.

That would be a major NCAA violation unless you are a close relative. Relatives can pay for school and the player would be considered a walk-on.

I know. Probably close to 90% of his posts are gibberish anyway. I normally don't bother reading them anymore. I just had to see what nonsense he was posting about the women's hockey team.

The fact that a higher ranked team is leading in a game played in their home arena doesn't mean that UND has had a letdown. Maybe Wisconsin had a letdown yesterday because of a 16 game home winning streak. Maybe UND played above their normal level yesterday and they are playing at their normal level today. Or maybe 2 evenly matched teams are going to split the series. Wisconsin leading this game is not evidence of a UND letdown. Only a negative outlook would assume that.

The number 2 team in the nation is leading in a game played at their home arena, that is absolutely shocking. The number 2 and 4 teams might actually split a 2 game series, unbelievable.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/12130-38-million-americans-have-a-problem-with-alcohol-the-10-drunkest-american-cities/ And the winner is: http://www.bustle.com/articles/12130-38-million-americans-have-a-problem-with-alcohol-the-10-drunkest-american-cities/10

And you folks worship FCS football players above all else.

A chief's view is important, but he may or may not speak for the tribe depending on the structure of the tribal government. He may or may not represent the majority of tribal members. I don't know how Oklahoma Seminole tribal government is structured. But a chief is normally a very respected member of the tribe and a lot of tribe members will follow his lead even if he doesn't have an official leadership role. A ceremony may or may not hold significance, depending on the ceremony and also on the tribal government structure. A lot of different ceremonies are held, both official and unofficial. I assume that you are referring to the ceremony that was held at UND many years ago. The trouble with that particular ceremony was that there was very little actual proof of the ceremony or what it meant, and the fact that the Standing Rock tribal government disputed it. They voted against UND using the Sioux nickname several times after the ceremony. The Standing Rock Tribal Chair at the time of the ceremony was part of the group voting against UND using the nickname in later years as a member of the Tribal Council. That would appear to show that he didn't believe the ceremony was meant to permanently give UND permission to use the name. People that attended the ceremony had different stories about the ceremony and its purpose. There wasn't nearly enough proof to use in a court of law either way on that issue. You're right, the Oklahoma Seminole tribe did not give official approval of Florida State using the Seminole nickname. They didn't have to and no one asked them to do so. If they had a problem with it they were free to have a vote and make a statement. They would have gotten a lot of free press. They didn't take up the issue. The only time the issue of NA nicknames came to a vote they defeated it soundly. This tells me that there weren't a lot of people that felt strongly against Florida State using the nickname. It may or may not have been a slam dunk, without the issue coming up it is impossible to know. But my feeling is that if a significant group would have had a problem, someone would have made an issue of it. So far no one has. I didn't even bring up the subject of Oklahoma in this thread. At least 2 posters in this thread said that the Oklahoma Seminoles were against Florida State using the nickname. They were not. People seem to believe that the Seminole tribes of Oklahoma were ignored, they were not. There is no evidence that any significant portion of the tribe has an issue with NA nicknames in general or the Florida State Seminole nickname in specific. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that it is a problem for them at all at this time.

You may be correct, they were never asked for an official opinion. However, many people would say that they gave tacit approval by refusing to denounce it. Also, the principal chief of the tribe came out in favor of the nickname at the same time. http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/081205/col_19484407.shtml So, the tribe didn't have an official vote to support the nickname (they were never officially asked to do so). They did defeat a vote against using NA nicknames by a 90%-10% margin. And the tribal leader was quoted as being in favor of Florida State using the nickname. That's about as close as you can come to supporting the use as you can come without actually holding the vote.

Actually, the Seminole tribes in Oklahoma came out in favor of Florida State using the name also. There was an early report that they were against it. It turned out to be 1 guy who was an official with one of the tribes. The official position of the tribes was in favor of using the nickname. As far as I know, the Oklahoma tribes don't get any money from Florida State. At some point in the future the NCAA will revisit the issue and will go after Florida State and the others. We are seeing heavy pressure put on the Washington Redskins right now. It will continue in the future.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ruralhealthconcerns.html http://www.oaoa.com/people/article_d0f2226c-bf32-11e2-88e6-001a4bcf6878.html http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/COM-298939/Country-Doctor-of-the-Year-Embraces-Challenges-of-Rural-Medicine## http://files.cfra.org/pdf/Ten-Rural-Issues-for-Health-Care-Reform.pdf Define super different. Longer distances to services so patients are in worse condition before they get care, this includes emergency services and regular medical services. Higher rates of chronic conditions and things like cancer. Aging population. Less access to specialists. Lower rates of insurance that result in less preventative care and more serious conditions. Shortage of providers. Less access to up-to-date equipment and lower access to new technology. Lack of mental health services. It appears that there is quite a bit of difference between rural and urban healthcare.