82SiouxGuy

Your vocabulary and education needs some improvement. Rural Health refers to the special needs and opportunities that healthcare faces in rural areas. You know, like the state of North Dakota. It is a very important topic for this state and many other parts of the United States. But of course it wouldn't be important to a student at NDSUAAS who only cares about the NDSUAAS football team. http://www.med.und.edu/news/2012/09/und-selected-as-one-of-six-national-rural-health-research-centers.cfm http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/02/20090220a.html

Bonanza farms were producing large yields before NDSUAAS was established, so I believe the soil probably has something to do with the success of farming in North Dakota. The UND Med School is recognized as one of the leaders in Rural Health, but of course you may not have known that.

My years, too. That was fun, especially the 1980 game.

And we have a new troll leader in the clubhouse.

I think you mean next weekend. The guys are off this weekend. So are the women.

And I'm saying that UND is willing to spend money to rent the Alerus extra days for spring ball, so I'm pretty sure that they would spend the relatively small amount of money to rent the Fargodome and use a couple of UND buses to transport the team a couple of times to practice for a National Championship game.

UND pays for a certain number of days at the Alerus Center every year. Some years they have paid for extra days to practice inside because of the weather. For instance, I believe that they paid for extra practice days last spring when the weather was bad for spring ball. So why wouldn't they do the same if they were in a situation like NDSUAAS finds itself this week?

That's right, UND would never spend any extra money on the football program. Unless you count the $20+ million that they are spending on a new indoor practice facility. But that couple of thousand dollars it would cost to rent an outside facility would be out of the question.

Dismiss the person that didn't follow policy for sure. In this case that would be Faison. Possibly not allow the contract with the coach if procedures weren't followed. Actually, legal probably has to approve the contract before it's signed so it wouldn't have gotten past that point.

Probably depends on what wasn't done, but the penalty for not following proper procedure for a state employee is probably dismissal.

Have you tried hockeydb.com? They seem to have a lot of them at least back to 1970. Search by league, team, then year.

Having the schools spread around the state made sense when they did it. Putting it in the Constitution didn't. But a lot of things haven't made sense in North Dakota political history.

From the media guide it looks like he played 51 games over 2 years. He definitely wasn't a scoring machine, he had 2 goals and 5 assists in those 51 games. He also had 9 penalties for 18 minutes. Those were the first 2 Rube Bjorkman teams.

No problem, it's easy to miss single posts. He definitely belongs in the conversation.

He was mentioned earlier in this thread. If I remember right, he was a good kick returner besides his receiving skills. But his last 2 years he played on a couple of really bad teams. His sophomore year the team was pretty good.

He (Martin) was a good one. He played on a couple of bad teams, so that might be part of why he may not get as much recognition.

Because our forefathers wanted local education opportunities for the people of the state. They knew how important education was for the people to compete with the big city. And it's a big state with the population spread out (although the majority is in the Red River Valley). The problem is they put the schools in the constitution so they are hard to change. It is tough for people to close a school in a smaller town when it is probably a major employer for the community.

Wyoming has 1 public 4 year school to support. North Dakota has 6. U of Wyoming has an athletic department budget of more than $30 million. At last report UND was about $20 million and NDSU at $16 or 17 million, not to mention all of the other 4 year schools. The U of Wyoming gives the athletic department about $15 million with the remainder coming from ticket sales, donations, sponsors, etc. UND and NDSU get about $8 or 9 million each in funds from the school and students with the remainder of their budgets coming from those other sources. That's why Wyoming can afford to pay so much more than NDSU or UND.

Those 2 might be the best, but Ron Gustafson ranks right up there with them. Teams didn't pass as much in those days. He played with some pretty good running backs including the Deutsch brothers and Dale Kasowski. But he still ranks up near the top in career yards and touchdowns. The 1972 team was one of the best in UND history.

UND will normally have a cupcake on the schedule at the beginning of the year, and that's what Valpo was. UND played both Montana and SDSU at home in non-conference games this year. One of those replaced a normal big money FBS game.

I have no idea whether he did or not. My guess is that he did everything he could within the system (and that may depend on whether he has another candidate waiting in the wings that can't or won't apply at this time). But from watching the system over the years, I really doubt that there was much chance of a football coaching position being determined to be an emergency.

I bolded the key part of your post. North Dakota often does things differently than other places.

The HR policies, point systems and interview policies are similar at pretty much all state institutions and department. They each have some minor differences (for instance UND requiring listing for 15 days versus NDSU for 20 days). But the applications will go to a central HR location, HR goes through them to eliminate most of the applications using some kind of system based on meeting job description qualifications, a list of potential interviewees is sent to the department, then they go through the interview process and choose a candidate. So yes, it was probably University policy, but that policy is based in large part on how the rest of the state government system works. UND does not have a policy that is significantly different from NDSU or any other institution or department. And yes, it is a very cumbersome and time consuming procedure for permanent, full-time positions.

As was explained in Tom Miller's article from a couple of days ago, the hiring policies are a combination of state, North Dakota University Systems, and UND. NDSU would have had to follow almost exactly the same policy if they had done a national search, except their listing time is actually 5 business days longer (1 full week). NDSU was lucky that they had pieces in place that they could just promote rather than going through the process. Faison has to follow the policies in place. Some of the hiring process issues have been discussed in regards to hiring Presidents at both UND and NDSU. No one has had any traction in making changes in the policies after Presidents were hired at both UND and NDSU during the past 6 or 7 years, so I'm not sure whether anything will change after this. But the policy isn't going to change before this coach is hired.

I haven't seen anything anywhere that suggests he wants to leave his current job.