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Your point is understood, but the name/uniform choice would not at all please the NCAA or PC police, which is part of the intended irony.

Detroit News: Athletes are pumping up Adrian College enrollment Although Adrian College is a Division III school, their enrollment and student profile increased substantially by adding men's & women's hockey, men's & women's lacrosse, and women's synchronized skating. Applications went up by a factor of four. Certainly, recruiting for Division III sports are not the same as for DI sports. But in DI sports where only partial scholarships are given and with few colleges sponsoring them, like lacrosse and synchronized skating, UND having world class facilites in those sports would be very appealing option for students searching for those opportunities. BTW, why doesn't UND field club hockey teams at the ACHA level?

So McFeely takes part of the quote, spins and contorts it in his blog, and now McFeely is afraid of yekcoh and not his own idiocy? McFeely Blog Edit: Didn't realize there was another thread on this topic.

What's the view on these inexperienced positions?

The previous record for Alabama was 51,000 in 1988 at Legion Field in Birmingham. The five "Fear the Thumb" victories by Auburn over Alabama is driving Tide fans absolutely nuts. Alabama fans were approaching outright rebellion, so the UA administration spent $8 million to buyout Shula and $4 million annually on Saban and messed up the whole cost structure of college football. Kind of reminiscent of NDSU's response after UND football gained supremacy.

Very positive story. The Chicago Tribune's story: Grand Forks cresting after flood of 1997 which is apparently the original unedited version, is in its Sunday edition.

Southern Indiana says "no" to DI for now: Evansville Courier-Press: Stepping up to Division I isn't easy Either Bellarmine or Northern Kentucky is still contemplating a DI move. Earlier in the article, the USI official said they weren't internally talking about a DI move, but yet they are shadowing another school's DI study. USI believes a DI move would cost them $4 million annually (and that's without football).

There are other explanations if you have a spiritual understanding: Virginia Tech Killer Cho Seung-Hui Charlotte Observer Fox News: What made hime do it?

Cho is responsible, but there are many many people, if they had any discernment, compassion, or concern for others would have either been praying for him, lovingly confronting him, bring charges against him, or turn him into authorities. Classmates that heard of the shooting immediately thought of Cho. A judge had already declared him "an imminent danger to himself" but authorities let him go back to school. He stalked two women, both of whom refused to press charges because they did not want the hassles. IMO what Virginia Tech and the state of Virginia allowed is not much different than what the state of Minnesota did with Alfonso Rodriquez.

Forgive me, Mikeypat15, but if that poem is a basis for "healing", there won't be any. It may have been emotional, but it was pure nihilism - life has no purpose - and that every event has no cause and has no intentional effect for a greater purpose, and there is no evil that stalks mankind. If people want to be healed of pain, it takes more than that type garbage philosophy to get there. What's even more tragic is that this empty philosophy controls our universities.

Two very insightful columns on the evil that visited itself on Virginia Tech focus on the PC sickness of college faculties: Madness at Virginia Tech Was Cho taught to hate?

A reported JC signing from the Fergus Falls Daily Journal

If USD is really going to Texas, their non-conference schedule would be @ WTAMU, @ McNeese St, H Winona St. Not sure that USD would really want road trips to Lake Charles and the Amarillo area within a month. It may be that USD attempts to schedule an earlier D2 home game and can exit out of the McNeese game. Since McNeese is also scheduled to play at S. Utah, UND and McNeese could refinangle the dates that they play at Cedar City (both McNeese and SUU have Sept open dates) and UND could play at McNeese as well as at SUU. Doubt this would actually happen, but game scheduling at this late date could often involve four or five schools.

Any one seen this yet? Breaking News: Toews, Oshie Plead Guilty

Apparently, there must have been a lot of wheeling and dealing, as Humboldt State has been listed as West Texas A&M's opponent on Aug 25th for almost two months. On D2football.com's independent board, it is speculated that UND bought out WTAMU's game with Humboldt and USD will travel to WTAMU in place of Humboldt. Presumably, either USD gets WTAMU at home next year, or UND/USD will have another arrangement with a third school (with USD at home, UND away). Regardless, UND/USD seem to be helping each other out. West Texas A&M Football Schedule

Ironic the web that gets weaved: educated at and later became writer-in-residence at Dartmouth, her deceased husband was formerly the head of the Indian Studies department at Dartmouth, and she currently lives in the Minneapolis intelligentsia community. Would have been shocked if she hadn't turned down the honorary degree. Still admire her as a person though. Hard to believe her Love Medicine and Beet Queen(set in Grafton/Drayton but renamed Argus) novels are more than 20 years old. Dartmouth Class of 1976

More national and regional coverage: USA Today Pioneer-Press Star & Sickle's Coleman actually has a few good words Winnipeg Free Press WCCO KSTP Fargo Forum editorial

For the most part, NDSU hasn't even had NoDak kids, other than Lorenz, the Dahlens, and Girodat. Except for Lorenz, UND has picked over all the ND talent NDSU wanted. SDSU does well with South Dakota and Minnesota (Megan Vogel). I don't necessarily see a change in scope in the area UND recruits: we just need to win more of the battles against BCS level schools. (i.e. get recruits like Rebecca Feickert of Sheridan County/Kansas and Jessica Kielpinski from Mandan/UNM) in both ND and in MN. That said, Roebuck has already mentioned western Canada as an area where he will be recruiting.

Exactly. The Carr Report for UND differs substantially in context from what Carr delivered to NDSU and SDSU because the questions were different. NDSU and SDSU asked Carr: "Can we go DI?" Carr responded: yes, but you'll need a conference (which they didn't have) and finances. For UND, the decision to go DI has already been made. UND's tasked the Carr Associates with: "How can we be successful at DI". The answers are different and much more expensive. For Carr to state that UND facilities need major facility upgrades, when Carr's earlier report had given SDSU (except in the case of Frost arena, or NDSU in the case of the BSA) a passable grade is laughable unless it is taken in context of what question was asked. I also believe that many of the responses that Carr gave lead to an answer that UND leadership or the UND Foundation can follow through on. For example, the talk of a stand-alone basketball arena may very well already be grounded in reality if a well-heeled donor already has intentions of delivering on such a gift (with his name on the arena).

When we get a retractable dome for baseball, we can be seriously competitive. Last week I was at a conference in the Destin, Fla area, which was also swamped with high school kids and their famiiles on spring break from mostly Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. Saw no kids with baseball gloves, a few with footballs, but a lot with lacrosse sticks. Denver Post: Crossing over to lacrosse Even out-state Colorado is getting in on the change: Grand Junction Sentinel: Lacrosse tournament draws quite a crowd

Oklahoma City University adds women's wrestling, prepares for Division I Couldn't help but think this is an opportunity that NDSU couldn't possibly turn down. If they started women's wrestling, they'd be a national power pronto. This might be the way for them to get a DI championship. The OCU President also confirms that DI is very possible.

An exceptional article (in a college newspaper, of all places) about the University of Idaho's difficulties after their move to IA football. There are a lot of lessons for UND here. Trials and Tribulations of Idaho Vandal Athletics Lesson 1: Get facilities in order

Houston Chronicle: HBU making move to NCAA Division I Since Houston Baptist U is moving from NAIA to the NCAA, their initial transition will be longer (7 yrs vs 5 yrs for UND). They may be a school on UND's basketball schedule in 2008-9. (As well as NJIT, Longwood, CSU-Bakersfield, Chicago St., Utah Valley, Seattle U (?), USD).

It may be the economic engine of the NCAA, but it is not the economic engine of UND athletics. And I say that as a basketball fan. By not having a coaching staff and program that spends $400,000 on a head coach salary plus several hundred more on assistants, like other mid-majors do, UND's chances of long-term success as a program are remote. By your definition, that very well be giving up on a sport and is suicidal. Even if Brian Jones has success, he will be gone just as fast as Miles was if we don't significantly increase his salary. Miles doesn't even go to the dance and he's offered $400,000! UND's option are either spend $600,000 + on men's basketball coaches + assistant salaries within five years, or resign itself to mediocrity. NDSU, SDSU, and USD all face the same issues, and NDSU and USD have major basketball facility issues to deal with. I am confident that UND can more than compete with those schools (or the Big Sky or the MidCon), but am skeptical it can take it to the next level without major subsidies. We'lll just have to agree to disagree. I'm skeptical of men's basketball being any kind of money maker at UND if we have to spend $600 k on coaches salaries. Never mind that the men's basketball season conflicts with hockey and women's basketball. I'd rather have $3-400 K spent annually on a lacrosse program than on a basketball coaches salary. A more than decent lacrosse coach could be paid $100 k, lacrosse athletes from the western US and Canada would be begging to come to UND, unlike basketball where we'd have to beg them to come here. Lacrosse's cost structure with partial scholarships make it less financially challenging than upgrading men's basketball. When hockey was first started at UND, travel costs were considerable and more daunting (CC, DU, Minnie, Mich Tech, Mich), most of the participating schools were on the east coast, there was no natural NCC rival, the season conflicted with a more popular basketball team, local interest and athletes were limited, but conveniently there was a local barn to play in. The present circumstances with lacrosse are almost identical, only lacrosse's upside now is even more than hockey's was then IMHO Hockey increases have hardly been meteoric. They are capped by the limited television revenue. Tubby Smith (Minnesota): base pay $600,000 + $1.2 million incentives Don Lucia (Minnesota): base pay $250,000 + incentives (100-150 K est) Brewster (Minnesota): base pay $400,000 + $600 K incentives Mason (Minnesota): $2.2 million buyout + $1.4 million deferred comp Tubby will be making quadruple what the Don makes and Mason, for being dumped, received ten times Lucia