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The schools wouldn't create any kind of traveling trophy: that would serve to provoke the NCAA and the PC crowd. I could see however, a basketball tournament among FSU, CMU, Utah, UND, and maybe Illinois, in connection with some other Indian cultural events, where some proceeds would go to Indian scholarships. That would be a win-win situation, and the immoral views of the PC crowd would be further exposed if they attacked it.

Earlier, I had stated that NDSU/SDSU to the Gateway was a near lock. I may be wrong: Bloomington, Ill, Pantagraph: 2008 Gateway in question The Missouri State AD seems inclined to only take SDSU.

UND research park in making

http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/whocke...RELEASE_ID=5430

SD Regent Decision On USD DI Move Expected Next Week While SDSU had considerable difficulty with the SD Board of Regents in their move up, this hearing is just a rubber stamp for USD, IMHO. Couple of other new items: St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Businesses hope SIUE will upgrade sports SIU-Edwardsville's proposed DI move gains some traction in the St. Louis media. With SIUE being part of metro St. Louis, and St. Louis being nearly the exact center of the MidCon Conference, SIUE /St Louis could very likely become the permanent MidCon tournament host next decade. Utah Valley State adding football?

SDSU Football success prompts look at stadium, coach pay Nothing is guaranteed, but if SDSU can meet with IAA football success with what they have to work with ...

Diversity at Dartmouth: Of pigment, but not opinion

DIII schools in Minnesota like St. John's and St. Thomas are supposedly considering sanctioning men's and women's lacrosse as a varsity sport. http://clubs.csbsju.edu/sjulacrosseclub/

Conference affiliation, among other issues, will answer that. If UND is heading to the MidCon, as you are so firmly convinced, it would be highly doubtful that LAX would be added.

The scholarship plan is: 2007 -36 2008- 57 2009 - 57+ Getting to 57 is critical, as I believe a IAA (or playoff championship division) has to average at least 90% of 63 scholarships for a couple years to be a bowl counter for a IA team. (UND vs Minn game in 2010 ?). Central Arkansas jumped their scholarships immediately from 36 to 63, so there are no limits on how fast a school can ramp to 63. Lennon will have the luxury of promising some full scholarships this year, but only after a red-shirt (2007) year.

Fon du Lac paper: Groeschl's football days nearing an end

Kupchella Letter to Dartmouth President

IMHO, Roger knew all along that when (not if) UND seriously pursued DI, that he (Roger) would be out as AD. A more seasoned administrator was an absolute must. It was in RT's best interest (and the stability of the NCC) to hype DII.

Marshall Independent: Falk

SP Pioneer-Press: Blake Sczepanski

Running the show: Father's legacy helped O'Keefe lead Roncalli

Since UND has already made a decision about DI, what UND will be requesting of Carr to analyze will be different than what SDSU/NDSU asked. Do wonder what Carr will say about: UND Sports Offerings UND Facilities Those two topics are rather intertwined.

With an unlimited seating capacity, an NDSU / UND could quite possibly draw 30,000 IMHO (granted, many them of the SU fans.) Edit (And admittedly a stretch): if UND did indeed go DIA eventually, UMinn is known to do 2-for-1's with MAC teams. With a 30,000 seat stadium in GF, that would be a sell-out. There are two schools that we don't currently play with that type of drawing potential: Montana and Montana St. Both travel well and have high numbers of alumni in Minnesota (i.e. Twin Cities) who would love to see their schools play at a driveable weekend distance. Such games would also gain a lot of interest (and fans) from Western ND.

Considering the circumstances, a record low in attendance should not have been a surprise - even ML baseball has trouble drawing crowds in the divisional playoffs. Early round playoff games, especially this one, are not big draws at the DII level for a number of reasons: - 49-2 vs Winona State earlier, anything other than an annihilation would have been disappointing - Already had plans (e.g. deerhunting) or too short notice - Five days to sell tickets vs months for season ticket packages or single games - Playoff tickets are not in the household budget, whereas season tickets are - Businesses that have season tickets do not necessarily buy playoff tickets - Alumni from well-out-of-town (like me) can't plan fall trips around playoffs That said, the hard-core Sioux contingent at Omaha will probably be pretty good. Too bad the Husker game is on Friday, rather than Saturday. If those games had overlapped, the Mav fanbase would have totallly disappeared.

Yote 53: Many of the posters in this section are either bison or rabbit fans. "Aff" postings have revealed a very strong dislike of UND and a total disdain of USD, which would seem to make him an SDSU fan. "Aff" denies an SDSU affiliation, contrary to his postings from years ago, and claims he follows the Illini and Gophers.

Maybe I'm a little less full of it than certain others. Let

When Sac State leaves, the dominoes will start falling. UND will have the necessary votes and will get in the BSC. As a poster, my writings have been out there to the typical conventional mob rule "wisdom" poster. Over the years, with my insistance that the NDSU/SDSU combo was never going to get in the BSC, I was described as a "most hateful person" towards NDSU by numerous NDSU posters on a number of boards, even on ones that I did not frequent or ever post at. In the end, my logic was correct, even with all the board peer pressure and antagonism. UND to the BSC and USD/SIUE to the MidCOn will again prove the correct prediction (with 90-95% certainty).

Bison Dan: He who laughs last laughs hardest. Strange how all the doubters are SDSU or NDSU backers who belittle these prognostications out of fear.

Am genuinely honored that you remember my postings so well. Seems it finally has dawned on certain Bison fans that there will never, for the forseeable future, be NDSU/MSU or NDSU/Montana games in Fargo. As far as your points, there is a difference between strategy/speculation and actual predictions. Never predicted a St. Thomas/UND or UND/UMD combo to the Horizon would actually occur, but still stand by the statement that such an strategy is probably the only way UND could ever get in the Horizon. UNO, if it hadn't had corrupt leadership spending the athletic budget on $1000 per plate dinner parties and bungled its hockey promotions, would have been a strong DI candidate with plenty of interest from the MidCOn and Gateway. There was a reason the UNO AD left when he did, and only a year later did the truth come out. On predictions: Denver going to the BSC is going to happen, but I was premature. Minot St in the NSIC is going to happen. Where I did mess up was believing that the Big Sky felt it necessary to have an eastern wing of multiple schools and move up to twelve members. A 10/9 (basketball/football) alignment is what the BSC wants, and UND will be a part of that. In all honesty, I underestimated UND's business appeal, with its assets of the FSSN and REA. Just to repeat again: UND leadership has 90 - 95 % confidence that a conference bid is forthcoming - that conference is the Big Sky, IMHO. NDSU and SDSU never had any such assurances before their moves. Why else was Gene Taylor so emotional when they finally got a bid? The whole transition was a traumatic experience for him because there was no confidence anything would happen. Congrats to them for it working out. UND's conference "search" will not be comparable.