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Here's a WDAY story on the Best Buy thefts that allegedly one Bison player was directly involved in and numerous Bison players were recipients of hot merchandise. $100,000 in Best Buy Thefts

Best Buy was afraid of a Boycott from Bisonville? :lol:

Hansen has said the audit will have some very bad news. Presumably it will be presented at that meeting - if it is complete.

Will you steal it or buy the popcorn?

Rumors about this have been flying for weeks on Facebook and Twitter. It's not all smoke - there is fire. What's interesting is that there is no outrage from bison fans.

Wrong - where is it stated RFM lost money with UND sports? Show me. The difference is NDSU is guaranteeing RFM more money. NDSU is the one taking all the risk and could end up losing money in the long run if they don't sell the advertising at the rates they think they can. Will Best Buy be an advertiser for NDSU in return for all the stolen goodies from the football team?

That's ridiculous. Actually do some research before posting garbage. UND wouldn't sign a three year agreement with two of those being option years. The contract was for three years because after the transition was complete, it was expected that UND could obtain better terms. The contract language likely gave KFGO some legal way to weasel out of the contract, and conveniently announced it two business days after UND hockey was out of the playoffs. If UND had gone to the Frozen Four, the announcement wouldn't have been until much later in April. Without question, NDSU demanded it be the exclusive DI school on Radio Fargo Moorhead. My prediction is watch for expanded UND coverage in the Forum and on WDAY radio and TV.

The Sioux nickname is a much more important issue to Douple than a meagher 48 wins that IUPUI is forfeiting. Centenary being sanctioned by the NCAA in men's basketball and blackballed from postseason play: that wasn't embarassing either to the Summit League.

Do wonder if Marcil and Forum Communications will now become "the voice" of the Fighting Sioux. After the NDSU house debacle where Marcil's donation got dragged through the mud, he's totally shifted his stance regarding NDSU. WDAY radio very publicly announced that they were no longer pursuing the NDSU media contract. Hallstrom almost certainly knew what was coming down: he left. Will Kolpack be relegated to a small corner of The Forum? Will UND basketball games get a spot on FM radio? Would that be a first? Will Dan Hammer move to DAY radio and TV?

WDAY radio will now almost certainly be part of the Fighting Sioux network. Hopefully, this also means the statewide ABC TV network (WDAY, WDAZ, KBMY, KMCY) will all have occasional Fighting Sioux video broadcasts.

Appears that the Idaho season opener has been moved to Thursday night. Idaho Football Schedule 2010 Akey also likes the Vandals' Thursday night home opener when they take on North Dakota at the Kibbie Dome Sept. 2

http://www.marshallindependent.com/page/co...6.html?nav=5021

What's going to be hurt is women's basketball, as it won't have the ESPN channels. NCAA hockey is the weekend of the Elite Eight, so there aren't even that many games that weekend to televise. They could even push back the NCAA hockey regionals a week (to the basketball Final Four weekend), as the Frozen Four is one week later. If they go to 96, the 33-96 teams would play on Thursday/Friday (16 games day), the remaining 64 on Saturday/Sunday (16 games/day), and the playdown to 16 would be Monday/Tuesday. What is interesting about Summit schools is that Fort Wayne is hosting an NCAA regional for the first time and are very excited about it. Schools like Oakland, IPFW, and IUPUI could be natural hockey schools: football just wouldn't fit their profiles considering the local FBS competition they'd be up against. Better to carve their own niche. Add Grand Valley and Nebraska-Omaha and the Summit would have a number of UND rivals (not that I'm betting IPWF, IUPUI, or Oakland will stay around the Summit). Agree this is huge for Ben and UNI: they could make an even further run. It doesn't hurt either to have what will be a very distinguished coach who is a UND alum and remembers his roots. Have to believe that Jones has one year to show the spark of a promising team.

Until the Bismarck Civic Center was built, the Fieldhouse (as Hyslop was formerly called) was the basketball mecca of North Dakota. Because it's size was so much larger than any other facility, making the State Tournament and playing in the then- 7000 seat Fieldhouse was by far the ultimate high school athletic experience and was a palace by college standards. Grand Forks not only had great college and high school teams in the 60's and early 70's, but was the cultural center for North Dakota basketball for two decades. Names like Phil Jackson, Bill Fitch, Jimmie Rodgers, Glen Hansen, Reed Monson were all-time historical BB greats in the state and all were in GF within a few short years. Maybe lacrosse will be the next wave.

UT-San Antonio just announced their 2011 football schedule - their first year. It actually includes a North Dakota school but not UND: Minot State. Sept: 3: Northeastern (Okla.) State Sept. 10: McMurry Sept. 17: @Southern Utah Sept. 24: Bacone College Oct. 1: @Sam Houston State Oct. 8: South Alabama Oct. 15: @UC Davis Oct. 22: @Northwestern (La.) State Oct. 29: Georgia State Nov. 12: @McNeese State Nov. 19: Minot (N.D.) State

So I guess you had no idea that the NDSU fan base referred to the Summit as the ugly fat chic that no one wants to date? This was before NDSU was rejected several times by the Big Sky and finally accepted the fat chic's marriage proposal. To SDSU fan base's credit, they always thought the Summit was hot.

Seems like a certain coach who is now at Colorado State took a position at NDSU that had lousy facilities, had an impending transition, and no conference.

I call B.S. on that. If the position paid decently, coaches would apply for this job because we are half-way through the transition. As far as non-conference schedule, it's actually pretty good - have no idea where you're coming on that. BCS-type schools aren't going to come here no matter what our status. The conference issue will be settled within eight months. The main issue is that we don't pay worth s*** for a DI BB coach, and especially the assistants.

In years past, Jones' teams have at least been able to rally to a reasonable year-end conclusion - giving false hope. We can't even win against sub 330 RPI - most of the teams at the level are not just horrible at the DI level, but they are bad DII teams, mediocre DIII teams, and only barely competitive NAIA teams. What is so horribly discouraging is that UND is rated #790 overall - all college divisions. If we were still DII, we would be rated #187 out of 282 teams. Imagine, 186 DII teams are better than us. Even worse, 60 DIII teams and 86 NAIA teams (DI and II) are better than us. Even at the end, Glas' teams were not that pathetic. I know these players have given their all, but the situation was just not fair to them. The only good notes out of this situation are that: a. we can't go much lower - although the outlook for next year may be even more grim. b. no one will ever take for granted that UND will be competitive at the DI level - something has to change c. when UND is successful again, it will seem miraculous.

Talent. McDermott as assistant coach.

Some of us ran out of patience early in the season. Losing Bledsoe won't help our scoring offense: the Princeton offense needs the outside shooting. Maybe Schuler can provide it next year. Interesting how Denver's record has progressed after they hired a new coach who implemented the Princeton offense: 2006-7: 4-25 2007-8: 11-19 2008-9: 15-16 2009-10: 19-13 and semifinals of Sunbelt tournament This year, late in the conference season, Denver even began drawing crowds of 4000 to Magness Arena for basketball, which is practically unheard of for them. Jones is safe for another year. But if there isn't a glimmer of hope starting next year ...

It's entirely different situation. You hold Chapman so high in status, it's basically idol worship. Desecration of Chapman's name among bison fans is practically analagous to making a cartoon joke about Mohammed among Muslims. Both are revered as some sort of deity. Roger Thomas and Kupchella never had cult status among Sioux fans.

From Twitter: UND hires Swedish Olympic Coach

Women's basketball has evolved in the past 15 years too: it's faster and more athletic. DI schools are placing more emphasis on it, girls are going to more camps, the recruiting is more thorough. The UND championship teams would have been DI tournament caliber (40-50 type seed). Those teams actually beat PAC10 quality teams then. That wouldn't have happened this year. I'm in no way minimizing what this team has accomplished, as the adversity they've overcome is something all Sioux fans should be very proud of . The team character is wonderful and I'm thankful there were in Sioux uniforms.

Don't agree with that at all. In women's basketball, the old NCC was at least a low-level DI competition and in some years higher. Great West basketball is inferior to what UND competed with in the NCC (both men and women). During UND's championship years, UND was rated as high as 30 and usually above 50in the Massey all-divisions ratings. Even in the last years of the NCC, UND was typically around 100. Those championships teams could possibly have won a first round DI tournament game. The upper few power teams of women's D2 basketball is almost always historically within the top 100 of Massey. There is normally a much wider discrepancy between men's DI and DII then between women's DI and DII (although this year appears to be unusual as there aren't any DII women's teams that can compete at a top 100 level in DI)