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Not vs TT, but this one will be available: UND vs Northwestern State - free internet view The 11-game football broadcast schedule begins with the Sept. 3 season-opener, a Thursday evening contest between Western Illinois and Sam Houston State. That will be followed by the North Dakota at Northwestern State game on Sept. 19, and the Texas Southern at Texas State contest on Sept. 26

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: IPFW schedule Doubt they know something we don't.

Texas Tech possibly an opponent in Women's BB, too

What was described would set the main portion of the Wellness Center back far enough from the Alerus Arena so that extra enclosed space would be availabe immediately for indoor courts - more court space than the proposed Target building would add - and later this space could be for seating expansion. No rebuilding required. It's win-win. As far as upsetting the apple cart, why not ask the questions? The Alerus is a higher visibility location, so any corporate sponsors would be at least open to the thought.

Consider this: attach the wellness center to the south side of the Alerus. A large area between the arena and the main part of the wellness center could be roofed, but keep it open space while gaining a huge area that could be used for basketball, tennis courts, volleyball. Further south would be the main wellness facilities, with it's own entrance. If the Alerus arena ever needed expansion, the roofed area between the two buildings could be converted to south end seating (if only temporarily with some modular features). Planning this now would save now and in the future. The wellness center itself would have it's own entrance well away from the arena entrance. The Park Board could earn a lot of money by selling the lot south of Target (to a private developed who would pay taxes on that land) and paying the city for the smaller plot of land that the Wellness Center sits on. The city in turn purchases more land for parking. The utilities and infrastructure are already there: saving money. An attached complex saves both money in heating and cooling (less surface for heat transfer). Both the Wellness Center and Alerus would benefit by having more athletic events each could host or co-host, helping both financially. Visitors to the city would be much more aware of a wellness center if it was a the Alerus rather than behind Target, so they'd be more likely to pays fees to use it. Everybody wins financially. There are just to many synergies for this not to be looked at. The only requirement is that the Park Board and City would actually have to work with each other.

The city desires more traffic and more destination type facilities on 42nd to attract more retail and development: why couldn't this facility be built as an addition to the Alerus? Parking is already there, HVAC and utilities are there, more convenient for a higher percentage of people with greater visibility. For the few events that the Alerus parking lot is full, no big deal. Instead of exacerbating a north/south division, a 42nd street would seem to be a more equitable east/west solution and be in keeping with city goals. The ability for this facility to host regional events, like weekend tennis competitions that would bring nearly 1000 people or other similar indoor competition would only be enhanced by locating right next to or attached to a major arena space that includes convention and hotel facilities. Government agencies - even local ones like the park board, school boards, city governments - are notorious for not being synergistic with each other.

Pumped about GF wellness center - Is a UND indoor training center imminent under this proposal? Would be interesting to hear more details.

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Just had to point out this great blog: Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog

Seems HHIT wants a legacy regardless if he is reelected or not: the removal of the Sioux name from UND. It seems the deadline has to be extended beyond Oct 1st for their to be any hope.

Bismarck Tribune from 2006 Murphy is a nickname supporter:

Arkansas News: Bowl Game of sorts for UCA and UND

Schedule Released with some choice home games: Perhaps, NM State, W Kentucky, Arizona State, Drake, Gonzaga, and Tulane are on tap for a GF visit next year? Thu, Oct 29 Jamestown College (Exh.) Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Wed, Nov 04 Minnesota, Crookston Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Fri, Nov 13 Green Bay Grand Forks, N.D. 4 p.m. Sun, Nov 15 Wisconsin at Madison, Wis. TBA Wed, Nov 18 Wyoming Grand Forks, N.D. 7 p.m. Mon, Nov 23 New Mexico State at Las Cruces, N.M. TBA Wed, Nov 25 Gonzaga at Spokane, Wash. TBA Sun, Nov 29 Ball State Grand Forks, N.D. 2 p.m. Wed, Dec 02 Western Kentucky at Bowling Green, Ky. TBA Mon, Dec 07 Mayville State Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Wed, Dec 09 Arizona State at Tempe, Ariz. 7 p.m. Sun, Dec 13 Drake at Des Moines, Iowa 2:05 p.m. Fri, Dec 18 Northern Arizona Grand Forks, N.D. 7 p.m. Tulane DoubleTree Classic Mon, Dec 28 TBA at New Orleans, La. TBA Tue, Dec 29 TBA at New Orleans, La. TBA Sat, Jan 02 Toledo Grand Forks, N.D. 2 p.m. Mon, Jan 04 Eastern Michigan at Ypsilanti, Mich. TBA Fri, Jan 08 Seattle Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Thu, Jan 14 Utah Valley * at Orem, Utah TBA Sat, Jan 16 South Dakota * at Vermillion, S.D. TBA Sat, Jan 23 South Dakota * Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Thu, Jan 28 Texas-Pan America * at Edinburg, Texas TBA Sat, Jan 30 Houston Baptist * at Houston, Texas TBA Thu, Feb 11 New Jersey Tech * Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Sat, Feb 13 Chicago State * Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Tue, Feb 16 Seattle at Seattle, Wash. TBA Sat, Feb 20 Utah Valley * Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Thu, Feb 25 Chicago State * at Chicago, Ill. TBA Sat, Feb 27 New Jersey Tech * at Newark, N.J. TBA Thu, Mar 04 Houston Baptist * Grand Forks, N.D. TBA Sat, Mar 06 Texas-Pan America * Grand Forks, N.D.

For associate membership in a football conference, travel partners are not necessary. Outside the few schools within 500 miles of each other, most Big Sky schools fly their football team anyway and usually on charter. For team sports with two games scheduled over three days (like basketball, soccer, volleyball) that rely exclusively on commercial carriers, travel partners are significant factors in cost, time, and accessibility.

With the cost of travel, the continued BSC presence of West Coast schools, and the lack of a UND travel partner, I don't see the Big Sky / UND ever hooking up (and I was a big proponent of it). What may be possible however, if the university funding crunch for EWU, NAU, Sac St continues and one or two of them drop football, is that the Big Sky could then be open to associate members in football only like UND, UC-Davis. The Big Sky has a vested interest in ensuring that western FCS schools remain viable.

Derek Allen - Canadian

I don't have the exact dimensions of the old Ralph, but the rink is 200' x 85' ft. Taking 15 rows of seats around from every side gets a playing field of around 290' x 175' (conservatively). That's enough space for nearly an 80 yd long by 53.5 yd wide practice field. If the indoor track would be on the concourse level, what is being referred to has to be at least a 300 m track. A 400 m track is almost 240 ft wide (with lanes extending that to 280 ft), which almost certainly exceeds the width of the old REA. For a practice facility, a 300 m track and a nearly 80 yd long field would be decent, especially since the building would be more than a bubble.

Cal Poly to FBS Even with California's budget crisis, there still is talk of Cal Poly going to the FBS and the WAC. They are considering moving up with only a stadium expansion to slightly more than 15,000 seats. A stadium really needs to be 25-30,000 seats, in order to fiance a move up and periodically host some regional name opponents. For example, Idaho can not gain a non-WAC opponent above the stature of San Diego State. If Idaho had a 30,000 seat outdoor statdium, it could likely host Washington State or Oregon State in a 2-for-1. I

With $5 million being the proposed cost, have to believe what is being considered is excavating most of the seating area so that there would be at least 50,000 ft2 in the lower floor (rather than 17,000 ft2 for the arena floor). With that much space, there would be room for a 200 m indoor track in the lower bowl, as well as an arficial surface inside the track lanes. The concourse level could be resurfaced for longer distance training for track. As far as the EERC, they wanted that space for a parking ramp. The EERC has land east of it's facility, but so far has chosen not to develop it. An indoor facility of some kind is needed for almost every sport not at the Engelstad complex. Can't imagine track having any type of prayer of success at DI without an upgrade. Football badly needs it too. Without some kind of indoor facility,

The structural question weren't answered. Seems they would need to remove much of the concrete / soil in the bowl down to the ice level in order to increase the practice surface area. As far as fitting into the overall master plan, if UND ever got an retractable roof stadium, the need for a $20 M indoor facility are much reduced. An indoor facility is needed now.

Old Ralph to be Indoor Training Center The nickname situation isn't going to help with fund raising, especially now that it's clear that Kelley wants the name gone.

Any idea if it includes television? Specifically the FSSN (which was produced by WDAZ) and games broadcast by WDAZ (or even other ND ABC affiliates)?

Virtual Tour of Bemidji's New Arena

Thanks for that post! One of the realities of this election is that Minnesota's once clean political reputation has been smeared and now is seen as a national disgrace. Say thanks to Hennepin and Ramsey county officials.

No climate debate? Yes there is.