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Tied up.

Only down 3. 2 min to go

Exactly. Still sucks.

Get Boeser and Schmaltzy home and get 'em rested for the stretch run!

The term "Dream Job" is a veritable moving target in the media industry. Should be consumed with a block of salt.

Ok, I'll bite. How so, and by whom?

Such a tired and lame ad hom tactic to discredit a person instead of one's argument. Bravo. (Slow clap)

Probably Debrinkat.

I was going to say the sme thing as a joke. I too know nothing.

Bump. Still looking to buy up four tix if anyone wants to sell for Jan 23 against CC. WILL TAKE 2 if that is all you have.

Ha, ha! I'm honored. I like a person who is stingy with their reps!

Hi, I am willing to purchase 4 tickets from anyone who might not be using theirs for the Saturday game against Colorado College on Jan. 23. PM me if you're interested in selling.

They blew up the HPC, too. Donor had it written into a clause in the case that the nickname ever changed. Heard the place was prefitted for dynamite charges and eveverything. <purple font>

Anything is debatable, El Rancho.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. You sure are passionate about fonts. This thread. SMH.

You're such a victim. How do you even cope.

So true.

I get your greater point. It's just magnified when it's on a team that is trying to build quality depth.

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

For those interested, below is the actual finish. UND beat the projections by a good number! Way to go, Bubba and boys! 2015 Football Standings School Conf Pct Overall Home Away Streak Southern Utah * 7-1 0.875 8-4 5-0 3-4 L1 Portland State 6-2 0.750 9-3 4-2 5-1 L1 Montana 6-2 0.750 8-5 5-2 3-3 L1 North Dakota 5-3 0.625 7-4 4-1 3-3 W3 Northern Arizona 5-3 0.625 7-4 5-0 2-4 L1 Eastern Washington 5-3 0.625 6-5 3-2 3-3 L3 Weber State 5-3 0.625 6-5 4-1 2-4 W2 Northern Colorado 3-5 0.375 6-5 4-2 2-3 W1 Montana State 3-5 0.375 5-6 4-2 1-4 L1 Cal Poly 3-5 0.375 4-7 2-3 2-4 L1 UC Davis 2-6 0.250 2-9 1-4 1-5 W1 Idaho State 1-7 0.125 2-9 1-4 1-5 L5 Sacramento State 1-7 0.125 2-9 2-3 0-6 L3

Thanks, Goon! Not saying I'm correct, just a strong hunch. I was getting a little tired of people (some on here, mostly on Facebook and some blogs) throwing out as absolute fact that the reason most of the 55,000 didn't vote was that they were ticked off at the way things went down and that their non-vote was instead a sort-of vote of protest, if you will. Again, I am sure that did happen, but not to the degree that some would argue. There's just too many alums who have passed through UND who couldn't care less. Or, there are the thousands of folks like my retirement-age mom who who loves UND athletics, but lives in the middle of Nowhere'sville, North Dakota or wherever, with no computer or Internet access, and very little ambition to vote. She's anything but PO'd about the whole thing.

Per Tom Miller: Esko's (Minn.) Jaxson Turner to UND.

I would love to see it. I would gladly eat crow if my hunch is proven incorrect. But with no data, I fear we'll never know.

Let's face it, the 82,000 figure was a best guess at best by the Alumni Association to come up with the potential number of stakeholder voters that might be out there. The vast majority of this 82,000-stakeholder figure would comprise alumni or anyone who has passed through the university and snatched a degree in the process (I don't think they went with the more loosely determined definition of alumni, which is anyone who matriculated to UND whether they graduated or not). So I am excluding all non-alumni staff, non-alum faculty, non-alum donors and non-alum season ticket holders as making up the vast majority of the rest of this fabled 82,000 figure. We know we had about 27,000-some who did vote, which leaves about 55,000 stakeholders out there who chose not to for whatever reason. It is my contention that the vast majority of this "disgruntled" 55,000 is not disgruntled at all. Instead it is the thousands upon thousands of UND alumni, who, during their time at UND did not once think about UND athletics, did not once darken the doors of the old Ralph, the new Ralph, the old Winter Sports Center, Hyslop, the Betty, etc. They are the grad students from Timbuktu who came here to get a degree and go home. They are the philosophy majors who spent more time at the Chest Fritz Library studying then they did anywhere else on campus. They are the music majors who only ventured inside the Ralph to sing the national anthem and then left right away to do whatever else college students do who are not interested in sports. They are the drama students who knew Burtness Theatre like the back of their hand but couldn't identify Hyslop for the life of them. Bottomline, they are the ones who never would have voted anyway, the ones who haven't thought about UND since they moved away 5,10, 15, 20, 25, etc. years ago. I get it, sports is popular, and it's a big thing on the UND campus, I can attest to that. I am as big a UND fan as there comes. But you will never get me to believe that much of those lost 55,000-strong group of non-voters didn't vote because they were pissed about the options or the process. Most of them simply were not going to vote no matter what the options were or process was. There were some who didn't do it because they were angry, I know, but my hunch is that it is a much smaller portion of the 55,000 than some on here and many in the media think/say it is.

I agree! Interesting discussion, though!