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Yeah, just stopped and restarted it, now working fine. Damn, missed two goals though.

Anyone's stream working now. I've got the audio, but video just a series of still images.

For all those so worried about track, perhaps UND is waiting for a joint announcment of the move to DI and a contact to train pilots and air traffic controllers for Air Kenya. I wouldn't mind seeing UND focus some money on getting so internationals who could potentially make their nation's Olympic teams. This could get us some media attention. Women's hockey, track and swimming all seem like possible targets.

The number of sports doesn't matter, it's both the number of opportunities (ie athletes) and the number of scholarships. I'd wager that Big Sky schools that are compliant are maxed out on scholarships for womens' teams and offer the minimum for mens' teams if they only offer the mandated sports. Soccer, Volleyball and Golf don't balance out football, so the balance has to come from the other sports, tennis and track.

I think, with some successful seasons, the women's hockey program has the potential to join women's hoop as revenue positive, or at least self supporting. There is also the potential to produce Olympians, which can have a large benefit in terms of promotion. That's why I think you will continue to see a more international flavor on UND's swim teams. Men's hockey is an abso-freaking-lute cash cow, helping build the Betty and supporting the entire athletic program. No reason to believe that won't continue, and once the U gets control of the Ralph the real money can start to pour in. On the other side of the coin, NDSU added 18.5 scholarships for football this year, where did the money go on the women's side. I've heard nothing about adding a women's sport, which they almost certainly must do. UND is ahead of the game there having already added women's hockey and with it eventually 18 schollies. That's 2/3 of the offset for moving to DI-AA football. Another important consideration is that UND is hosting the crown jewel of DII sports this year, the Elite Eight. I think UND is just waiting until that is over to announce their move. They don't want to distract from that event or diminish the impressive accomplishments UND has achieved in DII. There isn't the need to constantly bad mouth DII like NDSU and SDSU have done.

Bravo, DADDAWG!

The 60 scholarship average is only a requirement if the I-A team needs to count the game to become bowl eligible. NDSU could have played USC or LSU this year, even UND could have. The win just wouldn't have counted toward making them bowl eligible. Schools can only count a I-AA win toward bowl eligibility once every four years I believe. Last year Kansas St. played a couple of I-AAs. They know they will be bowl eligible, so for them it's about home games and a sold out stadium. The new BCS formula may promote more I-A vs. I-AA games, as the polls weight so heavily that the schedule strength element isn't as much of a deterrent. Sorry, somebison beat me to the punch on this.

Franchising sounds interesting, although in most of the rest of the world, a place called the 23 Sports Grille doesn't conjure up the image of Ralph Engelstad.

I was just checking out the CSTV web site and saw that some early season games are listed. Two Sioux games are listed so far, the Oct. 8 game against Maine and the Oct. 29 game against Boston College. Nice to see the national exposure for some big games out east.

Tennessee and Wyoming had a traditional home and home agreement. The first game was in Knoxville. The second was supposed to be in Laramie, but the Nashville Athletic Commission offered the University of Wyoming $2 million (give or take) to play the game at Adelphia Coliseum, affectively buying them out. They accepted and were still the "home" team for the game. Nice money for the school, but a pretty shoddy thing to do to your fanbase at home. It would have been a real treat for them to see Tennessee in person. But that's life in big time college football.

I think a TV show is a decent possibility, as it would also mean a little extra cash for coach Hak. Of the assistant candidates in the Herald, I think Kallay is the most exciting choice. Being at Tech, he is familiar with WCHA recruiting grounds, at might be able to help us retap the once fertile grounds of Thunder Bay. He is also the most likely to actually want the position. Marks is too well established in the pro game and I doubt he'd want to be an assistant. Steve Johnson and Cary Eads haven't jumped at the other assistant opening here, so I'm not sure why they would now. And I think Davidson would be a top candidate for the Duluth job if Sandelin leaves to the NHL should Dean Blais get the Wild job a couple years down the road.

An outside search seemed to work out OK ten years ago. As for recruiting, we've got a ton of guys already locked up for several years out. If I'm a recruit I'd want to know that you will go to every length to find the perfect next coach. That may well be Dave Hakstol or Brad Berry. But to not even look anywhere else seems ridiculous to me. There are also many coaches with UND connections not currently in the program, Steve Johnson and John Marks to name two. Marks is on record as saying he would love the job.

I've been in arenas with both, I much preferred the black. The white reflects much more light and is quite distracting. The black absorbs the light and after a while, your barely notice it. It almost disappears.

Where did I imply otherwise? I'm not so dillustional to think DI leagues are clamoring for North Dakota, I simply pointed out a benefit UND could offer if it makes the decision to move up. Also, the Atlantic Sun is pursuing DII Kennesaw St. and I believe NDSU kindred spirit UC-Davis had offers prior to making its position official. Just because you NDSU/SDSU don't fit into anyone's plans, doesn't mean that nobody does. Lighten up Francis!

Another bonus UND could offer to a conference is in addition to an entrance fee, we could offer up (say for 10 years) any money for participating in the NCAA Hockey tournament. Since as a DII school, we aren't getting any of that money right now, it's not a real loss. This could end up being a nice pot of money if the Sioux make several deep tourney runs. After the probation period, UND would then get to keep all the hockey tourney money.

So is the University of South Dakota, however unlike their land grant counterparts, they have chosen the radical step of directing the funding to academics itself , instead of a trickle-down method of using athletics to pull up academics.

Hockey indeed counts. Also at the Division II level, you can only score in 7 sports each for men and women. Apparently Grand Valley's 33rd in womens tennis was surpassed by their performance in seven other sports. That's pretty impressive. Laker fans, why no hockey at Grand Valley. Michigan is the state of college hockey and the school certainly seems large enough.

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Jason Blake joins Eddie Belfour as UND alums playing in this fall's World Cup. I look forward to seeing team USA at the Xcel Center, can't wait to get my tickets. Should be some pretty good hockey.

I am already looking forward to this series. I will be driving up from DC for both the Maine and BC/NU series. It will be fun to see the Sioux in a different venue. The Princeton game last year was a lot of fun.

It takes football so seriously it doesn't even sponsor a championship at the highest level.

Cut Melrose some slack. He made the comment on NHL 2Night not Frozen Four 2night. If the average fan saw a list of NCAA champions they would most likely not consider schools like Michigan or even Minnesota as "Western" Realistically, only the Colorado and Alaska schools are located in what is commonly referred to as "the West", so I don't think Melrose's comment is that crazy. At least he mentioned the game.

It's Denver for me. Gwozdecky is a class act, keeps the title in the WCHA and pushes them past Minnesota in the title count. It will also put some spark back into the UND-Denver rivalry, one with a great deal of history.