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Warner is good, his lateral movements are really quick.

Krolls is great, but if you ever get just west of Mandan try the knoephla at the truck stop. I don't remember the name of the place, but I think it beats Krolls.

Brewster's still talking the talk. If I was a gopher fan, I'd rather see all FBS competition too. Time will tell if he can get it done.

I know someone would relish in pointing that out. It resulted in a lower than desired ceiling for the Al, but it beats an aquarium.

Just think of how much water it could hold with that lowered floor.

Nervous of what? Are they planning on buying 30000 people to put in the stands games with the 500 million? (there's the smiley)

UND football moving out of the Alerus anytime soon is about as crazy as some SU fans that think they need a 30000 seat ourdoor staduim.

You can't make a good judgement that it isn't.

Nano is correct, purchasing and remodeling the buildings is cheaper than building a new building, and it results in more space while saving 3.5 million. The article didn't mention all of that. Isn't that good business sense for any institution? Some like to dig up dirt, surely you can dig up those facts too.

The steam system is inefficient.

SUU can be a Jekyll and Hyde type team. Should be an interesting matchup.

Glad the pep talk helped. I'd like to see petroleum engineering added somwhere in ND. There's lots of $ to be made in that field.

I've worked with engineers at major companies that didn't know there was a University of ND, but know of NDSU. By the numbers of students, SU is more of an engineering school than an ag school. From my experience, engineers I've worked with from UND, NDSU, and SDSU have their !@$! together better than many from larger well known schools. I did some time at both places. It would be a bad idea to remove any programs from either school because they each have their strong points where individuals will excel in one area or another.

Ouch, what's the score?

Fear of what? Some of your predictions that came true were a good use of logic. GWFC and MidCon predictions were on other boards too. If UND gets into the BSC, good for them because you'll need it. You have 1 more school voting in your favor than the SU's did. Your logic for the UND/USD prediction is clouded with wild assumptions that you can't prove, and your forgetting other facts. -90-95% certainty

Good stuff. Not only is some of this far fetched, you're belittleing people because they think you're crazy.

Very true. Had this not happened, do you still think UND/USD would have a 90-95% chance at a conference home after they are officially DI with the SU's in the mix? The Mid-Con and Gateway have been open and straight forward about their intentions. If a conference was going to offer a school membership, do you really think there would be secret meetings and no public information? My $0.02- I hope there's some movement in the Mid Con in the next few years because 4 Dakota schools would make a solid core.

With the population up here supporting 2 big universities, I just don't think there's enough $ and recruits for bowl championship football. I don't think fans of either school would want to be just mediocre, which would be pretty likely. Minnesota and Iowa St. are usually just average and they're in better conferences than UND or NDSU would get into. See what happens in 20 years I guess.

Whoa...you're reading much more into what I said than I implied. I agree with your post and next time I'll use that sarcasm smilie where applicable. What I implied: some coaches recruit athletes to play football and not flunk out. Some coaches recruit athletes to play football. Just a though to consider. Mason does suck though. Too many excuses, little action.

Speculation, just like every other post. Perhaps they recruited people to preform in the classroom too. Obviously should be mandatory....doesn't happen everywhere.

2 contributors... Mason lacks class. They make their students go to class. (Not always common in DI-A)

I saw some guys at the game that were brave enough to wear UND stuff. At first I don't think they knew who to chear for, but after a while they were standing up for NDSU's big plays. Thanks guys. I did hear a Sioux suck chat once...they were promptly told to shut up by some other Bison fans. Some of the Gopher people in the area laughed. Great crowd, ND made some noise in the dome. This is the first Bison game I've been to since a UND game that there has been this much excitement from the fans. No matter what some people say, the UND game will be a welcome return.

Fullerton is a politician. Gamble (MSU) probably thought they had a convincing arguement for the SU's. When the BSC sent notice out that they may expand, at one time didn't they even send letters to UND, USD and some others? Anyone know when the next BSC meeting is?

Becasue most BSC schools were (and probably still are) interested in expanding to the Dakotas. What some of you folks like to foget is that some were pushing for the addition of the XDSU's.

This assumes Montana sports are big in sparsly populated western North Dakota, which they're not.