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If the Red Pepper added a knoephla grinder to their menu, there'd be little reason to stop anywhere else
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.
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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.
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The Alerus Center will gladly leave hosting indoor water skiing to the Fargodome given that Fargodome has the experience having previously been filled with 8, and then 12, feet of water.
(Historic footnote: GF had planned on a below grade floor in The Al but Fargodome's flooding adventures, and the notion that putting The Al at grade could have it serve as a shelter or staging area during potential future flooding events, kept the field out of a hole.)
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. -
If you sunk the floor of the Alerus such that the new seating on the sides was the same pitch as the current seating for football, I wonder how many more seats you could put in the Alerus for a bball configuration?
Just think of how much water it could hold with that lowered floor.
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Hmm, seems a $500 million endowment and a donated UND outdoor stadium make Bison fans nervous.
Perhaps you have more information than Kupchella and O'Keefe?
Nervous of what? Are they planning on buying 30000 people to put in the stands games with the 500 million?
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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.
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Sorry, but you are missing the point. Buying and remodeling are the upfront costs. The ongoing costs of ownership (maintenance, heating, cooling, repairs, modifications,etc.) go far beyond that. In many cases those costs will outweigh the upfront costs when you do a life cycle evaluation (which happens to be my business). With a new building you may pay more up front, but you can design in many features and items that will reduce operating costs and long run ownership costs. Buying a used vehicle will save you on upfront costs, but cost you more in the long run because of higher maintenance, poorer gas mileage, etc.
So far we have only seen part of the picture, and you cannot make a valid judgement that it is a good deal on that.
You can't make a good judgement that it isn't.
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Sorry, I missed the part where it says that the savings included the cost of renovation. Did it also include code upgrades? You mention that they will probably make them "green" buildings to save on energy costs. Is this also included in the cost you are stating?
Once again, the State has to look at the long term consequences of decisions made, not the short term fixes.
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.
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Question:
These buildings were cheaper to purchase (downtown) than to build on campus. However, they won't be on the NDSU steam plant system which means their own heating systems (and separate heating costs). And they'll be away from primary campus services (increased travel time for plant services, campus mail, etc.).
What are the long-term costs of ownership of these cheap-to-buy downtown buildings relative to having built (a more costly up front) on-campus facility?
The steam system is inefficient.
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SUU can be a Jekyll and Hyde type team. Should be an interesting matchup.
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Whew! For a while here I thought I was going to have to transfer my son to another college. I'm so happy now that I know he can get his Engineering degree at UND.
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.
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NDSU is not known as an Engineering school anymore than UND is.
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.
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Ouch, what's the score?
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Strange how all the doubters are SDSU or NDSU backers who belittle these prognostications out of fear.
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
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Am genuinely honored that you remember my postings so well.
Seems it finally has dawned on certain Bison fans that there will never, for the forseeable future, be NDSU/MSU or NDSU/Montana games in Fargo. As far as your points, there is a difference between strategy/speculation and actual predictions. Never predicted a St. Thomas/UND or UND/UMD combo to the Horizon would actually occur, but still stand by the statement that such an strategy is probably the only way UND could ever get in the Horizon.
UNO, if it hadn't had corrupt leadership spending the athletic budget on $1000 per plate dinner parties and bungled its hockey promotions, would have been a strong DI candidate with plenty of interest from the MidCOn and Gateway. There was a reason the UNO AD left when he did, and only a year later did the truth come out.
On predictions: Denver going to the BSC is going to happen, but I was premature. Minot St in the NSIC is going to happen.
Where I did mess up was believing that the Big Sky felt it necessary to have an eastern wing of multiple schools and move up to twelve members. A 10/9 (basketball/football) alignment is what the BSC wants, and UND will be a part of that.
In all honesty, I underestimated UND's business appeal, with its assets of the FSSN and REA.
Just to repeat again: UND leadership has 90 - 95 % confidence that a conference bid is forthcoming - that conference is the Big Sky, IMHO.
NDSU and SDSU never had any such assurances before their moves. Why else was Gene Taylor so emotional when they finally got a bid? The whole transition was a traumatic experience for him because there was no confidence anything would happen. Congrats to them for it working out. UND's conference "search" will not be comparable.
Good stuff. Not only is some of this far fetched, you're belittleing people because they think you're crazy.
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If it wasn't for Chicago State dropping out of the MidCOn in the same year that Valpo left - NDSU and SDSU might still be homeless.
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.
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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.
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I guess they should be pleased that they have the best nerds Mason could recruit. Look, I would love to see an All Academic football team, but it really is a catch-22! If your team does well in the classroom but poorly on the field, why not convert those football scholies to academic scholies and just be happy?
These guys weren't recruited because they're top notch academics. They were recruited because supposedly they could play football all the while qualifying for admission and, in all probability, be able to maintain their eligibility.
Also, what makes you think they are performing well academically? Grades haven't even come out yet! I'll tell you what, though, when the grades do come out and there is a way to find out the team GPA after this first term, post it here. And if it is above 3.0 AS A TEAM, I will rescind every bad thing I've said about the Gopher football team and I will refrain from slighting them the remainder of the season.
Until then, Mason sucks as a coach and that team sucks as a team.
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.
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1 is pertinent, the other should be mandatory for all NCAA schools. I don't see how that affects the fact that the Gophers aren't fundamentally sound.
They can't RUN, they can't TACKLE... how does going to class affect that?
Speculation, just like every other post. Perhaps they recruited people to preform in the classroom too. Obviously should be mandatory....doesn't happen everywhere.
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Mason lacks class.
They make their students go to class. (Not always common in DI-A)
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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.
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I recall the Montana State president pushing hard for the 'SU's. But it would seem as the commissioner, Fullerton could have informally polled the presidents to know if there was a remote possiblity for the 'SU's, instead of making them jump through hoops. As I recall the invitation has to be unanimous when UNC got in. If geography was the main drawback, why didn't Fullerton know that some presidents would say no?
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?
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If it is location, location, location, why did the Big Sky request all of this information from schools, including SDSU and NDSU, to be considered in the last expansion?
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.
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A non-conference matchup with USD or SDSU would generate a large SD audience. A UND/UM or UND/MSU matchup would be huge in western ND and proportional to an ESPN2 matchup in SD.
This assumes Montana sports are big in sparsly populated western North Dakota, which they're not.
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Warner is good, his lateral movements are really quick.