jimdahl

I've frequently made a point similar to this in regard to hockey and REA in particular. Short-term revenue maximization (e.g. making people pay a trivial amount to tailgate, for an arena tour, to watch a game on the internet, etc...) needs to be carefully weighed against long-term fan loyalty. By treating every interaction with the public as a business transaction in which UND extracts maximum revenue, I think they risk turning their fans into customers instead. That would have the potential to be a big negative in the long-run, because customers don't have the same loyalty fans do. When the team is down, the novelty of a new arena has worn off, or the customers don't perceive that they're getting their value, they might move on much more quickly. I wonder if you can get more stable revenue out of more loyal fans in the long run. They'll keep showing up when the team loses, they'll send checks when they're alums, and they'll buy their kids Sioux gear, etc... As a counterpoint -- REA and UND seem to have done fine for themselves ignoring my advice to date, so I'm probably just a crotchety old guy whose memories of his student days (when we could walk in free to any football or hockey game) is out of touch with modern realities.

I got stranded there on the way home from Madison last Spring. We had the first flight out of Madison in the morning, it had been canceled when we arrived at the airport. They couldn't get us out of Madison until about 6pm, then that flight was delayed enough due to deicing that we missed the connection in Cincy by mere seconds. When we landed I was checking the status on my phone and the next flight was still at the gate -- we were literally going from one end of the U to the other, ran the entire thing, missed it by minutes. Since the delay was the airport's fault instead of the airline's, we had to get our own hotel and stay in KY overnight. Once all was said and done, I ended up missing 3 days of work to go to a couple weekend hockey games in Madison.

Yeah, it cleans it up a lot to have the symmetry of the items within a section. I also think that a section with 30 items was just too much to scan visually, whereas ~10-15 is doable. The thing I was trying to move away from with the previous change was this summer when there were two ancient videos and photos on the top of the page while there were dozens of new stories below. The new scheme only shows the top 30 (or 20) items, but restores sorting by type. So, if half the top items are videos, the videos section grows, etc... I think it captures the best benefits of both.

Ok, Bob, I can't figure it out -- I see that the individual photos are hosted on flickr, but can't find a set for these specific photos. You probably already know my goal, but I'm trying to come up with a URL that links to the set. Thanks for posting them!

As I linked to in the TV thread, NHL Network lists it on their schedule and I see it on my cable box's guide (though interestingly it is NOT on FOXSA on my cable box). The NHL Network schedule currently lists Ferris St. vs. Miami as an encore presentation shown on Saturday at noon.

Next Friday's St. Cloud @ North Dakota is UND's first this season (of a few, I hear) being picked up by the NHL Network Friday, November 13 8:30 PM NCAA Hockey: St. Cloud State @ North Dakota

Saw some highlights from this game on YouTube... ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"> Added it to the videos page

I know -- as I was watching it I was trying to peer inside Landry's head... "they were excited because Goska can run, watch this!"

That's easy -- losing.

Haven't heard, but on the tv there are lots of people dressed as Alerus Center seats for Halloween (hope no one's made that joke yet )

That was the drive we needed. After that horrible "punt" and it seemed all but certain CP would score, turning it around and putting together a real drive down the field is a big boost. I never know how to feel after these halves where one or two key mistakes undone would completely change the game. Happy that we're playing well enough to still be right in it, but disappointed in the missed opportunity to have a lead.

Horrible snap

I'd never given much to there being decent lines available for I-AA/FCS games. Here are more of interest from the week: NDSU 0 vs. Western Illinois Stephen F Austin -14.5 vs. Texas St Southern Utah -6.5 vs. UC Davis South Dakota -1 vs. Northern Colorado SDSU -11 vs. Youngstown St Cal Poly -8.5 vs UND Southern Illinois -27 vs. Indiana St

Sorry, was slow to see this thread. We almost always give permission for non-offensive and on-topic use of the site's marks. I would, of course, personally kick in a pretty good matching grant (there are obscure reasons SiouxSports itself can't, one of which being it as an entity being pretty poor). However, as demonstrated so far, you'll never get sufficient interest in "Community", feel free to cross-post to "Men's Hockey".

We used to DREAM of living in a corridor! Luxury!

Oct 14 2009 Sioux women's soccer defender, Holly Remmenga, played 990 minutes in 19 games for the Sioux in 2006. link Oct 15 2009 Sioux baseball player, Andrew Dusmonson, recorded a .989 fielding percentage as a firstbaseman in 2007. Oct 16 2009 The UND women's hockey team registered 988 shots in 2003-04. CollegeHockeyStats Oct 17 2009 FanBase.com video #987 is the YouTube version of the NFL Films Fire & Ice video. ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"> Oct 18 2009 Sioux men's golfers shot 986 at the Hal Sutton Intercollegiate in April 2009, earning fifth place fightingsioux.com Oct 19 2009 Sioux baseball player, Chris Gulsvig, field .985 in 2006. media guide Oct 20 2009 UND men's hockey made it to the NCAA's in Lake Placid in 1984, losing 1-2 in OT to Minnesota-Duluth. UND won the 3rd place game, 6-5 OT, over Michigan State. Oct 21 2009 UND celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 1983.

While we're throwing around old Lennon quotes to try to rationalize getting schooled by an NAIA team, I recall that the other reason he cited for wanting to move the team to D-I was that he had started losing every head-to-head recruiting battle with the regional I-AA teams. The weaknesses today were the same we've seen all year; the disappointing aspect was the apparent lack of intensity, relative to some previous games. No fan left that game feeling that UND played their hearts out but that USF was just a superior team (e.g. at Texas Tech); instead we all feel like USF was probably good but it's tough to say how good because UND's performance was so lackluster. Edit -- sorry my post is after dlsiouxfan's reply, I was trying to make a change to it, but wasn't quick enough

13-28 Final

Well, the Sioux HAVE succeeded in driving into the end zone twice, as required

Mathematically, it would have been really nice to take advantage of that mistake and get the safety. Realistically, the Sioux have seemed to just want this to be over for at least 15 mins or so. Edit -- kind of funny, the last drive that ended in the INT and these last few minutes have been the most intensity we've seen out of the Sioux offense.

Announcers were just speculating as to whether the sack pushed USF out of field goal range -- apparently his long for the year is 32 yds. That's gotta be lack of opportunity to do better, but still kind of a funny stat.

Nice stop Sioux -- A penalty, a sack, and a missed 28-yd field goal leaves the score at 13-28 with about 14 minutes to go.

And USF knocking on the goalline (3rd down on the 1 yd line). 15:00 of play left. Not to overstate the obvious, but a stop here is reasonably necessary to maintaining hope of turning it around for a win. A TO would be great

Just tuned in at halftime. Stats don't look that bad: Rushing: SF 50, UND 77 Passing: SF 145, UND 85 Total: SF 195, UND 162 TO: SF 0, UND 1 Penalties: SF 4/32, UND 5/68 ToP: SF 17:01, UND 12:59 I assume it's looked worse than that? What's UND's biggest flaw been? (I have a guess or two)

The Forum couldn't have found a better photo to accompany today's Chapman section. Chapman explains role in home construction