NDSU grad

Right, because those dollars come from the same sources. Good grief.

Bolinske is very interested in UND and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up there as a preferred walk-on. Could end up playing safety, as I don't think he has the arm to be a DI quarterback.

It's kind of funny. I grew up near there, swear I'd never move back to the area, and here I am. Thing is, my wife and I both have what is basically our dream jobs and the kids love it. So life's not all bad.

In general, when it comes to running a city, I find it best to do the exact opposite of what Minot does. It's a frickin gong show here.

His wife is an elementary principal in Minot and his son is a starting cb for the fb team as a sophomore. Pretty good player.

I wonder how much Rudolph's family situation is affecting him. It can't be easy having your family still in Minot and you trying to do your job 3 hours away. It's got to be hard never being able to see any of your son's football games, especially with the great season Minot High is having.

I don't have nearly enough information to make an informed decision on what clearly is a very serious topic. How many players per side? Are the players on skates or sneakers?

My wife voted Roughriders, with my urging.

What did they say about Bresciani that's false? They simply stated their opinion about Bresciani's comments in the state of the University Address. Stupid opinions about topics they have absolutely no understanding about, but opinions nonetheless.

It wasn't a story, it was an editorial. You know, an opinion? How do write a correction for that? Why should Bresciani write a rebuttal? His exact words are easily found in the State of the University Address. If you haven't noticed, mainstream journalism doesn't exactly have a great track record for top-notch reporting. The opinion section is even worse.

Dean Bresciani never said that. The editorial board of the Forum did. It was a stupid editorial written by people who probably don't know what AAU stands for.

No. Because like a lot of other people they interpreted his comments wrong.

No he didn't. He iterated three very specific goals that he thought would be attainable in the next 3-5 years: "First, we need to pursue an enrollment of 18,000 students. That number gives us the size needed to be able to broaden our options, but is not so large that we lose our student focus. Second, we need to grow our student scholarship endowment by at least $100 million. And third, we will need to aggressively pursue a substantial increase in endowed chair and faculty positions."...Given the extensive groundwork already done over the past five years, and the commitment from all of us to continue to reach new levels, I expect us to accomplish these goals in the next 3 to 5 years." His comments about attaining AAU membership were more vague; he stated the possibility of AAU membership in the foreseeable future. Here's part of the quote: "...AAU membership will become possible at some foreseeable point in the future." Here's the link to his State of the University Address. https://www.ndsu.edu/president/speeches/stateoftheuniversityaddress2015/

I couldn't remember how it went down either but I found the 2012 recruiting thread. I think we (NDSU) offered after he blew up in the Wisconsin all-star game but were much too late to the party. It really hurts when I look at our 2012 class in hindsight. Pretty weak overall. Anyway, I'll quit hijacking your thread.

Interesting article. You guys were literally 24 hours away from having him on campus. http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/123366/badgers-linebacker-joe-schobert-thriving-after-being-overlooked-in-high-school

Schobert is an amazing story. I've got to think there are 7-8 FCS schools, pretty much every MAC school, and half a dozen BIG schools that have some recruiting interest in Wisconsin, and they all missed on him. Did UND offer any scholarship money, or was he a preferred walk-on?

I once saw a bag of sunflower seeds advertise they were non-'GMO'. While technically correct, all frickin' sunflower products are 'GMO' free.

Oops, guess not. Seriously, this is like shooting fish in a barrel. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3479986/

I cite PNAS, you cite something called foodrenegade.com. This is why I will never be convinced. Science is on my side. But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. You'll eat what you want to eat. I'll eat what I want to eat. But your side will never win, because the consequences would be too devestating.

Glyphosate does not kill gut bacteria in the ridiculously miniscule amounts that may be on food consumed by humans. The only vitamin synthesized in the gut is K, all others must be consumed in food or are synthesized elsewhere. Glyphosate is a very weak chelater, much weaker than citric acid. Should we quit eating fruits too. There is no U.S. food disaster. Like I said, our country has produced, by far, the best food system this world has ever known. When balancing availability, cost, and nutrition no country can even come close.

Like pinkie swear? For full disclosure, I'm not doing this off memory, but I do have a pretty decent background in biochemistry so I have a pretty good understanding of it. Basically the shikimate pathway produces essential aromatic acids, not minerals. Minerals would be things like Ca, Mg, Fe, etc., which a plant gets from the soil. Plants, some bacteria, algae, and some fungi contain this pathway. Animals do not. Plants that are glyphosate-resistant have a gene inserted into them that is native to a soil bacterium. The plant metabolizes glyphosate before the herbicide can kill it. If you're really interested in the process, here's a good link from PNAS http://www.pnas.org/content/103/35/13010.full Can I absolutely guarantee 100% eating food that has been produced from some genetic transformation process will not be harmful? I guess not. Nothing in life is 100%. Can you absolute swear the organic industry isn't harming us? Probably not. However, I feel very good about the science behind these biotechnological innovations and think it's sound. I also believe organic food activists are out to destroy the best food-producing system the world has ever seen. Is it perfect? No. We have real problems with childhood obesity and nutrition, but going after GMO's is not going to change any of that.

Yep. I love talk about biotechnological advances that have transformed the science of feeding the world. Oh, and you have no idea how the shikimate pathway works, and it's glyphosate, not glyphosphate.

Why?

The only thing I'd disagree with is the not strong up the middle comment. You were probably referencing our safeties which definitely is a huge question mark, but on the line we do return Tanguay and Schaetz and have other guys who saw meaningful minutes last year. DeLuca will have to step up big time. I'm not as high on him as other Bison fans. I think he drops too far back when in coverage and is slow to make run/pass reads. Of course, those things are easy to fix and he definitely possesses the physical tools to be really special.

Alabama and Ole Miss play on the 19th. Could be pretty hard to compete with that.