NDSU grad

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.

I believe at a minimum Langdon Area would consist of at least parts of the following school districts: Alsen, Milton, Osnabrock, Hannah, and Wales.

While mindlessly browsing the internet came across these games on youtube that documents Edmore's run to the state championship game in 1982. Some of the players mentioned in previous posts are playing in these games. First link is vs. Munich in Region 3 championship game. The next three are the state tournament games vs. Anamoose, McVille, and Divide County, in that order. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1bS9J22hVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6dleWDIV-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42DP6K8MdwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbB4uDo4i0

I have no idea if there is a formal agreement between those conferences and ESPN3 to air games, but a quick look shows 7 of 16 NDSU conference basketball games on ESPN3 and all but 2 of the regular season conference football games. All the football playoff games and the Summit League tournament were on ESPN3. It would be awesome to get more content online, especially now that I joined the technology age and got a Roku.

Not a Division 1 player. Fun as hell to watch in high school though. Hear he might go to BSC and play baseball and basketball.

I know the 93 team was arguably the best in school history and had a very good chance of winning it all, but I believe the 94 team still made the postseason and had Chris Gardner, Todd Johnson, and Travis Tuttle on it.

There won't be single game tickets available in the first 15 rows. You'll have to find somebody willing to give up season tickets. I'm thinking it would take $200-300/ticket, possibly more.

That's an interesting link. Why the huge drop from 93 to 94? If I remember right, you guys still had a very good team in 94 even though you lost Guldseth and Jacobson from the year before, right? It looks like other than that huge drop in one year, attendance has been relatively stable as long as you guys fielded good teams.

It's expensive and time-consuming. My 5 year old is just in an initiation program in Minot, but I have friends whose kids are in the pee-wee level. They're travelling overnight 10-12 weekends a season during USA Hockey season. One friend has his kid on a summer team and they're playing about 6 tournaments from May thru August; all out of town. They're also practicing ~ 3 times a week and playing tournaments/games in Minot pretty much every weekend they're not travelling.

He's a good basketball player, but not DI caliber.

Tigers. Played in what was literally a Quonset attached to the school. So narrow the three point line didn't extend to the baseline. I think Tolley last had team in 86, Donnybrook in 87, Lansford in 90, and Carpio in 91 (know that one for sure). I think Sherwood survived until the late 90's/early 2000's.

Combined with Mohall to form the MLS Mavericks. Carpio, Donnybrook, and Tolley dissolved.

Interestingly, with the exception of Deering, there is still a high school in every one of those towns. Granville is part of TGU, though, and does not field it's own sports teams. My old district, 24, is down to 3 teams: Mohall, Kenmare, and Glenburn, out of the original 8.