NDSU grad

This I would disagree with. The players NDSU has now are nothing like the players the Bison had in the DII days. Out of the current roster probably only Mike Felt and possibly Marshall Bjorklund would be on the team if we were still d2. If you want to take a look at a D1 Bison team with D2 talent look at the 04-05 roster, and that was possibly the worst Bison basketball team in the last 30 years.

LOL. It appears the thread has veered slightly off topic.

I just think it would be interesting to put the numbers on what it costs to deliver education via traditional and online methods, and then fund accordingly. It looks like the legislature is looking at differet funding models for higher education (again), hopefully they can make hash out a funding formula that makes sense.

I'm not well-informed enough to give you an exact breakdown per student credit hour, but can provide a little insight into how the numbers are different. My wife is teaching 6 credits worth of online classes this year at MiSU. She's getting about $2500 to do that, or about $416/credit hour. My major adviser at NDSU had a 10% teaching appointment, which required him to teach 3 credit hours per year. If you take 10% of his $90,000 total salary that comes out to $9,000, or $3000 per credit hour. Also, you have to take the facilities into account, as there is opportunity cost there. I want to be clear I'm not discounting the value of online education, I just wish the funding formula would distinguish between online and traditional students.

The only problem with that is the cost of delivering education to an online student is much different as compared to a traditional student. Yet state funding does not distinguish between the two.

Adam Keller (our kicker) was very good, 1st team all-conference.

I'm just guessing here, but 06 Minnesota and maybe 07 Central Michigan would meet that criteria.

Define an assault rifle. What' the difference between an AR-15 and a .223 semi-auto?

Even though NDSU generally had a superior team than SUU, the Bison always struggled in Cedar City. I don't know what it is about that trip. Kind of glad they are out of the Summit for that reason alone. Good luck to UND.

Could happen, but the score when they played last year was 55-48. I see a similar type of game again.

That might be the score at the end of the 1st quarter. I'm thinking a 56-45 type game.

I think Nash red-shirted in juco, so if he has to sit out this year I think he would only have one year of eligibility remaining after this year.

I really don't think WNG stands a chance in this one, but that's what everybody said their first three playoff games too.

It's pretty complicated. From what I understand, Colton Heagle could take a medical hardship since he didn't redshirt. Also, Zach Vraa may be eligible for a sixth year since injuries kept him from playing two years. He was seriously considered to have his redshirt pulled his true freshman year but broke his collarbone. He also had collarbone injuries last year which caused him to miss all but one game. But from what I understand anytime a sixth year is involved it's pretty rare for a medical hardship to be granted.

If Kleason red-shirted voluntarily his freshman year, it's doubtful he would be eligible for a sixth year.

Chicks there were too freaky, and not a good freaky.

This is a good point and is true for any of the "major" conferences. Bottom-dweller SIU almost tripped up the Bison last year, and MSU did beat the Bison in 2010. There is really no weeks off for any of the elite conferences.

Howard Wood Field. It used to be Augustana's home field. Alot of high school games there now I think.

The only thing that could possibly directly affect NDSU is #3, and I don't really care. NDSU has been, in some shape or form, the whipping boy of the North Dakota legislature since statehood. There will be a bunch of political grandstanding and hand-wringing, and at the end of the day all of the universities will be funded similar to what they were in the last legislative session and the BoHE will still be around.

Yeah, I worded that poorly. My original response to Darell was in regards to him saying every Bison win from here on out would be laced with mention of this case. No it won't. We might hear a little about it on Sunday after Youngstown just because Ojuri was suspended, but it's not like we're going to see headlines in the Forum "Bison win over Missouri St. in spite of 10 players found guilty of class A misdemeanor. This will go away faster than anybody on Siouxsports thinks.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. I honestly don't think this will be brought up again in large numbers.

Oh, I imagine local media will be talking about it a little bit tomorrow and maybe even later in the week. But after the Youngstown game it will be pretty much over. Even this thread had almost died until the court appearance this week.

I will keep telling myself that because it's the truth. The only place it will be talked about is on this forum.

No it won't. Until the "breaking" news of today, nobody was talking about it after the Bison win at UNI.

The selection uses the GPI (Gridiron Power Index) in it's selection, although it is not the only determining factor. The GPI uses the FCS coaches' poll and the sports network poll, as well as 7 computer rankings.