NDSU grad

It's bad enough you'd hijack a thread; it's even worse you'd come on a rival's message board and do it.

I think the fact that Potts continuously goes to the media to air his grievances while Chapman refuses to partake in these grade school antics says alot about the leadership qualities of these two men.

What I find interesting is how two people with a fairly modest earning potential (a teacher and an engineer) can amass that much money. People from that generation were just unbelievable when it came to managing money. I suppose it also helped they didn't have any blood-sucking leeches (i.e. kids).

I'm pretty sure IowaBison was being serious. Anybody who's spent any time at Iowa State could tell you how much a garden can add to a university environment.

I could be wrong about this (it would only be about the eigth time today ) but I think the SU's will be considered active DI institutions in 06-07. That's why wrestling and volleyball will be tourney eligible this year. Basically, the old rules stated there was a two-year waiting period to be playoff-eligible. Well, institutions that move up still have to go through that two-year period; the NCAA tacked on three years where a school is in limbo (not really DI, not really DII). At least this is the way I interpreted the NCAA manual.

Hmmm, I would guess that would pretty much hand-deliver NDSU and SDSU to the Mid-Con, if we get invited. I don't think the NDSU administration is going to wait until October for a "maybe" if they get a definite "yes" in June.

Yes it had been whopping two years since we'd seen the post-season in football, so your scenario makes perfect sense.

Press conference is at 1:30, Kolpack reported he turned the job down on his blog at about 11, and then of course there is this

The way I figure the Mid-Con will add 2-4 teams out of IPFW, SDSU, NDSU, Utah Valley State, and UTPA. UND may be in the mix. I don't know if the Mid-Con views Centenary and Southern Utah as being long-term members of the Mid-Con, in which case UTPA and Utah Valley State make little sense. You'd think if they wanted to add IPFW they would have done it by now to get to ten. How do they feel about the Dakota schools? I really don't know; you don't really hear much from the Mid-Con about us. I guess time will tell.

It looks like Miles has turned down the UNC-Wilmington job. Of course, this relates to UND in that Smith should almost be guaranteed the UND job (IMO).

It sounds like Huse is the guy at Montana State, according to Bobcat Nation.

What's kind of interesting is that both NDSU and UND may make a play for Smith if Miles gets offerred the UNC-Wilmington job.

The first thing I thought off when I saw the picture was "why would a guy from WV be wearing a Sioux hat". Then I clicked on the picture to enlarge it (apparently I was that intrigued) and saw it was a Notre Dame hat. At least I wasn't the only one who thought that.

Isn't '89 also the year McDermott was hired? I don't think that part of the equation will be replicated.

As far as I know, you are correct. Although the attendance requirement has never been enforced, and I seriously doubt it ever will.

No it's not. DI-A has no minimum stadium size requirement.

High school bball is quite a bit more popular than hockey in Minot. I don't really follow high school sports in Fargo right now so I can't really attest as to which is more popular here. I think Grand Forks is really the only town in ND that you could call a hockey town.

Well, I guess I'd consider that a wash, i.e. not statistically significant. So the question is, is having the bottom line stay the same a desirable outcome for moving to DI athletics? I don't think the higher-ups at NDSU ever stated one of their objectives from a move up was an increase in the bottom line (although I could be wrong). So I guess the answer for a lot of people would be yes. Well, I guess you would have to look at it as an investment. Is the "prestige" of being DI worth $2 MM a year? Is it possible to make up that $2 MM in increased enrollment (from being DI) or alumni giving (in other areas other that athletics)? The study you linked seems to say no, but that's probably an issue up for debate.

Sic, what's most interesting from the study you linked is that schools that are willing to make an investment are also willing to see a return. The table on page 18 shows that the median revenues and expenses for schools moving up were about equal (about 70,000 in the hole if my math is right). What this exactly means, I don't know, but maybe a conclusion you could draw is that schools who are committed to making a successful move will have more success financially?

I'd always wondered about the God-awful web design. I guess I didn't realize it was a corporate-wide policy. The worst part of this deal is that I will no longer get to tease my wife, who thought "Knight Rider" owned the GF Herald. I used to ask her if K.I.T.T. was the managing editor.

That's the first thought I had.

I'm not a TeamMaker but I think contributions to that organization has nearly doubled. Also, there is a considerable amount of donations that don't go through TeamMakers. It would probably be a little harder to get accurate numbers on how those contributions have changed.

Kooistra has been extremely vocal in his disdain for SDSU's move to DI, and from the pieces I've seen him write to the Argus, is a little off his rocker. I think he also publishes a small left-wing newspaper that expounds on some of his more radical views.

Wow, that's kind of interesting. Is this pretty recent, and by support do they mean financial or verbal.