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That's similar to the University of Iowa's policy. They cancelled a baseball game with Bradley (Braves) last spring, but of course have no trouble playing Illinois. So bascially, "we're against exploiting Native American culture, unless of course there's a bunch of money involved". The quotes are mine.

One of the very articles about Cityscapes mentioned the gentlemen involved. If my feeble mind serves me correctly, I believe the president (or CEO or whatever) is a UND alum, while the second-in-command is an NDSU alum.

Did she sign a National Letter of Intent. Remember USD's 2004 football recruiting class; I think they "signed" 36 kids. Alot of those were walk-on's who apparently signed institutional letters of intent. Maybe UND has something similar?

I never really expected much of Dobmeier. He's only about 6'0 and not very quick. I alway figured he'd be like a Scott Mzrjkak (sp), who will hit an occasional 3 now and then. I think Jacobsen has been the biggest disappointment. For a guy who started a handful of games for UNI as a redshirt freshman I figured he'd be an all-conference caliber player for the Sioux by his junior year.

You're correct, Adam Dobmeier won Mr. Basketball that year.

I'm definitely no lawyer, but I just can't see where the students would have a leg to stand on. Even though the original intent of Title IX has been bastardized by liberal activist judges (end of political rant), it would be a huge stretch to interpret it as giving precedence to local interests.

I think I can kind of see your point, but I think you're opening up a can of worms if you approach the subject in that manner. According to the NCAA website there's about 10,000 people nationwide that compete at equestrian at the high school level, while there's only a handful of schools that sponsor the "sport". So I think providing opportunities for girls to compete is the important thing, regardless of sport. If feminists are going to go after equestrian, they'll also have to go after all the universities that recently started offerring women's crew.

Equestrian is recognized by the NCAA as an emerging sport, and they state... "An emerging sport is a sport recognized by the NCAA that is intended to provide additional athletics opportunities to female student-athletes. Institutions are allowed to use emerging sports to help meet the NCAA minimum sports-sponsorship requirements and also to meet the NCAA's minimum financial aid awards." ...so I don't think there would ever be a push for some kind of Title IX lawsuit. Equestrian is cheap with a high number of participants, which I don't think the other sports you mentioned can claim. Emerging sports

That's impossible, I've never been wrong on an internet message board before.

That's a good question. Supposedly we only played DI teams this year that promised a return trip, minus K-State which was a 2-for-1 deal, and of course the UW-GB tournament. So if that's the case that would mean Manhattan, Denver, UMKC, Eastern Michigan, and Oakland. I would expect to see more however. I honestly can't say if those teams will bring the fans out in droves but I do think initially there will be a lot curiosity in seeing DI teams in Fargo and I think alot of bball fans are interested in seeing our redshirt freshmen play. So in my fantasy world there will be good attendance early, the Bison men will win/be competitive thus maintaining interest and therefore fan attendance. Time will tell.

Moeller's situation may be true. Justin Monson was denied a sixth year of eligibility for next year, although he would have been eligible under DII rules. As for NDSU's attendance, it's not great but probably around where I though it would be. Next year I'd like to see an average of ~3000, but that's probably being unrealistic. Edit: Corella, have you heard anything about Lott from NDSCS. Supposedly, he's getting interest from some high majors, but of course you have to take that with a grain of salt. Does NDSU have a snowball's chance in hell of landing him?

Probably not this year. Seriously though, I dont' think Playmakers is that great, but I've never been there on a gameday. I was at Joe Senser's a long time ago when there was a Nebraska game on, and the atmosphere was awesome. It's probably hard to compare different sports bars if you're not there during main events.

I grew up about 2 hours away from Bismarck but never spent a lot of time there. It seems everybody who has ever lived there absolutely loved it. Why? I'm pretty interested because I have a decent shot of landing a job when I'm done with graduate school. By the way, I grew up a 1/2 hour away from Minot and don't think I would ever consider moving back there. IMO, the worst "city" in ND.

I would think Fargo would be able to aborb the loss of the Air National Guard unit better than Grand Forks would if the GFAB were to close. I don't have any numbers, but just based on the relative sizes of the two communities and the effect those respective units have on each communitie's economy.

I only saw him play once last year (against Iowa) and it looked he was playing on the wing a lot. I don't know how he would play as a 4, but he seems to have the perfect body. How is UW-GB utilizing him this year?

It seems to me there are two different discussions going on. One is the removal of the current I-A and I-AA designations. This would result in a Bowl Championship Series and Playoff Championship Series. The BCS would of course consist of the current BCS conferences and maybe a few other teams. The PCS would consist of most of the current I-AA teams and a handful of teams that currently play I-A. I don't think this would affect DII at all. The second discussion centers on allowing DII teams to play football at the I-AA level. From my understanding, those would be the only divisions involved in the restructuring. I think the first proposal has a better chance of passing than the second.

Are you two coming to a consensus? If so, this very well could be a first in internet message board history.

I think that can be attributed at least in part to the fact that UND and NDSU athletics are big time here. I would guess most people in Arkansas could care less about Central Arkansas. I for one think it's great that UND/NDSU get the coverage they do for not being high-profile DI programs.

I personally think Southern Utah would be the odd man out. I also think SDSU is more attractive than UNC, as I don't think the Bears will make the commitment to football (this is just my opinion). I think the Big Sky would have taken SUU already if they had a legitimate chance. Here's how I see the future Big Sky (if in fact UND does go DI). NDSU-UND SDSU-UNC Montana-Montana St. Eastern Washington-Idaho State Weber State-Northern Arizona Sac. St.-Portland St. The only problem with this scenario is that there are 4 provisional schools in one of the divisions. Also, with UND being two years behind the SU's and three behind UNC this would have a negative effect on the Montana schools RPI (I'm thinking basketball) moreso than the Eastern schools since the Bobcats and Grizzlies would play these 4 schools twice.

I applied for a USDA job at the end of August and they said it would be about 6 months before I was even contacted for an interview. Of course that does give me time to finish this stupid dissertation.

Yes, it was quite vague. As far as hurting the fundraising for the BSA, of course it would be approximately 1MM less for the BSA if those funds were use to cover existing athletic department debt. The main point I was trying to make is that it's silly to talk about a 1MM deficit that was reported about 6 months ago. Erv's been out fundraising and that could be gone by now. And I think comparing fundraising for an athletic facility and a beef processing plant is comparing apples and oranges. How much did Ralph give to academic facilities? I'm guessing it wasn't anywhere near 100MM.

No, I wasn't talking about the locker rooms. I'll try to find but I think it was 6-8 weeks ago. I'll see what I can do. Ask and ye shall receive. From the story the money was seemingly donated toward the expected BSA renovation, but it may have went to offsetting any estimated budget deficits.1MM donation The part about the donation is at the very bottom of the article

If the money is coming from private sources, does the public really deserve to know?