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Ross Pankratz was not recruited very hard by either NDSU or UND. Glas offerred him to walk on and redshirt and potentially earn a scholarship. NDSU didn't even offer him that. I don't know what Northern offerred, but I'm guessing at least a partial scholarship. I think Dustin Undlin was recruited much harder by NDSU and UND, but it was one of the few instances where Northern won a recruiting battle. Of course, Pankratz turned out to be quite a bit better player in college. I don't really know about any of the other ND kids.
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That is incorrect. The paperwork must be received in the NCAA office by Sept. 1 of the year that is declared the exploratory year-(it appears it was amended this year)
From the handy, dandy, NCAA DI Manual :
2006/2007 would be the earliest UND could start the exploratory year.
My bad, I guess I'll have to take the "NCAA Division I Manual" refresher course
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I could probably find the answer to this by digging, but I know that some people have the answer at hand. What is the deadline for a school to declare a change of classification, exploratory or otherwise?
If UND got the paperwork to the NCAA by Wednesday, 05-06 would be their "exploratory" year. Obviously, that's probably not going to happen.
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Jim's made it perfectly clear that smack is not permitted on this board, nor is any talk not related to UND. Tony has not made any such rules on Bisonville. There would probably be as many NDSU/smack-related posts here if Jim governed this board in a similar fashion.
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Amazing how on a $7,668,848 set of expenses they had exactly $7,668,848 in revenues.
Why'd the words "Arthur Anderson" and "Enron" just jump into my head?
My guess (and that's all it is) is that we used tuition waivers to cover the deficit.
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Are you implying a $1 million grant is actually $1.4 million or $0.6 million (research) and $0.4 million (indirects)?
Let me use 40% as a ballpark ($1 million plus $0.4 million)...
NDSU - FY03
Federal Grants - $37.940 million
$37.940 million x 0.4 = $15.976 million (indirects)
So...
$46.276 million (Institutional Funds) - $15.976 million (indirects)= $30.3 million
It would appear to me that NDSU is spending a lot of its OWN money on research? Admirable.
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As to your first question, I guess it depends. Generally if you hear in the news that a researcher received a $1 million grant, that (in your example) would mean a total of $1.4 million was received. The Department of Agronomy (and perhaps every department in the university) divvied up this indirect money in roughly the following way. About 50% to the university, 25% to the college, 20% to the department, and 5% to the actual researcher. What specifically this money was used for I have no idea. NSF and NIH grants are by far the most desirable, since they contain the most indirect monies. USDA grants suck as far indirect monies, I think they cap out about 15%. I have no idea what the DOE and DOD doles out relative to indirect spending.
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Before I say anything else, let me say this. Coach Bohl has done a great job of turning around NDSU from a 2-8 D2 program into an obviously talented 1AA team. I'm not going to argue whether or not they are more talented right now than UND is. There are no logical facts that either side could use to make a point. Here's the point I'm going to make. Even though NDSU may have a lot of D1 recruits, most of the players currently playing and making an impact were recruited before the D1 move. Let's take a look at the starting units
Babich= D2 recruit
Bohl= D1 recruit
Offense
QB Steve Walker (Babich)
RB Kyle Steffes (Babich)
FB/HB Andy Dellabare (Babich)
TE AJ Cooper (Bohl)
WR Travis White (Babich, I know he's injured, but thought I'd point out)
WR Marques Johnson (Babich)
WR Kole Heckendorf (Bohl)
Little unsure who starts on the O-line, so correct me if i'm wrong
LT Nate Safe (Babich)
LG Jake Erickson (Babich)
C Hugh Medal (Babich)
RG Justin Buckwalter (Babich)
RT Tim Popowski (Babich)
Originally 10 of 11 starters were D2 Babich recruits. Now it is 9 of 11. My own ignorance of the offensive line could cause this to change by maybe 1.
Defense
DE Alvin Robinson (Bohl)
DT Rodney Thompson (Bohl)
DT Justin Frick (Babich)
DE Isaac LaVant (Bohl)
WLB Kole Zimmerman (Babich)
MLB Joe Mays (Babich)
SLB Maresh or Compton? (Bohl)
CB Bobby Babich (Babich)
CB Scott Walter (Babich)
SS Craig Dahl (Babich)
FS Nich Shommer (Bohl)
This side is a little more of the Bohl recruits, but more still came from D2 Babich. 6 of 11 are D2 recruits.
Special Teams
P Mike Dragosovich (Babich)
K Cory Vartanian (Babich)
R Shamen Washington (Bohl)
2 of 3 D2 Babich Recruits. If you count Johnson as another returner, you get 3 of 4.
So, looking at it all, at the beginning of the year, 15 of the 22 starters on offense and defense were from NDSU's D2 days. That number is now 14 of 22. Including ST, at the beginning of the year 16 of 25 of the players were D2 recruits.
To go away from numbers, let's look at impact. According to you guys, Walker is the next Brett Favre, and he has so far put up numbers to back up your guys' claims. He was a D2 Babich recruit. Kyle Steffes, starting RB putting up great numbers. D2 recruit. Tim Popowski, top O-lineman on team, D2 Babich recruit. On defense, Ray Lewis (sorry, I mean Joe Mays), D2 Babich recruit. Steady Zimmerman, D2 Babich recruit. 3/4 of Seconday, D2 Babich recruits.
The argument could be made that the D1 recruits have made the depth chart a little deeper. I have no reason or proof to dispute this. But the fact is, the players having the biggest impact on this year's team are actually those that were recruited while NDSU was D2. Is the talent level really that different?
Please answer intelligently.
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I hate to get involved in this silly pissing match. Woden, that's a pretty good break down. Put Tadisch in place of Erickson on the o-line (also a Babich recruit so the point is probably moot) and you nailed the starting lineup. The only thing I would disagree with is that the current sophomores who redshirted and juniors who played as true freshmen were recruited in 2003, after the plans to go DI were announced. I would consider them DI recruits, since they were basically promised more scholarship money after the transition was made.
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The final two finalists for the Bison head coaching job were Bohl and Casey Bradley. I think originally about 25 people applied for the job, then the last was narrowed down to maybe half a dozen or so. I can't really remember who was on the extended list (other than Rocky Hager).
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What's the turnaround time on the appeals process, i.e. when did Utah and Central Michigan file their appeals, and when can UND expect a response on their appeal?
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appropriated funds.
From those two sources it looks like the schools fund and operate athletics very differently. UND appears to try to be running athletics with self-generated revenues (tickets and donations) where NDSU has a significant budget fraction coming from funds (institutional support, state appropriated funds) that could have been used in other university departments.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think state universities in North Dakota had any voice when it came to appropriating state money. In other words, if the state appropriated 500,000 for athletics, that money had to be used to fund athletics.
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When they say they included the energy used in producing the crops, I wonder if they include photosynthetic reactions. I've never seen a study on the sustainability of ethanol that did not take into account fossil fuel use for crop production. Most even go so far as to include energy needed for production of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, yet the numbers from this study are quite different from recent investigations on ethanol sustainability.
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I applaud Gene Taylor if the Arkansas-Monticello guarantee is in the $30k range. I seem to recall a few years back when NDSU was reportedly paying guarantees in the neighborhood of $50k for games against some pretty bad teams, e.g. MSU-Moorhead, which seemed like a huge waste of money considering the quality of the opponents. I don't recall whether that was the work of Taylor or Entzion, however.
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Those games ( I use the word loosely) were the work of Entzion.
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You guys are right, western ND was fairly dry unitl June, and I don't know many people west of the river. I was just browsing NDAWN and randomly picked a few spots around the state and of the few I picked all reported above average precipitation in June.
I haven't driven across Lake Sakakawea in a long time but had heard it is far below normal, but I think that can be attributed to very low snowfall totals in the Northern Rocky Mountains for quite a few years in a row.
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But, on a more serious note, did any of you guys see the artical on the drought in the latest National Geographic magazine that's affecting most of the west? On their little map, they showed that the most western part of North Dakota being effected by the drought. Correct me if I'm wrong, But Devil's Lake is a natural reservior that would need a whole lot more water before it would overflow naturally out. If I was you guys, I would want to be hanging on to that water, not in a hurry to get rid of it. There's plenty of room in North Dakoka. Find a spot a little higher up to build your lakefront houses people.
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I don't know if Western Ward County is technically considered Western North Dakota but that part of the state is definitely not in a drought. Record wheat yields last year and part of Highway 52 got washed out in a torrential rain storm just the other night. In fact, I think it's safe to say pretty much the whole state is in an extemely wet cycle.
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The pumps and lifts are in place and pumping the DL basin into the Sheyenne may have already begun. AS far as I know there are no controls over the timing or flows that will be created by the pumping. As you probably know the SHeyenne flows into the Red very near Fargo, after passing through Lake Ashtabula and VC and through much of the farmland south of I94 and east of VC. When DL pumping coincides with Sheyenne Valley and RRV flooding, the fight pitting landowner against landowner and city against city will be staged in ND, long before that water ever enters Manitoba. I would guess anyone could make a good guess as to whom will win that political battle when it occurs.
The Devils Lake area demands to pipe water into the basin from Lake Sakakawea just over 10 years ago were not met in the short term before the basin began filling and flooding. Somehow I have trouble feeling sorry for any area whose watersheds are totally destroyed, and whose solution is to get water from someone else when they have too little, and pass the problem on to others when they have too much.
The pumped DL basin will take a very long trip through some very rich cropland (the richest in ND) as well as ND's largest cities (GF and Fargo), before ever entering Manitoba.
From http://savethesheyenne.org/:
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[Always thought you were a rocket scientist.
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Close. Soil Scientist
You seem to know quite a bit about hydrology. Do you have any journal articles to back up your opinions. I'm not trying to call you out or anything; I'd seriously like to read them.
Like all of North Dakota, the Devils Lake region is a very immature landform, with a throughflow type drainage system. The leading expert in the country in wetland hydrology resides at NDSU, and I know he's stated the hydrology regarding the Devils Lake region is complex enough that he puts little faith in predictive models regarding the lake's levels. We can argue until we're both blue in the face, but I would take some substantial data to get me to believe that conservation tillage and a return of the region's ephemeral wetlands would even make a dent in the current lake levels. I tend to believe it's a natural cycle and we could have done little to prevent it.
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The Capital Times - scroll down for UW's policy regarding the scheduling of teams with American Indian names, logos and mascots
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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.
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Once again with this whole thing is that still NDSU wants to be just like UND. My guess is that most of the people involved with City Scapes is an NDSU booster.
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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.
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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?
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I believe Lindahl (Cando), Dobmeier (Fargo South) and Adam Jacobson (Shanley) all came out of high school the same year, and it appeared all would have outstanding college careers. Unfortunately, none of them has really performed up to expectations IMO. Lindahl has clearly been the best of the three, and does have an all-conference selection to his credit, but he's still got to be considered an under-achiever thus far considering his 6'10" height and shooting ability. At least he has another year to go (as does Jacobson) due to having taken a red-shirt year, but Lindahl's defense and Jacobson's offense have a long way to go to be considered anything other than at least somewhat disappointing. I'm not sure whether Dobmeier's problems were injury-related, weight-related, or something else altogether, but he certainly hasn't been the explosive athlete and scorer in college that he was at Fargo South.
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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.
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im pretty sure he lost the ND mr. bball
clarification anyone?
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You're correct, Adam Dobmeier won Mr. Basketball that year.
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Essentially, my question is in a situation where a school isn't Title IX compliant and must add a women's sport, does local interest or demand necessarily play any role in the university's decision as to which sport to add? If a group of NDSU female students who were competitive swimmers, tennis players or gymnasts filed a complaint over the the addition of equestrian instead of one of their sports--which clearly are more popular locally in terms of participation and history-- would they have a leg to stand on?
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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.
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Not trying to hijack the thread (ok, maybe I am), but I've heard alot of talk about Trenbreath. Is it guaranteed he will play next year. If so, that's fantastic. When he first got injured I was worried he wouldn't even be able to live a "normal" life. Now it looks like he might be playing football again.