MplsBison
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I've recently seen the award winning documentary "Gasland" and am convinced that we need install tight regulation and oversight on companies trying to harvest natural gas from these shale formations.
Naive question: is there any way to harvest these shale bounties without fracking?
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What are the odds that Carlson will convince the NCAA executives that UND should continue to use the nickname with just one tribe's approval?
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First recorded high school football game in North Dakota - 1906.
First recorded Bison football game - 1894.
Shut it down?
Wrongs of the past are no excuse to commit wrongs in the future.
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It's now a Minnesota HS League sanctioned sport.
And UND and NDSU were playing softball and baseball long before the NDHSAA sanctioned the sports. (But we've been over this. You're just being ... well, ... you.)
Wrongs of the past are no excuse to commit wrongs in the future.
No lacrosse at UND or NDSU until it's a ND high school sport. That's my $0.02.
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New development in men's lacrosse:
Stanford Daily: USC to add women's lacrosse now, men's lacrosse later
With the budget crisis in California and in most western states, private schools like USC and Stanford are practically the only ones that can afford adding sports. With USC getting on board for men's lacrosse, there could actually be a western conference:
USC
Stanford (also rumored)
Denver
Air Force
one or two Texas schools (SMU , UT) (rumored)
With an existing facility that is basically perfect for lacrosse in a northern climate (Alerus), a practice facility rumored, 12 schollies max, incredible lax growth in Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and California, the national sport of Canada to provide recruits, the need for a spectator spring-time sport for UND, and the chance to associate with name schools, the time for action at UND is drawing near.
University of North Dakota, right?
Not until it's offered to ND high school students.
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I think you missed it when he said the first game be a PLAYOFF game. BSC champs (UND) hosting 3rd place in the MVFC (NDSU).
You didn't know that playoff games are bid out by the NCAA?
Unless you're one of the top 4 seeded teams in the playoffs (in which case you automatically host), the rest of the games are bid on by the rest of the pool. The schools that bid the most get to host. I believe first round pairs are then chosen based on geography of the hosts and non-hosts. Something like that.
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I'd like to see the first installment of a UND-NDSU game be in the playoffs in the Alerus in 2012. First playoff game for both teams. Big Sky Champ vs 3 rd place MVFC.
Unless you're seeded, NDSU will outbid you every time for the game. We have more seats and thus more revenue to offer the NCAA.
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There won't be a real rivalry again until the teams are in the same conference. Playing every two or three years is not going to cut it.
As a simple matter of logistics, I would think that NDSU and UND are destined to be in the same conference. Although, there are plenty of examples of dual flagship states where each is in a different conference (Iowa comes to mind). Hopefully that isn't the case. I'd rather see ND like Michigan.
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SDSU 2025 Athletics Facilities Master Plan
Here is a link to what SDSU is hoping to do with their athletic facilities. If they can accomplish all of that in the next 15 years that will be a pretty impressive athletics complex. They could end up with some pretty impressive FB facilities.
It's nice that they have a document that details their "wish list". I'm sure any school could make a nice plan for $100+ million in facilities.
Getting the Dykhouse facility built is a huge step for them - that's a top level facility for the FCS level. If they can get their indoor practice facility done, that will be huge as well.
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http://www.arguslead...S0202/10130315/
Interesting that both are 15000 or better, the minimum for FBS play.
Both sets of updates are badly needed. SD's flagship U's badly lag behind ND's.
I don't think the SDSU stadium would be new...really just a renovation of CAS. That and the indoor facility have already been drawn up.
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Thanks for the intersection info. I can get it from that. Your google map location puts it somewhere in western Wyoming, which would be great for Big Sky matches.
Maybe this will work?
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That, Sir, is all our group would like to see. A thorough airing of this issue, a debate and discussion based on facts, and finally an opportunity for the the people, now educated enough to make an informed choice.
Thank you!
Reality is...even if you could somehow convince the majority of ND people that this was a sound, reasonable idea...there are too many vested interests and people with power who will be against it. UND and NDSU are powerful, separate entities within the state of ND.
You might as well be proposing that the ND house and senate combine into a single entity. It really is the same thing, IMO. It just doesn't matter if you're right or wrong...it won't be allowed to happen.
You're not even fighting a losing battle...you plain have no army to begin with.
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I'm too lazy to look through this entire thread, so I'll just ask the question--how much is an indoor practice facility expected to cost?
Youngstown State is building something similar for $11.4 million to what UND proposed: http://www.youtube.com/user/ysusports#p/c/DBECC50AF7C7E7C3/5/YNmsurl4NAE
I do like the 300m track surrounding an almost full 120 yard football field (track clips the corners) facility. Penn State and Akron already have them as well.
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I for one vote that when UND joins the Summit League, star2 is banned from attending or watching UND's Summit League games.
He hates the Summit League so badly for their phantom transgressions that he created from thin air, it shouldn't be a problem!
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Pretty scary when an AD at a major FCS player says something like ...
Just by saying it means that he and other FCS folks consider it within the realm of possibilities.
Tough to imagine 100+ (or however many FCS schools there are) moving to FBS or DII/DIII. How else could FCS "fail"? If anything, they'll just lower scholarship maximums and try to reduce travel as much as possible, to save money.
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I didn't think the letter was real, but ODay admitted it was in that link from what I read.
I made the point on AGS and it's probably even more valid now that the letter is genuine: FCS football is just DII football with more scholarships. FBS is where the money is.
Hopefully it doesn't take NDSU (and UND) another 30 years to follow their peers up to the next level. Ideally, we should be where Utah State is by now.
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The only expansion that needs to be going on at NDUS institutions is the expansion of research, partnerships with ND businesses and spin-off companies. That's where the value is.
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I actually agree with most of what you wrote that I ultimately deleted, but wanted to point at that what I left in the quotes there isn't entirely true. Sure, most students don't stay in North Dakota who are from other places, but I am one of multiple examples that prove your comment wrong. I'm from Wisconsin, went to school at UND (obviously), but have a job lined up in North Dakota once I get cleared to do so.
You have to realize that there are a ton of North Dakota kids who have lived there their whole lives that go to school at UND or NDSU, but end up leaving the state as well. It's just the way things are in NoDak.
Sure. But you're the exception.
Bringing in 10k additional high school kids a year from Minn, Wisc and other exchange states is not going to result in 10k new ND residents a year. Even 1% of that would be great but probably not reality.
New research projects and the spin-off companies that come from those projects are the best thing the state can get from the schools. My $0.02
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The tennis courts needed to be moved anyway. They are in horrible condition and isolated from the rest of the general student facilities. Maybe they can find a way to build four new courts close to the wellness center. Maybe as part of a recreational swimming addition at some point.
As for the size and lack of a football field in the middle, I've got no problem with that. We can throw a bubble over Dacotah in the short-term(it will now be protected on three sides), and one field could be permanently enclosed at some point in the future when they tear down the north stands and flip the fields N/S. In the long-term, having specialized facilities will be better than one facility trying to do everything(a major complaint with today's BSA). And I'm pretty sure the track is going to be banked; we'll know for sure in a couple hours.
Yeah that sounds nice...but it also sounds expensive and a long...long way off. I'd almost rather have the indoor facility sooner rather than wait for all those bells and whistles in 15 years..
And there are a few schools that have the 300m/indoor football field thing. Off the top of my head I know Akron built one and Youngstown St is building one or has built one. That's about NDSU's level, I think. When I think of a separate, dedicated indoor football practice field type of building I mostly think of BCS schools or bigger schools. That would be great if NDSU could eventually get one, but like I say it sounds like a long way off...
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Now that it's official, we can bring up this thread one last time before closing it out. In about three hours, NDSU and Sanford will be announcing a $36 million donation from Sanford and several others. $31 million will go into the BSA, about $3 million will go into a indoor track facility just west of Dacotah Field, and about $2 million will go to paying off the Development Foundation loan that helped pay for the football office complex in the Fargodome. Details will come at 2:00, but construction will almost certainly begin this winter or spring.
Too bad we couldn't get enough to build a true indoor practice facility (the ones that have a 300m track with an almost full sized football field in the middle).
At $3 million, it will be just enough for a structure and a 200m oval, probably not even banked. In other words, just taking what's in the BSA already and moving it to an out-building. And all that to lose the tennis courts, which are used by the students (not by the athletic dept).
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IMO, the answer is no. NDSU and UND are more than aptly serving the mission of educating those ND high school students that want a 4 year or advanced degree. At this point, further expansion of undergraduate enrollment serves only to use ND tax dollars to educate more students from Minn, Wisc. and other state's students from the student exchange programs.
It's not particularly helpful as those students just return to their home states anyway.
The much better purpose, IMO, is the expansion of the graduate programs and research activities, including partnerships with private companies in ND to conduct research and spin-off companies from research projects. That's the biggest benefit by far to the state. Undergrad students just help pay the bills.I'd rather see the state kick in more dollars than force the schools to expand undergrad size in order to fund research growth.
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Someone start a counter-proposal to combine all Mayville, Valley city, Dickenson and Minot into a single school. That would save far more money.
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Team North Dakota is on record opposing the closure of any institution of higher education in our Great State. We do favor the discussion on combining the two schools of UND and NDSU where 70% of expenditures take place.
Ah. Now I get it.
This whole charade is nothing more than a tongue-in-cheek retort from the small schools to the never ending calls for the NDUS's smallest universities to be closed and resources re-allocated to the research universities, NDSU and UND.
Instead, your "how do you like it!" idea on saving money is to combine NDSU and UND to reduce costs.
That's cute.
Guess what? Too bad. The money and the power in the NDUS is in the red river valley and always will be. If I had it my way, there wouldn't be a single bachelor's degree awarded from any NDUS school, except NDSU and UND. That's how it should be, like Wyoming except two flagships instead of one.
Parents from all corners of Minnesota send their kids to be educated at the U of Minnesota in Minneapolis, because that's the state's flagship campus. That's where you go if you want the highest class of post secondary education the state can offer. Same in North Dakota.
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I completely support the idea that the NDUS could use more work to make it a more efficient system that fits the profile of our state. It is a bit rediculous that North Dakota has 11 public higher-ed institutions. On top of that, there are more 4 year institutions that 2 year. Add in UMary and Jamestown College and ND is way too saturated with 4 year universities. There is also no reason that we need 4 institutions offering graduate level degrees. Once again, you add in UMary's Masters program and we again have too many universitites fighting for graduate students.
I think that the state combing all colleges and universities into 1 university system was a great first step. The roundtables that were to continue to shape the system have unfortunately been extremely disappointing and inefficient. I appreciate the idea that Team North Dakota has as far as continuing to improve the university system, I just don't see how taking the 2 highest profile universities in the system and combining them without addressing any of the other issues in the system is good for ND. Why would we not want to have as many high profile, nationally ranked universities as possible?
Different ideas have been adressed numberous times in different forums such as this, the media, or in community settings, but here is my humble vision for the NDUS:
Top 100 nationally ranked graduate/research institutions:
UND
NDSU
Top ranked regional universities, undergraduate only:
Central Dakota University (Minot)
Western Dakota University (Dickinson)
2 year regional colleges:
Williston State College
Bottineau State College
Lake Region State College
Bismarck State College
Valley City State College
Mayville State College
North Dakota State College of Science
I think that every college and university in the state needs to have a better defined mission. The two year colleges would be trade/tech schools as well as feeder schools to the 4 four-year universities. Each could have a specialization beyond their general offerings of english, math, science classes and cover a broad spectrum of offerings such as diesel tech, beautician/cosmotology/ message, etc. I would like to see Wahpeton go back to its science/tech roots. Bottineau could continue to specialize in forestry, game & fish, etc. Williston and Bismarck could build on their specializations in tech/associate degrees in energy. Valley City and Mayville would cover all of your general 2 year college courses and work as a net to catch all of the transfers and drop-outs of UND/NDSU that end up going over the boarder to Minnesota to all of their 2 year colleges.
WDU (Dickinson) and CDU (Minot) would focus on undergraduate degrees and not offer any of their own graduate level courses. Each should be in the 4-5,000 enrollment range.
UND and NDSU would continue to grow and build into top 100 national universities and build up their graduate level offerings. With today's technology, UND, NDSU, WDU and CDU could all offer 4 year degrees at the 2 year colleges through such things as IVAN, online, correspondence, etc. And then UND and NDSU could also offer graduate level degrees at WDU and CDU through the same means.
I think this would really streamline the system and give better missions to all of the universities as well as be a better use of resources. There is absolutely no reason that Valley City needs to be offering a graduate degree right now!
Minot, Dickenson, Valley City and Mayville would fight it to the bitter end. They'll play the BS "the big schools are picking on us poor, rural ND" and "the big city ND leaders out east don't care about the small town ND people anymore!" cards. They'll make it a really ugly, PR nightmare.
Truth is that even if that's what's best for the system and for the state...they don't care. They don't want to give up anything that they have now.
It would take a politician sacrificing his career in order to get this done, and no one wants to do that.
Oil Booms in North Dakota
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All practicality set aside - on a purely philosophical basis, combusting fossil fuels like natural gas is not the best way to fuel our power plants and cars. Fusion is the grail on the power plant side and not sure what will be the grail on the car side, but for sure it will be electric propulsion based (just a matter of what will store the charge: battery, fuel cell, other?).
Back in reality, I'm sorry to say that fossil fuels are the best thing we have -- for now. The most important short-term goal has got to be the US's energy independence. If domestic natural gas from shale can get us there, then I'm onboard. But there's absolutely not reason not to have government oversight and regulation to make sure it's properly harvested.