BigGreyAnt41

Free To Air simply means it's not encrypted. It's flying through the air and all you need is a dish to pick up the signal. And yea, they are only has big as a DirecTV dish now.

A discounted ticket, a big screen projector (presumably) and the ability to go tailgating? I'm sure there'd be a good crowd that would take part in something like that.

So who gets to wear number 9? Koivu or Parise?

Only if you have the time zone set incorrectly in your profile settings. Upper right corner, click on your name and choose My Settings.

Have we read for sure there isn't going to be a center field logo? Couldn't it go on after the fact, similar to how it's done at the Metrodome? They have artificial turf (maybe the same stuff the Alerus Center is getting) and they're able to apply logos and remove them to put on new logos whenever they want.

They should be able to encrypt the raw feed without any new hardware. I don't work in TV (nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night) but I don't see why it would take any more than that to keep people from snatching the signal out of the air to watch it for free.

Because this was the question that was posed:

Do you mean Brookings and Vermillion?

Just so it's clear to everybody, Fox College Sports is not a DirecTV-specific channel. It's a regular cable network. Comcast picked up all three of them (Atlantic, Central and Pacific) as full time channels. DirecTV picks up random bits of any of them. There have been times when games are on FCS, but DirecTV decides, for one reason or another, to not pick up a certain game.

Do we know anything about FTA availability for NCHC games yet?

Calvary or Cavalry? If you're going to nitpick silly things, so can the rest of us. You're not the only one amazed by that.

It's the "PC crowd" that thinks nobody can be offended by anything, and that if a single person is unhappy, then it should be changed. News flash: not everything that you don't like is actually bad. You don't have the "right" to not be offended by things. Deal with it.

You need to let this go. There was nothing in this thread about this conversation. You didn't have to bring it up. But since you did, yes FCS is "substandard". Nobody claims its the highest level of competition. But since its called "Division 1 FCS", that, by definition, makes it "true D-1". Just because it's "Division 1" doesn't mean it's the highest level, it's just a designation. Your constant ranting on this against everybody who disagrees with you is really getting old.

Interesting....that part of the article wasn't up when I first read it. Yea....they just really f'ed up.

Do you really think the NCAA makes their own banners and sends them out? I'm sure they hire some company make it, and it was the fault of whatever company actually made the banner.

If the limb would have otherwise killed the body, then it is reason for celebrating.

I'm not complaining, and I don't think the ride is too long, especially for the cost savings versus parking downtown or staying in a hotel downtown. I was just pointing out that 15 minutes from MOA to Metrodome isn't possible.

MOA to Target Field - 39 minutes MOA to Metrodome - 30 minutes Feel free to add it up yourself: http://metrotransit....e-route-55.aspx 45+ isn't out of the question to get from MOA to Target Field, but there's no way you made it to the Metrodome in 15 minutes.

I've heard a lot of comments about limited peripheral vision and that one reason for the 3/4 or 1/2 shield is for increased visibility. So with that in mind, it was a perfect analogy.

Why don't we make cars safer by removing a bunch of the glass windows and just having solid metal sides and rear? After all, you still have the windshield to look out of to see where you're going, right?

The joke doesn't really work when gas in Grand Forks is more expensive than gas in the Twin Cities. Plus is not just about the $15. Its just as much about the time spent going to the games.

So "taking off the blinders" and changing your viewpoint is worse than sticking to a harmful viewpoint?

St Thomas University in St Paul? Their undergrad enrollement is about 6,200.

Maybe that's on purpose...

I believe they won't put regionals on campus anymore.