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I heard of a sting in Fargo back in the Backpage days where police posed as johns and targeted providers. The police used the sting to get the sex workers alone to inquire about their safety and to give them contact information if they needed help. If the pimps showed up, they were arrested. The sex workers were not arrested and I believe some or all were given a gift card to a local grocery store or something like that along with the offers of help. If you're actually trying to stop human trafficking(a noble cause), that seems about 1000x more effective than what GFPD just did.
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2 hours ago, JohnboyND7 said:
I was under the impression turf had to be green now unless you were grandfathered in?
That was a proposed rule, but it never went through. The NFL doesn't allow it without permission, but no team has ever asked for it. Currently, Boise State holds the trademark rights to ANY non-green artificial turf. So if you are a middle school, high school, college, or pro team and want a non-traditional turf in any color, you need to get their permission. They license any color but blue and orange for free, and those other two colors(especially blue) are handled on a case-by-case basis. Considering Idaho State's proximity to Boise, I wouldn't be surprised if ISU has to pay a bit if they want black and orange turf. OTOH, Boise may just wave it though since they're in different subdivisions.
Honestly, I like that field a lot more than UCA's, Boise's, or EWU's. The black keeps the orange from being overpowering. Hell, it's even better than UNI's field and that one's even green/green(UNI chose a really bad shade of contrasting green).
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1 hour ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
so all of sudden bizon fans are sick of beating up the incarnate word and wofford? go figure!
UIW was a good choice for you to use; Wofford, not so much. In the DI era, Wofford has had a better scoring ratio against NDSU than UND has. Wofford has been outscored 3.3 to 1 (2 games), while UND has been outscored 3.7 to 1 (3 games).
I would have gone with UIW, Butler, Mississippi Valley State, and Robert Morris. Those have been nothing but beatdowns.
Carry on.
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3 hours ago, UND Fan said:
Thanks, Hammer!
Interestingly, it was someone from the university who asked the question!
At a guess, I'd figure around 500 active members, maybe less. But that's completely a guess.
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On 5/28/2021 at 11:11 AM, UND Fan said:
Non-football related but I will ask the question here? I have been asked how many members ss.com has. I have been able to find that on the site before. Can anyone assist?
I believe it's 8,883. Now how many of those are active is a whole different question.
I went into search -> member search -> hit the search button without entering anything. Got 8,883 results.
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36 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Holy crap!
That's Iron Man in the video!
Bangles recorded it for a forgettable movie called Less Than Zero, starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, RDJ, & James Spader.
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1 hour ago, NewUndFan said:
Super value bought hornbackers . Hugo's negotiated with them that if they close their grand forks store they would change to the super value off brand of products. Super value gets money from selling their off brand to Hugo's and closes a marginal store . Only ones that lose are the people of grand forks losing another choice for a grocery store and Hugo's keeps their monopoly in town. I wish someone would come in and get rid of that monopoly. We don't need 6 Hugo's in town.
Not contradicting anyone here, just clarifying the timeline...
1975 - SuperValu buys Hornbacher's
2015 - Hornbacher's opens a GF location
2018(Jul) - A proxy fight of SuperValu results in its sale to United Natural Foods and the divestiture of all its grocery stores
2018(Nov) - Coborn's agrees to purchase 8 of the 9 Hornbacher's stores; only the GF location is not part of the deal
2018(Dec) - GF Hornbacher's closes
2018(Dec) - Coborn's takes possession of Hornbacher's assetsAny deal to close the GF Hornbacher's in exchange for SV/UNFI house brands in Hugo's would have had to have happened in a relatively short window in late 2018. It's also possible Coborn's just didn't want to add to their supply chain. They were already running trucks to the FM area for their four Cash Wise locations in Fargo, West Fargo, and Moorhead; maybe they didn't want to start running trucks to GF for a single store. Though a deal with SV/UNFI is certainly possible as Hugo's is currently carrying SV house brands like Essential Everyday and Wild Harvest and not SpartanNash house brands like Our Family.
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2 hours ago, Big Lubowski said:
Do you have the same numbers for the Bismarck/Mandan metro? It would be interesting to see if those more closely followed Fargo or GF? I’m betting the former...
BisMan:
1960 - 61,280
1970 - 66,978
1980 - 86,103
1990 - 89,973
2000 - 100,828
2010 - 114,778
2018 - 132,678But, hey, you could always be Wahp/Breck, which peaked in 1920.
1920 - 31,074
1930 - 30,799
1940 - 30,994
1950 - 30,432
1960 - 29,474
1970 - 27,478
1980 - 27,661
1990 - 25,664
2000 - 25,136
2010 - 22,897
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17 minutes ago, OgieOgilthorpe said:
Exactly! if you look back 20-30 years the 2 towns were extremely comparable in size. The flood was a big hit of course, but overall the poor long term leadership played a huge and horrible role in Gf falling so far behind when the 2 were very comparable. The two universities have always been very comparable in size and still are.
The Closer to large cities or “civilization”comment is dumb to me. Canadians love to come to the US, even when the FX is unfavorable. There is a metro of almost a million people (larger than all of ND) just across the border that used to flock to gf in giant armies. Now (pre-covid) they bypass gf for Fargo because everythings out of business in Gf.
Ehh, more like 50 years. Can't really compare GF and Fargo; you need to compare Greater GF and the FM metro.
Year - GreaterGF/FMMetro/FM bigger than GGF percent
1960 - 84,859/106,027/+25%
1970 - 95,537/120,238/+26%
1980 - 100,944/137,574/+36%
1990 - 103,181/153,296/+49%
2000 - 97,487/174,367/+79%
2010 - 98,461/208,777/+112%
2018 - 102,299/245,471/+140%-
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52 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:trouble? please go on....
Not really trouble. The CU board of regents are made up of elected members that declare party affiliation. A few years ago, the board had a 5-4 republican majority and decided to exercise that majority by forcing a republican (former)politician into the leadership job over a mostly left-leaning university system. After last year's election, the make up of the board has flipped to a 5-4 democrat majority and Kennedy's contract is about to come up for renewal. He can already see the writing on the wall that there is no way the current board is going to renew his contract and he's starting the transition process before they do.
Not saying he was a good or bad administrator at Colorado, just saying it wasn't a scandal that's causing him to leave. His fate was sealed when he was forced into the job over the objections of the system and then the balance of power flipped the other way.
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1 hour ago, UNDColorado said:
I can;t answer your question but I do know that if NDSU does not make it there will be a lot of tickets available on the secondary market.
Actually, not this time around. Last I heard, 100%* of the tickets were to go to the schools' allocations; none were going on sale directly from the NCAA. Now that was when the cap limit was 25%, so things might change if they decide to raise it to 50%.
*Well, maybe not 100%. But close enough that it makes no difference. I'm sure the NCAA is going to hold back a couple hundred tickets for their own use and give a handful to each of their top sponsors. But all the rest were to go directly to the two schools to distribute.
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12 minutes ago, Siouxperfan7 said:
The one and only NCAA Championship Committee poll looked like this for the top 6
1. JMU
2. NDSU
3. SDSU
4. Sam Houston
5. UND
6. Weber St.
Since that poll came out on April 1st, JMU has not played a game, NDSU has gone 2-0, SDSU has not played a game, Sam Houston has gone 2-0 and UND has not played a game. So a total of 3 games played by the top 5 teams. Not much action. Going into the last week, JMU plays #11 Richmond, NDSU and SDSU play each other, Sam Houston plays Incarnate Word, and UND does not play.
There is a good chance the loser of the NDSU/SDSU game drops out of the top 4 (but likely still in the playoffs). I think UND has a great chance to get to be a top 4 seed. Especially if SDSU loses since we beat them.
Exactly. I said UND #4 and Weber #5 because I think the loser of NDSU/SDSU will drop out of the seeding race. So maybe JMU, xDSU winner, & SHSU shift around a bit at 1-3, but UND slides safely into #4.
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2 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
So you're saying they could have really used ...
"... a quality loss ... " (c)UNI
Somebody had to say it.
You joke, but it actually would have helped either team's situation. MSU would look a lot better if they had done ANYTHING against Oklahoma(48-0) or NDSU(25-0). Same would be true if Weber had a single score loss to an FBS or top-5 FCS school in addition to their mediocre resume. At least it would show that they faced tough competition and did SOMETHING.
Of course, if this year's selection committee emphasizes negative criteria rather than positive*, then my thoughts are out the window.
*IOW, positive means a good win has more value than a loss. So UND's win vs. SDSU helps UND more than the loss to NDSU hurts. Negative criteria would mean any loss hurts more than a mediocre win helps. So Weber's ISU win is more valuable than UND's loss to NDSU.
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2 minutes ago, siouxfan512 said:
Not sure how you are so confident UND would be a 4 seed; I would be surprised. Maybe that comes from years of UND not being ranked up near the top, maybe its because this Spring season is so strange. UND (not by their own choice) has done nothing in the last month. We had a nice start to the season, got beat by NDSU and have been practicing ever since.
-NDSU or SDSU get a spot
-Weber will likely get one, though from what I have read they have been less than impressive as a 5-0 team and could easily get bounced in the playoffs.
-Sam Houston will get one.
-JMU and Delaware are both undefeated, but have a combined 1 win against a ranked opponent. This is the only spot you could make the argument for UND, is we have beat multiple ranked opponents, and our only loss is to the Bison. As I am typing this, I also see that both of those team currently only have 4 wins as well, but Delaware still plays Villanova this weekend and James Madison plays Richmond. I would think UND would need both JMU and Delaware to lose, but maybe that doesn't matter based on strength of schedule.
Would it help us if the Bison won this weekend? Maybe, in the eyes of the committee. Could it not make a difference in getting a seed; again, maybe, in the eyes of the committee. Tough to know what they will do or think given how strange this year is. I would be ecstatic if we were a seed, purely to solidify home field advantage, but I won't count on it either. Maybe a little of that MVFC love could finally play in our favor.
Regardless of what happens, we are in! Time to put in a strong showing and get some playoff wins. I don't want to add any more memories to the Richmond/Nicholls St category.
I don't think Weber is as much of a lock as you think. They played Idaho St twice, and barely squeaked by UCD, SUU & NAU. I could easily see the committee putting UND at 4 and Weber at 5. (They actually did already in their first(and only) mid-season ranking.) Weber's situation for a seed is the same as Missouri St's for a bid: they haven't done anything bad, but they haven't done anything impressive either.
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1 hour ago, siouxfan512 said:
So, I doubt we get a seed here, but I'll be interested to see if we are able to get a home game. We have seen just how important this is for UND. I'm definitely pulling for the Jacks this weekend, but not sure how that will impact home field advantage through the playoffs.
In other words, if we had to play the Bison again, it would be nice to see them have to go to GF. What would need to happen for this? Are bids only for the first round? Is that being done differently this year because of Covid? I assume the top 4 seeds automatically get home field advantage throughout.
I think you guys are a fairly comfortable #4. The loser of the Marker game is going to get bounced out of the seeds. If JMU loses to Richmond(a good chance), and/or SHSU loses to Incarnate Word, you might even see #2 or #3. So if NDSU loses on Sat and is on the same side of the bracket as UND, a rematch could happen in GF.
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41 minutes ago, Siouxperfan7 said:
I think UND makes the playoffs. I also think they host the first weekend. I really hope that they will reschedule the Senior day festivities for that first weekend to allow these Seniors to get the recognition they deserve. Not sure if there are any NCAA regulations for playoff games that would somehow prevent that, but I really hope UND would be able to do that.
100% UND is in the playoffs. I think 98% UND hosting(I'm fairly certain UND will get the 4 seed - but even hosting if they don't). I think you'd be pretty safe on the Senior Day stuff. It's a bit of a stretch*, but I think the rules would be relaxed this crazy year.
*NCAA is fine with hosting schools doing all of their regular home game stuff as long as it isn't mocking or degrading to the other team. ex. "That's another FIRST DOWN!" is fine; a recording of crying baby sounds when the opposing coach argues with an official is not. Senior Day stuff is not regular for a home game, but it's also not degrading at all to the visiting team. Would probably be a no go in a standard year, but a decent shot this year.
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1 hour ago, Siouxperfan7 said:
If this is not Covid related and they just decided to cancel the game, it should be a forfeit and we get the win.
Without question, the cancellation sucks, but what would a forfeit do in this case? UND is already a conference co-champion, an added win doesn't have any bearing on the MVFC automatic qualifier situation, and the playoff selection committee would ignore it. It would only be an extra, only-on-paper, win in the historic win/loss stats. And it's not like YSU would care; 1-7 instead of 1-6? Whoopdi-do in this messed up season.
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1 minute ago, siouxfan512 said:
Great write up. I had forgotten that the fall games played into this as well.
Just glad to be talking football again after a long month!
The fall losses don't hurt MSU all that much. One was to Oklahoma, the other two were fairly close losses(6pt & 9pt) to a Central Arkansas team that would likely be fighting for a seed if they had chosen to play in the spring. MSU's problem is that their spring wins are very weak. WIU, SIU, USD, UNI, and a late-season YSU. Those teams have a combined conference record of 9-21. And with the exception of the YSU game, they were all one-score wins. They didn't get SDSU on their schedule, their game against UND was cancelled, and they weren't able to score even a point against NDSU(25-0).
The end result is that their resume has literally no highlights. There's nothing super negative about it, but nothing good either. That's not going to cut it when we're talking about a situation where the MVFC would be getting 50% of the at-large bids. For that to happen, every MVFC at-large candidate would have to have great resume compared to the other bubble teams.
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13 hours ago, siouxfan512 said:
Doesn't this still heavily impact seedings?
Nope. Once the job of seeding teams begins, the committee doesn't care about automatic qualifiers vs. at-large bids. Besides, there are only four seeds this year.
47 minutes ago, siouxfan512 said:Well, like it or not, a good spring season and some of the best D1 football we have seen at UND comes down to this weekend. Can't just eek out a win. This is an opportunity to make a statement going into the playoffs.
Lose, and this is Idaho State all over again. We will almost definitely be out of the field at 4-2 with a Youngstown loss.
Show up to play unprepared on the road like we were at Nicholls and the season is over. I still can't believe how unmotivated the team looked in this game. Playoffs, and nobody looked like they wanted to be there. No energy, no emotion. Can't happen again.
Despite being on the road, we need the team that beat SIU and SDSU. Hard nosed and resilient. I hope Schuster has been working on his deep connections to open up some more running room for Otis. I hope the coaches plan to use Otis more effectively than they did against NDSU. I hope Maag finally steps up and plays to his size to take over a game.
The tools are there, but this team needs to show up prepared and use them.
The way I see it:
Missouri State is in
UND is in with a win and out with a loss.
NDSU is out with a loss, in with a win
SDSU will likely be in either way, which seems ridiculous, but as has been pointed out on twitter the committee will not look at SDSU having lost to UND. They will look at the records were both UND and SDSU lost to NDSU, then they will look at SDSU losing to UND, vs UND losing to Youngstown. Seems stupid, but it is what it is. UND controls their own destiny. Don't just win .... stomp them!
Missouri State is on the outside of the bubble and needs a lot of help. The cancelling of the MSU/UND game was a disaster for their hopes.
UND is seeded with a win(likely #4), and probably on the inside of the bubble with a loss.*
NDSU is seeded with a win(likely #2), and unseeded with a loss.
SDSU is seeded with a win(likely #2/3), and probably on the inside of the bubble with a loss.
80% chance UND, SDSU & NDSU are all in the field no matter Saturday's results. 99% chance all three are in the field with a UND win. Only scenario where UND wins and DOESN'T get a seed is if the NDSU/SDSU game gets cancelled. Then it gets tricky for the committee. Likely NDSU at 2, SDSU at 3 or 4, and UND at 5 and unseeded. But it's also possible it could go the other way with UND & SDSU; there are good arguments both ways.
*A UND loss on Saturday would be really, REALLY bad. The reason is because YSU has given up on winning this season and has been treating the remaining games as experiments. They've been playing kids that have never seen the field before, and they've been regularly moving players to new positions to see how they do at them. The team's priority is clearly focused on next season, not this one. I don't care how UND plays on Saturday, they should still win by two or three scores while sleepwalking.
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1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:
I had heard Flag Family was operating WDAY-AM under a management agreement. Is that for sure going to transition?
QuoteFlag Family Media begins operating Forum Communications WDAY Fargo (970) with an eventual path to ownership of the news/talk station.
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1 hour ago, SWSiouxMN said:
No longer 6 at large bids. Down to 5.
MEAC is getting their autobid back.
Looks to be true(and a total joke - but not the April fools kind).
The MEAC cancelled their season but allowed teams to play if they wanted to. Three did(which is the AQ minimum for this season). But one of those three is ineligible due to APR violations. So it's just Delaware St and SC St playing for the AQ. And both teams are 1-1. (Howard is 0-1 and ineligible.)
I've been thinking the whole "shut it all down" talk was a grade-A overreaction, but if the playoffs have become this much of a joke...
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6 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Um ... what?
ForumComm owns WDAY-TV (Fargo), The (Fargo) Forum, WDAY-AM (Fargo radio). <- single market
And they owned WDAZ-TV (Grand Forks) and the GF Herald. <- single market
Maybe because the cross-ownership existed prior to 1975? I don't know. Did they allow grandfathering or approvals on a case-by-case basis?
And ForumComm doesn't own WDAY-AM anymore. Or if they do, it won't be for long. ForumComm sold/is selling WDAY-AM to Flag Family Media.
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All UND athletic offices, student-athlete academic center, and a hall of honor area will be part of the new mixed-use building that will be done in Aug 2022.
All other parts of what used to be HPC phase 2 are still in fundraising mode, with funds hoped to be raised by the fall of 2023 and construction sometime after.
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10 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Meanwhile in PA:
"Petitioners appear to have a viable claim that the mail-in ballot procedures set forth in Act 77 contravene Pa. Const. Article VII Section 14 as the plain language of that constitutional provision is at odds with the mail-in provisions of Act 77."
That’s a judge ruling the process (Act 77) followed in PA may be unconstitutional under PA law.
That didn't last for long(no intelligent person really thought it would). PA Supreme Court trashed this argument tonight.
Act 77 was passed by a Republican state legislature over a year ago by a vote of 138-61(Rep 105-2) in the house and 34-14(Rep 27-0) in the senate. PA state law says constitutional challenges must be made within 180 days of a law's enactment. You don't get to come in just before certification and over a half year after the deadline just because you didn't like the results of the election. SMH
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Holy !@#$. Opposite Opposite Opposite
The soil in the RRV is heavy clay, not sand. And the band of clay is over 200 miles long N/S and 30-50 miles wide(E/W). The clay layers(there are two) are around 100ft thick. The soil under the clay is capable of bearing high loads, but the clay is not.
That means taller buildings need to be anchored with hundreds or thousands of pilings driven through the clay to the soils below in order to distribute the weight evenly and keep the building from shifting. The taller(heavier) the building, the greater the number of pilings and the deeper they need to go. That cost builds up fast. Each additional floor costs significantly more than the one below it. New construction techniques and materials have helped lower the cost(which is why the Fargo Sanford building and the RDO Tower were able to happen), but it's a real stretch to go beyond 6-8 stories in the RRV.