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Game attendance fluctuates depending on who we are playing, the Winona State games are a good example. I did think though that we would have drawn a little better for St. Cloud State. After this year when there will be D-1 schools coming to Grand Forks, attendance should go up. I also believe that evening games are the key to a larger attendance, there are a lot of people that work on Saturdays. If an evening game conflicts with a hockey game, move it up to say 3:00 or around there, I think that would even help. Just my opinion.
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I think there may have been a larger than normal student section. It's hard to say how many military people were there, but I would think that even if none of them showed up again, their seats could easily be filled if a more aggressive marketing campaign were utilized. In other words, I feel that selling out the Alerus on a regular basis is a very realistic goal once the home schedule is a bit more attractive (assuming we continue to have success on the field). Over the first four games last season, we averaged just over 11,100--or roughly 1000 under capacity. With any sort of dI bump, sell-outs should be realistic, although I wouldn't really expect it until next year when we start seeing a stronger home schedule.
So the capacity of the Alerus is 12,100 or 12,200 and not 13,500? it would explain why over the years since it opened (including last night) that the place looked relatively full and when the attendance was announced, 11,400, a person looking around wonders "where are the 2,100 empty seats". I guess I have always taken issue with the reported attendance at the football games and with using the "13,500" seat capacity number, it just never seemed like it was accurate.
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I was thinking they should have put them by the exits at the grocery stores, that would have been a fast and effective way to get them out and all over town, then I read that there was a limited supply and first come first serve and that kind of took care of my idea. Picked mine up at the REA.
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Way back in this thread there was talk about a hotel being built on the Bronson property. It looks as though the project is finally moving.
Is there much land left on the Bronson property for development after this new hotel goes up? I'm thinking the East side of the new hotel there might be.
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It's a nice home, I actually thought that a 900,000 dollar home would have been bigger/nicer though.
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It was also pulled the day that UND and NDSU publicly condemned the video. I doubt it was pulled because Tatanka was feeling sensitive to the anti-semetic dorm situation.
I wasn't by any means offended by the video, nor was I surprised. I get frustrated though by all of those running gags at Bisonville that compare or refer to UND to the Nazi's, or call us or the University racists. Portraying Hitler as one of UND's biggest supporters is not flattering, and not real funny. Hammersmith, you know as well as I that it goes on all the time there. The "Under the Bunker" theme has been going on since Buning resigned. That !@#$ gets old.
Pretty much my take also.
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Sounds like they are expecting a big crowd, over 16,000 so far and I think they said yesterday that around 3,000 tickets remained.
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The A tournament in Grand Forks a couple of years ago wasn't particularly well-attended, but there were some extenuating circumstances. For one thing, UND was also hosting the women's basketball regional the same weekend. Also, 4 or 5 inches of snow fell on that Saturday, which didn't exactly encourage travel, even from Fargo (North was in the boy's championship game).
I guess what irritates me somewhat is that it seems many people from the west want EVERY state tournament, in seemingly every sport, in Bismarck for travel reasons. That's presumably not the prevailing view, but it is out there. Yes, it's fairly centrally located, but that's not a good enough reason to eliminate eastern sites from hosting state championships.
On another note, I'm also somewhat puzzled by talk of rotating the state hockey tournament with Fargo once the new arena is built. If Bismarck gets state track every year because the Community Bowl is so much better than every other track facility in the state, shouldn't Grand Forks continue to host hockey every year because the Ralph is one of the premiere arenas in the country?
That might end up being just talk................but then who knows. Over the years, the high school hockey attendance (championship games) has run between 6 to 9000 +. The new arena in Fargo is suppose to seat 5 thousand, they would be turning people away.
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Probably because it has never been a big deal to anyone to win on USD's floor.
If you read the release, it noted that USD is a "long-time rival" of UND's and they've been playing for over 100 years. I don't know what more you want. I'm sorry that UNO has given UND more competitive games over the years than USD has, but that is out of our control. St. Cloud is a hockey rival, and to some extent a basketball one, but no more so than USD. SDSU isn't on the radar of many Sioux fans or alums. Obviously UND vs. NDSU has its history as does USD vs. SDSU, so I know you understand that. Personally, I always get excited when UND and USD meet in any sport, I'm sorry that you feel USD is so lowly that you do not. I was in Vermillion last year, and I'll be there again this year.
Almost spit my coffee out.............almost.
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I thought the Ralph filled slow, Mariucci didn't seem like it filled till the later part of the first to the early part of the second, or so it seemed anyways. Williams Arena is right next to Mariucci and they had a big wrestling match Friday night between MN and Iowa, attendance for that was 7700, so I'm sure the added traffic had a lot to do with it.
Question.............Why aren't UND's cheerleaders throwing on their skates anymore? I noticed Minnesota's did skate/dance routines before the game and between periods. During the game they would take three aisles and do their cheers in just those aisles that whole period, next periond they would move to three different aisles...........anyways, I don't mean to compare them with UND's, but doing that looked a lot better than how UND does it by moving aisle to aisle to aisle with each whistle. Just an observation.
Edited the word, thankyou for pointing it out.
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Nothing, but the capacity of it for football will be a problem very early on in the transition. If it can be expanded somehow even to just the ~15,000-ish range, I'm all for staying. But if a shade over 12,000 is really the max, that could be a problem down the road.
Not a priority. It'll be a while before UND needs a facility of that size for basketball. And even when we do, we can always utilize this.
It's funny a possible Alerus Center expansion hasn't been discussed or mentioned in the Herald or even that it's being looked into. Last and only thing I've heard about any kind of possible expansion was from city council president Hal Gershman and that was a while ago (1-2 years ago..........memory thing).
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Looking for four tickets to the Sioux/Gopher hockey game Feb 2nd (Saturday) in the cities. Already have Friday nights game taken care of but having trouble with Saturday night. If anyone can help, pm me or e-mail me at joerr@gra.midco.net
Tickets no longer needed, brother-in-law in the cities (gopher fan) came through with tickets for both nights.......thanks.
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I was thinking of a couple of new names a while back and someone mentioned one of them "Sodbusters", haven't seen the other one mentioned as of yet unless I missed it..........."Settlers". Have potential? or sound kind of lame?
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He got the title Deputy AD (and all that comes with it) after he applied when Roger Thomas left.
He is the heir-apparent at Stanford.
And I have it (admittedly third-hand) that his wife is not fond of the weather in North Dakota.
That, I find real hard to believe. Not fond of the weather in North Dakota? Are you sure your sources are credible? What's not to like about ND weather?
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Does anybody know where his wife is from? I'm guessing she's not from the area, but I don't know. I don't honestly expect that he'll apply this time around, but with the name "Purpur", you kind of have to think that hockey is in his blood to some extent, and that's something he'll never get the opportunity to work with in Palo Alto. Also, 12 years as an assistant a.d. is kind of a long time. What are the chances of him eventually getting the a.d. job at Stanford? Does that matter to him? Even if that is his ultimate goal, perhaps getting experience completely running the show at a different school can only help him in the long run?
Good points. If his wife was from around here and wanted to get back, that could weigh heavy............plus, he could be the home bodied type himself. Pro's and con's, who knows what all weighs in on a person when making a decision like this and it's different with everybody I'm sure.
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It was a great promotion and I thought it went over great. The white seems to stand out better than the green, kinda like how yellow and red does, but I believe there was much more green on Friday night than there was white on Saturday night. People seem to have more green clothing (my family and people I know anyway) than they do white. I had many options for Friday night (green night) and with the exception of my white hat, had no options for Saturday night. Getting the word out and advertising the green/white nights was good, hope it's an ongoing thing all the time for all sports.
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Getting Purpur (and his family, think: spouse) out of Palo Alto and back to Grand Forks would require Houdini-like abilities. He's Duputy AD at Stanford and is provided a home on the Stanford campus.
Impressive. I agree, it would be good for UND to get him, but he would be giving up a lot. Put him on our wish list along with our facilities I guess.
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Oh I get it, the skyway is going over Columbia. So I take it that Hyslop is in the background and the endzone building is where the old Memorial grandstand is standing now?
Is the plan to renovate Hyslop into a 6-8k bball arena?
Yes to the skyway and yes to Hyslop in the background. As for renovating Hyslop into a 6-8k bball arena, basketball was addressed, renovating Hyslop was one of about four options. other options are to expand the Betty, play in the Ralph or play in the Alerus.
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Aren't the parking ramps on the right hand side of this drawing where that parking lot is?
Yes they are, which is located on the North side of the football stadium. One ramp is built and the other is proposed, the proposed one when built will not take up the whole existing current parking lot.
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Has that ever happened in the past? Has an FCS team with a good record ever been invited to a FBS bowl game?
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This is what $285 Mill is buying for the Gophers 50,000 seat stadium:
The pitch of the UND rendering is seems steeper, and the seating not as expansive in the upper deck. Perhaps it is 35,000 seats --> maybe $150 Mill ?
Why have the proposed stadium opening facing West? why not have it facing East towards our downtown like the U of M does?
(my attempt at a little humor). Question though..............watching the coaches show last night after the news, at the end of the coaches show Pat had brought up D1/next year and Dale said he was excited and named a few things he was excited about, i.e. recruiting, etc and he mentioned "facility upgrade" . It would sound to me like an expansion at the Alerus, but facility upgrade could also mean new I guess. Anybody hear of any expansion plans at the Alerus? I know city council president Hal Gershman mentioned a while ago that if the Alerus Center could be expanded and before the city would pump money into that expansion, they would have to have a long term commitment from UND. -
How does this proposed hockey hall of fame differ from the hockey hall of fame currently in Northern Mn? think it's either in Eveleth or International Falls or some place like that. Is that one the US Hockey Hall of Fame? meaning hockey basicly at all levels, where this one is the NCAA Hall of Fame which is just college?
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Friend of mine (UND alum) who is living in Memphis now and still follows UND sports, e-mailed me yesterday asking for a list or some reference to Sioux players in the NHL. I'm sure with a little research on his or my part we could find it, I thought this would be the faster route though.........any suggestions?
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