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It will be the same ongoing jury that will decide right?

No sarcasm there!!!

Congrats to you and your wife.............can always use another Sioux fan.

I think that's the reaction of all (or most) people when viewing the clips................sad!

Notta on the tickets...................home opener is a few weeks away yet, I'm not worried (yet)

Then Don't! Heaven forbid anybody should be held accountable! Criminals break the law and they are held accountable, but when individuals (Dr's, parole board's etc ) turn them loose back into society and the criminal repeats, there is no accountability on anybody's part. A Dr. sits down and psychoanalyzes a criminal or patient and then deems that that person is fit to go back into society and that person repeats /commits a crime, what does the Dr. do?? shrug his/her shoulders and say "oops!"? Nothing will change, when a person commits a crime or repeats, they are the only one that will be accountable. When that individual gets released and if they happen to repeat, we the public will sit back and say.........."Why was he/she even released"? Like we always do.

Maybe the Dr's/individuals who deem these criminals fit to go back into society should be more accountable when the person repeats.

Not according to some of the comments I've read in Bisonville.................. UND will make the move to Dl and with no conference to be had, they will be an independent for years and years........ that's what they're hoping for anyways. There is a hatred for UND down in bison land, they don't want anything to do with us anymore.

Well, I'd like to think that Central will be good this year, but with the open enrollments they have now and the better players in GF usually choosing to go to RR vs Central, makes it pretty hard............or doesn't that happen as much as I think?

Well, if it is a "two way street", I know NDSU/Fargo hates UND out of jealousy, our Aero Space, our successful Dl hockey for decades, Engelstad Arena, larger enrollment..............whatever would it be that we would hate you for? Don't think it would be for jealousy.

Well, so much for sending my reply with the quote.........oh well. I have heard and read a lot from the people of NDSU/Fargo as to it being the right time for UND now to go Dl when it wasn't the right time 3 years ago when NDSU & SDSU went. My personal opinion about that (I'll probably get an earfull from this comment) I wanted UND to go Dl 3 years ago. I felt it was the right time for UND to move up. With the exception of the U of Minn, UND is just as big or bigger than other regional Dl schools, NDSU, SDSU, U of Wyoming, U of Montana, Montana St, Northern Iowa, Northern Colorado. Facilities, they have the Alerus Center for football (13,500), the Ralph for hockey (11,400) and for bigger basketball games (13,000+). They currently have two Dl sports programs now in Men's and Women's hockey, I felt they were ready for a move up. UND's athletic director at the time Roger Thomas stated that at this time, UND Has no intentions of going Dl. It wasn't long after that, that it was announced that Roger Thomas was a finalist for the new NCC commisioners position, well, then it made sense, why would he push for UND to go Dl when he was about to become the new NCC commsisioner? he wouldn't, he would want UND to stay in the NCC......................well, I feel his personal gain for keeping UND in the NCC for an aditional 3-4 years when it was pretty inevitable that they would eventually go Dl probably ended up hurting UND..................or in the very least now, NDSU and UND could end up in two entirely different conferences.

A lot of speculation out there, who knows what will happen. I wish someone/school would look into starting a new conference, they would need at least 6 schools, well, you would have NDSU, SDSU, UND, and probably USD, they would need to land two more schools and with Nebraska Omaha also looking into it, this new conference would probably sway them, your then down to one. I'm sure though that this is probably easier said then done though or it probably already would have been pursued. SDSU's athletic director had the right idea though even before SDSU & NDSU went Dl, he wanted to turn the NCC into a Dl conference, they would have needed 6 of the schools to agree.............never did hear much about that, it was mentioned and that was it.

I wouldn't wait for them to call you, I'd get a hold of them , which is what I've done in the past and had success at it.

Your right, UND isn't selling out for every football game and I'm sure UND going Dl wasn't figured in when the Alerus was in the planning stage..............still, like I had stated before, when buildings such as the Alerus Center are built, they are usually configured to meet the demand for the next 50+ years. Speaking of selling out, I've been to a couple of games out at the Alerus that I would have swore were sellouts or close to it, UND/NDSU and the UND/Cal Davis playoff game. The final attendance was around 12,000 it was announced............I looked around and wondered where the 1,500 vacant seats were, looked pretty packed to me.

That's just it though, why does there have to be some "creative engineering" to add more seats if needed? Why the hell couldn't they have built it to seat more people in the first place? I know why...........they (city) mainly wanted their convention center. They had proposed the convention center numerous times before the Alerus Center and it was voted down big time, then they added the arena and and it was voted in finally. It wasn't long after that that Hal Gersman proposed cutting down on the size/seating to save money (shows how important the arena and it's size was to the city) but that didn't fly.

Opps! "issue" not "issur" and "interesting" not "intersting" Guess I should proof read before sending.

Thanks for the quick responce. I remember back before they even built the Alerus center and were going around town with the models of the Alerus for the public to view and ask questions. I brought up right away to them that they were not building it big enough or for the future (usually buildings are designed to meet demand for the next 50+ years). Not sure where they thought the population of UND/Grand Forks was going to be in 50 years. It's good that the seating isn't going to be an issur in the Dl move, that would have been intersting though on what they would have done.

Question..................The Alerus Center seats 13,500 for football (always said they made it to small). I have heard that with the move up to Dl, that the minimum seating for Dl is 15,000. Is this true? and if so, how will the Alerus expand and add 1,500 more seats? Can't go up and there is no room in the end zones.