JacksonW

Recruiting is much more involved than I want to play for a certain team for a single reason. Recruits look at it much differently than fans. School matters for alot of kids (and parents), especially for kids who know that the NFL payday is a longest of longshots. Connecting with recruiters on a personal level is significant. Who offers the most first is bigger than most people realize, kids want to be wanted. Teams that evaluate well and use time(attention) and money(scholarships) well, will outrecruit many stadiums and fanbases. See SDSU for proof in this part of the country. You aren't recruiting against Texas or Florida or USC for players. I do believe however that there may not be enough population and qualified players for 4 upper echelon D-1AA teams in area, which makes recruiting all that more difficult and spread out geographically, less time seeing and talking to kids in person, more tape and phone calls. Can't drive to Chicago Friday night to watch a game like you can to Detroit Lakes and have people(parents) notice you in bleachers and know who you are there to watch.

If you have to use pointless to describe your post why bother

Is this all so you don't have to look at the standings for your league? Last behind the legendary Indiana State.

Pathetic life when you have to resort to using 17 year olds playing against Williston to energize yourself about college football.

Once had a boss who made over 1 million a year, made a big production about managing expenses particularly travel expense accounts. He always stayed at the same mid-priced hotels as the minions although he didn't have to double up like the rest of us. He usually also traveled with his girlfriend (wife worked for company also) and she stayed at ultra luxury hotel. He was arrogant enough to have the company pay for girlfriend expenses, although he could certainly afford to if he was interested in discretion. Everybody looked other way until new CFO showed up and refused to pay for her expenses. Big shatstorm. The point being it wasn't the money.....he did it for the emotional kick of not having to play by anybody elses rules.

Sounds like my co-worker explaining why cheating on his wife was justified. Wasn't illegal, definately worth it. Not unethical if you knew how much she was worth it.

Sometimes you just have to stop the bleeding, you think by letting the status quo continue everybody with knowledge of the situation would come out scot free? Sometimes it is a greater good motive, sometimes it is a self preservation motive of not wanting to be seen as an enabler of misbehavior with other peoples money. Maybe someone in the room didn't care who they offended and wanted to do the right thing. We may never know.

Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling were worth it, they provided lots of well paid jobs, if nobody would have been nosy, all would be well.

I heard Pacman Jones has sent in his resume for NDSU top dog job, he claims he has experience in "making it rain" similar to current president.

It might be the 5th from the left toward the back, not sure though it's been years since anybody from North Dakota has seen it.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6627621.html Column from Houston (non-homer) newspaper

And if I was 7'1" I might get paid to play basketball.

Good to know. Thanks for infomation.

Very very few big football schools that don't involve a plane ride from North Dakota. Just guessing at number of people and cost. Anybody have more accurate numbers? 90 people at $500 = $45,000 350,000-45,000=285,000