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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

Money, The schools with large home attendance at higher average ticket cost want to have as many home games as possible to increase revenue. Generally they have 4 non-conference games to schedule and want 3 of them at home. Which means you have way too few big teams available to travel. You need teams willing to schedule an away game without needing a home and home arrangement. You pay a team more than they would make having a home game to fill your schedule. Both teams generate revenue to fund the programs. TT expecting 50,000 at $40 a ticket(guess) is significant revenue for TT and 350K is a nice check to deposit for UND.

350,000 reasons possibly more recruits from Texas (hundreds of kids who aren't quite good enough for BCS teams) great experience for fans, players and coaches, its hard to explain unless you've seen it in person

52-7 they cover the spread. Takes TT new QB a couple of series, then he lights it up in 2nd -3rd quarters. Score by quarters 7-0 fans get giddy momentarily 31-0 45-7 52-7

SI has TT at #23 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...gs-3/index.html

Must not have been a fan during the Don Morton era at Wisc.

The score of the game itself may not be, but the atmosphere will be great for players, coaches, and fans. Nobody is expecting a close game, nor should it be. Tech beat Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma State, Kansas last year.

Tech would probably be favored by about 24-28 over Iowa State right now. Hope North Dakota beats the spread, but in case you are tempted to bet the house and take the points Other Tech scores against 1-AA division teams 2006 SE Louisiana 62-0 2007 NW Louisiana 75-7 2008 Massachusetts 56-14

Tech also had 639 yards offense and Eastern ran for 23 yards in 22 carries. There is going to be a big mismatch of talent on the line of scrimmage. If North Dakota gets a couple of turnovers, a few big plays on offense and special teams it will be a relatively competitive for a while. If Tech gets a couple turnovers or big plays early it will get ugly quickly on the scoreboard. Tech is breaking in a new QB and Leach will want to give him plenty of snaps with Texas game in two weeks. It won't be to run up the score, just giving him as much game experience as possible.

What was the connection to get Bennett to UND? Desoto HS and surrounding area would be a great pipeline to tap into. Is he a redshirt candidate or will he play right away? His high school team plays on ESPN Sat night at 6:00. They are loaded with D-1 prospects.

Mplsbison he is from NDSU, his black and white 13 inch TV only shows grainy 25 year old football games, women he dated in college had skin that looks like thier face started on fire and their mom put it out with a rake. He hasn't seen a good looking women since his grade school music teacher.