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They have done a great job finding older recruits that bigger programs looked at and passed 2 years prior. Also pretty close to major population centers

The arena and history are huge help in recruiting, but not enough to win at historically high levels. No reason not to win once a decade or so. I have been heavily involved in the junior hockey world and definitely noticed the change in where high end players are coming from and what they are looking for as far as college life

Things change, days of winning with small town Canadian and small town northern Minnesota players are a thing of the past

Location shift, programs that are thriving are in population centers, Denver, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, etc. Kids are coming from cities and like similar environments when attending college.

As a past billet of USHL players(some who played in NHL), most(not all)kids now come from larger metro areas and desire amenities that they grew up with, the ones that went elsewhere all said weather and small town were primarily reasons for not considering or picking UND. Not staff or amenities. The days of high end recruits from Northern Minnesota and small town Canada are changing to any metro with NHL team

Do some homework about what is being sent to Ukraine

Their best recruiter in the past is now head coach at Augustana, they will be good in a few years because of his evaluation and recruiting skills

at this point that most think your opinions are suspect and repetitive but you continue to teach all the less knowledgeable football ex-players and coaches what’s what

No-interceptions are worst throws QB can make, anybody that fantasizes about a guy who if has better tools but plays behind another is likely a guy coaches haven’t convinced the value of risk/reward of decisions. Some get it sooner, some get it later, some will always overestimate their ability to make something happen when there isn’t much there.

Why would they want to share media money with teams that will bring minimal additional media revenue. The dearth of population is a difficult hurdle to overcome, especially 4 ways. Just not enough eyeballs

Iowa State beat #20 Iowa on the road yesterday

How do you put someone on ignore?

Iowa State returns 9 starters on both offense and defense this year.

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