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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.

Says the person with perfect physical features, who turns down 6 figure modeling gigs each week.

Ordered tickets thru Stub Hub last week got tickets on vistors side on 35 yard line for face value. Showed up on doorstep 3 days later via Fed-Ex.

Have had the joy of tailgating at many Big 12 football games. It is an absolute pleasure. People are excited, happy, friendly, talkative, and generous with the food and beverages. They will want to know all about North Dakota and its team so it is an advantage to wear clothes indentifying yourself. It starts early and ends late with many TV's tuned to other games. It will be warm so dress for it. Hats and sunglasses help. It is easy to overconsume because of the environment so pace yourself. Get to stadium early, pre-game is usually very impressive. Have fun, support your team, make new friends. If you are a football fan try to attend a SEC or Big 12 football game at least once. You will go back and beg your AD to find another game to schedule to matter the score because of the experience.

Just using the Dallas area as an example, they finished 2nd in tier I 18-under (finishing higher than Shattuck) after losing in OT in championship game and won in tier II 18-under (Dakota Starz had semi final team in tier 2 16-under). This with 3 best kids from area in national program Brown, Amburgury, Fallon. And leading defenseman scorer in USHL as a 18 year old, DU recruit and 4th round NHL draft pick Donovan A couple of the highest ranked 13-15 year olds in country

Stub Hub is usually a good option for tickets, supply/demand will usually change as it gets closer to game and impact prices either way.