Shawn-O

The bottom-tier FBS have made it clear they want nothing to do with the current FCS schools.

Yes to all this...has not changed in the last 25 years...Minot will be #3 in the state within 10 years.

I think we can forget about any sort of lower-FBS upper-FCS merger based on this. I could see them starting their own 8-team playoff at some point for the $$$$.

This should be interesting...

Good measuring stick game against the Bunnies. We'll see how we stack up against one of the Dakota Little 3.

I was kind of hoping they'd bring him back. That costume is somewhere!

Yellow seems like a cool color...something you could wrap a marketing campaign around of..,

I'll give you this, you guys would do some damage in C-USA and maybe win the Sun Belt outright.

The world wouldn't have been ready for Mr. Placebo's follow up song to "Heavy Metal Hockey".

Both are a grind. I'll say NCAA Hockey is more difficult only because the sport lends itself to more upsets (see 1996-97 Michigan, 2010-11 North Dakota). I will actually say with all the conference shuffling in both sports that I'm more excited for football. The loss of the Minnesota and Wisconsin hockey series' to me is a big blow to the schedule, while the football schedule is loaded with quality. Just my $0.02.

Yeah, that's the one. Where Rocky Hager comes off as a stark raving lunatic...you know the advice "just be yourself"...usually true...but not in his case.

I would venture to say North Dakota hockey is a bigger revenue producer than FU football?

On a related note is the PPTV piece that was done on the women's hoops and football rivalry available anywhere?

Not that I know of but it's out there on YouTube, it's a 10 minute segment. I'd post a link but I'm on my mobile phone.

It was NFL Films "Football America". It was 21-7 good guys, final.

The Nickel is in its rightful place in GF. Nothing really more to discuss here.

I can't believe that place has been open six years without an NBA or NHL tenant already, wow.

Here's the big news. http://athletics.aurora.edu/news/2013/7/29/Hockey_0729132401.aspx Sorry to break it to some of you, but basketball is king at U of I.

Careful there, you'll piss off Alec Baldwin.

If better track and field programs and annual bragging rights in women's soccer makes you feel better about your institution, then be my guest.

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Professional athletes are taxed in the jurisdictions in which they play(usually 15 cities/states give or take for hockey)...so half his income would be earned in MN roughly. The Panthers gig was pretty sweet for him taxwise I'm sure....

Whoops, yeah 4-3. Guess the council members felt 80% capacity is better than 0%

They are staying in Glendale, the vote was 5-4.

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