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WEAK. I GOT IT THIS WEEKEND NO DOUBT.

8-4 THIS WEEK.....WHAT A JOKE AZSIOUX: 11 GOPHERZ: 5 I SHOULD JUST QUIT NOW

GOPHER PP: 0/20 FANTASTIC. THE SKY IS FALLING. FIRE LUCIA. SWEPT WITHOUT SCORING A GOAL? CANT WAIT TO LOSE TO UAA. WHEN DOES 2010 SEASON START?

I think we both trust each other, it's really not a big deal at all, at least to me. If he wants to do that I can though. We did this last year as well and both decided we would just make our honest predictions no matter what. I lost some weeks, won some weeks, but in the end AZSIOUX ended up winning. Having to buy him that hat was depressing

Fail....

Fairly similar it looks like. I like St. Cloud to come out strong as the home team on Friday, but to collapse Saturday. I see that you feel the opposite. UND sweep, yup. CC sweep, yup. I hate the frickin Mavericks so I couldn't allow myself to let them get more than 1 point, hence the tie on Saturday. And of course, I have to pick a Gopher sweep at home.

Understandable. Me against the whole Sioux nation here. Another great start for you indeed. All 3 on Friday but zero on Saturday for you. Zero on Friday for me, and only 1 Saturday. Yup no problem. Actually really sick right now so nothing better to do. I posted the schedule so feel free to run a little copy paste. Full schedule indeed!

Well it apparently won't let me edit my first post....but Friday Wisconsin at Minnesota State Denver at Minnesota North Dakota at Alaska-Anchorage Minnesota-Duluth at St. Cloud State Michigan Tech at Colorado College Saturday Wisconsin at Minnesota State Denver at Minnesota North Dakota at Alaska-Anchorage Minnesota-Duluth at St. Cloud State Michigan Tech at Colorado College Best of luck to you my friend

WEAK START FOR ME!! AZSIOUX - 3 GOPHERZ - 1

Too soon I'm actually not a big worried about TCF attendance. Right now the stadium is totally sold out with season tickets, plus a waiting list. Something like that doesn't simmer over just a few years. People love the whole back to campus thing, and enjoying football the way it is meant to be played. Have you been to a game at TCF yet? If you haven't, go there and then tell me if you can still say the same thing. The atmosphere is phenomenal, and the stadium is first-class. While I agree that the team will have to be successful because a nice stadium can't hold over forever, there is a lot of excitement around the program and the stadium only holds a little over 50k, so selling it out consistently for a long time shouldn't be an issue. I love that we are going to get some cold games. Get the old people who sit on their hands the whole time to give up their tickets and get some of the younger people off of the waiting list. Also, Gophers have scheduled some huge non-conference games, which is going to continue peaking interest in the program, including season ticket sales. USC next year, Texas in 6 years, etc. Long term plan would have to be really really long-term. Boise state and TCU are very similar. Both are an overwhelming powerhouse in weak conferences (okay, the Mountain West isn't that horrible anymore for the most part). They've found their niche. But I'd like to see how a team like Boise State would do playing ever game against a formidable opponent, not just one or two a year. Sure they play and beat some teams like Oregon this year, but you never see them playing USC/Texas/etc.... In regards to it being long-term, I think that long-term would be a lot longer than the time it's going to take to form a BTHC. You got that one right. I think it's going to happen after their TV contract, but maybe that is just wishful thinking.

Swine flu, actually. That's kind of my point, your resources will be spread very thin then. It's sad but true. We have been trying to get this practice arena built for a year or two for basketball and are having difficulties doing so. When you have such a high profile coach who is really turning the program around, you'd think that'd be easy. Not so much. Honestly I have no idea because I think that's an incredible waste of time. Did they not even consider the huge price tag? A college stadium at a small school with a retractable roof? What a JOKE. Not true, but the change would have to be of a very large scale. You don't go from having half attended games and losing to NAIA teams, to competing at the FBS level in front of a full stadium. It sure seems like some people are talking about full Big Ten affiliation. But if not, my fault. Agreed once again. I think it happens. If it does, you can lock up the BTHC as a done deal. Absolutely. Big Ten Network has been wildly successful and the money there would be huge. Not so much for the Gophers who already have a great TV deal, but for other teams and the network as a whole its a very intriguing idea

The problem is the cost of renovation/getting a new arena is more than private money for UND will fund, and is much more than ND tax payers will be willing to pitch for.

That has to be a joke. That guy wasn't serious right? UND IN THE FBS?!?! ;) If I wasn't deathly sick, I could go on for hours of why that isn't at all feasible. Let's throw a few things out there... 1. Money - UND has no chance of financially supporting an FBS football team, especially if they want to be at all successful. 2. Hockey - You can't have the best of both worlds. If you want your football team to make the necessary spending to jump to FBS, your other sports are going to suffer. That's just the nature of the beast. 3. Alerus - Is a joke. You can't just easily add 2,000 seats to a tiny stadium to meet the requirements. So basically, the renovations, or the need for a totally new stadium would be much more expensive than UND could afford. 4. NDSU - If NDSU can't make the jump to FBS, what makes you think UND can? Unlike UND, NDSU doesn't have a huge hockey program to support. Their main focus is football, and they still cant do it. It sucks, but North Dakota does not have the population or dedicated fan base to support FBS football. 5. Fan support - You think a move to FBS is going to change this? Usually a team transitioning from D2 to 1AA garners a huge increase in fan support, look at NDSU for an example of that. This past weekend, though I only saw it on TV, there seemed to be not even half the seats sold. 6. Team - The quality of the team has a long long way to go before making the jump. Just lost to a NAIA team...NAIA!?!? Most FBS teams see it as a huge embarrassment losing to a top FCS team (see: Bison beating the Gophers, Michigan losing to App State). 7. Big Ten - REALLY!??! UND wouldn't even come near the academic and research levels required for schools to be in the Big 10. I don't remember the stat, but I believe all the Big 10 schools are in the top 40 or 50 in research, and many are in the top 10. 8. Other schools - You really think UND would get the approval of schools like PSU/Illinois/etc? I can't see any of those teams too thrilled about having to come to North Dakota. That being said, I could go on for hours and hours, but I'd like to hear what some people have to say about it first. In regards to the BTHC, I think it's going to happen. I can't see why else UNO and Bemidji were added. I can totally see why Wisconsin is justifiably royally pissed off. There is nothing in it for them, the WCHA has become a joke for them. In my opinion the only reason Minnesota is still here is to keep the great rivalry with teams like UND, and to make sure programs like SCSU/UMD/Mankato and other small Minnesota schools can stay alive. Losing Minnesota and Wisconsin would mean death for a lot of the smaller programs over time. I would love the idea of playing UND yearly still, because I love the rivalry and it doesn't get any better than that. That being said, I still think it's selfish, but better in the long-run for Minnesota and Wisconsin to try to look into a BTHC that would include Notre Dame. One huge reason I'd like the Big Ten to do this, is to lure Notre Dame in for other sports. That'd be huge to get them in for Football and Basketball. Not only would it bring up ratings and conference exposure incredibly since Notre Dame has such a large and widely spread alumni base, but the extra money created for the conference would be incredible. I'd say give it a few years and this thing will be a done deal. Being a huge Minnesota fan in nearly every sport, I'd love nothing more than to be able to play MSU/Michigan/tOSU every year a few times, instead of just playing Michigan/MSU once and Wisconsin twice. I don't want to lose the UND rivalry, but I don't think that'd be part of it. The blow to the other schools in the WCHA would be huge, as they'd lose a ton of national exposure due to it's 2 biggest media teams leaving...oh well, look forward to hearing some other's comments.

I'll update standings once I get done with my paper that's due in 2 hours

This was directly to AZ Probably because we were front row student section with a massive Gopher flag

How difficult was it to spot me??

Great game, lots of fun.

If anyone bought those Standing Room tickets that are located in the Student Section but aren't actually the student tickets where you need an ID and would like to trade for actual seats that aren't located there, I will gladly trade you. PM me on here and I'll give you a call if you're interested

IN GRAND FORKS. GO GOPHERS SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP

Give it up Leah....never works

I sold my extras to a Sioux fan...who cares?

Emailed you.

UW and UM are not at all comparable to MTU.

While this isn't the best example, you saying that sports programs have little to no effect on the university academically is foolish. For example, when Davidson was making their magical run deep into the NCAAs, they saw a huge increase in applications, which leads to higher enrollment if that's a school goal, higher quality of student due to a larger application pool to pick from, and more revenue for the school in general.

ticket sold