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Just now, jdub27 said:
They already paid for the ticket, which means they agreed to comply with the rules that came with it which have been absolutely clear from the beginning. I'm not sure what line of thinking you have where you assume the venues can just change the plans that were OK'd and agreed upon after the fact just because. That's not how it works at all.
By obtaining a driver's license and driving on the roads in North Dakota you agree to follow the rules of the road......doesn't mean that officers pulling you over everytime you are only 1mph over the speed limit is necessary......or that it will result in roads that are significantly safer.
So rules are rules and they must always be followed no matter what?
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15 minutes ago, jdub27 said:Curious what the ticket price has to do with anything? Are you immune from possibly spreading Covid if you paid a certain amount for tickets? Or you should just get special privileges because you have a 1099 that look like gfhockey's?
If you don't want to wear a mask, don't go. It is literally as simple as that and it has nothing to do with whether you agree with it in principal or not. Is it incovenient? Absolutely, but nowhere near as inconvenient as the amount of work that UND and the REA (plus the Betty and Alerus) put into being able to have the amount of fans that they currently can, which was a mind-numbingly ridiculous amount just so they put something towards the giant holes in their budgets. A huge part of the deal was people had to agree to wear masks. Somehow people blowing a gasket because the workers (who are literally just doing what they are required to in order to keep their part-time jobs) are actually enforcing it, because again, they have to. That's up there with yelling at the grocery store worker who asks you to put a mask on. Somehow kids can sit in school all day, 5 days a week wearing a mask but a couple hours to enjoy a sporting event is just too much for some people.
See this is the flip side of the unwavering "just comply and be happy we are giving you something" attitude that exists. You can force someone to wear a mask in a store.....or a stadium.....but you can't force someone to want to go to that store or stadium. The price paid for a ticket absolutely comes into play. Is it worth the hassle and decreased experience if you are paying $25 for a ticket? Maybe. Is it worth paying more for that "experience" than what you would have paid for a normal experience one year earlier? Absolutely not. This is where the common sense comes into play. Yes enforce it in the concourse, lines, etc......but when people are already spaced out and sitting with people they know be smart enough to not hassle a family of 4 that paid $400 to watch a game about putting masks up in between bites.
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On 2/12/2021 at 8:51 AM, Siouxperfan7 said:
Still lots of tickets for next weekends game (and the other games as well). So what is keeping people from buying tickets? Is it the obvious answer of COVID and people not wanting to be in crowds? The ticket price? The fact that the atmosphere will be pretty dead? Just surprised that so many tickets still remain.
A severely degraded experience is the reason. No tailgating (it could be 35 and sunny pregame) and the real risk of mask police breathing down your neck. Also, youth travel sports like basketball and hockey are in full swing which doesn't help since people have busy schedules. Finally, the last part that people don't want to talk about is the total lack of buzz surrounding the program as they trot out old slow and steady Bubba for yet another season of guaranteed mediocrity.
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15 hours ago, siouxfan512 said:
Can UND pay for the players to attend kicking camps, or does that all have to be on their own?
Wouldn't that be like when the Vikings sent Troy Williamson to a hand/eye coordination specialist? Maybe a little too late by then?
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Price was reasons 1-5 for why tickets went unsold. UND tried to make back too much money too quickly. A premium price can be justified for a premium product/atmosphere like a packed house UND/Gopher game. However few people are willing to pay out that kind of money for the privilege of reduced concession options, less breathability via a mask, a list of rules they must follow, and a reduced social experience of not running into all of your buddies in the concourse.
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21 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
it starts and ends with kostitch...how much longer are we gonna to have jv special teams and be ok with it?
It's not really a great sign when an up and coming younger coach stagnates for 7 years as a special teams coach at a program not known for paying a boatload of money to coaches. The good ones are typically plucked away by other programs after that amount of time.
Whether it's a lack of special teams talent or a lack of coaching ability, it falls on the head coach to fix it. Finally dumping Rudolph and giving Freund a shot was better late than never. Maybe it's getting close to time for another change.
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1 hour ago, UND1983 said:
If they had McKinney would've been a superstar.
Nothing to do with McKinney, everyone knows that Rudolph didn't know what a screen pass was.
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19 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said:
Do we have the screen pass in our playbook? Doesn’t seem like we do many - or am I missing them?
No, haven't had one for 5-6 years now.
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1 hour ago, UNDBIZ said:
Trolling is off limits. Leave bisonville trash on bisonville.
1 hour ago, UND1983 said:UND is a borderline playoff team every year. McKinney and his handler on here claimed he was blackballed and should've been playing more and getting more touches. Do you really think they didn't play him because they couldn't see his unbelievable talent or they just suck at coaching?
Would it be trolling to point out that he may have realized that with a coach/offense that wouldn't even throw the ball to John Santiago out of the backfield that the best opportunity for him as an undersized back definitely wasn't here?
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1 hour ago, UNDBIZ said:
Your name accurately describes your posts.
So questioning Bubba and some of his current (and past) decisions are now off limits.....but taking shots at a classy kid like Cam because he wanted to play more and went somewhere else is okay? Nice job mods.
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One thing that will help Mckinney for sure is he already has experience playing for a D2 caliber coach.
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9 hours ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:
Emotions were high in a closed-door meeting in August between the city of East Grand Forks and a business that received a $510,000 loan more than a decade ago that has since gone unpaid. https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/3694592-recordings-show-emotion-meeting-over-unpaid-loan
If I remember correctly, there was also a grant after the flood of 1997.
Made the news for some time.It paid big time to have ties to the mayor at the time when it came to the flood loan "disappearing" come repayment time.
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22 hours ago, UNDBIZ said:
Boardwalk has their liquor license suspended for 60 days.
In MN every bar already has their license effectively suspended....unless you believe Walz is done extending orders.
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On 12/12/2020 at 6:55 PM, jdub27 said:
In no way a fan of Ellison but did EGF quit taking money from St Paul and everyone missed it or....?
The majority of the money that the Boardwalk took was from unofficially forgiveable flood loans if I recall correctly.
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1 hour ago, siouxfaninseattle said:
A buddy said there is a lack of leadership. I have to agree. He also mentioned there may be division in the locker room due to the kneeling. Could be. But winning a few games would help. I thought they have played pretty good - until today. SCSU's speed killed them. And the penalties killed them.
Distractions are never a good thing. There are enough unavoidable distractions that will pop up over he course of a season that there is no reason to add an avoidable one early on, which is unfortunately what a few players decided to create. Still too early to panic but due to the non-standard season they don't have the leeway they used to have to figure things out.
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2 minutes ago, siouxforce19 said:
I think we shot outselves in the foot against both of those top 5 teams. Which is annoying.
Yeah it's annoying because Scheel can let in a softy and most games will still turn out ok. Kierstad can get his pocket picked late deep in his own zone in the 3rd and often things will still be ok. Unfortunately they both happened in the same game last night and most nights neither of those will happen.
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12 minutes ago, tnt said:
Are you really surprised people are so down on UND. It happens every year. If Duluth fans went by the regular season, don't know if Sandelin would still be there. What's it been, 30 years since Duluth won a league title? This could be their year since if they get out of the POD even or better, they won't have to worry about Denver and UND anymore.
League titles? Sounds like something St Cloud State would say. Natty's or bust #gfhockey
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Weatherby has to put that away in OT. Also in SO all 3 UMD players got a shot off. UND's first two players didn't. Tough to score that way.
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Glad to see a bar in EGF stand up against the governor. It should be a clear message that when a bar that basically had $500,000 in free money given to it (1/2 of million dollar flood loan forgiven) can't make it, the other places in EGF aren't gonna make it either
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7 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
Could UND be a couple players short tomorrow night vs DU? BLM is organizing a march around the NDSU campus tomorrow at 200 pm.
They are going to need a few white guys there so Antifa can be blamed if things get out of control.
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Surprised Schlossman hasn't chimed in yet with an article pointing out that those that didn't lock arms or put a hand on the kneelers shoulders must not support racial justice.
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11 hours ago, Sioux>Bison said:
None of them have lived one day as a black man. They will never know what it is like. It’s not even a comparison. Some of the most racist kids I knew were hockey players so ....
The vast majority of hockey players haven't even had a black teammate.
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Just now, 90siouxfan said:
or perhaps yelling "F her in the P....sy" during a moment of silence....
Why not? Since we are opening this up to individual expression instead of keeping it an actual team sporting event..... With all of the individual causes being pushed let the players go out there 1 on 1 to decide the game. Why even have a team?
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I think another thing that is lost in this is the precedent it sets. Why not fake hurl during intros to protest world hunger? Why not skate over to the color guard and grab your crotch in protest of US wars in the Middle East? Give the middle finger to any police you see in the stands to protest police brutality? It's their right to free speech right?
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Now you are reaching. Speeding has the opportunity to cause harm just like coming in close contact with someone carrying Covid-19. The common sense part that you are struggling with is being able to recognize is that speeding 26 in a 25 has very minimal (if any) effect on the probably of serious injury. However going 50 in a 25 is a different deal. Similarly, standing shoulder to shoulder with 2000 people in the concourse isn't the best idea right now.......but a small group of 4 sitting with their mask down in a large arena spaced out from the next person offers minimal if any extra risk (much like speeding 26 in a 25).
As for your continued obsession with "Ask Jody, Ask Jody"....frankly I don't care what he has to say on the topic. At the end of the day I'm spending my money elsewhere until the product is back to normal.