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I'm not sure what time frame you consider "a long time ago", but the information and forms weren't even available until October 15. On top of not wanting to waste an employee's time filling out paperwork a month in advance, it seems it would make more sense to see who is near you on the bubble as that would effect how much a team would bid. Seems to make sense to do that closer to the November 12th deadline. What's funny is it took a 5 second google search to find the actual information for this year instead of something that is 6 years old.

Holm has been the secondary returner on kicks all year and has 7 returns so far (Santiago has 12). Agree that losing him to injury there would be borderline devastating. Maybe they'll be having him fair catch more and just take the ball at the 25 to prevent it. Wouldn't be the first time in recent memory that our return era's only job was to fair catch it. UND's percentage of punts actually returned over the last few years is pretty low, overall wouldn't be a huge difference.

How does a gimmick game 240 miles from their campus lead to a push for a new stadium? On top of that, ticket prices are actually quite pretty cheap considering and they aren't even selling seats the top two levels in left and center field.

It's beyond comical at this point. Also reading about why SDSU is struggling (injuries) is a bit amusing as well.

The same terrible Griz team that beat UNI....

Pretty sure they are just bar rail seating right above the normal seats, below the suites. During normal events, there is beverage service but going out on a limb and guessing that won't be an option for the regional games.

Must have read the GF Herald gameday page....

The actual ticket software and back end systems used are Ticketmaster's, not UND's, it is just templated into the UND website.

There were multiple people streaming it in the stands at the hockey game.

Good week to do Military appreciation, that should help out a little bit.

My understanding was yes even though the football schedule was set before the hockey game. They might have had a chance to get it changed since the schedules were tweaked when Idaho came back but I don't think the Big Sky was looking to do UND any favors but then and rearrange multiple games.

Earlier this year, talked with a former player who had plenty of insight on kickers. He said it's all mental at this point, appears it's not fixing itself. Not sure what the answer is, but running a fake field goal probably doesn't help it. For what it's worth, he had pretty good ratings from some legitimate kicking camps before he was on campus. Whatever it is, it needs to get fixed. The majority of special team gaffes continue to be execution on the part of individual players. If they can't get it done, the coaches need to figure out who can.

Guessing the logistics for them to get extra planes here wasn't worth it for them. They don't have tons of extra planes to begin with and to fly empty ones to GF/Fargo, then have it sit for a coue days before coming back from Vegas only up leave empty and go somewhere else just wasn't worth it for them. Flexibility and their business model don't exactly go hand in hand. I'm guessing they filled the existing flights at high prices and are happy with that.

He shoots lefty so it looks odd, but he shot 48.1% from the field last year. Got that crazy old man midrange game.

Good thing the football team is on the road, I heard the hockey team is being punished and being forced to use the football locker rooms for the weekend and hopefully force them to play with some extra grit.

Sure, but people also need to remember it took multiple large upsets in conference tournaments for UND to miss the national tournament. No argument about them putting themselves in that spot, but almost every year the last decade, they make the tournament in the spot they finished in and in fact have made it finishing lower than that.

So what you're saying is that once UND joins, just need to get YSU to support the idea?

Yeah, I do and that's exactly my point.

So you equate making them dress in the football team's locker room as a punishment, yet hockey supporters get confused and defensive when supporters of the football team are so insistent on the importance of new facilities for the team. This is up there with Schlossman dropping the tidbit about the NCHC coaches buying in and wearing the new logo to show support as an important part of the acceptance process for the new conference. Can't even make this stuff up.

The article Brad wrote says UND will wear the jerseys during an exhibition game, yet the 1959 team isn't actually being honored until 2 weeks later against CC. Not hard to connect the dots to see the correlation.

The wheels for the move to the Summit/MVFC were in motion long before Kennedy ever stepped foot on campus. He gave the final push/blessing but it had been a work in progress long before that. For whatever reason, there is apparently faith in Douple. At some point, other than the pride of the MVC teams, I'm not sure why the Summit just doesn't take over the MVFC management.

Guessing there is also a specific difference in wearing them in an exhibition game vs. an official NCAA game.

How many of those sponsors do you think are giving in the 8 figure range? Safe bet is the overwhelming majority is in the 5 figure range at best. Being a "sponsor" like the ones you linked to is a significantly different category than what is being talked about with Altru/Sanford.

The Ralph won't take away the lower bowl seats, however I wouldn't be surprised to see an additional upper bowl section be up for discussion at some point. The comparison with what NDSU didn't isn't really comparable at because the set-ups are completely different, but there is zero argument that they took away the most valuable/best seats the students had, all because they were shot down on an increase in student fees because they had a poor presentation and didn't get the rubber stamp they were expecting.