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I think the news has been out there a while, though I admit this is the first I've seen it in print. Also probably a fair assumption that despite what most of us think (myself included), a couple of video boards isn't exactly "breaking" type news.

Correct. I believe the current ribbon boards are coming down in conjunction with two video boards going up.

I heard this a while back but it was confirmed in Faison's interview in Bison Illustrated, the BESC will be getting video boards next year.

Don't know but Tom Miller indicated he doesn't think he back to 100% after his ACL injury last year.

Weekly 2 deep changes: Offense WRZ - Stanley replaces Georges (injured) at #1 and Reed slides into Bridges spot at the #2 WRB - Bridges replaces Stanley at #2 Defense Noah Johnson replaces Carrothers as #2 LDE Carrothers moves up to #1 NG, replacing Woodsmall. Tank Harris moves into #2 NG position

He was already doing that exact same thing before the season started. Informed a large group of boosters that the game wasn't going to be the cupcake that was being assumed. Thought the NDSU booster that was telling me about it was joking but they were adamant that Klieman was very clear about it.

I bet Ratelle could do it.

A week later and it still stings I guess.

http://www.undsports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&id=4372992 #RahRahRah

Just a ridiculous talent. What might have been.

Forecast is looking excellent. Hope the students are out in full force and the Alerus is rocking. Take care of business at the Potato Bowl and then worry about the next game.

Hope the voters don't confuse the 1-0 North Dakota team with the 0-1 team from North Dakota....

Interesting article from ESPN a few days ago. Surveys sent to 351 D-1 college basketball coaches in August about COA and potential impact. 136 responded. Those that responded included whether their school would be participating, though it wasn't clear if it was for the upcoming year only or the school's current stance on it. Below is a list of Big Sky/Summit/MVFC of interest that responded and their answers: Cal Poly - Undecided Denver - Yes, amount unknown Idaho State - No Illinois State - Yes, $3,010 IUPUI - No Indiana State - Yes, $3,846.15 IPFW - Yes, amount unknown North Dakota State - No Northern Arizona - No Sacramento St - No South Dakota St - No Southern Illinois - Yes, amount unknown Southern Utah - Undecided Youngstown State - Yes, amount unknown

And they put the plan together in 2 days!!

With the exception of any games on Root I believe.

Roger Goodell continues to look like a complete joke and Tom Brady's suspension is overturned. No surprise considering a multi-million dollar report came up with nothing other than bad science and the NFL continues trying to play by its own rules that it makes up as it goes along.

To top it off, NDSU also announced they will be fully funding baseball, men's golf and men's track, which they had not been previously doing. The gap between those two numbers is only going to increase.

And that 50% is only for the first three years...

Really? That's pretty strange since UND announced in April that they would be paying it to M/W hockey players this year and are actually already making the payments. Well at least we know that Faison offered the courtesy of letting others in the conference know about UND's plans Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall Kolpack having anything similar in his articles about NDSU. Wonder why?

Maybe FargoU should have spent money on a Director of Clock Management instead?

Fixed your first two for accuracy's sake. As for your third, I don't think it has that big of an effect. The rest of the Big Sky is mainly competing against each other and minimally against PAC-12 and MWC, who they weren't typically winning battles against anyway.

Because Rob Port happened to come across a 4-5 month old letter and thought it would be make for a good headline that would generate page views.

I don't know the exact Title IX position UND is in, but scholarship wise, but from what I can tell, UND offered 5 men's S&D scholarships and 11.82 on the women's side. Baseball was at 6.34 and women's hockey was at 18. Ballpark, the S&D teams operating expenses were $314K for men and $452K for women (though I think that includes scholarship costs). Total of $766K. Baseball was around $513K. Women's hockey was a lot... Take these with a grain of salt as they are not all "real" costs as far as I can tell so cutting them doesn't mean that there would be an actual dollar to go towards something else. That being said, there is some merit to them.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but not all of the sports sponsored by the Summit are actually required core sports, correct? I think softball would be the only non-required one in the Big Sky off the top of my head.

Looks to me like the guy is offering to license his logo's out. Not sure he can prevent UND from actually adopting Roughriders as a its mascot nor does it appear that is what the intention of what his letter was.