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It was an artificial ceiling put in place a while back. Clearly it isn't enforced and if it ever was, there are loopholes around it since it is actual or paid attendance (ie. have a sponsor "buy" tickets to get your attendance to where it needs to be or "host" a home game a different stadium). It was put in place as a hurdle for FCS teams that may have been looking to move to FBS. Since there is only one D-1 level for basketball, there is no need for an attendance minimum. They won't make another subdivision because the NCAA tournament is where all the money comes from and doing so would likely take some shine off the product.

1)If that's the case, then you really are just making things up. 2)Really? http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/

From July 14th... Guess he's not so full of hot air...

Show your work with actual numbers that are available and you'd have a little more credibility.

So what you're saying is you have no actual numbers to back up your claim and you're just making it up as you go per usual?

Link?

Double edge sword. Don't want to be the one making the decision but concerned about what the make-up of the committee could be if too many people feel that way...

They should have thought of this years ago, the conference would have over $20 million! Just a money making machine.

I'd be curious how many of our previous offers are still out there considering the change in coaching staff. Guessing there are a few that have probably fallen off or we've been taken out of consideration due to the loss of some of the assistants. We are also going to have to fill quite a few spots (4-6) depending on how the scholarships are actually sitting right now. For comparison, the other Dakota schools also have quite a few offers out for how many spots they will have open (guesstimate based on verbalcommits.com): USD - 4 spots/15 offers SDSU - 2 spots/11 offers NDSU - 2 spots/9 offers And the website now shows Lehigh up to 26 offers....

Seems like a shift in focus on CA all of the sudden. Wonder if Dirden has some sort of connections out there? Thought we'd see some activity out of CO with his addition to the staff.

Are you playing fantasy football? The scoreboard is what matters. And I'm not sure what Zenner did against NDSU has to do with it?

Is that kind of similar to the fact that SDSU was going to throttle UND? Aren't you an attorney? I think you'd have a better understanding of what a fact is.

Expectations raised. Congrats to Jaron.

Respect needs to be earned. Sounds like the players and coaching staff are well aware of it. Time to get to work and get back to North Dakota football.

Clearly UND athletics has managed to keep your attention over that time span with the amount of time you spend here.

Not sure what you are proposing to do force teams to come here? Did you come up for any of those games during transition when the schedule was supposedly better and have now quit coming? Like I said, the change in attendance isn't worth shelling out huge dollars for a guarantee game. Might have to start throwing in some sort of incentive to get home and homes but from a cost perspective, offering a ton doesn't make sense. I'd be perfectly fine with a rotation of USD/NDSU/SDSU/Omaha with 2 home and 2 away every year. Sprinkle other DI OOC when possible.

Football is a completely different beast that basketball, not comparable. 8-10,000 tickets at $20-30 generates a lot more revenue than less than 2,000 at $10 a ticket. Maybe you aren't aware since I'm not sure how many games you attend, but unless there is a special promotion like they did last year (XDSU's/UM/MSU), attendance doesn't actually vary that much regardless of opponent. Maybe a couple hundred and that is probably a stretch. There might be slight bump, but not enough to move the needle to justify some huge costs of one time games. And what would joining the SL do? One of the advantages of being in the Big Sky is having the SL teams available for OOC games. Not saying that the schedule doesn't need some improvement but to think that the athletic department and Jones wouldn't prefer some better home games is just ignorant.

Agree on Bridges. Not a big guy but he's got some serious speed.

Pretty good OOC schedule, unfortunately mostly away. The home schedule is what it is. Surprised to see that USD isn't back on it yet, need to get them back in the OOC rotation, preferably opposite years of the XDSU's. Getting teams to travel for basketball isn't all that easy and its showing, might need to do some 2-1's to get some higher caliber teams if possible.

PJ Sparks will be playing at Arizona Christian. NAIA team and 2014 will be their first season of football. Best of luck to him.

Unfortunately most will be on the road. Not sure if there is any D-I OOC homes games outside of that one. Hopefully some of these are front ends of home/home or 2-1's or something.

I believe UW-Milwaukee will be playing at the Betty this year along with 3 or 4 sub D-1 games.

Not that we haven't went over it a thousand times, but it isn't negotiating when one party refuses to honor an offer they make when the other party accepts immediately after its offered. And it doesn't matter anymore. Taylor was the last piece left to the bad blood between the administrations.

Has anyone heard anything? The early portion of the summer league started Saturday and goes through Friday. The later and larger portion runs the 11th-21st. Would assume that Troy would be playing but haven't come across any announcements of him joining a team.

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