jdub27

You have an interesting way of winning arguments.

Those ROI numbers are based off of 636 individuals for NDSU and 477 individuals for UND over an unnamed period of time, all of which are self-reported, not actively collected by the website. Not that either the Forum or Herald took time to look too deep into the numbers, but I would hardly put much stock into numbers that small. Their total sample size represents well under 20% of what UND graduates in a single year, yet their "study" is based on what people will/have made over a 20 year time frame. Again, not a real strong sample size. Their site is what it is, but the idea of using a site no one has ever heard of to claim a school is better than the other is no better than claiming the one other is better because a magazine article said it's more influential.

No. I think they both were pretty pointless. But seeing FU fans throw a fit about a pretty random article by Time magazine and saying it was meaningless and then work themselves into a frenzy from the chest thumping based off a website pretty much no one had heard of until this is amusing

Well except for the part where he was on the cusp of a fairly serious NCAA violation, seemed like a solid plan. Guessing the coaching staff and GT were thrilled when they heard about it.

Wait, so using random internet sites that use random methodology to compare things is OK now? Wasn't it just last week that the FU faithful were up in arms about that being ridiculous?

When's the last time GT paid a quality team to come to Fargo?

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Practice cancelled for the day.

There you go ruining another "fact" filled FU rant.

Drake

Sure is a lot of it on the FU message board considering it involves a school that is irrelevant playing a niche sport.

The General.

Continues to throw !@#$ against the wall so he can claim he called out it was reverse psychology when he's wrong.

I don't think the Stockwell thing is a surprise, unless its something new. I thought he had surgery a while back. Hadn't heard anything about Cary though.

Congrats to Troy. Show them what you're made of, make UND proud.

Anytime women's athletics gets put down...its usually by someone not doing so hot in them.

I got it to work, but the stream isn't HD quality by any means. Edit: Closed a few other things I was doing and the quality increased quite a bit. Turns out it was on my end...

The Alumni Association or Champions Club have not released anything new that I've seen outside of the normal list they have. Somewhat disappointed in that.

Wait, so the FU rubes are up in arms (apparently quite a bit) about some random methodology that says UND is more influential so you counter it with a different set of findings using another random methodology and that somehow that says it all? The logic behind that is brilliant, though I'm not sure how brilliant quite yet but I'm sure I can find some random formula online somewhere that proves it is.

Prefer the 1-3pm games. Get some quality tailgating in during the morning, but don't have to get up too early. Still have the ability to get some stuff done later in the day after the game.

Not sure I understand your first sentence, Division 2 was a sinking ship. Geography is important, but obstacles can be overcome if you can bring something else, such as a large TV market. The jump from Division 2 to FCS is quite a bit different than the jump from FCS to FBS. I do agree with the majority of the rest of your point though, but FCS may be trending the way Division 2 was. Too much uncertainty right now to know exactly what is going to happen next. Staying the course but having multiple action plans ready to go should be on every AD's mind.

What's the Forum's excuse for running an article on it? Needed to make MSU-Moorhead and Concordia feel better?

I would say its far from ideal geography. UND is fairly isolated in the Big Sky and the MWC skews even further southwest. I have no clue why the MWC would even consider adding a Dakota school. I also threw in a picture of the MAC just to show you how isolated the Dakota schools really are. Mountain West Big Sky MAC

Truly believe that or throwing something at the wall so you can claim you used reverse psychology to get Hak to win the big one?

Not even sure who Bernie Bergrath is. But I'm sure being on the Dean's List and getting an academic all-conference award is just a front for Grimaldi.