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Patty V answers to what the MVC wants, she is the Senior Associate Commissioner of that league along with running the MVFC. Which one do you think is more important to her? As for balance of powers, the MVFC is currently made up of 5 MVC teams, 4 Summit teams and YSU. Adding another Summit team gives the Summit equal footing for voting purposes. And Patty is on record saying she didn't like unbalanced scheduling, why would she advocate for adding another team to further get away from that? Saying it doesn't make it true. The conferences are historically very near each other in the RPI rankings, switching who is ahead from year to year. The Summit has been ahead the last couple years, but losing two of its best basketball schools isn't going to help that. The tournament committee obviously doesn't see much of a difference as neither has sniffed a second bid and the conference champions continue to be ranked near each other in the NCAA tournament.

Wonder if UND is playing small ball because of the opponent or if it is something we will be seeing a lot of this year. Lack of production from the bigs concerns me, hopefully they work on it a little bit the 2nd half. Antwi shooting very well. Sounds like he spent a lot of time in the gym in the offseason.

Better league based on what? And why would the MVC want to even out the balance of powers for the Summit teams in the MVFC? They already are opposed to traveling west the way it is. Patty V was also on record saying that 9 was the ideal conference size because it allowed for a balanced schedule. Adding USD made for an unbalanced schedule, but only 1 extra time. Why would they want to add another team to further unbalance the schedule? Douple let UND's app sit there for how long before he even gave it a look, which coincidentally is right around the same time that the Big Sky started showing interest.. And for a second there I thought you last sentence was how NDSU got into the Mid-Con after getting rejected by the Big Sky multiple times.

Good webcast quality on Big Sky TV.

With the style that Wisconsin tries to play, I see a relatively close game the whole way.

That is crap that you just made up. Where have you seen anyone remotely related with the program indicate that is even close to their mindset? These guys are fully expecting to go into Madison and knock off the Badgers. Odds are against them, sure, but I'd love to see you tell them that is what they are thinking/hoping to their faces.

This team has been together long enough and has enough talent that they should be in almost every game and has the capability to pull off an upset, regardless of opponent. The only two things that worry me are Brekke not being able to play and the lack of experience that may have to be relied upon with the new foul rules.

Football =/= Athletic Department despite what the FU faithful will tell you.

How is UNI's WBB team this year?

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Really? You need to get your stories straight....

Maybe you should start donating money instead of sitting on message board and complaining.

Is that for the 2013-2014 school year? Last year (2012-2013 school year) NDSU gave out $17,954,644 in tuition waivers to 3,892 students (25.1% of students received some type of waiver) up from 2011-2012 when they gave out $17,686,007 to 3,697 students. These numbers have grown ever year. For comparison, UND gave out $8,945,326 in waivers to 2,022 students in 2012-2013 (12.1% of students recieved a waiver of some sort). In 2011-2012, UND handed out $8,683,064 to 2023 students. Note that a portion of these are not controllable by the schools themselves and there are valid reasons for some tuition waivers. Edit - Some of the tuition charged/collected data doesn't quite match-up with what the chart says (though close), working on updating that properly

There has been absolutely zero indications of a MVFC invite. The eastern teams were given considerations to allow USD in, I can't imagine they would be thrilled about adding another western team.

Fixed for accuracy.

Clarification, USD was already in the Summit at the time but had decided on leaving for the sake of their football team, he was only able to keep them by getting the MVFC to extend a last minute invite for them (guessing that is what you're referencing, just wanted to clear it up for others).

They showed interest in baseball, Douple wasn't interested (because why would he want to help himself?). You also aren't addressing the football aspect either.

I would wait to see what Douple has up his sleeve before I get too excited.

My hope is that people are actually expressing their opinions and feelings to the athletic department so that they understand this. Not pointing this to you at all, but some of the loudest critics of Mussman haven't or won't even consider actually contacting Faison or someone in the athletic department to voice their concerns. Complaining on a message board won't do anything, calling the athletic department and reasonably voicing your opinion will.

I can agree on that. A two year extension with the one year remaining, giving him three more years would have been ideal in my mind. My guess is the extra year was added on due to the low increase in pay, not putting as much risk on UND.

Please explain how he screwed up the extension.

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Fair point. At this level, I don't see a large benefit to firing your coach mid-season unless there are off the field issues as well. I've said all along that IF Mussman is let go, it will be at the end of the season.

Was just trying to figure out the correlation between him being fired and them giving scholarships.

Call it out of context if you want, but they were your words and they were quite contradicting.