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Despite what some claimed, Marlon was the best player on the floor last time these two teams met. Last night, he played very reserved and conservative for 2/3's of the game last night stepping it up to finish off the game. Should give him a little extra energy for tonight. That forumla works and Marlon doesn't need to drop 30 as long as the other guys show up. Keys Marlon needs to let the game come to him and take what he is given, particularly tonight since I have to imagine he's going to get more attention. DAE needs to avoid dribbling in traffic. KW can take his shots as long as he doesn't have to rush them. BB needs to be aggressive and take the open 3 when he has it and also finish off his drives instead of kicking it out to the wing, which he almost always does and is too predictable at this point. Filip needs to keep composure, stay out of foul trouble and play solid defense. Bench play has been solid between EI, G and BD. Need to limit 2nd chances, take care of the ball and play solid defense. Lock down Ward and make Vinnie or someone else beat you. If VS is off, let him keep shooting. If he's on, adjust. And be agressive. Sather's offense runs on getting to the paint. Make NDSU try to defend. USD and FW both got into foul trouble. Do it again, particualrly of Eady is still out and they have one less guy in their rotation. Let go!!

These refs are really something tonight...

Haven't ran the 2017/18 numbers but in 2016/17, the "net cost" for softball was $630K and had 24 participants with only 11.4 scholarships. So that "cost" is before the equivalence of 12 indivdiuals paid tuition that likely would not happen without that program. Cost before that figured in was $29.6k/participant. The "net cost" for WIH was $1.9 million and had 26 participants with 18.5 scholarships, so the equivalenence of 7.5 individuals paying tuition. Cost before that figured in was $71.8K/participant. Travel costs was $226K for WIH and $210K for softball. And that was when SB was in the Big Sky, their in-confernece travel costs should be down with the move.

I agree and can promise you anyone downplaying the locker rooms haven't been in that area. Literally on the edge of being condemned due to structural integrity. It's why they are moving into temporary digs in the 70 year old Hyslop, it's a big upgrade from the 90+ year old Memorial Stadium. Do you think the kids that are being recruited to Nichols State care where the visiting team dresses? Not sure what the comparison is? Everyone here (rightfully) criticized that setup but then some are fine glossing over some of UND's facilities as a non-factor.

I think this is a bit farther off than is being led on barring some big changes. To my knowledge, there hasn't been anything approved by the SBoHE yet, which I'm pretty sure would be required to put up a new building or enter into any partnership. That being said, the coaching staff is being moved into to some nice space in Starcher and the locker rooms are being moved into the Hyslop as Memorial is not acceptable anymore. Viewed as an interim move until HPCII can be finalized. Not a perfect solution, but everyone will be in a much better space than they are currently in.

First off, they are the same job: Associate Athletic Director, Athletics Major Gifts, though Steve was a "Senior" Associate AD which comes with experience. Secondly, you predicted UND would replace a major fundraising position after the person in that position left? And that UND hired an internal candidate for the position (pretty safe bet Belmore and probably Dodson were the favorites to move over to athletics from their current roles of Health/Med and Art/Sci). You should stick to those kind of predictions instead of ones like this:

Without knowing any of the details, pretty hard to criticize the extension. The only thing it does for sure is gives an appearance of stability to any recruits. Beyond that, it's unknown until any specifics are released.

For the record, UND had the third highest bid of the 16 teams that played in round one. Unfortunately got matched up with #1 or 2.

Whatever works for you I guess. Leads the league in scoring and assists, top 15 in rebounding and plays good defense. Kept Shadid in check last night. Showed up when it mattered the most. I'd take him over Vinny or Ward if I need someone to win a game.

Can you imagine trying to convince yourself this is actually true?

Some originality from trolls pretending to be UND fans would spice things up....

Notre Dame "walked away" because the NCHC refused to give them what they exactly what they wanted, which is what Notre Dame is accustomed to. It had nothing to do with them not wanting to be in the conference and everything to do with how their TV rights and revenue share was handled.

At this point, Vegas will likely be a permanent second or third stop in the rotation (every 4-6 years), for a handful of reasons, with ease of travel, entertainment options being two of them along with a very large donor who resides there.

In school and working to get on the field next fall. Needs to keep his head in the books but solid chance to be back.

I'd mostly agree. Still might lose a few "diamonds in the rough" but I see that as a fair compromise. In the Summit/MVFC/Big Sky there have been impact true freshman that I could see still being poached but not a ton.

Agree with all of them outside of this one. Again, leans too close to the "minor league" system if someone shows up on campus and has a great first year or two and then is off to a bigger school. I completely understand the angle you are coming from on this one but I wouldn't change the transfer rule on this one.

I like removing some restrictions but this would just further makes low and mid level colleges the minor leagues for the big schools.

Altru formed in 1997 when United Health and GF Clinic merged. Pretty sure Ryan was the CEO at inception. Seems like an odd shot at Brown. The mayor thing is a stretch as well. Not a fan of plenty he has or hasn't done but it's not like he's had much for formidable challengers, that isn't exactly his fault.

Agreed. Unfortunately it was venue driven.

That's what happens when your commissioner is incompetent....

I would assume whoever was behind it, regardless of their identity, deleted it because someone was digging into who they were. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't? But if the phone number is the only evidence linking it, I'm a bit skeptical. For reference, I have 5 or 6 numbers in my contact list ending with "71" (note, I scrutinized each one to make sure they weren't the culprit). It wasn't like members of the athletic department weren't notified of the situation, considering they were all tagged by whoever created the account and made the original posts. We'll see what comes of it.

So the connection to JW is both phone numbers tied to the separate accounts end in 71? Or am I missing something else? The email addresses appear to be different. Seems like a stretch for an accusation, though I'd guess someone had a reason to look towards him?

But the higher taxes are typically due to increased property values, not an increase in actual mill rates. Which theoretically is a good thing, though if course no one enjoys paying more taxes. Some small businesses have legitimate complaints as things like this can increase their rents. For example, rents downtown will likely go up as more people move there and activity picks up. Ideally it's offset by higher revenues and profits but not always the case, plus they have to survive through some of the construction phases that can be devastating.

I'm fine with tax incentive financing if it means projects get moving sooner than later (or never in most cases). It's a solid long-term investment option to help growth. And it isn't "giving something away", you can't give away what you never had, in this case, increased tax revenues. The city is foregoing a period (usually 5 years) of the increased taxes for the future increases to the tax roll.

It also only asks "favorite" team. There are plenty of NDSU Football/UND hockey fans. Unimaginable to me but to each there own. I'd guess a portion fo the MInnesota sports fans also would be fans of some ND teams as well. Basically it doesn't really prove or show anything other than ~1/3 of sports fans who responded think NDSU is fine where they are, ~1/3 want them to move up and the other ~1/3 doesn't know or really care.