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Its 80-100k minimum these days to come to North Dakota. Charters are expensive.

Their plans are similar to ours, a master plan for the future. Where the 50-75 millions dollars comes from is another matter. This could be 15-25 years before they build it, like ours.

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/268127/ Didn't know where to put this. It appears the annual winter DUI's are starting at the top this year.

Right. I will counter that with the fact that every Bison fan in the world would gladly trade the successes of Softball, Volleyball, and Wrestling for a dominant, winning football team

How the mighty have fallen. You just resorted to bragging about Wrestling, Softball, and Track to attempt to win an argument. This is too good, may have to save that post.

I noticed that USD is currently down 60-48 at Utah Valley State with about 10 minutes left. If they lose that means that UND was the only Dakota team to go out UVSU and win. Gotta find positives where you can.

I will be there hoping for a home team sweep!

This may have been discussed but is the Friday night game NOT on TV? I saw it was listed as a Big 10 Network game with Saturday nights being an FSN game. FSN has the Timberwolves on Friday night. Is anybody local picking up the feed?

In a related story: The Betty Englestad Sioux Center will be moving to 48oz serving size for beer to help fans deal with the product on the floor.

I was lucky enough to have dinner with your father at a football function years ago. It was a fun time and I will always remember him as a great man and a great ambassador of UND Athletics!

All around tough schedule, minus the NAIA game. By the time they get to us they may be pretty beat up. Tough way to open a year.

Here is my rant: I know some about basketball, no expert, but have played and watched my whole life. I obviously don

They quickly realized that idea was a bad one. The field would only have been 40 yards long because of the track having to be there too. Terrible idea.

Demolition is all part of the cost. They are looking into seeing how much money can be reclaimed by selling the copper, steel, etc. from the Old Ralph. As far as the YSU facility, I would think UND's is going to look very similar to that with an added turf area on the end for lineman. Also, a major cost of any of these facilities is the exterior. A decision needs to be made on how nice the exterior is going to look because going fancy can really drive up the cost.

From what I have heard, it will be done in Phases because of the fundraising issue. These days money needs to be in hand vs. a "pledge". The first phase would be the track and football field. After that the locker rooms, weight room, coaches offices, etc. would come in the next phase. I would expect that the demolition of the Old Ralph would begin shortly after the new year.

"In 2008-09, NDSU awarded 3,066 waivers that totaled more than $13 million. In a report for 2007-08 for the North Dakota University System, NDSU had $11 million in waivers compared to the University of North Dakota

You have it figured it out pretty well I would say. He is hands down the most obnoxious, embarrassing "fan" of a team that I have ever seen. I know some Bison fans are embarrassed by his actions but they pretty much tolerate him for some reason. He makes their fan base look terrible on every forum he enters, and any blog that relates to UND. Just leave him alone and he will eventually go away, for awhile.

That is unacceptable even if nobody cares about the program (they better wonder why either). Have some pride for cripes sake.

OK, thanks for your opinion. We all now know how you stand and appreciate the interest. I for one am very happy to have both of them as I have heard nothing but good things. We need depth at the skill positions and they provide that.

Your awfully negative for being a 'Sioux' fan. The last few posts out of you seem really familiar.

The idea of converting it was a bad one. Not an option. It will be demolished and the new one will go on that site.

I found it interesting that two of our non-conference opponents from this year were league champions. Stony Brook won the Big South when they beat Liberty and effectively knocked them out of the playoffs. Stephen F Austin won the Southland and is playing Eastern Washington in the first round.

I see that New Mexico State was picked 5th in the WAC preseason poll so that is definitely a quality road win!