Bisonfan1234

Interesting, however, how many of the DI teams would you consider to have a chance at being a national champion this year?

It says there are 58 DI teams, but how many are of UND quality. I'm assuimg UND has the nicest arena in all of college hockey.

Do you guys think the big DI teams will get more exposure on TV since the NHL is history?

There is nothing that supply and demand DOESN'T have to do with. If the REA seats 14000 or whatever and 14000 people are willing to pay to watch, would you only let 11000 pay and let 3000 students get in for free? If you would then you deserve to be fired. If the Alerus seats 10000 or whatever but only 5000 are willing to pay to get in, who cares if 5000 people get in for free? Those seats are just going to waste otherwise.

Clearwater and Monticello are growing big enough to where they almost connect the NW corner of the TC meter to the SC metro. That being said, SC doesn't need their own TV where Rochester does (pretty sure Mankato gets cover by Roch.).

Take 35W to US 10 to St Cloud, then hop off on 23 and take that to 94.

Is it a bad thing if every sport has a different conference? The only sport that matters is football anyway.

I'm a big fan of the NCAA completely redoing the classification system based on only 2 things: required # of scholarships (vs. maximum) and average attendance. EG Football could have a BCS division where avg. attendance must be 40000+ and scholarships must be 85.D1 could be 10000+ and schol. must be 65. D2 could be 1000+ and schol. must be 35.D3 could be any attendance, schol. must be 15 and D4 would be any attendance no scholarships.

IE you're using the 4000 seat/$7 million betty- 6000 seat/$21 million McLoud comparison. Those are not comparible construction jobs.

You don't work in construction, so where are you getting these numbers?

Check out Idaho State's facities page on their sports site. They have a banked, modular indoor track that can be set up on any flat surface. My idea is to buy one of those, set it up on Dacotah Field w/ a bubble for practice and move the track to the dome for big meets. Luckily... I honestly don't think we'll need a new arena if the BSA gets a new exterior and new seats.

Go to the NDUS website and try to find a flagship on there. There is none.

Flagship might just mean the largest land-grant university in each state as well then.

I still think the BSA has potential. They need to completely resurface the outside. Preferably with brick to match the rest of NDSU's buildings. The current permanent seats should extend all the way to the floor, and matching permanent seats should be put all the way around the court. If those two things are done, the BSA could be great for bball and vball. I'm not sure how long that would take, but bball could always play in the dome until they get it finished. Worst case, in the bunker. The only thing that leaves is practice space. Obviously they can practice on the game court. The bunker is good for practice as well.

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/lgif/m2783l.gif Anywhere you see a blue dot that is called "University of [state name here]", that represents a flagship. States without such a school have no flagship. BTW, flagship doesn't mean the best (public) school in the state, it simply means that the first established public school in the state was also the state's land grant school.

I don't really agree with Nash's idea that all parties are better off not competing with each other simply because the definition for "better off" differs from person to person and in each situation.

I think his quote applies to all levels of races so long as both schools are somewhat equal.

NDSU isn't the flagship either because we weren't the first major public university in the state (hence the "state"). ND simply has no flagship.

There are different levels of the arms race. NDSU vs. UND would be an arms race to attract students of ND and MN (and other places). Obviously NDSU vs. OHSU isn't going to be very competitive.

I think this is correct. The easiest way to understand this is to look at the Morrill land-grant act. All the states that had big public universities before the act had their land grants get called X State University (with some notable exceptions: AL=Auburn, SC=Clemson, NJ=Rutgers, and a few more I think). UND was already around, so they couldn't call the ND land-grant UND. Some states, however, didn't already have a big public university, so those state's land-grants DID get to be called the University of X. Minnesota and Wisconsin are good examples. THOSE are what the true flagships are. UND isn't a flagship simply because it's not the land-grant for the state.

Another way to determine the flagship would simply be to have the school with the highest athletic department by divsion. In that case, since NDSU is DI and UND is DII, NDSU would be the flagship. It works in every other state as well.

I think flagships are the big Univeristy of X and X State University. It's pretty clear in ND (UND and NDSU) but somewhere like California might not be so clear (I'd say UCB, UCLA, CSUSD, and CSUF)

New facilities are a pretty big deal at some universities these days.

Polls are for entertainment. The only way to know is to play the game.

I was joking.