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i disagree about the new engelstad having a bad atmosphere at first...i think people were just in awe of the bulding for the first ten years!!!! i like the betty...i just think in the long run it isn't what the bball teams need and i think hardee could be a real player in womens volleyball if that whole facility was his and his only.... i've read on here that dave fennell is worth over a billion dollars and the powers that be at und are trying to get him to be the ralph of the football program? between him and chipman you have a couple of guys that could write some checks payable to "und football"

i guess there are three options for football down the road....the first being staying at the alerus, the second returning to memorial, or the third the retractable roof fennell stadium? i don't like the alerus and i'm not sure if the fennell rumor has any truth to it so i'm all for going back to memorial... as for the abestos abatement at hyslop...is is true that if your gonna tear down something with a lot of abestos in it you have to take it out anyways or do you just have to keep it watered down with firetrucks during demo? in the meanwhile i'm all for putting down the court right where it used to be at hyslop and calling it good....the betty has no atmosphere whatsoever (the great west didn't help any tho)

of all the teams that came through the transition ready to go its the women's volleyball team...i think coach hardee is ready to do some special things in the next few years...imagine what hardee could do if faison walked up to him and gave him the keys to the whole betty sioux center? what a huge recruiting tool that would be? as for hyslop i've said for a couple of years now...."bring back hyslop hysteria"!! move the court west a little to center it and enclose the upper bowl to connect the north side with the south side(or do kind like at the ralph and create an upstairs bar area overlooking the court?). use the newly created area underneath the new east bleachers for a new weight room or locker room? hyslop was a little crowed back in the day but if the ipf takes t&f, betty takes volleyball, the mens and womens bball would have the hyslop to themselves? make it seat around 6k or 7k? while i'm at it....new grandstand on the east side of memorial stadium connected underground tothe ipf? shift the field to the west a little to get it closer to the existing seats and build a new east side with state of the art press box and make it match the east side in terms of style and brick color? put some bleachers in the endzone areas and take down the ugly chain link fence on teh south side and make it look like the north side with brick and metal gate? make it sit around 20k?

could it be that management at the alerus changed their mind on the design on the new fb field and decided that the alerus center logo's needed to be bigger?

nickname--fighting norse logo--side profile of a norse warrior (done by bennett brien) mascot--someone that looks like thor walking around dressed like a viking with a mjolnir let's do it

I mentioned this a couple of months back about playing at tcf....winner of the game hosts the first game back on campus? how many people do you think would show up at tcf?

lookin forward to und being fcs but if i'm right the following schools have announced, are studying a move to fbs, or are rumored to go fbs... liberty appalachian state old dominion georgia southern lamar delaware james madison jacksonville state montana montana state ndac (to the big 12 of course) villanova

fullerton holds all the cards with idaho...tell them all or nothing. new mexico state would be a nice get for the bsc....they def have more options (not that many tho) than idaho. i like your idea of taking just the oly sports for idaho to suffocate the wac a little bit...evil?

As long as the Gateway Conference doesn't change i don't see the NDAC going anywhere...football still drives the bus down there and the Gateway conference is still a very good league when it comes to football and so far it is pretty stable in terms of members staying put. Also on the live chat someone mentioned a "Skunkapekiller manifesto 2.0"....i looked in up on google and it is pretty interesting....

So you would rather have NDAC in their current situation playing football in one conference and their olympic sports with these schools... uno sdsu usd uipfw um-kc scsu gvsu instead of one conference for everything? ok then?

So Johnnyboy is kind of like UND's "hockey only" crowd? I still laugh when I tell people that I know are "hockey only fans" that I'm heading to a Sioux game and they panic and say "I thought they were in Madison this weekend?" I then tell them I'm going to a basketball game which is then followed by the "i'm michael jordan" look of disappointment on their faces.

in all seriousness johnnyboy...does ndac look forward to the summit without oru, oakland, and uipui?

bsc is not booting und especially with all the poaching of football teams out west... bsc adds idaho and ndac and everyone is happy...

I hope we look outside the normal names on the list and offer the job to Hrkac...

The only way NDAC gets into the Big Sky is thru UND...so those NDAC fans that are gonna vote a certain way in June better rethink their votes when it comes time to enter that voting booth....

Gonzaga and Portland don't really want Seattle in the WCC plus they just added Pacific to get to ten teams so i think their options are really really limited. Denver doesn't have much other than maybe going back to the Sun Belt but i don't see that happening bc the Sun Belt already has two bball only schools if UT-A goes there plus Denver (and NMSU for FB) are a little too west for the SB's core members. Im more curious what NDAC's plans are when the NCC2.0 gets raided here in the next couple of weeks? should be fun to watch NDAC fans says they are really close to a MVC invite for bball to replace Creighton if they leave the valley...

i hope they add some alerus center logos here and there...

definitely mankato and scsu if they drop football and southern indiana...and gvsu but what conference would take their football team?

If and when NDAC joins us out west it will be interesting to see how Omaha does in a even more watered down Summit w/o NDSU, Oakland, and IUPUI? If Idaho, NMSU and some Sun-Belt and MAC schools can make it at the FBS level I'm sure UND, NDAC, UM, and MSU could make the WAC work? Plus with a lot of these exit fees the WAC is accumulating each new WAC school would get lots of money up front to help the transition. If the Nickname votes says keep the name and for some reason the BSC says good bye to us, Faison better call up Moscow Idaho and Las Cruces, NM and say "who else can we get to join us"?

that 25k kibbie dome is gonna be fun to watch sioux games in on a yearly basis.... how quickly would geno taylor pull out his checkbook if/when uipui and oakland leave the ncc2.0 and are replaced by grand valley state and southern indiana? big sky is where it at geno (especially if NMSU joins)!!

I think the WAC will survive as a non-fb conference. Big Sky needs to add either one school or three schools for balance. The one for sure (when they realize that indy in moscow is impossible) is Idaho...then the fun part. If NDAC wise up and join us and NMSU chooses to keep football instead of dropping fb for the non-fb WAC that would be a fun conference. I don't see the Sun Belt going that far west (texas state should be lock for the sun belt especially if the SBC loses NTU to Conf-USA) and unless the MWC loses a couple more teams to the Big East, I don't see any other option for NMSU? You could split the BSC into two North UND NDSU UM MSU Idaho Idaho State Weber State Eastern Washington South NMSU NAU Cal-Poly Cal-Davis SUU Portland Sacramento UNC

Has anyone e-mailed Randy Newman? Has anyone seen the naming rights agreement on paper?

I emailed Faison also and was pleasantly surprised at the the response until I came on here and saw that it was exactly what he is sending everyone else...copy paste send. anyone have randy newman email next?

curious if when this drawing was shown to whoever runs alerus if she/he asked if there was any way they could somehow get Alerus in one end zone and Center in the other? maybe even the % rate of their checking accounts at mid-field? maybe even their 800 number on the sidelines? some atm's just outside the endzones? i hope the guys at siouxfootball insider are givin whoever hell about this joke.

embarrassing