bison73

Youre trying to hang your hat on an app? After all the flatulating BS youve been espousing youre trying to say you were right about an app?

I dont understand the baseball thing either. FB in a BB stadium sucks.

They could also schedule the game on a year they allow 12 games. You also dont know who initiated the conversation. Sounds as though it was St Peter who approached the Bison about a game. I personally would prefer a FB stadium to play the game in. I hate FB in a BB stadium. But nothing is in stone. Its 50-50 at this juncture. And no I do not want to give up a home game unless its a great opponent. Man you gotta quit eating those sour grapes.

Guess that wasnt the announcement.

I had a few Bison azzhats next to me this last weekend. I was hoping they would get the hint of my displeasure but they were too busy being jerks and I finally had to say something.

Now thats funny!!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!!

Gee when I posted something in that regard you would have thought it was the Nuremberg trials considering the reaction. Yep more to come.

Lakes could never get that through his thick head either.

There are some really messed up people out there.

Yes I did. I took it over there because I just couldnt believe how one sided you were looking at this and wanted to see if it was just me. I guess it wasnt. Yes I was also at a loss for words. I admit it. I knew what I wanted to say but couldnt formulate it. While I was trying to figure it out this response came up. I was lazy and contacted the author and he said I could quote him. Its not like I took his words and used them as my own. I gave credit where it came from. It doesnt make the response any less valid.

Quote from BV """"Improve communication? You mean the line or two that's on every single performance review of every employee everywhere? - Misleading the public/lying? That's what this politically correct world has come to? Sounds like my kids fighting - "He pulled my hair" or "He hit me". Having columns/opinions stating "President should resign" is insulting to me as a reader - let me come up with my own conclusions and if I can't, let me either ignore the story or do some fact checking myself (this post). - Not being a team player with UND? I'm confused here as I thought what's good for NDSU is good for North Dakota and is good for the taxpayers. There's gotta be two sides to this story, but we've only heard one. - Not jumping to NDUS's Office 365? Don't even get me started here. It doesn't matter if each institution had their own or if everyone went together in a group - it's all going to cost the same if the person in charge of the agreement did their job correctly. So what exactly is gained by lumping everything together? - Research rating dropping? Maybe I'm too naive here, but isn't NDSU's rating still on par with the other research university in the state? To me that says NDSU was right on the line of lower A and higher B (I'm sure those are inaccurate terms, but I didn't want to go look them up). Yes, the rating dropped, but is that level something to be ashamed of? Honest question that I don't know the answer to-what was the rating before Bresciani took over? - Not cutting spending and instead cutting an earmarked program that hasn't started yet? Yeah because we want to go through the same thing that UND just went through when they decided to cut Music Therapy? He decided to save money in future budgets by not starting the program at all. If you read the documents not highlighted by the FCC, you will find a few things. One letter between two SBOHE members where the board was definitely not in agreement with an improvement plan or anything of the like. If memory serves, there was a line in there that was close to "If what we discussed would ever come to being called an improvement plan, I would not have agreed to this." Those words (improvement plan) were chosen by the chairwoman carefully because once you say them, you can't take them back (sound familiar to what everyone said about Bresciani?). I, personally, find the reasoning given by Bresciani believable, and think the media is taking them drastically out of context. Also, those documents uncovered a request for information from a member of the legislature (that ironically ended up on Rob Port's site). Ask yourself why anyone in the legislature cares about whether a University President is lying about some "media guidelines". To me it's ridiculous that state funds were used to request information about something the legislature has no (direct) control over. Just because someone has "ties" to a university doesn't mean they are invested in seeing it be successful. I had plenty of classmates at NDSU who only went there for a degree that wasn't offered at UND and they continue to trash NDSU and praise UND to this day despite the school name on their diploma. CAS has "ties" to UND, so he is obviously pro-UND, right? Many, many situations like this, but this really boils down to whoever wants to be the most vocal. Obviously, there is at least one member of the legislature that doesn't like him (the information request), Rob Port (and whoever is pulling his strings) doesn't like him, the FCC doesn't like him, the chairwoman (and whoever is pulling her strings) of the SBOHE doesn't like him. All of those except the legislature representative (can't publicly state you don't like NDSU's leader as that's career suicide right now) have a sounding board to display their displeasure. Don Morton made an assumption after the FCC's editorial piece by saying there was some good "evidence" in that piece. I'm assuming he didn't think that would get public, but even a high school freshman knows you have to look at both sides before making a statement damning someone with whom you have "ties". What about the "proponents" of Bresciani? They post facts about what Bresciani and NDSU has done in the years he has been here and they get accused of "fully swallowed the koolaid". They continually get brought back to the "fact" that he lied, is arrogant, is too big for his britches. All are obviously great examples to not renew a contract of someone leading the most successful university in the state. """"

What the heck is in the water in GF? Isnt this the 3rd one in the last year? http://www.inforum.com/news/4111883-und-aviation-professor-arrested-child-porn-charges

Really I read the article and didnt get that feeling. “This is a bottom-line business decision; it’s not an affection decision,” he said. “I’m no more committed to it than I was when we first started talking about it. I’m no less committed. We’re going to walk it through as a business decision.” I wouldnt call it bound and determined by any stretch of the imagination. But then you imagination is in play here. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article98889902.html#storylink=cpy

Its your opinon and or supposition on why. The supposed poor decisions and judgement calls are also nothing more than opinion and are only a big deal if you want them to be. And of course thats the purpose of this whole exercise. The release of the communications show whats going on. its a witch hunt. You refuse to see it or acknowledge it. Regardless you still spin it to the narrative they-you want. They want DB gone period. Theyre just trying to figure out a way to do it so they dont find themselves in a legal mess or pray they can harass him enough that he leaves. Thats the end game. The SBoHE not renewing his contract and the reasons why is nothing more than a ruse to achieve that end..

Of course this is your opinion. But I get it and why.

It has everything to do with it. Its petty and shouldnt be an issue.. People are pulling the strings behind the scenes and the puppets are dancing. . .

When a person says there is a plan that DB was to follow and you find out there was no such plan and never was according to the released communications is that not astounding? Usually when a person is counseled the deficiencies are written down along with a plan for a correction and both parties have to sign off on it. I guess you cant have anything written down when it didnt happen. She flat out lied. If she has a conversation in regards to the plan and doesnt document the meeting thats incompetency. She should resign dont you think? You would be asking DB to resign if he had done the same and so would the board. Theres plenty behind the curtain. You just choose not to acknowledge it here. So whos pulling the strings?

Dont need to look in the mirror. The fact that people were caught in lies from the SBOHE or the NDSUS in this fiasco and havent resigned is astounding. I will also throw in incompetence.

Then why did he say he gave up on it because he couldnt sell it? Do I need to find that quote for you also? Youre batting average isnt very good.

I like this one also

Heres another one.

""Fullerton doesn't have the final say with the Big Sky. The Board of Directors does, which is Big Sky Presidents. Fullerton essentially told Big Sky Presidents that we're going FBS whether you like it nor not. If you don't, you can go FCS among the few remaining (looking at Suu, UNC,NAU, Weber, Isu).""" Fullerton can only say such a thing if be knows he has the backing of the majority of Presidents. If he has the support of only a few, he would be fired. Pretty simple. According to this quote from him I would say yes. I can find more of the same if this doesnt jog his memory.

Darn I keep forgetting that.

Its not a secret. The crap thats going on is just a petty power play. Problem is nobody will call them on it. The FCC is in cahoots so they sure as heck wont report it just like the emails that showed what was really going on. You didnt see the FF writing a piece condemning it because they were players behind the scene. The whole thing stinks. So theres one in Fargo. That hardly diminishes the fact of whats going on and whos behind it. It seem the more things they try to change in this state the more they stay the same. Ive talked to numerous businessmen in Fargo and everyone to a man has told me of the resistance to change not only in education but business etc. that they experience. Its pretty prevalent so I dont understand the poohpoohing of it like it doesnt exist.