JohnboyND7

I believe the med school and law school are funded separately from the U itself? Regardless, you listed basically all the programs offered by the university of North Dakota lol outside of education.

Me when a kid from ND gets drafted...

Nice to see young men from ND get a few bucks to play a game. Hope he does well. Would say the same for a kid who goes to UND.

Could limit what portion of each half where the first down stops the clock. Getting rid of it entirely is a bummer.

I think it *could* work on a Thursday, if it couldn't happen more than maybe once a year. But yeah, it would not be a great deal. Wouldn't be the end of the world but there would be large chunks of empty seats for that game.

It doesn't take much of a fanbase to be FBS. MAC teams routinely get smaller crowds than the Dakota schools. It takes funding/money. The way I see it, weekday evening crowds would be largely Fargo locals. Probably not filling up the dome for a Tuesday night game against Akron.

Whats wrong with posting a picture of a bison walking on the road in Montana?

Another thing to consider is Saturday is not a work day for most. People have more time to get to Grand Forks if coming from out of town, and can get back home at a reasonable hour, plenty of folks got church in the morning. Friday makes sense to be a bit later. People need time to get to Grand Forks or go home and change, grab dinner, etc. I quite like the way UND times the hockey games.

No biggie with the earlier kickoff. I'll be heading up for it with a UND buddy.

I think there are some concerns about whether WIU will be division 1 or have athletics in general.

Yeah we (youngish folks who were students in the championship era) got sorta pushed out. Will be interesting to see how the university handles that moving forward.

Most of the games draw well. Just less well relative to the last 10-15 years. Tailgating alone is a sort of firewall that should preclude some mass withdrawal by the fans. Like UND hockey, its a social event. Go rub elbows with some folks, eat, drink, etc. But yes, I think there is some boredom taking place.

I think thats very debatable. I don't think there is a right or wrong answer there. To me, it seems wild. Yet they continue to get people to pay.

I wonder if the difference between Champions Club and Teammakers is that UND fans sorta got accustomed to Engelstad taking care of things while Teammakers have had to be more proactive.

Yeah, I believe his advocacy is assuming other summit league schools add it as well. But even so, I'm not sold on it. Are these teams aren't gonna wanna come to the Dakotas for non-con games when they can play closer to home against better competition. Then look at recruiting... pretty slim pickings around here. The Cities might have a few kids? Is LAX difficult to learn? I haven't sat down and watched it much.

Speaking of the women's hockey folks -> how pissed would they be if UND added a sport

Yeah I'm with you.

It was funny. You seem to be overthinking this. Minnesota hockey cracking a joke about UND doing a good job hosting a tourney their team didn't qualify for is funny. End of story.

Hockey had the benefit of being a Canadian sport in a town close to Canada and Minnesota, a state saturated with kids who could play. And a few countries overseas who could play. LAX is cute sport. But it doesn't fit here. There isn't a market for it. What next? Jai Alai?

Being a fast growing sport means very little when the big 4 sports here are very well entrenched.

UND would have zero competition in driving distance. Only 3 teams west of the Mississippi. 4 schools outside the eastern time zone. That would be problematic I think.

Sure. But Tennis ain't costing UND a ton of money. Probably one of the cheaper sports that can be offered. Soccer seems like a drain on UND's very finite resources with limited (if any) upside. It's not like UND is swimming in financial resources.

I'm very confused as well. Schools like NDSU and UND should probably have the minimum number of sports possible, and pump as much money as they can into the sports that can drive revenue/enthusiasm. I don't see men's soccer doing that in North Dakota. It looks like most teams get a few hundred fans.

You want to drop a cheap sport no one goes to watch in favor of a more expensive one no one goes to watch?

If you use the transitive property in hockey doesn't all but the very worst teams have an argument that they could be in the Frozen Four?