JohnboyND7

Wrestling is not a draw at NDSU. I also didn't say it was. The Big XII label though certainly can't hurt in maybe getting a few more people there. I simply provided numbers that indicate it's pretty similar to hockey on a national level.

Just looked at TV ratings. College wrestling championships 694K. Hockey championship had 635K. So... I think it's relatively comparable.

Duals between the big teams get a lot of people by the looks of it. Iowa would be third in average attendance compared to hockey if I'm looking at accurate charts.. And Minnesota would be fourth. Penn St vs Iowa had 16Kish. I doubt NDSU could ever pull that but if it gets more people going to the duals that's great. Wrestling is honestly one sport the state could be very very good at if we ever can get the best kids to stay in state.

If they have the ball more.. They are keeping NDSU's offense off of the field. If they have the ball more... They are likely having success moving the ball. Both of these are things UND would like to see happen. I don't think it will happen. But it would be a good starting point to making the game competitive.

If UND somehow controls the clock, that would imply they are moving the ball well... If UND has the ball for 30+ minutes I would tend to think that they are probably in a good position to make a game of it.

Darell's favorite game the past 10+ years... NDSU lost to Indiana St at home in 2012. If you need any details, Darell is your guy. He can do the play by play from it.

I'm from North Dakota. I'm allowed to follow sports locally. Back to discussing Wyoming pls.

I'm not a Bison fan.

It's always fun to see fans from teams (my own teams included) get worked up over Preseason and postseason All American /All-Conference awards.

Some may.

Odd, shouldnt you love Dr. Chapman? Without him, who knows if NDSU and UND would be in Division 1. Besides, he got NDSU some bad press.

What has President Bresciani done to be considered "crooked" by a UND sports fan? I'm indifferent to the guy.

I'm waiting for these examples still.

Will you give some examples?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but natives get a pretty good gig at other schools I think as well. A friend/acquaintance of mine was 1/16th native and got her tuition covered. Whether that was the tribe or the school of the government covering it though... Not sure.

I wasn't referring to the BSA.

Ah. Right on. Line sicatoka my thoughts went immediately to Nike guy and T Boone.

Is someone bitter their basketball team plays in a gym half the size of the Jamestown Civic Center?

Yeah, I was gonna say.. Ralph donated some money, but single largest? Nahhhh.

Last Friday I read about tanks for about 2 hours.

I'm okay with collections of stuff. I'd probably love a lot of the stuff he had, but the portrait...and the parties... Tells me all I'll ever need to know about Mr. Engelstad. Dude was clearly weird as all heck and an embarrassment to your university.

Speaking of Vegas, they threw down quite the fine on Mr. Engelstad. So are you going to continue to pretend there was nothing weird/disturbing about what he was doing?

Are you going to say that he didn't have an eccentric and disturbing taste for Hitler/Nazi memorabilia? Hitler birthday parties and portraits of himself in a Nazi uniform is enough for me to go ahead and say I wouldn't want to be associated with him in any way shape ,or form.

OJ was innocent too. Dude clearly had some sort of unhealthy fascination with all things Nazi. Whether he was or wasn't a Nazi isn't that important to me though. But I agree, tough to throw rocks at NDSU when your university's major donor was throwing birthday parties or whatever for the Führer.

No. I don't believe the attendance stuff. Will you be providing us with any information suggesting NDSU was offering more scholarships than was allowed? Not that it matters... That was 50 years ago. Would you like me to call you Star2City or SiouxVolley on the billboard, Papa Newman is asking...