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i checked bisonville a few days ago and someone was saying you guys have loaded class. NDSU lost a couple recruitment battles to you from what it looked like.

it seems to me that they had been recruiting their qb commit out of nebraska longer and harder than mollberg. both sound pretty good. UND frankly had alot more to offer him in terms of playing time. He probably would have redshirted at either school, but mollberg will probably be starter as rs freshman, while having to wait for his RSsophomore year to even compete for a spot at ndsu. He made a smart choice on the circumstances and we needed him much more than they do. We don't know what schwartzkopf was offered at NDSU

UND basketball has shown a couple good flashes this year (NDSU and SDSU) but as a whole, I would say they are still a year away from being 'good.' I'm expecting us to do better in bb in the bigsky than football next year. NDSU and SDSU have better basketball teams, especially SDSU, but we still won, and i'll take it. In topic related news, anyone hearing anything?

I would take a rose bowl win over an fcs championship every time. Same goes for fiesta sugar orange and cotton.

just a general observation, but does it seem to anyone else that fargo schools under produce? 1/3 of the states highschool grads and noone going to a d1 program as far as I can tell.

50,000 is alot different than thirty thousand. Instead of building around, you have to go up. Also, dealing with seasonal weather increases material costs. higher grade concrete, insulation, etc.

because thats how much they cost? it's the same size as tcf bank stadium, which cost 275 iirc.

people at ndsu rip into members of their own fanbase who dare hypothesize about going fbs (heh lakes). They are way better prepared, at least in football, and are as ready to make the jump as anyone, although i think the dome would be a big drag on attendance. With more prominent teams, say a MWC type schedule, I think they could sell 30,000 tickets pretty comfortably, assuming they were competitive. I think there is the spare talent in the region to support another competitive FBS team, but not two or three or more.

http://www.jlgarchitects.com/ it's under UND master plan, and has a 250 million dollar price tag just for the 50,000 seat stadium.

supposedly it's designed for the endzone walls to be torn out and seating installed, or at least that was the rumor. where would they do this? If they use memorial stadium, they should be able to get a pretty reasonable outdoor stadium in place for somewhere in the 30-40 million dollar range, seating 15,000 or so. I think tearing down memorial stadium and rebuilding from scratch would anger many people. While I would love football back on campus, I think the city would flip !@#$, and we definitely haven't demonstrated any need for a bigger stadium. I'm not sure how many times we have sold out the alerus, and I'm not sure if we have ever sold the place out for a non-ndsu game. Granted, you could say the same about the fargodome pre-2003. We'll see how next year goes for attendance.

this is probably a bigger deal than you would expect. both isu's, wiu, siu, uni within a few hour driveof chicago. I've never made it to sdsu's campus, but if it's anything like vermillion... yuck. As far as campus's go UND > NDSU >>>>USD

so where are utah st, nmst, idaho and sjsu going to go? mwc? also, i thought airforce was going big east too?

UNC has been pumping out draft picks for a few years, and i believe they led the last two draft with number of picks, and might do it this year ago. Piles of talent there but they just can't get it together. Coaching seems to be a big issue.

about two months ago, i haven't been there yet but there were some hiccups when it first opened, which have since been more or less ironed out.

so no, you haven't. Trendy level 10? Eclectic O'Really's? Either you're an idiot and don't know what these words mean, or you have never been to any of these places. The rooftop closes the first week of october anyway, your advice is garbage. Thanks for playing.

I'm not sure why, but this post made me facepalm. Have you ever been downtown?

these data are almost two years old, you can probably tack another combined 5000+ at minimum. Fargo does need to be more proactive on zoning, developers needs some vision, and someone needs to start planting some trees. Some of the new developments downtown and some of the redevelopment jobs around town are pretty decent.

he is probably, at minimum, 5x out of our maximum price range, probably more.